'Tis that season again! Gift of Music 2005!!!

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:37 am

Seeing as the time is up, JoS is in but he has to hurry up and give in his list. I'll just keep a placeholder. Okay, now for the choosing and PMing. Please begin debate on due date.

Albatross · Post by **Albatross** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:12 pm

Heather. Redmon. wrote:Hmmm... So, who had me last year? Thankfully c hack and Bolio came through with covers for me, above and beyond their assignments. I'm not bitter, just curious.

Your "screwer" would appear to be either HKD or Tony Hightower.

Bolio · Post by **Bolio** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:12 pm

Niveous wrote:Please begin debate on due date.

Xmas maybe? Almost exactly 2 months away, would be fitting wouldn't it?

bz£ · Post by **bz£** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:33 pm

Due date should be tomorrow. That way, allowing for the inevitable extensions, we'll get our Christmas presents somewhere near Christmas.

Jim of Seattle · Post by **Jim of Seattle** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:34 pm

We've tried Xmas and New Year's before. While that's good in concept, it doesn't work out, because, well, there's Xmas and New Years and it gets awfully hard at that time of year to crawl downstairs and work on music without incurring the wrath of the familial types.

Egg · Post by **Egg** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:13 pm

I edited my original post so that whoever got assigned me can download all the songs. I guess I'll post the links here too, in order to avoid searching for the first post.

I think the due date should be like December 1st so that some of us actually get holiday gifts. And there is lots of moving/travelling that happens during December. So let's make it due before that, and if anybody's late, then people won't notice til they're done with the holidays. And then the late ones might have finished up while nobody was paying attention!

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Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:17 pm

Boxing Day, eh?

blue · Post by **blue** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:59 pm

i will.. put my hat in at the giftmaster's discretion:

Nina Nastasia - I Go To Him
Neutral Milk Hotel - King of Carrot Flowers
Enon - Disposable Parts
The Gourds - Laying Around The House

are Ken and Erik in this already? and Spud?

ken · Post by **ken** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:33 pm

blue wrote:are Ken and Erik in this already? and Spud?

I'm in. Spud too. Don't remember if Erik was or not.

Ken

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:53 pm

Thanks for joining, Blue. I almost didn't see your post in time.

And no, Erik is not. But if anyone wants to get him to tip his hat in, they've got about 15 minutes in which to do so.

c hack · Post by **c hack** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:21 pm

Wait!! I want in!

Picks to come...

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:23 pm

Niveous wrote:Thanks for joining, Blue. I almost didn't see your post in time.

And no, Erik is not. But if anyone wants to get him to tip his hat in, they've got about 15 minutes in which to do so.

Crap, I'll do it if blue is doing it. Picks are below:

"Nous Ne Sommes Pas Des Anges", by Heavenly
"Family Functions", by that dog
"Josephine" by Portastatic*
"Herculean Bellboy" by Young and Sexy

* Ooops. A thorough reading of the liner notes has alerted me to the fact that this song is already a cover. The original song is by The Magnetic Fields, and (thanks to blue) you can now hear the original version of the song.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:24 pm

OK C. Hack. We don't like turning anyone away. So what we need right now is 1 more band and 1 person who really really doesn't dig their list. PM me if you are the latter.

All the Giftlists have been sent out. Remember- it's a SECRET.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:46 pm

After a lot of speedy switches. c Hack & 15-16 are in and we are at 40 bands!!! ROCK!!!!!

GlennCase · Post by **GlennCase** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:22 pm

W00T!

Got my assignments and Rachael's. Could not possibly be happier with our song choices.

This is going to be GREAT!

ROCK!

Glenn (DR FUNK)

Mogosagatai · Post by **Mogosagatai** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:39 pm

I too am very excited.

If the person who got me can't find all the songs, I'd be glad to send them. Maybe we could route them through someone else (like Egg, maybe) so I don't find out who it is.

blue · Post by **blue** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 4:42 pm

I think you PM the GM asking for mp3z.

Jim of Seattle · Post by **Jim of Seattle** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 6:20 pm

For whoever got me, here is my list, sorry for being last minute:

Up on the Roof - The Drifters
Brotha - Jill Scott
Lydia the Tattooed Lady - Groucho Marx
There There (The Boney King of Nowhere) - Radiohead

Will provide links to them if needed - just let Niveous know

j$ · Post by j$ » Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:00 pm

All my songs were linked to a few pages back, but here is the parent directory if you can't be bothered to roll back the wordage. http://www.johnnycashpoint.com/gom05 - I could only find a tab for the Buzzcocks one on-line, but if you're interested in the others, I figured out how to play the TVPs one on my own. The other two, you're on your own

As for the lucky sot who has got me, I don't need any of the songs. I know the one I am doing already. And I'm going obvious, as subtlety doesn't behove me on this occasion.

j$

feldspar · Post by **feldspar** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:29 pm

I have never heard any of the songs on my list! In fact, this is the third consecutive year that I have been presented with four completely new-to-me songs. This is going to be fun!

As for the deadline, I cast my vote for sometime after Christmas. Like, Maybe January 5th. Something like that. I can't really record until I go home for Christmas break on December 16th, so I would definitley prefer a deadline sometime after that. I don't know, though. I might as well figure out the whole dorm room recording situation some day.

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:33 pm

Taking my cue from j$'s impeccable netiquette, http://www.pats-lies.com/songfight/GOM2005/ is where one could find the songs from both my and Albatross's wishlists. If one were so inclined.

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 8:47 pm

I will upload my songs somewhere for my poor unfortunate victim.

I too have four songs that I have never heard, although I have heard of the artists (bar one)

This should be good. Weird, but good.