Introduction:
In another universe there is a man named ‘Wall Ross’, and he has no idea how to search for his own music. Despite everything that happened last time, he’s still kinda fuzzy on what music is actually, he just knows that he likes it. Anyways, Wall Ross has once again hired me to recommend some songs to him, and because I’m a lazy prick I’ll be subcontracting searching for songs to all of you and just rating them myself. You may think ‘Why don’t you just grab random songs then?’, but you see, Wall Ross is a particular man. He needs songs to fit what he’s currently doing or he won’t be satisfied and I won’t be paid. So I’m going to need you to send in songs fitting certain categories (because, again, this is too much work for me) in order to be rated and forwarded to Wall Ross.
Scoring:
All songs will be scored on a scale of 0.0 to 10.0 points based on how much I liked them and will receive between 0.1 and 2.4 points depending on how well I think it fits the theme, with an extra 0.8 points being awarded to whoever fit the theme the best that category. You can also receive an extra .4 points if the artist is someone I’ve heard of but don’t listen to and .8 points if I’ve never heard of the artist. This bonus will be reduced to zero if I’ve received a submission by this artist in an earlier category in this walrus. This makes for a total maximum score of 14.0 points and a minimum of 0.1 points per round.
Note: Every single player’s lowest category score will be dropped. So if you can’t think of anything for a category then don’t worry, you have one chance to catfail without consequences.
Musical Preferences:
As for genres I hate, I don’t have many (yet, you guys may give me more), but I loathe country and anything that sounds like generic Top 40 pop. Rap is hit or miss, and it tends to miss around twice as often as it hits. I’m open to most genres, but in general I like metal and songs with aggressive instrumentals and/or vocals. Metal, hard rock, drum and bass, neurofunk, complextro, etc.. Screamo is nice as long as it’s not grating. On the more chill side of things EDM like Madeon or Porter Robinson and hip-hop like Nujabes are great. I like Eurobeat and Touhou remixes but I’ve probably heard most of what anyone would send. I doubt anyone will submit vocaloid stuff, but bad vocaloid is very bad. I listen to more music in Japanese than in English but this isn’t a musical taste thing, just hobbies. Music in any language is fine, although I'd greatly prefer if the lyrics are available somewhere.
Banned Artists/Songs:
The banned artists have been massively cut down since last time since I realized it’s pointless to include all of the obscure bullshit only I listen to.
Cake
IOSYS
s3rl
Moe Shop
Nujabes
MAN WITH A MISSION
Trevor Moore
Tenacious D
Ninja Sex Party
Queen
Bon Jovi
Anything submitted to my last walrus that I remember.
Anything I’ve submitted to a past walrus that I remember.
Any of the category examples or anything I’m going to use as a header. (The headers are all the cat titles besides one exception with almost no views, it’s extremely unlikely you’ll send it in by mistake.)
Rules and Misc.
You can message me songs or questions on Kongregate, Mafia Universe, Smogon, or at BLOODY#1832 on discord. You can change your submissions for any category up until three days before the next reveal.
If your song doesn’t fit the category it’s a cat fail. Cat fails don’t get points. If you think your song may be a cat fail, tell me ahead of time so I can check or risk getting told without much time to fix it.
All songs must be submitted in one of three forms: Youtube link; Soundcloud link; or a link to download the song in FLAC, MP3 320, or MP3 V0 format.
I would prefer to have all songs at least three days before each cat's reveal, excluding the first one. Preferably I’d like all songs earlier than that, but that’s the hard deadline.
Almost all of the songs I show as examples I like and fit the category fairly well. The songs for the category titles may or may not fit the category, I just think the titles fit.
There is a hard limit of 20 minutes on the length of any song. Please don’t make it your goal in life to hit this every round.
Yes my scores will be arbitrary for the most part. It’s hard to quantify how much you like a song or set an incredibly consistent scoring system up. Feel free to yell “ROBBED” and such, but song ratings are non-negotiable. It’s for fun, doing well is just a side goal, the scores will reflects my tastes, you get the program.
Categories:
1: Cautionary Warning
Songs with a message for the listener. This message can be information, a command, or an attempt to strongarm you into donating for some charity.
[Wall Ross vows to make sure no one else messes up how he is and starts making videos about how you should make sure you have enough money before traveling and why you should avoid long distance relationships.]
Examples:
Public Service Announcement - S3RL
WORLD ORDER - Have A Nice Day
Band Aid II - Do They Know It's Christmas (Note: I don’t like this song. I don’t think anyone does.)
2: Life Isn’t Fair
Songs about suffering, sadness, or being unlucky. Best theme fit is for when whatever’s happening to them isn’t really their fault- it’s just that life sucks sometimes.
[Wall Ross ultimately fails to gain any traction from his videos and is struggling to find a job in New York City. Now he needs some sad music to wallow in while he makes sure not to get back on his feet.]
Examples:
I Am Jemboy - Runaway Hearts
Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin
Anon - Okkusenman
3: Don’t Say “Lazy”
Songs about people getting off their ass and doing something. Whether it’s important to anyone else or just them doesn’t matter, as long as they’re putting effort forward it counts.
[Wall Ross decides to give it his all in order to find a job and keep his head up in New York City. Mainly because if he doesn’t he’ll starve. Give him some songs about working hard, some nice examples to work towards.]
Examples:
Team NEKOKAN - Can't Defeat Airman (10th Anniversary Edition)
Ai Fairouz & Kaito Ishikawa - Onegai Muscle
Devo - Whip It
In another universe there is a man named ‘Wall Ross’, and he has no idea how to search for his own music. Despite everything that happened last time, he’s still kinda fuzzy on what music is actually, he just knows that he likes it. Anyways, Wall Ross has once again hired me to recommend some songs to him, and because I’m a lazy prick I’ll be subcontracting searching for songs to all of you and just rating them myself. You may think ‘Why don’t you just grab random songs then?’, but you see, Wall Ross is a particular man. He needs songs to fit what he’s currently doing or he won’t be satisfied and I won’t be paid. So I’m going to need you to send in songs fitting certain categories (because, again, this is too much work for me) in order to be rated and forwarded to Wall Ross.
Scoring:
All songs will be scored on a scale of 0.0 to 10.0 points based on how much I liked them and will receive between 0.1 and 2.4 points depending on how well I think it fits the theme, with an extra 0.8 points being awarded to whoever fit the theme the best that category. You can also receive an extra .4 points if the artist is someone I’ve heard of but don’t listen to and .8 points if I’ve never heard of the artist. This bonus will be reduced to zero if I’ve received a submission by this artist in an earlier category in this walrus. This makes for a total maximum score of 14.0 points and a minimum of 0.1 points per round.
Note: Every single player’s lowest category score will be dropped. So if you can’t think of anything for a category then don’t worry, you have one chance to catfail without consequences.
Musical Preferences:
As for genres I hate, I don’t have many (yet, you guys may give me more), but I loathe country and anything that sounds like generic Top 40 pop. Rap is hit or miss, and it tends to miss around twice as often as it hits. I’m open to most genres, but in general I like metal and songs with aggressive instrumentals and/or vocals. Metal, hard rock, drum and bass, neurofunk, complextro, etc.. Screamo is nice as long as it’s not grating. On the more chill side of things EDM like Madeon or Porter Robinson and hip-hop like Nujabes are great. I like Eurobeat and Touhou remixes but I’ve probably heard most of what anyone would send. I doubt anyone will submit vocaloid stuff, but bad vocaloid is very bad. I listen to more music in Japanese than in English but this isn’t a musical taste thing, just hobbies. Music in any language is fine, although I'd greatly prefer if the lyrics are available somewhere.
Banned Artists/Songs:
The banned artists have been massively cut down since last time since I realized it’s pointless to include all of the obscure bullshit only I listen to.
Cake
IOSYS
s3rl
Moe Shop
Nujabes
MAN WITH A MISSION
Trevor Moore
Tenacious D
Ninja Sex Party
Queen
Bon Jovi
Anything submitted to my last walrus that I remember.
Anything I’ve submitted to a past walrus that I remember.
Any of the category examples or anything I’m going to use as a header. (The headers are all the cat titles besides one exception with almost no views, it’s extremely unlikely you’ll send it in by mistake.)
Rules and Misc.
You can message me songs or questions on Kongregate, Mafia Universe, Smogon, or at BLOODY#1832 on discord. You can change your submissions for any category up until three days before the next reveal.
If your song doesn’t fit the category it’s a cat fail. Cat fails don’t get points. If you think your song may be a cat fail, tell me ahead of time so I can check or risk getting told without much time to fix it.
All songs must be submitted in one of three forms: Youtube link; Soundcloud link; or a link to download the song in FLAC, MP3 320, or MP3 V0 format.
I would prefer to have all songs at least three days before each cat's reveal, excluding the first one. Preferably I’d like all songs earlier than that, but that’s the hard deadline.
Almost all of the songs I show as examples I like and fit the category fairly well. The songs for the category titles may or may not fit the category, I just think the titles fit.
There is a hard limit of 20 minutes on the length of any song. Please don’t make it your goal in life to hit this every round.
Yes my scores will be arbitrary for the most part. It’s hard to quantify how much you like a song or set an incredibly consistent scoring system up. Feel free to yell “ROBBED” and such, but song ratings are non-negotiable. It’s for fun, doing well is just a side goal, the scores will reflects my tastes, you get the program.
Categories:
1: Cautionary Warning
Songs with a message for the listener. This message can be information, a command, or an attempt to strongarm you into donating for some charity.
[Wall Ross vows to make sure no one else messes up how he is and starts making videos about how you should make sure you have enough money before traveling and why you should avoid long distance relationships.]
Examples:
Public Service Announcement - S3RL
WORLD ORDER - Have A Nice Day
Band Aid II - Do They Know It's Christmas (Note: I don’t like this song. I don’t think anyone does.)
2: Life Isn’t Fair
Songs about suffering, sadness, or being unlucky. Best theme fit is for when whatever’s happening to them isn’t really their fault- it’s just that life sucks sometimes.
[Wall Ross ultimately fails to gain any traction from his videos and is struggling to find a job in New York City. Now he needs some sad music to wallow in while he makes sure not to get back on his feet.]
Examples:
I Am Jemboy - Runaway Hearts
Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin
Anon - Okkusenman
3: Don’t Say “Lazy”
Songs about people getting off their ass and doing something. Whether it’s important to anyone else or just them doesn’t matter, as long as they’re putting effort forward it counts.
[Wall Ross decides to give it his all in order to find a job and keep his head up in New York City. Mainly because if he doesn’t he’ll starve. Give him some songs about working hard, some nice examples to work towards.]
Examples:
Team NEKOKAN - Can't Defeat Airman (10th Anniversary Edition)
Ai Fairouz & Kaito Ishikawa - Onegai Muscle
Devo - Whip It
| 4: I Just Had Sex Songs that mention sex, fetishes, genitalia, or physical intimacy. Alternatively, you can give me a safe for work love song if you’re fine with a lower theme score. [Wall Ross gets laid. All rejoice. Now he needs some music concerning this momentous occassion.] Examples: Ninja Sex Party - 6969 Fuck Her Gently - Tenacious D Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back 5: Black Magic Woman Songs about magic, the occult, the supernatural,terrifying monsters, and that which can’t be explained with science. [Wall Ross finds out that the girl he had sex with is a bit…odd. She calls herself a ‘Black Magic Woman’, and is into the occult. Now he wants to learn more about it, and needs songs on the subject.] Examples: Michael Jackson - Thriller Bobby Pickett - Monster Mash Neil Cicierega - Bustin 6: Generic Holiday Song Songs based around holidays, festivals, special events, and the like. [After managing to break up with his weird fling, Wall Ross buries himself in whatever work he can find. One day he’d forced to stop working, and finds out that it’s already Christmas. Unfortunately, all the time in retail has forced him to stop using that word. Uh, it’s GENERIC HOLIDAY now. Yeah, generic holiday. Submit some GENERIC HOLIDAY music that won't get anyone in trouble.] Examples: Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant DJ Cummerbund - Time Marches On (For Carol The Bell Tolls) InanimateMashups - A Very Sicko Christmas 7: Speechless Instrumentals. Theme score will be an automatic 2.4 for all qualifying submissions, they just can’t have words. If there's one vocal sample in a song I'll probably let it past, but repeated ones are a no-no. [Since Wall Ross had a day off, he decided to check his personal email. It turned out that Wall Ross was messaged by the people who organized his DJ Gigs when he was getting from Mexico into the US, and they said they’d love him to do a few gigs in New York City for them and then if everything goes well have him release an EP if he wants to make the jump past live gigs. Wall Ross is so shocked by this that he can’t even speak right now. He’s going to need so songs to fit his current, mute, situation.] Examples: Orchestr/a/ - Fallen Angel SilvaGunner (wolfman1405) - World Map Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover 8: Countdown Songs about some sort of deadline, doing things quickly, or being under a lot of pressure all qualify here. Alternatively you can just send a song that fits my subjective bar of ‘really fucking fast’ (ex. A lot of goreshit’s stuff, speedcore, etc.) [Note: This refers to the song going fast, not ending fast (ex. Napalm Death)] and that will fit, albiet with a lower theme score. Tell me if you’re going for this so that I can check the sub. [After overcoming his shock about the email, Wall Ross realized something. The first gig was supposed to be in a couple of days, and he was way past the deadline for replying. Hopefully he could get it with enough begging, but either way he only had a couple of days to prepare for the first set, and then not long after that to get ready for the next ones. This meant that he had to put his nose to the grindstone and come up with something as soon as possible.] Examples: Queen ft. David Bowie - Under Pressure Cake - The Distance twenty one pilots - Stressed Out goreshit - burn this moment into the retina of my eye [Example of what fits under the ‘really fucking fast' clause] 9: Bad Anything music qualifies for this cat, meaning the theme score will be 2.4 for everything. The twist is that the scoring is inverted. The more I hate a song the better it’ll score. [Wall Ross managed to get through the first few gigs unscathed after pulling a few all-nighters and quitting his part-time job, and now talk about that EP is coming up. Wall Ross wants to start writing a few songs for it, but to help educate himself, he wants to listen to some bad songs first. A lot of bad songs. Really bad songs.] Examples: Faux Knee Jerks - Bus, Bike, Pastrami, and One Hot Chick ??? - "DESPACITO pizza version.. Haha..pizzacito..it's too much funny.. Most watched and viewed by pouples." viper - you'll cowards don't even smoke crack 10: No Title Songs about words/phrases, languages, writing, names, titles, or a person/organization/place with a specific name or title. Yes, this is vague, and I will try to be lenient. [Wall Ross managed to get through the first few gigs unscathed after pulling a few all-nighters and quitting his part-time job, and now they want him to come up with a few songs for an EP. He managed to write some of the melodies without much trouble, but can’t think of a title. Or lyrics. The whole ‘words’ thing is a bit hard. Now Wall Ross needs some songs to help with that.] Examples: "Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes Tommy Tutone - 867-5309/Jenny Hallelujah - Pentatonix They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) 11: Celebration Songs to party to or celebratory tunes. [Wall Ross managed to successfully finish the songs, tided through the next few gigs, and is hosting a party in celebration of getting the chance to pitch an EP to a decently-sized studio. Now he just needs some music to put on the playlist.] Examples: Queen - We Are The Champions s3rl - Ravers MashUp NoteBlock - Mr. Krabs Rave THE FIRST CAT WILL BE REVEALED ON THE 29TH, AND SIGNUPS WILL END THE DAY PRIOR 1. BrainpanSonata (the artist formerly known as KnightsOfCydonia) [Kongregate]
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