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Rikand's Walrus Reveal!
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2nd Place :: Los Campesinos - You! Me! Dancing!
like, for the first minute i was wondering what is this idle strumming all about, when will it build to something and then 1:40 smashes you in the face like a bucket of water, drenching you, this is summer at a barbecue with a beer in the hand and crowd of your best mates around you just loving life! I'm not a big fan of the lead singers vocal but I just love the melodies of the music. A wonderfully whimsical composition. I feel like this is off a TV ad, isnt it ?
2nd Place - 14 points toelectric nitwit0 -
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Congratulations osh who steals it at the death!
Scores After Round 6
Name|Round1|Round2|Round3|Round4|Round5|Round6|Gap|Total
Necro|1|2|9|13|13|9||47|
Green&Red|6|10|10.5|6|14|5||51.5|
Strawberry Milkshake|7|7|2|2|6|6||30|
Pretzill|2|6|15|4|4|12||43|
partyjungle|15|4|14|12|3|8||56|
Electric Nitwit|3|14|8|5|9|14||53|
Mollyb60|14|12|4|14|9|4||57|
osh|4|13|13|7|11|15||63|
MicksJaguar|11|8|7|10|12|1||49|
Ectoplasm|8|11|10.5|11|5|11||56.5|
Barney92|13|15|2|3|7|10||50|
Builebeag|9|9|6|9|1|7||41|
tritium|5|5|2|8|2|13||35|
Stu Redman|12|1|5|15|9|3||45|
fixxxer|10|3|12|1|15|2||43|
But the real winner here is me who has found lots of great new music to listen to and lots of songs that will be getting added into permanent rotation on my playlist.
Thank you to everyone who submitted songs for my walrus. This was just so much fun to run through them all, give my thoughts and having all you guys along with me for the ride each day was even more fun!
I cant wait to try everyone elses walruses now
Thanks again everyone for entering my Walrus 0 -
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Thanks Rikand - great reveal and most enjoyable game. Congrats Osh. Comiseration Strawbs on the wooden drumstick.
Had I known Rikand, you were a JT fan you probably would have got his version of Everyday (you nearly did) for covers, fire& rain for pre 2010, Frozen Man for intro...etc. 0 -
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Jaysus nice surprise folks
I’m away in Lisbon so haven’t been able to follow the reveal as I normally would.
One of my favourite songs so glad you like it Rikand!
Great game and well done to all. Looking forward to looking back again over these entries when I get a chance.0 -
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Thanks Rikand - great reveal and most enjoyable game. Congrats Osh. Comiseration Strawbs on the wooden drumstick.
Had I known Rikand, you were a JT fan you probably would have got his version of Everyday (you nearly did) for covers, fire& rain for pre 2010, Frozen Man for intro...etc.
Copperline is one of my party pieces on the guitar. Actually submitting Copperline for all categories would have won. Even the 2019 category :P
its why I didnt list bands or singers in particular. I didnt want to really get a whole pile of songs I definitely knew. I wanted new stuff
I've been to see JT twice in concert and hes just amazing!0 -
Copperline is one of my party pieces on the guitar. Actually submitting Copperline for all categories would have won. Even the 2019 category :P
its why I didnt list bands or singers in particular. I didnt want to really get a whole pile of songs I definitely knew. I wanted new stuff
I've been to see JT twice in concert and hes just amazing!
Love Copperline. Often play his One Man Band concert, such an entertaining, intimate gig.
Well hopefully you'll have a look through Michael Franks back catalogue - he is a lot different to JT has summer in lots of his songs but he's so clever as a lyricist too. He's throwback jazz mixed with solid melody. Google 18 April's or When the cookie jar is empty or Mister Blue, for starters. 0 -
It's actually my favourite song of all time. And it gets beaten by Shakira???!!! Rikand's lucky I'm not still an admin as he'd be getting a smack of the banhammer if I was. :pac:
Is homage another word for b*st*rdisation?
Ah Zaph I thought we were table quiz friends:):). What's wrong with a bit of Shakira? :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: 0 -
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Ha! I'm looking forward to seeing PJ's categories when he gets time too he's next on the list Moderator: Current Affairs/IMHO, Soccer, Pro Wrestling
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Sorry I missed this (didn't even know it was a thing tbh!)
I'd have thrown in
for a cover entry (could also have picked 6 or 7 from your list)
For Intros I might have gone with:
Foreign Language
Just because its so bad its good...maybe
For summer you cant go too far wrong with
and arguably its a good intro too!
Pre 2010 (just a little bit)
Pearl Jam would have finished in midtable obscurity because I know that particular cover well and I dont like it as much as the one submitted
Intro would not have done well at all lol
Nor would Dilly Dally
Dakota would have done well on Summer and Intros lol
Creedance sure put some unbelievable collection of amazing songs. Fortunate Son is my favourite, but any Creedance song would have done pretty well 0 -
Pearl Jam would have finished in midtable obscurity because I know that particular cover well and I dont like it as much as the one submitted
Intro would not have done well at all lol
Nor would Dilly Dally
Dakota would have done well on Summer and Intros lol
Creedance sure put some unbelievable collection of amazing songs. Fortunate Son is my favourite, but any Creedance song would have done pretty well
doh! I mean, woo-hoo! 0 -
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The more i think about it and listen to their stuff, I do like Oasis. I just despise Liam Gallagher
(Yes, i am still going back through everything submitted and checking our more stuff from all bands. A slow but worthwhile process ) 0 -
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I listen to a lot of these songs still. I was planning to do a top 10 redux of all entries received before I run my next walrus. However with that Ben Folds announcement, I think I'm going to do it at some point this week now with the news that the song will soon be gone forever.
(so yes, that means it still would have been in my top 10 ) 0 -
Its almost redux time!
I won't get started with the redux until after Sawducks movie reveal which is awesome by the way!
I'm finding it hard to rank songs that I knew very well before the reveal and songs that were completely new to me, so I've decided to break it into two different categories. Top 2 songs of songs that I knew well before hand [This was top 4, but I just butchered 2 out of there because I didnt listen to them that much in hindsight] and continue to listen to to this day and top 8 songs of songs that I scarcely knew before but now adore and listen to regularly!
I'll do the top 2 known to me songs first and then the top 8 unknown to me songs because lets face it, at the end of the day this game of walrus was all about introducing me to new music and new music is what I was looking for. New music is also what tended to score better than well known songs apart from the rare exceptions. And of all the songs given I've been listening to the new songs more than the old songs.
Anyways, his reveal is nearly over. We'll get started at around half 9 0 -
Oh also, my walrus signup wont go up until tomorrow. I'm still debating whether to include one particular category or not as I'm worried it could scare people away with the potential trickiness of it, but we'll see after I have another sleep on it 0
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Oh also, my walrus signup wont go up until tomorrow. I'm still debating whether to include one particular category or not as I'm worried it could scare people away with the potential trickiness of it, but we'll see after I have another sleep on it
This sounds really intriguing, you must include it now. My walrus is finished now, so you can start yours anytime you want, cheers 0 -
Okay, so we're going to get the show on the road with the 2 songs that I love and have listened to a lot since the reveal.... but i also knew them both really well before the reveal and listened to one of them a ton before and since... the other one I'm just listening to since 0
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2nd Place :: Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill - originally submitted by Stu Redman
What I said the last time about it1st Place :: Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
Like you said in your description one of the greatest songs of all time ever written! It really is! Absolutely one of my favourite songs of all time. I could listen to it forever. If you really wanted to sell the product (not that you needed to cause you came first), then you could have submitted this :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u83LRNIK5bE - One of the most fantastic live performances for a song ever. The rotating outer stage is just brilliant! Peter on the bike and everyone skipping along in the opposite direction. It really is a magical song
1st Place - 15 points toDeleted User
p.s. I'm often reminded of this when thinking of this song too - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZexYRkIRhVs
Everything that I said about the song still holds true for me. it's still one of those songs that I constantly go back to, though I do watch the live version with the rotating stage more.... its just one of those timeless classics for me It came first in its category which was the pre 2010's category and it would still have come first today
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1st Place :: Gigi D'Agostino - L'Amour Toujours - Originally submitted by Necro
What I said last time7th Place :: Gigi D'Agostino - L'Amour Toujours
ROFL, Chooooooooon!. Great song that always seems to come on right when you've knocked back your third yaegar bomb. Summery? Yes it is. And it will make you think of summer all year around. The broken down verse bits are the real summery feeling in this for me. Gigi really knows how to fill a floor! I'm hot and sweaty just thinking about this one
7th Place - 9 points toNecro
I had kinda forgotten about this when it was sent into me. I'll never forget it again. I've listened to it so much and in the times we're in now, with endless lockdowns, you just need something to remind you of the good times we once had. Of those summery feelings.
This was from the summer category and if i was running this category again, where would this place ? Number 1. In fact, this category is a regret of mine. I actually rushed the reveal and a lot of tracks that placed well at the time wouldnt place where they placed. Madonna wouldnt have been within an asses roar of top 3. I had major regret about that one 2 days later as it got super annoying to me. It would have been this number 1, Los campesinos 2, California soul 3, Sexy Boy 4 - Just raging I rushed the category the first time around.
(how long before Necro sees he came first in a category and loses his ****......
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Now the important songs - the ones i hadnt heard of before or if i had heard them, I wouldnt have known from where
8th Place - Los Campesinos - You! Me! Dancing! - Originally submitted by Electric Nitwit2nd Place :: Los Campesinos - You! Me! Dancing!
like, for the first minute i was wondering what is this idle strumming all about, when will it build to something and then 1:40 smashes you in the face like a bucket of water, drenching you, this is summer at a barbecue with a beer in the hand and crowd of your best mates around you just loving life! I'm not a big fan of the lead singers vocal but I just love the melodies of the music. A wonderfully whimsical composition. I feel like this is off a TV ad, isnt it ?
2nd Place - 14 points toelectric nitwit
I still love the build up. I still love the energy. I still find the singers voice grating but the chorus is great and the energy is great and I kinda block out the verses when I listen to it but I still listen to it and I listen to it more than anything else that's behind it but not the songs that are ahead of it. Intro is just so good!
As mentioned in the Gigi D'Agostino song reveal, it would still come second in the summer songs category... but you know, thats still pretty good
And oh yeah - it was a budweiser commercial!
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Whoo-hoo, glad you still enjoy it.
Just stuck it on here. Haven't listened to it for ages, it is a belter! It's helping my mood a bit after the bloody football
The long intro is definitely better when you know what's coming 0 -
7th Place :: Stereolab - Cybele's Reverie - Originally Submitted by osh5th Place :: Stereolab - Cybele's Reverie
This just went up and up the list. At first listen, I was like "nope! Nope, nope, nope, bope!" And then it just kept going up. And up. And up. If i had another week to listen to it...... 5th is actually probably still as high as it would go because the top 4 are just that bit ahead for me. But its a lovely lovely tune!
5th Place :: 11 points toosh
This is still just a gorgeous little song that I listen to regularly. I never really got into other Stereolab stuff, but this one really hit the spot
It finished 5th the first time around and it probably still would. Cat 5, the foreign language Cat was a tough tough category and 2 of the songs that finished ahead of it, I cut 2 hours ago from the songs I had heard before (blur and O-zone). Still a lovely song that I love to listen to 0 -
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