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Walrus Returns... Again!

  • 22-11-2024 5:50pm
    #1
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    Hello all.

    In light of my stellar showing of finishing dead last in the previous Walrus and in the absence of obvious objections, I propose to get on with the important business - in fact, the most important business round here - of hosting the next iteration of this beloved and august institution.

    I had initially planned to hold a Walrus back in the day, before Vanilla intervened, plundered our innocence and destroyed all of our lives, and all those PMs and links to songs that had initially promised so much, went away into the black migration nothingness, tears in the rain style.

    So, I think I'll start from the beginning all over again and pick (largely)new categories and take it all from there.

    I propose five categories. I think that's doable: it prevents it being too much work for everyone and it's substantial enough to leave an impression - because what we do in Walrus, echoes in eternity.

    In terms of my musical taste? Like everyone else on Planet Earth, I think I'm pretty open minded. I have listened to a lot of way out wacky stuff over the years - but I can also appreciate a well put together pop song when I hear one too. I don't mind being exposed to new things, love it, in fact.

    Anything someone gives me to listen to, I'll try to be fair to it above all else and really dig in and get to know it. Anyway, it isn't really about my musical taste - it's about your musical tastes (and my judgment of them).

    So, without further faffing about: And with a few examples along the way to help too.

    Category One - A Song That Takes You Back To A Time In Your Life.

    This is pretty self explanatory: a tune you can't hear without being brought right back in your mind to a particular time and place. You don't particularly have to love the song, but, mainly, that it evokes, inescapably, that feeling of reminiscence so strongly: step inside the eye of your mind. For instance, this is a tune I can't hear without being transported back to Christmas time 2005:

    Category Two - I Love This Bit.

    Send me a song that has a part in it that you absolutely love. Now, that can be anything: it can be a vocal performance, or an individual line, a blistering solo, an insane beat... you name it. It can be anything, big or small: like an individual  lyric or even a single note. For instance - and you don't have to be as exactly precise as this if you don't want to be - but I love that individual squealing harmonic note in the guitar solo in this tune at exactly the 8:15 mark. It just sounds so sharp and tasty each time I hear it - love it!!!

    P.S. - An extra bonus point if you explain exactly why you love what you do in the song.

    Category Three - Scorn Not His Sincerity.

    I love sincerity in music. I can overlook a lot that isn't perfect in a song if I feel, Jesus, this is coming from the heart. Send me a song that's still real to you dammit.

    As a reference: you can love or hate John Lennon, but I think he was being absolutely honest here and, after all the anger he gets out for the first three minute of this - unloading on the sacred cows of The Sixties, and then everything and finally The Beatles themselves (listen to that declamatory silence after he says it) - the resulting grace and acceptance of the final minute or so of the song is downright beautiful and I can't hear the "I was the dreamweaver…" part without feeling like I want to burst out crying every listen.

    Category Four - It's Cold Outside - And Inside Too.

    I'm looking for songs here that either are inescapably, quintessentially, Winter Songs - or are sparse, emotionally cold or generally desolate in some fashion: like a cold dark day in November. No reference here as I want to see how wide the gamut gets.

    Category Five - I Wasn't Expecting That.

    I like tunes that take unexpected turns. You think you've got them sussed and then they change or mutate in front of your, uh… ears?

    This was a category in my previous Walrus-that-never-was and I recall it caused some confusion. Here's a reference track that I hope illustrates at what I'm driving at. This one goes from being initially a mournful lounge singer job, before the instrumental suddenly, out of nowhere becomes an ass kicking swashbuckler. I'm looking for tunes that take detours. Let's go for a ride.

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