Up and Upper (High and Higher prefight)
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Up and Upper (High and Higher prefight)
High and Higher
Due: Thursday, 08/20/20 9:59am PDT
optional challenge: Write about a movie
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Subject: High and Higher
Body: (your band name)
One time we had a director's name as the fight title. Those were the days! TBH though I don't love Tarantino's movies.
Due: Thursday, 08/20/20 9:59am PDT
optional challenge: Write about a movie
yourbandname_hah.mp3 sent to fightmaster@songfight.org
Subject: High and Higher
Body: (your band name)
One time we had a director's name as the fight title. Those were the days! TBH though I don't love Tarantino's movies.
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Re: Up and Upper (High and Higher prefight)
I'll almost certainly be in for this one -- and then plan on taking a bit of a hiatus for awhile to work on other projects. I feel compelled to enter this one cause it'll complete my arbitrary goal of going an entire year without missing a single fight. But man, this is a good title!
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I have no idea what genre my work in progress falls under but you can dance to it so that's good.
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Re: Up and Upper (High and Higher prefight)
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it'll be a dark, heavy genresleepysilverdoor wrote: ↑Sat Aug 15, 2020 6:23 amI have no idea what genre my work in progress falls under but you can dance to it so that's good.
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I mean it does have a heavy groove, that is true. But it's got way more "math rock" and dancehall influence that I usually go for!furrypedro wrote: ↑Sun Aug 16, 2020 7:28 amI'm gonna go out on a limb and say it'll be a dark, heavy genresleepysilverdoor wrote: ↑Sat Aug 15, 2020 6:23 amI have no idea what genre my work in progress falls under but you can dance to it so that's good.
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Re: Up and Upper (High and Higher prefight)
In the fight for the second consecutive... erm... fight.
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In for my 34th consecutive fight and 39th consecutive entry. Pointless year-straight goal achieved!
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Re: Up and Upper (High and Higher prefight)
I wrote my song in 11/8. I'm trying to record the vocal right now, and, wow, it's hard to sing.
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I finished writing and recording my song last week and plan on mixing it tonight, luckily it's only like 58 seconds or something, eat my shrts, shrts!
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Re: Up and Upper (High and Higher prefight)
Congrats! Yeah, I wasn't sure I was gonna make it. Like sleepysilverdoor I'd like a year-long streak but with the heat beating down, the desolation and isolation of the pandemic, and a deer attacking my beautiful fig tree and just taking the piss outta my sails, I have to say, it was hard to muster the gumption. But I'm in, hot mess and all.sleepysilverdoor wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 1:22 pmIn for my 34th consecutive fight and 39th consecutive entry. Pointless year-straight goal achieved!
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Re: Up and Upper (High and Higher prefight)
In the second fight I entered, I submitted a song that had bad vocal timing and was an oblique biography of someone who barely qualifies as a public figure. So basically nothing has changed between then and this fight.
Also, this song is supposed to be in Phrygian mode, so if anyone can tell me if I did it right, I'd appreciate it.
Also, this song is supposed to be in Phrygian mode, so if anyone can tell me if I did it right, I'd appreciate it.
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Re: Up and Upper (High and Higher prefight)
I'm in this one. Just under the wire.
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In with a song that tips the 4 minute mark
I need to reverse this trend and get back down to something nearer 3
I need to reverse this trend and get back down to something nearer 3
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Re: Up and Upper (High and Higher prefight)
In with the most depressing song I've written in awhile.
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I hope we're running late this week, because I've come up with a last minute song!
Devil’s got me Lindt! Devil’s got me Lindt!
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Re: Up and Upper (High and Higher prefight)
Holy shit! Most of my song is based on a random number generator, and I was going to do an 11/8 signature thanks to that, but decided I had enough else going on so scrapped it. Looking forward to listening!lichenthroat wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 6:58 pmI wrote my song in 11/8. I'm trying to record the vocal right now, and, wow, it's hard to sing.
Devil’s got me Lindt! Devil’s got me Lindt!
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I'm in with a very short song that specifically adheres to the optional challenge, let's see who can guess what movie I am referencing, I think it should be easy to figure out if you've seen the movie.
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Re: Up and Upper (High and Higher prefight)
Listening Party for 'High and Higher' will be Monday 8/24 at 9pm EDT.
Drop in and chat with the artists while we peruse these newly created classics!
And enjoy my slightly stoned face as the thumbnail when I was between radio gigs and working at a Building #19 in Haverhill MA in the late '80s.
(Taken from the documentary 'Waiting For The Laughs: The Story of The Boffo Yux Dudes' that we never released but escaped somewhere on YT years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY8fEC3A1dY
Drop in and chat with the artists while we peruse these newly created classics!
And enjoy my slightly stoned face as the thumbnail when I was between radio gigs and working at a Building #19 in Haverhill MA in the late '80s.
(Taken from the documentary 'Waiting For The Laughs: The Story of The Boffo Yux Dudes' that we never released but escaped somewhere on YT years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY8fEC3A1dY
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Re: Up and Upper (High and Higher prefight)
In with a song about Jeff Who Lives At Home, which is my favourite movie about the film Signs.
Devil’s got me Lindt! Devil’s got me Lindt!
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Re: Up and Upper (High and Higher prefight)
Thanks, I'm looking forward to hearing yours as well, especially after reading the lyrics.crumpart wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 11:41 amHoly shit! Most of my song is based on a random number generator, and I was going to do an 11/8 signature thanks to that, but decided I had enough else going on so scrapped it. Looking forward to listening!lichenthroat wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 6:58 pmI wrote my song in 11/8. I'm trying to record the vocal right now, and, wow, it's hard to sing.
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Boffo: Have to pipe in to say that I was born and raised in Haverhill, not far from "The Building". Sorry to see that one, and all the rest of them, go. Used to go there when It was JM Fields!
Anyone else reading, care to try and pronounce Haverhill?
Anyone else reading, care to try and pronounce Haverhill?
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