Growing up our family had a copy of The Byrd's Greatest Hits in our record collection. I listened to it quite a lot, and I was really drawn to the Dylan covers, especially My Back Pages which is amazing. Honorable mention goes to the countryish sounding Mr. Spaceman , but for me it's gotta be the pi...

Here's the Luke Henley song, with my "Welcome to____" inspired loosely by it. I really like how you incorporated the original song into your intro, seems like a very sensible way of going about it. That little guitar note at the end of the original song is a nice touch, and I love the way...

I love so many of their songs. When I hear that pounding rhythm on Ana Ng is gets me so hyped. I'm amazed by the song Dirt Bike , somehow it manages to provoke an emotional response in me, even though it's about a stupid dirt bike. Genius. I love everything on the Pink Album, you never forget your f...

Berkeley Social Scene As usual, the guitars sound fantastic, but it's Martin's punky manic overwrought vocals that really make this song stand out for me. I also really like the car imagery, like 'freedom under our wheels' and 'where the rubber meets the road' stand out and are excellently and memo...

A Horse With No Name , no hesitation. That song was part of my personal mythology as a kid, every time I heard it on the radio I practically had a religious experience. It was one of the first songs I can remember being really, really into, and if it was playing I'd freak out and stop everything an...

Looks pretty interesting. Currently I collaborate with folks by sharing .band projects on Dropbox, which works well enough, but you still end up having to do a lot of manual merging of changes, and it's easy to miss stuff. A git type revision control system for a DAW would be a killer app IMHO.

Not curated, you just got lucky. ;) Heh, Cygnet got lucky. I'm a bit scared of this challenge because I can't reverse engineer music to save my life. I have some software that can pick out chords from recordings, but it's not great. I transcribed the lyrics because I really like them, and want to p...

Evil April by Ben Foxworthy one time april walked into a darkened alley way evil ninjas assaulted her and took her DNA their evil master shredder made an evil april clone he wanted her to kill the turtles but she felt all alone he took her to a dojo where she learned to fight and kick though the tho...

Here you go! http://sfjukebox.org/songs/evil_april/Ben%20Foxworthy I was highly dubious of this challenge until I listened to Ben Foxworthy's Evil April, which is awesome and ripe for cover. It's pretty rough, G&G, but is an epic story song with great lyrics, and it's about the Teenage Ninja Mu...

I Love Rock & Roll is her hit, and it's pretty great, but I really love Bad Reputation, which reminds me, I need to try to write a song in the style of the Ramones at some point.

For the Hoping You're Having a Nice Time in Jamaica fight, I was seriously thinking about writing a song about how much I hate Bob Marley. Thankfully Mr. Jerkatorium talked me down. So many bad ideas for that fight. As much as I hate Bob Marley, I do love this cover of Trenchtown Rock . [youtube]/pe...

Oh man, so many good songs, that all sorta sound the same. I'm gonna have to go with Chump for obvious reasons.

I had an idea and ran with it, I think I'm too close to it to know if it's a good idea or not. For me the important part is that I finished and had the guts to hit 'send'. Mr. Jerkatorium had a lot of other stuff on his plate this month, so I went it alone this time around.

Meeting Street by Chumpy and the Bitfields the payday loans and mobile homes shine for me on meeting street massage parlors and bargain barbers smile down on meeting street meeting street cheating defeat meeting street so happy and numb on meeting street it’s where i come from on meeting street chin...

We could have probably used the extra time to come up with a chord progression that, you know, progresses, but didn't. I think we're pretty stiff competition in the race to the bottom.

Great song jb. Love, love, love the whistling solo. Curious what your shibboleth is, l'm imagining you shouting 'lollapalooza' and hoping that you won't get shot. The 'I want you to be free' almost doesn't fit, and feels a bit uncomfortable. Your vocals are very sweet sounding, especially at the end...

So did anyone use this extra time to rework their original submission, or submit a song they wouldn't have otherwise?

I've listened to it a few more times since I wrote my initial review. Jeff Travis Henderson turns in the best vocal performance, one of the best sounding songs, and a pretty solid lyrical effort. Having said that he has some pretty stiff competition this time around. Skadaddle has that killer guitar...

For me it's Woodstock. It's spooky, stark, beautiful and a legit counterculture anthem. She pushes her voice to the point of straining at few points, which adds to its power. Chills.

Margret Benson and the Cheese Trio are in, and it's pretty epic.

Like many, Goo is the first Sonic Youth album I really got into, and it's really hard to pick favorites from it, since it's all so, so good. Many of my favorite Sonic Youth tracks seem to be written and sung by Lee Ranaldo, he's like Sonic Youth's Tobin Sprout. It's really hard to choose, but I'm go...

johndisk0 wrote:YECH! My song sucks soooo bad. I don't think I can submit this...

Oh, I wouldn't worry too much about that this time around. I'm likely going to be submitting something that could charitably described as avant-garde.