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488: THE WEEKND - OUTSIDE:

https://open.spotify.com/track/1yhDPgIPGoe3Bf8wRsK4u7

Nominator: Player_0 (17/30)

Initial Score: 38.16 [#518]
Revised Score: 47.24 [#466]
Final Score: 47.05 (upgraded to 48.60) [#488]

(First Thoughts: More boring than anything else.)

By keeping things a bit vaguer than usual, I find this song actually rather tolerable. Its still nothing Id choose to listen to, but its also not the type of thing Id bother complaining about.

[Having nothing to say about this track that hasnt been covered at other Weeknd songs, we go back to the Raetsel talks about any song she feels like to waste all of our time segment.]

Actually, lets change the format up a bit and talk about a game intro. Its time for

Make My Video ~ INXS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpa0nw72pZ4

Have you ever wanted to listen to INXS hit song Not Enough Time while staring at a pool table? Now, with the awesome power of the Sega CD, you finally can! Before 1992, you could only listen to the sweet sounds of INXS and dream of what it would be like if you could stare at a majestic pool table while listening to it. Doubtless, as you sat in your pool table-less room, you would be moved to tears. Yes, INXS truly made the greatest song of all time, but if you havent experienced it with a pool table in your vision then...why, you could hardly say you experienced the song at all, now could you?

BUT IT GETS EVEN BETTER! If you wait long enough (and you will because who could turn away from this magnificent song?) then therell actually be people at the pool table! Youll also learn amazing facts, such as: Supermodels are all great at pool and love playing it while simultaneously watching generic stock footage play alongside the sweet sounds of INXS greatest hits. Truly, no game has ever offered such a realistic look into the pool halls of America, as Make My Video ~ INXS.

Also, did you know that the only way to get rid of supermodels is to use a generic library of stock film footage to create the ultimate INXS music video? Its true! Youll be all please, supermodels, allow me to play pool with you! Or listen to some other music at least! and theyll say we are trapped in a Sisyphean nightmare, damned to play this game of pool for eternity, until someone creates the ultimate music video for INXS. By playing this game of pool, we have ultimate control over what music plays, and we shall only play the same three INXS songs until someone makes the perfect video to go with it. Please, Sega CD Master, please create the perfect music video and free us from this Hell!!

But youll never make the perfect video. Youll just listen to the unmatched greatness of Not Enough Time for eternity with them. For you realize the truth: There can be no perfect music video for Not Enough Time, for it is the most timeless of all classics. In fact, you might say, theres not enough time for you to even begin creating a video that could live up to 1% of its greatness. So you stay, trapped in that bar forever, listening to the song for all eternity. Wasnt I playing a Sega CD game?, you ask yourself as you feel your consciousness slipping away. Its better this way.

...I actually considered nominating this for Jesses intro ranking topic, but he probably doesnt even like INXS or staring blankly at pool tables.

[Final Thoughts: *insert Dean Peltons panicked I dont know what that was reaction after his Peanut Rap here*

On topic: Good instrument, good vocals, poor (though not infuriating or outright bad) choice of lyrics.]

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487: MAZEDUDE - COUNTDOWN TO DEATH:

https://mazedude.bandcamp.com/track/countdown-to-death

Nominator: sergiocornaga (13/18)

Initial Score: 49.50 [#429]
Revised Score: 47.35 [#465]
Final Score: 47.08 (upgraded to 48.80) [#487]

(First Thoughts: I want to like it. Its got a unique sound and stuff, but I find it slightly annoying.)

Music from Doom rarely does well with me. This applies to remixes of Doom music, as well as actual music from Doom. What hes doing here with heavily modifying samples to sound like different instruments is technically impressive, but as someone who doesnt exactly know anything about music in the first place, its all quite left to me. So youre just left with a weird sounding version of something I dont like.. which is intriguing enough that I dont dislike it, but I wouldnt really say I like it either.

[Final Thoughts: *stares blankly at iPad for several minutes* I know quite left is probably just a typojudging by the sentence I was likely saying its all quite beyond me, so youre just left withand since I was thinking of the word left, I wound up accidentally using it somewhere it random.

But quite left almost makes sense as an adjective. Like if Doom involves forces of hell and left is associated with Satan, it...almost kinda looks like it might have been intentional. Or maybe it was a joke about how the song samples dont sound rightafter being so heavily modified, theyre not quite righttheyre quite left, ho ho ho??

...But no, no, that was a typo caused by trying to type too quickly. Probably.]

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