Wow the bookending of this category is amazing, just listening to the first place song now. My theory: Mimosa was going to submit Rump Shaker and on a whim decided to check out the song it sampled in and sent that instead. I haven’t listened to the #2 song yet and legit don’t know what would have won for me in this category but it was a fun one.
@skydiver8 I generally like Soundgarden and didn’t particularly care for that song tbf.
For anyone reading this thread, should we (meaning me) start another walrus now or should we let the existing ones breath some more?
I’m enjoying your write ups. Nice one. I’m not sure that your timezone is an issue. I think 2-3 people railing live is about average, but maybe I have a bad memory.
I think you could start an interest thread and give time for submissions. Ideally you wouldn’t overlap reveals with pyat but it does take quite a while between first interest thread and first reveal.
Agree with cassette. It’s probably fine to do an interest thread soon-ish, and maybe give yourself some buffer time between submission cut-off and when you will start your reveals. The reveals take more work than it looks like, so I think you will appreciate it if you have a head start on the early categories and some of the commentary you want to provide.
Let us begin the penultimate round of reveals in this walrus.
Like the first round, this was another round that, in hindsight, probably put too tight a constraint on people, so that I’m a bit lukewarm about a lot of the entries is on me, but on we go…
Category 4, A track with a girl’s name in the title/chorus/lyrical hook
In 11th place for 1 point, pyatnitski with “Morgana” by John Renbourn
Pyat’s really going shit or bust with this one, a piece of trad English folk from 1969 from a founder member, along with Bert Jansch (whose teach yourself guitar book launched a thousand music careers) and other esteemed musicians, of folk/jazz crossover band Pentangle.
From the album Sir John Alot of Merrie Englandes Musyk Thyng & Ye Grene Knyghte (I kid you not). Considering the album preceding it was called Another Monday the title’s clearly a piss-take in the vein of Monty Python’s Knights Who Say “Ni”.
I have to declare a dislike of most English folk music of this ilk and of the flute outside of classical music (admittedly this may stem from having learned to play it after falling in love with some of Bach’s compositions on the morning radio as a schoolkid). Nice guitar ruined for me by extraneous instruments, but it’s not you, it’s me. Sorry.
In 10th spot for 2 points, DodgerIrish with “Taylor” by Jack Johnson
I didn’t like the arrangement or the overly breathy vocals that cynical old gits like me suspect are usually a substitute for something that’s missing. I also found it a bit easy listening which really ain’t my bag, sorry.
I had so much trouble trying to find something for this one. Although I love instrumentals from Bert, John and the rest, I know from experience that many people just hear boring background music.
I realised last night the song I was trying to remember that had a woman’s name was this one, but given the write up I suspect it may have met the same fate.
