More music reviews from those same three CD cases!
Track 1: A brief mention of hellfire, but otherwise just high levels of peppiness. ***
Track 2: Not so peppy, and imagines an end to many avoidable deaths. Still not bad. **
Track 3: A quiet meditation on a shadowy location. **
Track 4: Aha. Exactly one dead bird, but a very moving eulogy for her. ****
Track 5: This song has only 7 words. It's easy to listen to, at least. **
Track 6: Again no obvious physical death, but a genuine classic that can't be ignored. It's about spiritual death, perhaps? *****
Track 7: One dead brother, lauded with exceptional peppiness. Bring tissues. *****
Track 8: A bright love ballad that suddenly threatens to burn down cities and hear the lamentation of the women as they are also destroyed. ****
Track 9: An extremely peppy hymn to a baby destined for salvific sacrifice. ****
Track 10: A cheerful day in the park, then BANG, nuclear holocaust. Mrs. Ferret claims to hate this song, but this time she played along bravely. *****
Track 11: A great song that possibly threatens death by drowning, but I think that's just metaphorical. ****
Track 12: A young man has become a petty criminal for reasons that are unclear to him. He probably didn't kill anyone, but who knows? **
Track 13: A remixed version of track 6, probably the singers' best-known song. It's been covered by a heavy metal group. *****
Track 14: Dead leaves remind us of the inevitability of aging, loss, and death. ****
Track 15: I can't find anything to particularly like about this one, but they can't all be hits. *
Track 16: This song literally refers to the death of raindrops, but no one cries about dead raindrops, right? **
Track 17: After this remix/sequel of track 12, my son said "That song is so good, why is it so short?" This made me very happy. ****
Track 18: Entirely instrumental, with hints of track 22. Reasonably peppy. ***
Track 19: There's no trigger warning in this song about the suicide of a gentleman in otherwise pleasant circumstances. ****
Track 20: Wow, a second consecutive suicide, of a man in less pleasant circumstances. Who compiled this album? I don't like this one as much, probably because it's not as peppy. **
Track 21: Definitely refers to death, but I'm fairly hopeful that this is just a reference to the death of a love affair. Brief and lacking pep. **
Track 22: More relationship death, but peppier. ***
Track 23: A rocking ode to individual isolationism that contrasts a peppy beat with a less-peppy message. ****
I've always really liked him.
But yeah, it's been really sticking in my craw, too. It feels like you're just getting started when it's time to wait for the next season.
Robbb's getting more of the fanservice than I do, but I find that fun as well when I pick up references and in-jokes.
Also, TBH, a lot of TV for me goes in one ear and out the other. I can't remember the particulars of stuff I've seen, almost nothing at all. I joke that my favorite part of any show is its sweet, sweet "previously on" in the beginning. So for myself in particular, I'm very much enjoying how "SNW" is pretty much individual standalone stories every week. Yes, there are character arcs (and we haven't seen the last 3 episodes since we were out of town) and I imagine the show will basically end up being all about Pike and his premonition of death and stuff, but it's nowhere near the complexity that I had a hard time following with "Discovery."
I don't see that we have "The Man Who Fell to Earth" on our cable package right now, but on your rec here I'll put it on my list to watch for when it may come around.