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Topic	Raetsel and the Alts finish ranking 784 songs [+ Bonus Songs]
Raetsel_Lapin 04/15/23 6:34:21 PM #319:	I'll move on to covering "The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love" next, as I feel like listening to a concept album tonight. Trigger Warnings: ~~Sex crimes, child murder~~ - ====================== The Decemberists - Prelude: https://open.spotify.com/track/5jFkZSzm0lGuDEJ3Dc8xDa?si=4bab63f08a144467 Estimated Score: 53.00 I kinda feel like I should start at the halfway point because the nominated song (The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid) does a fine enough job recapping the first half of the album... but there could be some good songs hiding here, even if the story is familiar, so I'll go with the whole album. Sadly, this is.... not a hidden gem, to be polite about it. The track opens with a long, monotonous, drone that does nothing for a full minute and a half. The song improves by the second half once we're joined by more instruments and some actual notes, but opening with so little music & having that nothingness consume half the runtime really holds the track back. ...That being said, I do like the song once it actually starts and I kinda dig the transition to the next song, so this is much closer to the "Kinda Like" level than I would expect. ====================== - ====================== The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Wont Wrestle the Thistles Undone): https://open.spotify.com/track/5t15y083cJ3iohiyfvcD4y?si=06eee1e944fe4383 Estimated Score: 55.00 Okay, the early parts of the album may be more... confusing than I had expected from my limited understanding. Margaret finds a wounded fawn, aids it, it transforms into a human, and she immediately gets pregnant with the deerman's child (she must really be into shapeshifting deer men. No judgment, just not where I thought we were going with any of this) while the band allegedly screams about a sandwich: In a VIP Q&A they just explained that the yelling at the end is the name of a sandwich from a place they went to while recording the album. What. It is at this point that I had to stop the album and do a few standard checks to make sure this is reality because "this is all a dream" would make more sense than this being how the album actually opened. I take back any criticism of Billy McCaw being out of place because that song did not break my perception of existence. ...Still, it's... novel enough that I kinda like it? ====================== - ====================== The Decemberists - A Bower Scene: https://open.spotify.com/track/15DcZmjj7xXS84GN6SEFUn?si=1e13ba63d14b4c98 Estimated Score: 49.76 An interlude with a heavier sound to it than the preceding tracks. It's not bad, but I'm less interested in this sound & not much gets to happen--a nun (at least, I think they're all nuns) is kinda bitchy about Margaret's pregnancy so she runs back to the woods. It's fine enough; it's an unobjectionable song that moves the story along, but not especially remarkable. ====================== - ====================== The Decemberists - Wont Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga): https://open.spotify.com/track/0vvMw4RVYcueUm3IiGfQf8?si=54b9e717cfab4224 Estimated Score: 56.39 In which Margaret searches for deerman (William) in the forest. I'm honestly not that interested in most of song, but I do find something incredibly enchanting about William's voice when he calls out to her. His section is quite short, but for whatever reason, I find it really elevates the song up to at least the mid-50's. ====================== - ====================== The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All): https://open.spotify.com/track/5ID0RkPntsnrSc53KWQbr8?si=481006fe77bc4deb Estimated Score: 59.33 Having found each other, we now move on to the mandatory "romantic song about embracing love, even though it is forbidden" portion. It's actually pretty nice! It's surprisingly a rather sweet type of romance... it might have been sweeter if we'd done the romance before the pregnancy, but if you put aside anything that happened before this track (or will inevitably happen after this track) it's quite sweet, Not sure I want to move it up to the 60 point level, but it's at least pretty close. ====================== - ====================== The Decemberists - The Queen's Approach: https://open.spotify.com/track/4n7HOOyQnR7Lhg21tGin5T?si=7e442f1cd4d84150 Estimated Score: 50.94 <30 sec space-filling instrumental. It's just an incidental transition piece, so there's not a lot here... it's nowhere near memorable enough to score big in spite of its short length, but it does an okay job of building up the tension and establishing how bad things are about to get. It's... fine, I suppose. ====================== - ====================== The Decemberists - Isn't It A Lovely Night?: https://open.spotify.com/track/03CfLTRbl6uwlPZhJsrm84?si=e485c5cbc6334ca3 Estimated Score: 39.66 Nah, I'll pass on the "Margaret and William have sex while the Queen watches" song, thank you. On an objective level, I'm aware that the song does quite a nice job of making me feel squicked out even without the context of the story--I find this entire song quite unpleasant to listen to, even if I were able to completely divorce it from all context, so it's probably doing a fantastic job at what it's trying to do. But... I kinda... don't want to be squicked out in this specific way? I may be getting more tolerant of blatant sex songs, but this one is a bridge too far. ====================== -The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid was in the main ranking and will not be revisited here, though I still enjoy it and find it to be on a level well above the previous tracks- ====================== The Decemberists - An Interlude: https://open.spotify.com/track/0h6zNG0N1cgh4fj7blWeqX?si=8bd8cbef53ff412d Estimated Score: 59.27 Is a nice interlude. ====================== - ====================== The Decemberists - The Rakes Song: https://open.spotify.com/track/5QTKgUArMLt1JzM2JXlYCN?si=93aa9dd49d224f03 Estimated Score: Ehh... I'll pass on scoring this one. Yeah, a father mass murdering his children is a bit too far on the darkness scale for my blood. It's... not exactly triggering, but,,,, not exactly not triggering, either? Let''s just say I've known too many fathers abusing their children for me to be able to enjoy this. If I must be objective, I'd say the beat is fairly catchy & I like the way the way the Rake is portrayed: A villain so carefree and callous about his actions would be on the right track, were it not for the specifics of said villainy. I also somewhat enjoy the way he breaks the fourth wall, acknowledging his role as a narrator. On an objective level, this is a good villain song. It should be in the mid-50's, probably, but I just... don't want to deal with this or discuss why I don't want to deal with it. Apologies. ====================== -continued- --- Currently deciding on a new sig because as funny as the last quote was, it did inadvertently sound like I hated Fire Emblem Engage. <cite>Raetsel_Lapin posted [p:972866288] in Raetsel an... [t:80314823]...</cite> <quote>I'll move on to covering "The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love" next, as I feel like listening to a concept album tonight. Trigger Warnings: Sex crimes, child murder-======================The Decemberists - Prelude:https://open.spotify.com/track/5jFkZSzm0lGuDEJ3Dc8xDa?si=4bab63f08a144467Estimated Score: 53.00I kinda feel like I should start at the halfway point because the nominated song (The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid) does a fine enough job recapping the first half of the album... but there could be some good songs hiding here, even if the story is familiar, so I'll go with the whole album.Sadly, this is.... not a hidden gem, to be polite about it. The track opens with a long, monotonous, drone that does nothing for a full minute and a half. The song improves by the second half once we're joined by more instruments and some actual notes, but opening with so little music & having that nothingness consume half the runtime really holds the track back....That being said, I do like the song once it actually starts and I kinda dig the transition to the next song, so this is much closer to the "Kinda Like" level than I would expect.======================-======================The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Wont Wrestle the Thistles Undone):https://open.spotify.com/track/5t15y083cJ3iohiyfvcD4y?si=06eee1e944fe4383Estimated Score: 55.00Okay, the early parts of the album may be more... confusing than I had expected from my limited understanding. Margaret finds a wounded fawn, aids it, it transforms into a human, and she immediately gets pregnant with the deerman's child (she must really be into shapeshifting deer men. No judgment, just not where I thought we were going with any of this) while the band allegedly screams about a sandwich:<quote>In a VIP Q&A they just explained that the yelling at the end is the name of a sandwich from a place they went to while recording the album. What.</quote>It is at this point that I had to stop the album and do a few standard checks to make sure this is reality because "this is all a dream" would make more sense than this being how the album actually opened. I take back any criticism of Billy McCaw being out of place because that song did not break my perception of existence....Still, it's... novel enough that I kinda like it?======================-======================The Decemberists - A Bower Scene:https://open.spotify.com/track/15DcZmjj7xXS84GN6SEFUn?si=1e13ba63d14b4c98Estimated Score: 49.76An interlude with a heavier sound to it than the preceding tracks. It's not bad, but I'm less interested in this sound & not much gets to happen--a nun (at least, I think they're all nuns) is kinda bitchy about Margaret's pregnancy so she runs back to the woods. It's fine enough; it's an unobjectionable song that moves the story along, but not especially remarkable.======================-======================The Decemberists - Wont Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga):https://open.spotify.com/track/0vvMw4RVYcueUm3IiGfQf8?si=54b9e717cfab4224Estimated Score: 56.39In which Margaret searches for deerman (William) in the forest. I'm honestly not that interested in most of song, but I do find something incredibly enchanting about William's voice when he calls out to her. His section is quite short, but for whatever reason, I find it really elevates the song up to at least the mid-50's. ======================-======================The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All):https://open.spotify.com/track/5ID0RkPntsnrSc53KWQbr8?si=481006fe77bc4debEstimated Score: 59.33Having found each other, we now move on to the mandatory "romantic song about embracing love, even though it is forbidden" portion. It's actually pretty nice! It's surprisingly a rather sweet type of romance... it might have been sweeter if we'd done the romance before the pregnancy, but if you put aside anything that happened before this track (or will inevitably happen after this track) it's quite sweet, Not sure I want to move it up to the 60 point level, but it's at least pretty close.======================-======================The Decemberists - The Queen's Approach:https://open.spotify.com/track/4n7HOOyQnR7Lhg21tGin5T?si=7e442f1cd4d84150Estimated Score: 50.94<30 sec space-filling instrumental. It's just an incidental transition piece, so there's not a lot here... it's nowhere near memorable enough to score big in spite of its short length, but it does an okay job of building up the tension and establishing how bad things are about to get. It's... fine, I suppose.======================-======================The Decemberists - Isn't It A Lovely Night?:https://open.spotify.com/track/03CfLTRbl6uwlPZhJsrm84?si=e485c5cbc6334ca3Estimated Score: 39.66Nah, I'll pass on the "Margaret and William have sex while the Queen watches" song, thank you. On an objective level, I'm aware that the song does quite a nice job of making me feel squicked out even without the context of the story--I find this entire song quite unpleasant to listen to, even if I were able to completely divorce it from all context, so it's probably doing a fantastic job at what it's trying to do. But... I kinda... don't want to be squicked out in this specific way? I may be getting more tolerant of blatant sex songs, but this one is a bridge too far.======================-The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid was in the main ranking and will not be revisited here, though I still enjoy it and find it to be on a level well above the previous tracks-======================The Decemberists - An Interlude:https://open.spotify.com/track/0h6zNG0N1cgh4fj7blWeqX?si=8bd8cbef53ff412dEstimated Score: 59.27Is a nice interlude.======================-======================The Decemberists - The Rakes Song:https://open.spotify.com/track/5QTKgUArMLt1JzM2JXlYCN?si=93aa9dd49d224f03Estimated Score: Ehh... I'll pass on scoring this one.Yeah, a father mass murdering his children is a bit too far on the darkness scale for my blood. It's... not exactly triggering, but,,,, not exactly not triggering, either? Let''s just say I've known too many fathers abusing their children for me to be able to enjoy this. If I must be objective, I'd say the beat is fairly catchy & I like the way the way the Rake is portrayed: A villain so carefree and callous about his actions would be on the right track, were it not for the specifics of said villainy. I also somewhat enjoy the way he breaks the fourth wall, acknowledging his role as a narrator. On an objective level, this is a good villain song. It should be in the mid-50's, probably, but I just... don't want to deal with this or discuss why I don't want to deal with it. Apologies.======================-continued- --- Currently deciding on a new sig because as funny as the last quote was, it did inadvertently sound like I hated Fire Emblem Engage.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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