The 6th Annual Gift of Music

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Re: The 6th Annual Gift of Music

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Crap. You're right, Albatross. By this time last year, I had already closed the song selection process.

You must say that you are in this year's GOM and choose your 4 songs by Nov 4th.
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I've been slacking on making my choices. Here are my four:

"Heaven Sent" by Esthero
"The Heinrich Maneuver" by Interpol
"A Taste of Ink" by the Used
"Lakini's Juice" by Live
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Ok -- I'll stop agonizing over my choices. I should really pick easier-to-find stuff, but I'm having inspiration-failure.

"Subspace Biographies" -- Robert Pollard
"Strike it Noel" -- Big Star
"Red House" -- Shudder to Think
"Elevate me Later" -- Pavement

I'll do what I can to find these on teh net.

EDIT: Here they are. Don't rat me out, kids.

http://www.one-thousand-words.net/GOM/
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I've had three of my songs in mind for a while now, but I'm going to force myself to come up with a fourth choice.

For what it's worth, I imagined what all of these songs would sound like if they were covered by Octothorpe, and I loved how they sounded in my mind.

Thompson Twins - We Are Detective
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
Tone Loc - Funky Cold Medina
Barnes & Barnes - Love Tap

ROCK!

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I’ve never done this before, and I’m excited to be IN this year.

My tunes:

KISS – I Love It Loud

Stetsasonic – Talkin’ All That Jazz

Dead Milkmen – Punk Rock Girl

Jackson Five – I Want You Back

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Always hard to choose, but here are my 4 that I'd love as a gift.

1. Pixies - Debaser - Lyrics
2. Jane's Addiction - Stop - Lyrics
3. 1000 Mona Lisas - How Would You Know?
4. Everclear - Santa Monica - Lyrics
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No #, me, but for the record I would love to tackle either of these, or maybe as some kind of weird medley / mash-up ...

I might even throw in a little 'Amityville (House On The Hill)' to totally wrock.
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I'm excited about the Gift of Music this year, and I decided on four of my all time favorite songs. Here they are.

In My Life - Beatles
Chasing Pavements - Adele
Red Vines - Aimee Mann
Never Know - Jack Johnson
Music is love in search of a word...
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Ho ho ho! I'm in.

Songs:
Angeline the Baker (Stephen Foster, 1850) Versions: 1, 2, 3

Sacred Harp Traditional - Hallelujah (sheet music)

Bob Brozman - Down the Road (trad)

Ted Weems Orchestra - Collegiate Love

Naturally, subject to change before date of assignment.
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I'm in!

Brian Eno “St. Elmo’s Fire”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7w4ht7d66g

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention “Mother People”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1BKSPoSmA4

Can “Turtles have Short Legs”
http://www.last.fm/music/Can/_/Turtles+Have+Short+Legs

Dixon & Warren “Nagasaki”
Lyrics” http://www.heptune.com/nagasaki.html
My favorite is the Django version : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRL895C0fHM
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Glennny. :lol:
a turtle have a short a'regs, not for de walking. Love it!
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a turtle have a short a'regs, not for de walking.
Yeah there's nothing better than a Japanese guy (Damo Suzuki) in a German krautrock band (Can) singing in English.
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glennny wrote:
a turtle have a short a'regs, not for de walking.
Yeah there's nothing better than a Japanese guy (Damo Suzuki) in a German krautrock band (Can) singing in English.
That song got so wedged into my cranium that I couldn't stop singing it yesterday. So I had to load on my MP3 player this morning. I've also looked up more Can. Thanks for the introduction. :wink:
I'm starting on the music for this weeks title in a few minutes and something tells me that it will be influentially propelled by Can's infectious grooves, lol.
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anti-m wrote:Ok -- I'll stop agonizing over my choices. I should really pick easier-to-find stuff, but I'm having inspiration-failure.

"Subspace Biographies" -- Robert Pollard
"Strike it Noel" -- Big Star
"Red House" -- Shudder to Think
"Elevate me Later" -- Pavement

I'll do what I can to find these on teh net.
Here's the songs. Please don't turn me in to the RIAA. Sorry STT is so low quality.

http://www.one-thousand-words.net/GOM/
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This was on my list last year. It didn't get picked though, so that's okay. Maybe this time it will!
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bz£ wrote:
This was on my list last year. It didn't get picked though, so that's okay. Maybe this time it will!
One of last week's Shoelace Soups sounded just like this, but at the time of reviews I couldn't pull the name out of my brain. Weird.
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Good thing I checked this thread today...The BeWells will be in again this year. I will update tomorrow with our list of four songs.
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OK, I'm in, too. My song choices:

Tullycraft - Twee: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN96hIOaGDc
LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieT_lf9wK28
Dismemberment Plan - You Are Invited: https://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php? ... NVd4dnc9PQ
Kitchens of Distinction - Gone World Gone http://www.4shared.com/file/69809629/dc ... _Gone.html
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jack wrote:heather is the hardest working mom on songfight (in addition to being arguably the rockinist chick....).
Listen to our music!
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inevitableguy wrote:Kitchens of Distinction - Gone World Gone (I'm still looking for this one online somewhere...)
I have an mp3 of this if you need it.

Anyway, here are four shiny-new choices:
"Map Reference 41N 93W" by WIRE
"Mary in June" by VICTORY AT SEA
"Missile Command" by SHALLOW
"From Across the Sea" by JENIFEREVER
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glennny wrote:I'm in!

Brian Eno “St. Elmo’s Fire”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7w4ht7d66g

Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention “Mother People”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1BKSPoSmA4

Can “Turtles have Short Legs”
http://www.last.fm/music/Can/_/Turtles+Have+Short+Legs

Dixon & Warren “Nagasaki”
Lyrics” http://www.heptune.com/nagasaki.html
My favorite is the Django version : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRL895C0fHM
oo, oo, pick me! Pick me!
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Re: The 6th Annual Gift of Music

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After some deliberation with my sister here is the final list for The BeWells...

R.E.M. - The Great Beyond
Duran Duran - Come Undone
Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok
Donovan - Sunshine Superman
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