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362 [TIE]: TOOL - USEFUL IDIOT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzHd9sYXBQI&list=OLAK5uy_k_Z0-DYw0_cGPvZm6icNUGbefRT4wktdY&index=4

Nominator: Steiner (12/26)
Source: Aenima (5/15)

Initial Score: 61.24 [#213]
Revised Score: 58.80 [#311]
Final Score: 59.01 [#362]

(First Thoughts: Hey, an entire track of noise! Shame it isnt longer.)

Vinyl record noise probably isnt my favorite type of noise (dont ask what is, I havent actually thought about the topic), but I do like noise and things that stretch the definition of what music even is... but this is really short and pointless. Even with all my natural bias towards it, I think I want to keep this at the high 50s instead of the low 60s.

[Final Thoughts: I like the way it gets progressively louder and I love that its an entire track of noise, but 30 seconds (or however long this is) just isnt enough time. Its like I start to get drawn into it and then it just comes to an abrupt end.]

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362 [TIE]: MAZEDUDE - OPENING TO HELL:

https://mazedude.bandcamp.com/track/opening-to-hell

Nominator: sergiocornaga (7/18)

Initial Score: 60.00 [#242]
Revised Score: 59.01 [#308]
Final Score: 59.01 [#362]

(First Thoughts: Not as hellish as it should have been. Its all hey, look, I added some screams. Screams means youre in hell. Yay screams!, but it doesnt feel spooky or scary in the least. Its like...funhouse screams or something? Like it wants to be child-friendly scary instead of hellish which... should be exactly my sort of thing, but isnt.)

If anything, the song is closer to the cute end of the scale more than hellish. It wants to be scary, but it just isnt and its almost cute & charming as a result.

Other than that... you know, its Doom music, and things relating to Doom dont exactly have a great track record. I kinda like it for novelty value since its not like anything else on the list, but Im not all that into it.

[Final Thoughts: The songs that I should like more than I actually do category claims another victim. Its a fantastic idea for a song, but the torture never actually comes through. Ill give him the benefit of the doubt and say that he was probably hamstrung by having to keep the remix recognizable and that Mazedude could have made a more Hellish song, if he had full creative freedom here.

...also as many times as Ive criticized the concept of music and remixes from Doom, I feel the song deserves some commendation for even making it this far.]

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361: MASTER BOOT RECORD - ANSI.SYS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep-zEY7SSbI

Nominator: @Snake5555555555 (13/15)

Initial Score: 59.98 [#260]
Revised Score: 59.08 [#307]
Final Score: 59.08 [#361]

(First Thoughts: I was really looking forward to hearing this song because the band seemed right up my alley; metal darksynth is not a genre Ive heard of (well, not that I know what any genre anything is anyway), but I like some artificial instrumentation and it sounded like a great genre... but this song feels almost distressingly ordinary. Its not so overwhelming that it fries my brain into a trance-like state [see: Frums Creditx EX from last years topic or this years VGMC], nor soundscape-y enough to let me really envision anything. Its fine, just the name of the song & the artist & the genre got me really hyped up and it did not live up to it.)

I want to like it for being this metal chiptune thing, but its just another instrumental that I never emotionally connect with or have any odd fantasies about. Its a neat song, sure, but not neat enough to make it up to the next tier.

[Final Thoughts: Yeah, that kinda summed it all up. Also, perhaps I should have had a Raetsel randomly praises Credits counter going... certainly not the last time that comes up either.]

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