I don’t think I heard any of these when they were originally submitted, I’ll check them out tomorrow during my sick day.
Suicidal Tendencies is the only out an out banger. Others are kinda meh.
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Time for another round of my drunken thoughts on these songs
Sinful Passion-An inspired choice for the walrus choice of vocal performance. Foreign language, pretty much nothing but vocals, and still really dug it.
Institutionalized-So thing about this song. It was one of the harder songs on Guitar Hero 2. First 10 times I played it, didn’t care for it. Grew to like it over the next 20 plays. Over the next god knows how many plays, well hearing the song again puts a smile on my face. But man song is a challenge on guitar hero 2. Will probably follow my thing of not voting songs I know. Dude just wanted a Pepsi.
Night Witches-Enjoyed it. Good for its genre. Definitely a hype up song.
Wash Your Face in My Sink-Cute catchy song.
Expresso 2222-Another inspired choice. I enjoyed. Infectious is a good word to desctribe it
It’s Nice To Be Alive-Another song putting a smile on face
Choices-Sinful Passion
Institutionalized-I feel like I am bucking what I said just in this post earlier. But hadn’t heard that song for years and was happy to listen to it again.
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Drunk enough to totally forget to rate one song
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I am the true hero of that story.
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Gilberto Gil was robbed, but here are the people you wanted to win reacting live.
Suicidal Tendencies
Dream Warriors
Six more hopefuls shuffle forwards.
Group 8
Keenest among them is Manchester Orchestra with Silence (not literally, of course.)
@LouisCyphre won way back in @ChrisV’s og walrus when it was all about songs that built as they went.
It’s the song I kept coming back to for more listens and gave me more feels than anything else. It was also something entirely new to me in a category full of familiarity. Simple at heart but atmospheric and emotionally-charged, with a satisfyingly intense ending. It connected with me.
Then comes Camp Lo and Luchini (aka This Is It).
@JohnnyTruant bagged a win for duets when @mjiggy was handing out the honours.
Let’s see what our confident submitter wrote to accompany his entry: won’t win but it’s a perfect song. Well well well, now who has egg on his face? Perhaps you took my comments about not knowing much music from my high school days to heart, but I do in fact remember some music from that era and Camp Lo’s Uptown Saturday Night is among my favorites. I’m not sure if it’s a perfect song but it’s at least damn close and it’s our category 2 walrus.
And continuing with Straight Line Stitch explaining What You Do To Me.
@eyebooger triumphed in a category about female fronted rock bands, @CanadaMatt3004 was the one ranking all those women.
Whats better than Sevendust, one of my all time favorite bands?
How about a gender swapped Sevendust?
Fuck me, this is great. I have a real soft spot for black people that can crush metal, and Alexis Brown comes in and murders this song dead. I must have listened to this 15 -20 times since we got the lists.
Straight Line Stitch will be a regular in my rotation going forward.
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Then we have Jim Croce telling us that I Got a Name.
@TheDuker was the one who managed to calm @cassette down best.
I had never heard of this guy, which is exactly what I hope for in a podium track. A great voice and a great melody. It’s calm, hopeful, but not boring. Just an all-round treat. Thanks.
Next Fleetwood Mac with Oh Well Parts 1&2.
@suzzer99 won plaudits from @Jalfrezi when asked to submit London bands.
I saw it was a Fleetwood Mac song and expected Albatross or something over-exposed from Rumours, not this masterpiece of a single from 1969, years before Buckingham and Nicks replaced Peter Green, their first singer and guitarist and a great and often unsung player.
This song (which was used as “inspiration” for the riff for Zeppelin’s Black Dog, it says here), only released in mono, is in two quite distinct parts split over the two sides of a 7" single, and Part 1 will be familiar to many here, a heavy rock/blues number with Green playing second fiddle to Danny Kirwan.
Part 2, a reflective instrumental for Spanish guitars featuring Green and other instruments, shows a clear influence of spaghetti western scores of the day, and was originally intended as the A side, which would have been something.
A great choice, half of which didn’t get much radio play so no dockage for familiarity - nice one if that was in suzzer’s thinking.
(The original was not youtubes and is gone, so you’ll have to watch 2 videos back-to-back. You should as this one is extra awesome.)
And finally for now Robert Wyatt with Shipbuilding.
I won @seities repeat-worthy category with this masterpiece (not my words, see below!)
I had to do some research on this masterpiece. It was written by Elvis Costello, and inspired by the breakout of the Falklands war. It tells the story of a coastal town living through the dichotomy of reaping the financial benefits of building new ships, while at the same time seeing their own sons go off to war to fight from them.
“With all the will in the world, we’re diving for dear life…when we could be diving for pearls.”
What a line. Turns out Costello listed this as one of the best he ever came up with, and it’s hard to disagree. A worthy winner of my first reveal.
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Two clear winners I think, but I guess I have to let you lot fuck it up. Do so below.
Group 8
- Manchester Orchestra - The Silence
- Camp Lo - Luchini AKA This Is It
- Straight Line Stitch - What You Do To Me
- Jim Croce - I Got a Name
- Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well (1 & 2)
- Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
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Robbery!
Oops forgot to listen to the last category. Going chalk this category.
I’m just asking for one song in the bracket.
Straight Line Stitch probably my best shot.
Don’t let me down, UP.
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17 year old me would have been disgusted to know that geriatric me would ever willingly listen to Fleetwood Mac, never mind vote for them but damn if that isn’t a good choice, part 2 especially is a monster.
Shipbuilding is an awesome song, but I’ve always hated the Robert Wyatt version, doesn’t hold a light to The Costello.
can’t get past Camp Lo and Luchini for second vote
I tried listening to one of the songs this round and couldn’t finish it. Not saying which one.
Still not recovered from this post.
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I know it’s verging on heresy but I really just can’t stand his voice
I do not get that song at all and thought it was honestly terrible and I assume that is the song that RC is referring to. Sorry pyat.
You guys know you’re posting these ‘opinions’ in public, yeah?
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Can I get in on the Shipbuilding is awful train here? Its not Melt Banana bad, but woof, how it has 4 votes here is beyond me
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I like Shipbuilding. Almost voted for it.
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