The Syndicate

I did it

whew

I swear every time I come over here I have 20 new private messages.

I put about 3 minutes into this total glgl

Final Score 39. 41.0 PunchyTheCat 38. 44.2 Moose 37. 51.6 Frog 36. 53.9 Relm 35. 55.5 BoKnows 34. 56.0 Logic 33. 56.2 Cory 32. 57.0 gbsfranca 31. 58.5 roro__b 30. 58.8 ladd 29. 60.7 staypositivefriend 28. 61.4 nutella 27. 61.6 vanity. 26. 61.7 Visorslash 25. 62.8 Made 24. 63.3 Ace Marvel 23. 63.7 O...

1st place: Kane The Specials - A Message To You Rudy The lights are on and the boomer venue owner put on a classic to kick you out the door to. So go on, get. This is kind of a cat fail lol. But I couldn't not close with it, and not giving a win to the song I play last feels ridiculous. So congratu...

1st place: Tangrowth Hüsker Dü - Books About UFOs Ok, no, we're really done, just let me play this one last song... This feels exactly like the happy mush that is my brain after rolling out 8 walrus categories, and it has been an absolute pleasure and privilege to experience them all with you. 11

2nd place:

Bloobird

Pavement - Fillmore Jive

Is it over? We're still going?

This is just too perfect lol

I've only listened to Wowwee Zowee, and not terribly much of it. Good stuff.

10.9

3rd place: tane Vajra - 猿は拝まない - Monkeys Don't Pray I think that Armed track finally broke me. This song is at the barest brink of holding anything whatsoever together. I can't feel my feet. I have no idea how I'm still standing let alone what the hell I'm playing, but by God I'm going to keep pres...

4th place: LordQuas The Armed - Bad Selection This might be a weird spot in so far as I think I enjoyed All Futures more--this category's been the first time I've actually listened to The Armed despite being told to all the time. But I'm in the category zone now and it's in complete control of plac...

5th place: BLOODYRAIN10001 CQ - Primal These are progressing by how much I'm feeling the drain as I plow through them. The melancholy mood of this as it rockets ahead stacks up the burnout, makes my ears even more reliant on the pure adrenaline they're serving up on a platter to keep me in the zone...

TOP 5

Bloobird
BLOODYRAIN10001
Kane
LordQuas
tane
Tangrowth

6th place: Ampharos 65daysofstatic - Retreat! Retreat! This top 10 shaped up so fucking epic to me because like, every track is lay your final 100% on the line and push it to the end and then another track gets to grab the torch and do it all again. That spoken word clip right before the song kicks...

7th place: birdwithteeth11 Leprous - Contaminate Me (Live) Wow wow wow Ihsahn absolutely kills it and the lead singer absolutely kills it and having two drummers is supposed to be a gimmick not this awesome and wow. I can immediately tell this is the sort of track that sounds sooooooo much better l...

8th place: Zack The Armed - All Futures As I got into these highest tier subs that were just impossible to parse, I found myself ranking them on how I felt at the transitions. It seemed... an appropriate approach for the category. It's like the Daft Punk sub took me to a higher level finale but I b...

9th place:

MyNameIsNothing

Daft Punk - Contact

I guess I can't claim to have never paid attention to a Daft Punk song before anymore. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ This is fabulous.

10.2

10th place: soah Non Serviam - Infanticide This is like taking a half dozen appropriate songs for the category and condensing them all together into a seven minute package. Each transition point is an exercise in gathering yourself up and ramming forward in defiance of every impulse to call enough ...

TOP 10

Ampharos
birdwithteeth11
Bloobird
BLOODYRAIN10001
Kane
LordQuas
MyNameIsNothing
soah
tane
Tangrowth
Zack

11th place: Keldeo The National - Graceless (Live) This has a lot of subdued energy. Something in the way the singer feels like he could lay down on the stage and fall asleep at any moment but the drums and bass are driving on full speed ahead and dragging him along with them. It hits on the catego...

12th place: Cory Nothing - Say Less Wow shoegaze works soooooooo well for the mood I was after here. That soaring guitar and the underlying noise mix with the pace of the song and tone of his voice to give me exactly what I was looking for. It's a comet blazing through the sky, melting away at ever...

13th place: Marcher Jovian Streetlight Manifesto - If and When We Rise Again Something about this instrument palette always resonates a sense of being at the end of the line to me. I'm not sure what it is. I would humor a quip about how the transient tonal qualities of brass submerged in ska energy...

14th place: vanity. Tearist - LOV This is deliciously erratic. It comes off like it was barely even planned and she's just doing whatever comes to her. I get the feeling maybe all of their music sounds like this, but as a stand alone piece, the improvisational chaos of her vocal performance sells m...

15th place: KnightsofCydonia The Black Keys - Little Black Submarines That guitar tone is so absurdly thick and dirty I am in instant bliss the moment it kicks in. There's not much to this song, but there doesn't really need to be. It resonates all the sweat and smoke and grime of a band rocking ou...

TOP 15

Ampharos
birdwithteeth11
Bloobird
BLOODYRAIN10001
Cory
Kane
Keldeo
KnightsofCydonia
LordQuas
Marcher Jovian
MyNameIsNothing
soah
tane
Tangrowth
vanity.
Zack

16th place:

Ace Marvel

이달의 소녀 (LOONA) "Hi High"

We said goodbye to Pogo. Now it's time to see off kpop with an exceptionally energetic final run. Sub these to me forever; they never get old.

9.0

17th place: Relm The Elders - Meetings of the Waters My first impression of this was that I didn't like it at all but it was an exceptional category fit, and I knew it would grow on me to an extent. It starts out in a sore spot for me prevalent in a lot of 60s and 70s-vibing tunes--the uncanny vall...

18th place: Psycho666Soldier Immortal - Beyond the North Waves It is probably not difficult to predict that I am a fan of Immortal, but by the nature of the genre, familiarity isn't as game-ending as some of the other songs I already knew coming into this category. Moodier, broodier, generally high...

19th place: Visorslash Battles - Atlas (Live) I've subbed Atlas at least twice and recently played it in a post-reveal jam, so it feels kind of lol to get it in my own walrus. Watching it performed live is pretty rad. I'm impressed by how accurately they reproduced it. I'm not convinced it's ideal ...

TOP HALF

Ace Marvel
Ampharos
birdwithteeth11
Bloobird
BLOODYRAIN10001
Cory
Kane
Keldeo
KnightsofCydonia
LordQuas
Marcher Jovian
MyNameIsNothing
Psycho666Soldier
Relm
soah
tane
Tangrowth
vanity.
Visorslash
Zack

20th place: roro__b Pogo - Happee As my journey through the world of Pogo comes to a close, this feels incredibly appropriate to end on. These subs haven't fared well over all, but it's mostly been a matter of category fit. I definitely feel an endearing attachment to his sound. This is like saying...

21st place: Made Ayoni - Unmoved (A Black Woman Truth) Lyrics this raw serve a respectable artistic purpose but aren't particularly pleasant to wade through. I tend to leave a lot of room for tracks that aren't what I anticipated but accomplish their goal well, but hating myself isn't really the no...

22nd place: Adam Against Me! - Pints of Guinness Make You Strong Every one in a while I'll sit down and try to compile some ranked 100 favorite albums list. I never get far before stopping myself and realizing how dumb and arbitrary it is, but Reinventing Axl Rose is always in the top 10. It took a...

23rd place: Newcomb World's End Girlfriend - We are the Massacre It took a lot of outstanding subs to bottom half World's End Girlfriend. I have some sort of finale type category to end most of my walruses, and each has some nuance differences in theme. This is well suited for a cat 8 but might win...

24th place: nutella Japandroids - Continuous Thunder This feels a bit turn of the century lovesick alt rock radio single in a way that I took a while to warm up to, but that distorted wall they put up hooks me and the sweet melancholy endeared itself over time. It definitely fits as a song to go ou...

25th place:

ladd

Mew - Snow Brigade

Mmmm... the forward-driving bass in this is huge when it hits full throttle. It's a sexy closer I can get behind: mega energy, and sitting on the melancholy side of Mew's spectrum to give it a nice farewell feeling.

8.1

26th place: marmot Motorpsycho - The Golden Core It's long in the getting there, like the band's waking back up and regaining their energy in slow motion. I like how tangible the category feels, and it's pleasantly rough around the edges. I really enjoyed it and like getting these early to mid 90s ...

27th place: Zarathustra Toasty Digital - Kanye West & Kendrick Lamar - MONEY POWER This is really well done for a mashup. It's low key climatic in the transitions between the samples. It builds up in a way that strangely works for me here despite feeling like it absolutely shouldn't. 7.9

28th place: Aladyyn '68 - Track 10 Metalcore vocals don't always work for me, but I'm digging these ones. The flow he executes at 1:38 is really cool. I'm loving the recording quality. It starts out with intense energy and progresses into a feeling of ending. Not something I would voluntarily liste...

29th place: Frog Yes - Roundabout I would have never imagined Roundabout as a closer. It's such a classic quintessential opener. But I'm not at all struggling to envision it as the encore either. I don't have time to go digging the way I've done in earlier categories, but I'm really curious how a l...

30th place: shubaka17 Miley Cyrus - Night Crawling ft. Billy Idol The only opinion I had relevant to Miley Cyrus walking into this was that Achy Breaky Heart is a good song. Billy Idol kind of feels like the weakest link here to be honest, and not much of one. I dig Miley's vocals and the tune at l...

31st place: schadd Duster - Copernicus Crater It works and it doesn't. I did enjoy it. I definitely feel the burn--the sense of exhaustion. But it drags on out of obligation, not some final burst of wim. It's appropriate material for my cat 7 last year or cat 4 here. I think if it climaxed in the s...

32nd place: staypositivefriend Dismemberment Plan - 8 1/2 Minutes This gives me a strong Steve Albini vibe. That's cool. It feels like a band I could definitely get into on an album basis when I'm in the right mood. I'm not connecting with it in terms of this category. I could see it closing out an...

33rd place:

Logic

Bill McClintock - The Temptations and Black Sabbath - "Get Ready for the Grave"

This is unironically pretty good.

And ironically pretty good.

Might even be Alanis Morissette tier.

6.5

34th place:

Owner

Witchrider - You Lied

This is cool but not the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best the best

6.4

35th place: BoKnows Travis Scott - The Ends That's a pretty wild album cover. This gets off to an intriguing start, but it kind of calms down to a brooding tension counter to what I'd ideally hoped for. I can see it as an ending track, just not this category's kind of ending track. But mostly I thi...

36th place: gbsfranca Fugazi - Bulldog Front I wanted to vibe with this. I have heard extremely little Fugazi, and post-hardcore seems like a style loaded with appropriate material. But I'm just not connecting with the category here. It doesn't have that aura of a closing track to me. I feel it bel...

37th place:

PunchyTheCat

Be Your Own Pet - Becky

It's a cute one time through I guess and I like their punk edge, but the gimmick gets tedious for me pretty quick. And it doesn't really feel like the sort of song you would close with at all.

5.0

38th place: Moose VvvvvaVvvvvvr - Take On Me (SingStar Pop) This is cute I guess in that they made him actually work with the song, but I know absolutely nothing about Minecraft except that it has intentionally putrid pseudo-retro graphics and the creator is a jerk. Y'all gotta meme a bit more boom...

8. 2am at a dive bar in Cincinnati And we're finally back. But you didn't save the best for last. You've been going all out since the opener. Your bassist looks like he's in a coma and your drummer's already kicked over half his set. You light your last cigarette and absent-mindedly tug at the volu...

Scoring through 7 39. 36.0 PunchyTheCat 38. 39.7 Moose 37. 44.4 Frog 36. 45.0 Relm 35. 46.6 Cory 34. 49.3 BoKnows 33. 49.5 Logic 32. 49.9 roro__b 31. 50.7 ladd 30. 51.0 gbsfranca 29. 52.2 vanity. 28. 53.0 Visorslash 27. 53.2 nutella 26. 54.0 staypositivefriend 24. 54.3 Ace Marvel 24. 54.3 Made 23. ...

1st place: Bloobird Dan Deacon - Wham City This is one of those categories where I can listen to songs in ranked order and end each going I must have made a mistake; how can it get better than that and be proven consistently wrong. Kind of mindblowing that the major transition happens 7 minutes int...

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