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Last Topic: 5:39:07pm, 06/12/2024
Last Post: 7:17:41pm, 05/23/2024
NBIceman posted...
I seem to have a knock for getting songs like that into those topics, as I remember Kamelot's Somewhere in Time being one of my first outs in one of the earlier topics because you said you'd just overplayed it in times past.
Quite right there. I heard that song randomly when looking for a video of the Dark Champion from the Sega CD Eternal Champions game... someone had uploaded the fight, but inexplicably replaced all the game audio with Somewhere in Time. I was instantly mesmerized by the song, the first symphonic metal track that I'd ever heard. Actually purchased an mp3 of it through Amazon to own the song legally and listened to it *so much*.
...And then a couple years later you nominated it and I was kinda over it by then. (I may or may not have shared this story at the time. I honestly have no idea what the write up was and don't have the time to go through the archives to find out, so I'll just say it now. Even if it's not new to you, it catches everyone else up.)
I really should listen to a full Kamelot album some time. "Somewhere in Time" and "Veritas" were both big hits, but I'm not sure I've ever truly bothered with even a second song from their respective albums.
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One song to end the night. Sorry about another four song day, but I'm temporarily refusing to eliminate any of the other songs I had marked for elimination... (at least one of them is unlikely to make it to 65 points, but its score is on an uphill trajectory and I don't want to eliminate it until I'm convinced I'm satisfied with its score.)
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???: Sayaka Yamamoto | BAD DAYS (5:41)
https://open.spotify.com/track/34r7c0vSVSBgCNUXVpxLhL
Nominator: @DanKirby [15 songs remaining]
Initial Score: 61.83
Final Score: 62.90
(First Impressions:
How much sadness do I have to take before my smile returns?
Yeah, I can work with that lyric. The rest of the lyrics about wanting to be with someone are... less suitable for my purposes, but one great lyric is more than most songs have. Other than that, this is a pretty good jpop song; it's not a favorite or anything, but I like it. Wouldn't mind hearing some other songs by her--I'm not convinced that I'd love any other songs, but she's a good singer & I like the genre, so I'm sure she has several other songs that I'd like.)
Hey, Ive gotten in fights and hurt people around me
Also a nice line. Definitely a song I like, though it feels like "I like this" is as far as I'd be willing to go with it. It's a good song with some really good lines with all the blunt sadness that I crave, but I never get obsessed with it or want to play it on an endless loop. One of those tracks that does everything right and still never quite reaches the heights that it probably deserves.
[Later: I'm not really sure why I'm not more strongly attached to this song. It's a very good jpop song and I enjoy it, but... I don't know. It's very much one of those songs where I really want to just say "I like this" and move on.]
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