Mollyb & ALC's Walrus Reveal Thread

Mollyb60

Mollyb60 wrote: »

The penultimate entry:
2nd Place – Benny Goodman – Sing, Sing, Sing

Molly: Oh I love this song! It’s a belter. I wanna swing dance to it. Badly. Immediately. Love it. This is exactly what I was looking for. It is just a finger clicking, toe tapping 5 minutes of joy. Love the sexy horn section and the bouncy drums.
ALC: Yeah, it was ok. I keep trying to get into horn music, and keep failing.

Scores:
Molly: 14/14
ALC: 6/14

13 Points goes to:

Rikand

Yet again ALC destroys all my dreams with a poor score for poor Benny.

Argh this was the one I wanted to enter but couldn't for the life of me remember the name of it

osh

Fallout had so many good tracks

osh

Two others I was thinking of

Electric Nitwit

Mollyb60 wrote: »

As a matter of interest, had anyone submitted this song they would've scored top marks from me in every category just because. This song has sooooooooo many memories for me. My grand-uncle used to play it on his accordion all the time and it is just all the warm fuzzies for me. It's a brilliant song too:

I swear that was going to be my submission!
Sadly I ran out of time on the other rounds

Looking forward to listening to all of these tomorrow

quickbeam

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

I swear that was going to be my submission!
Sadly I ran out of time on the other rounds

Looking forward to listening to all of these tomorrow

Me too, only I dismissed it on the grounds that others were likely to submit it, and it being too well known to score highly. Happy (very!!) with 4th though.

Rikand

The Andrews sisters were fantastic!

Rikand

Really glad you like the tune molly!

Really happy you didn't hate the tune ALC

I'm pretty sure that's about as good as its going to get for me lol

Mollyb60

Reveal will continue tonight at 7pm folks. Tonight's category is songs from a genre you wouldn't normally listen to. And this one was all over the place with entries. Such a diverse bunch of songs.

Necro

Enjoyed that category, genuinely know f all stuff pre 1950 so had to go back to the classical overtures from JC music :pac:

Working tonight but will listen to this category late tonight/tomorrow morning.

Mollyb60

Ok folks are we all ready to rock and roll for Category 2?

Necro

Here in spirit at least

Ectoplasm

Yep yep. I'm not optimistic about any of my submissions for this Walrus. I managed to both overthink this AND submit too quickly. Quite the feat :pac:

Mollyb60

Category 2: Songs from a genre you wouldn’t normally listen to

We got a really wide variety of songs in this category which I was really pleased with. It was a tough one to judge though. There was one clear winner for me and one clear loser. The middle was much more difficult to organise into a list though. With that said we’ll make a start on round 2. And we start off with an early tie for bottom. Not the sort of tie you ever want to be stuck in though!

Joint 14th Place – HIM - The Funeral of Hearts

Molly: Don’t like the singer’s voice at all. Too soft for the song. Lyrics are also a bit naff. But I actually quite like the song apart from that. I actually don’t think this would be out of place as a Eurovision entry.

ALC: Kinda soft rock. Not sure what genre this is supposed to be – either a really soft hard rock song, or just middle of the road pop-rock. Found it a bit meh anyway.

Scores:
Molly: 5/14
ALC: 2/14

2 points to:

Homer J Fong

Joint 14th Place – The Choirboys - Tears in Heaven

Molly: Not sure if you’re trying to pull on my heartstrings by entering a song with kids singing but this does absolutely nothing for me. I clearly have a heart of stone. They’re not that great at all. Posh small boys singing falsetto is for Christmas carols only. Soznotsoz. And why are there 3 of them in the video when it’s clearly only one kid singing? It’s the worst kind of boyband.

ALC: Song’s actually quite nice. The video is hilariously ****e though Minus five places, just cause.

Scores:
Molly: 2/14
ALC: 5/14

2 points to:

Micksjaguar

Pretzill

I know I finished first last reveal but I think it's time this little gif got another look in...those poor children

Mollyb60

12th Place – Gnarles Barkley - Crazy

Molly: Oh god this song was so overplayed. I am sick to death of it still. I actively hate it. I itched to skip this every time it came on. I do like his backing singers fwiw but it has to be bottom for me.

ALC: I like this, and don’t like the genre, so it’s getting decent marks from me. It’s a bit too big and well-known to be one of the top ones though.

Scores:
Molly: 1/14
ALC: 7/14

3 points to:

Quickbeam

Knew I wouldn't score well here, couldn't really think of any genre suitable so decided to look back to the whole goth/emo/soft metal age that passed me by. Was more a nostalgiac pick than anything else (and yes the lyrics are naff, which is partly why I don't listen to that type of music often! :pac:)

Necro

I do like that Gnarls Barkley song but it was massively overplayed. I can deal with it now again though I think, haven't heard it in ages!

Pretzill

Necro wrote: »

I do like that Gnarls Barkley song but it was massively overplayed. I can deal with it now again though I think, haven't heard it in ages!

I agree it was a massive hit, often hits suffer from that but it's still catchy as hell.

Mollyb60

I hate his voice though. Sounds like he's singing through his nose.

Pretzill

Mollyb60 wrote: »

I hate his voice though. Sounds like he's singing through his nose.

He's a duo.

Mollyb60

What. the. ****. How did I never know this?

Pretzill

Mollyb60 wrote: »

What. the. ****. How did I never know this?

Easy not to know - I think only one of them sings.

Necro

Mollyb60 wrote: »

What. the. ****. How did I never know this?

You might know the main singer from such songs as

'Fcuk You'

(Cee-Lo Green)

Banjo

Gonzo's hareem of chickens rerecorded that, it's awesome

Mollyb60

11th Place – Easy- E - Boyz n the hood

Molly: This is proper old school rap. I quite like this. So many rappers listed in the video but they can’t all actually be on it though. Right?


ALC: Ehhh, no, doesn’t do anythin for me.

Scores:
Molly: 8/14
ALC: 1/14

4 points to:

Green&Red

Pretzill

Mollyb60 wrote: »

ALC: Ehhh, no, doesn’t do anythin for me.

Necro

Gauging ALC's reaction boy am I glad I didnt enter my alternative choice for this round :pac:

Pretzill

Necro wrote: »

Gauging ALC's reaction boy am I glad I didnt enter my alternative choice for this round :pac:

I was so close to going the rap route...I don't know what it is about rap you spend your whole life hating it and then all of sudden it begins to make sense

Necro

Pretzill wrote:

I was so close to going the rap route...I don't know what it is about rap you spend your whole life hating it and then all of sudden it begins to make sense

Mine was by a truly awful artist

But I really like one of his songs so I think it would have counted :P

Necro

Ok enjoy the rest of the reveal folks I'll catch up later. Break over