personally, I don't care for Cats as a musical, so I would recommend watching the movie, which is a grotesque body-horror fever dream where cats unzip their own skins to reveal second outfits underneath, get bigger and smaller seemingly at random, and live in a world that apparently contains enormo...

Æpplês&vØdkã wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 21, 2020 4:49 pm

If you use Spotify or Youtube, I'll make you a playlist of gloomy tune recommendations! I have no preference, whichever you prefer.

YouTube, please!
I do occasionally use Spotify, but only for stuff I can't get on Youtube.

Also, thank you to WreckdoM for writing a song about the CATS movie, the arrangement is a little fatiguing to listen to tbh but the lyrics brought me great pleasure. I had no idea whatsoever what was tying all these hilariously weird phrases together! But then I've still not gotten around to seeing...

- Do you mean the week before ("The Password Is") which did have various timing issues I'm aware of (oops), or last week's ("Checkered Past")--if the latter, can I have a bit more detail about where you mean? I was talking about Checkered Past; really enjoyed the song (sorry I d...

[Furiously researches music in British]

I quite like Ego Death (from what I remember of my 2 listens), so that's not actually a bad shout either

Darkwave! yes that's the genre I would have put it into, if I'd remembered the word. I checked out your bandcamp, and I've not heard of most of the names of [edit: genre] you've given there, so that's definitely plenty to search for. I've relatively newly returned to this genre (after a spell with J...

Berkeley Social Scene the main vocal sustained opening line sounds horribly out of tune to me, or just an unpleasant timbre. Either way, I don't like it at all. The chorus feels nicely somewhere between nirvana and the Pixies, which is a good thing to me. As apparently usual, the band sounds suffic...

medavox VERSE 1 ------- Well I tried all the things that you told me Even though yours is Phillips and mine is Sony Yes I turned it off and on again, what do you take me for? Some kind of idiooooot Is it normal to hear a buzzing sound? especially when I sneeze or turn around? Should the room really ...

I did it! omg I literally moved my day off to today, so I could finish mixing (but actually just record too many vocal takes instead) I ran out of time (and energy, and knowledge) to mix it properly, sorry! but I did turn down the master volume, and the REAPER output didn't look clipped at all. So p...

Æpplês&vØdkã wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 18, 2019 11:33 am

even in the years I wasn't participating under a vast assortment of monikers, it was always comforting knowing songfight still existed. I hope this place never goes away!

Hear hear!

Welcome back! Seems like there must be something in the water attracting dormant Songfighters to submit again :) Thanks! Hopefully recording will get less stressful the more you practice. I am definitely getting that feeling. REAPER is a huuuuge improvement over Audacity. I'm just not quick enough ...

I might try this one. I'm not any more punctual than I was 11 years ago (my last entry), so no promises. But I'll try. Wrote some lyrics in my lunch break, and a few ideas for chords and instrumentation.

I just find recording really stressful

Just so you know, I'm having some issues with my internet, so I officially blame that on the lack of some reviews for Dry Spell. Also, I'm sorry (with the same excuse) if I don't review this week.

ps, the title sucks (from an uninvolved british songfighter's point of view).

have fun!

Why are you quoting science? too long. I am SO going to be looking for a way to use that line somewhere. hahah cool :) here come some more reviews... Everlasting Gobstopper : This is a good song to mope and chill to. I like the raw acoustic feeling. Vocals are nice and mellow, like the song, sounds...

Here are some of said reviews, anyway: Bangin Betty : the bass was too quiet on my speakers -- but they were tinny speakers. Maybe do some EQ and increase the higher frequencies of the bass track? It was slightly out of time I thought, too. I also thought the chorus overdrive was a bit watery-- it w...

it was a horrible death. could you recommend any good songs of yours? that really is not meant to sound sarcastic, I would just like to hear your highlights, and am tired. btw, my reviews are handwritten, so I'll type them up in chunks at a time. yours, Rone, just says: horrific. I hope it was mean...

Spud wrote:there was an email from Douglas written one full year later responding to my letter.

what did he say?

who wants hypocritically scathing reviews?

I would say <what you like and/or choose to listen to> is a small subset of <what influences you>. I've wondered about that too. I play guitar in a band and bass at home, and what I produce on each instrument (partly due to technical and skill limitations like Rone said, but also obviously cause th...

Hello, I am medavox (Adam IRL), a guitarist, bassist and drum machine programmer from North Wales (UK). I heard about songfight in about 2004, when I'd been playing guitar for about 30 seconds. As could be predicted, the results were awful. Screaming, clipping and thrashing everywhere. But that was ...

I think the first thing I said at the end of this movie was: Why is Billy Corgan so mad? lol. To paraphrase, Despite all his rage, he's still just a rat in a cage. I think it's the best thing to happen to Star Trek in years: An accessible action film which sweeps all inconsistencies with 40 years o...

Yeah, I found him quite cynical, and sometimes it dragged. But generally, there were enough plot gimmicks to keep me hooked.