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95: LIVE - SHIT TOWNE:

https://open.spotify.com/track/5Tkrz3KSoAOGN4Y97TUqZU

Nominator: azuarc (6/28)
Source: Throwing Copper (4/15)

Initial Score: 44.98 [#477]
Revised Score: 41.19 [#521]
Final Score: 85.50 [#95]

(First Thoughts ...)

Feels like an angsty teenage song: Yeah, this town is shit! Fuck you, mom and dad!

Its just so...petty? Sad? Something like that. Its also dreadfully repetitive, like there should be a second verse or something, but the song just pointlessly extends itself longer than it needed to.

[You would think I wouldt fill space by talking about an unrelated song to fill space mere seconds after criticizing a song for pointlessly extending things, but you underestimate both my stupidity and my hypocrisy.]

Talisman: The Horus Heresy - Aftermath:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBaDGRvP2L4

This is a track that Ive wanted to nominate somewhere for a few years now, but Ive never been able to find the right place. Since its just a bonus track and not actually in the game itself, it doesnt actually count for most VGM topics. And its not interesting enough to be worth nominating at the few topics open to every song in existence.

Its unfortunate because this is actually a decent track and, I think, better than anything on the actual soundtrack. Its probably a bit too ambient for most people (Id probably only give it a 7/10), but its a nice song for quiet reflection on...whatever atrocity you want to quietly reflect back on. Not great, not the sort of thing anyone on this board would care about, but good in its own way and deserving more than the complete obscurity its been relegated to.

[Not-Quite-Final Thoughts: Well, you were right about this originally being the lowest ranked song on Throwing Copper at the least. But its got a catchy chorus andas stupid as it isIm sorta in the mood for this song. Been seeing too many confederate flags, and thin blue line flags, and Blue Lives Matter shirts & bumper stickers, and shirts about how you cant get COVID if youre a Christian...

Like, I know its petty and sad, but Shit Towne kinda speaks to me at the moment.]

[Later: I just had the misfortune of dealing with a COVID-supporting [expletive deleted] and having to hear how COVID has been sent to eradicate the non-Christians. He felt the need to point out that a lot of members of his church have died to COVID, but that proves that they werent TRUE CHRISTIANS.

...I shouldnt like this song. It just repeats the first verse instead of coming up with a second one and...other stuff. But I find the chorus of gotta live in Shit Towne getting rather stuck in my head lately and Im actually going to go ahead and jump this song up to 80 points.

Youll probably argue that I cant give this song an extra 40 points as a pathetic protest about my town somehow being pro-COVID, but I once again remind you that I have no interest in pretending to be objective at my own topic.

...Almost tempted to jump this all the way up to the 100 point tier on principle, but I suppose 80 points is enough to get the point across.]

[Final Thoughts: Inexplicably, this song wound up being something I actually needed, so I like it a lotbut I cant really say its some super top-tier track or anything. It just repeats the first verse instead of coming up with a second one and its not the singers best performancenothing wrong with it, but Im not completely drawn into his voice as I am in certain other songs. ]

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94: THE WEEKND - TWENTY EIGHT:

https://open.spotify.com/track/1FJrsh1NbV9eRw5JQt3M4e

Nominator: Player_0 (2/30)

Initial Score: 60.00 [#242]
Revised Score: 80.63 [#114]
Final Score: 85.70 [#94]

(First Thoughts: ...I guess Ill give this a decent score, for now.)

I still cant find any lyrics in this song that I actually like, which is unfortunate because I think I love this song in all ways other than the lyrics which Im rather neutral on. Its definitely quite close to greatness though, so I think this is probably my favorite song from the album now?

[Final Thoughts: Well, its not quite my favorite song from the album anymore, but its close.]

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93: BEYOND - THE LAND:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwUWc1kw2T4

Nominator: handsomeboy (3/15)

Initial Score: 60.15 [#233]
Revised Score: 84.05 [#95]
Final Score: 85.90 [#93]

(First Thoughts: Well, I managed to find an article about the song and while Google Translate is still spotty, it explains enough to get the general feelings. Also it did a decent job with the lyrics Looking at his fathers smile, speechless; Let the sunset seep with tears.

Also, the article even explained that the writer was writing about his uncle instead of his actual father, so I even know a bit of trivia on this one.)

At least, I really hope the pages I found are about the right song. Its not exactly easy to tell when youre just grabbing search results at almost random and running them through an automatic translator in hopes of getting something decipherable.

Theres also a lot of notes about the song commemorating Taiwanese veterans being allowed to return to the mainland to visit their relatives? [Again, presuming Im on information about the right song]. Seems like a powerful topic, though one Im grossly unqualified to speak on as I know exactly nothing about the history involved.

The singers got a fantastic voice that draws me in and the backing music is also quite interesting. I dont know quite how to put it; its like a combination of traditional Chinese music, 80s pop music, and a military march all blended together with a powerful & wistful vocal performance that works together in ways that are incredibly appealing. Like, even if it turns out I had a completely wrong set of lyrics, this is still hitting 80 points because I like what this song is doing to a point that I dont think it actually matters what hes singing.

[Final Thoughts: Nothing else to add.]

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92: BEN FOLDS - THE ASCENT OF STAN:

https://youtu.be/jeWZhuzFMM8

Nominator: Jesse_Custer (5/15)

Initial Score: 48.12 [#444]
Revised Score: 66.00 (upgraded to an 88.55) [#70]
Final Score: 86.00 [#92]

(First Thoughts: I dont much care to discuss hippies selling out their values to make it in the corporate world & I dont much care for anything the song does musically either. Its fine enough that I doubt the score will ever drop below 40 points, but I seriously doubt Im going to start liking it enough for it to even reach 50.)

I was too harsh on this song originally, as this was one of the tracks that really stuck with me. I could remember it rather clearly, in spite of having only heard it once back when it was first nominated near the start of the topic. And I eventually had to admit that while its never going to be my favorite in any aspect, it was certainly memorable and i did actually like it enough that I wanted to hear it again.

[Later: After having this song stuck in my head for two straight days, I am forced to admit that your songs arefor better or worseinfectiously catchy. Moving this up to the high 80s for a bit; might move it back down a bit later, well see.]

[Final Thoughts: Very catchy and memorable, but its still not exactly my favorite song... having a hard time deciding how many points I want to give it, but it seems to have wound up here-ish?]

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