Why do not you swap places with pyat, if you’re not doing anything constructive
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lol, because I am meant to be working ;)
But I am happy to do tomorrow or Wednesday, depending on which of those days goatnitski prefers.
edit because you added the photo
Don’t give me that look Mr!
Rockin that UP shirt btw.
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Ok. No worries. No pressure etc
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Was trying to do the incredulous/ raised eyebrow expression, but it’s fish-face Instagram skank wannabe influencer.
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Hey guys, we’re famous.
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I think I’m also easy, so if you do have a preference let me know, but for now I’ll say you keep tonight (Tuesday) and I’ll do Wednesday.
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I think my run of nodiums likely to continue. Pretty sure seities is going to hate my entry. it will be the best song in the list though
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The Cyan Gang
Yuv
mjiggy
seities
miliboo
SwankyWilder
Rexx
Pauwl
cassette
pyatnitski
Wow I am honored. I probably spend the most time in the Donald Trump thread but I often fall hundreds of posts behind and spend all my time reading it rather than posting. Then I post in the walrus threads, video games, and cooking. Surprised the difference is that great though.
I am on for today. Reveal will start roughly 4 hours from now, which means Swanky’s song will be revealed roughly 4 hrs 1 min from now.
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Expecting a nice mid tier finish although I’d be less surprised with a nodium than a podium. Feel free to surprise me. I thought about submitting something I knew you would like but I was worried about being penalized for familiarity.
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My track here is an absolute barnstormer, possibly my favourite submission, but given the philistine judging once gave Leonard Cohen last place I’d be a fool to expect justice.
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Still on track for a reveal to start in about 3 hours.
It was interesting for me to see the results of the poll I put up on whether it was easy to find a song for this category. I probably wouldn’t run this category again given some people found it quite difficult. I would really rather allow people to connect something they like and want to share, rather than having to dig for something that might fit the requirement. But there was not one song in this group that I disliked. Well…technically there was half a song, but I’ll get to that later ;-)
As I was listening I started to reflect on when I even started to like screams in music. It didn’t take me long to remember that my first real band obsession was Nirvana, so there we have it.
Still, there are so many ways to bring that into a song, whether it’s a 2 second growl somewhere, a 15 second wail, or screaming every word. And even having built up quite a tolerance for it given my early infatuation with grunge and metal, and my more recent interest in punk hardcore, I still find it completely off-putting in a lot of cases. Even within punk hardcore where screaming every word is about standard, I can’t listen to a lot of bands because I don’t like the particular way they scream the lyrics.
I guess it is one of those elements for me that can make me switch off a song after 5 seconds and never want to hear it again, or it can completely energize me or even give me goosebumps.
Anyhow, given the polarizing nature of screams in music I guess it will be interesting to see if others take something new away from this category. I certainly have.
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I’ll be amazed and, what’s more, downright distraught if Diamanda Galas doesn’t make an appearance here.
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Investigating for this one I found out she’d done an album with John Paul Jones at one point. The cover is pretty great.
They must have had tons of fun doing that. I knew he was a big fan of hers in the 90s.
It’ll only be worth 1 point in a walrus though.
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I never know proper Walrus etiquette. I want to post a couple I considered but rejected but not sure if that’s cool. I guess I can wait until after.
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I don’t particularly care, but I think probably after is better with the perspective of the full reveal to add onto.
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