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Irish Aris's Walrus: The Reveal

Irish Aris

Hello everyone and welcome to my Walrus reveal.

We have 21 Gamers - in order of submission:
Necro
Shane U
Electric Nitwit
JP Liz V1
Also Starring LeVar Burton
s1ippy
beakerjoe
Gru
Sawduck
Homer J. Fong
Mustang Shelly
Kolido
RasTa
Green&Red
lassykk
JohnGreenFan
Osh
phatkev
Zaph
the purple tin
fixXxer

A reminder on the categories:

1. The Fantastic 80s: I was a teenager in the 80s and it was when I started listening to music, so many of my favourite artists and albums are from that era. So simple enough, I’m looking for any song released in that decade.

2. The Irish Aris Connection: I moved to Ireland on October 2011 and because of all the concerts I started listening to a lot of new music. So for that category I’m looking for songs that were released from October 2011 and later. Songs can be by any artist (not just Irish artists) and obviously album tracks are allowed.

3. It takes 2 to make it right: Here I’m looking for duets and collaborations. It could be a straight forward duet (i.e. Elton John and Kiki Dee) or a collaboration (i.e. David Guetta feat. Whatever vocalist is popular). You could also select collaborations with 3 or more people, instrumental collaborations (i.e. Eno and Fripp) or even a duet between 2 lead singers of the same band (Fleetwood Mac pun intended)

4. That’s Not My Name: Simple enough: A song with a name in the title. I will also allow songs with the word “name” in the title.

5. Body of Evidence: For this one I’m looking for songs that mention any part of the human body in their title. And similar to the previous categories with the names, I will also allow songs with the word “body” in the title.

6. The Lasting First Impression: I like listening to albums from start to finish and it is always nice when an album gets to a great start. So for this category I’m looking for songs that open their respective albums and you consider them great openers. The idea here is to make me want to listen to the whole album and expand my music library further!!

7. Preach to the unconverted. . .or the choir: This is like a wildcard category. Give me a song from one of your favourite artists, one that you think everyone should listen to. This could be your chance to prove me wrong on some of the genres that I mentioned as not being a big fan of, so anything goes!!!

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Irish Aris

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Haven't heard that song for a long, long time... and I haven't missed it

Cool, looking forward to this one. I usually try to pick either a song I love, one I think the host will really like, something that fits the category really well or just something interesting and fairly unknown. This round I think I've ticked all those boxes and I'm optimistic. I hate it when I'm optimistic, it usually ends badly

But no, tonight...

Edit: I presume someone picked David Bowie and Queen, that's the definitive answer here isn't it?

Electric Nitwit

Irish Aris wrote: »

And this is the only song that I really like the sound of the banjo:

Haven't heard that song for a long, long time... and I haven't missed it

Irish Aris wrote: »

Good afternoon everyone.
I will do another category tonight. Currently following the final Premier league games of the season, we will start at the usual 7 pm.

Cool, looking forward to this one. I usually try to pick either a song I love, one I think the host will really like, something that fits the category really well or just something interesting and fairly unknown. This round I think I've ticked all those boxes and I'm optimistic. I hate it when I'm optimistic, it usually ends badly

But no, tonight...

Edit: I presume someone picked David Bowie and Queen, that's the definitive answer here isn't it?

beakerjoe

Give it ..... oh I dunno 45 minutes plus added time and I shall be around.

Irish Aris

Good afternoon everyone.
I will do another category tonight. Currently following the final Premier league games of the season, we will start at the usual 7 pm.

Brian Eno is one person that has done many great collaborations throughout his career:

This is one that I have been listening to frequently the last couple of years:

And here's one that some people won't remember as it was never released as a single:

Irish Aris

RasTa wrote: »

Yeah I've watched loads of the Lomax stuff. Amazing.

Actually the OP is from Greece so he should be loving the Banjos and Baouzouki's etc!

not at all hahahahaha!!!! I am not a fan of bouzouki either and that type of follk music. I do like some of the traditional Greek music, but it's must to have percussion instruments to keep the rhythm. Similar with traditional Irish music, I need to hear the bodhran.

In relation to the banjo and folk/bluegrass music in general, the starting point last year was Rhiannin Giddens and the album he did with multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turisi. There is enough banjo but combined nicely with all the other instruments. This is my favourite song from that album:

And this is the only song that I really like the sound of the banjo:

RasTa

Yeah I've watched loads of the Lomax stuff. Amazing.

Actually the OP is from Greece so he should be loving the Banjos and Baouzouki's etc!

Zaph

Earl Scruggs is awesome. Steve Martin does a great version of that tune too.

The sound from the banjo Cedric Watson is playing sounds very much like the instruments used on some of the old Alan Lomax recordings of American folk and blues music from the 30s and 40s. A lot of the people he recorded were dirt poor, so presumably they used homemade banjos using gourds, rather than the typical instruments we're used to seeing. Lomax was a really interesting guy who collected music from all over the world, including Ireland, and among the more unusual things he recorded in the States were prison chain gangs singing work songs. Well worth checking out for anyone who's interested in old blues and gospel music.

the purple tin

RasTa wrote: »

Like a cowbell, we need more banjo. I regret not picking this for round 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0oKHGThnz0

Or maybe this little beauty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJOIqmlI65Y

Being at that gig would be Irish Aris's personal version of the ninth circle of hell

the purple tin

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

You mean you've got soul but you're not a soldier?

You have me pegged Nitty, no fighter am I

I was thinking about that Villagers video, and your man might have been right not to collect the money, suddenly all those arses at work that treat him like dirt would be pretending to be his friend, asking for a loan, inviting him out for drinks and make him pay for every round etc.
Gold-diggers would be all over him too trying to marry him and live large off his dough while having toyboys on the side, then divorce him and take half the money. People sending begging letters to the house and so on. A meek guy like him would not be able to say no to any of that.

The only thing would be to maybe claim it but keep quiet about it, or else give it all to charity, I would hate to think of all that lolly just going back to the greedy Lotto bosses.

RasTa

Like a cowbell, we need more banjo. I regret not picking this for round 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0oKHGThnz0

Green&Red

Great round IA, really like a good few of those. That Regrettes song is excellent, my pick of the round

beakerjoe

Song many songs on this round I hadnt heard, so this playlist will go down well.

beakerjoe

Irish Aris wrote: »

And in 1st place, submitted by
beakerjoe
, The Killers-The Man

I am a big fan of The Killers and Brandon Flowers as a performer. This was the first release right after Brandon’s excellent, 80s influenced solo album The Desired Effect and I think it as a continuation of that sound. A brilliant upbeat song that’s probably written for the stage, and the live interpretation is even better than the studio effort.

Like most songs its ckose to my heart. It came out as ai was training for the Marathon back in 2018 and it was a god send.

Im a wrestling fan and so is Mr Flowers, so I immediately thought it was a nod to Ric Flair, the self proclaimed Man of wrestling. So you can imagine my surprise to find out its a song about Brandons ego and vanity in his early fame.

Either way I love it and was expecting Becky Lynch to use it as Wrestlemaina entrance in the future.

The song is catchy, toe tapping and easy to sing a long to, and its a great opener to their last gig I saw. Brandon is a great showman/front man and this song amplifies that live.

Thanks Iris, glad you agree. Very humbled.

beakerjoe

the purple tin wrote: »

Me :D

Youre so wrong

Green&Red

Irish Aris wrote: »

In 6th place, submitted by
Sawduck
, Of Monsters And Men-Crystals

Though I didn’t know this song, I feel that I have heard it recently, it sounds familiar. This was the biggest climber on this list. Initially it was nowhere near top-10 but with every listen I liked it more and more. I was always under the impression that Of Monsters and Men are too folky for my liking, but this song is anything but folky. Plus I love Iceland and always on the lookout for artists from there.

Liked this song

Zaph

Irish Aris wrote: »

I always thought it meant dancer as a species

It's taken from a Hunter S. Thompson quote about America raising a generation of dancers, or something like that. Basically Thompson was questioning whether younger generations were softer than the ones before them. Still an unbelievably sh*te lyric though. An s at the end wouldn't miraculously transform it into a good lyric, but at least it would be grammatically correct.

s1ippy

These tracks are going to go down extremely well on the living room dancefloor tonight.

Irish Aris

quickbeam wrote: »

Is there a worst lyric ever written than:

Like, it doesn't even make grammatical sense.

I always thought it meant dancer as a species

Electric Nitwit

quickbeam wrote: »

Is there a worst lyric ever written than:

Like, it doesn't even make grammatical sense.

Ha ha, I agree - and can't stand that song as a result. Their lyrics have always been pretty terrible though, their second single was "somebody told me that you had a boyfriend that looked like a girlfriend that I had in February of last year". I mean, what? Still love it though

The one that really kills me is Spaceman, because it's a brilliant tune until it breaks into
"My global position systems are vocally addressed
They say the Nile used to run from East to West
They say the Nile used to run
From East to West"

quickbeam

Is there a worst lyric ever written than:

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?

Like, it doesn't even make grammatical sense.

Electric Nitwit

the purple tin wrote: »

Me :D

You mean you've got soul but you're not a soldier?

the purple tin

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

I love The Killers, who doesn't love them, right?

Electric Nitwit

Irish Aris wrote: »

And in 1st place, submitted by
beakerjoe
, The Killers-The Man

I am a big fan of The Killers and Brandon Flowers as a performer. This was the first release right after Brandon’s excellent, 80s influenced solo album The Desired Effect and I think it as a continuation of that sound. A brilliant upbeat song that’s probably written for the stage, and the live interpretation is even better than the studio effort.

I love The Killers, who doesn't love them, right?
I can never get this song though, because every time I hear it I think of this one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvcPC5M3Bkc

Space wrote:

Who's the man with the plan?
Who's the man? I am
Who's the man with the plan?
Who's the man? I am

The Killers wrote:

Who's the man with the plan?
I'm the man
Who's the man? Who's the man?
I'm the man, I'm the man
Who's the man with the plan?
I'm the man

RasTa

Hehe, I did pick a few songs from categories you mentioned you didn't like.

This might get ugly

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Lisa O'Neill's an interesting choice, probably someone I admire moreso than actually enjoy listening to. She's clearly talented but best taken in small doses I think.

Irish Aris

Deleted User wrote: »

12th out of 21 isn't so bad.

But this.....

....cannot go unchallenged.

You should've listened to it at least 5 more times before the Reveal then. :cool:

Haha, ok, you are right, poor choice of words.
It's just that this mid-tempo thing is always puts me on pause: not fast enough to tap my foot, not slow enough to make it a proper ballad.

Irish Aris

And here's the YouTube playlist. The Mkai song is from a live version - for some reason the save option was deactivated on the official video and I couldn't add it to the list

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUaRXycpvvkHY1W-FJuMbcLUvC0uPMcz-

Next category will be the duet/collaborations.
I'm targeting Sunday for now. There is a small chance that I might not be available on Sunday in which case we will move the reveal on Monday.

Irish Aris

beakerjoe takes the top spot, but things are really tight at the table with many gamers forming groups one point apart from each other.
RasTa unfortunately occupies the last spot, I wonder if our music tastes are really that far apart, but with 5 more rounds to go there is still plenty of time to go up.

Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Round 7 Total Points
beakerjoe 15 21 36
s1ippy 16 19 35
Also Starring LeVar Burton 14 20 34
Necro 21 12 33
Homer J. Fong 20 10 30
JP Liz V1 12 17 29
Zaph 19 9 28
phatkev 18 6 24
Sawduck 7 16 23
Gru 17 5 22
Shane U 11 11 22
fixXxer 4 18 22
Green&Red 13 7 20
Kolido 5 15 20
Osh 9 8 17
JohnGreenFan 2 13 15
lassykk 1 14 15
the purple tin 10 2 12
Electric Nitwit 8 3 11
Mustang Shelly 6 4 10
RasTa 3 1 4

Irish Aris

And in 1st place, submitted by

beakerjoe

, The Killers-The Man

I am a big fan of The Killers and Brandon Flowers as a performer. This was the first release right after Brandon’s excellent, 80s influenced solo album The Desired Effect and I think it as a continuation of that sound. A brilliant upbeat song that’s probably written for the stage, and the live interpretation is even better than the studio effort.

Irish Aris

In 21st place, submitted by

RasTa

, Lisa O’Neill-Rock The Machine

This never had a chance. I mentioned in my “opening statement” that my tolerance to banjo is quite limited and this is a song dominated by the banjo. On top of that I don’t like Lisa O’Neill’s voice, I find it a bit. . . nasal (for lack of a better word). The lyrics were somewhat interesting but not enough to take the song off the last spot