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Re: CLOSED2024 BST FINAL: Good Luck Babe v Endsong

CassidyInc — Fri, 16 May 2025 03:06:04 GMT

Author: CassidyInc

Posted: 05/16/2025 07:06

Thanks again for running the competition.

End song is definitely a worthy top 20 pick : D

Re: CLOSED2024 BST FINAL: Good Luck Babe v Endsong

Hayden — Thu, 15 May 2025 20:13:07 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 05/16/2025 00:13

mm.

alrighty.

😨

wasn't my first guess, wasn't my first choice, but is what it is— and, at the end of the day, The Cure still put out an album better than it should've been—

Re: CLOSED2024 BST FINAL: Good Luck Babe v Endsong

DommeDamian — Thu, 15 May 2025 17:59:28 GMT

Author: DommeDamian

Posted: 05/15/2025 21:59

YES!!!
Congrats to Robert and the gang.

Re: CLOSED2024 BST FINAL: Good Luck Babe v Endsong

cestuneblague — Thu, 15 May 2025 16:49:24 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 05/15/2025 20:49

It's the end...

Cure's "Endsong" wins the final match of the tournament is our winner of the 2024 best song tournament! Congratulations to BEA-er II for picking this song, as well to every other lovely user who put forth nominations and participated throughout the tournament. It's a wrap, and perhaps see you all here again next year!

Re: CLOSED2024 BST FINAL: Good Luck Babe v Endsong

cestuneblague — Wed, 14 May 2025 11:26:50 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 05/14/2025 15:26

Will leave the match up for the rest of the day and close it down tonight around 8-us-central.

Re: CLOSED2024 BST FINAL: Good Luck Babe v Endsong

cestuneblague — Mon, 12 May 2025 08:45:25 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 05/12/2025 12:45

I wish I found Chappel's music as interesting as the story around her and her sudden rise to fame, but I just don't. I've still voted for this song a few times in the tournament, though that was likely due to the matches it drew than really growing on the song. I donno, somewhere during the number I just sense some missed potential, more so in the composition than the lyrics.

Yeah I do think Endsong is probably the most Disintegration/Pictures of You-esque numbers on the new album, but still has that charming old-man, leisurely-paced feel while still managing to do a lot with it's more classical ideas over it's considerable running time. It wouldn't have been my top 5 in the tournament from the onset, but I donno, during 2024 perhaps we needed some epic, swirling comfort food like this. Gets the vote.

Re: CLOSED2024 BST FINAL: Good Luck Babe v Endsong

Repo — Sun, 11 May 2025 18:48:06 GMT

Author: Repo

Posted: 05/11/2025 22:48

DommeDamian wrote:

Endsong for the win, best song of 2024 also manages to win this tournament hopefully. If I haven't already, I'll recite my review for this song here:

Endsong, like...wow. Endsong. I...., this is one of the best songs of the 2020s. Almost their longest song, if not slightly beaten by Watching Me Fall, it incorporates the hypnosis of Yo La Tengo with the psychedelic depth of The Doors, and then with the utter melancholia, the stunningly ethereal idiosyncratic soundscape of themselves. Has anybody said that the drum groove is perfect, I cannot help but bop my head as if it's an MJ song, despite it being so dreamy and moody simultaneously. Colossal. Everything you see fading away from your spiritual eyesight is captured by the lingering guitar riff. This time, it takes almost seven minutes of awe-inspiring musicianship before you hear Robert transporting in with the dear and heartbreaking statements about old age. "It's all gone" and "Left alone with nothing at the end of every song" not only are devastating, not only communicate his status of where he is late in life but also summarize his philosophy and sophisticated emotions he's had his entire life. Yet, if we take I Can Never Say Goodbye into account, it also illustrates the fact that he can never come to terms with it; he wants content in his life and that's part of why he feels alone. Even if we take the record's last seconds of fuzz, it's himself dusting away, being gone. Looking at the big picture, it's a potent description of Robert's inner feelings.

Great write-up!!! �'�

Re: CLOSED2024 BST FINAL: Good Luck Babe v Endsong

DommeDamian — Sun, 11 May 2025 15:59:03 GMT

Author: DommeDamian

Posted: 05/11/2025 19:59

CassidyInc wrote:

DommeDamian wrote:

Good Luck Babe is an okay pop song, and Chappell is nice, but I'm getting tired of the recycling 80s sound that I wasn't really a fan of in the first place. Funnily enough, that song sounds more stuck in the past than the Cure.

lol

Ah yes of course, the cardinal sin of being a pop song. Truly cringe, as we all know they cannot be about anything.

But hey at least Chappell is "nice". :mrgreen:

I didn't say anything about the song not being about anything. I was criticizing how it sounds. I don't even think the song is cringe (wtf). And I love pop songs (when they're done right), but that 80s sound - specifically also that New Romantic thingy thing - that Good Luck Babe is borrowing from is not something I am fond of. That sound was time-typical whereas the Cure was futuristic and still sounds more modern. And above all, the Cure is pop too, masterful pop. Lyrically, GLB is cool, but so is many others, including the superior Endsong (imo). Maybe your comment was sarcastic and I mistook it, but if it's serious, I don't know how that was the conclusion you got from it.

Re: CLOSED2024 BST FINAL: Good Luck Babe v Endsong

CassidyInc — Sun, 11 May 2025 03:29:27 GMT

Author: CassidyInc

Posted: 05/11/2025 07:29

DommeDamian wrote:

lol

Ah yes of course, the cardinal sin of being a pop song. Truly cringe, as we all know they cannot be about anything.

But hey at least Chappell is "nice". 😁

Re: CLOSED2024 BST FINAL: Good Luck Babe v Endsong

DommeDamian — Sun, 11 May 2025 02:37:05 GMT

Author: DommeDamian

Posted: 05/11/2025 06:37

Endsong for the win, best song of 2024 also manages to win this tournament hopefully. If I haven't already, I'll recite my review for this song here:

Endsong, like...wow. Endsong. I...., this is one of the best songs of the 2020s. Almost their longest song, if not slightly beaten by Watching Me Fall, it incorporates the hypnosis of Yo La Tengo with the psychedelic depth of The Doors, and then with the utter melancholia, the stunningly ethereal idiosyncratic soundscape of themselves. Has anybody said that the drum groove is perfect, I cannot help but bop my head as if it's an MJ song, despite it being so dreamy and moody simultaneously. Colossal. Everything you see fading away from your spiritual eyesight is captured by the lingering guitar riff. This time, it takes almost seven minutes of awe-inspiring musicianship before you hear Robert transporting in with the dear and heartbreaking statements about old age. "It's all gone" and "Left alone with nothing at the end of every song" not only are devastating, not only communicate his status of where he is late in life but also summarize his philosophy and sophisticated emotions he's had his entire life. Yet, if we take I Can Never Say Goodbye into account, it also illustrates the fact that he can never come to terms with it; he wants content in his life and that's part of why he feels alone. Even if we take the record's last seconds of fuzz, it's himself dusting away, being gone. Looking at the big picture, it's a potent description of Robert's inner feelings.

Good Luck Babe is an okay pop song, and Chappell is nice, but I'm getting tired of the recycling 80s sound that I wasn't really a fan of in the first place. Funnily enough, that song sounds more stuck in the past than the Cure.

Re: CLOSED2024 BST FINAL: Good Luck Babe v Endsong

travelful — Thu, 8 May 2025 09:04:32 GMT

Author: travelful

Posted: 05/08/2025 13:04

Easy vote for Endsong here for me. Not the biggest Chappel Roan fan but I gotta say Pink Pony Club is a certified banger.

Re: CLOSED2024 BST FINAL: Good Luck Babe v Endsong

Repo — Wed, 7 May 2025 23:54:36 GMT

Author: Repo

Posted: 05/08/2025 03:54

With The Cure being down 2-0, JUST LIKE MY CELTICS 🤬 , this became pretty easy. I flat out worship tHE Cure. so Endsong it is...

Re: CLOSED2024 BST FINAL: Good Luck Babe v Endsong

Repo — Wed, 7 May 2025 23:50:37 GMT

Author: Repo

Posted: 05/08/2025 03:50

CassidyInc wrote:

Interesting final match up! The Cure are my favourite band and Disintegration is my favourite album, however I'm voting for Good Luck, Babe!

Because

Endsong isn't even the best song on that album.
The Cure shouldn't be winning song of the year in 2024, think of the optics people! We can't be that stuck in the past.
Good Luck, Babe! Is one of my picks and I'm a very proud pink ponymaster! :')

Big thank you to Cestuneblague for running this tournament!

Don't be such an ageist! 😜

Endsong is epic. Good, Luck Babe is perhaps THE banger of 2024. Really tough call here. Will have to think long & hard about this one. Will be happy with either outcome! Both deserving.

ps. The Cure are my favorite band too! 🥰

Re: CLOSED2024 BST FINAL: Good Luck Babe v Endsong

CassidyInc — Wed, 7 May 2025 23:27:15 GMT

Author: CassidyInc

Posted: 05/08/2025 03:27

Interesting final match up! The Cure are my favourite band and Disintegration is my favourite album, however I'm voting for Good Luck, Babe!

Because

Endsong isn't even the best song on that album.
The Cure shouldn't be winning song of the year in 2024, think of the optics people! We can't be that stuck in the past.
Good Luck, Babe! Is one of my picks and I'm a very proud pink ponymaster! :')

Big thank you to Cestuneblague for running this tournament!

Re: CLOSED2024 BST FINAL: Good Luck Babe v Endsong

Hayden — Wed, 7 May 2025 22:12:04 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 05/08/2025 02:12

Good Luck Babe.

Wasn't my choice overall, but it gets my vote here. Bit sad/surprised Death & Romance couldn't box it's way past Endsong (which, based on that fact, makes me believe my vote will be the minority here).

Regardless. Both are good.

CLOSED2024 BST FINAL: Good Luck Babe v Endsong

cestuneblague — Wed, 7 May 2025 19:57:43 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 05/07/2025 23:57

Chappel Roan- Good Luck Babe

Link

Repping: Los Angeles (via Missouri)

Ponymaster: Cassidy, Inc

V

The Cure- Endsong

Link

Repping: A place in England where the sun don't shine

Ponymaster: II