Blue Lang Hxaro

[Lunkhead]

Back-in-the-day Song Fight legend Blue Lang passed away. Some folks expressed interest in a musical tribute. Let's do it! I think most of his Song Fight entries were with his band sonofsupercar but he's got a few more in there and maybe some of you know about ones the rest of us don't. Maybe also folks could cover songs that others wrote for one of Blue's "gear fights".

[fluffy]

http://songfight.org/artistpage.php?key=sonofsupercar
http://songfight.org/artistpage.php?key=blue_lang
https://sonofsupercar.bandcamp.com/
EDIT (thanks j$): http://songfight.org/artistpage.php?key=badger_patrol

http://songfight.org/artistpage.php?key=add_vs_blue
I think he was also part of http://songfight.org/artistpage.php?key=irc_all_stars

He also did an amazing album-a-day called Beautiful Lunchbox which I'm having trouble finding online but I could post it somewhere

[fluffy]

Here it is. I don't think he'd mind me posting it here.

Beautiful Lunchbox.zip

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[roymond]

Whatever. I’m in.

[j$]

Yes. I am in. Don't care how bad it sounds. Also, don't forget Badger Patrol! http://www.songfight.org/songpage.php?key=feathers

j$

[jack]

Back-in-the-day Song Fight legend Blue Lang passed away. Some folks expressed interest in a musical tribute. Let's do it! I think most of his Song Fight entries were with his band sonofsupercar but he's got a few more in there and maybe some of you know about ones the rest of us don't. Maybe also folks could cover songs that others wrote for one of Blue's "gear fights".

ha the gear fights! I was in one of those.

[ken]

Booty Chesterfield Trio: http://songfight.org/artistpage.php?key ... field_trio

[Future Boy]

Blue was also part of Japantown Three http://songfight.org/artistpage.php?key=japantown_three, which was Blue, myself, and Jack Shite I think? I remember the little practice space we worked on the song in, but I don't remember if it was for an SFL or what.

[jack]

Blue was also part of Japantown Three http://songfight.org/artistpage.php?key=japantown_three, which was Blue, myself, and Jack Shite I think? I remember the little practice space we worked on the song in, but I don't remember if it was for an SFL or what.

Yup I posted the story of this in the other thread. It was for a regular fight. Spur of the moment. It was the SOS practice space in the Japantown area of San Jose (hence the name!)

[Niveous]

Definitely in.

[Spud]

Blue Spud Shoes was me and Blue. http://www.songfight.org/artistpage.php ... spud_shoes

[Niveous]

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

[Paco Del Stinko]

I am in...

[Caravan Ray]

In for sure.

And thanks to this thread for reminding me of that time I recorded a song with the Bootys!! I had completely forgotten about this!!

http://www.songfight.org/music/ignoranc ... ay_iib.mp3

After listening, I now recall Blue sent me a fully recorded musical backing and said something like "Hey CR - can you sing some words over this?" First - and probably only time I wrote lyrics to fit to an already recorded bit of music.

Came out pretty good (though yes - a tad politically incorrect now. I get that. 12 years ago - it was a different time...) - some cool guitar stuff going on.

[roymond]

Came out pretty good (though yes - a tad politically incorrect now. I get that. 12 years ago - it was a different time...)

But then you started your dress collection, ya big lug!

[Mr. Car]

Just want to thank Niveous for reposting that long Blue thread with all of his comments, as I’ve never seen it before now. It’s insightful and funny and I’m gonna print a copy and stuff it inside the sound hole of a banjo he left behind when he moved to Florida.

I think my band covering sos might not meet the spirit of Hxaro. Whatever, we do a couple in practice occasionally. I might videotape us performing I Don’t Like Eggplant. Except sadly there wouldn’t be any broken drumsticks.

[j$]

I think my band covering sos might not meet the spirit of Hxaro.

I think that would be totally in the spirit of Hxaro.

j$

[mo]

While this is happening, this is also happening: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=12133&p=225916#p225916
Hope to see you guys over here too

[Jerkatorium]

I don't want to be a nag, but as the Jerks have noted before: having no deadline is a great way to doom a Sidelight/Coverfight. Regardless, to get us started here's a repost of Hanky Code's cover of Frannie by sonofsupercar. I have an additional cover in mind, but I'm not 100% sure it's going to happen.

“Frannie” by sonofsupercar, covered by Hanky Code:

[Lunkhead]

Ah, ok. Let's say get your tribute covers in by end of July. I'm setting that for mostly selfish reasons as I'm about to be busy with family visiting for a couple weeks. Is that too long of a deadline...?

[Mr. Car]

I don't want to be a nag, but as the Jerks have noted before: having no deadline is a great way to doom a Sidelight/Coverfight. Regardless, to get us started here's a repost of Hanky Code's cover of Frannie by sonofsupercar. I have an additional cover in mind, but I'm not 100% sure it's going to happen.

“Frannie” by sonofsupercar, covered by Hanky Code:

No crickets this time!
You took a shit song and made it listenable, but preserved the sludge. Thanks!
Frannie actually was my favorite babysitter only because at my request she transcribed the lyrics to Honkey Tonk Women for me without hesitation, and it wasn’t until years later I realized what a tightrope that must have been for her.
Speaking of transcripts, good job!

Dennis

[owl]

I don't want to be a nag, but as the Jerks have noted before: having no deadline is a great way to doom a Sidelight/Coverfight. Regardless, to get us started here's a repost of Hanky Code's cover of Frannie by sonofsupercar. I have an additional cover in mind, but I'm not 100% sure it's going to happen.

“Frannie” by sonofsupercar, covered by Hanky Code:

this is great! <3