Nur Ein XIII Round Three "We Should"

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Sun May 20, 2018 11:09 pm

Welcome to Round Three of Nur Ein XIII

Title: We Should
Challenge: Have a guest play a household item on the track.

Songs are Due on: Sunday, May 27th @ 11:59 PM Eastern
Send your MP3 to nurein.sidefight@gmail.com

NUR EIN!!

Post by **Lunkhead** » Mon May 21, 2018 6:17 am

Side note, the nurein.songlander.com page probably doesn't need to say "Thirteen. Coming April 30, 2018." on it at this point.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Mon May 21, 2018 3:40 pm

Okay, it probably should be asked... what counts as a household item?

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Mon May 21, 2018 4:13 pm

Niveous wrote:Okay, it probably should be asked... what counts as a household item?

Pots, pans, spoons... and for US competitors - military-style assault weapons.

glennny · Post by **glennny** » Mon May 21, 2018 4:45 pm

My household has guitars and ukuleles and mandolins.
I think they mean, no church organs, no shop tools, and no camping gear.

I enjoy that Niveous is on this side of the fence wondering what they mean, like we always have.

Mysteria · Post by **Mysteria** » Mon May 21, 2018 5:27 pm

My idea of a household item is something that is reasonably accepted as found and used in a home that is not primarily used to make music with.

My esteemed fellow judges may choose to agree, disagree and/or further opine on the topic.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Mon May 21, 2018 5:41 pm

glennny wrote: I enjoy that Niveous is on this side of the fence wondering what they mean, like we always have.

Actually, I was playing devil's advocate on that one. No one had yet so I figured someone should. What's a Nur Ein round without discourse?

noma · Post by **noma** » Tue May 22, 2018 12:19 am

I plan on using scissors, clip machine, etc.
Do these count as household items? Kitchen utensils or vacuum cleaners pretty clearly do, right?

Pink Floyd once had the idea of doing an album entirely from the sound of household objects. Ultimately they scrapped the project, but there are a few demos around. They mainly use rubber bands simulating a bass guitar, and a glass harp (wine glasses rubbed with a wet finger). The latter recordings were later used in Shine On You Crazy Diamond. You can hear the glasses during the long intro chord, mixed with a synth to create a mystical kind of sound.
I figure rubber bands and glass harp don't count as household items in the strict sense. What do the judges think about this?

mc3p0 · Post by **mc3p0** » Tue May 22, 2018 1:01 am

Ah, sorry for the post.

glennny · Post by **glennny** » Tue May 22, 2018 1:51 am

rubberband Bass sounds really good. WSA-Kids, and Cavedwellers-Average Circus both feature Rubberband Bass.

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue May 22, 2018 4:58 am

Niveous wrote:Okay, it probably should be asked... what counts as a household item?

entirely up to you but get it wrong, you're f-ed

j$

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Tue May 22, 2018 6:24 am

noma wrote:I
Pink Floyd once had the.....?

Any more pink Floyd references and you are out

Judges - amiright?

noma · Post by **noma** » Tue May 22, 2018 7:43 am

Caravan Ray wrote: Any more pink Floyd references and you are out

Judges - amiright?

Yeah, to hell with that guy! Any more Floyd references and he can't have any pudding!

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue May 22, 2018 2:28 pm

Actually, Round 4's challenge is "contains a Pink Floyd reference in every verse and chorus".
Yeah, I'm thinking things that aren't really instruments, be creative. Use what you have in your house. Phish used to use vacuum cleaners but it sounded kinda terrible

-bill

Pop Machine · Post by **Pop Machine** » Tue May 22, 2018 2:37 pm

HeuristicsInc wrote:Phish used to use vacuum cleaners but it sounded kinda terrible
-bill

That's because it still sounded like Phish.

iVeg · Post by **iVeg** » Tue May 22, 2018 2:56 pm

Phish used to use vacuum cleaners, but it kinda sucked

noma · Post by **noma** » Tue May 22, 2018 3:25 pm

I see they mostly did that in live performances. You could say they suck live.

Any of their avid fans would kill me for this, but I actually prefer their studio work by far. They can even be kind of accessible if they don't let themselves get carried away with their jams.
Speaking of jams, beating on a jar of jam with a spoon totally meets the challenge. It's called a jam session.

glennny · Post by **glennny** » Tue May 22, 2018 4:22 pm

I would call myself an avid Phish fan. They are excellent in the studio. The thing that's great about the live shows are the long improvisations and magical found moments. The singing is never as good live. I listen to the studio albums far more than the live albums. However in general I'd rather watch a live in concert video than a music video.

I never saw the vacuum thing as very musical, always just a gag.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue May 22, 2018 7:33 pm

I really like Hoist. I've seen them live. But I agree on the vacuum, it's a gag.
-bill

BoffoYux · Post by **BoffoYux** » Fri May 25, 2018 2:36 pm

Reminder - because of the holiday (And the fact I'll be traveling to MN this weekend) ,
the Listening Party will be delayed until Tuesday night at 9 pm.

Plan your festivities accordingly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5_IVUb4cZo

arby · Post by **arby** » Sat May 26, 2018 4:43 pm

We're in! Our song is about a person imagining futures with his partner and they get steadily more twisted and creepy. A little bit wacky but still on brand for Lucky Witch. Recorded in the rehearsal studio at Rivington Music in NYC.

Our featured guest is Tom's friend Chris, playing a coffee grinder.

iVeg · Post by **iVeg** » Sun May 27, 2018 12:06 am

James (guest artist) and I walked around looking for anything that might make musical noise. The biggest fail was he crushed a coffee cup - we didn't realize it still had coffee in it. It sprayed all over Rob's chair. So we recorded wiping it up, too. Biggest success was James playing a Yeti thermos with a mini Maglight.

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