Quotes from songfighters only, please. No Emmerson or Whitman here, please. Also, be sure to observe the "What's said in IRC stays in IRC" rule. Ask permission before quoting someone from IRC. Everything else is fair game.
Allow me to begin:
"Just because I can find people who like eating shit burritos doesn't mean that I'm cooking when I crap in a tortilla." - Erik
"The problem with any system involving people is that people are involved."
-Fluffy
"Warren Zevon would be proud." -Reve Mosquito
Stages, an album of about dealing with loss, anxiety, and grieving a difficult year, now available on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms! https://jonporobil.bandcamp.com/album/stages
The very first song I submitted to SongFight prompted the following review from Richard Wreckdom:
"People usually play music for one of many reasons: They truly enjoy making music, They are arrogant, Money. Why do you do it? Figure out why you're doing it, and stab it in the chest."
Harsh, but definately fair - a very valuable review.
If nothing else, all of my subsequent songs have been better than that first one.
<erikhatesyou> I just picked up a Cole Porter songbook
<SoberIRL> cole porter owns
<SoberIRL> where'd you get the songbook?
<SoberIRL> and how much?
<erikhatesyou> thrift store
<SoberIRL> fucker.
<erikhatesyou> it only has like 25 songs maybe
<SoberIRL> so does cole porter
<erikhatesyou> I just picked up a Cole Porter songbook
<SoberIRL> cole porter owns
<SoberIRL> where'd you get the songbook?
<SoberIRL> and how much?
<erikhatesyou> thrift store
<SoberIRL> fucker.
<erikhatesyou> it only has like 25 songs maybe
<SoberIRL> so does cole porter
Only a music dork would find that funny. JoS?
Uh, I guess that disqualifies me as a music dork cuz I don't get it. Cole Porter wrote a hell of a lot of songs. Assuming the joke was based on all his songs sounding the same, well they don't, so I don't get it that way either.
But I only actually like about half a dozen Cole Porter songs, so maybe that's where it's going.... please explain.
Perhaps all Sober knows about CP is from De-Lovely.
"Warren Zevon would be proud." -Reve Mosquito
Stages, an album of about dealing with loss, anxiety, and grieving a difficult year, now available on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms! https://jonporobil.bandcamp.com/album/stages
"I like the synthesizer figures in the back. Music sounds kind of spooky for the subject matter the lyrics might indicate. This would be good as end credits for a horror movie, after the leads have escaped the hideous monster, and are on their way home, and at the last minute we see that the monster has attached itself to the bus. Fade to black as music continues." - Level Nivelo
:::bows:::
"You haven't been really bad in a long time." - jim of seattle
I think there's a problem with a thread like this - it could be 'sound' bites of smart, witty or interesting things that people have said here. But instead it's degenerating (if 7/8 posts can constitute a degeneration) into 'hey here's something really cool I saif/was said about me' boasting.
The only way I can see around that is a gentleperson's agreement not to quote stuff here written either about or by yourself.
I know, I know, I'm just bitter because no-one has posted anything by me.
Their mouths are saying the words: "great stuff, good job, you rock," and their eyes say: "turn it off or I will hit you with a blunt instrument." - Astrolamb.
i really dug this one... it comes off as praise at first... and turns to something other... it's a beautiful work of a short small but effective phrase
"You haven't been really bad in a long time." - jim of seattle