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Necro Presents - Album Walrus REVEAL THREAD

Necro

Almost time for the first ever Album Walrus Reveal folks

Firstly, let's say hello to the 14 brave souls entering the arena for the very first time

Trigger
Also Starring LeVar Burton
Irish Aris
the purple tin
Sawduck
JP Liz V1
Kolido
ShaneU
Electric Nitwit
cee_jay
RasTa
mustang shelly
Zaph
Rikand

Ok a little info.

Why am I doing this?

Mainly because I like to challenge myself. It's one thing to get a single song from a group of players and rank them according to taste, it gives a small window into the tastes of the player. But an album... it gives a better insight.

Maybe the song you gave me in previous games just wasn't to my taste - but with the full album you get to display some of your favourite artists range.

Also, it's fun stepping out of my comfort zone and into someone else's for the purposes of music.

What type of music am I into?

Genuinely, almost everything. For me genre is not really an issue, I have songs on my favourite list from country to rap, from heavy metal to pop - and so on.

The most common thing I've found through my favourite songs: A kick-ass beat or riff - and/or an amazing voice. I do find myself drawn to songs that are sung by amazing vocalists - I find it the most powerful instrument in music.

Favorite albums?

Let me see - in no particular order:

Definitely Maybe & The Masterplan - Oasis
The Eminem Show & Recovery - Eminem
Speak Now - Taylor Swift
Nevermind - Nirvana
Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Baby One More Time - Britney Spears
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
The Holy Bible & Everything Must Go - Manic Street Preachers
Red River Blue - Blake Shelton

Among many others.

First round reveal is going to kick off at 8pm tonight. Because I'm impulsive like that

See you all then!

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Necro

Oasis – (What’s The Story) Morning Glory ? – Submitted by Trigger

https://open.spotify.com/album/6tOe4eAF8xNhEkl9WyvsE4?si=gr75Xf5KTlqO1ry8Gv8Vqw

Highpoints – Champagne Supernova, What’s The Story (Morning Glory)

This is an album I grew up listening to and loving so it’s very hard to be objective here. It’s a real romper stomper of an album, whilst still only being my third favourite Oasis album – after The Masterplan and Definitely Maybe.

I don’t think Oasis in general have aged that well if I do have to be a little negative – Liam Gallagher being an absolute twat certainly hasn’t helped things. However there’s no real denying this is a class album and I’d be lying if I didn’t say it would take something incredible to shift it from the top spot.

Electric Nitwit

I'll take that

Necro

65daysofstatic – Escape From New York – Submitted by Electric Nitwit

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https://open.spotify.com/album/7vQoqSGmZBKUsjvpe5bDip?si=cYKpBf3bSjizkzFRpx-yPQ

Highpoints – No Use Crying Over (Some Techno), Primer

This was a real risk to send me, I am a big fan of lyrics in songs as they help me connect better with the music. Mind you there are exceptions. This was good in parts, and I really struggled with other portions of the album. The high points were good though, I was jamming along with a good few tracks in this.

Necro

The Silent Force – Within Temptation – Submitted by mustang shelly

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https://open.spotify.com/album/7Mqb9JDLwwr4kLuNXFnuJZ?si=nvfq2dq4Q22R0ao7VuZ78A

Highpoints – Intro, See Who I Am (particularly the start), Stand My Ground

I really liked this album from start to finish. There is a real Epic feel to the music, again it stands out as unique which is good, in fact a lot of albums do in this round, very varied choices. Very hard to pick out a bad song at all, all up tempo and listening was great. I did find the whole epic feel of every song ran into the problem of making most songs sound very similar. Stand My Ground was the standout track for me, just a brilliant vocal to accompany the awesome music. The starting Intro along with See Who I Am just set the tone for the album which overall was very very good.

Necro

Duran Duran – Notorious – Submitted by Irish Aris

https://open.spotify.com/album/3xXwaj6hVwx0pnLtMCHZdC?si=wNBDk7-ST72vugHq_fYo2A

Highpoints – Notorious, Hold Me

Starts really well with a song I didn’t realise was actually by Duran Duran. Shame on me, I know. I’m not enamoured with some of the other early tracks mind. Hold Me picks my mood up again though and I’m enjoying that track a lot. There’s a lot of mixes of the same songs on the album, but I checked online and the 2010 remastered album added all of that. I hate clutter on an album with mixes of different tracks but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the entrant’s intention to submit a remaster so no points deducted as a result :P Overall it’s a decent, if not brilliant album imo. Duran Duran are hit and miss for me anyways so more down to personal taste than an actual dislike as this album did exactly that. Hit and hit well in spots, and missed the target (for me anyways) in others.

Tauriel

Necro wrote: »

Reminder, no scores... yet. :P

Oh that's nasty

Necro

Reminder, no scores... yet. :P

Necro

The Shires – Good Years – submitted by Also Starring LeVar Burton

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https://open.spotify.com/album/0YYffBxNZsaRIf5W9KRrfr?si=btjX9pm6Sxuh4ItEzealAA

Highpoints – Lightning Strikes, About Last Night

What I like about this album is that – with the exception of possibly one other, it’s poppy, and that was definitely in short supply in this round.. I do like my pop injection. Loved Lightning Strikes since LeVar’s SURLAW so was nice to be reminded of that. It keeps that sound throughout despite the tone of the songs varying. It’s very ‘early Taylor Swift’ in terms of the content, which is something I very much approve of before she got a little TOO poppy for my own tastes. New Year is a bit sickly sweet mind, so it’s not perfect either but overall it was a very enjoyable listen.

Necro

Ok, let's go. First Category....

My Favourite Artist

The sky was the limit here, submitting something from your favourite artist. Overall the quality was really good. I feel guilty giving some lower points as I enjoyed pretty much all the albums here.

Some absolutely WOWed me though. Others... they were ok - but I felt I enjoyed the ones above them better.

One duplicate here too and you know what that means :eek:

Just to let you all know that duplicate entries in this game will receive *half points*

So for example if Necro and LeVar submit the same album which scores 18 points in total, both players will receive 9 points as opposed to the maximum 18 on offer.

An incentive to be more unique, if you will.

Necro

Just need to get a bit of album art sorted for the reveal and I'll be with y'all. 20 mins to go!!

Tauriel

Love love love Hybrid Theory. Was considering entering this.

Electric Nitwit

Necro wrote: »

I'm almost certain I did....

In my reveal thread for my last Walrus.

That you didn't enter.

:pac::pac::pac:

(Soz, really - prob should have put my blurb in the Sign Up Thread)

Ah well, you said favourite band anyway so it would have been dishonest of me to submit anything else

"This negative energy just makes me stronger, we will not retreat, this band is unstoppable!"

Necro

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

You could have mentioned that before I entered an instrumental album

I'm almost certain I did....

In my reveal thread for my last Walrus.

That you didn't enter.

:pac::pac::pac:

(Soz, really - prob should have put my blurb in the Sign Up Thread)

Electric Nitwit

Necro wrote: »

I do find myself drawn to songs that are sung by amazing vocalists - I find it the most powerful instrument in music

You could have mentioned that before I entered an instrumental album

Rikand

The Holy Bible and Everything Must Go would be in and around my top 10 as well. i wanted to go for different choices this time around

Baby one more time is a great album too! The cover of The Beat Goes On is brilliant

Necro

A bit about the reveal:

In a departure from normal Walruses - I'm going to post my thoughts on the albums, what I liked, what I didn't like, really try to get some appreciation for the music submitted going.

After that - I'll reveal the scores. I tried not to give away too much info in the blurbs to keep y'all guessing...