Walrus 11thish (Pauwl's) - Reveal Thread

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No walrus present. Ban imo.

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I saw the Bunnymen supported by a very young U2, at the Lyceum I think. The Bunnymen were so dull we left half way through their set.

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In 3rd place with 12 points

The Allman Brothers Band – Melissa

“Honestly, it’s quite hard to pick a single song that I can objectively declare to be my favorite. I have a playlist for literally every genre in every era on Spotify and listen to them on rotate. “Melissa” is a near 100% accurate portrayal of my 20s. I lived and travelled to multiple countries during my 20s, never really committing to a relationship abroad or really any deep friendships of any kind. For a time, I did have my Melissa to see and spend my time with back in America but obviously such a thing can only last so long.”

Review

Dickie Betts and Warren Haynes playing back up. No Duane. “So what Pauwl, you fuckin’ guitar snob!”. Dickie Betts is actually an amazing guitar player. He does these happy major sounding solos that are just incredible. On other songs, when they get those dueling solos going, it’s musically so endearing.

I didn’t know Melissa. I do know Jessica and Little Martha. Allman Brothers is a group I’ve listened to here and there but never really dug into. Southern rock isn’t really my thing. You get a bump for submitting a genre I don’t listen to enough and reminding me that there’s some amazing guitar stuff in music I wrongfully don’t give enough credit to.

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For some reason EATB just didn’t take off here like other 80’s brit wave bands. I love them, but the vast majority of americans just don’t know anything except Lips Like Sugar.

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I had a mate who kept playing me their Crocodiles debut album, telling me it was brilliant. It wasn’t.

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I lived in Liverpool, and for a while hung out in the same places as Ian McCulloch, Pete Wylie and The rest of the bands when that scene was just starting. I knew Pete Burns more than the rest after he befriended me after I bought a copy of Hot Love by T Rex at Probe records, one of the very few independant record shops in Liverpool at that time.
True Story, once went to see Echo and the Bunnymen at a very early gig, in a room above a pub, probably 30 people there at the most. Me and the girl I was with were chatting to McCulloch after the gig, I left alone. Couldn’t blame her. He was gorgeous

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Duane died before “Melissa” was created. You’d have to discard everything from Eat A Peach to 2017 if that’s your standard. It’d be like bitching about Metallica because Cliff Burton wasn’t a band member anymore.

EDIT: I picked that one ldo

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Heh, because they didn’t have a sound yet.

Try Ocean Rain or Echo and The Bunnymen (the album)

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fuck you I’m jealous.

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She ain’t a witch
And I love the way she twitch

My favourite childhood song, and still a brilliant single.

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Excellent choice. I have no problem with post Duane stuff. I was just making a guitar player joke how everybody just goes nuts over Duane and Dickie Betts doesn’t get enough credit.

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Curious to see which two topped “Melissa”.

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Great choice. One of my favorite ABB songs for sure. Never heard this acoustic live version.

I am loving this reveal, and you know why? Because people aren’t trying to “play walrus”, they are just submitting songs they enjoy from artists they love. I bet no one had to google to find a submission. Excellent plan on this category, Pauwl.

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In 2rd place with 13 points

Express Rising - Ithaca Summer

“Spent a lot of time obsessing over this one. In the face of those obsessive thoughts I picked a simple classic. Old school downtempo circa 2002 from supreme digger Dante Carfagna.”

Review

I listen to this and really enjoy it. You really have to listen hard to hear the bass melody and the other instruments. Whenever this came on in the playlist, I would stop what I was doing and relax. I’m somewhat sick of music with lyrics right now. I can only find Express Rising on bandcamp. You get the bandcamp bump. I also recently started getting interested in ambient music, so another bump. Great stuff.

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That’s definitely true for me.

#5 was a hard decision since I know nothing about Pauwl. But the others I think are really good.

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I don’t ever do this, which is why I suck at this game lol.

Eta: “I don’t ever do this” was referring to da googlin’

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hard same

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I moved to London 1980, we must have been to some of the same gigs

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Yeah I am pretty confident that I am getting last place in the next category because I couldn’t come up with anything that would fit so I just went with something I already know but was likely a terrible choice of submission.

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Easy game.

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