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139: IAMTHEMORNING - LIGHTHOUSE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f4K88dqi1A

Nominator: NBIceman (9/22)
Source NBIcemans Extra Songs (6/7)

Initial Score: 86.52 [#26]
Revised Score: 85.85 [#85]
Final Score: 77.76 [#139]

(First Thoughts: Massive jump in quality once the song shifts to being a duet.)

Song is pretty throughout, though I definitely prefer it once the male vocalist joins in. I dont think Id describe him as one of my favorite vocalists, but there is something vaguely enchanting about his voice where I want to hear more from him.

I do see the appeal in the earlier parts, with her haunting voice over subdued classical piano, I already said it was always pretty... but its his vocals that make the song for me.

[Final Thoughts: I love his voice. Its so soothing, I want more from him... but as much as I love him, it does take the song quite a while to get to him and now Im a bit irrationally annoyed that it takes so long for him to join in with the song. Its not exactly right to drop the song down an entire tier out of bitterness that the singer I want to hear isnt featured as heavily as Id like, but Im still going to do it.]

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137 [TIE]: EVERY TIME I DIE - OLD LIGHT:

https://open.spotify.com/track/7uh0csgLz3j6pBZ03U0Jdl

Nominator: Bane (3/28)
Source: From Parts Unknown (2/14)

Initial Score: 73.05 [#85]
Revised Score: 74.16 [#169]
Final Score: 77.85 [#137]

(First Thoughts: Lots of inhuman metaphors (masterless dog, ox wandering the swamp, rattlesnake, demon), so I have a natural bias in favor of this.)

I like the guest vocalist, I like some of the metaphor choices, and I kinda like his explanation for the title:

I was watching some shit about outer space one night and they were talking about how the stars we see might be dead currently (because of how long light takes to travel) and I realized how deceiving and cruel the universe could be.

Imagine if you were floating around in space and you saw a star in the darkness (pretending there wasnt gazillions of miles between you) and you thought Oh thats beautiful! Im gonna go fly over that and be closer to it!, and then you get there and it was fuckin dead.

It kind of served as a metaphor for everything we think is spectacular. The closer we get to it, the more we become aware that its not the way it was when you first noticed it. Also I may have been very high.

And theres something rather endearing about this highly educated artist rambling about flying to dead stars. Its not the greatest explanation of all time and I shouldnt let it influence the score any, but its amusing and I wanted to draw attention to it.

[Final Thoughts: Brian Fallon seems to be the name of the guest vocalist. I wonder if he did anything Id like? His performance on this track makes me want an entire song by him... I suppose Ill look into him later. Either way, this is a good song.]

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137 [TIE]: HANDGUNS - SELF-PORTRAIT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8pF--sS5Hs

Nominator: @Snake5555555555 (7/15)

Initial Score: 74.186 [#69]
Revised Score: 77.24 [#141]
Final Score: 77.85 [#137]

(First Thoughts: I like the lyrics quite a bit. Im not sure exactly how much I like the actual song, but you know, well see. Its probable I just need to give it a few more listens to get adjusted to it.)

PROS

1.Spoken word intro (which is sampled from a movie I know nothing about and dont really want to look into, but I do like samples like this).

2.Verse 2, in particular, is at the right level of sadness:

Most days I feel fine and others I feel like
Im dying on the inside, forcing smiles on the outside

Bleak, but not suicidally bleak.

3.Handguns may not have been my favorite band last topic, but I do kinda like seeing familiar names and giving them another chance.

CONS

1: So much drumming.

2: Theyre still not my favorite band.

I think that works out to around the low 70s in terms of points.

[Later: Upper-Mid 70s, I guess. I like it a bit more than the average 70 point song.]

[Final Thoughts: Too much drumming, but the song itself is still good and mostly what I was looking for.

*notices that the Pros List uses a number followed by a period format, while the Cons List uses a number followed by a colon and a space format.*

O.o?

Odd coincidence.]

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136: LIVE - WE WALK IN THE DREAM:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1fgPshhUQo&list=PLBB25BAC1F72C0DE4&index=12

Nominator: Azuarc (9/28)
Source: The Distance To Here (4/13)

Initial Score: 23.37 [#552]
Revised Score: 36.12 [#539]
Final Score: 49.00 (upgraded to 68.25) (upgraded to 77.90) [#234]

(First Thoughts: This would be the type of spiritual song that I dont like. Its performed well, but it feels so overwhelmingly Christian that I want to go listen to something like Depth of Satans Eyes to balance things out.

...actually, Im totally going to go listen to that before finishing this album. There are definitely spiritual songs I like, but not so much this one.)



I had hoped to find a professional review commenting on this song, that I may blatantly copy their words in an attempt to give this writeup some value by offering the insight of someone who actually knows what theyre talking about and can properly review songs.

...Only no one ever speaks of this song. The album itself gets mixed reviews, but no one ever talks about this track. Its never listed as one of the best (The Dolphins Cry is often mentioned for that position), nor one of the worst. The closest Ive found was someone saying the albums repeated refrains of love become tedious before you even reach this song.

Well, if people actually being paid to comment on this album cant be bothered to say anything about the song, then I feel a bit better about my own lack of a writeup.

Aaanywho..., Im not saying this is actually a Christian rock song, but lines like We are not these bodies alone & Im finally at peace, the war is all gone, by no cause of my own make it way too easy to read that type of thing into it. Which isnt a dealbreaker by itself, but Im not finding anything else here that I like to offset the not my thing value.

[Final Thoughts (that later turned out to not be very final at all): I do like that its a bit of a softer type of rock than Sparkle was.]

[Later: One of those songs that has been stuck in my head and keeps getting moved up the list. Im actually going to raise this up to the very low 60s, see where things go from there.]

[Final Thoughts (that also later turned out to not be final): High 60s. Its still not quite something I love, but its awfully catchy and I like it.]

[Still Later: I have a very love/hate relationship with this type of spiritual song.

There are days, like the first listen, where Im so strongly anti-religious that I get incredibly bitter and actively resent these types of songs.

There are days where I want to believe in the power of soft rocks ability to unite people in harmony and get overly attached to these types of songs.

Today is apparently one of the latter type of days as I flatly refuse to let this be eliminated before the 70s, which is going to complicate everything... so many numbers to change... ]

[Final Thoughts: And we end in the high 70s. Good song, when Im in the mood for such songs.]

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