NAS Walrus Reveal Thread

Necro

I was actually kind of laughing this morning when compiling the reveal as Stu kind of said the same thing as I was saying with kitten's choice.

Great track this one too though!

Necro

The one song I did like of Waits was actually this one

Electric Nitwit

[Deleted User] wrote: »

This is probably his most accessible song. If you don't like this or Grapefruit Moon, maybe it's a lost cause...

My link is failing, but it's a song called I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You.

The youtu.be style short links don't work, but you can just include the code so (youtube)MRyYayGtRBo(/youtube), but with square brackets

Ectoplasm

I didn't know that worked. I do love the tune.

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

Necro

12th Place - Kacey Musgraves - Butterflies

Necro: This one is a grower. Initially it’s a bit meh, but a couple of listens and I’m starting to like this one now. A couple of more listens and I’m just smiling all the time to the chorus. It’s just such a happy song and things that make me happy deserve rewarding, great entry.



Stu Redman: Has the lawsuit happened yet for the melody borrowed in the verses from Lana Del Rey's Video Games? No? Never heard this song before, or the artist, but I do like it. The chorus is quite catchy and the simple yet very effective piano is great. That's an example of an instrument serving the song rather than just being thrown in there for the sake of it, love it. With these artists/bands I've never heard before, something I find that is factoring into my judging is 'Do I want to hear more from this artist?' Yes is the answer to that question here. Tough round to score where the rankings don't do my actual enjoyment of some of the songs justice. This song is a prime example of that.



Scores:
Necro: 9th
Stu: 13th

6 points to

Green&Red

Pretzill

That's very catchy and bright - never heard it before.

Necro

Short interlude whilst I pour myself some whiskey and have a cigar like one of those hob knob music reviewers from the movies

Awww. Well I appreciate the honesty Necro, though I actually thought this would be one of my better-scoring categories. Doesn't bode too well for the rest of my choices!

Martha was the other Waits song I was considering for this category; don't know if that would've scored any better?

In fairness though it's hard to appreciate any song if you just don't like the voice; I find Paul Simon's voice quite grating and unpleasant. Same with Joanna Newsome and Michael Bublé. And even Elvis (although Suspicious Minds is still an absolute choooon!)

Necro

11th Place - Bread - Make It With You

Necro: I like this track, it’s a nice croony ballad and the message in the lyrics is lovely. I guess the reason it’s lower down than others is it’s not one I’d be rushing to put on a must play list. Also there are some absolute crackers coming up and I have to somehow sort them.



Stu Redman: "What the hell is this? I feel like I'm being taken to get my first training bra." - Ah but seriously, this is beautiful. I feel like I'm in LA in the 70s with flowers in my hair. Artists like this could write and sing about love just like Necro can throw up 800 posts in a WW games - effortlessly. Listen to the sound of that recording, the space in there. They can, but they just don't produce em like that anymore. This is music.



Scores:
Necro: 14th
Stu: 8th

7 points to

Pretzill

Necro

Deleted User wrote: »

Awww. Well I appreciate the honesty Necro, though I actually thought this would be one of my better-scoring categories. Doesn't bode too well for the rest of my choices!

Martha was the other Waits song I was considering for this category; don't know if that would've scored any better?

Would have actually. Maybe it was just the song, soz

Pretzill

I was surprised it wasn't lower down as I did read the category wrong, and thought love songs rather than Ballads. But yeah thanks Stu it's true what you say, a lot of space in the recording.

Ohh the anticipation. I can't remember what song I submitted. I can't remember if I submitted a song at all.

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Awww. Well I appreciate the honesty Necro, though I actually thought this would be one of my better-scoring categories. Doesn't bode too well for the rest of my choices!

Martha was the other Waits song I was considering for this category; don't know if that would've scored any better?

That or 'Lonely' would have scored even better with me. They were the songs which first brought me to Tom Waits.

Great choice though Homer.

Sounds cheesy, but everyone's a winner in this round, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Everyone except Jamie Lawson

Necro

Coming up next we enter the

Necro

10th Place - Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is

Necro: So I love this song.The chorus is iconic and the sort of thing I’d be blasting it out at a house party at 3 in the morning. People would be looking like me as if I was insane initially but by the time it rolls around a second time the entire house is singing it. Classic tune.




Stu Redman: You know what, finally in my mid 30s I think it's time to admit that this is not a favorite power ballad of mine. I'm hugely into the genre and was practically born and raised on it and classic rock, but I never put on this song by my own choosing now that I think about it. I respect this song more than I like it, I want to love it but I don't actually. Creates a wonderful mood with the music for the tone of the lyrics, but as I said it's all respect I have and not enough love. It's been with me a long time, it's better than 80% of what's written out there, but I don't willfully listen to it that often or at all really.



Scores:
Necro: 5th
Stu: 14th


8 points to

SupercalifragilsticOSHpeealidocious

Slight difference of opinion from the judges on this one :pac:

Whoopsie doodles

Pretzill

Pretzill wrote: »

I was surprised it wasn't lower down as I did read the category wrong, and thought love songs rather than Ballads. But yeah thanks Stu it's true what you say, a lot of space in the recording.

It was a tough category to define, or guess exactly what Necro was looking to hear - The round is named after one of the most explicit hits of the late 90s, from a band who aren't exactly famous for love ballads :pac:

I don't think the singer in the Bloodhound Gang loves Chasey Lain, that's not exactly what he's...reaching for

Pretzill

When judges differ walruses stop singing

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Whoopsie doodles

Ah it didn't work out that bad for you MJ, tbf, Bounty went on to win the game for ye!

Oh wait...

Walrus, is right.

I love that Paul Brady rendition and it put me in an awful spot for this round. Repsect for the entry MJ.

fixXxer

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Ah it didn't work out that bad for you MJ, tbf, Bounty went on to win the game for ye!

Oh wait...

It is WAY too soon to be joking about that

;_;

Necro

9th Place - Journey - Don’t Stop Believin’

Necro: I actually feel pretty bad putting this belter down the list so far, because it deserves so much more love. Trouble is, I’ve given it so much love over the past decade in particular that it doesn’t resonate as much as it used to. Every drunk going wants to belt this one out now. So unfortunately it has to suffer in the rankings. Not too much though.



Stu Redman: Many are tired of hearing it, many of my colleagues are tired of playing it, but I always will adore this love power anthem. Long before The Sopranos reignited it and the career of Journey, as a boy I got this on a 'Guitar Legends' mix-CD from a local guitar player I idolised. 'Don't Stop Believing' got spun repeatedly until the CD skipped beyond acceptable use. Everything put to tape on this song is pure shiny perfection, a great song for the genre, a great song for this category.



Scores:
Necro: 9th
Stu: 7th



9 points to

Deleted User

Electric Nitwit

Necro wrote: »

I respect this song more than I like it, I want to love it but I don't actually. Creates a wonderful mood with the music for the tone of the lyrics, but as I said it's all respect I have and not enough love.

Only reading that did I realise that's exactly how I feel about it too

Pretzill

Pretzill wrote: »

When judges differ walruses stop singing

...plus the more we differ on a song, the further apart Necro puts our opinions in the reveal post. Just look at the distance he's trying to put between our opinions in that Foreigner post

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Ah it didn't work out that bad for you MJ, tbf, Bounty went on to win the game for ye!

Oh wait...

Walrus, is right.

I love that Paul Brady rendition and it put me in an awful spot for this round. Repsect for the entry MJ.

Not the first time my poor understanding of the English langauge has cost me in Forum games and it wont be the last

I hadn't listened to Paul for ages untill recently and forgot how much I love his songs

Absolute belter from osh. Great choice!

Sad to see how the mighty have fallen though:
In Hartford, Connecticut on June 24, 2015, Foreigner began a summer tour as the opening act for Kid Rock.[23]]

Necro

Deleted User wrote: »

...plus the more we differ on a song, the further apart Necro puts our opinions in the reveal post. Just look at the distance he's trying to put between our opinions in that Foreigner post

Ha, that's my bad formatting

fixxxer

fixxxer wrote: »

It is WAY too soon to be joking about that

;_;

Ah here, I can't even bring myself to give game feedback yet, way too soon indeed!

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

Not the first time my poor understanding of the English langauge has cost me in Forum games and it wont be the last

I hadn't listened to Paul for ages untill recently and forgot how much I love his songs

Not at all MJ, what you submitted was a ballad by the truest sense of the word.

Taking the hair and cheese element away from the description, Paul Brady and Tom Waits should have aced this round.

Necro

Speaking of hair and cheese...

Necro

8th Place - P!nk - Raise Your Glass

Necro: Well firstly, it’s Pink and I fooking love Pink. Having recently seen her live I also was blown away with this song at the concert. The chorus is just epic, she’s such an under-rated act imo. Secondly it's just such an upbeat song which always puts me in the mood for a good night out. Love it



Stu Redman: Ah, good ol' Pink, teaching our little girls that it's ok to be cheeky buggers for about 15 years now! Yeah this has anthemic qualities, big time, and I have a guilty pleasure for those Scandanavian-written power pop female choruses a la Katy Perry's California Girls. Most of the pop hits of today are written by the same few writers. Max Martin is the guy responsible for this and California Girls, and he is gifted at writing and recycling modern pop anthems. Just as Pink is gifted at delivering them. On the right brand of whisky, in the right room, on a balloon-poaching kind of night, I'd throw shapes to this.



Scores:
Necro: 4th
Stu: 10th

10 points to

Mollyb60

Another differing opinion here, not as vast though. Will there be more...

Let's find out

Necro

7th Place - Bon Jovi - Bed of Roses

Necro: As put to me in their submission - ‘the greatest rock ballad of all time.’ Can’t really argue with that. Love this song, have done many a bad karaoke to this one. You just want to belt out that chorus. I have a lot of love for Bon Jovi and a lot of their hits around this time are on my repeated play list.



Stu Redman: This is one of a few epic rock ballads which were submitted which all could have scored quite well for me in this category. Love them or hate them, back then Bon Jovi could deliver a love ballad and Bed of Roses is them cheesing it up at their finest. Jon vocally at his best, that guitar solo from Sambora just pure filth. Wonder how the one guy can land Heather Locklear and Denise Richards as spouses? It's all there from 4:07 in this video. Plus it was an excellent song to get the shift to at the school disco...that one time



Scores:
Necro: 2nd
Stu: 12th

11 points to

Electric Nitwit

Biggest discrepancy yet - 10 whole places :eek:

My number 2 choice is not Stu's.. wonder about others in my top 3...

Electric Nitwit

You're dead to me Stu

Incidentally, I did put a lot more emoji's into my paragraphs on each entry, but they were something which clearly got lost while forwarding my words to Necro. Boards PM is a funny one for formatting.

I also had to seriously adjust my Boards swearing methods - fúck had to become fcuk because the Boards PM function shíts itself when you use certain characters like í and ú.

#TheImportantDetails
#BehindTheScenes

Necro

Just shows that just cos it might hit the right spot with one person it won't with another.

I adore Bed of Roses. Would listen to it on loop for an hour probably

Electric Nitwit

Always loved you Necro

Necro

Deleted User wrote: »

Incidentally, I did put a lot more emoji's into my paragraphs on each entry, but they were something which clearly got lost while forwarding my words to Necro. Boards PM is a funny one for formatting.

I also had to seriously adjust my Boards swearing methods - fúck had to become fcuk because the Boards PM function shíts itself when you use certain characters like í and ú.

#TheImportantDetails
#BehindTheScenes

They came across to my google docs as garbled and then I wasn't sure where they were meant to go :pac:

fixXxer

Interesting disparity between write up and score there Stu, to me at least. Reads much better than the score.

quickbeam

Deleted User wrote: »

I also had to seriously adjust my Boards swearing methods - fúck had to become fcuk because the Boards PM function sh itself when you use certain characters like nd ú.

#TheImportantDetails
#BehindTheScenes

I told you, Necro!!! You accused me of editing quoted posts!

Pretzill

fixxxer wrote: »

Interesting disparity between write up and score there Stu, to me at least. Reads much better than the score.

Yeah but the emoji's are missing.

Necro

5th Place - Goldie Lookin Chain - You Knows I Love You

Necro: Loved it the first time I heard this, immediately it went to number 1. I love the comedy element and the chorus cracks me up. On a few relistens it does lose a bit of shine though. And when you put it up against some of the classic ones included in this list does it really stand up against them? Strong category, eventually some of the more classic rock anthems overshadowed it - but this is quality.



Stu Redman: I haven't deep-dived GLC yet in life, but will after this. Never heard this song before and had to give it quite a few listens to get there but it was rewarding. Total grower for me, and the mangled hook 'You knows I Love You Baby' comes back to me hours after listening to the song. This is a great love song "I only got initials cos I couldn't stand the pain","Having 3 kids doesn't bother me","If you were Delboy I'd be the streets of Peckham". Just fcuking brilliant.

Scores:
Necro: 6th
Stu: 6th

13 points to

Banjo

And myself and Stu come bang on with our rating for this.

Funny old game this. First time it's happened.

Electric Nitwit

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

You're dead to me Stu

I know, I know

On another day, Bed of Roses, Don't Stop Believing and another tune yet to come are the Top 3 in this category for me. It's just...it's like giving my siblings all the top jobs at my new company while ignoring other candidates who are equally as good but just not as familiar to me.

Also, I've been gigging some of them rock songs for 20 years now and that unfortunately takes its toll on the grá too.

Electric Nitwit

Ha ha, I love GLC! Seen them live loads, you will not have more fun at any other gig!

fixxxer

fixxxer wrote: »

Interesting disparity between write up and score there Stu, to me at least. Reads much better than the score.

Thanks for noticing that Fixxxer. Absolutely, this round was really tough to score because I genuinely love many songs in this category, even ones which aren't in the Top 10.

Edit: With Bed of Roses, I just rated it as my least favourite out of 3 similar songs which were submitted in this round which I all love. Plus, although we didn't talk about it, I had a feeling Necro's score would help Bed of Roses find its more rightful final placing

quickbeam wrote: »

I told you, Necro!!! You accused me of editing quoted posts!

Wait...did I uncover something here? Is there drama coming??

Necro

Top



On its way!

Necro

4th Place - Seal - Kiss From A Rose

Necro: Ah Seal - one I was actually thinking of when compiling the categories. It really is a great little love song. The only thing about this is that I feel I need to be in a specific type of mood to listen to it. So for that reason it doesn’t score as high for me as maybe it should.



Stu Redman: I just love this song, and Seal's voice is a gift from the cosmos. I was a complete Batman freak when those original Batman movies were released and by the time Batman Forever was released I was really falling in love with music. That (shyte, let's be fair) movie had two chooooons which hooked me - This song, plus U2's Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill me. Kiss From A Rose has such grandeur, the lyrics tell a love story, the music adds that tinge of melancholy and mystery. Plus it has a riffing fcuking oboe. Pure class.



Scores:
Necro: 8th
Stu: 3rd

14 points to

Barney92

A STU TOP 3!!

HYPE!!

Electric Nitwit

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I know, I know

On another day, Bed of Roses, Don't Stop Believing and another tune yet to come are the Top 3 in this category for me. It's just...it's like giving my siblings all the top jobs at my new company while ignoring other candidates who are equally as good but just not as familiar to me.

Also, I've been gigging some of them rock songs for 20 years now and that unfortunately takes its toll on the grá too.

OK, OK, you can make it up to me on the next category

Necro

Still have songs from 4 left to go...

Including two first time entrants.

Standard is just going up, I might have to retire from submitting :pac:

quickbeam

Deleted User wrote: »

Wait...did I uncover something here? Is there drama coming??

Nah, all good. Just glad to be proved right :P

Electric Nitwit

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Ha ha, I love GLC! Seen them live loads, you will not have more fun at any other gig!

Discovery of the round for me, really ended up loving that.

sullivlo

Deleted User wrote: »

Discovery of the round for me, really ended up loving that.

But not enough to place it first :pac: