SONGFIGHT! LINER NOTES

[Niveous]

Just a bump of this wonderful resource that could use a little updating.

[glennny]

updated (march 17th 2010) page 2

[ken]

updated (march 17th 2010) page 2

as Location Location Location (Ken, Ryan, Glennny, & Female Vocalist)

Leaf Blower

I can't remember if that is Rachel or me singing falsetto. It might be both.

What are you playing on this track?

Ken

[glennny]

Rhythm guitar, you and I wrote the chord pattern. Our 1st collaboration.

[ujnhunter]

Why not make this a sticky thread eh?

[stateshirt]

it's fun going through the archives, found a few old tracks that i'm proud of and a bunch that are cringe-worthy. anyway here a few collabs and alternate names:

Caldor (just me)
Trihs Etats (yep, me)
F-Hole Merman (me and my friend Dan.... one win woo-hoo!)
Ethrikios (my friend Dave and I)
The Quesadilla Explosion (my friend Ben and I)
State Shirt and Glenn Case (Glenn came to the rescue and finished 'Double Take'!)

[melvin]

as Location Location Location (Ken, Ryan, Glennny, & Female Vocalist)

Leaf Blower

Still one of the best SF tunes ever.

[HeuristicsInc]

I finally updated my page to include sidefights, coverfights, etc. I may have missed something obscure; if anyone knows something you can suggest an addition.
Looks like my totals are up to 41 songfights and 28 sidefights. Only one of which did I win
-bill

[ujnhunter]

I finally updated my page to include sidefights, coverfights, etc. I may have missed something obscure; if anyone knows something you can suggest an addition.
Looks like my totals are up to 41 songfights and 28 sidefights. Only one of which did I win
-bill

I may be wrong... but you seem to be missing my favorite song... Heuristics Inc - Goodnight Ladies

[HeuristicsInc]

hey, you're right! thanks for the reminder!
-bill

[milothefultz]

• Acid Cadillac
  • My Darling Ruin
  • Baby, Be Quiet
  • Night Terrors
  The Iron Kids Of Canada
  • They Control The Weather
  The Kruegen
  • In The Valley
  Lopez And The Destroyers
  • A Friendly Reminder - I apparently submitted an incomplete version to the fight...
  • My Darling Ruin
  • Baby, Be Quiet
  • Night Terrors
  The Speakeasy Cynics
  • Down For A While

[blue]

This thread seems to have bounced around a bit.. Here's mine copied from the "introductions" thread:

my name is blue. i found songfight from slashdot when they were doing a piece on sam brown. i liked add's "birds of our own" a lot, but didn't have a band that was into recording new songs every week.

a couple of years later i joined a band called "sonofsupercar" and we recorded a terrible, horrible, awful, awful song that was so fucking bad our singer wouldn't even sing on it. then we sent it into songfight and thought it was funny. it wasn't.

but then we did some real songs, and some of those were funny.

and then i did some other songs with other bands.

here they are.

(here they are all at once: http://www.b-side.org/blue/blue.m3u)

played bass and drums w/add music - i f'd the bridge, but this is still a great tune.
http://www.songfight.org/music/across_t ... _dusty.mp3

anb is me and stephen supercar. front sings on pass/fail, i sing on one and i think weeve sang on one. anb was mostly songs stephen wrote on his 4 track, w/a dub feel. pass/fail was hella fun to record, and front really, really brought it to life. he is a talented motherfucker.
http://www.songfight.org/music/friendly ... ery_ff.mp3
http://www.songfight.org/music/pass_fai ... ssfail.mp3

badger patrol was me and weeve again, mostly crappy shit i wrote and played guitar and drums and sang on.
http://www.songfight.org/music/feathers ... athers.mp3

i think i played ride cymbal on this.
http://www.songfight.org/music/a_day_in ... _aditl.mp3

these are me playing everything. foam rubber is an ode to frankie big face. blue signal is about my lady, and the stink is about melvin.
http://www.songfight.org/music/foam_rub ... g_foam.mp3
http://www.songfight.org/music/the_blue ... signal.mp3
http://www.songfight.org/music/the_stin ... ang_ts.mp3

me, spud.. ken? .. and rabid garfunkle and king arthur, rockin' it live in santa cruz.
http://www.songfight.org/music/all_tan/ ... oes_at.mp3

humbert of humbert and the befores, and myself. i wrote this walking to his house, played gitter and "sang." i think that's a hand-played drum machine, too. if you've ever driven in new york in march, this'll feel right at home.
http://www.songfight.org/music/toronto_ ... ert_ts.mp3

i fucking love this song w/wreckdom. think i did guitar and drums. and maybe bass.
http://www.songfight.org/music/scissor_ ... dom_sk.mp3

my current band.
http://www.songfight.org/music/in_the_v ... io_itv.mp3
http://www.songfight.org/music/peppermi ... rio_pp.mp3
http://www.songfight.org/music/rhymes_w ... io_rwl.mp3
http://www.songfight.org/music/vw/booty ... rio_vw.mp3
http://www.songfight.org/music/ignoranc ... ay_iib.mp3

me and weeve of supercar, plus glenn case and his cussing self.
http://www.songfight.org/music/sincerit ... nvy_sm.mp3

irc all stars was sposed to be an all-collab band where everyone did one part and then i mixed it all together.

variation on two is me on guitar and drums, 15-16 puzzle singing, and the entire freaking rest of songfight doing everything else. cur was sposed to be an electronica fight. i have no idea who's on it except i think drew tetz programmed the vox and did the lyrics. drew tetz is awesome. mtr is ken and bjam and glenn and rachel case (who are also awesome) singing soooo sweetly. i think i drummed and wrote the best chorus in songfight history.

mumbo jumbo is spud on vox! he is rockin'. it was sposed to be a devo ripoff.

needs tilt is roymond on a lot of parts and singing. we were trying to do a pink floyd ripoff on that one.
http://www.songfight.org/music/variatio ... iation.mp3
http://www.songfight.org/music/cur/ircallstars_cur.mp3
http://www.songfight.org/music/i_meant_ ... s_imtr.mp3
http://www.songfight.org/music/mumbojum ... ojumbo.mp3
http://www.songfight.org/music/need_sti ... stilts.mp3

this is ken and sonofsupercar.
http://www.songfight.org/music/let_it_b ... ff_lib.mp3

this is ken and weeve and i and marcus fucking kellis.
http://www.songfight.org/music/gonna_be ... ourman.mp3

another weeve and i plus front.
http://www.songfight.org/music/morescie ... cience.mp3

iiiiiii think this is me being stupid on cough syrup.
http://www.songfight.org/music/atticus/ ... tticus.mp3

erik of 15-16 puzzle again. that dude should be a very wealthy rock star, but instead he is a destitute rock star. hold this for me is the best thing i ever did on songfight. the intro is an entire album of New Zealand tribal chants - recorded by a co-worker's brother in exchange for teaching them jazz standards on his acoustic bass - layered on one another, with crazy-ass erik reading some old testament and weeve and i getting our slint on in the background, into a fine, fine 3-over-4 rock riff from hell. i love that fucking song.

day in the life is erik's ode to slackers, i think. day in the life has a great bridge. i think weeve wrote the music on that one.
http://www.songfight.org/music/a_day_in ... _aditl.mp3
http://www.songfight.org/music/hold_thi ... t_htfm.mp3
http://www.songfight.org/music/shoot_fo ... st_sft.mp3

first song in our last round of songfights.. weeve started screaming GANDALF, GANDALF and the rest is history.
http://www.songfight.org/music/ancient/ ... ncient.mp3

dennis did an excellent job on the lyrics on this one, and i love the stabby feel of the verses. this had an early experiment in FX busses on the drums.
http://www.songfight.org/music/as_icons ... _icons.mp3

love the sample at the end of this, and the bass. we should have carried the outtro rock bit on for an hour.
http://www.songfight.org/music/bullseye ... r_bull.mp3

we had a terrible time recording this one - i was trying to play some 40 year old japanese piece of crap guitar through dennis' peavy classic. this is a rare penned-by-me sos tune. i think i had finished the recording and then they came in and re-did the bass and vocals. drums are a loop recorded into a bass drum mic on my boss Dr sample. all these old sos tunes were recorded on a roland vs840. listen for the giant "DOINK" where stephen's bass balls pedal flipped out.
http://www.songfight.org/music/cancer/s ... cancer.mp3

this is a good damn tune, not perfectly executed, but decent. by this time, we were doing all of our songs over 2 practices. write it on tuesday, do a live scratch recording, then come in on thurs and track it.
http://www.songfight.org/music/clip_art ... car_ca.mp3

check out that bassline. dennis came to practice once in a pair of brand new.. tiger stripe, maybe.. chuck taylors. we made fun of him. that is an awesome, awesomely contained rock chorus there. dennis is a motherfucker of a rock singer. our bass and guitar recordings sucked back then.
http://www.songfight.org/music/dirty_ch ... car_dc.mp3

dennis wrote this in 6 and then could never play it again. it is a love song to a makita power drill. our only foray into blues-ish music that made it to tape. it speeds up really badly in the second verse. o well.
http://www.songfight.org/music/everybod ... car_en.mp3

sos's last song. i love the build of the turnaround riff into a big rock bit over the life of the song. haha, that's me and our new-guy 2nd guitarist singing the terrible chorus part.
http://www.songfight.org/music/five_nig ... r_fnib.mp3

aaaah frannie. niveous loves it, i think we only played it live once. it's got some energy, but the recording is pretty terrible.
http://www.songfight.org/music/frannie/ ... rannie.mp3

i liked the music on this one a lot, but it never went much of anywhere. another from our last batch. we obviously had no idea what to do on the chorus, but it didn't matter anyways once front entered the fight.
http://www.songfight.org/music/fresh_do ... car_fd.mp3

this one turned into a live favorite after the addition of a 6-minute slayer outtro. sadly, it is not reflected here. that is a sweet drum part on the chorus. actually, everything about the chorus is sweet.
http://www.songfight.org/music/i_dont_l ... r_idle.mp3

MEEEEEERCY! MEEEEERCY! dennis saying fuckheads there, that's you.
http://www.songfight.org/music/iron_god ... r_igom.mp3

this one had a weird midnight oil-kinda feel to it. creepy and fun.
http://www.songfight.org/music/janjawee ... jaweed.mp3

yeah.. we all disavow this. it was entirely my fault. i'm sorry, songfight. (except for the line "my spidey sense tells me where to find your bed")
http://www.songfight.org/music/lets_get ... ar_lgn.mp3

i didn't actually play on this, but it was a live favorite.
http://www.songfight.org/music/look_goo ... r_lgib.mp3

this one was another live burner. we'd play it segue'd out of "the one," and it rocked ass.
http://www.songfight.org/music/martians ... rtians.mp3

someone's out of damn tune, but this song is funny. it's so mopey.
http://www.songfight.org/music/mean_to_ ... ar_mtm.mp3

i was pretty proud of this guitar riff.
http://www.songfight.org/music/moscow_i ... moscow.mp3

this was one of our many shameful songfight losses. recording isn't so great, but that was a fun damn tune at a time when sf was a lifeless puddle of soft rock miasma.
http://www.songfight.org/music/motor_ps ... car_mp.mp3

another one of dennis' weird turns on a weird title.
http://www.songfight.org/music/other_pl ... _opihl.mp3

i played guitar on this and we used a drum machine. we tried to be cool and play it like that live, to no avail.
http://www.songfight.org/music/red_flag ... edflag.mp3

peters who were saints of rock! prolly only relevant if you listened to a lot of college rock in the early 90's. this is mixed by jb.
http://www.songfight.org/music/saint_pe ... car_sp.mp3

kinda of a thematic twofer with our janjaweed.
http://www.songfight.org/music/short_li ... car_sl.mp3

i think this song has just the right amounts of everything - chaos, hooks, zepplin drum lines. the outtro was originally going to be a skit making fun of the landfills, but was cut for time and recording-on-a-6-track reasons. i ruined dennis' vocal take by screaming in the chorus.
http://www.songfight.org/music/shreds/s ... shreds.mp3

this is a good one, with mo of dubose triangle playing guitar with us. lyrics are a bottle of orange cleaner's label. we wanted to be sonic youth for a day.
http://www.songfight.org/music/soft_ora ... ar_sog.mp3

man it sucks that this recording got all wangfucked.
http://www.songfight.org/music/strawman ... rawman.mp3

this one and frannie were back-to-backs. this is a 70's univox drum machine and my newly-aquired octofuzz pedal in the right speaker.
http://www.songfight.org/music/tomorrow ... ar_tao.mp3

another one that i loved and everyone else kinda hated. man what the fuck are you going to sing on the chorus of a song called "toy puddle?" AH, REBAR. AH, REBAR. (REBAR) TOY PUDDLE.
http://www.songfight.org/music/toy_pudd ... car_tp.mp3

i was convinced this was a tune about heroin, dennis says it's about a wooden horse in the window of an antiques shop. thanks to the miracle of ripping off NPR radio programs about drug smuggling, it is both.
http://www.songfight.org/music/under_th ... ar_uth.mp3

a weird tune that was the end of our two song songfight reign of terror. im on angelic backing vocals. the outtro sample is pretty classic.
http://www.songfight.org/music/why_are_ ... r_kick.mp3

weeve's crazy friend kevin sang on this, including at a bunch of live shows. we're all screaming ASSHOLE in the background, run thru the dr sample and pitch bent.
http://www.songfight.org/music/so_aggra ... vating.mp3

another cough syrup trip, featuring Yook on vocals. uh, this is 6 minutes of the open E string + various E chord positions... i have no excuse.
http://www.songfight.org/music/sunny_ag ... _sunny.mp3

drew tetz and bjam do the vocals on this. it is funny.
http://www.songfight.org/music/vishnu_c ... ia_tvc.mp3

not the best execution ever, but a great and rocking song with meatwad on drums and luke henley on guitar and vox.
http://www.songfight.org/music/rosetta/ ... osetta.mp3

this is me, a bass, and a 70's marshall tube combo. bein' angry.
http://www.songfight.org/music/angry_al ... _angry.mp3

this was sos + one of stephen's friends from ireland. she can sing. i spent 20 or 30 hours on this, recording it on the vs 840 and mixing it, i believe, in cool edit pro.
http://www.songfight.org/music/death_pl ... plunge.mp3

[Caravan Ray]

my current band.
....
http://www.songfight.org/music/ignoranc ... ay_iib.mp3

Just for the record - that's me singin' on that one. I wish I could get my own vocals to sound like that.

[HeuristicsInc]

One time blue uploaded some drum loops he recorded and said people could use them. They appeared in my "Fight the Sea" (maybe other places too). Dunno if you want that sort of unwilling participation in the list or not
-bill

[Pigfarmer Jr]

For my own information.

03/16/09 - 03/26/09 Back From Juvie
08/10/09 - 08/20/09 Nothing is Everything
09/11/09 - 09/21/09 Made to be Played
06/08/10 - 06/19/10 Dirt Nap

Several others were started and not finished.

[sleepysilverdoor]

I heard a reference in the most recent reviews saying something along the lines of "Finally, an old school songfighter!". This inspired me to list the 2938429384 band names I've submitted as in the past.

?
Terror in Tiny Town
I don't remember what the band name was supposed to be, but it had too many foreign characters in it to work, so it turned into ?.

?
Rhymes with Lucia
Also submitted under the name ?, this was somewhere between breakbeat and butthole surfers slacker rap. Only not good.

Meeshka Chaukinov
Pink Ribbon
I'm not entirely sure what I was thinking for this one, but I guess I was going for weird atmospherics?

Grapefruit Orgasm
Ottoman
This is perhaps my first attempt at creating a track out of a noise collage. Only with no rhythm.

The Boiler Room
Ottoman
Yea, yea, I submitted twice this week, with this being the entry made first. Chronicles the story of a crazy bush pilot named Otto, man.

There's Something Wrong With the G-Diffuser!
So Weird
Bouncy electronic beat that would have sounded reggaeton if it weren't so weird. Sampled pikachu a lot. And lots of screaming.

Slit Tearduct
History of My Broken Heart
Don't even waste your time.

Muppet Qu33f
Just a Friendly Reminder
The first of the queefs, this was partially me trying to do a drum and bass type something. And making fun of Kool Keith as well. Turned out alright, i think.

Lockheed Symphony
Night Terrors
This is personally my favorite thing I've ever created. Mostly a mess of microphone feedback, clipped all to hell drumming, my cat, and me yelling horrible things into the microphone.

Lockheed Symphony
Maki
Another track of me actually trying. Low chanting, slow drumbeat, organ, a rainstick and guitar solo. Actually atmospheric, but not much substance.

Asteroids 57801-57900
And Counting
This was a collaboration with me on drums, melvin on bass, tambourine, and vocals, and furrypedro on guitar and vocals. Came out interestingly enough for a collaboration involving three continents.

Lockheed Symphony ft. Gritty Teeth
Just to be difficult
This was a collaboration between my friend Loren and I, telling a story about an angry robotic repoman. Or something.

Surf Rock Manufacturing Facility
Just to be Difficult
Making fun of Blues Manufacturing Facility as well as Surf Train Surf Industry, it ended up sounding more like goth rock with a vaguely surf beat and a pitch shifter.

Lockheed Symphony
I Want to Get On It
If I'm not mistaken, I made this track after an entire afternoon of listening to Peaches. Then turned into my normal atmospheric thing.

Lockheed Symphony
The Last Year
This was me making fun of psychedelic nonsense lyrics in the vein of the Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows. I had fun with it, but I can't listen to it now.

Ambient Train Ambient Industry
They Control The Weather
So I rendered this and submitted it without listening to it. Turns out half of the audio tracks didn't export. Oops.

Lockheed Symphony
Cute Boots
Okay, I'll admit it, I was trying to sound like a song from the MIghty Boosh.

Then I ran out of ideas for a couple years, started hanging out with rave kids and had my music tastes change a bit, quit being straight edged, and then....

Queef Mcbeef
Hard Landing
The entire point of this was to be dubstep gone wrong in every single way possible.

Queef Mcbeef
Peace Is Rest
Bass heavy, erratic beats. Vocals put together entirely from short, one word snippets. Still queefing it up.

Queef Mcbeef
Hello My Old Heart
Similar style.

[Lord of Oats]

Surf Rock Manufacturing Facility
Just to be Difficult
Making fun of Blues Manufacturing Facility as well as Surf Train Surf Industry, it ended up sounding more like goth rock with a vaguely surf beat and a pitch shifter.

Yeah, except...

There's no way you could have been making fun of Surf Train Surf Industry, because I invented Surf Train Surf Industry in response to Surf Rock Manufacturing Facility. However, I accept that you were making fun of Blues Manufacturing Facility. Which is kind of a crazy thing to do, considering the entire point of Blues Manufacturing Facility was making fun of Blues Train Blues Industry.

[Billy's Little Trip]

One time blue uploaded some drum loops he recorded and said people could use them. They appeared in my "Fight the Sea" (maybe other places too). Dunno if you want that sort of unwilling participation in the list or not
-bill

Are those still on the site somewhere? I'd like to mess with them.

[HeuristicsInc]

the loops? no idea, try contacting blue, maybe.
-bill

[Niveous]

Bumping this up again.

Songfighters who have been around for a while know that if I'm looking at this thread at the beginning of the new year, I'm up to something. So, please update your liner notes.

[ken]

Hrm, what did I do last year...

Berkeley Social Scene:
Crush
Let's Get Bloody
Please Stop
Double Take
Robot Ninja Zombie Bear
Front and Center*
Double Life/Half Life*
Hardly a Moment
The Middle Part
When Did You Know
The Rumor Lives Strong*
We Do All the Style
After Hours
Future on the Road

Berkelyn Social Scene (BSS w/ Roymond):
You Believed it Yourself

The Semolina Pilchards (Glennny and Ken):
Future on the Road

Something Happy (I played drums for Glennny and a friend):
Look at the Sky

Explino! (Glenn Case and Ken):
Crush

Ken's Super Duper Band 'n Stuff:
Crush
Hello My Old Heart

the Seamus Collective:
Hello My Old Heart

[Ross]

My year in songfight is pretty much on my archive page. I also was invovlved with "the Orange collective" on Jewel of India. I wqs in the original flava cover fight covering "Convalescence" by BLT. I did the cure cover fight, too. I did some other non-songfight stuff like spintunes, Fawm and 50/90.