The Super-Secret-Hxaro Lovefest!

Discuss the many little competitions/projects that spring up amongst the Song Fight community.

we all know King Arthur is the winner but which do you love the best?

Abominominous
0
No votes
Balls to Monte
3
21%
The Blind Mime Ensemble
0
No votes
c hack
0
No votes
Glenn Case
1
7%
Henrietta and the Hostage
2
14%
Hoblit
0
No votes
Jack Shite
0
No votes
Johnny Cashpoint
0
No votes
Jim of Seattle
1
7%
Jim Tyrell
1
7%
Ken's Super Duper Band N' Stuff
0
No votes
Lunkhead
0
No votes
The Hell Yeahs
6
43%
 
Total votes: 14
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The Super-Secret-Hxaro Lovefest!

Post by The Secret-Hxaro Santa »

<b>The Super-Secret-Hxaro King Arthur Lovefest!</b>
It should be noted that only one of the artists participating (me) knew who else was involved. Thanks to everyone that participated. King Arthur, you win this round!

Abominominous
<a href="http://www.tartpop.com/tunes/abominomin ... y.mp3">Put Cindy Back on the Bus</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/put_cind ... iginal)</a>

Balls to Monte
<a href="http://www.bakedziti.net/audio/RedFlag_BTM.mp3">Red Flag</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/red_flag ... iginal)</a>

The Blind Mime Ensemble
<a href="http://www.blindmime.com/mp3s/blindmime ... ednesday's Grownup</a>
<a href="http://www.charleswolff.com/D2BW/WEDG.m ... iginal)</a>

c hack
<a href="http://www.c-hack.com/mp3/c-hack_blue_signal.mp3">The Blue Signal</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/the_blue ... iginal)</a>

Glenn Case
<a href="http://glenncase.songhole.org/content/K ... ">Deuce</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/deuce/ki ... iginal)</a>

Henrietta and the Hostage
<a href="http://www.mamiejmusic.com/henrietta/Tr ... lemaker</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/troublem ... iginal)</a>

Hoblit
<a href="http://chris.hoblit.net/sound/Hoblit-WT ... p3">WTF</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/wtf/king ... iginal)</a>

Jack Shite
<a href="http://www.spewgrass.com/music/jack/js_ ... ng.mp3">So Aggravating</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/so_aggra ... iginal)</a>

Johnny Cashpoint
<a href="http://www.kongbalong.com/dcm/lavenders ... ">Lavender Splendor</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/lavender ... iginal)</a>

Jim of Seattle
<a href="http://www.jimowen.org/Songfight/Level_Best.mp3">Level Best</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/level_be ... iginal)</a>

Jim Tyrell
<a href="http://www.jimtyrrell.net/mp3/jimtyrrel ... D.mp3">The Puppets Dream</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/puppetsd ... iginal)</a>

Ken's Super Duper Band N' Stuff
<a href="http://kni.songhole.org/mp3s/KensSBDnS_ ... >Variation on 2</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/variatio ... iginal)</a>

Lunkhead
<a href="http://www.bozos.com/lunkhead_ka_bfb.mp3">Back from Brazil</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/back_fro ... iginal)</a>

The Hell Yeahs
<a href="http://www.tartpop.com/tunes/the_hell_y ... h.mp3">Too Goth to Rock</a>
<a href="http://www.songfight.org/music/too_goth ... iginal)</a>
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Post by c hack »

Still listening, but I gotta say that Jim Tyrell's SO BAD needs some horns from Dylan Nau or someone like that. It's so close to perfect, but I want it to build up and be full of all sorts of instruments by the time it gets to the last verse, and then drop back down to voice + piano for the last bit. Then it would be perfect. IMHO. But great job anyway.

Edit: the links to henrietta, J$, and Lunkhead are broke. Gotta take out the spaces or whatever at the end
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The links have been fixed.
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Post by Heather. Redmon. »

I can't wait for King Arthur to see and hear this!!! :lol:
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Post by jack »

I love the contrast between Glenn's version and the original :lol:
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Post by Hoblit »

I have them all shuffling with KA's originals...

Havn't gotten through all of them yet...

but i"m really digging on C hacks cover..nice do0d

JOS's is great!

of course..the hell yeahs rawk as always.
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Post by Heather. Redmon. »

Thanks Hoblit!

I won't be able to listen until I'm home from work... but I'm looking forward to it!

:)
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Playlist of all originals and covers available HERE
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Jim of Seattle wrote:Playlist of all originals and covers available HERE
vERY CoOL do0d!
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Post by Niveous »

All of you rock. This is unbelievably cool.
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Post by king_arthur »

Umm...

Speechless.

I haven't listened yet, but I am totally blown away by this...

What Niveous said...

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Post by j$ »

Good stuff all round. I'm glad that all of you managed to do justice to a man who deserves this and much more for his music and general lovliness.

Also, wanted to thank secret-hxaro santa for organising such a stellar line up, (and me :) ) S/he suggested I do Lavender Splendour when i was angsting over which of many great KA songs I could massacre in my own inimitable style, and in the process I rediscovered what a brilliant, clever song it is. So thanks.

I am rocking to the Hell Yeahs again. Particularly like the lesbian under-tones (well, over-tones, I guess :lol: ) and the vague Joan Jett feel, in a good way!

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Post by Heather. Redmon. »

:lol: Definitely over tones!
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Post by king_arthur »

Wow!

I can't even begin to say how blown away I am by all this... I mean, just thinking that people all over the world have been working on recording this stuff is just amazing... I made a CD of all the songs and sat out on the back patio listening to them; there's a breeze up from Mexico tonight and it was so cool, sitting in the dark, hearing all these songs coming back at me.

I loved everything, but I have to admit: I've been humming "Troublemaker" to myself a lot lately, and hearing [Hostess'] Henrietta's version gave me chills.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this; special thanks to those who brought the MIDI against their better judgement :lol:

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Post by jack »

hey charles, i think you meant henrietta (who has a hostage, which sounds like hostess....)

and who also did a stunning, beautiful cover. i agree. henrietta (& H), beautiful job you guys!
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Post by c hack »

Yeah, agreed. Looks like everyone brought their A game.

Do we want reviews for these? Or should we just leave them be?
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Post by king_arthur »

Jack: yes, correct, that should've said Henrietta...

C: I always thought one of the nice things about hxaro is that we DIDN'T review them... save the reviews for things with "fight" in the name. But I'm not in charge here...

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Post by The Secret-Hxaro Santa »

Like Charles said, reviews aren't really necessary as the act is the good deed. But if you'd like to say nice things about something in particular, well, I'm sure that's always appreciated. Can't have enough nice remarks in the spirit of the secret hxaro :)
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Post by Jim of Seattle »

for me it wouldn't even take a feat of hxaro-ness to say only nice things. These are ALL great, every last one of them. It's really quite a collection.
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Post by Henrietta »

I agree with Jim, every single entry here is awesome. :idea:

Troublemaker is such a gorgeous song, King Arthur. I'm really glad that Hostage and I had the opportunity to cover it.
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Post by j$ »

I agree also that reviewing would be churlish. Anyone wants to know what I think of their song particularly, of course, let me know and I'll pm ya, or something...

As a continuation of the theme, does the poll seem a little unneccessary to anyone else?

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Post by jimtyrrell »

I'll agree with that, J$. I don't think anybody did this to 'win'.
I've downloaded the covers and the originals. I'm burning a nifty 2-CD set now, and I get to listen today. Yay!
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