Philadelphia Arkade prefight

big crouton · Post by **big crouton** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 7:42 pm

If I can come up with lyrics for a verse or two, I'll be in on 'At The Arcade'. At this point though, it's not looking good. As I believe I've demonstrated with every song I've every put out, lyrics are something I suck at.

Post by **Spud** » Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:13 pm

OMG. Watch out. The Pathetic Wannabees, Mad Dog's other band and sometimes collaborators with Octothorpe, have produced something for "Arcade".

Don't say I didn't warn you.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:56 am

Here is an interesting tidbit I found while randomly googling - I won't be using the idea myself, so others are welcome to it.

Apparently Philadelphia is the home of American cricket. At the turn of the last century - teams from Philadelphia were said to have been as good as any in the world. In 1893, The Gentlemen of Philadelpia played a match against the Australian Test team - and beat them! The star of the side was one John Barton "Bart" King, dscribed as "one of the finest bowlers of all time". He is credited with being one of the first bowlers to perfect swing bowling, where the seam is kept vertical on delivery, thus causing the ball to 'swing' in a lateral arc......

MC Eric B · Post by **MC Eric B** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 5:10 am

I am in for Ark of Philadelhpia. I posted my lyrics to the lyrics thread.

- Eric

Englisheddiemusic · Post by **Englisheddiemusic** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:47 pm

Yo. I managed to get my bands singer to do vocals for me this time, so That should improve things. Will be posting it under V for Victory 8).

Song is done, just mixing and stuff to do now.

fretnoize · Post by **fretnoize** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:34 pm

I'm in for At the Arcade. That is, if I can get it done in time. Chances are I won't even really get to start working on it until tomorrow. Should be enough time though, I hope... Sometimes you can't force things. I suspect it will be pretty nerdy. I even went out to buy midi cables to hook up all my synths that are of legal drinking age...

g4meboy · Post by **g4meboy** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:33 am

So my friend and I did a complete freestyle for At The Arcade. So yeah, take it for what it is. We enjoyed doing it and that's all that matters.

halen99 · Post by **halen99** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 8:01 pm

I'm in it to win it for AOP

Eddie

Steve Durand · Post by **Steve Durand** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 9:55 pm

I'll be in for At The Arcade

TheCapitalistYouth · Post by **TheCapitalistYouth** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 7:57 am

I'm shooting for At the Arcade. We'll see how things go.

Stu · Post by **Stu** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:55 am

I'm pretty sure I'll be in for Ark of Philadelphia. Haven't finished yet, but hopefully will today sometime.

Post by jb » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:33 am

g4meboy wrote:We enjoyed doing it and that's all that matters.

If that were true, you wouldn't submit it to the fight.

Mostess · Post by **Mostess** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:38 pm

I can never remember whether FightMasters name the song files with songbandname_inits.mp3 or inits_songbandname.mp3. So I usually go to the main page and click the top entry and look at the filename to remind myself. So today I did it without thinking and ended up staring at "fawmit_hehf.mp3" for 30 seconds before giving up. I had no idea. Perhaps I should change my band name to HEHf and write a song called "Fights Are Wearing My Insides Thin."

Anyhow, Ding! for At the Arcade. For real this time.

The Weakest Suit · Post by **The Weakest Suit** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:55 pm

Mostess wrote:I can never remember whether FightMasters name the song files with songbandname_inits.mp3 or inits_songbandname.mp3. So I usually go to the main page and click the top entry and look at the filename to remind myself. So today I did it without thinking and ended up staring at "fawmit_hehf.mp3" for 30 seconds before giving up. I had no idea. Perhaps I should change my band name to HEHf and write a song called "Fights Are Wearing My Insides Thin."

Anyhow, Ding! for At the Arcade. For real this time.

that's the name of the collaboration that i am 1/2 of. we are writing music for FAWM together and for some fight titles as well. we did three titles together: Ease Up On the Drugs, Half Empty/Half Full, and At the Arcade. maybe we'll do more next february.
so, in the file name you saw, "fawmit" was the band name as one word in all lowercase and "hehf" was the acronym for the title, also in all lowercase.

Mostess · Post by **Mostess** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:30 pm

The Weakest Suit wrote:so, in the file name you saw, "fawmit" was the band name as one word in all lowercase and "hehf" was the acronym for the title, also in all lowercase.

Thanks. I also assume the underscore was to separate those two, and the .mp3 has something to do with helping the user and operating system know what kind of file it is.

Of course, the 30 seconds ended with me hitting the back button to see the band name and song title. So I did manage to figure it out and name my own song file correctly. But not without feeling kind of foolish. Hence the joke.

(ha ha, though in my defense, FAWM is also an acronym I wasn't familiar with.)

(adding, to save you some time: I am now familiar with the meaning of FAWM)

feldspar · Post by **feldspar** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:07 pm

It's been a year since I Songfought last, but I've got a song for Ark that I like, and I expect to finish it tonight.

fretnoize · Post by **fretnoize** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:24 pm

well i didn't make the cut off time... maybe i'll be able to get it in before they're posted... we'll see

EmbersOfAutumn · Post by **EmbersOfAutumn** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:45 pm

Mostess wrote:
Anyhow, Ding! for At the Arcade. For real this time.

Awesome--This is actually the first fight since I've been around that you've been in (June-July 2007ish). I'm looking forward to it.

The Weakest Suit · Post by **The Weakest Suit** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:04 pm

Embers of Autumn - good to have you back. you started a couple months after me (along the same time as hamnoburger, i think) and i thought you two guys were going to hang around awhile. around the time i started, there weren't any new people that were very consistant with entering the fights. so i was sad when you and hamnoburger faded away. good luck in the fight, and i'm looking forward to hearing your tune.

EmbersOfAutumn · Post by **EmbersOfAutumn** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:34 pm

The Weakest Suit wrote:Embers of Autumn - good to have you back. you started a couple months after me (along the same time as hamnoburger, i think) and i thought you two guys were going to hang around awhile. around the time i started, there weren't any new people that were very consistant with entering the fights. so i was sad when you and hamnoburger faded away. good luck in the fight, and i'm looking forward to hearing your tune.

Thanks, likewise--but don't keep your hopes up, my mix didn't come out as good as it did before I started adding in vocals and drums. Those are two things I'm not very good at.

Yeah... where IS hamnoburger? I liked his stuff....

rone rivendale · Post by **rone rivendale** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 3:57 pm

I didn't make it either. If I get something done by tonight maybe I'll throw myself on the mercy of the FM's. But no promises I'll even do anything tonight. lol

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:54 pm

Rone! I was hoping you'd join the fray. Sadly, I didn't make it either. If I'm not inspired, I'm not going to write a song - that's the simple truth.