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Good and Bad: The Competition ROUND 4

This time around, it'll be really weird. List of participants: Jasdevi087, neekafat, anatelier, DeadlyNightShade, DeusAutomata9012, Sevengill, Conmaniac, Drifter, dbizzles, butcherboy, DoofusWainwright, BlazinBlitzer, AsleepInTheBack, pjorn, SoccerRiot, bgillesp, Joeman82, CompostCompote
18The Doors
The Doors

-ELIMINATED-
pjorn
Light My Fire

Turns out I know this chorus. I always knew it was the Doors, but now I know what song and now I know what it sounds in its entirety. And I've got to say, it's quite a doozie. I really liked the nonchalancy and the somewhat 'Fuck you' attitude the track has. The entire song is cool and quite comforting, oddly enough. It all sounds like the mildest drug trip you could ever have, but one pleasant enough for you to be numb to the negativity of the world. 3.9/5
17Tool
Ænima

-ELIMINATED-
Jasdevi087
Pushit

For as inherently obtuse, obscure and overbearing as Tool songs tend to go, this track was actually somewhat vehement. It is still quite off-putting, but at least it manages to sound intriguing and its overall atmosphere and dizzying execution did (most likely forcebly) make me like it. And the song's closing moments are actually pretty great too. 3.7/5
16TV on the Radio
Seeds

anatelier
Happy Idiot

This track was actually really nice. It was energetic and swift, the vocals were emotional and the instrumental component dense. Its energy is electrifying and the personality pleasantly tender. Don't know what made anatelier dislike this track so much, but oh well. 3.6/5
15Dio
Holy Diver

SoccerRiot
Holy Diver

Your typical 80s cheesiness, whose only real strength, outside of Dio's voice is how hilariously silly it is. It's just fantastically ridiculous. 3.3/5
14Radiohead
Amnesiac

DoofusWainwright
Life in a Glass House

Radiohead meet smooth Jazz. This is one dysfunctional marriage that almost begs to result in some sort of Kramer vs. Kramer kind of shit, where the listener is the child. Nice instrumental density, though. 3.2/5
13OutKast
ATLiens

neekafat
Elevators (You & Me)

Yeah, not the most exciting Rap song... 3.1/5
12James Blake
James Blake

AsleepInTheBack
Limit to Your Love

You know, this song was actually somewhat decent and pleasantly tender, until those odd subdued electronic interludes kicked in and it just became unnecessarily weird and unlistenable. 3.0/5
11Nirvana
Live at Reading

DeadlyNightShade
Sliver

For a guy, who always actively disliked Nirvana and all that it represents I surprisingly don't hate this track. Sure, it's dull and the production is subpar and messy, but at least it's too short to annoy me entirely. And some chunk of the angry enegry resonated with me to a certain extent. 3.0/5
10Panic! at the Disco
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

BlazinBlitzer
Racecar

15 fucking minutes of musical directionlessness and brainmelting dullness in instrumental vomit. 2.9/5
9Rise Against
Appeal to Reason

Joeman82
Audience of One

This is just a perfectly safe and harmless track. It's as washed out a Rock track as you can get. 2.7/5
8Meat Loaf
Bat Out of Hell

CompostCompote
Paradise by the Dashboard Light

It's a really good and fun song...for about the first three hours of it! 2.6/5
7The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground & Nico

bgillesp
European Son

yeah, nah... 2.5/5
6Starship
Knee Deep In The Hoopla

dbizzles
We Built This City

A song so stupidly 80s that even A Night at the Roxbury's soundtrack department rejected it. 2.0/5
5Swans
The Seer

Sevengill
A Piece of the Sky

Note for the future: If you record a song with a 9 minutes long musicless intro, you better make sure that the remainder of the track is worth every fucking fuckity fuck! 2.0/5
4The Beatles
Magical Mystery Tour

butcherboy
Blue Jay Way

This might be one of the Beatles' dimmest songs with the lowest quality songwriting. It's not bad per se, it just sort of moves effectively nowhere and accomplished nothing. Its directionless instrumentation and forgettable melody are not bafflingly terrible, but are nothing nice either. 2.5/5
3Panic! at the Disco
A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

DeusAutomata9012
I Write Sins Not Tragedies

Oh, I remember now, Panic and the Disco have never been good, even before they found out that synthesisers exist. 2.1/5
2Neutral Milk Hotel
Everything Is

Drifter
Aunt Eggma Blowtorch

This is what I imagine butcherboy hears every time he hears any NMH song at all. 1.8/5
1Brand New
Daisy

-VICTORIOUS-
Conmaniac
Be Gone

Every round there's just this one song that makes me ask: "Who the hell thought this was a good idea?" A distorted barely 2 minutes long half-acoustic, half-screeching detour that serves no purpose other than to annoy you. This is why I chose to avoid Brand New. 1.5/5
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