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cakophon posted...

i don't remember a good few of my songs without listening to them again, but i do remember that i was going for a "non-english vocals" angle with most of them, picking artists from different genres and languages. hope you enjoyed dipping into different varieties, if anything.

(also please don't capitalize the c in cakophon! thank you)

Yeah, variety is nice and it's good to try a variety of things & see if any of them click. Name should be updated on all relevant pages now, barring any Find & Replace errors.

-space filling gap-

Going to cut things short this morning at only four eliminations because we're officially at the end of the tier! There were a few other songs scheduled for elimination before that point, but I kinda feel at least "slightly positive" towards them today and have revised their scores upwards.

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#748: splitradix - Melody Cube [3:39]:
https://splitradix.bandcamp.com/track/melody-cube

Nominator: Kopazzynth [19/21 Remaining]

Initial Score: 49,84
Revised Score: 43.700001
Final Score: 49.84

(First Reaction: It's fine, but it's one of many instrumental tracks that don't inspire any specific feelings.)

The revised sccore technically has approximately a million zeroes before the one, but four should be enough to convey the idea in a format that can be posted & easily understood.

...so... this is a very electronic and computerized song, but the only aspect I'm getting from it is "computer". I don't feel like I'm using a computer, or trapped in a computer, or much of anything really. This song is just the concept of computers in general distilled into music form. Which should be impressive? I certainly don't know how one converts physical concepts into melodic sounds. I just don't get any real emotions or experiences from the song.

Skimming the rest of the album, I think "Short Wave Supers" is probably the one I like the most. I think it'd probably be in the low 50s, but it feels like "taking a stroll through a computer city" which is something! It's an experience of some sort, at least.

[Final Thoughts: Computer jams are a neat idea musically. This one isn't my favorite, obviously, but I appreciate the attempt with it and I'm moving it back up to its Initial Score. it's pretty close to the 50 point tier, so I'm not sure why it fell so far the second time around.]

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-and the final below average song:-

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#747: Bob Crosby & The Bob Cats - Dear Hearts And Gentle People (2:13):
https://open.spotify.com/track/4hmKe6YigInvKIPFd1xT03?si=d6a9fd94acdb4fa4

Nominator: @Raka_Putra [30/31 Remaining]

Initial Score: 49.90
Revised Score: 49.90
Final Score: 49.90

(First Reaction: A step too old-fashioned--there are certainly 50's pop songs I enjoy, but they may be a bit later than 1951... or this song is just a bit more old sounding due to it having been written at the end of the 40's... or the fact that I actively hate my home town and the people in it (see: how much I enjoy Live - Shit Towne) that I can't possibly disagree with the song's message anymore than I already do. Probably that last one.

More seriously, Crosby has a deep & reassuring voice, and the song is distinct from everything else nominated thus far. There's probably a decent scoring song somewhere in his discography and I don't have anything against listening to the song itself, but I would very much prefer the song to say the exact opposite in every lyric, which is a pretty big drawback to how much I want to listen to it and I'm sorry about that. Anything negative I say is about me and where I'm from, not really with the song itself.)

Great voice, very nostalgic sound to it, a pretty solid idea for a nomination (not many nominations play on my nostalgia for oldies from the 50s and 60s), but boy do I wish the lyrics to this song were completely altered. I want someone with a superior vocabulary than mine to put into words how much the people in this town s-u-c-k.. It doesn't even really work as a hypothetical 'try to imagine if you lived in a place with better people' type song as Crosby goes on-and-on about how much they love the Bible; a community that spends every single weekend doing nothing but reading scripture is arguably even worse than my town, so this is not something I'd really fantasize about.

...oh hey, this song appeared in some Fallout games I never played. That's kinda neat, I guess? Either way, my issues with the song are definitely my issues, so don't take that as a critique of the song itself. (Though to offer an attempt at an actual criticism, this song could really use some more variety to the lyrics... the song practically repeats itself in full and it's never a good sign when I could chop a song in half & not lose much),

[Final Thoughts: With my noted bias against the Bible & hometowns, this is a miss lyrically. He's got a good voice that I won't complain about listening to it (unless in a topic like this in which I am required to actually respond with more than "it's fine", but not something I can actually enjoy due to personal issues. Definitely a good artist and timeframe to have nominated something by though.]

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