LogFAQs > #979127366

Castaway: I didn't think I liked this type of dubstep sound, but that is an addictive beat here. I could see myself loving this song after a few more listens.

Shine: I dig their voices and the lyrics about embracing your darkness are definitely the type of thing I love, so this was an unexpected treat.

Why You Wanna Break My Heart?: My nostalgia pick. The first four nominations were easy selections: My top three songs of 2023 and then a wildcard option that I just wanted to show off & was determined to nominate the first time it was eligible anywhere because my bizarre love/hate relationship with it might produce some interesting rankings. For the fifth slot, I just asked myself "what song do I have a lot of nostalgia for, but haven't listened to so often that I've become sick of it--and ideally haven't heard it at all in a couple years?" & this track is the one that came to mind. I feel it's a slot that could be a radically different song depending on what day you asked. tazzy got "Winger - Battle Stations" when I asked the same question for his ranking. Today, I think I'd wind up with

Elvis Costello - Alison:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTtopI620ZU

...Not that it matters, just a quick illustration of how this nomination slot could have wound up on basically anything. Aaaanywho, back to the song that actually was nominated. It's a simple song, a bit too basic and repetitive to be something that I'd love if I were just discovering it for the first time these days, but there's a lot of nostalgia attached that makes me kinda love it still. My mother never listened to much music, so I really didn't either growing up... but for reasons I cannot even begin to fathom, we borrowed the Wayne's World soundtrack from the library and spent quite a bit of time to listening to it. It's odd; of all the albums in the universe, why would this have been the one we went with? It's not as though this was a thing we did, I can only name two albums we ever borrowed to listen to in this way (I'll refrain from discussing the second for personal reasons & because I'm spending way too much time talking about my own life here as it is), but... well, we did, and it's given me a lasting attachment to Tia Carerre. Also for a very specific era of Alice Cooper--"Feed My Frankenstein" may not be his biggest hit, but I love it and the entire album it came from because that's *my* Alice... but I suppose that's a story for another topic.