Walrus. The game where you are given a joke synth-pop song about boning and a 16th-century piece of choral sacred music and asked to explain which is superior. We will solve this and many other great mysteries tonight. Let us commence.
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Remember the category now
Category 4: A song with the capability to shift your mood when it comes on.
I found this category a bit on the weak side, but unlike Category 2 I didnât feel out of my depth, so itâs all good. I have a pretty good idea of where I want things to go, even if I donât know whatâs coming third yet. I think if I had my time over Iâd avoid categories like this and the previous one, which tend to unnecessarily restrict the pool of songs people can choose from.
What would I have submitted?
As you might imagine, I got a solid amount of upbeat pop for this category and Iâd have gone in that direction as well, with Summertime by The Sundays:
Does what it says on the tin. Evocative of carefree sunny days spent outside.
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Not the worst song you could have picked for my odds
YeaaahhhâŚsoooo⌠thatâs not the direction I went.
Iâm gonna switch to Katrina & The Waves â Iâm walking on sunshine
In 15th place, scoring 1 point, jalfrezi with Another Green World by Brian Eno
Man, put me solidly in the âdid not get itâ camp here. The first time I listened to it, I was like âman this piece of silence before the next part of this song is really long⌠wait, thatâs IT?â. Those were my thoughts on subsequent listens as well. Never even glimpsed this pieceâs appeal.
âPlease stay on the line. Your call is important to us. The next availableâŚâ
I mean, to be fair, it could completely change your mood from âhappyâ to âWTF did I just listen to.â
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In 14th place, scoring 2 points, NotBruceZ with Everybody Loves Me, Baby by Don McLean
The jokes about the song (and the poster, given that current monstrosity of a thread) write themselves.
Not only did I not enjoy this but I thought the chord progressions sounded near identical to American Pie. It felt like he was singing a variation on it at some points.
Enoâs one of the most varied and pioneering musicians in existence. Started with Roxy Music I think. I have an LP somewhere of âMy Life in the Bush of Ghostsâ which I have played exactly once. He did an album called Atmospheres which is basically ambient Aphex Twin but a decade earlier.
Goodbye, Goebs80.
In 13th place, scoring 3 points, Goebs80 with Goodbye, Stranger by Supertramp
Going mainstream and failing to nail the judgeâs taste is a good way to end up near the bottom in a walrus. Iâve never liked this song, the falsetto section I just find annoying.
Hereâs a shared experience the Kids Of Today will never have: did you guys shop at secondhand record stores when you were young? There were those artists where there would always be like 20 copies of their albums for sale. I feel like Supertramp were a prominent example of this.
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His breathrough album was âMusic for airportsâ
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I would like to add context here for everyone else. It makes me laugh no matter the circumstance bc of the American version of The Office with the Michael Scott cover.
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Those were easy. I was less sure about what to put next.
In 12th place, scoring 4 points, skydiver8 with The Unbreakable by BT
I listen to a fair amount of EDM and while there are a couple BT tracks I like (Mercury and Solace and Satellite come to mind) in general I find him anodyne and thatâs definitely my take on this. This is also very much a victim of the âmore than 10 minutes long, I had better love itâ maxim.
Feeling bad is an occupational hazard of being a walrus judge and at this point Iâm starting to feel like skydiver8 and I are not going to connect here. In fact, I felt bad enough to be putting this here that I peeked ahead at what she submitted for the next category to see if things were on the up, and was like âhmmmmmmâ. The rest of you will get the joke next reveal. (btw, I havenât listened to it or to any of Category 5 yet).
luckily the next track is literally nothing like this one
C+C Music Factory?
no, but like i said, next time iâll have to play this like Lodden Thinks
In 11th place, scoring 5 points, Johnny Truant with Hope Sheâll Be Happier by Bill Withers
Yikes. Johnny definitely didnât go in the upbeat pop direction on this one.
Great singer, donât really like the song. That three-note guitar line that goes through much of it starts to get on my nerves after a while. Not a lot of light and shade. I see the appeal, but I donât feel it myself.