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#96. Flathead
Artist: The Fratellis
Nominator: DoctorJimmy133 (4/5)
Time: 3:23
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz2ZDeTYgTs
Initial Rankings: Batch 2 - 5/15 (B-) & Rubric 11
Weighted Rankings: Purple 15/16
Blockbuster: Grids A-2, Y-4

"Burger King meets Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" - First listen note

Ba-da-ba-ba-ba, I'm not lovin' it. The lyrics sound like nonsense to me, and diving into a read, I don't understand much of anything. I think it's all about sex and drugs?

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#95. After the Storm
Artist: Kiuas
Nominator: FL81 (5/5...?!)
Time: 5:50
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki5WE-Q5UiY
Initial Rankings: Batch 5 - 9/15 (D+) & Rubric 13
Weighted Rankings: Green 16/16
Blockbuster: Grids A-3, X-4.5

"Could be higher but for the Barry Gibb Talk Show, 'leave no trail of crumbs beHIiIind'" - First listen note

"Be-HIiIiND." Such a small half-second part of the song, but it kills my interest every time. The acoustic emptiness also falls a bit flat; I am not content with what I'm given.

The song does make me fondly remember a Board 8er I haven't seen in, what, a decade-and-a-half? Satai_delenn once told me her favorite song was "A Simple Life." There was a countryish tune I found by that name (that I wouldn't be able to find now) that... I was like, "Okay, if you like this, that's fine. Not a fan, but you do you." It was probably a few days later (which feels like weeks with how fast the board used to be, and how frequent AIM conversations were) when we got into another chat and she clarified she was talking about Bridget's Theme from the Guilty Gear soundtrack, and that is soooo much better than what I was thinking. I believe that is also the first time I heard the Guilty Gear soundtrack and downloaded the GGXX to listen to on Windows Media Player, whenever I felt like listening to a lot of video game music that wasn't from the Hedgehog Heaven Sonic 2 OCRemix album or the Earthbound Bound Together OCRemix album. 2005 was a good year.

Oh, right, the song. ...Yeah. Well... let's own up to the truth and leave this song behind.

Bonus tracks!
A Simple Life (GGX2 OST) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yklYElgOyN4
Next My Generation by analoq (Hedgehog Heaven OCR) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-rnzvgnREI
SnowBound by bLiNd (Bound Together OCR) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAWMXf1RQ70

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#94. HAJIMORI NO HOSHI
Artist: Noakuro (Tama Shoko & Zia)
Nominator: UF8 (3/5)
Time: 3:55
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkNG5klqE-w
Initial Rankings: Batch 4 - 14/15 (D-) & Rubric 12
Weighted Rankings: Red 2/15
Blockbuster: Grids C-3, Z-3.4

Aside from the best of UF8's nominations, their other four songs have bounced all over. Second-worst in its batch to second-best in its weight class! It's a song that could really drop anywhere in this tier and I'd be okay with it.

I do like the downward slope of notes into a fast vertical, like Sonic spinning down a slight decline then hitting the warped wall and shooting straight up.