LeVar's 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 (1 per category) & the host judges all the songs in each category. This Walrus will be judged by Also Starring LeVar Burton.

Why Am I Doing This?
Well mostly since I now have 3 Walrus Trophies of my own, it would be rude not to host one myself. I spend more time listening to music than I do anything else, and I couldn't live without it. I was heavily involved with the radio station in college, and hosted several shows over the course of 4 years, and after college co-hosted a music show on 98FM for about a year as well. I'm always on the lookout for new music, but also just curious what people will submit for the categories I've chosen.

What Kind of Music Am I Into?
Honestly either I like a song or I don't, regardless of genre, and I don't want to pigeonhole myself into a certain genre here either, so all I'll say is I have a broad taste in music and am open to anything.

My Categories...
7 is one of my lucky numbers, so I'm going with 7 categories for this Walrus, and just be thankful I didn't go for my luckiest number or we'd have 23 categories.

1. By The Numbers ; speaking of numbers I'd like a song with a number in the song title for this first category. Simple.
Green&Red has done this round before, but that was quite some time ago, and before I was even participating in Walrus (although I have since looked back at that round) so more numbers it is...

2. #BlackCultureMatters ; part of the Black Lives Matter campaign is promoting Black Culture by Black Artists, so that's what I want here. A song from a Black Artist.

3. Looks Like Rain, Ted! ; we're big fans of talking about the weather in this Country, and there are plenty of songs about the weather or with references to weather in their song titles, so that's what I want from this category.

4. Animal Instinct ; in this category I want a song from a Band (or Solo Artist) with an Animal in their Band Name, of which there are plenty to choose from (any type of animal - Mammal, Insect, Reptile, Bird, Fish, Mythical, whatever).

5. All Things Heaven & Hell ; after love songs, the most popular subject matter for songs are probably to do with Heaven and Hell, Angels and Demons, etc, so anything along those lines is what we're going for here

6. Year of the Rabbit ; I was born in 1987 which was the Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese Zodiac, so I'm looking for a song that was released (as a single or an album track) in one of the Years of the Rabbit, which of the 20th and 21st Century were 1903, 1915, 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, and 2011.

7. As Seen on TV ; Television has played a big part in my life and my career, so I've always had a soft spot for TV Theme Songs, which is what I'm looking for here.


Bonus Points...
For each category I have already pre-selected 5 songs myself... If anyone happens to submit any of those songs in that category they will receive a bonus point, regardless of where they place in the overall ranking. They won't be obvious songs, and it's quite unlikely anyone will actually stumble upon the ones I pick, so don't worry about it when making your decisions; just giving the heads up that this is something that's in play, just to add an extra element to proceedings.

Submissions and Deadline
Please submit songs to me via PM. I'll be listening on either Spotify and/or YouTube so if there's a particular version of the song you want me to use, send on the link along with your submission.
Deadline for submissions is June 24th, as I hope to start the reveal at some stage the following week.