SongFighter Cover Thyself due June 18, 2005

[jb]

i know i know. you know, life just gets in the way sometimes.

[jack]

it was just a gentle nudge, not a shove.

[fluffy]

i know i know. you know, life just gets in the way sometimes.

Yeah.

[fluffy]

Mine's finally in. (Sorry it sucks so bad. But at least it's better than the original.)

[Phil. Redmon.]

The last coverfight was in September. Isn't it about time for another one?

[fluffy]

Dude, jb will post them when he gets a chance.

[Phil. Redmon.]

The last coverfight was in September. Isn't it about time for another one?

[jb]

Fight's up.

http://songfight.net/coverfight

JB

[fluffy]

Seems a few are missing. Were they too late after the deadline?

(In the case of mine it's probably not a bad thing anyway.)

[jb]

No, not too late, i just don't see them in my email.

Send again please, if you're supposed to be in the fight but aren't listed.

JB

[edit] ok i found yours and sos's, in .org email. remember coverfight is on .net[/edit]

[fluffy]

From: magenta @ trikuare.cx
Subject: coverfight entry
Date: June 28, 2005 7:59:06 PM PDT
To: covermaster @ songfight.org

band: fluffy porcupine
song: alright alright
link: http://trikuare.cx/audio/fp/free/fluffy ... ight_2.mp3

sorry I'm late

--
http://trikuare.cx/

[king_arthur]

link to bolio's song doesn't seem to be working...

ditto for noah m's song...

ditto for dan-o

on the songs where the original version was on songfight, could the "original artist" column be filled in with a link to the original songfight song?

Charles

[jb]

link to bolio's song doesn't seem to be working...

ditto for noah m's song...

ditto for dan-o

on the songs where the original version was on songfight, could the "original artist" column be filled in with a link to the original songfight song?

Charles

Bolio's is fixed.

Noah's is missing, that's the link he sent.

Ditto for dan-o.

If somebody digs up the originals and lists the URLs in order in this thread, i'll stick them in the fight. Left to my own devices I may not get around to it.

JB

[king_arthur]

http://www.songfight.org/music/across_t ... _dusty.mp3

http://www.songfight.org/music/waiting_ ... aiting.mp3

http://www.songfight.org/music/so_kind_ ... hs_sks.mp3

http://www.songfight.org/music/bullseye ... r_bull.mp3

No entry for Bolio in the "Elvis in Space" fight

http://www.songfight.org/music/cancer/t ... cancer.mp3

http://www.songfight.org/music/everybod ... lin_en.mp3

http://www.songfight.org/music/red_flag ... edflag.mp3
(Jack Shite's cover, right?)

No entry for Brainpipe in "Step Up"

No entry for Dan-O in "Are You Having Fun?"

No entry for Freddielove in "Honeymoon In Polynesia"

Apparently "Locked Box" was not a songfight

http://www.songfight.org/music/alright_ ... lright.mp3

Charles

[fluffy]

"Locked Box" was from albumfight. Check somesongs.com for the original link.

[Rabid Garfunkel]

Erm, resent the email to covermaster@songfight.org, as I'm not seeing my entry on the coverfight page. Pretty please to be adding my entry?

[j$]

Bolio's Elvis in Space was not entered in the fight but was linked to in the review thread.

I am enjoying this very much so far (listening as I type). I hope JB has the time to link to the originals, as mine is really a progress report rather than a song I stand by as representative of my music tastes, if you see what I mean ....

j$

[j$]

Some short reviews. Written as I listen. It occurs me that I don't remember any of these first time round so it's like listening to them afresh ......

Me is me - I tried to choose the song I was least happy with and bring it up to date. Either this or Lavender Splendour - and I was always unhappy that I used some Blue drumloops to such awful effect on the orginal so here it is (without the loops and with a totally new arrangement) - the harmonising is still a bit sloppy, but charmingly so. This is still about Gram Parsons.

King Arthur – I don’t know the original (or don’t remember it) but damn your voice sounds sexy on this one, KA. Really sweet vocal take.

The Hell Yeahs – My favourite songfight song of all time didn’t really need re-recording, but here it is equally perfect, only faster ….

Feldspar – very Dylanesque – Bullseye Girl before my time …. I like this in a sloppy poppy way.

Bolio – Link’s not working, man

Landfills – very New Order start. No very ‘This Corrosion’ SoM when the vocals kick in. I like this a lot because I like the niche groove you’ve got going on.

Noah – Link’s not working, man

Jack – I like the original of this. I’d like to have heard you take on ‘Bad Attraction’ instead – I think the vocals are mixed too quiet (you got a great singing voice – show it off!) but I appreciate the mood you’re going for. Cute fairground organ going on.

Bill/Craig – I like this – I think the relentless drum machine could be removed / slowed down to give the cool melody more room to breathe. Other than that the sparseness appeals and it’s a sweet melodious core that the song is built around. I don’t remember the original but if it sounded much like this, it should have done very well indeed.

Dan-O – Link’s not working, man

FreddieLove – I should remember this, but I don’t. Great late 80’s/early 90s intro. Nice telephone filter vocals. I could imagine this in an Echo & the Bunnymen stylee. Lacks some bass end, but that might just be the headphones I am listening on. I love this tune. Sweet. I am not sure how different it is from the original – if this is a vast improvement on the original, it’s getting my vote for best cover. I will check it out and let you know….

SOS – my review from somesongs = “Typically all the good stuff happens in the second half of the song. this is too live, not arranged nicely enough. If you're gonna power-chord then it should be a nice tone at least .... still, pretty pretty melody and singing ... quite gay in a helmet way “ My opinion hasn’t changed much – you are hippies with amplifiers, for sure, but you are my favourite hippies with amplifiers … I think I am in love with your bass player, mind ….

Fluffy – way before my time, of course, but I have always loved Fluffy stuff since discovering ‘Sunny Again’. That has become my benchmark (which will probably print me as a ‘fairweather fan’ no doubt’) I love this. I would like some more weirdy noise ambience in the background – nothing too heavy – just to contrast the b’n’g element of this. Cute lyric. I like it when you whine

So far I am voting all these good. Because they are. Will come back once links are fixed for the others.

[Freddielove]

Thanks J$. Actually the orginal doesn't exist on SF since I never finished it. I have a backlog of songs that went unfinished, so I picked this one out to see what I could do with an extended period of time to work on the production skills.

[jb]

Ok there, fixed Bolio for good this time. Stupid mistake.

JB

[jb]

A few originals are now linked. The system puts a link on them all, but only a few are real. Use your status bar to see the URL and tell which links actually go to a file. Blame Stubs for the irritating UI.

JB

[Rabid Garfunkel]

Thanks, JB. And for the rest of the world, yeah, I stuck with the wrongized "Lucky Boy" instead of "Lucky Man", but at the very least, now the song can be done live with as few as two (and a drum machine). RIP, concertina, alas, alack.