Having Sex With Angelina Jolie (Happy Life Reviews)

[j$]

Eddiebangs - Nice egyptian feel. Sounds a bit spindly in the guitar tone. Apart from that, I like this especially the chord change into the chorus.

Evil E - nice opening. Like a shorthand for creepy. The vocals are a little quiet so I can't really make out the melody on the verses - maybe track it with a keyboard to make it a little clearer? I like this quite a lot.

Exile to Elba - I like the name. I don't believe you haven't slept for 22 days. So the rest of the lyric sounds really really whiny. This so needs some bass and drums to kick in under the guitar with the first chorus. I don't really like the lyric so I can't really get into the song, sorry.

Johnsonic - good sound. The lyric doesn't really reach out to me so my concentration falls onto the music which is very pleasant (although the mix in the chorus is maybe a bit uneven?) Also this song appears to be called History, not Happy Life and therefore excludes itself from the running.

Jute Gyte - Thukka thukka thukka Poldadot dream thukka thukka blood has got late thukka thukka HAPPY LIFE! I love it. Not yr best but always a pleasure to listen to what you do.

Luke Henley - The chorus is a charming amateurishness too far. i like it up until then each time but it drags me out of the mood each time it hits. Also I question whether there's blood in your shit every time you say 'I love you' but I'll take your word for it. nice speed up.

Neil Thrun - Trying a bit too hard to be 'wacky' and I don't like list lyrics much. Harmonica actually sounds quite good but should happen earlier / come in more. the guitar and vocal isn't interesting enough to support its dominance.

PYF - actually love the first 20 seconds and bits and pieces thereon - but I have no intention of listening to all of it and therefore can't fairly review or consider it for a vote. Shame.

Happy Life - Nice guitar riff. You should have combined the good ideas you had in your other songs this week to make this good, rather than just taking the 'this will do - next song' approach.

Shovel Sitting Down - great music. nice vocals. BUT i find totally tedious the 'hey this sounds cool - let's say it' lyric, I'm afraid.

Smalltown Mike - This is great. (except that I agree with parts of the sentiment which you're clearly mocking. Ah well.) CLOSE SECOND TO:

SFO - This is also great. No, that's fucking fantastic, actually. VOTE.

SWS - Why encode this at 64kps? Are you showing off or something? I hope she says yes. Totally not my bag. The lyric is too straight forward. Though I guess it serves a purpose. Have a nice time in Ohio!

Stueym - That mix is very quiet. I like the country-ish mood - nice bass - descending bass parts give me a virtual chubby. Your voice, though fine, sounds a bit odd on the music - can't say exactly why, but maybe it's just that the music is a bit quiet in relation? Nice tune. very nice tune. (I don't like the chuckle before 'no they can't take that away' btw - to me, it sounds ever so slightly creepy!)

[johnsonic]

Also this song appears to be called History, not Happy Life and therefore excludes itself from the running.

Well, this has come up twice. I didn't know it was against the rules to name your song differently than the fight theme, I thought the song had only to be inspired by the theme and created in one week. In this instance, I concentrated on the possibilities of a happy life here and now, if you don't get caught up in your history. I wanted to name it history instead b/c i like the title more. So sue me.

[j$]

No, that's fine! I liked the song and it's always handy in a big fight to have an arbitrary reason to reduce the possible voting body!

j$

[NeilThrun]

[quote="j$Neil Thrun - Trying a bit too hard to be 'wacky' and I don't like list lyrics much. Harmonica actually sounds quite good but should happen earlier / come in more. the guitar and vocal isn't interesting enough to support its dominance.[/quote]

Thank you, and the rest of you, for the compliments on the harmonica. I went for simplicity, and it was achieved. But I dont quite see where your coming from with the wacky part, while I agree many of the lyrics sucked and had forced rhymes, I did my best to de-wackify it by keeping the masturbation and Chuck Norris jokes out.

[EightLeggedOedipus]

PREFACE: It was a Friday afternoon and Eight Legged Oedipus was impatient. He did some hasty reviews ...

<b>Eddiebangs</b>
+++ As usual, you prove to be the best rock vocalist on SF. (No offense to everyone who sucks.) +++
--- Oh but the mix is weird. ---
+++ Hot funky sounds, though. I mean really. Nice minor harmonic solos and shit. +++

<b>Evil-E</b>
--- suckage ---

<b>Exile To Elba</b>
+++ It soudns like "I'm a tard of this happy life." I love tards. SO does my pal Hemorrhoy Rogers. +++
--- If the Weakerthans weren't a bunch of Canadian communists they'd probably pull a Metallica and sue for sucking all over their sound. ---
+++ Although, aside form a few bad notes, you're a pretty good singer for the style. +++
--- I think the mix and that (solo?) are the really drainage points for frequent flyer miles on this one. ---

<b>Johnsonic</b>
/// Damn in the first line, the panning is weird. Like you're way off in the distant behind each shoulder. Then as the verse progresses you come to the foreground pretty fast. ///
--- Not sure why you invoke the Cobain overdriven yelling voice on the happy poppy melodic parts. Maybe that's your voice? Study Meat Puppets. Backwater would teach you how to employ YOUR voice. ---

<b>Jute Gyte</b>
+++ You are hardcore. This is more cohesive and a little more listenable than the last two weeks. +++
/// Oh it's not over? Well that was a long pause. Hey whatever happened to our optional challenges, fightmaster? ///
--- The slow melodic solo is NOT doing it. If I was stuck and I had recorded that, and then all my equipment burned, and I knew I HAD to use the solo, I would've put an amplitude modulation on it at about 8 times the BPM, then probably stereo delay that. ---

<b>Luke Henley</b>
+++ "There's blood in this shit" +++
--- The most you could hope for now is to be an anecdotal reference in a Vonnegut novel. Becuase you suck at writing, and you suck at improv, and you suck at being an asshole, and you suck at the element of surprise. ---
/// Although it would be pretty cool to be in a Vonnegut novel. ///

<b>Neil Thrun and the Doom Fairies</b>
/// Phunt is already on, but it looks liek I'll have quite a while to fling some insults. ///
--- Your subject matter is trite. Your singing is atrocious. You make Luke Henley look inventive. AND you always fool me into thinking there's going to be some awesome song by The Doom Fairies. Well where the hell are they already? Can I be a Doom Fairy? WIll you hold auditions? ---

<b>Phunt Your Friends</b>
+++ OK, now we're getting somehwere. There is a hyperness, akin to Big Poo Generator or (dare I say) Carol Cleveland SIngs. While tonally uninformed, this is quite well textured. I'm waiting for the day when you guys take some lessons and get some new equipment and chnage your name and make a lot of truly funny songs. Right now this is DA DA infringing on Wreckdom +++
--- Oh my god - eleven minutes to go??? You could almost listen to somebody's AAD in this time, and probably hear like two good songs already. ---
/// I'm gonna go check my email while this farts around on the headphones. Oh and I'm gonna write Ryan's review before hearing the song...///
--- OK, I died. New high score: 12:04. Anyone beat that? ---

<b>Ryan Rickenbach</b>
+++ The chorus is OK although it sounds really familiar +++
--- The lyrics are crap. You ought to start over. Or go work on your Sad Life song, that one had a little more potential. ---
/// What's that strange noise at 1:33 ?? ///

<b>Shovel Sitting Down</b>
+++ By far the best song in the whole fight hands down. +++
--- Except that the singer sucks and it kind of repeats too much and the vocals sound liek they're recorded way out in another room and THEN reverbed and it really should have had some backing vocals. Oh yeah, and it fades out. Posers. Or not enough reverb on the vocals? Hard to put my finger on it ---

<b>Smalltown Mike</b>
+++ Holy crap isn't this about the Transplants song being used in that Pantene Pro V commercial? Oh and thank you for dissing U2. +++
--- The song is kind of sludgy. It's missing a few funky 32nd ghost notes on the drum beat, and some fills. ---

<b>Song Fight Orchestra</b>
+++ Oh yes, there is the rehash of th emost beautiful SOng FIght song known to me. I don't know who diud this becuase I'm too lazy to find out, but it sounds a lot like Glenn did. Awesome either way+++

<b>Southwest Statistic</b>
+++ As far as cheesy love songs in the pop-punk-goes-acoustic realm ar concerned, this one's right up there. I could imagine this being on the radio when I change it. +++
--- Inverted emphasis really bugs me till my nuts twitch. The first time you say "memory" was pretty bad. The second is OK. I don't liek how the rhythm pushes the "the" in "THIS could be THE start of." There's nothing important about "the." ---

<b>stueym</b>
+++ The drum beat has a double snare tap at the 2-and. Makes it for me. +++
--- Obvious things like guitar tone, mix, cheesy lyrics, fadeout. ---

[EightLeggedOedipus]

i find totally tedious the 'hey this sounds cool - let's say it' lyric, I'm afraid.

I am confused by your comment. If you hate cool lyrics, you must hate much of your own work.

If you mean it sounds cool and it doesn't mean anything, well I guess I didn't make it clear enough. It means something and some other poeple got it. I personally enjoy indulgent nonsense lyrics, but that wasn't the aim this time around.


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[WeaselSlayer]

I guess I've been a bit confrontational and shitty and generally unenthusiastic with my work lately, and I'm sorry if I've been pissing people off, though I don't even think I'm good at that. I have some new ideas finally, so I think I'm done with the diary-page bullshit. I've been dealing with some things and it's been taking its toll on me and for some reason I thought I'd take it out on this community with my posts and even with my submissions. Not that anybody really gives a shit, but I thought I should say this anyway. Here's to a new Luke.

[EightLeggedOedipus]

Here's to a new Luke.

I'll drink to that. I'm an asshole and have no intentions of changing. I hope this new Luke can make songs that inspire, terrify, and challenge us like your "Prep School" did. That is definitely in my top five SF songs (apart from probably the whole catalog of CCS, who has ceased to be a SongFighter?).

[WeaselSlayer]

Thanks, that means a lot, sorry I've been making shit lately.

[GlennCase]

SongFight Orchestra's track nearly made me cry while smiling just now.

Thank you, Jim

ROCK!

Glenn (DR FUNK)

[Eddiebangs]

My crap-ass cranky-pants reviews.


Luke Henley-get this shit out of my ears. It would probably be better if I was stoned, but unfortunately I’m not. Although there were some neat ideas struggling to poke through, it seems like you didn’t really try too hard to make this song even slightly palatable to the listener, therefore I have to say it sucks.

Stueym-drum machine sounds are sucky. Try to tweek them a little next time. Lead guitar has a bit too much chorus or whatever that effect is… On the upside, I enjoy the folky, wholesome quality of this song. Nice lyrics- how ‘bought some oohs & ahhs in the chorus? Not something I’d listen to again, but pretty good work.

Phunt Your Phrends-Phunt this song. Some really cool ideas, but way too repetitive. Way too repetitive. Way too repetitive. Way too repetitive. Way too repetitive. Way too repetitive. This would have been great if it was only two minutes long. If you think I actually sat there and listened to all 16:58 of this, you are smoking crack. I skipped around to the end, but didn’t hear much that interested me. Yeah, if this were like 2 mins long I would have praised it up and down, but as is, it is just shy of suckage.

Johnsonic-Why do your songs sound like you record them in the men’s room at Yankee Stadium? Weird reverby stuff going on. I like the song, but the sound is distracting me. I like how the bass comes in, and the overall bass-line is neat. Keeps busy over the guitars’ basic strumming. The drums need to get heavier when everything else does. How about some cymbals? If they are there, I can’t hear them. Lyrics & melodies are cool. Still want to collab sometime. I like your style. I’m gonna try to make it to your show at the Lion’s Den, but no promises.

Exile to Elba-30 seconds in I’m bored. God I hope this picks up…1:00 it looks like this is it. I like the chorus, but the verses are so blahhh. This song is like vanilla pudding. Its good, but who wants plain old vanilla pudding. OH WAIT- 2:18 in comes the other guitar! Now this is interesting. Why on earth did you make me wait over 2 mins before that guitar came in? Slap some bass and drums in there & you’ve got an Ice cream sundae.

Southwest Statistic-familiar, bouncy intro. This sounds emo all the way. Nice harmonies. I like the vocal melodies. This could be a hit. BUT, it gets a little boring. This is another song I wish some bass & drums kicked in. It would totally rock. As is it’s pretty good.

Song Fight Orchestra-AWESOME INTRO! Now where’s the rest of the song? This sounds like it should bust into a Queen-like metal song.

Evil-E-Sounds like The Who, only not too good. Maybe if the production quality was better, I’d think differently, but as is, it’s kinda sorta lame. And way too long. Could’a wrapped this baby up at 2:20 or so.

Shovel Sitting Down-love the loop. Cool rap-like melody. Smooth jazzy coolness. I really wish this switched over to a band playing- with some funky bass & guitar rythems and real drums, but that’s just me. As is it’s a little repetitive, but pretty sweet.

Smalltown Mike-If you turned the bass drum down a little I’d buy that those were real drums. I like this. It has a lot of different elements, and I like that in a song. I can hear lots of different influences. I like the laid back vocal style, the choppy guitar. The lyrics are really cool. I wish the chorus was a more drastic change from the verse, they blend together too much. Overall really cool. Nice job.

Ryan Rickenbach-Very cool intro. Nice style on the vocals. This is really cool, but the chorus is lame. It takes too long for the drums to come in. Overall it starts really interesting, but then it never really goes anywhere.

Neil Thrun and the Doom Fairies-I must admit you are growing on me. Like a fungus. I hate to say it, but I really like this. Cool lyrics. Perfect chorus. Harmonica almost makes the whole tune legit. Great Job.

Jute Gyte- Listening to your songs for the first time is like watching a freaky horror movie. I’m on the edge of my seat, anxious of what may happen next. Although this isn’t one of your best in my opinion, it rawks just the same. If I could only play the drums the way you program them… awesome weirdness. Coolt guitar “solos” and the ending overall is fantastic. As always, great job.

Eddiebangs-As a general rule, I usually don’t comment on my own stuff, but I want to make an exception here. When I was younger, I always wrote lyrics that told a whole story, and I always ended up with six or eight minute songs. As I got older, I learned to be more abstract when writing lyrics, but sometimes that results in clouding the original point I was trying to make. In the case of this song, I only told half the story, and I didn’t really get my point across, so here it is: for my mother’s 60th birthday this year, we gave her a vacation with her whole family. My parents, brother, two sisters, all spouses and kids will be going on a group vacation in a few weeks- That’s 17 of us total!!!! So my song is about going on that trip, and how awesome it’s gonna be, and how cool my family is to do something like this all together, and the bond we all have, and how it is a very good part of my life (my happy life) and blah blah blah. I plan on taking lots of home movies, and making a video for this song when I get back. I think it will turn out really cool.

[Smalltown Mike]

If you turned the bass drum down a little I’d buy that those were real drums.

This actually is a real drummer—loops played by a drummer and chopped up. Not as good as a real drummer playing on my song, but I mean to say it's not programmed either.

Cheers.

[Eddiebangs]

This actually is a real drummer—

My bad. The bass drum sounded like a drum machine sample to me. I always complain about drums (especially my own), so don't take it personally.

[NeilThrun]

Neil Thrun and the Doom Fairies-I must admit you are growing on me. Like a fungus. I hate to say it, but I really like this. Cool lyrics. Perfect chorus. Harmonica almost makes the whole tune legit. Great Job.

Thank you, you always have something nice to say about my stuff eddie. It baffles me.

<b>Neil Thrun and the Doom Fairies</b>
/// Phunt is already on, but it looks liek I'll have quite a while to fling some insults. ///
--- Your subject matter is trite. Your singing is atrocious. You make Luke Henley look inventive. AND you always fool me into thinking there's going to be some awesome song by The Doom Fairies. Well where the hell are they already? Can I be a Doom Fairy? WIll you hold auditions? ---

Well heres the thing, there are no Doom Fairies. Although I am pleased you believe all the hype i spout off in the prefight threads.

[Caravan Ray]

Luke Henley - This is truly awful. Congratulations

Stueym – Starts great – you have a good voice and the first verse got me in listening to the story. Then came the chorus – and you sound like a complete bloody jessie (hope I got that right – I believe you said you were Scottish). Glad your happy – but I felt ill from that point on. BTW – Gordon Lightfoot called – he’d like the melody for “If You Could Read My Mind” back if you’ve finished with it

Phunt Your Phrends – This is top! One day I may listen to the whole thing – but I’m very impressed with the bits I peroused

Johnsonic – Pretty good. Sound a bit like the great Ed Keupper. The dirty guitar detracts from the song a bit – it doesn’t need it, there’s a good melody there

Exile to Elba - Tedious

Southwest Statistic – Great guy-tar. I hate the song completely – but I cant deny its well written and wonderfully performed

Song Fight Orchestra - Nice

Evil-E – Not doing much for me

Shovel Sitting Down – Very nice. Great vox and lyrics. I’d like to hear harmonies on the melody change bit.

Smalltown Mike – This is great. I like everything about it

Ryan Rickenbach - Good to hear you extending yourself more. You’ve got a good voice and you’re a good songwriter. Unfortunately though – I didn’t like this – just personal taste. Seems like you went for the Grand Slam this week. Short Life was my favourite

Doom Fairies – That is probably one of the greatest choruses ever in the history of contempory music. I almost pissed myself.

Jute Gyte – Need more bass in the vocals – minor quibble though – this is awesome

Eddiebangs – Great vocals – but just not my cup of tea


Good fight.
Vote for Smalltown Mike
Honourable mentions to Johnsonic, Neil Thrun, Phunt Your Phrends and the Shovels

[Eddiebangs]

Neil Thrun and the Doom Fairies-I must admit you are growing on me. Like a fungus. I hate to say it, but I really like this...

Thank you...

<b>Neil Thrun and the Doom Fairies</b>
...The Doom Fairies. Well where the hell are they already? Can I be a Doom Fairy? WIll you hold auditions? ---

Well heres the thing, there are no Doom Fairies....

I would like to audition to be a Doom Fairy.

PS: Will there be pie at the auditions?

[AngryKowala]

<b>eddiebangs</b> Do you have ever been too the land of minor notes and sitars. tickle on the asia major minor and middle east.

<b>evile</b> bambambambambambabmambmamammbmmPOP! i keep thinking about sailboats!

<b>exiletoelba</b> this should have been the sad life, cause it is melencoloy, i have heard this chord progression before! but progreesive people are teddy rosevelt!

<b>johnsonic</b> this drums and bass are so kicking bam bam bam duddleduddledumdum, you should be on the radio with this voiice. very marketable to the cardassian fleet with their wrikley faces and evil plots to invade romulan territory.

<b>jutegyte</b>once i bleed on my knee cause i hit the asphalt real hard and it bleed all over the place, i was flying a kite, at the time, it was so terrible, i like you're music though cause scream scream scream is so nice!

<b>lukehenley</b> blood in my spit? OH NO! it is upper respitory problem! or maybe some nose bleed draining! it' isn't her, she is realy nice and she will give you a happy life. but seriously this song is really cute!

<b>neilthrunandthedoomfaies</b> i feel like i've heard this chord progression too, and music about america is so good! and aint it a good life! BIG FAT AMERICAN MAN! wooka wooka wak!

<b>Phuntyourfriends </b> Good golly miss molly! In your career of song making i am totally burning alive and this song makes me so happy! Everyone else who said this song was terrible did not listen to it! ALL your JERKS TAKE A GANDER FOR ACademic purposes and pretend like you're not going to vote on it. aka NOt a pop hit, but rivals anything i've heard in the last 3 months from anyone.


<b>ryanrickenback</b> jeepers the more i listen the more i feel like noone will right a song that describes a life that is actually happy happy go lucky, they all are like. blah blah blah, but it's so hard to live the happy life. that aside, the congos are so nice and the the strumming patterns is terribly awfully nice! and your voice going wahhhh ahhhh! at the end? that is killer!

<b>shovelsittingdown</b> drunken happy life the acid trip isn't helping sadness grows! NOT HAPY NOT HAPPY! no SIR! IRISH CREAM? balh blahl ab layal uay3eoslslelsl3l3li3li lis io i li ahhhh! not one person is happy! tired of sadness, give me a kiss! and your voice needs to be grabbled

<b>smalltownmike</b> not happy life! but at least this form of sarcasm is to be expected, you know? i know! all we can do is dance dance. I like your voice in tanker truck too! yeah, and this is the good one too,

<b>songfightorchestra</b> yeah yeah, i like all the voices that make sounds you rock mister man this week!

<b>southweststatistic</b> remeber old school blink 182 who led a generation of divergers into the emo generation! reminds me of 10th grade! yeah yea! i love your for nostalga sake.

<b>stueym</b> aww this is the payoff for all the sad songs and sad lyric! in a happy life catagory! but maybe it is a insurance comerical, damn you can't make me happy huh?

[NeilThrun]

Doom Fairies – That is probably one of the greatest choruses ever in the history of contempory music. I almost pissed myself.

I'm not quite sure if your being sarcastic or not.

I would like to audition to be a Doom Fairy.

PS: Will there be pie at the auditions?

Perhaps we should get around to doing that collab you proposed back in the day?

[Caravan Ray]

I'm not quite sure if your being sarcastic or not.

not (though maybe a tad too much hyperbolism)

[NeilThrun]

I'm not quite sure if your being sarcastic or not.

not (though maybe a tad too much hyperbolism)

Sweet

[Noodlebot]

I am too jerky to write a full review, but Phunt your friends just totally won it for me.

[EightLeggedOedipus]

I am too jerky to write a full review, but Phunt your friends just totally won it for me.

Ha! Sock puppet.