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110: GORILLAZ - SLEEPING POWDER:

https://youtu.be/GzJGWAfmBco

Nominator: Jesse_Custer (7/15)

Initial Score: 70.06 [#130]
Revised Score: 73.50 [#175]
Final Score: 82.87 [#110]

(First Thoughts: Nice song, but Im going to leave the write-up to Future Me. Never do today what you can force your future self to do, because theyre probably a jerk and deserve the extra work, you know?)

It is a good song and Ive kinda wanted to listen to more Gorillaz songs for a while now, but its a bit too... obviously drug related to be something Id usually go for and I cant find any lyrics that Im really drawn to that would help get me past my natural aversion to the song.

So... high quality song that I like, but not quite my favorite or anything.

[Later, after the topic had started, but long before we ever actually got to the 70s: Oh come now, this is way too low. Up to the 80s, at least.]

[Final Thoughts: A unique sound that I like and appreciate, but not something I can say I honestly love.

Also, its probably just me, but Id like to flip the intros of this song and Third Eye. Bill Hicks speech about great music being created on drugs feels like it goes here and the harsher this is your brain on drugs message goes with PRYING OPEN MY THIRD EYE.]

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109: MAMOMO - (Circumzenithal Arc) [mamomo #12]

https://s-mamomo.bandcamp.com/track/--56

Nominator: @FL81 (8/20)
Source: mamomo album (7/13)

Initial Score: 65.00 [#175]
Revised Score: 80.99 [#112]
Final Score: 82.90 [#109]

(First Thoughts: A song where someone confesses their love for the main character on a starry night. Nice ambiance, but not quite one I want at the moment.)

Well, tonight I learned the proper term for an upside-down rainbow. Neat, I guess?

Its quite a beautiful song, but its attached to feelings and images.I dont particularly want... but I do like it a lot more than that initial score indicated...

Grr. Argh.

...fine, go up to the low 80s for a bit.

[Final Thoughts: Its beautiful, but not quite the type of beauty Im looking for at this specific point in time. Which I guess is worth 80 points?]

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108: MAMOMO - (AT THE EMBANKMENT) [MAMOMO #8]:

https://s-mamomo.bandcamp.com/track/--52

Nominator: @FL81 (7/20)
Source: mamomo album (6/13)

Initial Score: 87.00 [#25]
Revised Score: 89.45 [#65]
Final Score: 83.00 [#108]

(First Thoughts: Pretty, but the choir makes the song feel a bit too hopeful for my tastes.)

I stand by that; its very pretty, but just a bit too hopeful and optimistic to hit the very top tier of songs. Still great, still close to the top tier, just not quite there.

[Final Thoughts: Regrettably, Im less interested in this very hopeful choir song tonight than usual, though its still great.]

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107: MANJU - YAKUSOKU:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEJ1mpRmJyU

Nominator: UF8 (7/15)

Initial Score: 90.00 [#13]
Revised Score: 94.74 [#43]
Final Score: 83.30 [#107]

(First Thoughts: Oh no you dont, youre not getting first two years in a row with sad VTuber songs that remind me of dead relationships.

...also this isnt as good as Kaf an-y-way~.

.....also this really didnt need to go on for nine minutes...my sadness started to give way to boredom, which does not bode well for repeat listens. Still, it is pretty powerful emotionally, so its at least starting with a fantastic score.)

A wonderfully painful song that doesnt know when to end. Theres a point where everything fades out around the 3:20 mark and I really feel like the song should have stopped there; the following verses dont offer any new levels of sadness, or anything new musically, the song just keeps going three times longer than it needed to.

[Final Thoughts: A properly sad song that just goes on longer than it should have. It always starts off so emotional that I love it, but then it just...never stops. And then it has a second fake ending at the eight minute mark and....ugghh...

Still, I love enough aspects of it that Im not letting it slip below the 80 point mark.]

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