LogFAQs > #928476614

Okay, two things:

1.Let's go ahead and bump things up another tenth of a point to 7.2.

2.I...can't bring myself to cut anything for a tenth song right now, So we'll be stopping at 92 tonight.

Honestly the list is a bit of a mess after this post... some of the songs I've gone back to listen to for fun the most times since the ranking started only had 7s and they're clumped around there. So I kinda need to fix those scores, as I obviously way undervalued them... then there are several songs that were scheduled to be eliminated earlier (one of which started at 191st Place, IIRC) that I've been refusing to remove either and... it's gonna take a few hours before I'm comfortable picking anything for 91st place, to say nothing of tomorrow's eliminations. So... yeah, 9 songs eliminated today and 11 songs tomorrow to get back on track.

...Probably.

====================

#93 [#163]:

Name: The Phrase That Pays
Origin: The Academy Is...
Link: https://open.spotify.com/track/6eolFkFTZmdai6b47dxKtJ?si=oVCVmQFJQ4KedM6b3_NoOA

Nominator: Bane (7/15)

(5.5, 6, 7.2)

[Not my favorite singer or subject matter, but its decent.]

It doesn't look like something I'd like. Terminal illness, a chorus that repeats itself too many times at the end of the song, a singer portraying a conversation between two people without any effort made to distinguish their voices... and yet, I find myself enjoying it far more than expected. I also think I want to hear more from this band, so they may be one of the few artists this topic where I actively seek out more of their work--I just can't entirely figure out why.

====================



====================

#92 [#97]:

Name: Eternal Keeper of the Blue Prayer
Origin: Umiai
Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaTNRGWz2Ns" data-time="

Nominator: FL81 (3/8)

(6, 7, 7.2)

[I prefer the opening parts of the song, but its consistently good anyway.]

The opening is so wonderful. It's like walking into an ancient cathedral; I can practically touch the stone pathway, see the light shining through the stained glass windows. I can see the running water (it's an implausible design feature, but I can see a massive fountain that actually runs up a wall, creating a miniature waterfall effect near the back), feel it pour over me as I pass through the water to the hidden area...

...then the music gets intense, like "final dungeon exploring VGM music", It's good, don't get me wrong, but the shift in style pulls me out of the illusion. It switches from feeling like something happening to me, to something I'm watching generic RPG characters experience. And the more intense outro just doesn't seem to fit either of the two fantasy sequences.

If it managed to keep up the intense feelings of the opening throughout the entire song, this would have been in the running for... some high placement, top 10 maybe? As is, it's a combination of amazing & slightly above average VGM type music, which places it around here.

====================
---

A not very secret alt account for when Raetsel wants to be a pony