I got
10 - @goofy
9 - @LouisCyphre
8 - @CanadaMatt3004
5.5 - @TheDudeAbides, @chupacabre_reprise, @BriansHat, @counterspell
3 - @Tilted
2 - I guess must be @VoteForSocialists
1 - @m_hood115
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working hard, thank you!
5.5! littlesteven.gif
Alright, I hate to say it, but I’m going to have to get to #2 tomorrow. I was wanting to capitalize on the enthusiasm in here now, but as of right now, I’m only really sure of first and last places. I need to mull over some of these some more, and I think most everyone would be asleep by the time I started to reveal.
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I think one reveal a day is a pretty good pace, no need to rush yourself.
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If this category had made it into my upcoming ITYSL walrus, this song would have won the category.
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Alright here we go for round 2. Gonna be posting this a little intermittently today between chores and kids’ activities.
A song about or that at least mentions a segregated part of a city where minorities reside due to political and/or capitalist pressure.
Our one point song just barely meets the theme with a mere mention of a segregated part of the city without really being about it, and it doesn’t have enough going on musically or lyrically to lift it up any higher. It’s an overly saccharine love song that I don’t think I’d have ranked too highly in any Walrus category I’d imagine, unless the rest of the field missed the boat on what I was feeling.
The Lumineers - Ho Hey
lol, 0-2
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this category’s gonna be great
The two point song is on message and is from an appropriate genre I love: the blues. But I mentioned that there’s both opportunity and risk there, and this song fell flat for me. I might have submitted some Buddy Guy or B. B. King or Luther Allison if I were a participant in this category, and this song just feels like a pale imitation. Also hurting this song is just the strength of the other entries. I listened to it pretty early in the set and thought it had a pretty good chance of doing well, but I had my mind blown and horizons broadened by some songs yet to come.
The Kinks - Slum Kids
The nodium this round concludes with a song that is a classic, that’s a perfect thematic fit, and that’s historically important. It finds itself here mainly because it just doesn’t hold up all that well, with some additional minus points for being more of a Sheep pick than a Walrus pick. Even setting aside the rampant misogyny among many problematic elements, it just sounds dated at this point in terms of both the backing beat and the flow. I can recognize this song’s importance in the history of hip hop and of gansta rap in particular, but that doesn’t mean I want to listen to it all the time.
Eazy E - Boyz-n-the-Hood
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phew dodged the nodium again
Good God, maybe I should have played!
The creamy center of our reveal this round was really, really hard for me to rank. One of them’s got to be 4th, so it’ll be this one. The main knock here is theme fit. It uses the word “Ghetto,” but it’s not really about one. “Ghetto” is used mainly a descriptor for the main characters unexpectedly injected into Western fan fiction told via an unconventional medium. Sadly, this fan fiction has no real plot. We meet and assemble the team, and then they ride off into the sunset. Musically, it’s got a nice easy flow on top of a simple beat that serves mainly as a foundation on which you can place some Old West sounds: harmonicas, horses, roosters, whips, etc. Kinda wish the story went somewhere.
Bone Thugz N Harmony - Ghetto Cowboy
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One of my future picks is in trouble
I avoided the nodium! OMG OMG OMG.
ETA: Avoided the nodium, high on the hopium.
For this one, you get to click on the song first before hearing my take on it.
I expected to get hip hop, blues, and some (Western) pop. African music was not on my radar at all, so I was pretty shocked when I clicked play on this one. It’s kinda catchy, though, even if ti’s not my usual jam. I read up a bit on it and was amused at its use in both conventional protest and righteous trolling. So, thanks for expanding my musical horizons.
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While I thought that one was a shocker, that was nothing compared with this one:
What in the ever living fuck is this doing here? I thought “Mury” was going to be some dude! What damn language is this, anyway?
It was really, really, really tempting to relegate this to the nodium and just go on with life thinking someone had sent me the wrong link or something, But, the link lined up with the supplied title and artist, and I ultimately concluded that would not be fair, and I might be missing out on an opportunity to learn something. So, I went and learned some things.
I was especially amused by how the song became a self-fulfilling prophecy, and the melody grows on you when you play it a few times while trying to make sense of it. Like Gimme Hope Jo’Anna, it’s not really my jam, but I appreciate learning something.
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That’s a good one. I still remember it being quite popular back in the day.
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