The Super-Secret-Hxaro Lovefest!

[The Secret-Hxaro Santa]

<b>The Super-Secret-Hxaro King Arthur Lovefest!</b>
It should be noted that only one of the artists participating (me) knew who else was involved. Thanks to everyone that participated. King Arthur, you win this round!

Abominominous
<a href="http://www.tartpop.com/tunes/abominominous-king_cindy.mp3">Put Cindy Back on the Bus</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/put_cindy/kingarthur_pc.mp3">(original)</a>

Balls to Monte
<a href="http://www.bakedziti.net/audio/RedFlag_BTM.mp3">Red Flag</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/red_flag/kingarthur_redflag.mp3">(original)</a>

The Blind Mime Ensemble
<a href="http://www.blindmime.com/mp3s/blindmime-kingarthur-grnup.mp3">Wednesday's Grownup</a>
<a href="http://www.charleswolff.com/D2BW/WEDG.mp3">(original)</a>

c hack
<a href="http://www.c-hack.com/mp3/c-hack_blue_signal.mp3">The Blue Signal</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/the_blue_signal/kingarthur_bluesignal.mp3">(original)</a>

Glenn Case
<a href="http://glenncase.songhole.org/content/KA-Deuce.mp3">Deuce</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/deuce/kingarthur_deuce.mp3">(original)</a>

Henrietta and the Hostage
<a href="http://www.mamiejmusic.com/henrietta/Troublemaker.mp3">Troublemaker</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/troublemaker/kingarthur_tm.mp3">(original)</a>

Hoblit
<a href="http://chris.hoblit.net/sound/Hoblit-WTF-COVER.mp3">WTF</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/wtf/kingarthur_wtf.mp3">(original)</a>

Jack Shite
<a href="http://www.spewgrass.com/music/jack/js_soaggravating.mp3">So Aggravating</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/so_aggravating/kingarthur_soaggravating.mp3">(original)</a>

Johnny Cashpoint
<a href="http://www.kongbalong.com/dcm/lavendersplendor.mp3">Lavender Splendor</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/lavender_splendor/kingarthur_ls.mp3">(original)</a>

Jim of Seattle
<a href="http://www.jimowen.org/Songfight/Level_Best.mp3">Level Best</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/level_best/kingarthur_levelbest.mp3">(original)</a>

Jim Tyrell
<a href="http://www.jimtyrrell.net/mp3/jimtyrrell_KA_TPD.mp3">The Puppets Dream</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/puppetsdream/kingarthur_tpd.mp3">(original)</a>

Ken's Super Duper Band N' Stuff
<a href="http://kni.songhole.org/mp3s/KensSBDnS_KA_VariationOnTwo.mp3">Variation on 2</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/variation_on_two/kingarthur_variation.mp3">(original)</a>

Lunkhead
<a href="http://www.bozos.com/lunkhead_ka_bfb.mp3">Back from Brazil</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/back_from_brazil/kingarthur_bfb.mp3">(original)</a>

The Hell Yeahs
<a href="http://www.tartpop.com/tunes/the_hell_yeahs-king_too_goth.mp3">Too Goth to Rock</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/too_goth_to_rock/kingarthur_toogothtorock.mp3">(original)</a>

[c hack]

Still listening, but I gotta say that Jim Tyrell's SO BAD needs some horns from Dylan Nau or someone like that. It's so close to perfect, but I want it to build up and be full of all sorts of instruments by the time it gets to the last verse, and then drop back down to voice + piano for the last bit. Then it would be perfect. IMHO. But great job anyway.

Edit: the links to henrietta, J$, and Lunkhead are broke. Gotta take out the spaces or whatever at the end

[The Secret-Hxaro Santa]

The links have been fixed.

[Heather. Redmon.]

I can't wait for King Arthur to see and hear this!!!

[jack]

I love the contrast between Glenn's version and the original

[Hoblit]

I have them all shuffling with KA's originals...

Havn't gotten through all of them yet...

but i"m really digging on C hacks cover..nice do0d

JOS's is great!

of course..the hell yeahs rawk as always.

[Heather. Redmon.]

Thanks Hoblit!

I won't be able to listen until I'm home from work... but I'm looking forward to it!

[Jim of Seattle]

Playlist of all originals and covers available HERE

[Hoblit]

Playlist of all originals and covers available HERE

vERY CoOL do0d!

[Niveous]

All of you rock. This is unbelievably cool.

[king_arthur]

Umm...

Speechless.

I haven't listened yet, but I am totally blown away by this...

What Niveous said...

Charles

[j$]

Good stuff all round. I'm glad that all of you managed to do justice to a man who deserves this and much more for his music and general lovliness.

Also, wanted to thank secret-hxaro santa for organising such a stellar line up, (and me ) S/he suggested I do Lavender Splendour when i was angsting over which of many great KA songs I could massacre in my own inimitable style, and in the process I rediscovered what a brilliant, clever song it is. So thanks.

I am rocking to the Hell Yeahs again. Particularly like the lesbian under-tones (well, over-tones, I guess ) and the vague Joan Jett feel, in a good way!

J$

[Heather. Redmon.]

Definitely over tones!

[king_arthur]

Wow!

I can't even begin to say how blown away I am by all this... I mean, just thinking that people all over the world have been working on recording this stuff is just amazing... I made a CD of all the songs and sat out on the back patio listening to them; there's a breeze up from Mexico tonight and it was so cool, sitting in the dark, hearing all these songs coming back at me.

I loved everything, but I have to admit: I've been humming "Troublemaker" to myself a lot lately, and hearing [Hostess'] Henrietta's version gave me chills.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this; special thanks to those who brought the MIDI against their better judgement

Charles

[jack]

hey charles, i think you meant henrietta (who has a hostage, which sounds like hostess....)

and who also did a stunning, beautiful cover. i agree. henrietta (& H), beautiful job you guys!

[c hack]

Yeah, agreed. Looks like everyone brought their A game.

Do we want reviews for these? Or should we just leave them be?

[king_arthur]

Jack: yes, correct, that should've said Henrietta...

C: I always thought one of the nice things about hxaro is that we DIDN'T review them... save the reviews for things with "fight" in the name. But I'm not in charge here...

Charles

[The Secret-Hxaro Santa]

Like Charles said, reviews aren't really necessary as the act is the good deed. But if you'd like to say nice things about something in particular, well, I'm sure that's always appreciated. Can't have enough nice remarks in the spirit of the secret hxaro

[Jim of Seattle]

for me it wouldn't even take a feat of hxaro-ness to say only nice things. These are ALL great, every last one of them. It's really quite a collection.

[Henrietta]

I agree with Jim, every single entry here is awesome.

Troublemaker is such a gorgeous song, King Arthur. I'm really glad that Hostage and I had the opportunity to cover it.

[j$]

I agree also that reviewing would be churlish. Anyone wants to know what I think of their song particularly, of course, let me know and I'll pm ya, or something...

As a continuation of the theme, does the poll seem a little unneccessary to anyone else?

j$

[jimtyrrell]

I'll agree with that, J$. I don't think anybody did this to 'win'.
I've downloaded the covers and the originals. I'm burning a nifty 2-CD set now, and I get to listen today. Yay!