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Like "This Is It", all three of these tracks are ones that I wish I enjoyed more than I actually do.

"Both Sides Now" has a decent backing music track. It is very pulsing and dance music-y, but in a rather restrained way. It's very "let's headbang and rock out, but at a respectable level where we don't hurt ourselves or bother the neighbors!" dance-y and I could see myself getting into that. I've never been super into the most well-known performance of the song, but I've always thought it had some very nice lyrics about the contrast between beautiful illusions and harsh reality, so I'm certainly open to the idea of someone else covering the song. And I like Carly Rae, so I was pretty amped up to listen to her take on the song. But... it just doesn't work for me; the backing music, while not exactly *intense*, is still ramped up and thumping for the quiet reflection the lyrics demand. It's a tonal mismatch that I'm having a hard time getting past.

And why, why, why does she go back to singing about clouds at the end of the song? It actively kills the song's pacing. The flow goes "the nature of something specific", "the nature of an emotion", "the nature of life itself". Going back to 'that one specific thing I was talking about at the beginning' doesn't work.

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Towering Inferno, I like the last parts of it, say from around 4:11 until the end. I quite like the way the instruments pick up right at that moment and then the song quickly transitions into a real sense of adventure; lots of cautious optimism mixed with trepidation & I dare say these last 40 to 50 seconds or so has been the highlight of all songs ranked thus far! I... uhh.... shall politely refrain from commenting on the earlier parts of the track.

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Dragonsong, I don't get why I'm not into it. I like the way the piano feels, I like the power in the singer's voice, I like the bleakness of the lyrics:

"Alone for eternity
A pain without cease"

Yessss~, there's that blunt pain that I crave in music. And yet... I don't know. How can I like every aspect of the song and not be into the end result? It vexes me, to be quite honest. The closest I can guess is that the song feels too bombastic to properly compliment the tragedy? Maybe? I've listened to it twice and I don't really get it. I'm glad that I don't have to try to assign any rankings or scores to this song because I just don't know what to make of it. I definitely like it more than you do, in that I'd at least put it in the "kinda like" section but it feels like I should like this so much more.