Welcome to the 16th full edition of SpinTunes! We're going to kick this one off with a deceptively simple challenge: What a Concept!: Write a song based on a scene from a book or movie. Examples include: "Thunder Child" by Jeff Wayne (from "Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of the Worlds") and "Ca...

Oddly enough just the other night I got in a conversation about how the Lynch version of Dune is the only one worth consuming anymore because all of the others that exist (including the original books) are Extremely Problematic or at least Bad, and the Lynch version is at least surreal and nonsensi...

This week's jars: Fresh lemon juice/olive oil/toasted sesame oil/Dijon mustard vinaigrette, with salt and white pepper and a little sugar to balance the lemon Cosmic Crisp apples (OVERRATED! I still 100% prefer a Honeycrisp. And one of my apples with a "1-year shelf life" already has a soft brown s...

owl wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 04, 2020 3:13 pm

Hey check out the cover of this paper I saw in Milwaukee last night!

I hope you held onto your copy - it's already a collector's item!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083DYFPT8

Let’s make 2020 the year that no one uses the phrase “genre bias” in their reviews. Adnama17 - You’ve pulled off a neat trick here: telling a story with a distinct beginning and end, within a traditional cyclical (verse-chorus) song format. Your choruses have largely the same lyrics (“what the passw...

glad you managed to find some time to get something in for this one! Where did you move/where are you moving? Still nearby? We moved in November to Neenah, just south of Appleton. A little farther from Madison but still a doable drive for the right occasion. :) Although we will be a family of four ...

The Password Is ______ Levenhagen-Sommersmith There’s a new world that I’m dreaming of No rich and no poor, no below or above To get to this new world it isn’t so tough Just knock on that glass door And give them the password You know what the password is The password is ______ There’s a new world ...

My life has been a little crazy with moving to a new city, my wife starting a new job, and expecting a new baby soon. I've watched a lot of titles come and go, but for this one I actually managed to write a simple little song and then invited a friend to play violin and recorded us in my living room...

Thank you everybody!

Now I REALLY have to finish writing those reviews!

Micah Sommersmith- I love it! This is probably my favorite Micah song. I am a sucker for 5/8. I would like to throw a criticism of me back at you. Remember Tearing History Down- the glenny song was in 7/8 and you didn’t like the same accents on the rhythm throughout the song. To me the same could b...

There is some really great music in this fight! I've listened through the fight once, will post reviews when I have a chance to listen more.

Please Move (Muevan por favor) Micah Sommersmith Hay un lugar, princesa, donde no hay tristeza Y no necesitas droga ni cerveza Deja tu toalla, pues no es la playa El lugar se halla dondequiera que La música suena claramente Y la gente deja que sus cuerpos muevan Por favor, muevan por favor Ven, mi ...

Sent mine in last night.

This was my (Micah Sommersmith) intended setlist, which as far as I can remember was the actual setlist as well (I didn't go back and watch my whole set but I don't remember changing it):

Whichever Whenever
Working On It
You Are a Guest
Cannibal Town
Let Them In
Glue
Incandescent
Dad Joke

I have a new album! I had copies at Song Fight Live a couple weeks ago and now it's online too, for pay-what-you-want download:

https://micahsommer.bandcamp.com/album/you-like-me

It's got five Song Fight songs, four SpinTunes songs, and five songs I wrote all by myself.

I have submitted the recording of my song from the Live Fight, bar noise and screwups included.

Thanks to fluffy for an excellent quality recording, and for the incredibly quick turnaround in trimming them and sending them all out!

The Supper Club Micah Sommersmith Live at the Song Fight Live Live Fight (note: these are the lyrics I intended to sing, which are of course not exactly the lyrics I did sing.) It’s 5 o’clock on a Friday, do you know where your grandparents are? Pulling all our shiny SUVs into the supper club Excha...

starfinger wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 20, 2019 9:33 pm

I want to practice mixing. Somebody send me tracks!

I have an entire album (14 songs) that I'm not super happy about the mix of. That may be a bigger project than you're interested in though! It's mostly accordion/acoustic guitar/bass/drums/vocals, with the occasional other thing.

Is it an issue to have identical filenames for entries in different fights? This one will be identical to Sacred Coward. Probably it's happened before and our very intelligent Fightmaster knows how to deal with it, but I just noticed that.

Hey Micah, the two mentioned already were mine, not the Rigby's. Would you be able to bring 5-6 total just so all the ones there are yours and we don't have any mixups as far as whose stands are whose? I left my church before I saw this request and won't be back before Sunday, sorry! But my stands ...

Just to confirm what was discussed in the main SF Live thread: I will be bringing four music stands from my church. If the Rigby already has two, I imagine that will be more than enough.

The music stands are of this general kind:
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Lunkhead wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 29, 2019 4:50 pm

How many music stands will there be again? Sorry if that was spelled out already. I could pack one in my carry-on. We might want to have four total if possible.

I can bring some music stands. Good solid ones, not garbage wire stands. (No offense.)