In with installment #3 of the Friendly Town saga. Might do a short story or comic on this person's adventure - though it won't be as good as the Rambo series. I've greatly been enjoying this series of challenges. I kind of went all-out on this one after the reserved stuff I was doing for Nur Ein and...

To Die On This Hill - Brown Word and the Big Whine On your last night in town All your friends brought you out How did you end up with me? Ill-starred from the start This collision of hearts Two ships on our own little sea Why can't this moment last forever? I never want this night to stop When we s...

We Did Everything We Could - Brown Word and the Big Whine They said Big Jay was trouble All the police knew him well From childhood to adolesence Raising holy hell I met him when I got to town The first to treat me friendly Little did I know his time Would be so shortly ending It started at the age ...

Brown Word in with chapter two in this saga, wherever it is leading. Certainly something is wrong with the mix, there always is, but here I come anyway. Some day I'll learn!

Blue - Brown Word and the Big Whine Well I'm not sure I've met the challenge to bring my A-game on this - songs like this while simple are very hard for me to pull off well but it just wasn't physically, musically, or emotionally possible this time. The subject of loss has personally struck home wit...

Well I didn't make it to the finals but I had a really great time and am extending that good time by working on a shadow entry for "Blue". Thank you Niveous for putting this together once again. Thank you judges for giving BWatBW a shake at the ol' Nur Ein. And thank you fellow contenders for provid...

I ordered an alto saxophone yesterday. It's an instrument I've been wanting for a long time, though I'm more of a clarinet guy (I tried tenor sax and it was a nightmare for me, that thing is just so big and heavy!) I'll see if I can get anything decent out of the alto sax and perhaps use it for thi...

Here we go, Brown Word's vid for Devil In The Rain.

Thanks Jon. For funnies I’ll try to figure it out later and see if I can’t jump on the bandwagon.

Devil In The Rain - Brown Word and the Big Whine Well this was a fun one and I also tried to take care that the song makes some sense without the accompanying clip. My first task was to line up those hammer hits. I wanted to do that the minute I saw them and I believe I had succeeded: if you put the...

Safe travels. We’ll be here when you get back

Brown Word got in earlier with an effort I considered rather awful but King Colon assures me it reminds him of 90's bands that us older people like. WreckdoM is also in under the wire. Looking forward to Night Sky's horns! Also generally looking forward to the stories that everyone is creating. I li...

Abuse of Power - Brown Word and the Big Whine I rolled into town in the dead of night Down the main drag - red and blue lights They pulled me out the car and went through my stuff Gave me a stern warning what happens to riff-raff Toss you in the back of the black and white So the nail that sticks up...

Brown Word and the Big Whine - Cool guitars. I like the energy. I feel the vocal doesn't sit in the mix quite "right." It sounds either thin or a bit masked to me. But I liked the song. Challengewise: I'm guessing your modulation was intended to be in the solo at 2:38 and in the vocal at 3:19. Both...

The Only Way Out - Brown Word and the Big Whine This title lent itself immediately to a certain type of song with a certain type of story for me. These lyrics are based around one of the great Icelandic family sagas, The Saga of Burnt Njal. However I added a twist - in this song the intended victims...

I did my lyrics in a rondel variant, based off Chaucer's "Rondel of Merciless Beauty". Hopefully that isn't going to ding me as I felt that structuring the last quintet this way (as ol' Geoffrey himself did) allowed me to revisit the "waiting for the sun to fall" line and bolster the concept of the...

Brown Word and the Big Whine -- This is a different sound from you, at least from the fights I’ve been in. I like how you sort of take the idea of a werewolf transformation but apply it to the transformation of going out to dance, and getting into a more visceral and animal kind of mode, getting sw...

Brown Word is in, taking a break while I learn my Nur Ein fate with something fun and loud. Glockenspiel solo, apropos of nothing.

House Arrest - Brown Word and the Big Whine Well they threw the book I'm on house arrest Can maybe go as far as the mailbox Hey my friends come tap on my window pane These same four walls are all I got going on Tonight I'm gonna take it to the top They can't stop the party coming to me My friends we...

Neat chart! BWatBW and WreckdoM both had separate outsiders helping us.

So here we could use 26 if that extra word makes the song better? I think the thing most nerve-wracking (by design?) is attempting to satisfy challenges that are vaguely laid out, since then it feel like rather than having a defined challenge set out, they're going to wait and see if they like the s...

Pleasant Row - Brown Word and the Big Whine A fairly obvious approach. You get tired of the fast-pace of die Stadt and trade it for die Kultismus des Landes. I showed here up in my moving van Looking for relief from the Sturm and Drang The city's full of toils and troubles But something is off in th...