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And lets end the night with three more drops to get us up to 10 for the night. 10s a good numberthough dragging this topic out for two months is less than ideal, 10 should at least be an easy number to hit and I can see about speeding back up a bit later.

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575: STURGILL SIMPSON - LAST MAN STANDING:

https://open.spotify.com/track/6V2pwCqVqFS3rcFW0Pe3kL

Nominator: Xeybozn (20/20)
Source: Sound and Fury (10/10)

Initial Score: 0 [#585]
Revised Score: 0.88 [#586]
Final Score: 25.40 [#575]

(First Thoughts: The first verse is great. The second verse makes me want to throw it into absolute last place because theres not much worse than a song that I actually like with one part that completely & utterly ruins it.)

There are few songs with as big a drop in quality as this one. The first verse is great and close to perfection:

I'm gonna ride off into the sunset
While it all burns to hell behind me
Somewhere I haven't been yet
Somewhere they can't even see

I love lines like that and this...distorted country rock thing the song has going for it and I question how a song like this could have possibly ended without any points.

...then we get to the lyrics of the second verse and Im tempted to let it drop to last place.

[Final Thoughts: Why yes, I will completely destroy a songs ranking based entirely on one line. I really dig the sound, I think his voice perfectly suits this type of song, the first verse is great and I cant rightfully say its the worst song nominated, but...no.]

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574: TOOL - FORTY SIX & 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIuZUCpm9hc&list=OLAK5uy_k_Z0-DYw0_cGPvZm6icNUGbefRT4wktdY&index=5

Nominator: Steiner (22/26)
Source: Aenima (12/15)

Initial Score: 49.87 [#425]
Revised Score: 27.49 [#562]
Final Score: 27.49 [#574]

(First Thoughts: The lyrics are intriguing, but I find this singer very exhausting

[Later: This writeup trails into nothingness there, lacking any punctuation or a closing bracket. Presumably I found this too exhausting to even finish a thought.])

Im bouncing hard off of this tonight.. Right now find this to be unbelievably tedious, pretentious, and just incredibly unenjoyable. I think my dislike of this song is best summed up by Apus shut up, shut up, I cant believe you dont shut up!.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbcE9BXZNfk

To be fair, theres a chance I may actually like this song if I heard it on a day where I was in the mood for...whatever this is. But Im very strongly opposed to it right now.

[Final Thoughts: One of the more exhausting songs on the entire list, my eyes just kinda glaze over as I wait for it to end. It doesnt actively throw me into a coma like certain songs on this list, but its just so... very, very tiring.

I suppose I like some of the lyrics and that they offer an excuse to study some of Carl Jungs completely insane theories about chromosomes? But the theory is such ridiculous gibberish that its scarcely worth the effort to even Google it and.... ugghhhh...]

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573: STURGILL SIMPSON - A LITTLE LIGHT:

https://open.spotify.com/track/0e4GxC1u8gzQ98RrbQTiCn

Nominator: Xeybozn (19/20)
Source: Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (10/10)

Initial Score: 1.00 [#576]
Revised Score: 29.99 [#557]
Final Score: 28.00 [#573]

(First Thoughts: I believe my ideal song would be the opposite of this, in all ways.)

Eternal nights with no tomorrows sound wonderful, so the song loses me as soon as it starts talking about finding the light.

With all the talk of mortal sin, Heaven, and Lord with a capital L this song feels a bit too religious for my blood... I know that it isnt really (especially considering everything else on the album), but the choice of wording isnt doing the song any favors..

And... well thats about it really. I want all of the lyrics to be the exact opposite of what they are. Song is probably fine, its just the complete reverse of what I actually want to hear.

[Final Thoughts: Im sure in some alternate universe Im hailing this as the best thing ever, but in this reality, we praise the darkness.]

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