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NAS Walrus Reveal Thread
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6th Place - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Into My Arms
Necro: This one actually grew on me after a bad start. My first listen had it down the bottom, I found it a bit boring and pointless. But after three or four listens it’s improving each time. It’s got a nice message, Cave’s voice is decent if a bit meh. - and I mean that in the nicest possible way, cos my own singing tone(not voice, I'm not that arrogant lol) is of a similar style. But I don’t hate it, and that’s a good thing, I think?
Stu Redman: Look, although I don't sh1t in peoples eyes/ears by constantly posting or talking about it, I'm pretty much firmly somewhere on the atheist-agnostic scale as an adult. Even angry when I think about religion too much and the recent history of the Catholic Church in our country (only for a good family who stood their ground, the nuns would have had me off to foster parents in the early 80s because my mother was young and unmarried when she had me.)
All that said, 'God', this great, all-seeing and powerful being and the lore have served as inspiration and a pallet of themes for some of the most wonderful music composed over the centuries. There's the old, epic and technical, like Handel's Messiah, then there's the intimacy of Nick Cave at a piano using the Lord to get his love across for a human. This is beautiful. A composition like this, it would be easy just to throw in a hifalutin string quartet in for the sake of it, maybe in the final verse. That would be to go with the textbook. Nope, not needed to get that longing and emotion across in this song. It's just Nick's voice, a piano and a bass guitar from beginning to end. The tone of his voice is just silk to me here.
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Necro: 11th
Stu: 2nd
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Another big difference in second place choices, this time my side:cool: Soz Homer!
I could have easily picked this song if I thought about it more. Love it0 -
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Yay! Cheers lads! I've been listening to that song since I was a teenager and I just never get tired of it. I was thinking it wouldn't do well because it really is towards the end that grabs you! I especially appreciate ye taking the time to listen to that one
This is actually the YouTube version I prefer and there's another ballad version..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PEFu7odFviU
I remember reading somewhere it was meant to be on the original Rumours album but was excluded from it over tensions within the band and added as a bside to Go Your Own Way which Lyndsey wrote about her! I think Stevie Nicks had assigned the rights of the song to her mother as a gift, something like that. Anyway that song caused a major rifts in the band for years!
Could be that alright, but they said they had to cut it because there was no room left for another song on the vinyl for Rumours.
I definitely prefer that live version from The Dance over the original, but either way "Silver Springs is a great ol' song".0 -
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Final Combined Scoring Table: (if someone wants to make this all interactive and sh1t fire ahead )
Name Ballad of Chasey Lain Irish Songs A Song For Europe Forever Young Lord/Lady of The Dance Best Song In The World Total
Tammy! 17 16 4 16 2 16 71
Kolido 16 13 17 17 14 14 91
fixxxer 15 2 15 6 4 15 57
Barney92 14 3 14 14 1 1 47
Banjo 13 11 7 15 15 9 69
sullivlo 12 4 14 9 5 10 54
Electric Nitwit 11 17 9 3 11 5 56
Mollyb60 10 6 12 5 8 7 48
partyjungle 9 13 15 4 16 4 62
osh 8 8 6 7 13 6 48
Pretzill 7 9 10 8 10 13 57
Green&Red 6 15 13 2 3 11 50
kitten_k 5 5 14 12 17 8 61
Homer J. Fong 4 12 8 13 5 12 54
Rikand 3 10 5 7 12 2 39
MicksJaguar 2 7 16 10 9 17 61
Sheridan81 1 14 11 11 7 3 470 -
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And finally, our ranked scoring table:
Name Score
Kolido 91
Tammy! 71
Banjo 69
partyjungle 62
kitten_k 61
MicksJaguar 61
Pretzill 57
fixxxer 57
Electric Nitwit 56
sullivlo 54
Homer J. Fong 54
Green&Red 50
osh 48
Mollyb60 48
Sheridan81 47
Barney92 47
Rikand 39
Congrats to the winner Kolido with a massive 91 points!!
2nd Place goes to Tammy! in the end, 71 points in her first Walrus is a fantastic effort
And in 3rd we have Banjo - again a first time entrant!
Rikand gets the wooden spoon but has our love
Thanks for all the entries folks, it's been a wild ride. One I'm not sure I'll be repeating any time soon, but an enjoyable one nonetheless.
Thanks a bunch to my co-judge Stu Redman for enduring endless WhatsApps and PMs for the contest.
And that's it folks, that's a wrap from me!0 -
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Electric Nitwit wrote: »Well done Kolido, monster score!
And well done to Mrs Redman in second
Thanks Electric
Well done Kolido. Good game 0 -
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Fourth Place: Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Stu Redman: Never heard this before but I'm instantly liking it
Ah it's BR, undoubtedly this round's cheat code. I haven't put the headphones on and listened to it in a while, so did that for this round just like with all the other entries. It really is a masterpiece and sonically as perfect as you can get. This was on my Leaving Cert music course alongside Tchaikovsky as far back as the late 90s and early 00s and with good cause as a piece of music to study. It's not my favorite Queen song let alone favorite song in the world, but probably one of those songs you could get most people in a sample size to agree that it could be submitted to the Intergalactic Federation of Planets as an example of some of humanity's finest music
Ha so either you sat your leaving in 2001 or was it 3 years after that the pieces cycled round? I had these pieces too. I fell in love with Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet that year. I've gone to see it be performed any time I see it's on since then. Maybe I should've submitted that instead of Elbow.
The John Barry one still haunts me. If there was a Walrus for worst music ever I'd submit that song.0 -
Wooo hoooo my 1st 1st in a walrus category, sorry I'd to miss it had to drive to Galway and back this evening.
I really do love that song and lots of his other works too, I cant wax lyrical about stuff like stu but what he said
Cheers for the great game guys was lots of fun and took me down a mini Eurovision rabbit hole.
And well done Kolido.0 -
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Pendantic: It's a whammy effect, not a wah Necro, tut And I'll leave this here for you Stu my good friend.
Tut, indeed :pac:0 -
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Deleted User wrote: »17th: Je Vole - Louane
No song is ever last - Barney this song is like the daughter's response to this, except many, many years later. This is what I was talking about earlier and a song that imo could have also fitted in as one of the best in the world...
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Good show all round folks, really enjoyed that. Thanks for all your entries, I definitely have some new avenues for listening and that was mostly the point of all this for me. Also, me being a Werewolf-only head up until this, it was great to interact with members of FG who I don't see in WW. Even my fellow Werewolfians, nice to interact here with you in a less pressure environment.
Thanks to Necro for being a great co-runner, as per usual. We'll be back in 2020 with a few more StuCro joints for you to toke on (StuCro is not settled upon, plus we have to fit 'quickbeam' into the mix as well :pac:)
Well done to Kolido on a pretty decisive win, there's no arguing with that really. Top stuff.Electric Nitwit wrote: »Well done Kolido, monster score!
And well done to Mrs Redman in second
Unfortunately, and I think Tammy might agree with me here, our final song of agreement being a Stevie Nicks/Lyndsey Buckingham composition is the universe's way of telling us "Don't pursue this, there is nothing there but misery"Ha so either you sat your leaving in 2001 or was it 3 years after that the pieces cycled round? I had these pieces too. I fell in love with Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet that year. I've gone to see it be performed any time I see it's on since then. Maybe I should've submitted that instead of Elbow.
The John Barry one still haunts me. If there was a Walrus for worst music ever I'd submit that song.
Yep, 2001, alllll those years ago. There were 4 pieces weren't there? Queen, Romeo and Juliet, that Barry atrocity and something else? Romeo and Juliet is class, really enjoyed doing that and Bohemian Rhapsody for the LC. We even went to the NCH to see a performance of Romeo and Juliet.
Just out of interest, I've gone and listened to that Barry piece for the first time in 18 years to see if I feel any differently about it now...
Oh god, time has done nothing for it. It still sounds like an orchestra tuning or warming up. There's your musical **** right there Mol!Sheridan81 wrote: »Poor Rikand.
Yeah, good ol' Rikand the Bringer of Walrus, but I'm sorry - 'This is a Low' is funny now in retrospect. :pac:0 -
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The Ballad of Chasey Lain
Favourite Irish Songs
A Song for Europe
Forever Young
Lord/Lady Of The Dance
Best Song In The World
A friendly mod might add these into the OP now we're all done here. Looking forward to Molly and ALC's Walrus coming up soon 0 -
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Deleted User wrote: »Good show all round folks, really enjoyed that. Thanks for all your entries, I definitely have some new avenues for listening and that was mostly the point of all this for me. Also, me being a Werewolf-only head up until this, it was great to interact with members of FG who I don't see in WW. Even my fellow Werewolfians, nice to interact here with you in a less pressure environment.
Thanks to Necro for being a great co-runner, as per usual. We'll be back in 2020 with a few more StuCro joints for you to toke on (StuCro is not settled upon, plus we have to fit 'quickbeam' into the mix as well :pac:)
Well done to Kolido on a pretty decisive win, there's no arguing with that really. Top stuff.
Unfortunately, and I think Tammy might agree with me here, our final song of agreement being a Stevie Nicks/Lyndsey Buckingham composition is the universe's way of telling us "Don't pursue this, there is nothing there but misery"
Yep, 2001, alllll those years ago. There were 4 pieces weren't there? Queen, Romeo and Juliet, that Barry atrocity and something else? Romeo and Juliet is class, really enjoyed doing that and Bohemian Rhapsody for the LC. We even went to the NCH to see a performance of Romeo and Juliet.
Just out of interest, I've gone and listened to that Barry piece for the first time in 18 years to see if I feel any differently about it now...
Oh god, time has done nothing for it. It still sounds like an orchestra tuning or warming up. There's your musical **** right there Mol!
Yeah, good ol' Rikand the Bringer of Walrus, but I'm sorry - 'This is a Low' is funny now in retrospect. :pac:This may actually be the beginning of me calling things musical ****. I despised that song. It was just cats wailing and fingernails on a chalkboard all at once.
Don't actually remember the 4th piece either now that you mention it. There was definitely 4 anyway.... Just went and looked it up. It was Bach's Jesu, der du meine Seele. I quite liked that piece too actually. But it obviously wasn't memorable.
I remember I took a notion for the performance piece and played 'Can you feel the love tonight' by Elton John on the piano. My music teacher spent many an evening pulling her hair out over that choice. Lol. I think I performed Scott Joplin's 'The Entertainer' too. And I've a feeling there was a third piece but I can't remember that either.
Thank god for LC music. It got me out of many a PE class at school. :cool:
How could you forget my boy Johann Sebastian Bach
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