Homer J. Fong's Walrus

What is Walrus?
Walrus is a game where you select music and other people judge your choices. Walrus has a host 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 His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Deleted User, Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of boards.ie in General and Forum Games in Particular.

Why am I doing this?
A few reasons. Partly boredom. Partly procrastination. Partly my deep love and appreciation for boards and all its weird and wonderful posters!

But mainly it's because I love music, love sharing music with people and love getting suggestions/recommendations for new music. Have really enjoyed the previous Walrus games I've participated in, and hopefully I can bring you all an enjoyable game too.

What sort of music am I into?
Alternative rock, indie rock, synthpop, dream pop and trip-hop are probably the most common genres tagged on to music I listen to. My favourite artists include Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Björk, Radiohead, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Knife, Fever Ray, Arcade Fire, Beach House, Lana Del Rey and Villagers.

I also quite like to listen to jazz every now and then. I'm not generally a fan of rap/hip-hop but there are some exceptions and I suspect plenty out there I would like if I discovered them. There aren't any genres of music I'd flat out refuse to listen to, though death metal and Irish country and western certainly wouldn't be my cup of tea. I'm also quite ignorant of classical music, which is something I should probably seek to change.

But enough about me! Now it's time for you people to show me what you've got in your music arsenal. :cool:

And your categories are:

1. "Can you paint with all the colours of the wind"

It's time to sing a rainbow, and all the other colours too! Give me a song with a colour in its title. Simples.

2. "L is for the way you look at me"

As well as being a common theme in songwriting, "love" is also a very common word found in song titles. Whether it's a romantic love song, a sad heartache song, a bitter anti-love song or anything in between, give me a song with "love" or a related word* in its title."
*a related word here is a word like "lover", "loving", "loved", "loves" etc. They are acceptable. However, words that just contain love like "glove", "clover" etc. will not be accepted.

3. "You're from the 70's but I'm a 90's bitch"

I was born in December 1989, and so technically missed out on being a 90's kid by three weeks. But hearing a 90's song that I haven't heard for years can bring back memories of watching Top 30 Hits and (on the rare Sunday morning when I didn't have to go to mass) 2TV, and give a nice nostalgia feeling. Here you need to give me one of your favourite tunes from the 90's. It was the time of grunge, shoegaze, trip-hop, Britpop, girl power, rave and many many other music eras, so you won't be short of options!


4. "This is the new ****, Stand up and admit"

As we reach the end of the 2010's it's appropriate to sit back and reflect on the decade that was. Were there any defining songs of the past ten years for you? Let me know! Give me a song released from January 1 2010 to the present day.

5. "I'm a Joker, I'm a Smoker, I'm a Midnight Toker"

So we've had quite a few Walrus games on boards now. And perhaps there's been a song that you've been dying to share, but none of the categories to date have quite fit? Well here's your chance to play your joker - this is a Wildcard round. Send me absolutely ANYTHING. There is nothing too safe or too ridiculous, too long or too short.....it's your chance to have it your way, baby.


Gee Homer, this all sounds terrific. How do I participate?

Well for starters, DO NOT PM ME. I would like to keep this as anonymous as possible so I can judge without any preconceptions or bias. tusk has kindly agreed to receive entries on my behalf and anonymise them for me, so [url=please PM tusk with your submissions.

There's no hard and fast closing date as of yet; when there's been enough entries received (or when tusk gets fed up and tells me to).


Here's a tl;dr for all you impatient folk:

Categories:
1. A song with a colour in the title
2. A song with the word "love" (or "loved", "lover(s)", "loving", "loves" etc.) in the title
3. A song from the 1990's
4. A song from the 2010's
5. Wildcard - submit whatever you feel like

PM tusk with your entries.

And good luck to everyone.