I need to know if “Lily was here” is going to show up.
Saxophone category but no jazz yet? shakes head Thank god I’m here. Though I know I’m not winning given jalfrezi’s last comment.
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Don’t know how to break the news to you that Kenny G wasn’t nominated here.
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Ha. A category I considered but then rejected for my Walrus was jazz, but with a no Kenny G stipulation.
You’re neglecting the possibility of a tie.
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There are people who claim to be smooth jazz fans?
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I sincerely hope not. Isn’t that the sort of thing you confess to under extreme duress, not claim?
Can’t resist posting this while I chomp.
In 5th place for 7 points, cassette with “Money” by Pink Floyd
I remember DSOTM being at the top of the album charts for several years and like most kids in the 70s I wore out my copy, so alas this will get penalised for being much too familiar to me.
It was good listening to it again for the first time in a long time, though. There’s not much more to say other than Money is a brilliant and creative song with one of the goat rock sax solos and gave us tons of naughty laughs as schoolboys when we sang the word “bullshit” (swearing in songs being quite rare back then).
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Yeah obviously not breaking any new ground here, but including a sax filters out about 99% of what I listen to.
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In 4th place for 8 points, micobet with “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” by Pink Floyd
The other entry here from this band, which is somewhat ironic for a guitar and synth band.
From the Wish You Were Here album recorded in the mid 70s at Abbey Road, this track charts the plunge into what we now call serious mental illness of their former band leader and mentor Syd Barrett (whose assumed first name is an acronym of part of the song title).
For anyone unaware of this, he also turned up uninvited and unannounced as they were recording this track years after he’d retreated into solitude and had last been seen and seemingly by sheer coincidence.
So much for the background. I get the feeling the band needed this as a cathartic release from the feelings of guilt at abandoning him that they must have harboured for years. I also have a suspicion that micro may have cunningly chosen it knowing how much I like Syd’s music. If so, wp.
It’s an undeniably brilliant and poignant track that also gets penalised for being much too familiar to me.
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Now for the podium entries, and there’s no classic rock.
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3rd spot and 9 points goes to Pauwl for “Coronado” by Deerhunter
I like this piece of retro garage band rock a lot and the sax elevates it further even if the hook sounds lifted from “Liar, Liar”.
The singer has a great expressive but unforced voice and the sax interjections complement him perfectly. It has 60’s production values but I guess that’s intentional for the Nuggets effect, and doesn’t bother me in the least.
Good selection.
I’m enjoying this category from the rail, and I’ll be happy to give y’all the right answer after nobody gets it. 
Feel free to chime in with your pick if it hasn’t appeared.
Cool song, I’m a fan. Might get dragged through the coals for this opinion but does anyone else find Pink Floyd to be a bore? Some of their songs are quite good and they certainly have a unique sound but a lot of their music puts me to sleep.
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In 2nd place for 10 points, pyatnitski with “Hymnus 3” by Zentralquartett
I’m not sure where pyat finds this stuff but most of it’s very interesting, including this quartet’s example of modern (ex-East) German jazz from 1990, where after a quiet piano intro a trombone enters and a sax solos brilliantly to completion.
A very good track that appeals to my tastes a lot, and I love the contrast between trombone and sax here, so a well-judged choice.
N/A on the loltoobz so check it out on Spotify people, because European jazz is quite different to American jazz and it’s not all oom pah pah (though there are clear undertones here).
This was my lock category. This unfamiliarity criterion is bad for me and a huge boon for weirdos like zikzak.
That quickly became the new orthodoxy in the late 70’s after this…
when it was tantamount to signing up for a beating if you admitted liking them.
Then after a few years everyone involved grew up and confessed they’d always liked them really. 
Although it doesn’t show up in Walrus for obvious reasons then that sort of stuff is my musical bread and butter these days. I used to subscribe to the label that record was on (on cd at least), and so get every release. I love those guys, exact sweet spot between order and chaos.
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