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Song Name: Point/Counterpoint
Song Origin: Streetlight Manifesto
Song Link:

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Nominator: NBIceman (1/15)


Of course this song would be on the list. It couldn't not be on the list.



About ten years ago or so, Board 8 had a brief interest in a somewhat basic flash game that someone found on some Japanese site. It would play a song with each line displayed on screen, and you would have to try to type out the lyrics before the start of the next line. If you downloaded the program, it was incredibly easy to add your own songs and lyrics, sparking some interest in deciphering how to do so.

It was an easy program, I think everyone figured almost everything out with some basic trial and error within a day or so. Someone, possibly even you yourself, made a joke about daring someone to convert a Streetlight Manifesto song to the program. I don't know if this person posted a song by the band, but it put them on my radar and I listened to one song--possibly even this one.

I hated it.



Time passed and this song appeared in someone else's music ranking topic, years later. I don't think I commented on anything, but I was on a kick where I really wanted new music and listened to everything that was posted. It was the same mythical topic where R.I.P. was nominated that proved that there were rap songs that I enjoyed.

I recognized the band instantly. It was these guys. Again. And it was a song dealing with suicide.

....I didn't care for it.



When the song appeared again at Se7en's ranking topic, even more years later, I didn't even need to listen to it. Of course it was this song, by this band. It had been an eternity since I had heard it, but I practically knew it by heart. All the tempo changes, some of the lyrics, the subject matter, the song had apparently left more of an impact on me than I gave it credit for.

....Actually, the song wasn't half-bad.



And here we are.

Again.

It couldn't have ended any other way, could it? I can't even be sure if the connecting thread to everything is you, who has had a slavish dedication to this band for ten straight years, or if everyone on this board loves the band. I'm not even sure they have more than one song; perhaps it is just this one song. Maybe I'm trapped in a sitcom and neither I, you, or this band even exisists. As soon as I admit that I like the song, there will be a laugh track as our reality fades to black & the end credits roll.

Perhaps it's the stockholm syndrome setting in, but I apparently like this song now. After so many lifetimes, it's become strangely comforting, like a nightlight.



SPIDER WITH A TOP HAT BLAST!

In Memoriam

Lowest Ranked Song: The Haunting (Somewhere in Time) (150th Place)
Highest Ranked Song: Point/Counterpoint (13th Place)

When your lowest ranked song is one that I basically disqualified on the grounds that I loved it too much, you know you picked a good set of songs. There weren't any real weak links anywhere and I think you got the most things added to ZA'LIST... though I haven't actually counted.

It's also highly interesting that both your lowest & highest ranked songs were songs I knew quite well, perfectly illustrating the inconsistencies in my ranking, no matter how many different ways I justify the exceptions.

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