SongFighter Cover Thyself due June 18, 2005

Post by jb » Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:43 pm

Leaf wrote:This is a good idea JB. In this proposal, can we change parts to improve it, or just do a straight cover?

Coverfight has traditionally never cared what the f anybody does for their cover. I think the idea here would be only a pseudo-coverfight anyway, with the real goal being "how good can i make this song if i redid it?" It would be like, a chance to fix all those things you may not have liked when you entered it into the fight, or to get the take you always wanted but never took the time to do. A lot of us always say we're gonna go back and do that song over some day, but we never do. This would be a chance to do that. Or just to go nuts and make your acoustic guy/guitar song into a total rocker or electronica dance song or something.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:46 pm

ok. A reinterpretation fight, like when bands get tired of doing the same song the same way a million times on the road and start playing it differently.

NeilThrun · Post by **NeilThrun** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:59 pm

Johnny Balls Cover fight.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:12 pm

songfighter, cover thyself.
sounds dirrrrty.
cool.
-bill

jack · Post by **jack** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:56 pm

what about covering ourselves doing a cover?

tonetripper · Post by **tonetripper** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:20 am

..... owwww jack.... my head hurts...

What happened to the the Elvis fight! That seems like a great one. Although I do have to say the coverfight of other SFers was pretty fantastic. I think that should be a yearly thing.

Jim of Seattle · Post by **Jim of Seattle** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:36 am

That's a fun idea, JB. What if someone else got to choose which of our songs we were to redo?

erik · Post by **erik** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:40 am

jb wrote:a coverfight where we cover OURSELVES.

I like this idea. I would do this if this was the theme for coverfight. I would not do it if someone else got to pick out the song for me.

thehipcola · Post by **thehipcola** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 7:51 am

I would do it either way.

cool idea!

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:01 am

We already did the 'someone else picks the song' bit.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:15 am

I like the Elvis one too. I've been wanting to do a particular Elvis cover for a long time... but no time. A coverfight would get it done, probably. Start it in May!
-bill

Post by **Spud** » Thu Apr 14, 2005 10:14 am

JB's idea is perfect as he wrote it down. No need for any further discussion, compromises, interpretations, or clarifications. What is the deadline, JB?

Jim of Seattle · Post by **Jim of Seattle** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:47 pm

OK, so there was all this talk, and then nothing happened. Are we going to do this, or were people just "musing"?

Post by jb » Thu Apr 28, 2005 10:41 pm

Spud wrote:JB's idea is perfect as he wrote it down. No need for any further discussion, compromises, interpretations, or clarifications. What is the deadline, JB?

June 1. Send links to covermaster@songfight.net

J

deshead · Post by **deshead** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 5:24 am

Sweet.

One thing that's not clear between jb's two posts:

Is it any old song?

Take one of your own songs and do it over like you're covering it.

Or any old Songfight! song?

a chance to fix all those things you may not have liked when you entered it into the fight

I'm in either way, but I want to know how big a back-catalog I'm dealing with. (And FWIW, I think it should be limited to Songfight! submissions.)

Jim of Seattle · Post by **Jim of Seattle** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:46 am

I agree, FWIW. More fun for other to be able to compare.

jute gyte · Post by **jute gyte** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:19 pm

i get out of school in two weeks. i might be able to do this.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 12:29 am

What about a Bert B-acca/dacca-ra fight? Everyone does a Bert Bacharach song in the style of AC/DC - or vice-versa.

EightLeggedOedipus · Post by **EightLeggedOedipus** » Sun May 01, 2005 10:08 am

This kind of seems like where we were headed with <a href="http://songfight.net/forums/viewtopic.p ... 7">this</a>. Goodness gracious, lord almighty!

Elvisfight would be good, too.

I also liek the idea of collab-cover-solo fight. Take oen of your solo songs and cover it as a collab project. maybe in pairs.

Post by jb » Sun May 01, 2005 10:25 am

The Topic Is Settled

Unless a whole bunch of people protest, enough people have expressed interest in doing "Cover Yourself", so let's do that one. Deadline June 1.

JB

EightLeggedOedipus · Post by **EightLeggedOedipus** » Sun May 01, 2005 12:04 pm

jb wrote:The Topic Is Settled

Unless a whole bunch of people protest, enough people have expressed interest in doing "Cover Yourself", so let's do that one. Deadline June 1.

JB

Damn straight. That's what Admins are for.

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Mon May 02, 2005 11:24 am

Was it ever settled whether the songs we covered had to be ones that were actually submitted to songfight? 'Cause I've got some things that I didn't submit to the fights and then later wished I had ("Zombie Son" among others).

If stuff like that is out of bounds for this fight, maybe it would make a cool sidefight some other time...

Charles