Rikand Walrus V2.0 Reveal Thread!

Rikand

Welcome everyone to the reveal thread for my second walrus!






Here is a reminder of what the categories were. I shall be revealing in the order of the categories given and as stated, intend to do one reveal per week.

The Categories ::

1. A song that brings you joy
2. A song that reminds you of a time of the day
3. A song that you sing or hum along to in the shower
4. An ethereal or spiritual sounding song
5. A song that reminds you of a fantasy theme/setting
6. A song that has a line from a movie in it or has sampled a line from a movie.
7. A song about, by ,or featuring the name of a man that Taylor Swift has dated
8. A song that you like to listen to when browsing and entering games on Forum Games.

And here is a list of our entrants

Final entrance list (15)

Necro
ASLB
ShaneU
The Purple tin
Sawduck
Electric Nitwit
osh
SineadSpears
Sephiroth_dude
Irish Aris
JP Liz V1
Arghus
H2DPB
Ari101
Fixxxer

The signup thread was here :: https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058166103 and it is now closed


First reveal I am planning to take place on either Tuesday the 6th or Wednesday the 7th of April and will kick off from around 9:30pm. Will confirm the date closer to the time. Hope to see you all then

fixXxer

The best thing about Walrus is as soon as I press send, I forget my entries. Looking forward to this

Irish Aris

fixXxer wrote: »

The best thing about Walrus is as soon as I press send, I forget my entries. Looking forward to this

I always keep the PMs until the competition is over

Electric Nitwit

fixXxer wrote: »

The best thing about Walrus is as soon as I press send, I forget my entries. Looking forward to this

The worst thing about Walrus is as soon as I press send, I start thinking of better songs

SineadSpears

Rikand wrote: »

Welcome everyone to the reveal thread for my second walrus!

ooh I just realized this is a walrus I'm quite happy with all submissions.

So looking forward to this just to hear my own songs :P

So..

1. Doubt my song will go down well with the masses but I think it's hilarious
2. Love the song I've put through because it very 'me'
3. I love this song but I think it's more of a grower rather than an instant like/love
4. Great song, but one or two solo parts that may not hold your attention if your not into that kinda stuff
5. Doubt you'll like this but I think it's brilliant!
6. Struggled so so much with this but happy enough with what I came up with
7. Again, was struggling a bit with what was gonna happen here, but definitely happy with my choice and surprised I came up with something that I think is decent
8. Love this song

BRING IT ON

JP Liz V1

Would you believe I only discovered this year how to save sent items

Irish Aris

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Would you believe I only discovered this year how to save sent items

I can't remember if the button in the options was on by default or I ticked it, but it always saved in my sent items.

Rikand

Reveal tonight at 9:30pm. I'm mostly happy with my list, just two songs that keep switching places but I'll run with it anyway

Electric Nitwit

I enjoy this moment of each walrus, when I look back at what I entered and I'm happy. I think I'm going to win and the naivety of that delusion hasn't been highlighted yet

osh

Well mid table in the peehs, nearly time for the serious business of defending my one and only walrus crown

Rikand

reveal starting in 30 minutes. Lets see how you get on this time osh and EN

osh

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

I enjoy this moment of each walrus, when I look back at what I entered and I'm happy. I think I'm going to win and the naivety of that delusion hasn't been highlighted yet

You just have to remember its them who are wrong, not you

Sephiroth_dude

ShaneU

This should be fun. My first song could easily come last

Electric Nitwit

osh wrote: »

You just have to remember its them who are wrong, not you

It's never even crossed my mind that it could be me

Necro

ShaneU wrote:

This should be fun. My first song could easily come last

*Checks entries*

Nah brah, I got this :pac:

ShaneU

Hoping for a sea shanty free round

SineadSpears

ready and waiting...

bring on the sesh! :cool:

Arghus

I went heavy enough on the oul electronical music in this one.

Rikand

Arghus wrote: »

I went heavy enough on the oul electronical music in this one.

Oh, is that what you call it ?

SineadSpears

Arghus wrote: »

I went heavy enough on the oul electronical music in this one.

I went heavy on the heavy stuff :pac:


well, other than my first gem, and one pop song, the rest are a bit heavy

ShaneU

Rikand wrote: »

Oh, is that what you call it ?

Rikand

Okay, lets get this show on the road!

For the first round, I'm just gonna straight up reveal from 15th to 1st, put some people out of their misery early on or maybe I'm just trying to get rid of their songs so I dont have to think about linking them later on

I post semi-prepared streams of consciousness. Most of my notes are garbled rubbish, I turn them into coherant sentences at reveal time. Plus, for most of these songs, I dont remember who submitted them. I just pull them all out of the PM's stick them in word, randomize the list and then start listening. It tries to ensure that I wont have any subconscious bias. This way it gives Necro a fair shot. So I'll be going back to the PM's to find the entrant each time

SineadSpears

haven't a clue what any of that means, but i've the notepad ready so let go

Electric Nitwit

Rikand wrote: »

Oh, is that what you call it ?

Rikand wrote: »

It tries to ensure that I wont have any subconscious bias. This way it gives Necro a fair shot

Rikand

In 15th Place scoring 1 point

Avicii - Wake me up :: Submitted by

JP Liz V1

Yeah, so I hate this song. Its one of my least favourite songs of all time. I just despise it. And like, I'm not gonna be the judger of joy for someone. But this song brings me the opposite of joy every time I hear it for a number of reasons some it personal which I won't go into but I just hate it. One of my least favourite songs of all time.

Sorry

Liz

Electric Nitwit

I'm getting deja vu...

Necro wrote: »

In 18th place with 11 points

JP Liz V1

Avicii – Wake Me Up

I do like some of Avicii’s stuff – was never mad on this track mind. For a dance track it’s wild slow, that being said I remember being on a dancefloor and everyone literally just jumping to this, so I suppose it works in a way? Anyways, definitely a good fit for chasing away the Monday blues, so here is about right for it.

ari101

What was it I submitted.... scratches head...?

SineadSpears

oh I liked that Avicii song just for the beat, but i've never actually paid attention to the lyrics.

have much more of an appreciation for the song now!

Rikand

In 14th Place scoring 2 points

Luke Kelly - Hand me down my bible :: Submitted by

H2DPB

I hate Luke Kellys voice. I know some people consider him a God amongst men. My wife cannot understand my hatred. She thinks he is amazing and a national treasure but I feel sorry for the world that Luke Kelly was inflicted upon them. To me he just cannot sing at all. A shouter and an awful singer and I listen to this and I want to smash his face in repeatedly with the fat end of a phone book. This submitter is just lucky that wake me up was submitted because in the order of hatred in this reveal its

Avicii >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Luke Kelly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> what came in 3rd last place :mad: .

Rikand

Honestly I do try to hold back but anyone who read my first reveal knows that sometimes I just cant

Sephiroth_dude

Rikand wrote: »

Honestly I do try to hold back but anyone who read my first reveal knows that sometimes I just cant

Ohhh dear




















:pac::pac:

Rikand

In 13th place scoring 3 points

Nippon Egao Hyakkei - Momoiro Clover Z | Joshiraku ED submitted by

Fixxxer

I do tend to like anime/asian kind of stuff and this guy knows it because one of his submissions was my favourite submission from the whole of my last walrus, but this was just ..... there was just way too much going on. And the video..... the same 20 second clip repeated over and over again it was just..... too much! Way way too much! I watched the video for the first listen but I only listened for the next 3 listens.... grating.... thats what it feels like.... grating nails on a chalkboard it was just way too much

Rikand

Okay, so while I still have one person reading the thread you'll be glad to know that we are over the stuff that I really didnt like and onto the stuff that I only vaguely disliked

Sephiroth_dude

Rikand wrote: »

I do tend to like anime

*high fives*

fixXxer

Well I showed up at the perfect time :pac:

Electric Nitwit

Rikand wrote: »

Okay, so while I still have one person reading the thread you'll be glad to know that we are over the stuff that I really didnt like and onto the stuff that I only vaguely disliked

Phew

Irish Aris

Rikand wrote: »

Okay, so while I still have one person reading the thread you'll be glad to know that we are over the stuff that I really didnt like and onto the stuff that I only vaguely disliked

Hahaha, good thing that there were 3 songs that you didn't like.
Wasn't sure how well this first selection of mine would go with you, so glad not to be at the bottom 3.

ari101

I feel Walrus is a commitment beyond my maturity, making yourself listen to stuff you hate in full and repeatedly for the sake of a fair contest... So go Rikand! (My new phone is trying to autocorrect your username... There might have been an O and an L :pac:)

Rikand

In 12th place, scoring 4 points

GIRLI - Friday Night Big Screen Submitted by

ASLB

I have used this phrase to describe songs that didnt quite resonate with me before and i think it fits here. "Potato and Lampshade". I think it's a little bit too Nouvelle Cuisine for me. I didnt really like her singing. I didnt really like the style of the song or the music. I did like the pop culture references throughout the lyrics which are cool but I didnt really like anything else. And I do like female vocalists and I think some people could really love this but it just isnt for me.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Rikand wrote: »

In 12th place, scoring 4 points

GIRLI - Friday Night Big Screen Submitted by

ASLB

I have used this phrase to describe songs that didnt quite resonate with me before and i think it fits here. "Potato and Lampshade". I think it's a little bit too Nouvelle Cuisine for me. I didnt really like her singing. I didnt really like the style of the song or the music. I did like the pop culture references throughout the lyrics which are cool but I didnt really like anything else. And I do like female vocalists and I think some people could really love this but it just isnt for me.

Well that doesn't bode well for me... I can't see a couple of other songs I put in for this Walrus doing much better... Can see myself fighting for the Wooden Spoon... :pac:

Rikand

In 11th Place scoring 5 points

James Chance - Contort Yourself :: Submitted by

Arghus

*Consults notes one more time to make sure he gets this right*

This was wierd.

Kinda like James Brown, Bobby Conn, Captain Beefhearts Magic Band and Luke Vibert had a love child that produced this song. At times I found joy. But at other times, I found myself wondering what the hell was I listening to. If you are currently experiencing a headache, I might suggest you wait until tomorrow morning to listen to this as it might be a bit much.

SineadSpears

oh Rikand isn't impresssed at all yet......

not sure if my humour will go down well so...




and I might even be a bit more worried if you did like my own song :pac:

Arghus

Rikand wrote: »

In 11th Place scoring 5 points

James Chance - Contort Yourself :: Submitted by

Arghus

*Consults notes one more time to make sure he gets this right*

This was wierd.

Kinda like James Brown, Bobby Conn, Captain Beefhearts Magic Band and Luke Vibert had a love child that produced this song. At times I found joy. But at other times, I found myself wondering what the hell was I listening to. If you are currently experiencing a headache, I might suggest you wait until tomorrow morning to listen to this as it might be a bit much.

It's the confusion it inspires that makes me love it. Also his blood curdling scream at 3:26. Mad shít. I love it.

Rikand

In 10th place scoring 6 points

Brooke Fraser - Something in the water :: Submitted by

Sawduck

I love the beat to this song. Real toe tapper, head bopper, but her voice grates on me to the point that I just couldnt enjoy it

SineadSpears

Rikand wrote: »

In 11th Place scoring 5 points

James Chance - Contort Yourself :: Submitted by

Arghus

This was wierd.
If you are currently experiencing a headache, I might suggest you wait until tomorrow morning to listen to this as it might be a bit much.

I think it's gas

Electric Nitwit

Arghus wrote: »

It's the confusion it inspires that makes me love it. Also his blood curdling scream at 3:26. Mad shít. I love it.

That's the sort of song I'd really struggle to rank myself. I kind of love it, and kind of hate it simultaneously. I respect music that can exist in both those places at once though

Irish Aris

Arghus wrote: »

It's the confusion it inspires that makes me love it. Also his blood curdling scream at 3:26. Mad shít. I love it.

Oh, I just checked his wiki page and read that he was part of the New York no wave scene of the late 70's and was also in a relationship with Lydia Lunch.
I will investigate further

Rikand

Note to self, keep better notes.

I left out a song so I need to do some ninja edits on those reveals..... Come back into the thread in 5 minutes and start from 12th place all over again


I was wondering why my placings were off, but I thought I just ****ed up.... it turns out i did **** up lol

Necro

Rikand wrote: »

Note to self, keep better notes.

I left out a song so I need to do some ninja edits on those reveals..... Come back into the thread in 5 minutes and start from 12th place all over again


I was wondering why my placings were off, but I thought I just ****ed up.... it turns out i did **** up lol

Oh god, it's mine and you found something you hate more than Avicii didn't you :eek:

SineadSpears

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

That's the sort of song I'd really struggle to rank myself. I kind of love it, and kind of hate it simultaneously. I respect music that can exist in both those places at once though

I feel like that with some songs too. I wouldn't listen to them on my own playlists but I think they are gas when I hear them.

like the time i think it was thepurpletin, who put a feckin weird Yugoslavian screaming song into ShaneU's valentines walrus