In 12th place with 1 point Stars on 45 - Beatles Medley
This is 16 minutes of The Stars on 45 doing snippets of Beatles numbers in a continuous ‘medley’. I’ve not often chosen to listen to The Beatles and their work all smoothed out to the same drum beat didn’t make me want to revise that, but, you know, it’s still The Beatles. Those 4 cheeky scousers could write a tune and here you only get the bits anyone could recognise.
Something like this could have had a chance, perhaps shamefully I’ve often YouTubed 70s era James Last and his daft instrumental versions of hits, and I love proper jazz people doing pop songs. Here, though, it feels like no one really cared beyond having a cheap way to earn money in a copyright grey zone. The comments are full of people who loved this when they were small children, which seems about right. Apologies if I’m crushing some treasured memories.
I can’t remember, was it you or someone else who submitted something from Godspeed You Black Emperor to me in my walrus? Big mistake for me! This category definitely forced me to submit something that I’m guessing no one would’ve expected from me though.
I’m at this point and this is how I feel, Nelson Mandela was pretty good though.
Wow not familiar with indie darling Neutral Milk Hotel? I actually can’t name a song by them, if I’m being honest, but I do like this one. Can’t really understand it but the pacing and instrumentation are fun.
First place song is cool too. I don’t have much to say about this category, I know everyone is disappointed.
wow should’ve read the room, didn’t realize there was a reveal happening. Not listening to any of these most likely though.
Yeah, it was 6ix. The track he submitted was the second song of two off the same album as that one. It’s their best work, though he picked the wrong one, obviously.
Guess you can used 2x speed if you like, I usually did.
In 11th place with 2 points TOOL - Fear Inoculum
I’m tempted to say this is unlucky to be here. If I was judging by ‘quality’ then it could absolutely be higher, but it just never clicked with me at all and I order by how excited I am when the playlist god gives each tune the nod.
It seems to meander along on a contemporary rock/light metal background rather pleasantly for most of its run. In my head Tool were more prog-y than this, but I’m not certain I’ve listened to them before and wikipedia suggests this is probably fairly representative. Like most metallers they can certainly play their instruments and the track is put together nicely, shifting through several sections without seeming to run out of ideas. It just isn’t my thing, I wanted it to be faster or louder or more complicated, but there’s no reason for that except to pander to my tastes. Sadly for Tool (and the submitter) that’s Walrus.
