Thanks Vom. I figured it out after a bit. Glad it made a good impression. I frequently thought of this as a broadway musical type song while singing it - it seemed to lean in that direction so your review is spot on. (Some of those older Bond tunes are written by Marvin Hamlisch and the like so they...

sailingmagpie wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 08, 2020 9:08 am

Haha, thought I'd check before I plodded off on some nonsensical tangent!

Some Nonsensical Tangent is next week’s title.

You win, lunkhead. I’m holding FBF hostage. I was going to demand ransom but clearly none of you will pay! I will dump him in North Beach and you can pick him up at a local Italian restaurant. (I’m doing my research...)

I’m listening to all the songs and just wanted to chime in and say how much I like the new rule, which is encouraging so many shadows! That’s cool. Good idea.

Fun to see the judges participating as well.

sailingmagpie wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 08, 2020 7:46 am

Can I just check, is this title some kind of cultural reference not immediately obvious to non-Americans or is it just a random collection of words? I've had a look on the interwebs but can't see anything.

Nope, we’re just as clueless as you.

Carte Blanche - Frankie Big Face Can you hear me? Can you see me now? I’m just beyond the shadows of your heart Can you feel the pain? Can you taste it on your tongue? The race was over The race was over before you had begun Running wild with blind devotion Rags and bones and veiled emotions Stickin...

BTW, now that this round is in rear(-view) window, I thought I would reveal that my guest singer (for those of you who don't know) is my lovely wife of nine months. I was really surprised she agreed to do this and I'm glad you all liked her voice. I think she's pretty awesome in general.

Lunkhead wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 05, 2020 3:00 pm

frank, as the only actual composer in the field (as far as I know) you ought to be able to own this challenge.

Oh I will, Sam. I will.

MANY WILL RANK ME HIGH AND SOME WILL RANK ME VERY LOW!

And that is how I will OWN IT!

You'll get no argument from me on that, Frank. I actually wrote that and then erased it... Most of them just aren't very good! I'd say two or three of these are all time classics (jury's still out on Adele, but I think hers may stand the test of time), and the rest range from actively awful to just...

P.S. You are right about one thing. These songs wouldn't appear on normal albums by these artists. Because they all suck and would be cut. The Duran Duran song is a good example. The Garbage song is another good example. There are many.

I sure wish I'd known that there was an actual Bond novel titled Carte Blanche before I wrote my lyrics, but, hey, c'est la vie. I'm a little surprised that Frank apparently can't hear the commonalities among James Bond movie themes. It's true that most of them are in the style of the person or ban...

Thanks for all the replies, everyone. I will do my best! (Only slightly sarcastic, I promise)

But I will not be reading a James Bond book, furrypedro. That I will not.

Are we supposed to incorporate the actual Bond theme song? My take, given the bond theme song playlist, is that every bond movie has a theme song. There are just more popular ones that we'd consider *the* bond theme song. Each theme song is more or less about the movie it's associated with. In this...

Are we supposed to incorporate the actual Bond theme song?

“Bond” is referring to James Bond, a famous book and movie character. Sorry if that wasn’t clear. Yes, I understand that. But the Bond movie songs are basically just songs written in the style of the performers who made them. The Duran Duran song could have been on any of their albums. The Adele so...

So what does this challenge even mean?

@Glenn and @see-man-ski: For what it’s worth, I haven’t turned on my monitors for this entire competition. That’s probably why you heard issues with the electronic drums, Glenn, that I don’t. To be frank, I just got tired of driving myself crazy and figured everyone is listening in headphones now an...

Looking forward to my walk and listen today. All the lyrics look really great. Reading through I realised in my haste to put something together I forgot to put put in a mention to a rear window in my lyrics, whoopsees. If I was having a driving test I would have failed :( It's not an explicit requi...

Rear Window - Frankie Big Face (featuring Shenna) I carried the last box down the steps It seemed heavier than the rest I stopped midway to catch my breath I pushed the key through the mail slot I’ll never forget the sound Metal pinging against the ground I swore I saw a smile flash across your face...

Frankie Big Face - I like this big-ass bass riff. Vocal reverb is a little big for my taste, but whatever. In a take that in the same vein as the Moss Palace one (from Chupacabra POV), this one maybe wouldn’t stand up as well in English, but the Spanish somehow makes it feel emotional weight. Good ...

@Glenns

Maybe there wasn't a Round Zero the first time?

Frankie Big Face - I enlisted the assistance of a friend who speaks fluent Spanish. She said you did good with the pronunciations. This is the thing that scared me the most. I don't know who speaks Spanish out there in Nur Ein world, but I most definitely do not. I asked a student to check my trans...