MrKingsley and Barney92's Walrus

What is Walrus?

Walrus is a game where you select music and other people judge your choices. Walrus has a host (or hosts in this case) who selects all the categories and then people submit songs and the host judges all the songs in each category. This Walrus will be judged by MrKingsley and Barney92.

Why are we even doing this?

MrKingsley
I will have music on as much as is possible. I love putting an album or playlist on before I start cooking, when I am cleaning the house, nodding off to sleep. I also work in bars so I am hoping to come across a few new artists/tracks to be able to put on in work to avoiding hearing the same songs for the umpteenth time.

Barney92
Music is a relative late addition to my young life, with my interest starting to be piqued around the age of 18. I’ve entered most of these competitions to widen my musical knowledge as it is rather limited, and that is why I’m co-hosting one.

What are we into?

MrKingsley
Growing up I was (am still am) a massive fan of hip hop and rap. Through college I would have mainly listened to rock and acoustic/folk music. In the last few years I have really gotten into soul and motown and they would be my go to playlists when working. Similar to Barney I have a serious sweet spot for a good pop song. Heavy metal might be the one genre that I would listen t with my finger over the 'skip song' button. Having said that I will give anything a listen.

Some of my favourite artists: Notorious BIG, Wu-Tang, Eminem, Johnny Cash, Tallest Man on Earth, John Martyn, The Four Tops, Curtis Mayfield, Charles Bradley, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Kings of Leon (first 3 albums), Fleetwood Mac, Rolling Stones, Ben Harper.

Barney92
My main two genres are pop and Irish folk music. I think the explanation to my musical likes can be found in how I found the guilty pleasure category a few Walruses ago to be quite difficult, as I am quite open about my like for what many describe as guilty pleasures. I am open to other kinds of music, including classical, rock, country, hip hop. I will warn you though that electronic dance, techno and heavy metal are unlikely to do well with me but I am open to new things.

The categories are outlined below. Feel free to include the reason why you've picked what you have.

1. Song that makes you think about food
In this category we are looking for a song that makes you think about food. It can have a food in the song, or can be one that you’d likely have playing at a barbecue or other food related event.

2. Song to study to / take an exam to
Some people have songs that help to get them in the zone mentally for preparing for a test / exam and we’re looking for one that you would use to get you ready to study / work.

3. Song from a musical
We’re both prone to a good musical and would like you to provide us with your favourite song from a musical.

4. Song that reminds you of someone
Songs can often bring up memories of times and places, but we are looking for songs that remind you of someone (good or bad).

5. Song to change your mood
Music is one way of turning a frown upside down, and we are looking for your favourite song to get you out of a funk and put a smile back on your face.


P.S. Some ground rules.

1) We will each be marking every entry out of 15 – 10 marks for how much we like it and 5 for how well we think it fits the theme. We will then combine our marks to get a combined preliminary standing, with tiebreakers decided by originality (i.e. whether we have heard the song before on not). A good story about your song and the theme will help you get the 5 points. Following this we will discuss our entries and take each other’s views into account, before deciding on the final rankings.

2) We will each nominate a bogey song for each round which will result in a three place penalty to the final rankings. This will either be a really obvious song or a track that one of us simply cannot stand.

3) Please PM either of us with your entries. We're going to cap it at an even 20 by the way if there are that many takers.

Looking forward to listening to the entries