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Hero Value's Walrus REVEAL! Hero Value's Walrus REVEAL!

07-29-2014 , 01:57 PM
Hey guys!





(I know, an actual reveal)

The players (11 total):

Abnormal
Bloobird
Captain Binkles
Gambit8888
Jabonator
Kaidus
Mexineil
Nick Royale
SuqAta8
Tappokone
Tentacle

The categories:

1. A song that you repeatedly played over and over on the first time of hearing it, and think I'll do the same
2. A song that motivates you in some way
3. The greatest air guitar track that I've never heard before
4. A song that's out of my comfort zone
5. A song that contains your all-time favourite lyrics in it
6. A song that makes great use of half-time (or has a interesting, changing drum beat).
7. One of your favourite performances of a song that you saw live
8. A song that you think would be semi-unfamiliar to me
9. An emotional song, or a song with passion and feeling
10. A song with a great and suiting video.

Scoring system:

11th = 1
10th = 2
9th = 3
8th = 4
7th = 5
6th = 7
5th = 9
4th = 12
3rd = 15
2nd = 19
1st = 25

Sign up thread for all the other info: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/59...gn-up-1460139/

Reveal of the first cat will be later today. probably in around a couple of hours.
The reveals will probably be every other day. If I get the time, they'll sometimes be on back to back days, or I might try and reveal 2 cats in one day (although not so likely with FTOPS starting in 5 days). The reveals will probably be around 7-11pm UK time.
Thanks for the entries guys. I know some of the cats were tough, so I appreciate where a lot of time and effort was spent.

Now let's walrus!

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07-29-2014 , 03:31 PM
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07-29-2014 , 03:32 PM
Can I still enter this?
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07-29-2014 , 03:56 PM
Having some spreadsheet troubles atm, but will start up the first cat reveal after that, hopefully in about an hour.
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Originally Posted by Willi
Can I still enter this?
Nope, just about to start revealing the first cat :/
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07-29-2014 , 05:13 PM
Category 1: A song that you repeatedly played over and over on the first time of hearing it, and think I'll do the same

And we're underway!

Sooo many "correct" answers for this cat, personally I would have had a bunch of different ways that I could have gone with it. 3 stand out for me from the last year or 2 though:

45 by the Gaslight Anthem, which I 've entered to a Walrus before, but is my most-played track on iTunes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oST77VRHXt0

Take a Walk by Passion Pit, which is so damn catchy, and has recently randomly come back into my head:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZX6Q-Bj_xg

But I would have likely entered Yiruma - River flows in you. I've been waiting for a Walrus to enter this to for a while. It's just ridiculously beautiful, and I played it a lot, and also even learned/tried to learn it on the piano:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmXG7k5hcM0 -

I thought this was going to be one of, if not the strongest cat, and I was hoping for a bunch of new, cool and catchy music for it, but not gonna lie, it was kind of disappointing, and probably one of the weaker cats. It was really tough to mark the top half of it, as there were no real stand out tracks.

And so without further ado, lettuce reveal...
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07-29-2014 , 05:21 PM
In 11th, scoring 1 point

Spoiler:
Tentacle with Bang Bang Bang by Mark Ronson & The Business Int
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM6TCGltfHM

Well, as I already said to you, I kind of hated this song. So you probably anticipated it wouldn't do well . And kind of the key thing about this cat is that I wouldn't have heard the song before, but this was huge. I just find it really annoying tbh, and catchy but not in a good way. And I did actually listen to the whole thing again to be fair. Also it kind of tilts me that a lot of the main song lyrics make no ****ing sense. Even the French part, which I actually googled.
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07-29-2014 , 05:29 PM
In 10th, scoring 2 points

Spoiler:
Kaidus with Hail the Apocalypse by Avatar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKe8jze56Vg

This was just too heavy and dark for me. Including lovely lyrics such as “All flesh is equal when burnt.” The guitar lines were slightly redeeming though.
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07-29-2014 , 05:39 PM
In 9th, scoring 3 points

Spoiler:
Tappokone with Demon Cleaner by Kyuss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Ske2eKX2g

Well I already knew this song, I'm a pretty big fan of a Tool, but in this song I just find the vocals pretty droning and boring, and there's just something about the guitar lines and vocals which sounds harsh and unpleasant to me.
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07-29-2014 , 05:43 PM
boo this man!

Demon Cleaner is a sick song
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07-29-2014 , 05:45 PM
In 8th, scoring 4 points

Spoiler:
Abnormal with Shakin' All Over by Wanda Jackson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzDfYidKU5c

The big band groove for the first minute was kind of cool, but then she opens her little mouth, and it just doesn't measure up to it. I also thought it was kind of fragmented and didn't find it very catchy.
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07-29-2014 , 05:47 PM
In 7th, scoring 5 points

Spoiler:
SuqAta8 with None Shall Pass by Aesop Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeh6jhHLgtg

This had some decent flow, and the synth melody behind it was kind of an earworm, but I found it a bit bland generally.
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07-29-2014 , 05:52 PM
Now getting onto the songs that I liked that were tough to rank:

In 6th, scoring 7 points

Spoiler:
Bloobird with Head Home by Midlake*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dQMHBy3NvQ

This had some nice melodies, but kind of downbeat and nothing particularly stand out for me. Pleasant to listen to, but didn't find it catchy.
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07-29-2014 , 05:58 PM
In 5th, scoring 9 points

Spoiler:
Nick Royale with Here's your future by The Thermals*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPsdjlPVaJU

This was pretty cool, kind of interesting and punky. Interesting lyrics too, I like it's lolling at Noah's Ark, which it seems to be doing, and generally at the Bible. Fwiw your other Thermals song I hadn't heard before and would probably have done a bit better.
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07-29-2014 , 06:01 PM
In 4th, scoring 12 points

Spoiler:
Jabonator with The Moments In Between by The Reign of Kindo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUPILO5ycqg

This was nice, it had a slow, teasing build, and it was good once it got into it and the other instruments kicked in.
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07-29-2014 , 06:05 PM
ZOMG PODIUM.

In 3rd, scoring 15 points

Spoiler:
Captain Binkles with Mr Maker by The Kooks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECB-CzB2iCk

This was simply just fun, nice, and catchy.
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07-29-2014 , 06:15 PM
In 2nd, scoring 19 points

Spoiler:
Mexineil with Everybody Needs A Nemesis by Fighting With Wire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG7kU5J9oUQ

I liked this quite a lot. Decent melodies, layering and in your face-ness. I changed my mind on this about 5 times between 1st and 2nd.
(Didn't rank it on this, but) This video was kind of tilting though, like we never get to find out why the guy is just looking like a moody dick throughout the whole video, it just ends with no explanation, and everyone looks depressed at the end of it.
Spoiler:
+2 Bonus points for best new music

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07-29-2014 , 06:15 PM
And Drum roll please...
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07-29-2014 , 06:21 PM


In 1st, scoring 25 points

Spoiler:
Gambit8888 with Mellowship Slinky in B Major by Red Hot Chili Peppers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StaAGRWQZaM

Love a bit of Old school Chilis. I could even anticipate the pitch of the first note of the song before it started . So yeah unfortunately I had heard it, but I still love it, just funky as hell, great instrumental parts, and catchy too. Changed my mind a bunch about this one's rank, as I didn't think it's quite fair this ships after I already knew it, but it's original and otherwise fitting, and I eventually just decided that it's just too good of a song not to Walrus .
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07-29-2014 , 06:29 PM
Mellowship wins? Thats not even one of their top ten imo

Confirmed rustled
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07-29-2014 , 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by SuqAta8
Mellowship wins? Thats not even one of their top ten imo

Confirmed rustled
It's original and rarer, and it's so musically/instrumentally interesting that I would def want to listen to it again. And as I said, I just didn't think it was a very strong cat. Also, I have a soft spot for it as my band was learning it years ago.
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07-29-2014 , 08:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Hero Value
Now getting onto the songs that I liked that were tough to rank:

In 6th, scoring 7 points

Spoiler:
Bloobird with Head Home by Midlake*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dQMHBy3NvQ

This had some nice melodies, but kind of downbeat and nothing particularly stand out for me. Pleasant to listen to, but didn't find it catchy.


great pick
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07-29-2014 , 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Hero Value
In 1st, scoring 25 points

Gambit8888
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07-29-2014 , 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by SuqAta8
Mellowship wins? Thats not even one of their top ten imo

Confirmed rustled
Please to be seeing your top 10 list of Chilli Peppers songs

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07-29-2014 , 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted by gambit8888
Please to be seeing your top 10 list of Chilli Peppers songs

my top 30 in no special order:

Spoiler:
under the bridge
this is the place
dont forget me
the zephyr song
cant stop
tear
midnight
scar tissue
otherside
californication
this velvet glove
ill be your domino
if you want me to stay
the brother's cup
millionaires against hunger
soul to squeeze
my friends
fortune faded
brendan's death song
meet me at the corner
pretty little ditty
tearjerker
strip my mind
hey
warped
slow cheetah
hard to concentrate
turn it again
animal bar
death of a martian
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07-29-2014 , 09:32 PM
Well while most of them are very good, some of them are def not better than Mellowship imo, and not as catchy or fitting for this category in interestingness and listen-againability (yeah, that's a term). Also, even Mozart's 30th best composition is going to be better than my sister's best composition.
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