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Round 7
1. Legendary Shack Shakers - Blood on the Blue Grass
(A bit of bloodgrass for a hillbilly Halloween. I've wanted to nominate this for a long time but knew most would probably hate it. Hopefully people could at least appreciate the true-crime storytelling of the lyrics if not the music itself.)
2. The Cranberries - Zombie
(A huge song, as evidenced by the billion plus views on this video, but the song never seems to age. If anything, I like it more and more as the years pass.)
3. Jiro Inagaki & Soul Media - Painted Paradise
(Extremely impressive, though probably best appreciated by actual musicians, which disqualifies this clown. The drum solo shortly after the halfway mark was probably my favorite section, but the whole song makes me want to grow an afro and strut my way into a blaxploitation flick . . . or into a really well-made porno with tons of 70's bush.)
4. Rose of the West - Roads
(I thought I was going to love this at first, but its spell started to wear off in the second half. Still a very good song with a timeless, spiritual quality, and I'm interested in hearing more from the artist.)
5. Joy Askew - Little Darling
(Soothing. The vocal inflections remind me a bit of Cyndi Lauper, which is a compliment.)
6. David Bowie - Underground
(ynwtf has a pattern of nominating mediocre (at best) songs by all-time great artists.)
7. Robert Plant - Big Log
(Disappointed that this isn't a song dedicated to the chocolate monstrosity that clogged my toilet earlier. Led Zep is a top-five band for me, but I've never listened to any of Plant's solo material outside of his award-winning collaborations with Allison Krauss. Judging by the extremely generic quality here, I haven't missed anything.)
8. Tapio Rautavaara - On aivan sama
(Admire the stern vocal, but pretty far removed from anything I'd listen of my own volition.)
9. Kajagoogoo - Too Shy
(Heard this too many times.)
10. I Kill Giants - The Naked and the Famous
(Whatever genre of music this is classified under, it ain't for me. I especially hate that computerized echo, and the whole thing just sounds way too digitized.)
11. Billy Joel - Pressure
(There's something about Billy Joel that makes me want to chokeslam him through his piano, then deliver a Macho-Man-style elbow drop from the nearest scaffolding.)
Last edited by Captain Spaulding; 10-15-20 at 02:46 AM.