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I've had Deja Vu (Classical) stuck in my head all day, so I'm going to retroactively set that one to... about 72.13 points.

List resumes with a new #286th place. [EDIT: Seven] songs to start with, including two from BlackDra90n:

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#286: Linkin Park - Papercut (3:04):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lnJ79dzXD8&list=PLSZnrWBCBT3ng1xEWEkXC91StoZjD8BP3&index=1

Nominator: Mega_Mana [15/38 Remaining]

Initial Score: 74.00
Revised Score: 60.00
Final Score: 68.17

(First Reaction: I like Linkin Park and this is one of the most Linkin Park songs I've heard. Mental illness, dissociation, darkness/absence of light; there's a lot that appeals to me in the lyrics. It doesn't present any new facets of the band or stand out as a very unique track, but it's a group I like doing the things I like them for, so that's cool.)

I still like the song, but not remotely as much as the first time around. I'm drawn to feelings of dissociation for *completely normal reasons* and this song goes pretty hard on that end:

But I know just what it feels like
To have a voice in the back of my head

Like a face that I hold inside
A face that awakes when I close my eyes
A face watches every time I lie
A face that laughs every time I fall

Yep, that's the stuff alright. But I think I may have let my bias towards the lyrics get in the way of accurately ranking the song because, while I love the idea, this feels more like a song that I "like" rather than "like like" if you get what I mean. Mike's verses are performed in such a rush that I lack the time to really process or fully enjoy the lyrics that I'm here for and it's like... "yes, I do like this song, but if we dialed things back a bit then I would definitely like it a lot more" which is very much a 60's type of writeup than a 70's one.

[Final Thoughts:

The sun goes down
I feel the light betray me

Now that is a bridge I can get behind. I... don't know if I want to move it all the way back up to the 70 point tier, but let's try the very high 60's and revisit this at a later date.]

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#285: Seabear - I Sing, I Swim (3:39):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1RjcPr1W3I

Nominator: ZaziGuado [13/28 Remaining]

Initial Score: 60.86
Revised Score: 61.03
Final Score: 61.15 [Upgraded to 66.11] [Upgraded to 68.273]

(First Reaction:

I'm a black cloud
Sending lightning to the ground

I know it's a metaphor and a sadly relatable one, but it's fun to imagine him as an otherkin that identifies as a literal dark cloud. I wonder what the correct terminology is for someone with that -kin type? I can't say I've met anyone like that, or even read about them for that matter. I'm sure they exist.

...oh yes, the song is nice, obviously. Don't mind me getting fixated on willfully misinterpreting one specific lyric, I do that sort of thing a lot.)

!*continues willfully misinterpreting all of existence*

[Final Thoughts: I like this. For the wrong reasons, obviously, but that's never stopped me before.]

[Later: This song is hitting me unexpectedly hard tonight for *reasons*. I think I'll add a few more points to this... I'm not quite ready to jump it up an entire tier, but it deserves to be much closer to that 70 point mark than it currently is at the very least.]

[Later: Let's add a few more points to this song.]

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#284: ERRA - Divisionary (3:42)
https://youtu.be/rpFl-YYw5BE

Nominator: BlackDra90n [7/30 Remaining]

Initial Score: 74.00
Revised Score: 90.00
Final Score: 68.291

(First Impression:

Lost and alone in a space void of color
I'm here, breathing salt, ocean grave
Going under, all we are is lost

Okay, now this topic is going places, that is what I'm looking for. The main singer is pretty great, the more "metal growl-y" singer is a good compliment to the main vocals, good band, fantastic outro as quoted above. I have nothing bad to say about this track.)

!...One wonders how this song could be exactly what I wanted and only score 74 points, but whatever, it has a much more appropriate score now. This is definitely the type of metal song htat I'm into at this exact moment.

[Final Thoughts: A nice outro with those lyrics I quoted and most of the lyrics are clean & melodic, but somehow I'm not exactly feeling this track the way I used to... I mean, I like it, obviously--it's a very approachable type of metal which is doing things I like in a pleasing way--but it feels a few tiers below the top 40 it was sitting at.]

[Later: I'm sorry; once again, this is another song that I loved when I was in a specific state of mind that I'm just not in right now. So while I remember why I loved the song, I'm just not clicking with it as much as I did in the past.]

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#283: The Dear Hunter - The Revival (5:00):
https://open.spotify.com/track/6iNwukPXmB4tLrnC07FRSz?si=d241df39af96406d

Nominator: NBIceman [13/31 Remaining]

Initial Score: 78.7001
Revised Score: 86.14
Final Score: 68.301

(First Reaction: Pimp Priest always has the best song. I could live without The Boy's verse, but it is properly remorseful and something I'd normally like if it weren't interrupting this specific song, so even that verse is pretty good.)

!Still not as into Hunter's portion of the song, but that's only a brief interlude in the song and the rest of it is some of the band's best work.

[Final Thoughts: In an odd way, it's kinda of nice to see the Pimp Priest working his Pimp job. He seems to be spend far more time on the corrupt preacher aspect of his dual careers. Aaanyhow, I do like this track--theatrical villainy from a character that I already like, it certainly hits the right notes. I'm just not in love with it like I was before... you know how it is, quite a few songs wind up dropping over the course of the year.]

[Later: I do still enjoy this quite a bit, but I don't quite want to move it back up a tier; it does do everything right--very theatrical, fun, villainous, steeped in regret, and by a band that I quite enjoy... but I'm just not in love with it these days.]

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