:!: :!: The cats are inside the organ!!

perhaps the most baffling take on the title, even with your liner notes, but this is infuriatingly catchy bubblegum pop that I find hard to resist. The drums are pretty wild in places, feels like the drummer (real or virtual) needs reigning in a bit.

This is kinda ridiculous and sounds like it was recorded under a duvet. Not sure what the massive pointless drumfill was all about.

I think you had fun doing this, and that's what counts. The piano work is cool. You're selling a really bad joke really well, but not well enough for it to not be bad. Execution: C-, concept: D, hooks: C+

Er...what? A very puzzling entry which appears to bear no relation to the title whatsoever. However, it is definitely upbeat, a real earworm and you've played the numbers game successfully to live to fight another (hopefully more relevant to the title) day.

The "hubba bubba" vocal hook is weirdly compelling. Almost hypnotic. I like that part better than any of the actual lyrical sections. You seem to be evoking 60s bubblegum music but without coming across as a pastiche. Musically, that's really impressive! But where this loses points with me is the connection to the title. Even after reading your explanation, I still don't see it, to be honest. I would never have figured out that you were singing about Freddy Krueger from just listening to the song and reading the lyrics in it. As a thought experiment, I'm pretending I just heard this song outside of a Nur Ein context, like it's some deep album cut on a forgotten 60s record. In that context, I guess the title is trying to lead to the conclusion (if we also overlook that you got your horror film franchises mixed up - honest mistake), so maybe I'd think the title was some kind of key to another level of meaning in the lyrics, but honestly I'd have probably given up after that. So maybe if you want to work on this, you change the title to, say, "Elm Street" and then squeeze in some other allusions to the movies? Maybe something about running but not hiding? Something about knives? Not sure, but for me the dots didn't connect.

My husband heard this one too and said it reminded him of some tracks on the Nuggets compilation of underground 60's garage band music. I found this kind of baffling to listen to but also endearing. A couple of degrees of separation from the "ooga chakas" in Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling" (which I love) but doesn't ever quite get to a big, hooky payoff part. The vocals were nicely performed and mixed, but the instrumental felt too much like a canned band-in-a-box demo track to me, especially those big fake drum fills, which felt very distracting. I have no idea what the song has to do with the title, so if we were doing eliminations this round I probably would have scored you a lot lower, but this time around I let it slide as I enjoyed the song's personality and vibe.