The Perfect Prefight Thread (Ease Your Storm)

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The Perfect Prefight Thread (Ease Your Storm)

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Ease Your Storm
Due: Tuesday, 04/20/10 9:59am pdt
mp3 with artist name sent to fightmaster@songfight.org

subject: Ease Your Storm
message: Your Band Name
attachment: yourbandname_eys.mp3
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So like, "throttle back" or "chill out"?

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Calm down, Oats.
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didn't see that one coming
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Sounds like the title of a Chas & Dave-style Cockney knees-up where the singer discuses another chaps same-sex marriage partner - assuming that you are comfortable replacing the word "trouble" with less common "storm" in the phrase "trouble and strife". "Ease Your Trouble" would be a better title. It could have endless amusing references to horses, ginger beer, Doris Day and the Khyber Pass.

I think I'll leave that one for the Ukulady Boys.
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I'm not going to watch Clash of the Titans, not even for research. Ease your storm, dude.
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Something tells me with this thing due on 4/20 there's no way BLT is getting it in on time.
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Ross wrote:Something tells me with this thing due on 4/20 there's no way BLT is getting it in on time.
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The New Original Titans of Song Fight are in.
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this title keeps reminding me of "CALL ME CALL ME" everytime i try to think seriously about it. i wish i had a voice like steve conte.
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It took a while to find some lyrics and a groove for this one, It doesn't seem to lend itself to anything aggressive in my mind so that's a stretch.
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AJOwens wrote:I'm not going to watch Clash of the Titans, not even for research. Ease your storm, dude.
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thinking about getting back in with this one
hopefully make a fair sophmore song
the quality might not be great though not by any good equipment at the moment
i feel like this title is just to good to pass up
"Lets just ease your storm
With our bodies" keeps ringing through my head
please don't steal those lines i already got the lyrics written mostly
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bettingonthemuse wrote: "Lets just ease your storm
With our bodies" keeps ringing through my head
please don't steal those lines i already got the lyrics written mostly
OK, we won't steal your shitty lyrics. :P
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I'm in with a loving nod to the quiet storm genre.
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i can't believe i'm in with everything that has happened in the last five days, but here i am.
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Ha! We wrote a pretty good entry we're really proud of. The vocal performance took it all out of me so that alone makes it worth sharing. So we loaded the SF! page to brag and surprise, surprise...we had remembered the title wrong!

So we hope you'll enjoy our "Calm Your Storm" while listening to all the actual entries. There's no way I'm re-doing those vocals.
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I'm in . .
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Steve Durand wrote:I'm in . .
Me, too.
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As if I stood much of a chance in a two Durand fight, I'm in.

EDIT: I'm not going to brag about the lyrics or the competence of the performance, but I am going to brag about cramming all the verses and choruses into 2 minutes, thus allowing a minute of soloing in a 3 minute song. Short enough to be released on a 45 single!
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