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Mr Lasastryke posted...

and yeah, you'll probably like coheed and cambria if you're into concept albums and storytelling in music. their music has this huge myhtology behind it with comic books that tie into the stories in their music and stuff.

That sounds sound very promising, yes.





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Song Name: T.I.M.E.
Song Origin: Neil Cicierga, "Mouth Moods"
Song Link:

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Nominator: Mega Mana (1/5)



This nomination put me in an awkward position, due to a frankly bizarre set of events that have nothing to do with the song itself. I heard this song at Se7en's ranking topic and told you quite directly that I absolutely loved this song, so the nomination feels a bit like cheating. Part of me wanted to drop it way back down at The Haunting & Viva La Vida, as I loved this so much that I actually listened to Neil's entire album in hopes of finding another song even half as great. (I did not care for any of his other songs).

But the only reason I heard the song at all was due to a lot of coincidences:

If Se7en had disqualified the song like he said he wanted to, I wouldn't have heard it.

If Se7en enjoyed the song, I wouldn't have heard it. I made an attempt to listen to everything in that topic series, but I was unable to listen for a while and fell way behind and just gave up. Astronomy doesn't have the same problems as this song because I heard it in this nomination list before it dropped at Se7en's topic.

[FINAL-ER EDIT: The Dear Hunter song also didn't have the problem because it was cut after the point I'd stopped listening to every link posted. Point/Counterpoint's appearance didn't matter much because I was already well aware of the song. We now return to the originally typed version of this write-up.]

...okay, so maybe it's just the two coincidences.



I can't give the song a low ranking because then I'm directly punishing it for failing at someone else's topic ; I can't give it first place because I want new songs and I already listen to this voluntarily on a regular basis.

Perhaps mercifully there was one song I truly loved above all others that this wouldn't have had a shot at first place even I was just hearing it for the first time, and I still love the song enough that it legitimately hits my top 10 even without being a new experience.

Not much to say about the song itself, as I think we covered it at Se7en's topic. I never cared for YMCA to begin with, but this song completely transforms the experience into something incredibly powerful. The lyrics are the same as they ever were, but with the overly bouncy disco music, I was never able to connect with the lyrics until presented in this way.

...How a comedy artist that I don't find funny managed to take a song I didn't like and turn into something so powerful, I'll never know.



GORF!

In Memoriam

Lowest Ranked Song: The Way It Goes (177th Place)
Highest Ranked Song: T.I.M.E. (10th Place)

Huh... just now noticing that all five songs you nominated are from vastly different genres. Very nice.

[FINAL-ER NOTES: Obviously it's impossible to know what would have happened had this been my first time hearing the song, but I honestly don't think it would have made it any further. It's incredibly powerful, I love it, and I'd like to declare it the winner... but the quality of songs here is so incredibly high, that I just can't see it as anything more than an introduction to the Top 10.]

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