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#79 [#199]:

Song: (Ten firefighting youths)
Origin: Tat Ming Pair
Link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KGA7mAE8pA" data-time="

Nominator: handsomeboy (7/15)

(6, 5, 6 [later upgraded to an 8])

[Mixed feelings. I wasnt exactly a fan or the sirens and whistles, but I appreciated that they made the song stand out. The lyrics are a bit too tragic, but then they also helped make it memorable. Well start the score at 6 and see where it goes.]

Appparently it doesn't really go anwhere and ends with the same score it started with. </.<

[Late Edit: HAHAHA]

This one is interesting because it's a bit hard to decipher the full intention of the song. On the surface, it's a very
direct and rather simple song. Even an automated translation like Google can get the whole story (ten teenagers go to put out a fire, most of them give up for various reasons, the few remaining can't do anything by themselves and die, people complain about how useless they are and everything is miserable) and there's an English blog that discussed some Tat Ming Pair songs (including this one) that agrees with this.

But if one decides to try tran+slating some other pages discussing the song, particularly by those that were either in Hong Kong at the time or actually know what they're talking about, you can find articles about how the entire thing is a metaphor for the "June 4th Incident".

*Googles*

Ohhh, Tiananmen Square.

...Well this is getting dark very quickly. </.<

Well either way, most people who actually know what they're talking about say this song is a metaphor for that since the group wouldn't be able to confront things directly. Obviously, I'm in no position to speculate on such things, but it is interesting and (from what little I've read about the group) seems more likely than not.

...Let's raise that to a 7 [Later: 7.2 [Later: I should stop saying these things in the write-ups, as we're up to an 8 now.]]. It was actually rather fun trying to research this song, having to look beyond the available translations to find people who actually had context for the song.

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#78 [#43]:

Name: Devil's Train
Origin: Half-Full Ashtrays, Half-Empty Glasses (The Lab Rats)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDQWqkcNl40" data-time="

Nominator: Placeee (2/15)

(7, 9, 8)

[I wish there were more of the devil here. I like the chorus and the ending, but most of my time was spent waiting for Satan to show up.]

Basically still feel the same, but I usually give it an extra point or two for being unique.

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Meow meow meow, meow meow meow, meow meow-meow meow-meow meow

...I was trying to recite the meow mix jingle from memory, but I somehow botched the number of meows when transcribing it.

.....I'm not sure how that relates to five players being in danger, but it's late at the time I'm writing thid and making sense takes more energy than I have right now, meow.

Aww, I missed the chance to say "right meow".

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