The Syndicate

6th place: Scotty

Opeth - In Mist She Was Standing


Ok so a few years earlier, Dream Theater decided to mashup Metallica/Pink Floyd and make it into music. It was good. Opeth said ""hold my beer""

@Scotty

7th place: MacDougall

Ghost B.C - Year Zero


You know, this is both mildly cheesy and extremely ""fuuuck, that bass has grabbed my ass and started shaking it"". I'm not sure what's monumental about it, but the music video has boobs, and it falls into this ""Satanic Hard Rock"" realm that I'm not very familiar with, so it might be a new step there.

@MacDougall

8th place: LordQuas

Swans - Blind


Amazingly, this song wasn't even on the original album from '92. But it's on the 2015 re-issue. I'll just assume they wrote it around '92 as well, because this album was imo a big step for Swans going from an innovative band to an innovative band that played good music.

@LordQuas

9th place: MyNameIsNothing

Sophie - Bipp


Whoa. What. Hmm. What? Uhhh. Hey. Help. This. Slaps. Unironically.

@MyNameIsNothing

10th place: Shad

Possessed - The Exorcist


There's some pretty good riffage in here. Wow. Great stuff. I looked them up and it turns out their guitarist is now the long time guitarist for Primus. No wonder this sounded promising. They released another album on Oct 12 I still need to go check out lmao.

@Shad

11th place: outed wolf

Aphex Twin - Avril 14th


Beautiful. This should've been subbed to Schia's music box cat. I don't know the catfit? But I also don't know Aphex Twin music well enough. In particular, I don't know many songs that lack beeps and boops quite like this one. But I'm glad there's no beeps and boops here. It's excellent as is. good interlude

@outed wolf

12th place: falcon45ca

Metallica (w/ SF Orchestra) - Master of Puppets


Metallica is one of the few bands around that have managed to release both a 5-star album (well, 2 of them) as well as a 0-star album. They definitely had some highs and some lows. While I don't think of this as the peek of their career, I do think it was the last shining moment before they finally started tanking. Some of their music is kinda well-suited for this format, and the end result is a pretty stellar live show.

@falcon45ca

13th place: birdwithteeth11

Rush - 2112


PoG

@birdwithteeth11

14th place: hollowkatt

The Velvet Underground - All Tomorrow's Parties


I don't love Velvet Undergound. But they're enjoyable enough and I have a ton of respect for them for taking rock, flipping it on it's head, putting it in a soup, cooking it, digesting it, pooping it out, and finding a record label willing to sell the end result, because it actually worked.

@hollowkatt

15th place: Sabi

Joywave - Destruction


These sounds are weird, but wow when you put them together it slaps (especially that bass, I'm melting). Not exactly sure if this is a catfit though.

@Sabiplz

16th place: NateTheLesser

Now Now - Thread


Interpol vibes (in a good way). Boy do those guitars hit really well though. I'm having trouble seeing the catfit in this one.

@NateTheLesser

17th place: Lyris

Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, P!nk - Lady Marmalade


Why yes I am Lady Marmotlade. This song stands up tbh. Catfit? Sort of, especially in the sense that it's a huge collab. sLaY sOuL SiSter 👁👁

@Lyris

18th place: Syn

Harry Styles - As It Was


Oh hey that's the guy from One Direction. I'm not sure if this is monumtental. Is it? I sorta like his voice. The song is enjoyable. I really think the nailed the 80's synthpop vibe well. The synth player seems to want to play ""Take On Me"" but is holding back for some reason.

@Syn

19th place: ignoramus

Caravan Palace - Moonshine


I like the slow build-up for this song. The kids choir is ok. Better than some I've heard, but I generally think they're not great additions to songs. Aside from that, this song fucking slaps.""I'm looking for!"" I'm not sure what the cat fit is though, I'd love an explanation for that one if you have it.

@ignoramus

20th place: Jambi

Sólstafir - Draumfari


I should like this song more than I do. The vocalist didn't do it for me. His softer singing early was fine, but ""shouting Icelandic dude"" didn't do it for me, albeit it suited the vibe of the song. Good piano. Good build. I saw this album is supposed to have hints of sludge-metal in it, but this song didn't have much of that. Still though, this appears to be both a step in a new direction for the band, and also their more popular album. Overall promising.

@Jambi

Cat 1 Reveal

1) Monumental: It is the 10th anniversary, a monumental occasion in the Syndicate's history. Send me a song that is monumental, either for the genre or artist. This is open to interpretation.

katze wrote: ↑Fri Oct 14, 2022 6:07 pmlength limit?

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What is a Walrus?

A walrus is a music-sharing event with a dash of competition. I describe the categories (cats) here, and you submit songs to me that you believe match those categories. I'll listen to those submissions (subs) and rate them. I will then run a live reveal for each cat on discord, where I will play every song submitted and everyone is invited to join in and listen.


How does this Walrus work?

• You can submit songs to me via PM here, or you can DM me on Discord at marmot#0236. Please use youtube links if they are available and send do not spoil the links when you send them.
• The deadline to submit songs is 11:59 PST on Tuesday, October 18th (although I can be a little flexible on this).
• Reveals will be run at 3:00PM PST on Wed-Fri October 19-21.
• Alts are welcome (sending in multiple sets of subs), but I maintain the right to revoke this option.
• An unlimited number of people may participate.
• Each sub will be rated on a score 1-10 for enjoyment and 1-10 for catfit. This is a mini walrus, so I will not be scoring at all based on familiarity. Pander as you will. Nothing is banned. (I enjoy most types of metal and rock, as well as some electronic, hip-hop and pop. Country and some rap are genres that will generally not do well, everything else I don't have trouble finding enjoyment in)

The Categories!

1. Monumental: It is the 10th anniversary, a monumental occasion in the Syndicate's history. Send me a song that is monumental, either for the genre or artist. This is open to interpretation.
2. Flash-Wagon: QUICK! nutella claimed Pyramid Song, and we need to kill someone else today!!! Send me a song that is fast-paced, short, or leaves little time to think. This cat will be scored live. To honor this theme, I won't listen to the subs until the reveal, and will score them as they flip.
3. Rezz: Rezz Please! Resurrection is the theme here. Send me a song either about coming back to life, second chances, or however you interpret this.

Anything else?

Nope, that's it!! Hope y'all have fun! I look forward to the subs!!


Participants

1. Shad
2. Syn
3. Moose
4. Quas
5. Lyris
6. Jambi
7. Sabi
8. Sloonei
9. nutella
10. Scotty
11. ignoramus
12. birdwithteeth11
13. hollowkatt
14. Macdougall
15. katze
16. Bloobird
17. NateTheLesser
18. outed wolf
19. MyNameIsNothing
20. falcon45ca