| arhumphrey-us | 22 | 28 | 0 | 28 | 1.27 | |
| Taylor Kayatta | 16 | 28 | 0 | 28 | 1.75 | |
| Jason | 21 | 25 | -1 | 24 | 1.14 | |
| Anthony Ng | 20 | 24 | -1 | 23 | 1.15 | |
| faulkheather | 22 | 22 | -2 | 20 | 0.91 | |
| Purple Reign | 17 | 21 | -1 | 20 | 1.18 | |
| JDG | 19 | 19 | -1 | 18 | 0.95 | |
| Michael Sugar | 17 | 20 | -2 | 18 | 1.06 | |
| Zach | 23 | 19 | -2 | 17 | 0.74 | - Movie Music Magic / Favorite movie title song/theme song - +1 for Dolph Lundgren, MIT Chemical Engineering Fulbright Scholar. Also +1 this is probably the only song I didn't know, which is my #1 favorite thing about music league. my #2 favorite thing is the total silent treatment I get from everyone after they read my unfunny comments.
- Movie Music Magic / Favorite original song from an animated movie - I ruined this song for myself by singing Gaga's Shallow over it and vice versa.
Also waiting for the genderswapped version where the emperor calls for concubines but they've only got a son...
- Movie Music Magic / Favorite song from a non-animated movie musical - never knew where this song was from...
- Movie Music Magic / Favorite song used in a romantic moment in a movie - Nobody puts Swayze in the coroner's!
- Change of Pace / Good Riddance but also I Need You Back - I bet this is Brandon. Listen, if your soulmate has an issue with you acting like an Anne Rice vampire on the sunny beaches of suburban Honolulu, she isn't your soulmate.
Anyway, great pick. My favorite this round.
- Change of Pace / Old Enough! はじめてのおつかい - I like Rock With You better, but yup
- Change of Pace / Horn-y - would've voted for something off Motorcade of Generosity
- Change of Pace / Not Horny Enough - Love this song. Feeling like a little kid, tho? 🤔
- Change of Pace / Better-than-Okay Boomer - I'm torn on whether this meets the relevance criteria, but it's impressive he can still scream about being a sex machine at that age... which is actually only like 10 years older than most of us now. Hrm.
- Hey DJ! / Tongue Twists - Norteño music might not be an easily acquired taste. actually I haven't had a beer in years...
- Hey DJ! / The Big Ask - I give this the highest success chance for a date that's on the fence. Kind of a guilty pleasure for me, love it.
- Hey DJ! / $@#?! - I feel like there's a lot of individual bits of this song that could be improved, but the overall art would suffer if it wasn't so unfiltered.
Also, this guy showed up on my YT feed this week at the same time as this playlist. So I recognized the name from music league and clicked this music video. Best Smeagol/Gollum movie I've seen since LOTR. I think a lot of people are hoping Ren will hit it big!
- Hey DJ! / Cover Me Badly - I agree, but ran out of points
- Beginnings / If At First You Don't Succeed - I considered something off of Kerplunk! for the debut round. Good times.
- Into the Void / N.I.B. - Tough picking a downvote. I tried but couldn't get into this one.
- Into the Void / Fairies Wear Boots - Nice but there's so many less familiar picks that I'm mostly putting my votes into those instead.
- Into the Void / Spiral Architect - This was a bit of a masochistic experience, as listening to tool tends to be... Maybe I'll relisten to it if I feel like reconfronting 20 year old trauma is a good idea
- Into the Void / Neon Knights - Heard about them a lot but never got around to listening, so I'm glad you picked this. I expected metal vocals but it was a lot more emo than I expected, which actually I like much better.
- Into the Void / Wishing Well - Last time this song came up I gave it 3 but this time it falls into the Breakfast at Tiffany's category of Get a Grip, Bro
- Music Through the Decades / The 2000s: Guilty Pleasure or Secret Genius? - ...how have I never heard this song before? Well, I wasn't listening to music much in the late 00s...
- Music Through the Decades / The 2020s: Soundtrack to the End (or Beginning) - Not sure if this cover is as timely as the Fallout Boy or PREP covers, but eh, I appreciate the song selection
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| Christopher Long | 13 | 17 | 0 | 17 | 1.31 | |
| lainey3eb | 20 | 17 | -2 | 15 | 0.75 | - Movie Music Magic / Favorite original song from an animated movie - I’ve never seen this movie and I should remedy that.
- Change of Pace / Horn-y - Yep, yep
- Change of Pace / Not Horny Enough - I thought about using horny rocket man (“Burning out his fuse up here alone”)
- Change of Pace / Stop, Wait a Minute - If going by memory, I would have sworn there is a dramatic pause. But listening to it, there really isn’t any pause and it “speeds up” midway?
- Hey DJ! / The Big Ask - Love this idea
- Hey DJ! / Cover Me Badly - I saw Weezer on the tour for this album and when they performed this song, the crowd went wild and it was electric. I think that experience pushes the cover ahead of the original for me (ducks head). Also, that My Gay Uncle version of BTAU was a guilty pleasure of mine that I totally forgot about—thanks for reminding me!! I might have terrible taste in music.
- Beginnings / Summer Starts - I still have anxiety dreams of forgetting to write a big term paper and then when I wake up and realize it’s all a dream, it’s the best feeling
- Into the Void / N.I.B. - I’ve been waiting a long time to play this song in the game. I just love it. I used ChatGPT to put together the prompts for this league and I thought “Finally! Wolf Like Me is the perfect song for this round!” You beat me to it, but glad this band gets some attention. The Local H cover is good too.
- Into the Void / Fairies Wear Boots - I thought about using a Flaming Lips song too! They are a fun band to see live.
- Into the Void / Neon Knights - The name of this band is familiar, but I’ve never heard their music. They have an interesting sound and I’d like to hear more.
- Into the Void / Wishing Well - Good pick—definitely fits the “desperate plea” part of the prompt
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| Richelle Ashley | 14 | 15 | -1 | 14 | 1 | |
| Emily Neubauer Sugar | 12 | 15 | -1 | 14 | 1.17 | |
| Brandon Nohara | 19 | 11 | -1 | 10 | 0.53 | - Change of Pace / Good Riddance but also I Need You Back - I listened to this on repeat for a while during middle/high school. Great song and, of course, epic album. Seems slightly off theme, though - he's miserable, but resigned to the fact that she's gone (not trying to get her back)
- Change of Pace / Old Enough! はじめてのおつかい - Yup. I thought this was the more inspired of the two MJ picks
- Change of Pace / Horn-y - Great song, but I listened to it too many times over the years
- Change of Pace / Not Horny Enough - Memories of Rocketman
- Change of Pace / Better-than-Okay Boomer - Go! This soul screamer would be a winner in the horn-y round too
- Change of Pace / Stop, Wait a Minute - Ha, this reminded me of The Hangover. I don't recall the tempo slowing down in the middle, though. It *might* speed up a bit at the drum break, but that's just different enough from the prompt that I hesitated to give this banger an upvote
- Hey DJ! / Tongue Twists - Props for the three language pick
- Hey DJ! / The Big Ask - 17 year old Brandon would have given +2 for this, but middle-aged Brandon seems to have outgrown it
- Beginnings / Beginnings - Cute song
- Beginnings / Original - Originally, this round's prompt was going to include covers. To differentiate it from the bad covers round last season, it was changed to focus on just samples. I see where your head is at, though. Interesting pick
- Beginnings / If At First You Don't Succeed - Yeah, I still haven't listened to their earlier albums
- Into the Void / Fairies Wear Boots - Classic album
- Into the Void / Neon Knights - Interesting back story. I did not know this about Coheed and Cambria, but it makes me want to listen through their albums and read this epic comic
- Into the Void / Wishing Well - Another song where I never knew the artist. I probably would have given +2 if we had one more upvote
- Music Through the Decades / The 2000s: Guilty Pleasure or Secret Genius? - I discovered Kid Cudi late and mispronounced it as "Kid Cutie" for a while. Anyway I was surprised to find that I like a lot of his stuff, so good pick
- Music Through the Decades / The 2020s: Soundtrack to the End (or Beginning) - Not a bad cover, but I prefer the Nirvana version
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| Yorick | 13 | 10 | -2 | 8 | 0.62 | |
| lauryl1 | 10 | 8 | -2 | 6 | 0.60 | |
| Meredith | 9 | 7 | -2 | 5 | 0.56 | |
| trevordglenn | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |
| Jen | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| ShemsYe | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |