The Syndicate

One more night! This last one should be epic. I hope you all brought your A-games for it.

[mention]MacDougall[/mention]- Sorry I missed the reveals! The original date was listed as May 31st, and I assumed that meant May 31st in the US. I forgot about Australia time.

Glad you liked the song! I actually hated this song when it came out, because I thought Everclear had sold out and were going for a more pop-radio-friendly sound after their big album in the late 90s (So Much for the Afterglow). I was a snotty teenager who didn't come from a broken home, so I didn't appreciate the song being written from the perspective of a child of divorce at the time.

When you changed the category meaning and negated my awesome initial song choice, I thought of Everclear's "Father of Mine" because it's raw, angry, and the singer's most autobiographical song. "Wonderful" was an afterthought but it stuck with me. I had my wife listen to both of them and she told me to pick "Wonderful" because it almost made her cry. She's an elementary school teacher, and she said that she's had kids who have said things like the lyrics of the song about parents yelling, hearing bad words that make them want to cry, and not wanting to go home after school.

I'll try to make it to the next one!

speedchuck wrote: ↑Tue May 26, 2020 11:47 am 1 cat per week is a good idea. That's pretty much the same as 2 cats in previous walruses, so I don't see why you'd have to cut songs short? Unless someone subbed some 20 minute epics.

I submitted nothing but 20-minute Meat Loaf epics.

That’s a long list. It will be interesting to see how long it takes for a top tier to form on the leaderboard. Should be exciting to watch play out! But ten weeks to reveal it all feels like an eternity. Good luck Mac. That’s a lot of listening!

[mention]MacDougall[/mention]- with the change to Category 1, what do you mean by imperfection? Before the change you said imperfection in design. What kind of human imperfection are you looking for- physical or moral?

MacDougall wrote: ↑Sun May 17, 2020 7:58 am Updated category 1.

Grr. I had just found a great track to use last night for the original category description. That throws off my playlist’s balance now.

Back to the drawing board.

juliets wrote: ↑Thu May 14, 2020 3:30 pm So, are we submitting these anonymously? I'm not sure how to do that. I see the instructions above about the brackets but if they are anonymous I guess we don't submit through PMs?

We just PM Mac our song choices. Using the brackets just makes a link show up without revealing a preview of the video. That way the host doesn't get a sneak peek at your song and form any kind of bias before listening to it.

Questions for [mention]MacDougall[/mention]:

Category 1: What does this description mean? Is the song itself imperfect or is the song about something that is imperfect?

Category 3: Does 'child' include those awkward teenage years?

Category 5: Are we to imagine ourselves at a party in the present day, or could it be what we envision high school party music might have sounded like when we were of that age?