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#52. Head First in the River
Artist: Envy on the Coast
Nominator: Bane_Of_Despair (4/5)
Time: 3:51
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=725sVm6gRn4
Initial Rankings: Batch 3 - 12/15 & Rubric 11
Weighted Rankings: Orange 3/16
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FLUX: Up 10 Spots

We weren't built to last this long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmLSjwam26E

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#51. The Last Supper
Artist: 1992 Australian Cast of Jesus Christ Superstar
Nominator: Raka Putra (2/5)
Time: 7:02
Initial Rankings: Batch 1 - 13/15 (F) & Rubric 14
Weighted Rankings: Orange 7/16
Blockbuster: Grid B-7
FLUX: Up 65 Spots
Linger: 5/10

"I have no idea what is happening." - First listen note

The following write-up is unedited from when I wrote it in:

JANUARY: Starting off the list with Raka's nominations was rough. With this and Pumped Up Kicks, it was very old and historic. With this and Another Day, it was dramatic stageplay. With this and Dear Hearts, it felt religious. It felt/feels very bogged down when they're played in a block (which is why I've been doing so much random shuffle lately; there's a few nomination blocks where the neighboring songs anchor what shouldn't fall so far). I'm pleasantly surprised to see how high I ranked this in the Weighted Rankings, compared to its neighbors.

The song has grown on me considerably with repeated listens. I love the horns in the later apostle chorus, I enjoy Judas' and Jesus' shouting match, the sudden switch to the Gerudo Valley theme at 4:30 makes me feel giddy like it's a secret. I haven't read the Bible and have been raised agnostic, so I don't know much about the subject matter. I don't know how adherent it is to scripture or if it blasphemes. It... the absolute gall and cult of personality to immortalize himself by telling them to remember him through grain and wine. The others wanting to be apostles so they can be forever remembered as well. Judas sounds like someone who joined as a believer and adherent to Jesus' teachings and finds himself mortified and unable to continue with how far they and Jesus have strayed? Like... "once I admired you, now I despise you" surrounded by the rest of them talking about wanting to be remembered forever with ideas for how to be immortalized post-mortem through remembrance as people eat and drink or the apostles writing the stories, like, it sounds like a cult. It sounds like someone waking up and realizing they are in a cult and their eyes are open to reality. It feels like someone escaping the Westboro Baptist Church or Scientology. It's someone going against Trump and maintaining instead of eventually relenting and cowering back under the covers. It reminds me of Yossarian's walk through Rome in Catch-22 when the horros ofthe war are laid bare. I would probably need to know more about everything to really grasp it more, but this has just been my continued scattered thoughts on this song.

Getting into religious stuff is tricky, but I hope I presented my thoughts and feelings on this particular song and the way I feel okay. I don't know much surrounding this or what the 'one of you denies me' refers to.

MARCH: When I originally started the FLUX Tier, "The Last Supper" was going to be the endpoint. Whenever "The Last Supper" was cut, that would be it for FLUX. FLUX was named because of this song crawling out of my bottom dregs. It was higher than "Another Day" but not by much and was slated to go out not long after. But then "Another Day" survived and I really dug into this song and got to enjoying it, too. I read more into Jesus Christ Superstar and how Judas was given a more nuanced role than what he have saved in the Bible so my feelings towards his breaking point weren't off-kilter. The song is great, and I've been loving this nomination. Not so much that I've listened to any other songs from this play, any other renditions of this song, or finding and opening up a bible, but loving it nevertheless.

@Bane_Of_Despair (Again, Sorry!)
@Raka_Putra