Last Topic: 8:51:17am, 05/09/2024
Last Post: 6:21:45pm, 05/08/2024
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#???: The Beatles | Eleanor Rigby (2:11)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuS5NuXRb5Y
Nominator: Bane_Of_Despair [14 songs remaining]
Character: Eleanor Rigby
Initial Score: 55.99
Final Score: [Set Aside] [Score set to 57.82]
(First Reaction: What Family Ties episode was it where the father references this song? What are the odds that I can Google "Family Ties Eleanor Rigby" and find out?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0577321/
Doesn't have the quote itself though. Does give me the episode name though and some additional trivia, like the fact that Eleanor Rigby is not featured in the film he saw making his joke a random nonsequitir. That's kinda funny.
*some further Googling later*
"Elyse, I'm crushed... How did we raise three children who don't care that Eleanor Rigby keeps her face in a jar by the door?"
Thank you! I cannot listen to this song without flashing back to that scene, but I couldn't recall the exact line.
As for something on topic... ehh... it's a song? I wouldn't say it's my favorite of their songs (and I'm not their biggest fan in the first place), but it's... so utterly omnipresent on every radio station I've ever listened to and throughout pop culture that it feels like something that just exists. It's here, but it's everywhere, so that almost goes without saying. I can't honestly say I like it because it's so completely played out that I can't feel much about it. I can't dislike it because it's as omnipresent as air. This is like submitting "oxygen" for a ranking topic. ; well, no, because we need oxygen. What's omnipresent and relatively pointless? "A single bit of dandelion fluff"? A tumbleweed?
The song exists, but I have no energy with which to analyze it. It no longer registers as music or lyrics. It's just an inate aspect of the universe which is here, existing, in a way that I can barely perceive.)
To be honest, my first reaction upon seeing how low a score I gave this was one of surprise. How could any version of me have possibly rated this song so low?? And then it played and I kinda agree with my hot take? "Carry On Wayward Son" died because it was my favorite song and I listened to it until I can no longer feel anything towards it. "Eleanor Rigby" died by being played everywhere for so long that I can no longer feel anything towards it. It gets a marginally better score because I've never played it on an endless loop, so it's not quite as overplayed as the Kansas song... but I don't think I like it enough to move it into the Nebula. I won't eliminate this right away because there's a chance that I may save this to be the first song cut when we reach the Nebula or possibly the last song cut before that point & I want to give this a bit more time before deciding on which side of the line it falls.
[Later: In a move that I'm sure will provoke everyone, I'm going to move this into a tie with "Song 2". The more I think about it, the less satisfied I feel with having Eleanor Rigby rated above or below that track. It's like:
Eleanor Rigby is a better song, so I should be giving it more points.
But I don't really want to listen to Eleanor Rigby, so it should have less points.
But Rigby doesn't have anything I hate as much as that "woo hoo"-ing, so it should have more points
But Song 2's instruments are more appealing than anything in Rigby, so it should have less points
& I'm just getting myself stuck in a loop, so I'm going to call this one a draw and move along.]
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