Rikand's Walrus Reveal!

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Just found this thread now. Very exciting so far. I can't even remember which song I submitted :pac:

Something by Oasis I think

I better stop I wont be laughing too long this round,

Rikand

13th Place - The Kills - Future Starts Slow

The really great thing I love about Walrus is being submitted something you've never heard before. New Bands, New songs and for me, thats what Walrus really should be all about. It's trying to introduce somebody to something that they havent heard before. Something new, Something different.

The caveat to that of course, is that it might be something you just dont like. This submission fits that latter part I'm afraid. I gave it a lot of listens, so much so that it's now one of my top suggested listens on youtube, but i just couldnt get into it. I liked the drumbeats to start with but the guitar intro didnt do it for me. It kinda felt like I was listening to like a deeper, darker Electric 6 and that just didnt work for me.

13th Place - 3 points to

Fixxxer

but thank you so much for giving me something new

osh

Deleted User wrote: »

Just found this thread now. Very exciting so far. I can't even remember which song I submitted :pac:

You won!

(the first round)

Rikand

The next 7 submissions are all songs that i have heard at least 400 million billion times each and they all have elements that are good but its hard to rank something when you've heard it so much and on one day you could be like "oh yay" and then on another you'd be like " Oh god, not this again". All but one would have iconic intros.

Electric Nitwit

Iconic intro that you've heard a million times - we must be getting Sweet Child O'Mine soon, right?

Necro

Electric Nitwit wrote:

Iconic intro that you've heard a million times - we must be getting Sweet Child O'Mine soon, right?

I'm hoping for some Blue Oyster Cult. Was one I was going to pull the trigger on but decided to annoy Rikand sufficiently with some Oasis instead :pac:

Pretzill

I know I'm in that 7...but where?

Rikand

12th Place :: The Doors - Riders on the storm

This is just one of those songs that has long since lost its sheen for me. Its obviously a great classic song with a really wonderful intro and I love that step down tinkle of the piano, but I just dont have the love for this song like I used to when I was a teenager.

12th Place - 4 points to

Partyjungle

Necro

Necro wrote: »

decided to annoy Rikand sufficiently with some Oasis :pac:

If that's what you set out to do then you're the true winner here!

Pretzill

Pretzill wrote: »

I know I'm in that 7...but where?

I think I am too, ive only heard my song a few time though until recently mind, Rikand probably has a billion as he says

Rikand

Rikand wrote: »

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!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suWbFPaVoEA

1st Place - 15 points to

Partyjungle

Woooooo! I'm touched.

First time I heard this song, I thought it was utterly sacrilegious. I love the original so much that messing with it felt wrong. It was on my Discover Weekly playlist on Spotify. But that bass line is hard to not love. The chilled, floaty vibes are fantastic. I think you mentioned you were into chilled edm so this one made perfect sense.

I absolutely love that Ben Folds track too. Was on heavy rotation a few years back. First hooked me with the humour but turns out it's a really good tune to boot.

osh

I'm definitely in that group too, but I beat my last round ranking so onwards and upwards

Rikand

Rikand wrote: »

15th Place :: Death Cab for Cutie - Brothers on a hotel bed

The thing about death cab for me is you kinda have to be in the right mood and frame of mind to enjoy them. Like, Follow you into the dark is probably their song I know best and I liked it, but it worked for me at a time when I was kinda in that frame of mind and I'm not in that frame of mind anymore so the song has lost that sheen. This death cab song is one of those songs where I feel I would have to be in the right frame of mind to really enjoy it. And after listening to it for 4-5 days, not once did I enter that frame of mind. The intro is a very nice tinkle of the piano keys. The song in general has a nice beat to it but I just never enjoyed the vocal at all. If this had been an instrumental, I probably would have enjoyed it a lot more

15th place - 1 point to

Deleted User

Oh well, I regret nothing :pac:

osh

osh wrote: »

I'm definitely in that group too, but I beat my last round ranking so onwards and upwards

As am I

osh

Deleted User wrote: »

Woooooo! I'm touched.

First time I heard this song, I thought it was utterly sacrilegious. I love the original so much that messing with it felt wrong. It was on my Discover Weekly playlist on Spotify. But that bass line is hard to not love. The chilled, floaty vibes are fantastic. I think you mentioned you were into chilled edm so this one made perfect sense.

I absolutely love that Ben Folds track too. Was on heavy rotation a few years back. First hooked me with the humour but turns out it's a really good tune to boot.

Yeah new one to me, and I have to say when I listened first I was the same. The original is just such a great song.

Now don't get me wrong, I still prefer the original but this one has grown on me a bit with the different slant.

Rikand

11th Place :: Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper

"I got a fever! And the only prescription, is more cowbell!" Really is one of the greatest intros of all time and the melody that carries right through the song is great. But for me, the best thing about the song was the Saturday night live sketch lol

11th Place - 5 points to

tritium

Necro wrote: »

I'm hoping for some Blue Oyster Cult. Was one I was going to pull the trigger on but decided to annoy Rikand sufficiently with some Oasis instead :pac:

Necro

Yay for Blue Oyster Cult!!

First heard that when watching the adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand.

It was probably about the best part of the entire six hours, not gonna lie.

osh

Deleted User wrote: »

Oh well, I regret nothing :pac:

That's the way it should be Stu, I like all the songs i picked (still disagree with Rikands comments on Mercy Seat :pac:), but not everyone's gonna like the same stuff and that's the way it should be.

toooooooooooone

Pretzill

Great track

osh

Rikand wrote: »

11th Place :: Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper

"I got a fever! And the only prescription, is more cowbell!" Really is one of the greatest intros of all time and the melody that carries right through the song is great. But for me, the best thing about the song was the Saturday night live sketch lol

11th Place - 5 points to

tritium

Needs more cowbell :pac:

Ectoplasm

osh wrote: »

That's the way it should be Stu, I like all the songs i picked (still disagree with Rikands comments on Mercy Seat :pac:), but not everyone's gonna like the same stuff and that's the way it should be.

Absolutely. I love fixxxer's submission for this round myself and would have it far higher on the list but it really is so individual.

Great pick, Trit.

Ectoplasm

Ectoplasm wrote: »

Absolutely. I love fixxxer's submission for this round myself and would have it far higher on the list but it really is so individual.

Agreed. I've never heard it before but I really enjoyed it!

Loads of great songs no doubt but Trit picked 2 songs now I'd have had way higher for me,

Rikand

10th Place :: The Who - Baba O'Riley

My least favourite The Who track but still good enough to place 10th in this. Any other The Who song comes much higher. The intro is one of those all time classic recognisable intros, but i never loved the song as a whole. Of all the submissions I think i only listened to this 3 times and that was mostly because I ended up going off and listening to other The Who tracks instead. Who Are You would have been a great one here!

Baba is probably the only The Who track I would turn off if I heard it coming on the radio

10th Place - 6 points to

Pretzill

Rikand. You’re wrong

osh

osh wrote: »

Yeah new one to me, and I have to say when I listened first I was the same. The original is just such a great song.

Now don't get me wrong, I still prefer the original but this one has grown on me a bit with the different slant.

The Poolside is so, so different that they're pretty much two different songs in my head now. I almost feel it's just the lyrics that are the only thing they have in common. I absolutely love the melancholic lyrics from it. "... But I'm still in love with you" has always struck a chord with me.

Pretzill

10th is good enough for me - wouldnt be a huge fav either but it's hard to beat the intro

Rikand

9th Place :: Guns n Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine

"Take me back to Copperface Jacks and the classics we used to dance to....."

It's such a Coppers tune, isn't it ? And all those other nightclubs of a similar style where the emphasis is on absolutely losing yourself on the dancefloor with your mates with air guitars and hands in the air and trying to score a dodgy end of the night shift where the beer goggle effect is fully in play. When I listen to this song, those are the times I think of, especially now that I am married with 2 kids and those days are long behind me. Great intro, great song, but I've just heard it way too much

9th Place - 7 points to

Strawberry Milkshake

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Iconic intro that you've heard a million times - we must be getting Sweet Child O'Mine soon, right?

I really struggled with the "Intro" category. Not hugely surprised I did poorly. Your thoughts on Riders on the strom are spot on Rikand. I feel the same way about it. Big hit in my teenage years. I'm really looking forward to the foreign language one.

Electric Nitwit

Rikand wrote: »

9th Place :: Guns n Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine

Had to be included

I'd argue it's the definitive answer to best intro

I'm loving this round so far. I fear I'm next but the music so far has been fantastic

Pretzill

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Had to be included

I'd argue it's the definitive answer to best intro

I have another few in my head...I wonder if they're here?

Woohoo 9th place again.

Still in the top ten! YEAH BABY!!!

I don't think theres any such thing as hearing Sweet Child O Mine too much!

Electric Nitwit

Manics covered Sweet Child when supporting Bon Jovi last month, it was awesome

Rikand

8th Place :: Faithless - Insomnia

This did better than it probably should have done. it's not that I don't love the song. And it's not that it isn't one of the most seminal songs released for the genre of music that I love. It opened EDM to an audience that may never have grown to appreciate dance music. Its just that when the song came out, I bought the single and then bought the album and listened to both repeatedly for months. Insomnia, Salva Mea, Drifting away and Don't leave - all got so much play from me that time. It's a great intro, though I prefer the intro to Drifting Away more off that album. Salva Mea is a much better dance track on that album for me too. The Melody is superb. Anyways, I'm gone off on a massive tangent away from Insomnia here

Its a great song yes, Its a great intro yes. Category Fit - Check. Genre I love - Check. Maybe a bit too safe? - Check, Check, Check.

8th Place - 8 points to

Deleted User

osh

Was tempted to go with this one

Electric Nitwit

Insomnia, cracker

I agree about Salve Mea trumping it though

Ya way too safe but happy enough to scramble to 8th, I was so unsure how to go about picking songs for this and I really liked this song but had only heard it a few times as its not a genre I'd land on 2 often. Had a few options here although given you're knowledge of music I don;t think I could have come up with something I knew you haven't heard

Rikand

Slight delay while I make a last minute change between the next 2 songs. Someone's gonna be slightly happier and someone slightly sadder :P

Who wants tea?

Barney92

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Who wants tea?

I just finished a cup but thanks SM .

Happy not to have been called yet. I wasn't sure about my entry for this one to be honest. I was just listening to it as I entered and wanted to include it somewhere.

Strawberry Milkshake

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Who wants tea?

No thanks. But would you make me a lemsip since you're boiling the kettle anyway?

osh

Be-er?

Rikand

7th Place : Alabama 3 - Woke up this morning

Oh, when submitting Alabama 3 songs, this would have been a great opportunity to submit Aint Goin to Goa. Man that would have top 3'd easy lol. Woke up this morning is a really good song. Got that great laidback Alabama 3 sound. It's a great intro and that lead singers vocal is as always just so great. But I kinda wish I had been listening to Aint Goin to Goa all week

(I tell a lie. I have been listening to it :P)

7th Place - 9 points to

Builebeag

Rikand

6th Place :: Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun

Lovely little energetic song. Great intro, Great pace, the quiet bit for people to sing along to, its got it all! Spoiled for me perhaps by how often I have listened to it. It's one of those songs that I always attributed to being from the 00's as that was when I first heard it and just assumed they were a new band. Was a couple of years before I realised it was originally released in the 80's lol

6th Place - 10 points to

GreenAndRed

osh

Just been rewatching the soparanos after having to subscribe to NOW tv for GOT (well I rewatched the wire first, which also has a great theme song)