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by AJOwens
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:50 pm
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: I set my chair by the road to watch (A Grand Parade prefight)
Replies: 90
Views: 3600

Re: I set my chair by the road to watch (A Grand Parade prefight)

I just sent in a late entry under the name Motley Cyrus.
by AJOwens
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:56 am
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: A parade, or a marathon?! (A Grand Parade reviews)
Replies: 45
Views: 1704

Re: A parade, or a marathon?! (A Grand Parade reviews)

ps please someone submit 7 more... I think I can come up with another one within the next day or two. I already have a sketch for the chorus. We're so close! Can we find six more? I just dropped some fresh lyrics in Ye Olde Lyric Marte. I also have music, so I'll try to knock together a lo-fi recor...
by AJOwens
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:27 am
Forum: Ye Olde Lyric Archive
Topic: Ye Olde Lyric Marte
Replies: 99
Views: 63808

Re: Ye Olde Lyric Marte

A Grand Parade Main Street's looking pretty rough The five and dime's all boarded up The shoe stores and the hardware stores are gone The old hotel caught fire And destroyed a city block The barber pole has got a hole Where someone threw a rock No one's been here for a week The place is looking pret...
by AJOwens
Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:25 am
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: A parade, or a marathon?! (A Grand Parade reviews)
Replies: 45
Views: 1704

Re: A parade, or a marathon?! (A Grand Parade reviews)

arby wrote:
Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:34 pm
ps please someone submit 7 more...
I think I can come up with another one within the next day or two. I already have a sketch for the chorus. We're so close! Can we find six more?
by AJOwens
Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:52 am
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: A parade, or a marathon?! (A Grand Parade reviews)
Replies: 45
Views: 1704

Re: A parade, or a marathon?! (A Grand Parade reviews)

HeuristicsInc wrote:
Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:31 am
Hmm the download link is giving me a "HTTP ERROR 500", is this just a load thing or is it broken?
I get the same error, a most unhelpful one that means something went wrong, but no one knows what.
by AJOwens
Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:25 am
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: A parade, or a marathon?! (A Grand Parade reviews)
Replies: 45
Views: 1704

Re: A parade, or a marathon?! (A Grand Parade reviews)

fluffy wrote:
Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:02 pm
You can also listen to them all in submission order via the listening party stream recording, at least for the entries which got in before that wrapped up.
Heine's song ends abruptly. (I think the song starts around 26:00.) Is it just my system?
by AJOwens
Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:12 pm
Forum: Ye Olde Lyric Archive
Topic: A Grand Parade
Replies: 56
Views: 983

Re: A Grand Parade

A Grand Parade – The Chebuctones Words by James Owens Music by Ryan Reed Well I’ve been renovicted for a fancy B&B I can’t afford the rent on what has trickled down to me There’s no place left for honest folk whose work is poorly paid And so you’ll find us pitching tents down on the Grand Parade...
by AJOwens
Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:54 pm
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: I set my chair by the road to watch (A Grand Parade prefight)
Replies: 90
Views: 3600

Re: I set my chair by the road to watch (A Grand Parade prefight)

The second song is in. We bailed on the accordion part.
by AJOwens
Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:41 am
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: I set my chair by the road to watch (A Grand Parade prefight)
Replies: 90
Views: 3600

Re: I set my chair by the road to watch (A Grand Parade prefight)

I'm still on track to play all 100+ songs on Monday night. Expect a long listening party. To me, the alarming thing about this post is Tommy's confidence that the songs will be posted before 5pmPDT/8pmEDT Monday. The FightMaster's lack of response to that comment feels like tacit validation. I gues...
by AJOwens
Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:10 am
Forum: Ye Olde Lyric Archive
Topic: A Grand Parade
Replies: 56
Views: 983

Re: A Grand Parade

You’re gonna find my band in the Grand Parade The Grand Parade began to march two dozen years ago To find the vanguard that’s how far ahead you have to go Some bands have been there from the start and some joined near the end But everybody has a part, and all the bands are friends Welcome to a grand...
by AJOwens
Sun Mar 24, 2024 2:38 am
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: I set my chair by the road to watch (A Grand Parade prefight)
Replies: 90
Views: 3600

Re: I set my chair by the road to watch (A Grand Parade prefight)

As if on cue, the CBC today posted a story about the Grand Parade -- just in time for the deadline! This is what my second song is about. I was going to record clean vocals this morning, but there's a howling wind rattling the house.

https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/fea ... e-doorstep
by AJOwens
Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:34 pm
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: I set my chair by the road to watch (A Grand Parade prefight)
Replies: 90
Views: 3600

Re: I set my chair by the road to watch (A Grand Parade prefight)

I have one song recorded, just finalizing the mix. I'm working on another one, but with a collaborator who's come down with the flu. The second one (which has better lyrics) is not likely to be done by the nominal deadline. With luck I'll be able to knock it into shape before the songs are posted.
by AJOwens
Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:06 pm
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: I set my chair by the road to watch (A Grand Parade prefight)
Replies: 90
Views: 3600

Re: I set my chair by the road to watch (A Grand Parade prefight)

I now have complete lyrics for two songs. The second one is very Haligonian; I'll see if I can round up some local musicians. Excellent title as far as I'm concerned!
by AJOwens
Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:12 am
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: I set my chair by the road to watch (A Grand Parade prefight)
Replies: 90
Views: 3600

Re: I set my chair by the road to watch (A Grand Parade prefight)

What do people think of posting early versions of lyrics and encouraging lyric burglary to get more songs? I ask because I have some "meta" lyrics I'd be willing to post. I did get some heat for being too "meta" in one fight, but I can't help how my brain works. One set of lyrics...
by AJOwens
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:00 am
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: I set my chair by the road to watch (A Grand Parade prefight)
Replies: 90
Views: 3600

Re: I set my chair by the road to watch (A Grand Parade prefight)

I'm breaking one of the unwritten SF rules by writing about Song Fight. I'm trying to keep it obtuse. Hopefully I don't quit on it. Doing my part for 1K! Is that an unwritten rule? I never knew. I once wrote about Song Fight! in "Made to be Played." For this fight, I was planning to do it...
by AJOwens
Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:21 pm
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: 100 Artists for SongFight #1000!
Replies: 54
Views: 2324

Re: 100 Artists for SongFight #1000!

It's still Pi Day in the Americas, but here in the Maritimes, the window is closing fast. For the rest of the planet, it's already the 15th. It's beginning to feel like something has gone wrong. I have faith you're working on it!
by AJOwens
Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:38 pm
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: I put a spell on you... (Love Magic reviews)
Replies: 21
Views: 1372

Re: I put a spell on you... (Love Magic reviews)

James Owens : This is fun, kinda gives me Margaritaville vibes. The lyrics are pretty generic—wish there was a bit more of a unique or strange something to grab onto in the music or the lyrics. My husband loves Seasons in the Sun and I find it so horribly cheesy. But even with the hint I’m not quit...
by AJOwens
Wed Mar 13, 2024 12:16 pm
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: I put a spell on you... (Love Magic reviews)
Replies: 21
Views: 1372

Re: I put a spell on you... (Love Magic reviews)

With the fight almost over, and assuming anyone actually cares, I'll identify my Optional Challenge snippet as the melody for "We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun" from Terry Jacks' "Seasons in the Sun." I didn't realize until I looked into it that the song was orig...
by AJOwens
Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:47 pm
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: I put a spell on you... (Love Magic reviews)
Replies: 21
Views: 1372

Re: I put a spell on you... (Love Magic reviews)

Agent chaos has a sample from the spin doctors “two princes”. I imagine it would be obvious during the chorus if you slowed the whole thing down. And I was hearing references to "Love Shack" by the B-52s! I don't think I even know "Two Princes". [edit -- Oh, that song!] I didn't...
by AJOwens
Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:35 pm
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: I put a spell on you... (Love Magic reviews)
Replies: 21
Views: 1372

Re: I put a spell on you... (Love Magic reviews)

Sorry for not adding a note about the optional challenge to the lyrics—I am too online, I guess, and thought it would be obvious :D Oh! -- different wavelengths. I was thinking entirely in terms of musical phrases. It never even occurred to me that the "small recognizable bit" could invol...
by AJOwens
Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:25 am
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: I put a spell on you... (Love Magic reviews)
Replies: 21
Views: 1372

Re: I put a spell on you... (Love Magic reviews)

Add : Bright, energetic, staccato music, with some wandering chord sequences between the vocal breaks. The singing, or rather declaiming, manages to sound happy and snarky at the same time. I have no idea what the lyrics are about. Solid performance and recording. Optional challenge? Nothing detect...
by AJOwens
Tue Mar 05, 2024 5:37 am
Forum: Fight Discussions and Reviews
Topic: I don't just _like_ magic, I (Love Magic prefight)
Replies: 12
Views: 783

Re: I don't just _like_ magic, I (Love Magic prefight)

roymond wrote:
Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:14 pm
I didn't get anything new done for this (surprise!) but I just realized I wrote one 29 years ago that fits the bill...
http://roymond.com/archives/2006/08/hold_on.html
I guess the love magic is in the Humperdinck.