My favorites include "Leaves That Are Green", "Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall", "I Am a Rock", and "America", but the one I like best is "Kathy's Song".

Nick Soma : The percussion section is pretty unique sounding. Kinda tablaesque? The vocals might be a bit forward in the mix. Some pitch issues cropping up here and there, especially on higher notes and melismata (thanks wikipedia for the fancy word!). Thanks for your review! The percussion in my s...

I'm gonna break this up into Syd vs Post Syd... I love Syd Barrett and think he deserves his own day! It's hard even to pick one of his Floyd songs... Probably "The Gnome"... Post Syd... Echoes. The Pompeii version is mind blowing. As for Syd, I prefer his solo work (although "Piper&...

Considering the heavy amount of grand multi-part epic stuff they did, this may seem a bit ridiculous, but my pick is "Wot's... Uh the Deal" . It's such a beautiful song. But I love almost everything they did. My dad used to play their albums a lot when I was little, and so I became a Floyd...

Sent mine in. Ooh wop-wop shoobedoo-wah! Nur Ein!

Nick Soma - Stolen Diary She writes about her love for mango juice On a whopping seven pages And how her friend, when she goes mad, Goes through several stages And how her mother always uses The stirring attachment of the drill For mixing dough and how that makes her Think of that band named Built ...

"All For Leyna".

Sorry, bearing in mind Paco's "The New Ugly," I couldn't resist editorializing a little when I noticed you two had tied. That's OK, that song of Paco's was one of my favorites from last year's Nur Ein ;) I wasn't entirely clear on whether the "circus" was referring to a literal ...

Generic wrote:9th Place (tie) - 73 - Paco "Who The Hell Is Nick Soma?" del Stinko

Nick Soma? Isn't that the singer from Green Day?

Big congrats to DJ Ranger Den!

My favorite song is Carlo Bruno Jr's, because 1. it has tuba, 2. it opens with the line "We will behave, talk and think like a penguin", and 3. it's hard to beat Carlo's general awesomeness.

glennny wrote:But I end up singing " meh meh meh meh meeeeh" like they are an average circus

As in "Mott the Hoople and the game of Life, meh meh meh meh"? You know, I actually thought of this one when I wrote my Average Circus

I have to admit I'm not very familiar with his music, but of the songs of him I know, I like "Accidents Will Happen" best.

Spud wrote: Can we go back to real bands? LOL! I agree. This Lit major music is barely music. There's a lot of bands that can barely play their instruments that I love, but for some reason the way REM does it just bugs me. I know its supposed to be charming, but its aggressively boring. There are s...

"Alabama Song", though that's a cover. "The End", of course, that one too. And I also love "The Crystal Ship", which no one has mentioned yet.

For No One is one of my favorites, too, but my absolute favorite Beatles song is Strawberry Fields Forever (yeah, an obvious one). Others I really enjoy include A Day in the Life, Penny Lane, and Mr. Kite. Anything from the Sgt. Pepper / Mystery Tour era.

What is your favorite R.E.M. song?

Just sent mine in. Perhaps subconciously inspired by Mr. Meow's grandiose round zero entry, the chorus of my song consists entirely of the word "Meh".

The circus described in my song is actually less than average. Hope you won't mind that.

Nick Soma - The Average Circus Made a trip to Earth in my UFO, Ready to see the circus show They said it's fantastic some time ago And they're the Great Council, they must know But now I find it all too tame The artists bore me, the show is lame They only work and eat and sleep Just promises they c...

Nick Soma Unlike certain other judges, I really liked the "chlorinated brine" line. The song has a strong sense of purpose and groove, in spite of most of the instruments sounding obviously fake; you keep it compelling. (note: I hope when you said your "personal challenge" was t...

Nick Soma - Chlorinated brine? Her heart is beating louder than a double bass drum? Really, these made it through your first draft? Ah, this is fine, I like it enough (and the bridge is particularly striking in that 80s power pop ballad way) - Lyrically, I resist the urge to shout 'JUST JUMP ALREAD...

Nick Soma - Standing on the Edge Heavens open up each time I'm standing on the edge For no apparent reason why What was I thinking? To go there, To fall down and dissolve? Why couldn't I just vanish in the sky? Why, when the chlorinated brine Calls on me every time Too much for me Why, tell me why ...

I'm in, too!
Nur Ein!