LogFAQs > #972126515

==========================

Harusaruhi - Oarana:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZgW9ZmB150

Estimated Score: 52.003

It's a very high budget music video, but unfortunately, the music itself isn't really doing anything for me. I'm not entirely sure why.. I kinda like the chorus, but the main parts of the song are... not appealing. I suppose the steady beat, while not really thumping or pulsing, is still a one-note "tap tap tap tap tap tap" throughout the entire song, but I've certainly enjoyed far more pronounced beats than this in the past, so it feels like an incomplete explanation.

==========================

-

==========================

Isekai Joucho - With a Picture Without Anyone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgR34fFacVw

Estimated Score: 70.00

I like this one. While I'm sure it's not a reaction normal people would have, I find myself closing my eyes and tapping my foot along with the song... it's got a surprisingly enchanting groove to it. I was going to give this a score in the mid-to-high 60s, but this reaction is intriguing enough that I think I'd probably move this all the way up to the Cluster of exactly 70 point songs. That might be overvaluing it a tad, but I'd want to revisit this in the contet of other songs I really like & see if the reaction holds up.

No real favorite lyrics or moments, just a general groove that I vibe with, in spite of this not being a very goovy song at all.

==========================

-and now for a change of pace, I try a few random 5uu's songs as I have no idea where to start with the band-

==========================

5uu's - Roan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asb8BA3jbeE

Estimated Score: 52.63

It's one of those songs where I don't know what to make of it, though it's not quite so inscrutable that I become infatuated with it. Opening with wind chimes & the sounds of a horse galloping the song transitions to a singer hearing fires, earthquakes,, & riots while only worrying only about his own home. It's a fine song, but I neither properly grok what it's going for or become mesmerized by it and it's just kinda in that early 50's "fine in a positive way" zone.

==========================

-

==========================

5uu's - Resentments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMdP9771XH8

Estimated Score: 52.80

A somewhat jazzy progressive rock song that has a somewhat interesting section after the two minute mark, but never leans enough into chaos for it to quite be something that I like. It's also fine; I'd say I prefer it over "Roan", but not by that much and I somehow have even less to say about it, I'm afraid.

==========================

-

==========================

5uu's - Welll...Not Chickenshit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLoZ6Z_UaIY

Estimated Score: 59.64

There's a lot more chaos on this track and it's definitely beyond the first two songs I tried today. While I'm not a fan of the parts with lyrics, the unpredictable instrumental sections are pretty neat. I don't quite want to move it up to the 60 point Clump right now, but I am more interested in hearing this again at a later date than this score would indicate. It's... not quite *interesting*, but on the cusp of being described as so and deserves a second chance on another day.

==========================

-and now to go completely offscript, a random comment compares 5uu's to "MERZBOW" so let's see what that is-

==========================

MERZBOW - Slave New Desart (Remastered):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wnMoqOdfwU

Estimtaed Score: 57.66

High chaos. Static, computer noise, distorted laughter, blasts of noise that may or may not be distorted screaming. I... think I may have had my fill of noise music, but it's still relatively neat as a palette cleanser and I do kinda like what's going on here. I do wish it were a bit shorter... almost six and a half minutes of high-intensity noise can be a bit much to get through, but it's still something I'd say was worth finding.

==========================