Robert Plant was definitely into other genres moving into country. There are a few countryish songs in later Zeppelin albums and then Plant did rockabilly/R&B with the Honeydrippers.
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I keep reading this as gender-bending and getting confused. Also yeah this is the kind of stuff I like from her so far, thanks!
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The third particularly. His move to rockabilly was a retrace to his roots. He went through a period in the 90s when he couldn’t even listen to his own recordings with Zep because he found them so verbose. He toned it down a lot for the Krauss collaboration.
She didn’t even sing for quite a while. got her start as a fiddle prodigy… Here she is at 15, winning contests.
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Quick update - the last reveal I dont think I am going to get to the last reveal today. I’ll either bust it out tomorrow or Thursday.
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Should do my final reveal in about 2 hours from now. I did have the rankings done but now I need to move cassette to last place and rejig a few things…
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Tough but fair!
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I’m only planning on doing a walrus so I can give cassette last place in every category
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Ok, about to get things going here.
As a reminder, this is Category #2. A song that draws you in. Maybe its a song that always gives you goosebumps at a particular spot, or a song that always demands more of your attention when it’s playing.
This category was definitely the hardest to do the reveal for. Ya’ll really brought it for this one. I took something from every submission here, but you know how this goes…I can’t give every track 1st spot, so I had to find a way to rank. No matter how arbitrary.
Grab yourselves a warm drink. I’ll be back momentarily.
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In 6th place, with 1 point:
SkyDiver8 - All Hail The Silence - The Alarm
Maybe a little surprising given you know BT was a hit with me. I like all the components of this. But I just felt like it was about 1-2 minutes longer than I wanted and this was a super tough category.
With that said, you are responsible for what is likely gonna take up the most of my time after this Walrus is over by introducing me to BT. I have all their music loaded up into one giant playlist.
SkyDiver8 finishes with 16 total points.
Strong start, this song is pretty sweet. Consider me drawn. It is long though, I’m at 3 minutes and it feels like it should be wrapping up.
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That wheat tho
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In 5th place, with 2 points:
JohnnyTruant - Israel Kamakawiwo’ole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow_What A Wonderful World
Man, if there is a hell I feel like I’m going there for putting something this beautiful in 5th place.
I’ve spent far too much time procrastinating on Reddit, and every time there is a thread started for “most beautiful song” or something this song gets mentioned. Apparently the “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” recording came out of a moment of inspiration late night/early AM. Here’s the Wiki info:
The song was originally recorded in a spur-of-the-moment in 1988. Israel called the recording studio at 3 am, and was given 15 minutes to arrive by recording engineer Milan Bertosa. Bertosa is quoted as saying “And in walks the largest human being I had seen in my life. Israel was probably like 500 pounds. And the first thing at hand is to find something for him to sit on.” The building security found Israel a large steel chair. “Then I put up some microphones, do a quick sound check, roll tape, and the first thing he does is ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow.’ He played and sang, one take, and it was over.”
Here’s the thing - I just don’t like the two songs being mashed together here as much. In a really tight category it was enough for me to land this one in 5th. That said, wow….what a voice. So, so beautiful.
JohnnyTruant finishes with 17 total points and the satisfaction that he may have doomed me to an eternity in the fiery pits of hades.
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In 4th place with 3 points
Rexx - Ultravox - Vienna
This was really cool. It probably shows my ignorance that I didn’t know of this song already, but in my defence it came out before I was born. Still, it feels a bit ahead of its time? Everything about this song for me is about how the vocals soar over the top of the catchy sound underneath. I didn’t much care for the instrumental breakdown in the middle but really liked everything else around it. Fits the category really well and sent me googling for more information about the song and what it meant. Unlucky to miss the podium, this is some inspired stuff.
Rexx finishes with 15 total points. I am literally going to put on that Mental as Anything tune now to cheer me up some and help power me through the rest of this reveal.
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“Too many times, too many times…”
I think Skydiver submitted this for a different walrus.
I saw that and laughed.
In 3rd place with 4 points
RiskyFlush - Sara Bareilles - Hold My Heart
Does anybody know…how to hold my heart?
So yeah, that line pretty much just takes my feels and uses them as a punching bag. And to make matters worse, I went and looked up a live version:
I almost needed to get on the couch with a tub of icecream after that. Really good choice.
RiskyFlush finishes with 18 points.
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Ive got that playing now!
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Yeah they mentioned they thought they submitted it for another one actually. ¯_(ツ)_/¯