Rear Window Micah Sommersmith with guest vocalist Hilary Kathryn I remember that summer, I was nine years old / I remember that summer, I had just turned ten Mom and dad said, let’s hit the road / When my mama that said we had to move again Their jobs weren’t paying them enough to live / Johnny’d b...

My song is in Spanish. In the lyrics thread I have included an English translation along with the lyrics. My hope is that each judge, as much as they consider lyrics, will consider both the meaning as indicated by the translation (if they don't speak Spanish), and the sound/form/structure (rhyme sch...

Chupacabra Micah Sommersmith Lyrics in Spanish - English translations in italics every two lines Me gritaste anoche con palabras de enojo Hoy solito en el coche, pienso en nosotros You shouted at me last night with words of anger Today, alone in the car, I think about us En las noticias, el cuerpo ...

Today's (5/21/2020) Google Doodle is really cool. It's an interactive doodle celebrating the mbira, and includes a mbira playing game like a low-stakes Guitar Hero or DDR. Don't skip the animated cutscenes.

https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-mbira

Best advice I can offer is something I picked up in broadcast school that might sound confusing at first. Hopefully this will make sense: Sing or talk with your mouth pointed slightly away from the microphone. Thanks for taking the time to respond, and thanks for this advice. Makes a lot of sense t...

Micah Sommersmith ... Your vocals sound super crispy in the mix when you're hitting S sounds, and not in a good way. Thanks for the review! I struggled a lot trying to tame the S sounds in my vocals on this entry - sometimes it's an issue when I'm recording, sometimes it's not, so I'm not sure how ...

The Handbook Micah Sommersmith I know it’s hard to live in a world surrounded by other people This would all be so much easier on your own If you think this way, you’re forgiven But it’s just not the world that we live in So I’ve compiled this resource to let you know Whenever you need, just stop a...

BTW - Micah - as a linguist, let me express how much I hate that guy Chomsky. Not as a person, not for his political views, but for how he totally ruined my interest in everything syntax-related (I'm more of a semantics guy, and I love historical linguistics) with his bullshit theories I had to rea...

Micah Sommersmith ... the bridge crosses a line into "you will only get anything out of this if you read all of these citations", which I'm not doing because I don't think a song should really need that much additional info to stand up (plus I have 42 other songs to get through). I had a suspicion ...

This Is Fine Micah Sommersmith They told me to be sensible, they told me to be smart They told me not to waste my time with music or with art They said to pick a discipline to make my wallet fat And diagramming sentences is where the money’s at The subject is determined syntactically The agent is d...

I accidentally chose the first song I listened to. I tried to give some others a chance, but I keep coming back to that first one because it killed me dead. What a song. Thanks crumpart, and thanks for your cover. It has a kind of eerie otherworldliness to it which I love and which I think is impli...

I'm in! I hope you like my submission, giftee. I did change the key and the tempo, and the instrumentation. Also the chord progression, and a bit of the melody. Also some of the lyrics. Other than that, it's an entirely faithful cover.

They've posted their first prompt: Write a song about an unlikely friendship.

https://songalong.wtf/prompts/01

Due at the end of Thursday May 7.

Ken Plume, who ran the "Masters of Song Fu" competition years ago, is bringing it back as "SongAlong". It will be noncompetitive this time, with prompts issued on Fridays and songs due a week later. The first prompt will be released tomorrow, May 1. All the details are here: https://songalong.wtf/ I...

sleepysilverdoor wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 16, 2020 4:46 pm

I could write reviews for everyone if y'all are interested?

BRING THE REVIEWS!!!

I'm in!

Song Fight entries

I think the intent is that everyone picks from everyone's Song Fight entries, but if you want to venture further afield:
Nur Ein
SpinTunes 13, 14, 15, 16
More piles of songs

Micah Sommersmith

Covering each other's songs would definitely be fun. How has it worked in the past - do you just peruse the other person's Song Fight archive and pick a song you like, or does everyone pick a small number of their own songs to choose from? The latter might even the scales for people who don't have m...

Mike Lamb wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 14, 2020 7:32 am

jb wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 13, 2020 8:01 pm

Sorry I'm late, sent mine in just now.

JB

Thanks! Added JB for Micah Sommersmith - Hotel Song

Oh man, I love the full-on vocal arrangement! Thanks JB, this is so much fun!

sleepysilverdoor wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 10, 2020 3:23 am

Thanks Micah! Something to listen to at work today. Given that it's Spotify I want to cover the recurring Kroger commercial that pops up every 3 or 4 songs.

Gift of Music - Jingle Edition???

Just for fun, I made a Spotify playlist of everyone's selections.* Fee free to jam out to six hours of your songwriter friends' favorite songs: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5eLP6gtrW6dho3JYQf4Keq?si=uZnY_4IGSWaScvd2_i6J4Q *A handful of songs were not on Spotify, including, unfortunately 3 of Jo...

So much stress cooking/baking going on right now chez owl. The week’s meals (no pics sorry!) have included: Dutch baby pancake with fresh lemon curd We saw multiple friends posting online about making Dutch babies, and owl's post was the last straw. We had ours with yogurt, apple pie filling and st...

I don't even really know his work with Fountains of Wayne (other than the ubiquitous "Stacy's Mom") or his other bands, but his work for movies and TV makes for an impressive resume in its own right - for "That Thing You Do" and "Music and Lyrics" he had the daunting task of writing songs that could...