LogFAQs > #949379945

In a rare attempt to avoid spoiling something, Ill respond to CPU whenever those songs are eliminated. For now, the start of the next batch of 15 songs:



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114: FRUMS - MDRQNXTAGON:

https://frums.bandcamp.com/track/mdrqnxtagon

Nominator: cakophon (7/26)
Source: vignette (6/20)

Initial Score: 80.00 [#53]
Revised Score: 86.03 [#84]
Final Score: 80.00 [#114]

(First Thoughts: A very high chaos song, which is goodthe nomination list has been severely lacking songs like thisbut it doesnt have the same impact as something like Credits EX did.)

To think there was a time that I had swallow SMOKE anywhere near this track. This is far more chaotic, which gives it some easy bonus points, and it doesnt give me a massive headache like SMOKE which is also worth some extra points.

I cant find much to say about the song; its very busy and complicated and hard to tell whats happening at any given point in the song, as it tries to completely overwhelm the listener. Which is fun, but not easy to talk about.

[Final Thoughts: Nothing to be said about it. You either like these type of highly chaotic songs or you dont.]

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113: SKE - FRAGUGLIE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AArsreUbYI

Nominator: @Toxtricity / Mycro (3/15)

Initial Score: 80.00 [#53]
Revised Score: 86.93 [#79]
Final Score: 81.50 [#113]

(First Thoughts: This song fluctuates between the low 60s and a perfect 100. The first part with the bells at the two minute mark hits me so hard emotionally that any song that could maintain that feeling for a whole track would definitely win; the outro of the song is the most unsettling to ever be nominated, its like being hacked to death by a hatchet... I know Ive said in a bunch of write-ups that I wanted more unsettling instrumentals, but you may have actually found a song that goes a little too far. Still a great section though.

And then there are other parts which are less good. Im going to start the score at 80 points and see where things wind up; I might move it up, might move it down, Ive got enough justification to put it just about anywhere thus far.)

Today, I feel less attached to each part of the song. The bells arent really connecting and the outro is more the fun type of scary and intense (like Dark Tube and Bleached Coral from your nominations last year) than being too terrifying like it was the first time around.

...which strangely kinda works out, because it was too intense the first time around, so now that things have leveled out a bit, I like it a bit more than I did before.

[Final Thoughts: Not quite as into it as before, but its firmly in the style of songs that I need more of, so well done.]

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112: FRUMS - ABSOLUTE ZERO:

https://frums.bandcamp.com/track/absolute-zero

Nominator: cakophon (6/26)
Source: vignette (5/20)

Initial Score: 89.15 [#20]
Revised Score: 90.00 [#62]
Final Score: 82.20 [#112]

(First Thoughts: A song that does many things I love. Somewhat glitchy sounding, unpredictable, slightly dissociative (energy Ive spent on being you can be read in several interesting ways I doubt were intended, but amuse me anyway), properly sad (My bodys broken and my psyches doing worse), I could not ask this song to do any more for me than it already does.

And yet, I feel a greater attachment to the other songs at the 90 points tier. This could mean those songs were ranked too low... or perhaps Im just not quite as into this song as I should be. If a nomination is too on-the-nose for me, my opinion of it tends to drop a bit for some reason. Great song and I do like everything about it, I just dont want to give it as high of a score as it probably deserves.)

I really like this, obviously, as its quite the embodiment of things that Ive asked for. Itd be impossible for me to dislike a song like this. Im just...still not as into it as I should be, for reasons Ive never quite worked out. I feel like I want it to be at the 90 point tier, but definitely at the lower end of it. Sorry.

[Final Thoughts: Its one of those things created specifically for me, but Im still not quite as into it as I should be. (Though the slow fade out at the end with those low tones is truly marvelous).

Though, obviously, I still like it A LOT.]

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111: JET FORCE GEMINI - WATER RUIN:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zqXSkL9UgXU

Nominator: Shonen_Bat (1/27)
Source: Shonen Bats Extra Songs (1/7)

Initial Score: 68.14 [#156]
Revised Score: 74.49 [#166]
Final Score: 77.99 (upgraded to 82.55) [#111]

(First Thoughts: Nice enough atmosphere, still not oppressive enough, but it at least tries to do what I want from it which is still pretty good.)

Actually, I cant quite figure out what emotional tone the song is going for, as its rather varied. The booming opening notes are quite oppressive, but then the song tries to go for a mystical sort of feeling (with slightly dreadful overtones) ; then it turns into a prepare for war type song, where it feels like youre in your war room positioning troops on your map? And then we have a tragic outro, probably a result of all the dying due to the aforementioned war.

Its a complex song, one that could have stood to be a bit longer... certainly a journey through a variety of emotional states, but I feel like I dont get to stay with any one feeling long enough to fully appreciate it. Certainly much better than my initial not oppressive enough take described it.

[Final Thoughts: Definitely one of the better musical journey songs Ive listened to.]

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SHONEN BATS EXTRA SONGS:

Divine Madness: 50.00 [#472]
Satori Maiden ~ 3rd Eye: 50.13 [#469]
Mothivas Grand Stand!: 50.21 [#466]
Entrusting This World to Idols ~ Idolatrize World: 52.06 [#419]
Tor (Slap City): 62.48 [#290]
Ancient Stories: 74.70 [#164]
Water Ruin: 82.55 [#111]

Average Score: 60.3042857142



Actual Touhou music and Epic Battle Themes dont typically do well with me (lyrical remixes of Touhou on the other hand, those tend to do quite well), so a lot of your list was spent on longshots that didnt quite pay off.

Tor (Slap City version), while not as good as the Iji song you nominated last year, did offer some fun imagery though, so I did enjoy that. And the last two songs are the type of mysterious musical journey ambience tracks that I like, so those were much appreciated.

And you gave me time to relax and cool down with my two most listened albums of all time, which made things much easierI saved the first listens for the albums for when I felt I needed a break from everything and talking about songs I knew by heart was a great way to ease into the actual ranking.

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Player Averages

Shonen_Bat: 73.6884285714
Xeybozn: 53.3525
Hbthebattle: 53.0054545454
Pyresword + sergiocornaga: 50.2062698412

Unsurprisingly, the high scores from the History Repeating albums puts Shonens average over 20 full points above the last elimination.
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