In at #10 for 8 points is @pyatnitski with The Kinks and Oklahoma, USA
While this isn’t, Lola, this is a beautiful example of their sound and vocals that made them legends. I can only imagine what these British kids were thinking back in 1971 when they wrote this. The song is about a girl (woman) longing for something better.
“But in her dreams she is far away,
In Oklahoma U.S.A.”
Can you imagine pining for Oklahoma? Me neither. But it’s a beautiful tune and worthy of our top 10.
At #9 for 9 points is @Pauwl with The Zombies and She’s Not There
Wiki tells me that this brilliant song from 1964 was the band’s debut single. It’s the sound of a generation that the power to instantly transform you to that place and that time. Rolling Stone puts it as #297 on its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. For this list, it’s good for 9th. Largely bc I’ve heard it a million times before. And they were used in a plumbing ad. But a great song.
Hay frend thought you would be happy to know they recently got this band back together after a long hiatus and plan to release a new record in April. I’ll keep you apprised as the date draws near
I listened to your song with the hope of offering solidarity but ngl I couldn’t get through it. If i’m being honest I haven’t liked a lot of the walrus songs people have shared and so far mine have done quite poorly. It’s actually cool that everyone has their own tastes! Gives us all more to sample from.
I’m listening to your song right now and I like it. Walrus has made me reevaluate what I like in music and what I listen for and I think I mostly just resonate with how a song makes me feel more than what the lyrics say or the structure of the song. If a song makes me smile or want to dance, that’s good! This song had me nodding along even if I couldn’t quite make out what was fully going on on my crappy work computer.
Yup this (and mjiggy I love that you started playing and really like your approach).
I really love music and I really enjoy this game (enough to want to run one of them myself) and I have never had a pick get to the podium. It doesnt bother me at all because the sharing is still fun, I find other music I would never have found otherwise, and at some point I will suggest something that will really resonate with someone and that alone makes me happy.
On that note, @skydiver8 I spent hours listening to the BT Electronic Opus album yesterday and will spend hours more going through the rest of the BT Catalogue and pulling out the tracks I like. I had never heard of them until you had them in one of these Walrus threads
fwiw I woke up this morning with Bandelero replaying in my head. The fkn song I put last in my reveal, and its the one on repeat in my head this morning.
I was pretty upset when my first ever selection and I song I really love got last place in my first walrus but I got over it after listening to some of the other songs and reading people’s commentary. I used to be a lot more into music and play guitar so it’s been nice to rekindle some of those old feelings, even if I haven’t liked a lot of the music that we’re all playing.
I did not get Bandelero at all but tbh I didn’t get the first place song in your reveal either so take that information as you will.
in at #8 for 10 points @LouisCyphre with The Wildhearts and Suckerpunch
Much of the music coming up benefits by being something I wasn’t familiar with before and being pretty awesome. Not going to try and argue that it’s better music than what’s come before. Because it’s not. But what it is is loud, fast and fun. She got me. With a suckerpunch
Is it the latest ditty from Acidic Vaginal Liquid Explosion Generated By Mass Amounts Of Filthy Fecal Fisting And Sadistic Septic Syphilic Sodomy Inside The Infected Maggot Infested Womb Of A Molested Nun Dying Under The Roof Of A Burning Church While A Priest Watches And Ejaculates In Immense Perverse Pleasure Over His First Fresh Fetus?