LogFAQs > #969835074

Eighth and ninth bricks, before I grab some lunch. Last two songs after said lunch;

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???: Iron Frill - Jellyfish (4:41):
https://open.spotify.com/track/1z0e1NS3w8z9QtuXa8HxwL?si=ed588ceb05d043e5

Nominator: Player_0 [26/33 Remaining]

Initial Score: 59.092
Revised Score: 59.03
Final Score: 54.44 [Upgraded to 55.00]

(First Reaction: I'm not crazy for the song, but the lyrics about becoming fishes together are... a bit of a different metaphor for a love song, so that's a little neat.)

!It's not the best jpop love song, but it's a fun little bop with an interesting choice of metaphor (even if I'm aggressively not a fan of fish).

[Final Thoughts: Well I don't like fish, swimming, or being underwater so this is not quite my choice of metaphor for a love song... even trying to pretend that the song is literally about turning into jellyfish isn't exactly appealing. It's a catchy jpop love song, but I'm not really clicking with it as much as I did the first two times around. The backing track has its fair share of "thump thump thump" overly pronounced beats. They're not loud enough to be especially grating, but it's... well, not really a favorite trait, we'll say.]

[Later: A slight boost so the song can join everything around it in the Wall.]

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???: Rob Hubbard - High-Score Theme (from Delta) (1:32):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrGrxuRgPKQ

Nominator: sergio [8/13 Remaining]

Initial Score: 48.37
Revised Score: 54.16
Final Score: 54.46 [Upgraded to 55.00]

(First Reaction: I usually like C64 music more than this, but this particular song didn't really work for me at all. Somehow it felt too long even with its incredibly short runtime and I can't find anything to really say about it. It's nice getting more chiptunes and I didn't dislike it, but I didn't like it either, sorry.)

This is another song that's a solid tier or two above what I remembered it being. I was likely being too hard on the track because it doesn't really offer what I want from retro computer music, specifically either the low tones that I almost always love in any type of music (though I can't name a good computer game example right off hand, I know I've heard them) or some really low-fi static-y sounds--where you can tell that the device wasn't meant to be used for music, but some brilliant genius has somehow created a song from nothing, as if by a miracle or divine intervention. This song, and I dare day Rob Hubbard's music in general, feels both higher pitched than I'd like & inexplicably more modern than is normal for the technology involved? It's like how I've lost most interest in "Gauntlet: The Third Encounter"'s character select theme after the original upload was deleted... the current version of it has much crisper and clear audio which has taken it from a 100/100 song down to the 50 or 60 point level. I miss my mangled and crunchy version. One of my favorite gaming songs, now reduced to such boring normalcy... Le sigh. Le boo hoo. But I digress.

Anyway as nonsensical as the writeup is, I'd say Rob Hubbard's music is typically not crunchy enough for me, but it's a pretty good track once I get past my disappointment about the track not quite doing what I want it to.

[Final Thoughts; It needs to be about 20% crunchier.]

[Later: It''s not much different, but I think I like the audio quality on this upload a bit more:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc8_2WeY_hs

It feels crisper, though that could be my imagination. Either way, it doesn't change the score--I totally substitute links if I find one I prefer, but this feels like a "Wall" track regardless of upload selected.]

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