You know, when thinking about this title in the car on the way home one of the first things that sprung to mind was boxing.

So: given the discussion that has transpired elsewhere on these boards, I hope to hear a number of tracks that centrally feature backyard wrestling, okay?

Cock thanks you all for your support. I think we expected it to be positively received, but not so overwhelmingly -- we're glad people liked it. I apologize for the slackjob on reviews -- I'm going to try to double back in coming days. Particular standouts for me were Jon's tune and The Weakest Suit...

jast wrote:The Arbitrary Review System is taking a leave of absence.

Boo. The ARS is the best SF-review system evar.

Jon Eric & Friends ... Whoever suggested the keyboard deserves a cookie. That would be Ujn. He mentioned that it needed some honky-tonk piano, and I mentioned that I'd been considering the idea myself. He was a lot more enthusiastic about it than I was, though, so I went ahead and recorded it. *Cou...

Generic wrote: How so? What can someone whose vocals need work do to work on them?

Jan's advice is the best, of course.

Barring that, autotune is a wonderful thing. It won't help you with the emotional impact of your delivery. But at least you'll hit the right notes.

ujnhunter wrote:In progress...

As Ujn mentioned, Cock will be in. Fans of synthesizers from the 80s will recognize our friends the Roland Juno 60, Super JX, and the Korg Poly 800.

My review philosophy: 1. You probably listen to music, and therefore know where your song could use improvement in regards to mixing, levels, guitar tone, etc. I'll just skip that bit. 2. We all make artistic decisions that will alienate a portion of our audience. If you alienate me knowingly, ignor...

The Chthonic Pop Ensemble : I Will be Acquitted. so if you were to leave right now no one could would you culpable, no if you stuck around... oh no. no reason to prolong this bitter end our dying relationship you'd leave it to rot on the vine or perhaps ... on the bone no good could come out of your...

GIANT CONGRATULATIONS TO PACO!!!!

WOOOOO!!!

The Chthonic Pop Ensemble is also exploiting the talents of the more talented this week.
Be sure to catch...
Teplin's celestial cello and hellchoir!
Steve Durand's tremendous trumpet!

Apologies for drawing attention away from reviews - but just to continue from the beginning of this thread and the excellent Jacque Brel cover presented - but Jesus H Tap Dancing Christ, I had never actually seem M. Brel perform - get a load of this:: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZFr2Fh66zs&feat...

I WAS PART OF : IRC BFF - I did the percussion. I sampled melons, carrots, lotus root and some sort of japanese radish that wasn't daikon. And then lined up about 70 samples of the above vegetables pretty like. Then signboy affected it. Jon Eric and friends - I was a friend. I played the drumseses. ...

I heard there was video and audio recorded.

Plz post.

metropological wrote:
Of course, I am still a terrible, terrible singer...

That never stops any of us......

ujnhunter wrote:i don't believe it... it cannot be!

Seriously fucked up.

Yeah it looks like Ujn and I will be in. In celebration of getting on the wagon we decided to ditch the synths and start a STRAIGHT EDGE HARDCORE band. Assuming no one falls off between now and Saturday, of course. In deference to your eardrums its got a poppy, Chthonic kinda feel in the middle. But...

Wow, what another another great batch of songs! Playing "if I were a judge" my top five would be: 1. Howl Down the Chimney. 2. WreckdoM. 3. Frankie Big Face. 4. Tiny Robots. 5. Nigel Clements. Rounding out the top ten in alphabetical order would be Paco, Quimby, RG, Ross, and Signboy. As some of you...

Optional challenge: avoid Chewbacca references

As others have said, this was an excellent, excellent set of tracks all around. You all deserve a cuddly little puppy. But I'd like to call particular attention to a couple of my favorites in the fight (round?). First, the much under-appreciated Howl Down the Chimney. Tep, that was sheer genius my f...

ROUND ONE of the NUR EIN starts now! Song must include 2 verses, a chorus, a repetition of the chorus and a solo. in that order? Seriously though, we were talking about this on IRC. I thought the chorus needed to be repeated twice in a row (i.e. the end of the cock track). The consensus was that wa...

Niveous wrote:ROUND ONE of the NUR EIN starts now!
Challenge: Song must be 2 minutes or shorter.
Song must include 2 verses, a chorus, a repetition of the chorus and a solo.

It's like the template for a Cock track! (Cock's always been a bit on the short side.)

I was too busy seeing she called out 1983, as that is exactly what reve said. :P Yeah. "1983 sound" was an explicit goal this time around. So much so that I wanted to avoid using synthesizers developed after 1983. But somehow a JX10 (c. 1986) did crawl in there towards the end. STYLOPHONE!!! ...thr...