Probably my one meta-criticism is that your output has been fairly ploddy for the last month, so I'd like to hear you raise the tempo a bit next round. Thanks overall, I appreciate the feedback and I’m glad you enjoyed the song. Regarding the comment about tempo - I’m an old man, and I’m not sure m...

Yes - huge props to Elks for a stellar track, and commiserations to Lunkhead, Cavedwellers, and The Lowest Bitter.

It’s shitty to see good bands with good songs get eliminated, and jeez it must be hard to be a judge.

mo wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 27, 2022 12:49 pm

Stacking Theory -
I was trying to think of what emotion this really imparted to me and it's quite difficult to say--it almost feels like regret but it's not that.

What a great way to think about songs!

For me, I think it might be 'acceptance', through an 'all things must pass' lens.

grumpymike wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 26, 2022 11:01 pm

<snip> I think you ought to go as drastic as possible while sounding good.

Thanks - makes sense. I'll have a tilt.

Different instruments like "my other guitar", or different instruments like "ukulele"?

mo wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 26, 2022 5:00 pm

I sacrificed myself to so much espresso drinking for this; I hope you’re all happy

Yes. Very happy. Thank you.

It's done. Stacking Theory is submitted.

Good luck, everyone!

Novel , by Stacking Theory Liner notes: This is a song about human progress. The verses are built on power drill (left) and impact driver (right) chords, with a wooden ruler plucking the repetitive bass and melody lines The chorus is an electric jigsaw chord to the right, and a blowtorch on the lef...

Stacking Theory - This one grew on me over time. I found the phaser effect on the lead vocal kind of unpleasant to listen to at first, but this is dripping with Mood and Texture in a way that ultimately won me over and pushed it up in my rankings. The whistling is really pretty, and I love the big ...

Stacking Theory The whispery, lo-fi "doo doo doo" is nice. The phasey vocals and slow strum distorted guitar and scratchy sounding... synth? in the background creates great atmosphere and the drop to "oh wow" preceeding the chorus is a nice way to push into the next section. The guitar seems to com...

Thank you, Owl.

That is a fantastic explanation, and I'm really grateful you've shared that with us. So glad I hadn't wandered off down the wrong path on that!

Okay. I’m going to ask the question, so nobody else has to:

Judges, is the intention to hear us use pre-existing recordings (such as TV show, audiobook, etc) as distinct from our own field recordings?

June Moon by Stacking Theory Liner notes: I live in the Southern Hemisphere. June is the time of our longest nights, and our coldest and wettest days. I get sad and stressed every winter - leaving for work in the dark, coming home in the dark, and wishing the sun would come out from behind a beach-...

Okay, I've set up songfight.net to use my mailgun account for now, and it's tested as working. Soon I'll find out just how many notification emails we send in a month! Dreamhost still says that the fix is "being verified" but the outgoing mail queue is still growing faster than mails are going out,...

Lunkhead wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 16, 2022 9:00 am

And re: repetition, can we use the same lyrics for every chorus? Or are we expected to not repeat _any_ lines or anything _ever_...?

Oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit....

Thanks for the updates, Fluffy. I honestly just thought it was me somehow (I've had a few email shenanigans going on lately).

Edit: I will almost certainly mark you down for repeating, unless somehow it sounds awesome (but chances are I won't think that even if you do :D ). Well bugger - I just re-read my lyrics and looked at the whole song (instead of just looking at a single verse at a time) and I realised that the firs...

So you could have ‘sky/behind’ or ‘laughter/after’ or ‘queen/machine’ end of line rhymes (as long as they’re not a couplet), but not ‘daughter/slaughter’ From this list, I would only count sky/behind as a slant rhyme. ‘laughter/after’ or ‘queen/machine’ are both phonetically identical, so they have...

What about repetition, judges?

Is repetition a perfect rhyme?

(Obviously I’m still avoiding couplets)

Actually, ‘laughter/after’ might not be allowed.

No end rhymes means only the end of a line, right? So there could be internal rhymes all over the place as long as the end doesn't rhyme? Because I was wondering if this means, strictly speaking, that the title must not be mentioned in the lyrics since it rhymes. I guess not. Yeah that’s how I read...

I’m just packing up from a lovely long weekend at the cold wet and windy beach. I saw a wombat, plenty of kangaroos, and went to a good & wine festival. I feel at peace and relaxed, but I really did miss writing and recording this week. Can’t wait to hear all your voices when I get home this arvo. T...