LogFAQs > #969353970

NOW ENTERING THE 30 TO 39.99~ TIER

Still songs that I don't like, but feel like it'd be too harsh to say I disliked them as they're a fair number of tiers from the bottom. And our last drop of the day:

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#775: Philip Glass - The Grid (14:57):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SegECuY22Rs&list=OLAK5uy_mDCT4_Ky0CAnSs7AexWupMqE4qQRsnc7s&index=5

Nominator: Sergio [11 Remaining]

Initial Score: 10.76
Revised Score: 17.46
Final Score: 32.00

(First Reaction: The song started off okay, but once the vocalizations came to full prominence it became rather displeasing... they don't last too long, but I can't say I'm a fan of the section immediately after the vocals either. It's kinda... bland and repetitive until the vocalizations resume. That section actually ain't bad; it's "choir like, but in a way I slightly enjoy"... but then things go back to being kinda bland.

*yawns* It's so long too... I don't hate it, but that's about the nicest thing I can say.)

Let's see if I can get at least one sentence about each section...

The first two and a half minutes are basically the instruments from Vessels being reprised without the choir. I don't quite like it as much as I expected, but it's fine? It's, it's fine.

Then the choir comes back in and I'm pretty sure I hate what they're doing here. Those two minutes are just remarkably unpleasant and I wish I could just start the song around 4:20 because this stretch here is absolutely murdering the score--I think I'd give this segment a total of four points if ranked by itself.

Things improve drastically after that; we basically revisit the instrumentation again, but it's more synthetic and deeper & booming, and I might say I kinda like the stretch from 4:20-ish to 6:50-ish.

Bad choir. Go away. Shoo. This segment's probably around 20-ish points--the notes I like are being played, you just can't make them out clearly. I think this song may have went over better two years ago, because there is a bit of a chaotic quality to the overlapping vocals & the instruments that feels like something I would have found appealing at that point. [In fact, the First Reaction states directly that I did enjoy that section not too long ago! Not tonight though. I wish I had an explanation for you.]

At eight minutes and whatever, we go back to instrumental music and I start to blank out a bit... the different parts of the song overlapping feel odd in a way that I'm unable to appreciate, though it's not bad and I like some of what it's doing.

More choir at...whenever, you kinda get how the song is bouncing between both sections and increasing in intensity each time, yes? It's "heavenly" & "chaotic" & "constantly ramping up". Which are things! Things I'm sure several people here will love! But for me, it's just kinda... not me. The song also doesn't have a satisfying denouement; after all that ascending, we just STOP. Which probably works better when we seamlessly transition into the next song (Prophecies), but here is just kinda disappointing... I suppose there's something to be said for combining this song with Prophecies to avoid that flaw, but I'm not sure making them into a 23-minute long behemoth would really help either song's score.

[Final Thoughts: I'm definitely not combining this song with Prophecies. Not because making it 23 minutes would be too much, but because Prophecies really doesn't need this track dragging it down. This song feels like a continuation of Vessels in many ways, but the choir is a bit softer & the increased runtime allows more focus on the parts I enjoy, so it's almost like "Vessels done right".

...Unfortunately, I'm just not really into that much of what the track is doing and being an improved version of a song at the bottom of the list is still not worth a fantastic score. I'm moving it up a couple tiers because there are enough segments here with parts that I kinda like that this track feels like it better fits in with the 30 point songs. Too many positive attributes to say I particularly disliked the song, but still not quite something that fully appeals to me.]

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