WALRUS (congrats to the winners / go join heltris walrus)

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tempted to join and only submit billy joel songs

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8 Billy Joel adjacent youtube videos deployed

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if two people submit the same song, will the second listen lose out on the novelty scoring?

same question but for 9 people

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petition for entries submitted on time to receive 0.0035 bonus points

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rabble

i was planning to listen to this while getting my lecture presentation together

<disappointed

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petition for entries submitted on time to receive 0.0035 bonus points

I'd like to submit an addendum making the bonus for on time entries 0.00411 points

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wait
are we trying to win
i thought the goal was to annoy schaddington with William Joel songs

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oh I didnt do this
I came up with a single song and then that was it
I will un-participate I'm sorry for wasting ur time

u can still submit

oh no

the goal was to annoy us
we've all lost

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i'm just gonna post Radiohead videos to demonstrate my dissatisfaction

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he looks like a kpop idol in that thumbnail

they are musical chameleons

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i plan to do categories week by week so the first reveal will probably be next weekend or sooner

i don't have enough cringey thom yorke videos to fill this much of a programming gap

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that was my weakest entry

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i have a semiphotographic memory so it's hard for me to forget these things

glad my 0.00411 bonus points might take me over the line though

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wait I thought category 3 was the Cat one
i think mine's p solid for this one

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oh well i can't get onto discord for some reason

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i got on
but now i'm busy

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6.9
noice

but I think you meant 6.90411

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i think i listened to one new album last year

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0.6 of the catfit points here come from the dual presence of some sort of plucked sound as well as a typical harpsichord sound. maybe i'm not familiar with all the ways you can play a harpsichord or maybe there are multiple performers but i am compelled to visualize somebody mashing on the keys and then like instantly fluttering over to the bare rear of the instrument where they trill away on the strings directly.

my thinking was in one part the pairing. When one thinks of bassoon and harpsichord pairings (granted, most probably don't at all) you get some sort of Baroque ensemble music as probably the only possible genre fit. I took the dissonance between the title and the actual performance a little different from yourself. I found it quite interesting that if you listen to the lines that both the harpsichord and bassoon play, they follow eachother quite closely in most places. What makes the duet interesting to me is that by phasing in and out of unison, it creates a really great tapestry that fits together better than if they were actually in unison

Also, this is a single player on each instrument. The symmetry I liked is that both musicians are playing unusually. You picked up on the plucking harpsichord. There is also a lot of note bending and growling coming from the bassoon. Feeds in well with the personalities you were conveying to the lines.

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i wonder if you would like the coin coin series by matana roberts

I will check it out

In my previous life, I played bassoon
I had this track on a CD that I played the heck out of back in HS
although I underappreciated it at the time

Also, note bending on a bassoon is super easy. It's harder to keep in tune lol
Had a part in a song that was meant to represent a drunkard and I got to play all kinds of bendy out of pitch for that

I naively didn't expect you to think so hard about the incongruence and more just think "wtf are they doing to those instruments?"

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another thing i should have done is given you provisional points for that name "knut sönstevold"

oh thats not your fault
I couldn't find knut's album on Youtube
I got an upload from a harpsichord album
it had 2 views

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ok
i blame you entirely

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listened to the cibo matto version of shafteds song - was surprised that they constructed it in a mostly similar way. it would have probably still been strong in enjoyment but i think the chemistry of the vocalists would have dipped below 2, it just didnt have that same magic positive energy of the elis & tom ver. also it's just funny to hear the lower part done by what sounds like a slightly bored californian / frat boy

I don't know if you remember, but this is actually the submission I changed.
Believe it or not, I was going to submit Tanacious D's "Tribute" as a laugh because I really enjoy the fugue section too much.

But then I remembered the Cibo Matto cover of Aquas de Marco, and went back to listen. It's obviously not as good the submitted version. I think a part of it is that neither of them speak Portuguese (or at least aren't native speakers), so this probably makes it a lot harder to be playful with the song. Finding the Elis and Tom version was awesome. They are so playful with eachother singing it, she's audibly laughing while she singing parts of it. Still brings me joy listening to it. Anyway, really glad the Walrus got me to discover it.

Also overall, this was a fun batch. I really enjoyed quite a few of the submissions.

I'll cherish my week at the top. It's mostly downhill from here. Maybe one more chance in the top 3. But I have three or so songs that could all be near the bottom.

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chevre's not in last because we can drop our lowest score

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shhh yes I am i am an unbelievable underdog story

i mean you're still in second to last
that works for an underdog story

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but post 133 says two hours before that

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ancestor of the slowed-down mary kate & ashley pizza song

first I was deeply offended
then I was equally distrubed
Eventually, I understood
and I was grateful


Also my right cat choice was because I couldn't pinpoint the moods of said cats since cats are so aloof. I went with carnal states by mixing the idea of looking up at a cat from its food bowl and how silly people look when they are beat boxing no matter how cool it may sound.

Spoiler: theyre basically the same picture

Extra fun fact, 4-5 year old shaft.ed used to annoy the shit out of his parents by constantly making noises. After hearing the Fat Boys, this was one of my go tos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c7b-Kfg0fU&t=14s

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the math is also wrong on the description

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can we trust anything now?

what if the points themselves are arbitrary?

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I dropped the lowest to give a more accurate picture of how much chevre is going to pull off the come from behind victory

chickdea - 21.3
shafty - 19.6
tris - 18.2
healbooks - 18.1
dav - 17.9
chevy !!! - 17.7
jun - 17.6
cealy - 17.5
mushshagana - 17.3
ariel - 15.3
pj - 14.0
N - 13.3
sirius - 12.7
george bailey - 12.6
sleapy - 11.9

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i do think the top three bonus points create a positive feedback loop that just makes the top entrants have an even more impossible lead

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you could just give out Olive Garden vouchers for first place instead

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i'm not giving my grand slam to the Final Fantasy soundtrack

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no, you left off a U at the end

lol, he left a U off the link of my song as well
I think all the links are cropped

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there's this strong epic american heartland vibe here that i will just keep picturing to try to figure out what's going on here

this song always makes me imagine a hard scrabble town where all the jobs are based around the same backbreaking labor like a steel mill, or a mine, or a factory, or a meat packing plant etc.
But reviewing the lyrics, it seems to more tell the story of a 90s cubicle drone juxtaposed onto the above esthetic


EDIT: also I think a couple scores are wrong. tris and cheeto math don't work out at least.
didn't check all

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ok i have a new idea for a walrus twist: at 2-3 categories left each participant is given the opportunity to change ONE of their submissions
they have to indicate which category they are resubmitting for and what their new song is. they are not required to change any songs. the new song may receive a higher or lower score than the original

I think it'd be fun to design a WALRUS, but I don't think I have the regularly needed time to make it such a great group event like schadd

really want to run a Taskmaster themed WALRUS

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I was very tempted to use my oldie status to troll everyone into listen to some Dave Mathews Band because Carter Beauford is ridiculous and he should be appreciated


I went with something that wouldn't be represented. I played bass for three years in HS, and theres something that can't really be described about playing in a bass drum line. The feeling of 5 people playing one instrument is just so amazingwhen it gels. It's almost an out of body experience. I cannot imagine how sweet it would be to pull off some of the riffs in this piece. I really wish this hadn't been recorded on a camcorder.

this drumming style has a bit of a stench for me, like its the sort of thing that only happens at football games and in the army and whatever

If you haven't watched any drum corps shows, they have some beautiful music and amazing visuals. It's a shame to lump them into football and jingoism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ09RF_Axpk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6gykBbG5Vc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PECUpJuUeAQ

excited to listen to the rest of the entries, I like a good drum. I think it was the middle of the third song last night I heard the sound of water splashing and though "that's an odd acoustic choice for this song". But it was instead water sloshing out of my kitchen sink drain onto the floor.

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I'm surprised the scubas decreased this round
I figured by now everyone's style would be figured out

tris was free too due to cat mixup, so this was a historically low rate

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it definitely wasn't me

Spoiler: or was it?

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Spoiler: brigade schadd

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so if me and dav had submitted the same song, but with different links, would you have to get the links correct?

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I'm supposed to be in a conference all weekend, but the website is down
so I hope I can drop in for my last place performance

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mario party

as the current last placer, N has the opportunity to steal a grand slam from one of the four players by rolling a d4 in this thread. he has (expired on 2021-05-03 11:00:00) to do so before the ability passes on to sleepy krew

but its all I've got

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wow that #1 sure was...an experience

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Also, don't mean to be thread sniping, but was anyone planning on doing a WALRUS after the Grande Finale?
I'd really like to run one but 1) it would have to go on hiatus in June so mayhaps waiting until later would be better and 2) I can't do the community engaging Discordy stuff so it would be total forum engagement. I do think I have mechanisms to take advantage of this though

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Also, don't mean to be thread sniping, but was anyone planning on doing a WALRUS after the Grande Finale?
I'd really like to run one but 1) it would have to go on hiatus in June so mayhaps waiting until later would be better and 2) I can't do the community engaging Discordy stuff so it would be total forum engagement. I do think I have mechanisms to take advantage of this though

put one of schadd's pins in that

oooh!
is there going to be an announcement?
is that the grand prize?

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Spoiler: )

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Forum only walrus would be fine with me

cool, thx for the feedback
I will definitely not run mine til summer though
i will be a hermt for most of June

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aw
i was p curious to see who you'd guess for my entry

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for cat 1 i just submitted my favorite song of all time. i am like pretty sure schadd has expressed liking my typical music so hopefully it goes well for me

i did this too
except for Cat 2

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Thanks again for running this, it was a blast
And thanks for rest of group for some great songs and fun times. If I had a music aggregator in use, my library would def have expanded

Still not sure why I'm ambiguous, when chickadee was never guessed.
I suppose its a different meaning than what I'm thinking

I'll probably startup my walrus in early/mid July
Formatting will have staggered submissions per round instead of a lump submission before it begins
And forum banter will be a major component of scoring.

9. SHAFTED
RADIOHEAD - exit music for a fart

see schadd

you were wrong

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yeah it was by accident @schadd

it was an accident that they were all final fantasy songs
or an accident that you submitted them to the walrus?

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oh yeah I completely forgot about that
and it was at my behest.
brain worms must be hungry

also shafted since ive listened to a lot of albums from you and schadd and your names are too similar, i have you on my spreadsheet as "cool dude"

that's even more ambiguous

i changed him on the Spreadsheet to "ambiguous man"