Rikand Walrus V2.0 Reveal Thread!

Rikand · 14-05-2021 11:18PM

In 5th place, scoring 11 points

The avalanches - The Divine Chord ft MGMT, Johnny Marr : Submitted by

ShaneU

This is just so lovely! So lovely!

Electric Nitwit · 14-05-2021 11:20PM

Rikand wrote: »

In 5th place, scoring 11 points

The avalanches - The Divine Chord ft MGMT, Johnny Marr : Submitted by
ShaneU

This is just so lovely! So lovely!

Love this song - I've been waiting for the right time to drop it into a walrus, beaten to it

Rikand · 14-05-2021 11:23PM

In 4th place, scoring 12 points

Sigur Ros - Flugufrelsarinn : Submitted by

Irish Aris

I probably would have been disappointed if somebody hadn't submitted Sigur Ros to me in a Spiritual/Ethereal music round. I didnt like this at first because everytime i listened to it, i had it on in the background. But when I really focused on it, I thought it was excellent. I am partial to a bit of sigur ros. I couldnt recall this particular song from before this walrus but I'm really happy it was submitted and brought to my attention. An excellent piece.

Rikand · 14-05-2021 11:29PM

Top 3 hype ::

Electric Nitwit
Ari101
H2DPB

Electric Nitwit · 14-05-2021 11:30PM

ari101 · 14-05-2021 11:30PM

Rikand wrote: »

Top 3 hype ::
Electric Nitwit
Ari101
H2DPB

Dead chuffed to be in the top 3!

JP Liz V1 · 14-05-2021 11:31PM

I am discovering some great new tracks

Rikand · 14-05-2021 11:31PM

in 3rd place, scoring 13 points

E.S. Posthumus - Nara : Submitted by

Ari101

This is very awesome. I love that I now know where the Cold Case theme came from now. And I have gone down a major rabbit hole listening to this stuff. Nineveh is another class piece of music. I do love an instrumental and the strings really hit the spot for Ethereal. This is just a great piece!

Rikand · 14-05-2021 11:33PM

The top 2, I have billed both of them with one phrase in my notes

"Hauntingly Beautiful"

Which Hauntingly Beautiful track is going to win....

ari101 · 14-05-2021 11:34PM

Rikand wrote: »

in 3rd place, scoring 13 points

E.S. Posthumus - Nara : Submitted by
Ari101

This is very awesome. I love that I now know where the Cold Case theme came from now. And I have gone down a major rabbit hole listening to this stuff. Nineveh is another class piece of music. I do love an instrumental and the strings really hit the spot for Ethereal. This is just a great piece!

Delighted, it was because I fell in love with the Cold Case theme I found this - I went on a google and loved the whole album

Happy sleep dance!

Electric Nitwit · 14-05-2021 11:35PM

Rikand wrote: »

in 3rd place, scoring 13 points

E.S. Posthumus - Nara : Submitted by
Ari101

This is very awesome. I love that I now know where the Cold Case theme came from now. And I have gone down a major rabbit hole listening to this stuff. Nineveh is another class piece of music. I do love an instrumental and the strings really hit the spot for Ethereal. This is just a great piece!

Great drums in that, I imagine it would be pretty awesome to see live

Rikand · 14-05-2021 11:38PM

in 2nd place, scoring 14 points

Kyla la Grange - To be told : Submitted by

Electric Nitwit

Hauntingly Beautiful. Those opening bars are just incredible. She has a fantastic voice that I really just felt captured the spirit of the category. It probably lost out on the top spot when it builds into that crescendo of guitars and drums and I felt it took from the ethereal nature of everything but overall, i just thought it was a gorgeous vocal and it never left my top 3 from when I first heard it

Electric Nitwit · 14-05-2021 11:40PM

So close

Delighted you liked it. She's generally quite rocky. I went to see her after she'd only released a couple of songs and was not expecting this, I was blown away.

I entered Vampire Smile by her into Necro's Halloween one and it did well too. I thought she was incredible but sadly she never really made it, glad to be spreading the love for her

Rikand · 14-05-2021 11:44PM

In 1st place, scoring 15 points

Ashley Serena - Lullaby of Woe :: Submitted by

Hello 2D Person Below

Hauntingly Beautiful. This just went straight in at number 1 and never left it. Beautiful sound. Beautiful vocal. Keeps the same tone the whole way through and I just loved this. The mysticism of it all...

Rikand · 14-05-2021 11:48PM

So yeah. On the whole I really enjoyed this category, far more than I expected to. Went down a few rabbit holes listening to other music from some of the artists so that's brilliant.

5. A song that reminds you of a fantasy theme/setting is our next category! Could be a 2 week reveal again. Change of positions at work has cut my listening time a bit, but I'll update how I'm getting on, nearer the time.

Goodnight all, thanks for coming in and see you for the next exciting installment in the Rikand Walrus Reveal

Electric Nitwit · 14-05-2021 11:48PM

That is haunting, nice ominousity (is that a word? Should be!)

Well played 2D

Cheers Ricky, another enjoyable one

ari101 · 14-05-2021 11:52PM

Redeeming myself a bit from Round 2's efforts, woohoo

I think the song osh picked is class! Maybe category fit is lower in the second half of it, but I still really like it, vocals and all. I also really liked LeVar's choice but am a sucker for a good choir too, but I feel it was a deserved win for H2D, a perfect fit for the category.

Sawduck wrote: »

The act I picked for this round are singing at this year's eurovision

I like that Hooverphonic song and note the Eurovision entry

... to preserve the integrity of the ari Jury I can neither confirm nor deny whether it may feature in my top 10 :pac:

Electric Nitwit · 14-05-2021 11:54PM

ari101 wrote: »

I also really liked LeVar's choice but am a sucker for a good choir too

Agreed, really nice. Scala & Kolacny do a good cover version of Creep. And for me to say someone does even an acceptable cover of a Radiohead song is very high praise :pac:

Also Starring LeVar Burton · 15-05-2021 12:14AM

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Agreed, really nice. Scala & Kolacny do a good cover version of Creep. And for me to say someone does even an acceptable cover of a Radiohead song is very high praise :pac:

I think their cover of Creep was the first thing of theirs I heard (it was used in the Trailer for The Social Network) which was enough for me to go check out the rest of their discography and been a fan of Scala & Kolacny Brothers ever since.

Rikand · 25-05-2021 10:15PM

Belated round 4 scores -

Still currently set to do reveal for cat 5 on Friday night

Boards name | Song choice | Youtube Link | Position | Points
H2DPB| Lullaby of Woe by Ashley Serena | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohNpf4VnlP8 | 1st | 15
Electric Nitwit | To be told by Kyla La Grange | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZeBUlrukX8 | 2nd | 14
Ari101| Nara by E.S. Posthumus | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhBHSvxi25k | 3rd | 13
Irish Aris |Flugufrelsarinn by Sigur Ros | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfKFFeHjgTI | 4th | 12
ShaneU|The Divine Chord by The Avalanches ft MGMT, Johnny Marr | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvZpn322LxE | 5th | 11
ASLB| Perfekte Welle by Scala and Kolancy Brothers | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFEu4kYv7qQ | 6th | 10
Fixxxer | Innocence by Kenji Kawai | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARTLckN9e7I | 7th | 9
Sawduck | Hooverphonic by Eden | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWPOLL_Rr8U | 8th | 8
JP Liz V1| Return to Innocence by Enigma | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_sAHh9s08 | 9th | 7
Necro| Wait by M83 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAwYodrBr2Q | 10th | 6
Sineadspears| Hallowed by thy name by MachineHead | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moqETlmNHnE | 11th | 5
Arghus |Satan is Real by The Louvin Brothers | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czLceBSD7Cc | 12th | 4
osh | Sleeping at last by Saturn | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzNvk80XY9s | 13th | 3
Sephiroth_Dude | Frogs by Alice in Chains | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izy0zA3kQTc | 14th | 2
The purple tin | Om - Thebes | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50QMiteeEP0 | 15th | 1

Cumulative Scoring Table
Boards Name|R1|R2|R3|R4|R5|R6|R7|R8|Total
ShaneU|10|15|15|11|||||51
Electric Nitwit|8|11|11|14|||||44
H2DPB|2|10|13|15|||||40
Sephiroth_Dude|14|12|9|2|||||37
Ari101|12|1|7|13|||||33
Fixxxer|3|6|14|9|||||32
ASLB|4|13|4|10|||||31
osh|15|7|6|3|||||31
Sineadspears|9|14|3|5|||||31
Irish Aris|7|9|2|12|||||30
Sawduck|6|5|10|8|||||29
Necro|11|8|1|6|||||26
The purple tin|13|2|8|1|||||24
JP Liz V1|1|3|12|7|||||23
Arghus|5|4|5|4|||||18

So, at the half way point, ShaneU extends his lead at the top with Sephy falling to 4th, EN and H2DPB take up the mantle of the chasing pack.

There's only 6 points separating the next 7 players with the bottom 4 starting to get cut adrift at the foot of the table.

But with 4 rounds to go it's, still very much, all to play for! :cool:

Rikand · 28-05-2021 02:21PM

Have my bottom 10 fairly well set. Top 5 are still jumping around in positions.

Hopefully they will be all set by this evening. Given that my kids dont seem to go to bed till after 9 pm on a friday night, I might try start this at 8 instead :pac:

osh · 28-05-2021 02:53PM

No annoying voice in my song this time so hopefully I'm not bottom 3 again

Rikand · 28-05-2021 07:12PM

The wife brought home toys for the kids from shopping. "Some" assembly required. Might have to push 8pm out to 9 or 10 depending on how the assembly goes...

Rikand · 28-05-2021 09:41PM

The 6 story garage is built.... the flicker is still to go. Hopefully a kick off at 10:30 or else I will just have to postpone altogether

Rikand · 28-05-2021 10:27PM

The Flicker was much easier to assemble lol

Okay, lets get this show on the road.

Category 5. A song that reminds you of a fantasy theme/setting

Overall, this was probably my least favourite category so far. Most songs I felt fit the category quite well though I only enjoyed about half of them, but there was a few that I just didnt feel fit the category at all. I have, perhaps controversially, just put those songs in the bottom spots. Even though I liked them, I just felt I needed to reward the people who met the feel I had in mind for the category more.

Rikand · 28-05-2021 10:33PM

In 15th Place, scoring 1 point

Casiopea - Cyber Zone : Submitted by

Guess who - Sephiroth_dude

If this came on during a scene of Beverly Hills Cop, I wouldn’t be one bit surprised but I don’t get anything fantasy or medieval or anything from this at all. It's grand but just not a category fit for me

Rikand · 28-05-2021 10:38PM

In 14th place, scoring 2 points

All the stars by Kendrick Lamar and SZA : Submitted by

JP Liz V1

This song is grand. I don’t turn it off when it comes on the radio, in fact, I sometimes hum along to the chorus, but it just wasn’t a category fit for me at all.

Rikand · 28-05-2021 10:43PM

in 13th place, scoring 3 points

Utada Hikaru - Simple and Clean : Submitted by

Necro

The thing is, I love the Kingdom Hearts game series. When this game came out, I played it non stop until I had finished it. I just loved it. But I don’t think the song matches the category at all. It doesn’t give me a fantasy feeling at all. The track is grand but I'm putting it down here because despite the game being fantasy for me, the song just isnt.

Rikand · 28-05-2021 10:49PM

In 12th place, scoring 4 points

Popular Monster by Falling In Reverse : Submitted by

SineadSpears

In a different category, this would have done quite well. I like the song, but I just don’t get anything that matches the category from it. One good thing I suppose, I am definitely going to check out more Falling In Reverse songs on the strength of this song. it was just a mile wide on category fit for me

JP Liz V1 · 28-05-2021 10:55PM

Rikand wrote: »

The wife brought home toys for the kids from shopping. "Some" assembly required. Might have to push 8pm out to 9 or 10 depending on how the assembly goes...

Rikand wrote: »

The 6 story garage is built.... the flicker is still to go. Hopefully a kick off at 10:30 or else I will just have to postpone altogether

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