The Icariad: A Tierlist of Songs called "Icarus"

On a brief roadtrip to pick up my second partnersys from the airport, "Icarus" by CHRISTON came up on shuffle. My wife made a joke about the Crane Wives being on testosterone now, in reference to their own "Icarus" song as the band she was more familiar with. This sparked a rabbithole of looking up every single song titled "Icarus" currently available on spotify. The result was a 90 min playlist and this corresponding tier list.

You can listen to the playlist here. Youtube mirror may be forthcoming.

Requirements for the playlist and tierlist

• Title must be "Icarus" and only "Icarus". Songs with additional words in the title are disqualified and cannot be included in the Icariad.^[1]
• Not every song was included; songs that were classified as "Singles" didn't get added mostly because I wasn't sure how to do it without accidentally just starting the song itself
• Songs are ranked on two axes. First is overall song quality, second is on the quality of reference to Icarus (Icarusity, if you will). References were judged by:
  • Whether they directly said Icarus's name or not
  • The degree to which they captured the story
  • The effectiveness of how they utilized the metaphor

Rankings obviously differed by the individual participant - where we had disagreements, I will clarify the ratings and reasoning behind them.

( Commence the Icariad )