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Four songs to start the morning. And hopefully I copy them over successfully this time (briefly lost one of these four songs, somehow).

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#422: The9fool - (Toothbrush commercial song parody) (3:36):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OQuMxXd6ro

Nominator: Handsomeboy [20/31 Remaining]

Initial Score: 15.56
Revised Score: 52.12
Final Score: 55.33 [Upgraded to 60.484]

(First Reaction: A roughly six second loop repeated for three minutes. On the plus side, the loop sounds like a parody of the Everly Brothers hit "All I Have To Do Is Dream" and yes I would like covers of 60's music. Actually, was this 60's music? It sounds more 50's and the album cover points that direction as well. *checks* 1958 release date, cool cool cool, I noticed/learned something.

The Everly Brothers - All I Have To Do Is Dream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbU3zdAgiX8

On the negative side, you know how I feel about repetition and this just goes on forever with the same few notes and one word repeated. I don't hate it, it's a competent version of the intro to a song I have a lot of nostalgia for, but I dread the thought of sitting through this almost-literally-one-note joke two more times.)

I'm afraid I really can't find anything else to say about this song. With more lyrics this would be a great song that is simultaneously nostalgic & new, but this is just six seconds on a loop and,,, aw, dammit, I do slightly like this, don't I? Fine, up to the positive values with you.

[Final Thoughts: It's a pretty great six seconds, honestly. Far too repetitive to actually hit the 60 point tier, but it packs in enough nostalgia and novelty value to fairly easy to hit the "kinda like" tier.]'

[Later: How is this song so low? Up to the 60 point tier with you.]

[Later: Accidentally deleted this song when I was copying it over to be eliminated... thankfully, I have a backup file.]

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#421: A Perfect Circle - So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish (4:26):
https://open.spotify.com/track/4R5kwDx0ryIMiK2PKqbNVY?si=xvo8_SYzRWGBclU5_MPd-A

Nominator: Jesse Custer [20/29 Remaining]

Initial Score: 60.00
Revised Score: 66.6099
Final Score: 60.500005

(First Reaction: I was expecting the song from the intro to the Hitchhiker's Guide film, but this is better. Perhaps a bit too sad, remembering how many people have died recently... and then realizing that 2016 isn't all that "recent". Oof.

*insert Farnsworth "I'm Sad Now" reaction*)

!I'm a bit surprised I didn't talk about nuclear war, the end of the world, or how this song is unexpectedly easy to listen to than I typically expect from Maynard. (Not that there aren't Tool songs that I love, this is just more approachable than expected. Though I suppose this song was written by Billy Howerdel, so that's probably why it sounds different... then again, I have no idea what other songs Billy has written & this is allegedly in a different key than he usually writes in, so this song could be abnormal for him as well and I don't think this thought is going anywhere, yet it seems to still be continuing).

Not that I had anything to say about any of those topics, you just think I'd have at least referenced them or something.

[Final Thoughts: I like this, but the lyrics feel a bit more repetitive than I might like & I'm moving it back towards the early parts of this tier.]

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#420: Margo Guryan - Why Do I Cry (2:15):
https://youtu.be/LjV_N5k6X6A

Nominator: Snake [16/32 Remaining]

Initial Score: 60.777
Revised Score: 60.777
Final Score: 60.777

(First Reaction: I want to call this song "simple and delightful", but I'd also like to not be the type of crazy that refers to a song called Why Do I Cry as quote-unquote delightful. So instead, I'll stall for time and distract everyone: Look at that Initial Score! It's so oddly specific. Why exactly three digits and why triple sevens? Is it a subliminal message that this song--or possibly Snake himself--has won some sort of jackpot??

Wait, wait, crap, now I'm getting people's hopes up too high. Uhh...look how utterly barebones and devoid of content this writeup is! It's very distracting. You are distracted and forgetting what the previous paragraph was about. Do you think that could work as a Jedi Mind Trick? Like, if Obi-Wan decided to just shout "You are distracted and forgot what just happened" at a random Stormtrooper, would the Stormtrooper just be all confused? If so, would it be confusion about a crazy old man shouting at him or would it be due to the force?

,,,well, I've already forgotten how this conversation started, so I'll say this was sufficently distracting.)

!I thought about giving a more traditional score, like "60.73", but I felt bad about removing those fractions of a point so I guess the score stays at oddly specific jackpot values.

[Final Thoughts: I suppose the song can keep its oddly specific value that seems to have no particular meaning or significance.]

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#419: Pilotredsky - Clicker That Should Be [4:18]:
https://pilotredsky.bandcamp.com/track/clicker-that-should-be

Nominator: Kopazzynth [9/21 Remaining]

Initial Score: 58.79
Revised Score: 59.006
Final Score: 60.8666

(First Reaction: A fun song that I like, though not quite as much as I like everything in the clump. It may get moved up a tier by the end of things, once I've sorted out the clump and figured out where everything in there places.)

!I still don't quite like it as much as the 60 point CLUMP, but it's a rather fun & memorable instrumental tune and I'm giving it a *slight* (though largely inconsequential) boost.

[Final Thoughts: I think I like this one suddenly. It's a bit of a sudden shift from "just below clump" to "just above clump", but that's how I'm feeling right now.]

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