Thank you! I'll add those VOLA & DPR tracks to the list and will get to them soon-ish (well VOLA in this post because I'm just rather clicking whatever I feel like at the time and I wanted to hear that one immediately).
Heavy Fruit: Aka."China White 4". I kinda like that it took them a while to confirm this was part of the series and let their fans debate it, but I'm not really into the actual song. Just one of those songs where I had no reaction to anything about it (though I said the same thing about Mighty Echo and that song finally clicked on the third listen)--probably around a 4 for an initial impression.
The Garden: Aka."China White 5". The last confirmed song in the series, though at least some people believe Boogiewoman is part 6 (which is what led to this detour).
It's not as immediately great as "China White 2" (which is thus far the best song I've listened to in this Post Topic listening thing), but it has potential. Far from the best lyrics about embracing darkness ("The darkness inside of me Is all that I ever need" is too blunt, even for my tastes), but it tries. Probably a low 7, with decent odds of growing on me.
2 > Boogiewoman > Garden > 1. Don't have enough opinion on 3 or Heavy Fruit to feel comfortable ranking them.
We Are Thin Air: Skipping around the suggestions a bit. I'm in the mood for VOLA, so I chose to start here. The instrumentation in this song is very, very much my thing (that guitar [I think] that comes in just before the 15 second mark is perfection), I'm pretty sure I like this singer, and the lyrics are metaphorical enough to be interesting without being overwhelmingly complicated like Twyncyn.
[EDIT: ...Alright so the Bridge goes completely over my head to be quite honest...]
Score probably starts around 8.1, but I have a feeling this would be one of those songs that kept getting moved up the list as I refused to cut it. It just has that sort of potential. That also lets it nudge China White 2 out of first place (not that there are real rankings).
Also, the band says this song draws inspiration from the Danish band "Mew". So I'm now obligated to drop everything I'm doing to go play one of their songs.
Apocalypso (Mew): It had the most appealing title, so I chose to start with it.
...I'm not sure what to make of this track. If we had this conversation before FL81's nomination period, I would have just thrown it at him to see how someone else reacted. C'est la vie. Song would start Unscored (though with generally positive feelings) while I tried to determine exactly how I felt about it or what any of that meant. May try another random song from them in the future, if I remember them later.
I'll come back to Dirt Poor Robins later.
MycroProcessor posted...
it's actually kind of hilarious that both Dark Tube and Pure Data wound up ranking high, since technically they're in the same game! Here's a video of the part with that song sampled lol:
Ooh, I like that usage. Somehow Pure Data is so much more unsettling with whatever other track is going in the background. 10/10.
...I can give 30 second snippets of pointing & clicking 10s if I want to and I want to.
Recursive Dolls (QKiki): She's got a good design and voice, but I'm not as into the style of the song. Very...swing or big band like, which doesn't usually go over too well with me. First reaction would be "6, with a note about being interested in trying a different song from her".
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