Irish Aris' Music Walrus

Irish Aris

Hello everybody and welcome to my music walrus. Though I'm fairly new to Forum Games I decided to give this a go, as I love music and always looking to discover new artists and songs

What is Walrus?
Walrus is a game wherein you select music, & other people judge your music. Standard Walrus usually has 1 host who selects all the categories, & a bunch of people submit songs (1 per category) & the host judges all the songs in each category.

Why Am I Doing This?
I started listening to music in 1986 and have stopped since. I have a big music collection of over 3000 CDs. I also go to concerts frequently – fun fact: in my 8+ years in Ireland I have attended more than 150 concerts. Ever since I moved to Ireland with the vast number of concerts, I have made a conscious effort to discover more music, new and old – and this is the main purpose of this Walrus. Come on fellow forum gamers, educate me!!!

What Kind of Music Am I Into?
Genres I am a big fan of: Pop/Indie Pop/Synthpop/Electropop (basically anything with a synthesizer or keyboard center stage), Rock/Indie Rock/Post Rock/Gothic Rock/Industrial Rock/Darkwave (and even some Hard Rock!), Ambient/Drone/Chillout. In the past I have gone through periods that I would also listen to Jazz and World music. For the last year or so, I have been trying to get into folk music but with moderate success (my tolerance to banjo is limited and having drums/percussion is almost a must have)
Genres I am not a big fan of: Rap/Hip Hop (note though that I like some of the oldschool stuff like Salt’n’Pepa, Beastie Boys, DeLaSoul etc), Heavy/Thrash/Black Metal, Country, House/Techno, Progressive/Psychedelic Rock (never understood what people found in Pink Floyd. . .)
Some of the artists that currently feature heavily in my playlists: Duran Duran, The B-52’s, Gary Numan, Midnight Oil, Queensryche, The The, The Twilight Sad, The Cure, Prince, Suede, Simple Minds, Depeche Mode, REM, Einsturzende Neubauten, Hurts, Brian Eno.

My Categories...

1. The Fantastic 80s: I was a teenager in the 80s and it was when I started listening to music, so many of my favourite artists and albums are from that era. So simple enough, I’m looking for any song released in that decade.
Disclaimer 1: PartyJungle has done this back in July 2019, I think it is long overdue!!

2. The Irish Aris Connection: I moved to Ireland on October 2011 and because of all the concerts I started listening to a lot of new music. So for that category I’m looking for songs that were released from October 2011 and later. Songs can be by any artist (not just Irish artists) and obviously album tracks are allowed.

3. It takes 2 to make it right: Here I’m looking for duets and collaborations. It could be a straight forward duet (i.e. Elton John and Kiki Dee) or a collaboration (i.e. David Guetta feat. Whatever vocalist is popular). You could also select collaborations with 3 or more people, instrumental collaborations (i.e. Eno and Fripp) or even a duet between 2 lead singers of the same band (Fleetwood Mac pun intended)

4. That’s Not My Name: Simple enough: A song with a name in the title. I will also allow songs with the word “name” in the title.
Disclaimer 2: This is another one that has been done before, by Green&Red, in September 2019. Hopefully enough time has passed and it won’t bore the older members of Forum Games

5. Body of Evidence: For this one I’m looking for songs that mention any part of the human body in their title. And similar to the previous categories with the names, I will also allow songs with the word “body” in the title.

6. The Lasting First Impression: I like listening to albums from start to finish and it is always nice when an album gets to a great start. So for this category I’m looking for songs that open their respective albums and you consider them great openers. The idea here is to make me want to listen to the whole album and expand my music library further!!

7. Preach to the unconverted. . .or the choir: This is like a wildcard category. Give me a song from one of your favourite artists, one that you think everyone should listen to. This could be your chance to prove me wrong on some of the genres that I mentioned as not being a big fan of, so anything goes!!!


Submissions and Deadline
Please submit songs to me via PM. I'll be listening on either Spotify and/or YouTube so if there's a particular version of the song you want me to use, send on the link along with your submission.
I will leave this open for at least until Friday 17th July, to allow everyone interested enough time to submit songs. Please let me know if anything isn’t clear on the categories.

quickbeam

Nice categories!

JP Liz V1

Cool

Necro

I'm in, nominations sent. Sorry about lack of links Irish I'm on the phone on holiers

ShaneU

Entered!

Good categories! Chose a mix of old favourites and some new songs I like

JP Liz V1

Necro wrote: »

I'm in, nominations sent. Sorry about lack of links Irish I'm on the phone on holiers

Anywhere nice? Enjoy

Electric Nitwit

Necro wrote: »

I'm in, nominations sent

ShaneU wrote: »

Entered!

Damn, thought I was fast but I was well beaten :pac:

Got in some indie rock, industrial rock, post rock, folk and some others where I don't quite know the genre

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Entries Submitted!

Kolido

You lot act quick. Gonna take me a couple of days to pick songs. Love the categories Aris.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Kolido wrote: »

You lot act quick. Gonna take me a couple of days to pick songs. Love the categories Aris.

Kolido

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

A couple of days, not a week

Electric Nitwit

Kolido wrote: »

You lot act quick. Gonna take me a couple of days to pick songs. Love the categories Aris.

I normally take much longer myself but I thought I'd go for gut instincts this time

Electric Nitwit

Irish Aris wrote: »

4. That’s Not My Name: Simple enough: A song with a name in the title. I will also allow songs with the word “name” in the title.
Disclaimer 2: This is another one that has been done before, by Green&Red, in September 2019. Hopefully enough time has passed and it won’t bore the older members of Forum Games

I went back to check what I'd entered for this when GnR ran it. This is my favourite commentary of anything I've entered into any Walrus, especially when Mrs GnR joins in

Green&Red wrote: »

10th Place - Enter Shikari - Gandhi Mate, Gandhi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIzSKZjuS5A

This is just noise, really, really bad noise, Mrs G&R asked "what is that sh!t" when I put it on in the kitchen
And yet here we are, the more I listened the better it became, I laughed out loud at the "Gandhi mate, remember gandhi"

Brilliant pick, 10 points for

Electric Nitwit

I would advise everyone to listen to this song

Irish Aris

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

I went back to check what I'd entered for this when GnR ran it. This is my favourite commentary of anything I've entered into any Walrus, especially when Mrs GnR joins in

I wouldn't consider this noise, you don't know what real noise is
The only thing that threw me off was the 1-2 brief passages with the harsh vocals - and again borderline harsh. I actually think that if you remove the vocals altogether there is a great rhythm behind it.

6 sets submitted so far. Out of the 42 songs, I only know 14 of them, so mission accomplished, and thank you all very much for broadening my music horizons

beakerjoe

After my decent showing in the last game, Im here to prove my postion was a fluke.

In

Tauriel

Just after spotting this now, will give this a think over the next few days and submit an entry.

Tauriel

Quite a few categories there that I had to go eeny meeny miny moe to select the song that I would go with.

Irish Aris

With Shelly's selections in we are now up to 11 with more than a week to go.
The categories shape up nicely and I can already sense that a couple of them will be very difficult to rank.

Kolido

Finally got around to picking my selection. Great categories, so many choices, wasnt easy.

s1ippy

I just spotted that the OP has a very detailed description of what their favourite types of music are.

That probably would have been good to pay attention to when I was submitting my answers.

D'oh!

I like going against what the hosts choices are so will send in some later.

RasTa

Do all these choices have to be from an Irish artist?

Just noticed that's your username...

Irish Aris

s1ippy wrote: »

I just spotted that the OP has a very detailed description of what their favourite types of music are.

That probably would have been good to pay attention to when I was submitting my answers.

D'oh!

No worries s1ppy, it was mostly that people have an idea what I would be into and not overload me with things that I would find difficult to get into.
Having said that, your selections seem reasonable enough and I'm looking forward to listening to them.

Irish Aris

RasTa wrote: »

Do all these choices have to be from an Irish artist?

Just noticed that's your username...

Hi RasTa,

no, the selections can be from any artist around the world.

The back story of my username is that I'm originally from Greece. When I moved to Ireland back in 2011 (as per category 2 I was looking for a username for boards and decided to go with Irish Aris - Aris is my first name, but later on I found out that there is an Irish word aris that means again and I really like it

RasTa

In I goes, 45mins to pick this list.

fixXxer

Is this closing soon? Have half a list done but not had much time.

Irish Aris

fixXxer wrote: »

Is this closing soon? Have half a list done but not had much time.

Hi fixXxer,
I will keep this open at least until Friday - so still a few days to send me your selections.

fixXxer

Irish Aris wrote: »

Hi fixXxer,
I will keep this open at least until Friday - so still a few days to send me your selections.

lassykk

Just submitted now

Irish Aris

We are now up to 15 sets of selections - I was hoping to get to this number as it will make the reveals more interesting.

As mentioned before, I will leave this open at least until Friday - and will possibly allow entries during the weekend in case people are busy during the week.

Zaph

I started this, must get it finished in the next day or two.

Irish Aris

We are now up to 19 people participating - thank you all very much for taking the time to send me your selections.

I was planning to close this tomorrow, but it looks like I will be out all day on Saturday.
Therefore I will leave signup open until Sunday afternoon.

I plan to start the reveal during next week - from Tuesday onwards as on Monday aaronjennings plans his peehs reveal - I will also coordinate with the other walrus reveals so we don't overlap. I will create the reveal thread on Sunday and update there - the 80s category is going to be the toughest one to rank as I know and like most of the songs, so bear with me

Irish Aris

Good morning everyone and hope you have a great weekend.

Just a reminder that I'll close signups tomorrow, in case anyone still thinks of entering.

fixXxer

ITS IN




































(thats what she said)

Irish Aris

Could I please ask one of the mods to change the Sign ups to Closed? Thank you!!

Electric Nitwit

Irish Aris wrote: »

5. Body of Evidence: For this one I’m looking for songs that mention any part of the human body in their title. And similar to the previous categories with the names, I will also allow songs with the word “body” in the title

What I hate most about this game is that random moment of regret, months later, when I realise what I should have entered!

A body part, by a body part, and a great song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hyIpDzTnpU