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It's been a while, but we have four more songs to close out the evening.
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#406: BotanicSage - Space Land Skinhead [3:16]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsk0glHwOEY
Nominator: paulg [23/52 Remaining]
Initial Score: 60.00
Revised Score: 61.57
Final Score: 61.57
(First Reaction: An unexpectedly good mashup that works better than either of its component songs. I'll go ahead and add this to the clump for now.)
!Yep. Still better than either of the songs used to create it and I like it.
[Final Thoughts: i'm pretty sure having anything related to Kanye up this high on the list will be even more controversial after recent developments, but putting aside anything about him as a person, this song is a really good mashup that I like.]
[Later: It's remarkable how news involving Kanye West kept getting worse and worse over the year... I'm trying not to judge songs based on the artists who create them, but he's been making it very difficult for me to stick with that.]
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-Darkness-
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#405: the_miracle_aligner - Smells Like Teen Spirit Cover In Classical Latin (75 BC to 3rd Century AD) Bardcore [3:51]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEKIW3pUUk
Nominator: paulg [22/52 Remaining]
Initial Score: 39.44
Revised Score: 39.44
Final Score: 42.63 [Upgraded to 48.40] [Upgraded to 56.001] [Upgraded to 61.575]
(First Reaction: It's a fun idea, but not one that appeals to me and I'd have much, much preferred listening to the original version. ...Or even a really old song that was originally written in Latin, probably, since it would not invite such unfavorable comparisons.)
The song is an interesting novelty, I just don't think it even remotely compares with the original which I don't think was even my favorite Nirvana song to begin with? Been a long time since Rank the Tracks covered the album this and I can't really remember how I ranked things.
*checks*
1: Come As You Are
2: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Okay, not a bad placement for the original song. Listening to it again, I was worried I may have been in one of my contrary moods and greatly undervalued it or something. Either way, this novelty cover kinda loses all the emotion & all the musical hooks & the iconic intro & Kurt's famous vocals in exchange for being in latin. This was not a good trade. It is, quite possibly, one of the worst musical trade-offs in history. And while the song itself is fine, every second it's playing is a second where I'm thinking, "boy, I wish I were listening to the actual song instead". And yes, my thoughts do refer to the original version as the "actual song", which is an absolutely brutal condemnation of this version that I wouldn't normally say out loud -but- I already typed it and I'm not going to un-type it.
...I refuse to un-type that or use the actual word for that action either. I will die on this pointlessly irrelevant hill!
[Final Thoughts: It's memorable and an interesting idea, but it just doesn't stack up to Nirvana and I'm having trouble judging it completely on its own merits.]
[Later: Memorable enough that I want to give it a few more points, I suppose.]
[And Later: Well, I've had this stuck in my head for two days now, so I guess I'll say that I kinda like it and move it up to that tier.]
[Postea: At some point, I started actually liking this one.[
[Et Postea:: I do like this song these days, though it took quite a while for it to start growing on me.]
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-Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-darkness-
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#404: Josh Cottam - A New Family Robot [5:55]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj_wbPpcbS0
Nominator: @TunnelScene [11/27 Remaining]
Initial Score: 53.00
Revised Score: 60.15
Final Score: 60.15 [Upgraded to 61.58]
(First Reaction: *blinks*)
A new Family Robot arrives at the household. Dad switches it on and Family Robot is very excited, playing a robo-saxophone all over the house. It starts going crazy and Mum is concerned. Family Robot calms down and starts to express its joy of being part of a family through song.
Dad tests out the robot's manual controller but Family Robot starts dancing instead. Then it goes crazy again and the kids love it. Finally Dad manages to switch Family Robot off.
Featuring Lorenzo Prati on tenor saxophone
The song does a commendable job of conveying its story through music. It's like a really old Looney Tunes-era cartoon where you can practically see the animation that should go along with the audio. Fun story, great example of telling stories through instrumentation, weird enough to be intriguing, and a clearly defined type of saxophone to help with narrowing down exactly what type of sax music I'm looking for (not quite this, but it's neat). Well done.
On a completely unrelated note, I listened to this song through its Soundcloud link so I could read its description and the site started automatically playing a song I want to make a note of so I can find it again later:
STAFFCirc - A Mechanical Receptacle, Fifty Shards Of A Glowing Heart:
https://soundcloud.com/sexytoadsandfrogsfriendcircle/a-mechanical-receptacle-fifty-shards-of-a-glowing-heart
I'm not going to talk too much about this song as there seems to be no connection between it and Family Robot at all, but I kinda liked it and plan on listening to it again in the future. So it'll just kinda be hanging out in this writeup so I can find it at some future date.
[Final Thoughts: A nifty story that is well told through music. I like it.]
[Later: It's a different musical experience and I think I'll give it an extra point.]
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-I will have darkness-
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#403: Emery - See You on the Other Side (3:15):
https://youtu.be/guM07jB4uSA
Nominator: Snake [14/32 Remaining]
Initial Score: 78.33
Revised Score: 78.44
Final Score: 61.703
(First Reaction: Oof. I love most of this song, but that brief stretch starting around 1:50... it's like Nekrogoblikon decided to crash the background of my quiet emotional song for a moment, giving me a headache in a not-very-fun way. But the rest of the song is quite beautiful and moving, to a point I was questioning if I'd have to move it up to the highest tier on principle.
...78.33 is an arbitrary number, but it feels right at the moment. Love & headache inducing pain converge at the high-end of the "really liked" tier.)
!Actually that score, as arbitrarily selected as it was (they're all arbitrary numbers, subject to whatever whims amuse me at that exact second, but pay no attention to that), worked out pretty well. This is definitely a song that I really, really like but don't love or want to hyper-analyze.
[Final Thoughts: Oddly, I kinda like the random demon screaming added to this song towards the end this evening. I'm not connecting with the main part of the song, though I do like it... I don't want to drop it all the way down to the Neo Clump or anything too ridiculous, I'm just not entirely feeling it right now.[
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