The 7th Annual Gift of Music

[HeuristicsInc]

(I guess I'll be Niveous's Helper for GOM for now, just to get the ball rolling...)

'Tis the season for our yearly version of Secret Santa, it's:

2009/2010 GIFT OF MUSIC

Here's the concept:
Anyone who wants to be a part of this cover challenge simply needs to post here, telling me that they're in and listing 4 songs (links to the songs are appreciated). These 4 songs are 4 songs that you really like and would like to hear covered. Once the list of participants is compiled, the names will be tossed into a hat and paired off.

From there, each participant will get a private message telling them who they'll be giving the gift of music to as well as the 4 songs that person chose. The participant picks 1 song from the 4 and covers the song. Then on the due date, we post the results and everybody wins.

It's Secret Santa meets Coverfight meets Hxaro with incredible results. The previous GoMs have been exceptional. Check them out on Eddiebangs' website Soul Tree Records:

2003 http://www.songfight.org/giftofmusic.php?key=gom_one
2004 http://www.songfight.org/giftofmusic.php?key=gom_two
2005 http://www.songfight.org/giftofmusic.php?key=gom_three
2006 http://www.soultreerecords.com/GOM/2006.html
2007 http://www.soultreerecords.com/GOM/2007.html
2008 http://www.soultreerecords.com/GOM/2008.html

SONGS ARE DUE JANUARY 11.

Finished songs should be named in the same manner as songfight entries.

Submittal instructions HERE.

So post up! Are you in?

CURRENT PARTICIPANT LIST IS HERE
-bill (Niveous's Helper)

[jimtyrrell]

Haven't missed one yet. Except the first one ('03), but I didn't know about SF then. I'm in. Song choices/links to follow.

UPDATE: My song choices this year are -

Morphine - Buena
The Posies - 20 Questions
Joe Jackson - One More Time
Gonzo The Great - I'm Going To Go Back There Someday

[JonPorobil]

I'm in. Give me a few days to think about my choices.... hmmm....

[Paco Del Stinko]

I am in and will also post links by or during the weekend. Gotta love the GOM!

[Albatross]

I am in, obviously as per usual-like.

BTW, could someone with mod powers please 1) stick this thread and 2) unstick the two sidefight threads that have been stuck for much too long?

[HeuristicsInc]

I guess we should also discuss whether to allow previous stiffers, or let them in with suitable admonishments, or what.

Also, I am in as always, I have been in every year!
-bill (Niveous's Helper)

[Lunkhead]

I am in, obviously as per usual-like.

BTW, could someone with mod powers please 1) stick this thread and 2) unstick the two sidefight threads that have been stuck for much too long?

I have attempted to do this. I'm not a PHPBB whiz though, so let me know if I did something wrong.

[Caravan Ray]

im in

I even have a stffees song from last year I recorded laying around somewhere they I forgot to post back then - so someone will get an early present - when I find it.

[j$]

Yup, in like James Coburn.

Weirdly I was thinking yesterday, it must be about time for GOM, so I've worked out my songs already!

Frank Black - Headache
The Last Shadow Puppets - Age of the Understatement
The Kinks - Village Green
Rafaella Carra - Do It, Do It Again

Links to follow.

[Caravan Ray]

The Kinks - Village Green

Is that a different song to this?

[j$]

Umm yeah

Village Green <> Village Green Preservation Society.

I mean, come ON!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34BydtUrt6c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL9tyzE83nc

the world is full of IDIOTS

[JonPorobil]

Alright, got my list. Pardon the weird videos in some instances:

Warren Zevon - "My Ride's Here," from My Ride's Here (2002) (link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JDEdDxloJk )

Billy Joel - "Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)," from Turnstiles (1976) (link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CgigVZefWQ )

Elton John - "Razor Face," from Madman Across the Water (1971) (link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UyNKAJg9KA )

Elvis Costello - "Pidgin English," from Imperial Bedroom (1982) (link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tnVF3Z9qgE )

The Band - "Acadian Driftwood," from Northern Lights - Southern Cross (1975) (link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZwkxHYM7lI )

[Ross]

LAst year I organized a team of ragtag songfighters who made songs for all those who got stiffed in the GOM. I hereby offer to do the same again this year. PM me if you wanna help.

Hopefully, of course, no one will get stiffed and there will be no need, but just in case...

[Paco Del Stinko]

Here's mine. Not a lot of thought into it, more like first to minders.

The Breeders - Invisible Man

Les Savy Fav - Raging In The Plague Years

DEVO - The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprise

The Monkees - Velleri

[inevitableguy]

[EDIT: Now, 100% more linktastic!]

IN. Here are my choices:

LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum

The Thermals - Pillar of Salt

Fishboy - Halftime at the Proper Name Spelling Bee

The Helio Sequence - Can't Say No

My apologies for the clunky nature of the file sharing host - you get what you pay for (it's free).

[Märk]

I would like to do this, but I was a stiffer last year (with a pretty compelling reason, I think), so I'll leave it up to the general population here whether or not I'm in. Yea or nay?

[Rabid Garfunkel]

What Märk said, but 2 years ago.

[Paco Del Stinko]

I'll offer my votes of support, fellas. Just better step up!

[HeuristicsInc]

i'd say join in, but make sure that you don't stiff again. you could also atone by actually recording the cover you were supposed to do last time
-bill

[Lord of Oats]

Hay Guise,

I wanna be in, but I was a dirty, terrible stiffer last year. I did a good bit of groundwork on the song, but it never really came together. I went through a lot of crap, which really changed up my circumstances and whatnot, and in whatever time that left me with, I didn't feel sufficient motivation to finish. I've felt bad about it on various levels throughout the year, but I've been a bit busy to get terribly caught up in it. As I see it, I still owe someone a song, and I still intend to cross the finish line, even if the tape has long been broken by others. I actually think a second make-up deadline would help (and/or would have helped) me to pound something out. So somebody come up with that (keeping in mind I am working approximately eight million hours in the next two weeks) and also lemme in plz.

[jimtyrrell]

Suggestion: We set a deadline for entry. (Say, Halloween?) If you're a previous stiffer, and you want to be in, then make good on your gift before entering. Stiffers who make that deadline are okay by me. The ones that don't, well, they probably wouldn't make the next one either.

[Paco Del Stinko]

Suggestion: We set a deadline for entry. (Say, Halloween?) If you're a previous stiffer, and you want to be in, then make good on your gift before entering. Stiffers who make that deadline are okay by me. The ones that don't, well, they probably wouldn't make the next one either.

Yeah, what he said. That's good. Like furnishing your ticket stub for re-entry. Also, it could be a good warm up or get you rolling if you've been poopy.