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Indeed. 
This round’s winner of 11 points is MimosaDef with “Darkest Light” by Lafayette Afro Rock Band
Well here’s a thing. Coincidentally sampled in Dodger’s selection, a fabulous intro and groove sets up this great piece of primal funk from the early 70s.
Wiki tells me it’s been sampled by numerous other artists including Public Enemy, Ice Cube and Jay-Z and I’m not surprised because it sounds almost definitive of its type and therefore gets maximum points and me annoying people by whistling it sometimes. I’d be happy if it went on for 20 minutes which is how I often feel about songs with a persistently deep rhythmic hook.
It was a close thing between this and Zentralquartett but this has so much feeling, and every time I came back to this I was sure.
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Congrats MimosaDef on a really great track.
Thanks @Jalfrezi! BTW, since Walrus now seems to haunt everything I do, I was in a random thread (non-music, I think) in which @Trolly posted some Lafayette Afro Rock Band songs and I immediately panicked thinking he had chosen this track and somehow jinxed my entry. But it was just a good karma post, I guess.
And nice reveal. :) I’m reading my son Book 7 of Harry Potter (my first time- pretty good!) so I missed the middle of this in real time, but getting into the songs I missed now.
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Hmm. It’s not a bad criterion for you if you could soul read me for 8 points every round.
eg if you’d gone with Great Gig In The Sky for female vocalist you wouldn’t have won but I couldn’t not have given you lots of points.
That was contender, but I’m trying to not pick all classic rock.
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How in the heck did nobody submit Madness?!?
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I think if I ever do another of these (I don’t feel the cross-Atlantic time difference is working out too well) I’ll explicitly exclude some bands/artists to stop you and Rexx from gaming it.
A band that features a sax is a band that has some respect for the history of American music. I’m glad to see Springsteen represented here, but I was expecting some George Thorogood, maybe some Southside Johnny. This would have been my pick, a 1982 live performance by the Blasters that features not one but two different saxophones. Added bonus - it seems like somebody must have borrowed their dad’s new betamax camcorder to shoot the video.
I’m not really gaming it. We just both like pink Floyd.
I did try to game it with rivaldo a bit by putting in a lot of guitar solos, but that didn’t work with kingofny and not even that well with rivaldo.
No one went with this classic?
I was kidding but it’s a valid strategy for someone to use once they’ve got a handle on it and we end up with a walrus full of the same type of music, which is the opposite to what we want.
You weren’t really rankled at the ranking for The Magic Flute, were you?
No. I’m not going to get rankled about any walrus judgments ever or at least I hope not.
You’re doing well with your commentary. Props.
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Just echoing this - This is an enjoyable thread to rail and I like your commentary.
wtf gaming it I’m old and approaching dementia, Baker St is the only one I could remember and it didn’t even rank highly! now microbet is a completely different situation and I wouldn’t blame you for banninig him in future walruses you run. Just saying…
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I have come to the conclusion that I am playing walrus entirely wrong and I might just give up the ghost.
Come ON…Soundgarden (one of the all time great bands) with a sax? how the fuck isn’t that higher? Am I too hipster here, thinking outside the box?
ugh.
I should just submit the first song that comes to mind in every category, even if they have 41 million views on youtube
Sorry sky. I just don’t like Soundgarden as much as I know I’m supposed to.
The bitterness and extreme highs and lows of walruses are awesome!
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And when you’re running one and you know people can go through those ups and downs it makes you feel slightly rotten to rank someone near the bottom.
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