SpinTunes 16 is looking for judges, and you should be one! Help choose the next superstar band! Dave isn't on the SFBB, so he asked me to see if any SongFighters are interested. Jerkatorium is planning on competing this year instead of judging, so SpinTunes is a couple of judges short. If you have a...

Try Me by Miscellaneous Jerk We never argue, why should we argue? We’re both rational adults We never fight, why should we fight? That always gets such bad results You look so happy now Just wait until I make my big mistakes And this contentment breaks ‘Cause if you think I can’t fuck this up Then ...

Just in time for Halloween... it's a new Jerkatorium video for "Super Creepy": -E9hnTKigPI All clips are taken from footage of Bread and Puppet Theater performances (and everything was downloaded from Archive.org, all footage Creative Commons). You gotta check out the Bread and Puppet Theater, they'...

Liquid Starshine by Jerkatorium Verse 1: Got a handful of pills And a Pop-Tart for food, And it’s noon, so it’s okay to drink. I’ll check in on you, Then I’ll check out the tube,  Then I think it’s time for me to check out too. I’ll stop watching the evening news And devote more time to the pills a...

Special thanks to everyone who posted their lyrics (not mandatory, but appreciated). Extra-special thanks to everyone who also listed where their sample came from. The judges get less than two days to listen and rank the songs, so it helps a lot.

No singer in any of the music you like has ever sung a one syllable word over two notes or deliberately left some space between some words? :P That's right. Just like that band we reviewed for the "Sing of the Times" fight: "She's buy-y-ing a stai-airway to heaven." What kind of amateur stretches "...

[...] personally I have no problem with somebody spending "only a few hours" on a song. I don't believe in there necessarily being a relationship between time spent on a song and quality of the song, personally. Does it spoil things to know I recorded the whole BSS "Thirteenth Moon" on one day in a...

He'll take a backing vocal track, copy it to another track, tune all the pitches, flatten all the pitch warble to zero, and then work out what each harmony note should be on the guitar. Then we'll tune that note on the copied track to what it should be, and then listen to it against the original ba...

SpinTunes 15 schedule (copied and pasted from the website) - all times are in the Eastern Time zone (New York time): October 13th (Saturday) Noon - Sign ups start. October 26th (Friday) 11:59pm - Sign ups end. October 27th (Saturday) 12:01am - First challenge is announced. November 4th (Sunday) 11:5...

SpinTunes is a semi-annual elimination competition. It differs from Nur Ein in that it gives topics instead of titles, and it is only four rounds instead of eight. Also the schedule is slightly less arduous than Nur Ein - you get a little over a week to finish each song, followed by a five- or six-...

Jerkatorium wrote:Man (10)
Boy (3)
Woman (2)
Girl (2)
Just sayin'.

Updated October count:

Man (10)
Boy (3)
Woman (2) (3)
Girl (2)

Yay, parity achieved.

[jk. Please don't make the next title "Woman Woman Woman Woman Woman Woman Woman Girl".]

The idea came from some curiosity about whether or not "Robot" appeared in SF titles more often than "Love". It doesn't. Love = 8, and Robot = 4 (5 after the Yes, You're A Robot fight). Other interesting items: "You" (34) appears a little more often than "I" (33). That seems to contradict the alread...

We touch on this topic during the Tearing History Down episode of the Two Jerks One Vote Song Fight review podcast so I wanted to post it here. The word frequency count for all Song Fight titles (not including Tearing History Down and Yes You're A Robot) is listed below. I did not include the words ...

Headline from today's The Onion:

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Lunkhead wrote:For those that don't know, Collin Cunningham aka narbotic is the original creator of Song Fight! Great to see him back!

Help us out a little: Collin Cunningham aka narbotic is back in what context? Did he submit a song? And if so, under what band name?

I'm glad that you explained that stuff about the text files. I never thought that the duplicate entry bug was being intentionally exploited, but I'd still had a smidgen of residual miffedness about Young Blood (even though Jerkatorium wasn't in that Fight) because I'd made the incorrect assumption t...

I dipped in to the podcast, good stuff. And yes, the bug is still there that the votes are keyed only on the band name. When folks enter multiple songs with the same band name then unfortunately votes for any one of their songs all go to the artist, not the song. If you'd like that changed, please ...

I've voted, downloaded, lurked on the boards, and submitted cover art on and off since 2001, but Jerkatorium has only been submitting songs for 3 1/2 years. It's very likely that Jerkatorium wouldn't exist at all if it weren't for Song Fight, or if we did exist without Song Fight our output would be...

Holy goddamn it's Cow Exchange. I freakin love Cow Exchange. Cow Exchange (and Bovine Recyclery) songs have been on my playlists for the past dozen years or more.

Thank you for posting, I'm glad that you did. I admire your strength and courage, and of course I admire your musical talents too (so hey, make more music).

I really liked your video for Wicker Park so I checked out the album. It's fantastic. Your music makes me very happy.

Thanks a ton Micah, I love your interpretation of 49%; a rousing zydeco version with great vocal harmonies. I've been listening to it over and over.


I would have praised it earlier, but I was too embarrassed to chime in until we got our song done.