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#25. Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
Artist: Monty Python
Nominator: redrocket (1/5)
Time: 3:39
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_-q9xeOgG4
Initial Rankings: Batch 7 - 2/15 (A-) & Rubric 4
FLUX: Down 10 Spots

Holy Grail > Life of Brian > The Meaning of Life

I heard this song long before I had ever seen/finished Life of Brian and it is probably the best song to come out of their Flying Circus. It can cheer one up in even the worst moments. The whistle, the jokes, the camaraderie, the rhymes & delivery of those rhymes (particularly the way Idle says 'daaan't worry, give a whistle!'), it's a slowly building mood lifter. It should be on everyone's anti-depression playlist.

*NEW* 16th Place: Redrocket
#114. John Williams, "The Towering Inferno: Main Title"
#67. Daniel Ingram, "Winter Wrap Up"
#62. Daryl Hall & John Oates, "You Make My Dreams Come True"
#59. Sarah Connor, "Sexual Healing"
#25. Monty Python, "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life"
Average Score: 65.4
Total Score: 327

Come on, redrocket, cheer up ya ol' bugger, give us a grin! Just becuz yure out here, doesn't mean yure out everywhere! Keep on nominatin'! We've got a wealth of music topics again! Ya wrapped Karo up quite a bit in pony magic; hopefully the Prince makes your dreams come true. Don't let a storm rising inside you become a towering inferno, eh eh? Nudge nudge, wink wink. Thank ye for your lot. "Sexual Healing" climbing so high is still one of my biggest surprises.

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24. Knocked Down, Made Small (Treated Like A Rubber Ball)
Artist: WAS (Not Was)
Nominator: Fluttershy_Pony (1/5)
Time: 3:07
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvyVcybUHSs
Initial Rankings: Batch 2 - 1/15 (A) & Rubric 1
FLUX: Down 20 Spots

'I know he's saying Made Small, but I like Knocked out baseball' - First listen note

This was definitely knocked down from its high perch, but I never treated it like a rubber ball. It never bounced about. It was top five from the start until I listened more outside the chorus and wasn't completely enchanted by those magical horns. For months there, I thought it sounded more like simmering rage like Office Space, just rage against the machine kind of stuff. And I know I've heard the lyrics before, but I don't think I actually listened. Now, after I'm hearing him acting out and turning to crime, it sounds less like someone put upon in a bad situation and more like someone making shitty excuses for their awful actions. "I started doing crime because my dad disrespected me and I went to jail for being a delinquent because he ignored me and I couldn't have ice cream no matter how much I cried about it." The veil of support lifted away, and it really did get knocked down, amde small. Now I can understand why you expected it out so much earlier.

That chorus though.

*NEW* 17th Place: Fluttershy_Pony
#100. Ryan Devereaux, "Kiss A Little Longer"
#82. Abandoned Pools, "The Remedy"
#68. anporin, "Shakticat"
#61. Tia Carrere, "Why You Wanna Break My Heart?"
#24. WAS (Not Was), "Knocked Down, Made Small (Treated Like A Rubber Ball)"
Average Score: 67
Total Score: 335

I do apologize for not keeping it a little longer; I did not wanna break your heart, but thank you for all your ranking topics, Rae! You showed me the way to go, and all of the music topics right now are because you inspired me to do this again. "Shakticat" and "The Remedy" are probably going to be the ones of yours the most stuck in my head over the next year. "The Remedy" has popped in far too often for how little I listen to it. It has fully taken over that space Jason Mraz once occupied (I can't even conjure that song right now; there is nothing there but "You can be the remedy and I can be the enemy"). I look so forward to your next topic. Please don't knock me down and make me small for eliminating you (but feel free to treat my songs like rubber balls bouncing up and down the scoresheets)=P

@redrocket
@Fluttershy_Pony