Let’s face it: This is now a Walrus forum operating under the guise of being a politics forum. As such, @cassette posted a request for entrants to a new “Quickie” Walrus over at Walrus Quickie: Sign up thread and it filled up faster than you can slap your fins together.
This is a Walrus for those who couldn’t join the Cassette Walrus, both of which are being run alongside the Kingvaldo Walrus. Got it? Great!
Consider the Cassette and Seities Walruses quick impromptu romps, as compared to the longer, more tender and foreplay-filled affair that is Kingvaldo Walrus.
Use this thread to signal your intent to join :-)
The rules:
This Walrus is open to up to 10 entrants, who are not in the Cassette Walrus.
Copy/pasting some of the text Cassette used because I am lazy:
Send me a youtube or Spotify link to a song for each category (Seities note - I prefer youtube links because they are easier to share but I do use Spotify daily myself so its ok). Gather them all together in one PM. I will then “rank” them according to my own arbitrary tastes and assign 10 points for first place, 9 points for second, and so on. The ranking is meant to be fun and an opportunity for some good-natured abuse of my poor taste, but the main idea is for everyone to hear some new music and discuss one another’s picks.
Categories:
#1. A song that you can listen to on repeat. If you can’t answer that, just submit a song you have heard a lot and don’t get tired of.
#2. A song that draws you in. Maybe its a song that always gives you goosebumps at a particular spot, or a song that always demands more of your attention when it’s playing.
#3. A song you like that is 3 minutes or less.
#4. An angry song. Maybe the singer screams a lot, or maybe the lyrics are about being angry at a person or situation. It’s up to you how you interpret it.
#5. A song you like from a genre you don’t usually like.
I want to give some direction to what I enjoy but actually worry that it will be misleading. I have a very eclectic taste and over time I have listened to a lot of grunge, metal, prog metal, hardcore punk, electro (with hard leanings), and I have a long list of alt/pop/rap scattered through my playlists.
A few scoring notes:
- As usual, you are liable to some sort of ranking penalty if the song is very popular/well-known.
- Be mindful of song length if you can. Try to keep submissions under 10 minutes, and generally something closer to 5 minutes is better.
- Aside from that rankings will be quite arbitrary and based on what I think I am most likely to add to a playlist for future listening, my mood at the time, and the position of Earth relative to Jupiter. I’ll listen to each song more than once but no guarantees beyond that. I reserve the right to say your submission was shit in whatever way amuses me at the time, and you can go ahead and say I am shit and so is anything I have ever cared about. This is just for funzies.
Deadline for sign up and submissions is by the end of the day Sunday and I’ll be doing my best to alternate with Cassette daily for our reveals.
