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Yeah, I do at least some research on each song, so I know the clip is from Little Miss Sunshine... I just dont actually know what that film is and didnt feel like going down that rabbit hole, as I didnt think knowledge of the movie would influence my thoughts of the song in any direction. Still, a neat piece of trivia that I probably should have mentioned somewhere, so thanks for that.

And yeah, Revival Mode is the last song. I forgot El Dorado fell earlier (I blame the naming similarities between it and the El Dorado cartoon remix)... which means I should have posted an Album Elimination update:



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FROM PARTS UNKNOWN:

The Great Secret: 43.87 [#527]
Moor: 49.20 [#485]
Saturnalia: 50.00 [#472]
If There Is Room To Move, Things Move: 50.54 [#454]
Pelican of the Desert: 51.00 [#443]
Exometrium: 53.34 [#404]
All Structures Are Unstable: 56.23 [#383]
Idiot: 58.30 [#367]
Overstayer: 59.86 [#341]
Cheap Ludes: 60.36 [#325]
Thirst: 62.80 [#283]
Decayin With The Boys: 67.20 [#256]
El Dorado: 73.35 [#176]
Old Light: 77.85 [#137]

Average Score: 58.1714285714



I have a hard time remembering which songs are which and trying to go through the entire album in one sitting is a bit much, but I rather like the songs when theyre spaced out a bit with some other tamer genres between them. Also, Buckley seems cool from what little Ive seenI always enjoyed finding quotes of him explaining his songs and hes probably the best lyricist nominated this topic.

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And another copy/paste error resulted in song #140 not getting posted... (scores are accurate, its just posted a bit out of sequence):



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140: LIVE - SELLING THE DRAMA:

https://open.spotify.com/track/5y9ivD2g37FSCEJpfhG7d5

Nominator: azuarc (10/28)
Source: Throwing Copper (6/15)

Initial Score: 56.11 [#298]
Revised Score: 74.05 [#170]
Final Score: 77.63 [#140]

[First Reaction to seeing the lyrics: ...No, nope, nope, not doing this tonight. Its almost midnight right now and Im not dealing with this song just before bed. Actually, Im going to skip ahead a bit and come back to this entire album later; I need to be in the right headspace to deal with this and I really, really am not at the time Im writing this, sorry.]

Selling the Drama, take two:(First Thoughts: A heavier song than Im likely to ever deal with voluntarily (for the record, the optimal number of times to use any tense of the word rape is 0) and the song repeats itself a bit too often... but the singers got a good voice here, theyre somehow reminding me of... some classic rock singer or band I cant quite place (in a good way) and I think I somewhat like this? Like, I wasnt ready for this song at first, but after BLOODMONEY, I think Im okay with this.)

Skimming other comments, I see a lot of people saying this sounds like REM, so Ill say thats probably who they were reminding me of.

Either way, this song is a bit rough to listen to. As Ive said, I dont really care that the line is we wont be raped or that its metaphorical rape, its just not a lyric I want to deal with. And while theres a lot of debate about what anything in the song means, none of the theories Ive seen really appeal to me.

But the song does have a good sound to it and if I wanted to try listening to something more difficult, this is probably a decent introductory song since I do like listening to it...

[Later: I really like his voice on this track. Subject matters still not my thing, but this sounds fantastic enough that Im moving it up to the high 70s.]

[Final Thoughts: There are very few artists that could get away with including references to rape & Jesus in the same song and still get high marks from me. Im quite impressed that I like this song even half as much as I do.]

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