phatkev's Music Walrus

What is Walrus ?

Walrus is a game wherein you select music, & other people judge your music. Standard Walrus usually has 1 host who selects all the categories, & a bunch of people submit songs & the host judges all the songs in each category. This Wlarus will be judged by phatkev

Why am I doing this ?

Having studied music in Uni and spending the best part of a decade in the music industry, I found myself really falling out of love with it, so much so that I changed careers for my own sanity. But fear not, I’ve got my grove back and like everyone else that runs one of these I’m really interested in getting the chance to listen to some stuff that I wouldn’t typically listen to.

What kind of music am I into ?

I’ll go with the cliche answer here and say I’ll listen to anything, from Death Metal to Jazz and hip hop to classical. I don’t want to say what would be my favourite bands/songs at the moment as I think it might influence peoples decisions. I think all my categories are pretty open ended from a genre point of view, so I'm hoping for a wide variety.

My Categories

1. Song title with a place name/geographical feature in it - Fairly simple, should be loads of songs that match this criteria

2. Non English speaking countries - So much incredible music gets ignored because its not sang in a persons mother tongue. I’ve started to try and listen to more international music and can safely say some of the artists at the top of my playlists don’t have a word of English
(I know Rikand has already done this one but that was ages ago)

3. Women in Music - Looking through my playlists and the vast majority of them are male dominated. Help me improve the gender balance in my playlists by entering your favourite female fronted act

4. Isolation song - A song that gets you through isolation/describes your isolation

5. Irish Act - Ireland is bursting with musical talent, give me your favourite song by an Irish artist. Extra point up for grabs for artists I haven’t heard off

6. Teenage Angst - its great to go back to listen to some of the music that would have been on the go in our teenage years, as embarrassing as they might be!!. So give me something that was a staple on your record player/boombox/discman/minidisc/MP3 player ( I think Ive all bases covered there!!:pac:)


That's it for the categories. Please submit songs to me via PM, I’ll be listening to them mostly on Spotify so the Artist/song name should be enough. If there’s a particular version of a song you want me to listen to throw in a link to it. I’ll leave this open for a while and will update the deadline closer to the date. Id like to get a good few submissions to sink my teeth into.