Homer J. Fong's "Difficult Second Walrus"...now with added HEEPS!

Greetings all,

It's time for the Walrus-Heeps crossover that literally nobody asked for! Six rounds of music fun, and a final round of guessing game shenanigans.

Welcome to WalrusHeeps!



What is Walrus?

Walrus is a game wherein you select music, & other people judge your music. The standard Walrus usually has 1 host who selects all the categories and a bunch of people submit songs (1 per category) and the host judges all the songs in each category.

Why am I doing it?

Well I already ran one, when you let your guard down for that split second. And I'd do it again. *sips tea* Goodbye.

No seriously though, it's fun to run and I get to discover new music. What's not to like?

What kind of music do I like?

"A bit of everything" is the cliche answer but I guess I would mostly be into indie and alternative with smatterings of dreampop, shoegaze, synthpop and occasionally some jazz. Favourite artists of mine include Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Björk, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, The Knife/Fever Ray, Beach House, Lana Del Rey and Villagers.

I'm not generally a fan of hip-hop (with some exceptions), country or heavy metal, but I am open to being converted to anything - risky choices often pay off better than safe ones!


How do I play?
Please send me your six songs and your ten Heeps answers by PM. Please do not post your submissions on thread.

Entries will be open for a good few weeks, as I probably won't get around the reveal until August.

Happy Walrussing (and Heepsing)!


The Categories

1. Short and Sweet
A song doesn't have to be long to be awesome. Give me a great song that's less than three minutes in length.

2. The exception to the rule
You know that artist you hate? Well they have that one song that you actually quite like, don't they? Even if you don't want to admit it.
In previous Walruses we've had "songs from a genre you don't normally listen to". This is similar but different; send me a song you like by an artist that you otherwise don't particularly like.

3. PRIDE
June is Pride month and music has no shortage of wonderful artists from the LGBTQ+ community. Send me any song by an LGBTQ+ artist (if it's a group or duo, at least one LGBTQ+ member is sufficient). The song itself doesn't have to be LGBTQ-themed, though it can be if you like.

4. Nordic F.I.N.D.S
Some of my favourite songs come from artists from Northern Europe. Send me any song by an artist from one of these five countries - Finland, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden (or F.I.N.D.S., as per the acronym I just made up)

5. All That Jazz Got me the Blues
Jazz and blues are two genres I want to listen to more of. So please send me something jazzy or bluesy. Or maybe a song that's both!

6. Choose your Starter
You've just turned ten years old, so you're about to visit your local mad scientist to receive a dangerous creature that will travel with you as you go capturing and enslaving other dangerous creatures with no adult supervision. Which of the three types - Grass, Fire or Water - will you choose for your starter Pokémon?

Send me a song inspired by, or has themes of, Grass*, Fire or Water. (*Grass can include anything to do with plants, trees, flowers or nature in general). Feel free to think outside the box here; a song about burning passion or romance could be inspired by fire, any song with rivers/oceans/seas/rain could be water inspired, or even just songs with the colour green/red(orange)/blue could be Grass/Fire/Water themed. Those are just a few suggestions, feel free to come up with your own; just be sure to tell me which of the three types your song matches with.

And that brings us to category #7 - HEEPS.

What is Heeps?

Arguably the most fun/frustrating game on Boards, Heeps is "second best Sheep" - a game where you have to guess the SECOND MOST popular answer to a question. If you guess the most popular answer, you score zero.

I will give you ten popular albums and ask you to name one song that appears on each of them. Research IS allowed and there are no incorrect answers - only low scoring ones! You want to avoid the most popular answer...but be aware that everyone else playing does too. This round will be scored the same as the other rounds, so whoever wins the Heeps round will get the same number of points as the winner of each Walrus round.

Here are your ten Heeps questions (remember you ARE allowed to use Google to help you out here; I haven't even listened to all ten of these myself!) :

i) Name a song from Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles
ii) Name a song from Rumours by Fleetwood Mac
iii) Name a song from Hounds of Love by Kate Bush
iv) Name a song from The Joshua Tree by U2
v) Name a song from Metallica (aka The Black Album) by Metallica
vi) Name a song from Nevermind by Nirvana
vii) Name a song from Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette
viii) Name a song from Spice by The Spice Girls
ix) Name a song from Funeral by Arcade Fire
x) Name a song from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West

Remember, PM me your answers please.