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Rikand's Walrus Reveal!
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6th Place :: Beirut - Gallipoli - Originally submitted by partyjungle2nd Place :: Beirut - Gallipoli
This was a song that just kept on moving up the list the more I listened to it. However, I'm finding it tough to verbalise what it is that I liked so much about this song. Nice intro, loved the trumpety/horn thing if thats what it is. Singing kinda reminds me of that old kind of french style that one of my former co-workers from years ago used to listen to a lot of and I used to love it! It's a real kind of meditteranean feel to the song and it just captures a lot of great feelings for me of holidays when I was a kid in southern France
2nd Place - 14 points toDeleted User
Is it bad that the best way I can think of describing the last 2 songs is that they are really nice ? Well they are! After almost 2 years I still find it tough to verbalise what it is I like about this song. I just really do
Would this have replaced David Davis Tomorrows from the 2019 category ? Hmmm, I'm not sure. I still love Tomorrows. I just stopped listening to it. Whereas I never stopped listening to Gallipoli. It's a great song
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4th Place :: Christine and the Queens - 5 dols - Originally submitted by Barney92
What I said at the time1st Place :: Christine and the Queens - 5 dols (Work colleagues of a sensitive nature may question your choice of video if watching this in work )
I loved this from the very first listen. But I find it so hard to put into words what it is that I love so much. Just such a real unusual sound for the intro and then its in french and I love songs in French! Vocalist is incredible. It moves along at a really great pace. The gentle tinkle of the high notes on the piano for the chorus and then music drops and the vocalist is left to sing the final bar acapella which is just a wonderful finish. The video is quite cool too. The performer is a great dancer. I've been finger pointing, shuffling my shoulders and nodding my head to this all weekend!
1st Place - 15 points toBarney92
Ah this is just great! Such a great song. No more words. Its just great. I cant elaborate anymore on what i said above. Just great!
It came first in the intros category. It would come first again. it was well ahead of everything else in the category for me0 -
3rd Place :: Poolside - Harvest Moon (neil young cover) - Originally submitted by Partyjungle [ Did we just become best friends?]
What I said at the time.1st Place :: Poolside - Harvest Moon (Neil Young Cover)
This is my jam. Sweet Raspberry Jam. That wonderfully laidback loungey housey feel, the claps, the sweet soft vocals. It's not quite Betoko, but it's close. Damn is it close. After the first minute of listening to this, I knew it wasnt going to be outside my top 3 no matter what else was submitted. Every single ounce of this song is me. So laidback, so chilled. It took me right back to my honeymoon, in San Diego and the chilled out way of life.... the beach, the waves, the sunsets, the pool at the Pacific Terrace Hotel, I was just......I'm there right now. I am there!
1st Place - 15 points toPartyjungle
And it still is my jam. I just love this! I've listened to this 100's of times. I just close my eyes and shake my head from side to side...and then the shoulders start rocking and then the hips start shimmying and my hands leave the keyboard, gently clenched fists and slowly punching and rocking the shoulders and rocking my whole body. I just love this. This was without doubt one of the finds for me.
Would it still come first in the category ? Probably. Although I have listened to it 100's of times, there is a song that i have listened to as much if not more that I love just a little bit more and I would find it so hard to separate them now. Maybe they would be joint first because.....
2nd Place :: Ben Folds - Bitches aint **** - Originally submitted by mollyb60
What I said at the time...2nd Place :: Ben Folds - B!tches aint sh!t (Dr. Dre Cover Version) [NSFW or for Children or people of a sensitive nature]
I smiled and I laughed the whole way through this. I dont think I have ever heard the original before but it made me pay attention to how graphically sexually explicit rap songs can be and Ben Folds made me laugh the whole way through it. I went and checked out the same version, but with lyrics printed on the screen this morning just to get a full appreciation for the content of the song and it delivered! He sings it in such a wonderfully soft tone that contrasts so severely with the language in use. Strong lyrics, sung by such a gentle voice. I've always had a passing interest in Ben Folds, like Rocking the Suburbs, but I have found a new love after this.
with lyrics printed on screen if you like that sort of thing :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-l-c3rTlnE
2nd Place - 14 points tomollyb60
This is just so good. So brilliant. Such a fantastic heart rending melody and the take on the song is just next level...... brilliant! What can I say about it that I havent already said. Major adoration to molly and ben folds for bringing this to me. On another day, it would be poolside in 2nd and ben folds in 3rd. So hard to separate them because they are so brilliant.
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1st Place :: Halcali - Girigiri Surfrider - Originally submitted by Fixxxer [ legend ]
What I said at the time1st Place :: Halcali - GiriGiri Surf Rider
EarWorm. Total Earworm. The melody of the music is just excellent and it opens with like a chorus bit which was okay at first, but then it hits the hip-hop and i was like, I totally did not expect that direction and it was brilliant. The way they play off each other is excellent and then they sing the choruses in the j-pop kind of way its just a great great piece of music and I love it. bop, bop, bop. I'm up to well over 50 listens of this and I'm just not getting sick of it. I love it. I've actually been listening to it on constant repeat the entire way through this reveal. Sometimes a song just comes along that you absolutely adore. And the video is awesome too!
1st Place :: 15 points toFixxxer
This video has 38k views. 8k of those are mine
And its not just this song I love. I have gone and listened to Halcali's entire back catalogue. I love them. I really ****ing love them. I actually got the lyrics to this song so I could try and sing the proper words along with it. For an English speaking person, its not easy i can tell ya!
One day I knew my 5 year old daughter had been on the laptop because I heard her singing the melody of this song and then I overheard her mother say.... "Daddy listens to some wierd stuff...." and thats when I knew it was just one of the best songs ever because my wife has a generally awful taste in music.
Thank you Fixxxer. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you!
This concludes the redux of my first walrus.
I havent assigned points for any of this as I more wanted it to be an appreciation of the songs that I stuck with and that stuck with me. But needless to say, partyjungle with his 3 entries would have won the combined prize and fixxxer would have won the individual for Halcali. But as i said at the time of running the walrus, the real winner was me because of all the great new music I was introduced to! And its just about time for me to replenish my stocks.
I'll put up a new walrus thread at some point tomorrow as I havent written it up yet and I'm tired now. I'm heading off to my leaba.
night night and thanks all again
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hahaha thats great that Halcali wormed their way in to your soul. They are a lovable pair of doofs.
What did you think of the insanity of the Strawberry Chips remix?
God that was really super annoying. I had to put on the brilliance of the proper Strawberry Chips just to try and put that mess out of my mind
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Deleted User wrote: »I've been out of the loop of this forum for a while... delighted to see my name mentioned three time
Bit confused by the format. What is the criteria for the redux? Top 8 of all the songs from this thread?
yep, top 8 of all songs from the thread which were songs that I had not heard before the reveal started.
It was just a quick acknowledgement of the songs that meant the most to me 0
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