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Cant say I ever actually noticed the beat on Plasmaat least not to a problematic level.

Aaanywho, two more songs for the night:

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463: FRUMS - SWALLOW SMOKE:

https://frums.bandcamp.com/track/swallow-smoke-2

Nominator: cakophon (24/26)
Source: vignette (19/20)

Initial Score: 80.18 [#40]
Revised Score: 51.52 [#415]
Final Score: 50.30 [#463]

(First Thoughts: Like mdrqnxtagon, only slightly better.)

Well, I wouldnt say I dislike the song, but Im bouncing hard off of this track tonight. Its a very chaotic song, which I tend to love, but tonight is just feel cacophonic banging noises that are giving me a massive headache. Which I still kinda like, but its just barely avoiding being dropped down to the 40s.

[Final Thoughts: Im sorry, Im just not as into these types of songs as I was two years ago. I know there was a time I would have been ecstatic for this song, but right now, its...good but a bit too harsh.]

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462: TOOL - THIRD EYE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51fcG3sxvII&list=OLAK5uy_k_Z0-DYw0_cGPvZm6icNUGbefRT4wktdY&index=15

Nominator: Steiner (15/26)
Source: Aenima (6/15)

Initial Score: 52.16 [#347]
Revised Score: 51.94 [#409]
Final Score: 50.32 [#462]

(First Thoughts: This is the kind-of spiritual song I can get behind, but i still find most songs on this album more tedious than anything else. Much drum, very shout, such repeat lyrics, wow.)

Per usual for the Aenima album, Im far more into this song before Maynard starts singing. A variety of vocal samples taken out of context? Heavily distorted guitars creating a very surreal ambiance? I am so there! And then Maynard starts singing and the song loses, like, twenty points off the score because this song jumps off a cliff at that point and never recovers.

If anything, this song feels like an endless downhill spiral. It starts off fantastic and just gets slightly worse with each section. Never bad or low enough to drop the score below the low 50s and there are some good lyrics mixed in... but it never lives up to the potential indicated by that opening.

[Final Thoughts: Thats an overly harsh way to put it, but I stand by it.]

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