Happy belated anniversary, Song Fight! Many many years ago I read a sci-fi novel called “Steel Beach” by John Varley. If I remember right, at one point the protagonist is stranded on a desert island for a year, and during that time he builds himself a large comfortable house and all its furnishings....

Any additional practical advice for buying an acoustic guitar online for $600 or less? 30 years ago I borrowed an Applause acoustic guitar from a family member, and I just returned it a couple of weeks ago. One of the main reasons I returned it was because I wasn’t happy with the tone, especially af...

If anyone still needs a guest vocalist I'm willing, please PM me.

Having said that, please note that Chumpy is Jerkatorium's lead vocalist for good reason: I am not a good singer and would prefer to supply a harmonized or vocoder (your choice) vocal guest spot if called upon.

Ugh. Let me show the math as I see it: That word is inherently associated with a female body part. More often than not, when that word is used, it is used as a negative epithet. When that word is used as a negative epithet the user is reinforcing a negative association with the female body part, whe...

I'm sure whatever stragglers are left don't need any additional encouragement or pressure but: A Two Jerks One Vote Gift of Music review podcast is in the works, scheduled to be recorded tomorrow. All of the GoM songs that are available within the next 24 hours will be commented upon. Any songs not ...

Jerkatorium is in. http://www.songfight.org/artistpage.php?key=jerkatorium http://www.songfight.org/artistpage.php?key=jerkatorium_feat_micah_sommersmith http://www.songfight.org/artistpage.php?key=miscellaneous_jerk If Nur Ein songs are fine for this (I'm going to assume they are) then our Nur Ein ...

This GoM was great, and I love these covers, and I love being introduced to bands and songs I'd never heard of (Courtney Barnett, Drab Majesty, Better Oblivion Community Center, etc etc etc)... but why don't we do an Original Flava instead and cover other SongFighters? I like the idea of giving a ra...

Jerkatorium has a submission. Gonna cut it really really close to that deadline tho.

Ryan, I’m disappointed! Mandibles DID have a song last round- You are Free! Though, that one was sung by Truth, so maybe you thought it was faster Jackelope? :lol: Crap, how did I miss that? Of course I know that song, and I enjoyed that song immensely. We do some preparation/research prior to reco...

Nice video, Jerks. The lip syncing lines up so well, did that take a long time? Also, those pauses are so good! Thank you, and yes, it did take some time. But most of our time was spent trying to extend the word "of" out to several syllables, which was obviously the best part of the song.

New Jerkatorium music video for our SpinTunes 16 Round 1 song "In The Future":

SpinTunes 16 is looking for judges, and you should be one! Help choose the next superstar band! Dave isn't on the SFBB, so he asked me to see if any SongFighters are interested. Jerkatorium is planning on competing this year instead of judging, so SpinTunes is a couple of judges short. If you have a...

Try Me by Miscellaneous Jerk We never argue, why should we argue? We’re both rational adults We never fight, why should we fight? That always gets such bad results You look so happy now Just wait until I make my big mistakes And this contentment breaks ‘Cause if you think I can’t fuck this up Then ...

Just in time for Halloween... it's a new Jerkatorium video for "Super Creepy": -E9hnTKigPI All clips are taken from footage of Bread and Puppet Theater performances (and everything was downloaded from Archive.org, all footage Creative Commons). You gotta check out the Bread and Puppet Thea...

Liquid Starshine by Jerkatorium Verse 1: Got a handful of pills And a Pop-Tart for food, And it’s noon, so it’s okay to drink. I’ll check in on you, Then I’ll check out the tube,  Then I think it’s time for me to check out too. I’ll stop watching the evening news And devote more time to the pills a...

Special thanks to everyone who posted their lyrics (not mandatory, but appreciated). Extra-special thanks to everyone who also listed where their sample came from. The judges get less than two days to listen and rank the songs, so it helps a lot.

No singer in any of the music you like has ever sung a one syllable word over two notes or deliberately left some space between some words? :P That's right. Just like that band we reviewed for the "Sing of the Times" fight: "She's buy-y-ing a stai-airway to heaven." What kind of...

[...] personally I have no problem with somebody spending "only a few hours" on a song. I don't believe in there necessarily being a relationship between time spent on a song and quality of the song, personally. Does it spoil things to know I recorded the whole BSS "Thirteenth Moon&q...

He'll take a backing vocal track, copy it to another track, tune all the pitches, flatten all the pitch warble to zero, and then work out what each harmony note should be on the guitar. Then we'll tune that note on the copied track to what it should be, and then listen to it against the original ba...

SpinTunes 15 schedule (copied and pasted from the website) - all times are in the Eastern Time zone (New York time): October 13th (Saturday) Noon - Sign ups start. October 26th (Friday) 11:59pm - Sign ups end. October 27th (Saturday) 12:01am - First challenge is announced. November 4th (Sunday) 11:5...

SpinTunes is a semi-annual elimination competition. It differs from Nur Ein in that it gives topics instead of titles, and it is only four rounds instead of eight. Also the schedule is slightly less arduous than Nur Ein - you get a little over a week to finish each song, followed by a five- or six-...

Jerkatorium wrote:Man (10)
Boy (3)
Woman (2)
Girl (2)
Just sayin'.

Updated October count:

Man (10)
Boy (3)
Woman (2) (3)
Girl (2)

Yay, parity achieved.

[jk. Please don't make the next title "Woman Woman Woman Woman Woman Woman Woman Girl".]