Industrious Songfighters Wanted (prefight)

[Spud]

Elegy for Industry
Due: Monday, 01/12/09 9:59am pst
mp3 with artist name sent to fightmaster@songfight.org

subject: Elegy for Industry
message: Your Band Name
attachment: yourbandname_efi.mp3

[signboy]

Awesome sauce. I'm so in for this one too.

[Billy's Little Trip]

I have a question. What the difference between an elegy and a eulogy?
They seem to have the same meaning according to Merriam, except elegy is more of a poem and eulogy is more of a speech. I've heard both, but they seem very close.

[jast]

That's one difference. The other is that a eulogy is about honouring someone (typically a recently deceased person) while an elegy laments something or someone.

Here's an elegy: http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poe ... .stop.html
Here's a eulogy: http://www.eulogyspeech.net/sample-eulo ... mple.shtml

[Ratt Poizon]

whoa! those were both cool as fuck! the elegy one... just because it was cool... and the eulogy one just because all the names were micheal, and it got confusing. thanks for that buddy! I might muster up some rattshitz for this.. it's been a while you know.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Josh, I love the pics of your last gig with you in a one piece bikini. Classic Rat Poison!

[Reist]

I saw the title, was inspired to write a song, wrote it - and now it doesn't really fit the title. Guess I'm not in for this one.

[rone rivendale]

I have a chorus (lyrics anyway), so we'll see how it develops.

[Teplin]

My brain keeps singing "Elegy for Industryyy" to the tune of Ebony and Ivory.

But despite that, I'm excited about this fight and hope to be in.

[sgtstomp]

My brain keeps singing "Elegy for Industryyy" to the tune of Ebony and Ivory.

Ugh me too! It's seriously messing me up. Hopefully I'll overcome it and continue my one week stretch of submissions---this time with no vocal clipping

[Billy's Little Trip]

Funny, I got something that locked itself in my head also after seeing this title. You know the standard factory assembly line music in pretty much every Bugs Bunny cartoon? I instantly started humming it and then thought it might be cool to squeeze into my song in some clever way. I decided to make sure I had it right, so I Googled to try and find out what it's called, etc. After about 5 or 6 links, I found out what it was called. It's a piece called "powerhouse" by the Raymond Scott quintet from 1936....that's right, 1936!
So after learning a lot about the piece and the Warner brothers music director, etc, I needed to know more about Raymond Scott. So I found him and his band performing Powerhouse live. The part that I'm talking about kicks in at 1:25 of this video. You'll know what I'm talking about when you hear it. Check it out. Raymond Scott, Powerhouse. Tell me, does that part just scream "industry", or what?

[Steve Durand]

I just got a Raymond Scott CD as a Christmas gift. He was a very interesting guy. One of the real pioneers of electronic music.

[Dust]

Very interesting title choice. I'm slowly getting myself into the head space of fleshing out another song, and I've got a nice little thing going now, but I'm a little stumped as to what train of inspiration I'm to follow. I'm kind of thinking about sticking on David Lynch's Eraserhead and seeing where that takes me. All I really know is, I don't want to draw too much literal connection to it, like "thirsty cogs beg for oil" or something like that.

I'm already anxious to hear what everyone else is cooking up.

- dust

[Billy's Little Trip]

I just got a Raymond Scott CD as a Christmas gift. He was a very interesting guy. One of the real pioneers of electronic music.

Interesting, you're not kidding. I must have spent 2 hours reading about and listening to his music. I'll bet you anything that he had a big influence on Danny Elfman.
I'd like to incorporate Powerhouse B into my tune, or something reminiscent.

[The Weakest Suit]

My brain keeps singing "Elegy for Industryyy" to the tune of Ebony and Ivory.

But despite that, I'm excited about this fight and hope to be in.

Fuck. Me too.

[jast]

I feel lucky I don't know that song. Or at least I don't know it by its title. You can't infect me now!

[Heine]

I feel lucky I don't know that song. Or at least I don't know it by its title.

Well, it was that famous 80s duet by Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder. If you dare to mess up your brain , check it out on youtube.
I just captured some nice sounds and chords - but lyrics? No idea this time...

[Steve Durand]

If you dare to mess up your brain , check it out on youtube.

Don't do it jast. It's an evil mind virus.

[JonPorobil]

I might be in. I accidentally nuked my recording software without making note of my registration key, though, so maybe not.

[ElaineDiMasi]

My Dad grew up in Pittsburgh during World War II, along the three rivers of steel mills. In 1944 he was a ten year old boy running around in cardboard soled shoes, while his father worked 16 hour days machining, and trains thundered by every three minutes carrying steel and every other kind of resource that would save the world. He knew what was Right and who the Enemy was. It defined his outlook for ever. Dad liked the shiny clean crew-cut 50's, but decades later when manufacturing slunk off overseas and everyone didn't behave to what was Right and radio music didn't sound like songs any more, he couldn't be satisfied by anything. How many evenings I've been conscious of him sitting watching WWII documentaries on the tv in the dark, I can't even say. If my Dad could write one song, if he were one song, Elegy for Industry would be it.

[Billy's Little Trip]

You sure have a way with words, Elaine Miss Fancy Pants.

[Chadderandom]

That post almost makes me ashamed of what I'm planning on submitting.