Song Fight! has been in my life for more than half of it

[fluffy]

I was chatting with Future Boy and his current partner the other day and the topic came up about how long I've been doing Song Fight!, and I surmised that I might have been doing it for more than half of my life at this point. So I decided to do some math, based on me discovering Song Fight! around the same time that Zero to Phantom was posted as a title:

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sparkle:beesbuzz.biz main$ python3
imPython 3.11.6 (v3.11.6:8b6ee5ba3b, Oct  2 2023, 11:18:21) [Clang 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.29.30)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.date(1978,6,14)
datetime.date(1978, 6, 14)
>>> datetime.date(2001,1,4) - datetime.date(1978,6,14)
datetime.timedelta(days=8240)
>>> datetime.date(2001,1,4) + (datetime.date(2001,1,4) - datetime.date(1978,6,14))
datetime.date(2023, 7, 28)

So yeah, as of around a year ago, Song Fight! has been a part of my life for more than half of it. Neat.

[Niveous]

Number of days Songfight has been a part of my life (estimating that I found SF at the start of the Space Cadet fight): 7638

Days I existed before I found SF: 9417

Looks like I have another 4+ years to go before SF has been in half my life. Feels closer than that.

[jb]

According to the Song Fight! Life Percentage calculator I am at 45.02%.

http://songfight.net/tmp/sflp.html

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[fluffy]

Haha, I've thinking of building a webpage for a lot of "closer in history"-type stuff like that for quite some time, but of course you just went and did it. I gotta get over my analysis paralysis.

[jb]

Feel free to modify that page, fluffy, no worries here

[fluffy]

I mean I was going to do an all-out thing where you could compare things like the moon landing with the release of the Nintendo 64 so that people could feel very old. The 50% threshold of whatever is just one thing that happens to measure.

[jb]

Ah I thought you’d compare songfight time against all of those things

[Lunkhead]

43.81% for me working off a rough guess at when the "Bullseye Girl" title went up, as that was my first fight. But I'd been l listening and lurking a couple years before that, no idea exactly when that started.

[Pigfarmer Jr]

For the record: 28.84%. Dang, I'm old.

[ujnhunter]

Only 37.67%ish though R. Mosquito is at 64.99%

Edit: In my life... not his Song Fight %.

[Aciniform Artifice]

45.67%

Based on approximately when I started participating at Dumbrella, not based on the first time I ever heard of Song Fight! which was a while earlier.

Does anyone recall the timeframe of Drew Toothpaste's Sharing Machine Song Fight! Knockoff Competition?

[fluffy]

Fuck that guy but yeah I want to say it was around 2003-2004ish? It only lasted a couple of weeks.

It turns out to be hard to make a songfight-like though. Back in 2002 I was taking a break from songfight and tried running my own similar contest and it was super difficult to get anyone to enter.

EDIT: Yeah I just checked the wayback machine, looks like he started it in October 2003 and ended it in January 2004. (Which was mislabeled as 2003 in the update log.)

[Aciniform Artifice]

As I recall it only lasted a few weeks. I entered for a few of the titles before it fizzled out(*) -- and it was right around that time I learned that Song Fight! still existed. (I had first discovered it during the .COM->.ORG transition / period of dormancy, unaware that "Meanwhile" existed, and so I wasn't aware that anyone had continued running SF! until a bit later.)

The first SF! I participated in as a listener/reviewer was during the week that spanned Dec '03 - Jan '04, which is what I used to determine my life percentage.



(*) EDIT: Thanks for that Wayback archive link. This was a joy to revisit, right after I admitted that I was one of the small handful of participants in that competition.

Unfortunately, the quality of the songs being submitted here is really just embarrassing. It is with a heavy heart that we are closing the song contest.

[fluffy]

Yeah I started to take a break from songfight right before .com stopped updating and I'd missed that meanwhile was a thing until .org had taken over. I remember coming back during the prefight for Fool in the Middle. Unfortunately I can't find the prefight thread in the extremely spotty archives of the Wayback Machine but it was a good time had by all.

[fluffy]

(*) EDIT: Thanks for that Wayback archive link. This was a joy to revisit, right after I admitted that I was one of the small handful of participants in that competition.

I think you still owe a bunch of us some pot cookies from the 2011 livefight.

[Aciniform Artifice]

I'm sorry, but I don't recall being here in 2011.

I was mostly on hiatus from (I think something like) 2009-2022 with the notable exception of judging Nur Ein at one point in between there.

[fluffy]

Oh wait right I was thinking of Bad Boys at Bat Mitzvahs. He won the live fight primarily by bribing everyone with pot brownies or something. My bad.

(I blame me being, ironically, somewhat high at the moment.)

[Aciniform Artifice]

Yeah, sorry, guess I had missed that one.

[sleepysilverdoor]

Your Song Fight! Life Percentage: 52.74%

I passed the halfway point a little over a year ago.

[ken]

Assuming my band mates at the time told me about Song Fight very soon after they attended that Hot Lunch show on 7/7/2001, it took me about 4 months to submit my first entry - Indie Rock Bottom.

Your Stats:
Total days alive: 18777
Days knowing about Song Fight!: 8526
Your Song Fight! Life Percentage: 45.41%

Historical Context:
Days between your birth and the Moon landing: -1425
Days between discovering Song Fight! and the Moon landing: 11676

[fluffy]

Resuscitating this thread for another milestone.

We are right around the 25th anniversary of me discovering Song Fight!. I remember finding it while on Christmas break from grad school and visiting my parents in December of 2000, and Zero to Phantom was the just-posted title (after A B C D Puppies' voting had just finished up; Song Fight! worked a bit differently back then), which I believe was the first one to be an open invitation. I don't remember the exact date that I arrived (because who the hell pays attention to things like that?) but, yeah, it was 25 years ago more or less that I arrived here.

I am pretty sure, based on the dates in the archive, that my arrival was sometime between December 15, 2000 (the end of A B C D Puppies' vote) and January 4, 2001 (the day Zero to Phantom's songs were posted).

Of course I didn't actually enter until I LOVE YOU (the title of which was probably posted on January 12, 2001).

I have a more detailed recollection of this on the liner notes for the album release of that song (which didn't happen until late 2024).

[Aciniform Artifice]

45.67%

Based on approximately when I started participating at Dumbrella

For simplicity I've picked a date around the middle of the first fight I listened to and reviewed, since I would have been exactly 24-and-a-half years old that day. And that will have been 22 years ago later this month.

So my SF! percentage will hit 50% (if I'm mathing correctly) right on my 49th birthday, which will be in 2028.