Necro Presents - Album Walrus

Necro

Whilst you're wetting your whistle with the very first TV Walrus, I've decided to have a crack at full Albums.

The premise is very simple - sometimes a song isn't enough to encapsulate an artist. Very often the single song lacks the context of an entire album, capturing the ebb and flow of the theme.

Let's put that to the test shall we.

I'm going to have three categories for this, given the probably large workload this will entail I think more categories would mean this could drag on a bit longer than is intended.

Note: Please don't submit *Best Of* albums. To me they are an accumulation of an artist's best work, and thus naturally are already favourable in content.

The three categories are as follows


My Fave Artist - Show me what one of your fave artists has in their repertoire, make me love them like you do.
Movie Soundtracks - exactly what it says on the tin
2010s are alright, ya know - An album from 2010 or later, let's see what new skool has, and will I find it cool?



Keeping signups open over Christmas and probably into January, no upper limit here so go wild.

Just to let you all know that duplicate entries in this game will receive *half points*

So for example if Necro and LeVar submit the same album which scores 18 points in total, both players will receive 9 points as opposed to the maximum 18 on offer.

An incentive to be more unique, if you will.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

***dusts off the old record collection***

Clarabel

Now Necro.

Will you really listen to the whole album of something I submit?

Necro

Clarabel wrote:

Will you really listen to the whole album of something I submit?

I promise to try.

I forgot to mention that if you like in your PM you can give me the highlights of the album for you and I'll see if it matches up with my own view

Trigger

In!

Kolido

Great idea, hope you like meatloaf

the purple tin

What is your stance on live albums Necs?

Necro

the purple tin wrote:

What is your stance on live albums Necs?

No issue with live albums. Just don't want Best Of.

So an unplugged or a 'Live from New York' type album would be absolutely fine imo.

the purple tin

In

Electric Nitwit

Necro wrote: »

Just to let you all know that duplicate entries in this game will receive *half points*

I'm looking at you, Homer!

Irish Aris

Cool Idea Necro!!

For the movie soundtracks do you prefer songs or original music? or either is OK?

Necro

Irish Aris wrote:

For the movie soundtracks do you prefer songs or original music? or either is OK?

Either is fine, I'm partial to both

JP Liz V1

Cool

Tauriel

Oh man, movie soundtracks, how do I narrow it down to one

Necro

7 entries in that I can see in my PM inbox so far.

Trigger
LeVar
Irish Aris
the purple tin
Sawduck
JP Liz V1


Gonna leave this open to entries for another week anyways, haven't started listening to anything yet on account of Christmas and whatnot but I'll probably be getting started in the next day or so....

Electric Nitwit

I'll get an entry in for sure. I've got shortlists in my head, but I want to listen to them all to pick

Rikand

I'll be in after this game of werewolf is over

Necro

No panic just yet anyways guys. 10 seems like a sweet spot for albums (30 albums that would mean) but I'm not putting that as an upper limit, so take your time

Kolido

Will get mine in this week.

Necro

Shane-U and Kolido enter the fray to bring our total up to 9 players!

Gonna set a date now, but still time to get your entry in:

Closing sign ups on Friday, 8th January at 6pm

Aiming to have the first round reveal the following week then, will probably be a little slower than my normal pace as I want to give all entries a couple of listens - will take a little more time than your standard Walrus

Electric Nitwit

Necro wrote: »

My Fave Artist - Show me what one of your fave artists has in their repertoire, make me love them like you do

Damn you Necro! My favourite artist has nine albums. I've narrowed it down to four but this is like Sophie's Choice

Tauriel

Oh shoots, so caught up in work that I nearly forgot this.

I hope to have sometime to sit down on Friday and give it some proper consideration.

I think* that I have the soundtrack determined.......but could change

Electric Nitwit

OK, I'm in

Three albums that I love, if one or two grab you I'll be delighted

And if your hate them all I'll be sorry I wasted your time but know that you're wrong

Necro

EN and cee_jay bring us up to 11!

Under a week to go now till sign ups close, still time to get your entry in

cee_jay

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

OK, I'm in

Three albums that I love, if one or two grab you I'll be delighted

And if your hate them all I'll be sorry I wasted your time but know that you're wrong

Same. I am here listening to one of my picks while cooking the dinner, himself walks in and asks what's this? It's great! So hope Necro also thinks similar!

Rikand

one album to go and the writeups for my choices are already longer than the prologue I wrote for Silent hill....

Necro

RasTa brings us up to 12 and now we are cooking with gas.

Had a brief listen to a random album from the first category this morning in the shower. Impressed with what I was listening to!

Tauriel

And I'm in

Necro

13 with shelly's entry, have I bitten off more than I can chew :P


Just kidding, I need me some listening for the next few weeks. Full albums is going to be interesting. Gonna start downloading em all on spotify in next few days and getting thoughts onto paper.

I've an idea in mind for the reveal that might differ from other Walruses a bit, but I think that full albums deserve a bit more appreciation than single songs, in particular with the blurbs some of you have sent me accompanying your entries...

And that's without Rikand's essay (yet) :pac:

More to come on that in the Reveal thread though which is still over a week away

Electric Nitwit

Necro wrote: »

...in particular with the blurbs some of you have sent me accompanying your entries...

As a slight aside*, I've often thought Walrus reveals could benefit from a couple of sentences on why it was nominated. "What they said" followed by "What I thought", that's what I was thinking when it gets round to me

*or spoiling your exact idea

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

As a slight aside*, I've often thought Walrus reveals could benefit from a couple of sentences on why it was nominated. "What they said" followed by "What I thought", that's what I was thinking when it gets round to me

*or spoiling your exact idea

Good luck with that. Some of the time you'd be lucky to get the proper song title from some people, or you have to deduce what category they're nominating any given song for as the list isn't even in order and often the PMs need all sorts of decoding, never mind trying to get everyone to send in notes as well.

Some people do send great blurbs, and always try to have a few accompanying sentences myself when nominating, but sometimes you get Walrus submissions in and you'd spend half an hour scratching your head wondering what feckin drugs some people must've been taking when they threw together that PM... :rolleyes:

Necro

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

As a slight aside*, I've often thought Walrus reveals could benefit from a couple of sentences on why it was nominated. "What they said" followed by "What I thought", that's what I was thinking when it gets round to me

*or spoiling your exact idea

Nah, it won't be *too* much extra work but I'm working on something to give appreciation for the albums entered...

And THEN tear them apart by revealing how I scored them :pac::pac::pac:

Electric Nitwit

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

Good luck with that. Some of the time you'd be lucky to get the proper song title from some people, or you have to deduce what category they're nominating any given song for as the list isn't even in order and often the PMs need all sorts of decoding, never mind trying to get everyone to send in notes as well.

Some people do send great blurbs, and always try to have a few accompanying sentences myself when nominating, but sometimes you get Walrus submissions in and you'd spend half an hour scratching your head wondering what feckin drugs some people must've been taking when they threw together that PM... :rolleyes:

Well I was going to say it's completely optional, but given that I might make it compulsory

the purple tin

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Well I was going to say it's completely optional, but given that I might make it compulsory

Irish Aris

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Well I was going to say it's completely optional, but given that I might make it compulsory

I always try to give a little bit of context when I sent nominations to other people's walruses. Some of the fellow Forum Gamers seem to appreciate it - and if someone doesn't they can simply ignore it.

Necro

Zaph tosses his hat into the ring as the final stretch for sign ups is in sight.

More listening done today on category 1, very impressed with the standard so far!

Necro

And Rikand has entered his magnum opus. It's slightly possible I might spend more time reading his PM than listening to all the albums :pac:

Under two days left to go. Really enjoying the entries so far in Round 1 it has to be said.

Rikand

It was longer but I reigned myself in. Also changing two of my selections before the cut off

Necro

I'm actually way ahead of schedule here thanks to work today, got in the full second listen for all albums ( had listened to each once as they came in).

I may be able for a reveal early next week, just need to do up my write-ups really.

Gonna start on round 2 anyways to keep on top of things

But I'm gonna close sign ups now anyways so I don't have to go back and revamp stuff.

Necro

Reveal Thread is now live.

First Round Reveal tonight at 8pm :P