Tusk's Walrus - Le Reveal

tusk

Aaaaand we're down to the final 8!

Will you come out on top? Or want to throw things at me for scoring you so baddly?

Necro

tusk, come outta that closet you're a big pop music fan evidently :pac:

Strumming along to Ed Sheeran songs on your guitars at home

tusk

tusk wrote: »

Aaaaand we're down to the final 8!

Will you come out on top? Or want to throw things at me for scoring you so baddly?

I'm just going to cry and wonder why it is that you hate me so much.

What did I ever do to you. :pac:

tusk

Was Not Was aka

Banjo

starts our bottom 4 off with Mastodon : The Wolf Is Loose

Listen1: Oh, unneccessary screaming. No thanks. Yeah this has some strange chord changes that you tend to see a lot in metal. Can be really throw-offy. Can see why people wouldn't like this. Ah it's not bad. Vocals are the worst part for me. Music is grand, decent tune. Waiting for a ripper of a solo now. Like the drum trills. Serious drum speed. Wow. not the solo i was expecting. hope it goes into something more interesting. it didn't. Bridge time. Very interesting. Like it's trying to convey a sense of an army following orders or something. Slightly demonic sounding. I don't hate it. i hate the screaming. I've never listened to mastodon, but i've heard of them a lot from friends, and i expected more to be honest.


Listen2: aaaah, why the scream. No need. interesting sound. Reminds me of a metallica song. I'm sure one of you can tell me which on. 'Back to the front'? This is like these lads heard that song and were like, yeah that sounds good, let's do something like that. Woah, the guitar is boring af. sound like a garage band wrote this. singer is a bit boring too Vocals don't seem to fit with the music. soloish time. somebody is practicing their guitar scales haha. This is pretty crap tbh. If i never hear this song again I'll die happy. I've heard of mastodon before, i'll have to listen to something else of their's to see if they're fully this sh1t

tusk

Necro wrote: »

tusk, come outta that closet you're a big pop music fan evidently :pac:

Strumming along to Ed Sheeran songs on your guitars at home

I'm really starting to worry about myself now hahahah

I really want to like Dance Monkey, it's a very well-written and catchy tune. But there's just no way I can get past that supremely irritating voice. I don't know if it's put on or if she actually does genuinely sing like a toddler on helium learning to pronounce English for the first time, but vocally she is absolutely atrocious. If she wrote the song then fair play, she has a good career ahead of her as a songwriter but keep her away from microphones!

Edit: surprised to learn she's Australian, I automatically assumed she was a non-English speaker based on the awful diction.

Zaph

Necro wrote: »

I don't want to live in a world where Dance Monkey scores higher than Champagne Supernova or Rehab anything

FYP

tusk

OK. Top 4 here we come...

Pompey Pirates

Spook

gets a cool 23 points for My Oh My by Slade... Am I seeing a pattern here?

Listen1: lovely piano intro. jaysus that voice is like honey. bit of power there very nice. slidy baseline in the background is delish too. i'm looking for some belt here soon. heavy drums coming in. He's trowing some growl in, but i hope there's a bit more. Solo out of nowhere. IT's basically a play on the melody. nothing special really. catchy tho. oh, chorus. I love a good choral belt. It's got the concept of a children nursery rhyme at its foundation, which means it's catchy as fuuuuuk. beauty. random drum solo. followed by power guitar melody solo. needs something extra this time.............there it is. Not quite enough tho. disappointing there. Good song.


Listen2: oh lovely piano intro. I never knew I liked slade so much. Whoever introduced me to these lads, thanks. Cos I've been singing Everyday everyday since round 1. Apparently they've more songs than just that christmas one. The vocals are brilliant. Your mans voice is on point. So perfect. Throws in a bit of gravel there. Beauty. Drum Belt. Solo following the melody. Works nicely. I'm bursting right now, want to explode up out of my chair. Oh, choral ensemble. Love a bit of that. great stuff. This will probably go into my belter section too. Eyes closed, head rocking forward and back. Legs stamping the floor. and we've a stop. Weird little drum bit, into the solo again. Hopefully this breaks from the melody a bit. it does. And it works well. Could have had a bit more embelishment there tbh to bring it up a notch.

Necro

Deleted User wrote: »

I really want to like Dance Monkey, it's a very well-written and catchy tune. But there's just no way I can get past that supremely irritating voice. I don't know if it's put on or if she actually does genuinely sing like a toddler on helium learning to pronounce English for the first time, but vocally she is absolutely atrocious. If she wrote the song then fair play, she has a good career ahead of her as a songwriter but keep her away from microphones!

Edit: surprised to learn she's Australian, I automatically assumed she was a non-English speaker based on the awful diction.

Our director for the panto this year has us performing a dance to it. I'd rather swim through a river of vomit than listen to that bloody song again :mad:

tusk

After submitting one of the best songs in round 1, LSD

QB

Falls from grace to pick up 3 points for Tweeter and the Monkey Man - Traveling Wilburys

Listen1: has me caught straight away. Nice beat. Oh no vocals. feck off. Oh are these the bob dylan guys? I fukkin hate this voice. it's horrible. HATE it. go away . Different vocalist and i might like it, but jaysus he's brutal. can't stand him


Listen2: Tasty westerny intro. Oh god the vocals. Get away from me. i just can't.

Necro

Huh, wow.

I really like that submission of QB's. Much better than the one in the last round, imo.

Different tastes I guess

tusk

Into the top 3 and we're about to see someone have a heart attack...

Adrenalin

MiksJaguar

pulling out a ginormical 24 points for Rammstein - Sonne

Listen1: I like a bit of rammstein, though I only know a few of their songs properly. I love the oomph the german gives their songs, and not knowing what they're saying adds to it i'm sure haha. With heavier songs, i always expect most people not to like them, so i wonder was this a person who was into rammstein already and didn't like due to the kindof choral/chanty bit or what? i like it. love it actually. beauty.


Listen2: Nice. Imagine he was just rattling off his shopping list or something haha. Love a bit of rammstein. They make great music. This operatic style works so well with the heaviness. He's a very religiousy voice when He want's to. You never get bored during a rammstein song. aaaah love this music. so epic in the epic sense. like an eagle flying high over the final battle of a blockbuster movie. Layered vocals there are lovely. I'm envisioning the battle of isengard listening to this. 'they're taking the hobbits to isengard'. Feck now i have to go listen to that. SAKE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE-1RPDqJAY

MrKingsley

On the orders of our supreme Tusk overlord, here’s my story.

So I absolutely loved Kanye’s first two albums. The college dropout in particular is still a favourite. Then when he started going all Kanye I literally stopped listening to him.

A mate of mine who wouldn’t be a massive fan of rap told me that this album was instantly one of his favourites. I Gave it a listen and hated it. Not just this song but the sound of the whole album.

Then a couple of years later I started watching Ballers with the Rock and I absolutely loved the song on the intro credits. Then found out that it sampled this track. I went a full 180 and now I can’t get enough of it.

As you said Tusk, you should hate it for so many reasons but can’t.

quickbeam

tusk wrote: »

After submitting one of the best songs in round 1, LSD

QB

Falls from grace to pick up 3 points for Tweeter and the Monkey Man - Traveling Wilburys

Listen1: has me caught straight away. Nice beat. Oh no vocals. feck off. Oh are these the bob dylan guys? I fukkin hate this voice. it's horrible. HATE it. go away . Different vocalist and i might like it, but jaysus he's brutal. can't stand him


Listen2: Tasty westerny intro. Oh god the vocals. Get away from me. i just can't.

Yeah. Still don’t like it all that much as I’m not a fan of Dylan either. But, I like trying to pick out all the Bruce Springsteen references in it when I listen to it. It’s like a little game. Not surprised at its position and no hard feelings.

I am shocked tbh LOL whoops going to stop moaning from now on.

Ya I hated that first time or 2 i listened to it, it was just loud random noise but my brother loved the video and I ended up listening to it more then I ever would have and I grew on me.

I also loved/love the video

tusk

Right, Second Last...

Delta Force -

phatkev

with 2 points for The 1975 - Love it if we made it

Listen1: Very sci-fi intro. I like it. ok there we go. Comes straight in with the first line and took me way off guard. I like it tho. although the vocals are very flat across a long time which makes it difficult to follow. Actually find it hard to listen to this. buhbye


Listen2: Weird intro. Sounds Alien. Wow. Straight out with the vulgarity. Nice. Oh it's hard to listen to though. He's just singing the same note a hundred times in a row. Oh i like the end of that bit. 'love it if we made it' very nice, but then he does that exact thing like 5 times. God this is painful. Byebye

tusk

Second from the top, and very nearly top, which suprised the heck out of me, because when I saw this on the list, I thought 'oh yeah that's a decent enough song alright'.

BadBrew Crew

Rikan

with Fall Out Boy - Thanks For The Memories nabs a sweet 25 points

Listen1: Operatic intro. The overlapping vocals is cool. Voices are very warm and crisp. I love the chorus of this song. I just love to belt out singing it. I think this may have been a changeling for me when it first came out. Good tune. 'my eyesight is going bad' these are the slight variations that make good songs great. Beauty. The bridge is mighty too. Throws in a bit of vocal gymnastics there. Very very good. I must look up more falloutboy. Never critically looked at this song, but it really is fantastic! Feels a bit overlong... Probably because i watched the whole supersexysaxmanvid in the middle of the song hahahahaha

Listen2: Ohh yeah. Layered lyrics, you know I'm a fan of this when done well. Vocals are very good. Into a belty chorus. Love this song. Never realised I loved Falloutboy before. But this is a beauty. music is great. Layering different accents on the main line very well done. Your man can seriously sing. Gonna have to look up falloutboy after this, which annoys me because I thought I was too cool to like them.... acoustic bridge, showing off the vocal gymnastics and a bit of high string accent works very well. Oh i love a choral belt. Very nice. only drum and bass. Jaysus, I'd say they spent Months on this song in the studio. So intricately put together. layers, everywhere.

tusk

Paddy Last: Persistence of Visio with No Doubt - Hey Baby and a solitary point. (sorry

Homer

)

Listen1: Wow. Takes me back. Oh god this is not good. I liked it years ago, but now it's hurting me. ok goodbye.


Listen2: NOPE

tusk

And that brings us to the top of the table...

TNT-Crew

Vale

gets the 26 point top prize with Elle King - Ex's & Ohs

Listen1: oooh i like this. the beat is so clean and so is her voice. oh i know this song. Well i've heard it before. The chorus is the weak link of the song i would say. Is this a popular song? I never know really haha. Cant wait to see why you didn't like this one. I think it's great. highest first listen score.


Listen2: Oh yeah this is sweet. So funky. But with Passion. Great tune. Lyrics are so apt too. They fit the song so well. That intro (music and lyrics and vocals) is so perfectly knit together. Love it. It's caught me. head banging. mouthing the odd word i know. Great song. Bit of a solo here..... Meh, why. WHY? That added absolutely nothing to a fantastic song. I'll be listening to this outside of walrus 100%

adox

tusk wrote: »

Was Not Was aka

Banjo

starts our bottom 4 off with Mastodon : The Wolf Is Loose

Listen1: Oh, unneccessary screaming. No thanks. Yeah this has some strange chord changes that you tend to see a lot in metal. Can be really throw-offy. Can see why people wouldn't like this. Ah it's not bad. Vocals are the worst part for me. Music is grand, decent tune. Waiting for a ripper of a solo now. Like the drum trills. Serious drum speed. Wow. not the solo i was expecting. hope it goes into something more interesting. it didn't. Bridge time. Very interesting. Like it's trying to convey a sense of an army following orders or something. Slightly demonic sounding. I don't hate it. i hate the screaming. I've never listened to mastodon, but i've heard of them a lot from friends, and i expected more to be honest.


Listen2: aaaah, why the scream. No need. interesting sound. Reminds me of a metallica song. I'm sure one of you can tell me which on. 'Back to the front'? This is like these lads heard that song and were like, yeah that sounds good, let's do something like that. Woah, the guitar is boring af. sound like a garage band wrote this. singer is a bit boring too Vocals don't seem to fit with the music. soloish time. somebody is practicing their guitar scales haha. This is pretty crap tbh. If i never hear this song again I'll die happy. I've heard of mastodon before, i'll have to listen to something else of their's to see if they're fully this sh1t

I love this song and album. You sound like an auld lad saying you don’t like screaming vocals and that’s coming from a 52 year old. :P

Necro

Interested as to why that's a changeling for Rikand, I really like that era of Fall Out Boy.

Some damn good songs

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

phatkev

adox wrote: »

I love this song and album. You sound like an auld lad saying you don’t like screaming vocals and that’s coming from a 52 year old. :P

Massive Mastodon fan here aswell, I was more disappointed to see this so far down the list than my own pick!!

Necro

Interesting contrast in top and bottom.

I'd prefer the bottom song by a mile tbh, plus Gwen Stefani is hot

tusk

Congrats to TheValeyard on top spot.

Here's the full table for Round 2

Real Name Fake Name The Changeling Score 1 Score 2 Place
TheValeyard TNT-Crew Elle King - Ex's & ohs 8.5 8.5 26
Rikand Bad Brew Crew Fall Out Boy - Thanks For The Memories lyrics with song 8 9 25
MicksJaguar Adrenalin Rammstein - Sonne 7.8 8.5 24
Spook_ie Pompey Pirates Slade - My Oh My 7.5 8.5 23
MrKingsley The Replicants Kanye West - All of the Lights 7 8.5 22
Stu Redman Timelords of London George Michael - Careless Whisper (Official HD Video) 7.5 8 21
kitten_k Automation TONES AND I - DANCE MONKEY 7 8 20
Pretzill Vectronix Duran Duran - Come Undone 7 8 19
adox Blues Bros R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts 7 8 18
Electric Nitwit The Untouchables Everyday I Love You Less and Less - Kaiser Chiefs 7 8 17
Trigger The Medway Boys Milk - Kings of Leon 8 6.5 16
Necrina The Storm Brothers Justin Bieber - Love Yourself 7 7 15
Necro The Syndicate Wiley, Sean Paul, Stefflon Don - Boasty feat. Idris Elba 7.5 5.5 14
Green&Red The Wild Boys Rod Stewart - Maggie May 6 7 13
Jurgen The German Klapauzius Taylor Swift - Shake it off 6.5 6.5 12
osh Flames of Finland Palace Music - New Partner 5 7.5 11
persepoly The Lost Boys Ed Sheeran - castle on the hill 6.5 6 10
Barney92 The Carebears Jonas Blue ft William Singe - Mama 6 6 9
Kolido Guardians Of Logik Oasis - Champagne supernova 6 6 8
fixxxer Pulsion Parting of the Senory - Modest Mouse 6 5 7
Strawberry Milkshake Level 16 Any Winehouse - Rehab 5.5 5 6
sKeith Revolution Amy Winehouse - Rehab 5.5 5 6
LadySkunk Federation Of Free Traders Pumpkin dance: Spooky Scary Skeletons [REMIX] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DECYte0kZ4 5 5 5
Banjo Was Not Was Mastodon : The Wolf Is Loose 6 4 4
quickbeam LSD Tweeter and the Monkey Man - Traveling Wilburys 5.5 4 3
phatkev Delta Force The 1975 - Love it if we made it 5 3 2
Homer J. Fong Persistence Of Visio No Doubt - Hey Baby 4 3 1

TheValeyard

Well that was a cool reveal.


Whoop whoop Top spot!

tusk

And the Current Scores after 2 rounds:

Real Name Current Score
Rikand 52
Spook_ie 48
MicksJaguar 43
Pretzill 43
TheValeyard 40
Green&Red 39
adox 38
Stu Redman 37
Necro 36
kitten_k 33
quickbeam 26
fixxxer 24
Strawberry Milkshake 24
MrKingsley 23
phatkev 23
osh 21
sKeith 21
Barney92 20
Necrina 20
Electric Nitwit 19
Jurgen The German 19
Trigger 19
persepoly 18
LadySkunk 14
Homer J. Fong 13
Kolido 12
Banjo 10

Thanks for following along dudes. And sorry for harsh words

TheValeyard

Friendships have been broken during this round.

Electric Nitwit

Nice one tusk. Got dragged away for the second half and there's a few I can't place by name, that's my dinner cooking playlist sorted later

Well done Mr.V

Great reveal tuskerino....

tusk

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Nice one tusk. Got dragged away for the second half and there's a few I can't place by name, that's my dinner cooking playlist sorted later

Oh yeah sorry,

Here's the playlist....https://open.spotify.com/playlist/11MlPdaLUntYcXuc3d9O20?si=m9hAZV2DRbOjqHSUNocz_g

Skunk's isn't on there, because of course it's not...

Pretzill

Well done to the top 3 - Thanks Tusk - I haven't listened to the reveal yet but happy you enjoyed Come Undone and there looks to be some great tracks on this round.

Delighted to be in the top half of the table but I'm quite sure I'll slide down as the reveals continue

MrKingsley

Great reveal Tusk.

Few new tracks to check out

Spook_ie

tusk wrote: »

OK. Top 4 here we come...

Pompey Pirates

Spook

gets a cool 23 points for My Oh My by Slade... Am I seeing a pattern here?
.

Have you been sneek peeking the next category?

tusk

Spook_ie wrote: »

Have you been sneek peeking the next category?

Nope. All still under wraps

fixXxer

tusk wrote: »

After submitting one of the best songs in round 1, LSD

QB

Falls from grace to pick up 3 points for Tweeter and the Monkey Man - Traveling Wilburys

Listen1: has me caught straight away. Nice beat. Oh no vocals. feck off. Oh are these the bob dylan guys? I fukkin hate this voice. it's horrible. HATE it. go away . Different vocalist and i might like it, but jaysus he's brutal. can't stand him


Listen2: Tasty westerny intro. Oh god the vocals. Get away from me. i just can't.

Ah ****ing HERE.

Clarabel

So many of those songs are anti changeling for me. Used to love them, played to death can't v stand them now

tusk

fixXxer wrote: »

Ah ****ing HERE.

You know what. If fixxxer is upset, then my job here is done.

Necro

Clarabel wrote: »

So many of those songs are anti changeling for me. Used to love them, played to death can't v stand them now

Electric Nitwit

Necro wrote: »

I mean, Nec-a-ro, you couldn't think of another song about loving something less over time? I literally used it this round...

tusk wrote: »

Electric Nitwit pulling in a tasty 17 points for Everyday I Love You Less and Less - Kaiser Chiefs

Necro

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

I mean, Nec-a-ro, you couldn't think of another song about loving something less over time? I literally used it this round...

Fitted with Clara's post more

Clarabel

Necro wrote: »

I'll never not love that song!

Banjo

tusk wrote: »

Was Not Was aka

Banjo

starts our bottom 4 off with Mastodon : The Wolf Is Loose

Listen1: Oh, unneccessary screaming. No thanks. Yeah this has some strange chord changes that you tend to see a lot in metal. Can be really throw-offy. Can see why people wouldn't like this. Ah it's not bad. Vocals are the worst part for me. Music is grand, decent tune. Waiting for a ripper of a solo now. Like the drum trills. Serious drum speed. Wow. not the solo i was expecting. hope it goes into something more interesting. it didn't. Bridge time. Very interesting. Like it's trying to convey a sense of an army following orders or something. Slightly demonic sounding. I don't hate it. i hate the screaming. I've never listened to mastodon, but i've heard of them a lot from friends, and i expected more to be honest.


Listen2: aaaah, why the scream. No need. interesting sound. Reminds me of a metallica song. I'm sure one of you can tell me which on. 'Back to the front'? This is like these lads heard that song and were like, yeah that sounds good, let's do something like that. Woah, the guitar is boring af. sound like a garage band wrote this. singer is a bit boring too Vocals don't seem to fit with the music. soloish time. somebody is practicing their guitar scales haha. This is pretty crap tbh. If i never hear this song again I'll die happy. I've heard of mastodon before, i'll have to listen to something else of their's to see if they're fully this sh1t

My only comfort is in knowing how long my Black Hole song is and how much you'll hate having to listen to it twice. **** you and your ****ty taste Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
(To answer your question : Most of Mastodon is like this - blistering drums and screaming. Try Colony of Birchmen, Curl of the Burl or most of Once More 'round the Sun if you'd prefer to hear something approaching (but never quite reaching) singing. Definitely don't go back past Leviathan as then you're throwing terrible production values into the screamy mix. But none of them are the song that made me realise I could listen to hoarse screaming and learn to not just tolerate it but love it)

I'm disappointed that you're asking for people to share stories - did you not get the reading notes that go with the "songs"?

tusk

Banjo wrote: »

I'm disappointed that you're asking for people to share stories - did you not get the reading notes that go with the "songs"?

Nope, SK has held them back. Didn't want them to influence the scores.

Looking forward to reading them at the end though.

Rikand

Necro wrote: »

Interested as to why that's a changeling for Rikand, I really like that era of Fall Out Boy.

Some damn good songs

I'm a convert to Fall Out Boy. When they first came out, I instantly dismissed them as stupid emo rock ****heads and went about that way for a few years happy that I was right that they were stupid and ****.

And then a friend of mine was playing some of their songs on his playlist in work..... and suddenly I found myself singing along to them and then loving them and I was like. "Who is that ?" And than I was like :: "Oh **** its fall out boy!" - Everything I thought I knew about the world was wrong. I was wrong. And then I was really happy that I was wrong. And the worst part was having to tell everyone that I had made a mistake. That I found myself actually quite enjoying Fall out boy.

You're right Necro. They had some fantastic songs back then. Real belters and anytime a catchy fallout boy song comes on in the car I belt it out at the top of my lungs.


Absolutely stunned that this topped the poll! Glad you liked it so much Tusky


fwiw, I refuse to believe that Careless Whisper was ever a song that someone here didnt love. How can anyone not love that song from the moment they hear it. Its damn near one of the greatest songs of all time. Sonne another one!

I also have to say that Champagne Supernova would fall into this category for me too as a changeling. It's probably my favourite Oasis song. That, She's Electric and Some Might Say would be my top 3. Thanks necro. I never thought I would find myself reconnecting with Oasis in a positive way ever again, but your Walrus submissions to me have done it.

I also have to agree with you on something else. I ****ing hate Sean Paul

Electric Nitwit

Banjo wrote: »

My only comfort is in knowing how long my Black Hole song is and how much you'll hate having to listen to it twice. **** you and your ****ty taste Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Ah, a perfect distillation of the spirit of walrus :pac:

Necro

Rikand wrote:

You're right Necro. They had some fantastic songs back then. Real belters and anytime a catchy fallout boy song comes on in the car I belt it out at the top of my lungs.

Late convert here too, first got introduced to em by (whispers) One Tree Hill that album is just great though. Your reasoning makes perfect sense

Rikand wrote:

I also have to say that Champagne Supernova would fall into this category for me too as a changeling. It's probably my favourite Oasis song. That, She's Electric and Some Might Say would be my top 3. Thanks necro. I never thought I would find myself reconnecting with Oasis in a positive way ever again, but your Walrus submissions to me have done it.

I'm glad I made some difference. Now let's talk Westlife... :pac:

KIDDING!!!

Rikand wrote:

I also have to agree with you on something else. I ****ing hate Sean Paul

I.... I..... think there might be a future for us Rikand

fixXxer

tusk wrote: »

You know what. If fixxxer is upset, then my job here is done.

Oh I'm not upset yet. Reject my Blackhole offering, then you'll see upset. Oh yes.

tusk

fixXxer wrote: »

Oh I'm not upset yet. Reject my Blackhole offering, then you'll see upset. Oh yes.

Oh I really hope i hate it :cool:

Thanks Tusk face!!