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I believe this is the second longest writeup of the topic. It... does not stay remotely on topic, yet it is quite large. It can't even fit in one post:

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#365: Terry Taylor - Playing Pool in Outer Space (from The Neverhood) (1:42):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdBft0i3FJQ

Nominator: rwlh [10/24 Remaining]

Initial Score: 51.00
Revised Score: 51.03
Final Score: 57.14 [Upgraded to 59.928[ [Upgraded to 61.20] [Upgraded to 63.20]

(First Reaction: *before listening* Rock 'N Roll Dixie is my jam from this soundtrack, but I remember liking a few other tracks. It's one of the few game soundtracks where I went out of my way to listen to the entire thing, so that's a fairly good sign.

*after clicking play* Ohh, right, right, pool. There are no pool tables in outer space and we didn't even, like, photoshop a pool table onto the album cover which means this doesn't quite work for the running gag. That being said, while there isn't much here musically, I do kinda like listening to the sounds of billiard balls so... actually not a bad pick, all things considered.)

It is a unique atmosphere and conceptually, I like the idea here. The clacketing of billiard balls echoing in the eternal void as a ghostly player calls his shot is certainly novel & I definitely have interests in "spoken word samples", "eternal voids", and "pool" so this *feels* like something I should really love... I'm just not really feeling it as a music track (even as a highly experimental one that questions what music even is) and it's certainly nifty, but not the sort of nifty that I want to revisit on a regular basis. Very neat, very cool, fantastic concept, not really what I'm looking for when I turn on some music.

...though if I ever made that hypothetical meditation playlist, I'd be interested in sneaking this onto it at some point. Not really sure how I'd react to this when already in a trance-like state, but it'd be interesting to test. In theory.

[Final Thoughts: Not entirely sure I'd call it music, but I kinda like it. It's definitely a novel experience and worth giving a few extra points so that it can make it into that "kinda like" tier.]

[Later: Well, I do like experiences and this is certainly one. Let's move this right up to the line of the next tier.]

[Later: Ah yes, pool. For the benefit of those who weren't here last year, an abridged version which is still going to be long because I'm am bad at summarizing:

I've had an odd fascination with the Sega CD's "Make My Video: INXS" for a long time now. I saw a review of it in one of the gaming magazines (probably GamePro) and really wanted it--not because it was good, but because the band looked so utterly moronic on the cover and I've always been into enjoying things ironically. It used the cover of their album "Welcome to Wherever You Are" which.. well I know I was being cruel to it, but let's just say they weren't the exactly the pinnacle of 90's fashion.

This led to me eventually falling in love with their song "Not Enough Time" and possibly liking the band unironically? My marking out whenever they played on the radio started as a joke, but it kinda stopped being a joke at some point. You know what they say: Beware what you do ironically, 'lest you start to do it 'ronically.

Aaaanywho, this SOMEHOW wound up with me going off on a really arbitrary tangent about the intro to the game. I have no idea which song set me off, but I went on this massive hallucinogenic stream of consciousness gibberish about the sheer majesty of the intro:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpa0nw72pZ4

Ah, look at that glorious pool table. You need nothing else; it's the greatest song ever invented playing as you stare at a pool table. There is not, and indeed could never be, a greater music video than just staring at a beautiful pool table.

This was meant to be a one-off joke (probably; I have no idea what sparked this conversation, nor where I was going with it), until it turned out that someone actually HAD nominated a music video with a pool table in it. paulg235 was henceforth known as a time-traveling warlock for giving me something I demanded months before I knew I wanted it. Which brings us to this topic, in which there are more pool tables & pool related songs--presumably from people who are "in" on the running joke and wanted to keep it going another year, though it could also be a coincidence.

...Actually, now I want to go back and find that incoherent post because I need to know what started this gag:

*continued with a copy of a writeup from last year*