More Stories of Songfight History

j$ · Post by j$ » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:08 am

I'm more worried that you're admitting to reading livejournals

thehipcola · Post by **thehipcola** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:10 am

How I found SF...as a lurker. Late '03, I googled a search on DIY/Internet music labels, which landed me square on the page of Sprewgrass.. The featured artist that month was Brad Sucks, and as I checked his and other Spewgrass folk's websites out I kept seeing references to this thing called SongFight! I found the boards and hung out for awhile, just reading and getting a feel for things. I told Tonetripper about it, and the first redcar track was submitted for the Moscow, Idaho fight.

It was that same fight where we met Blue.

j$ · Post by j$ » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:15 am

Hi my name is Jherek Carnelian, a bemused denizen of the End of Time. At some point in late 2005 this thread implodes under the weight of its own self-indulgence, swallowing its own tail and creating a strange time-travel vortex, through which I will be able to peer and thus discover songfight at some point in the 89th Century, a wild and decadent place where the only music allowed is the ouevre of the great God Johnny of Cashpoint. It is a beautiful dystopia.

erik · Post by **erik** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 9:09 am

Mods, quick, delete the thread.

thehipcola · Post by **thehipcola** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:27 pm

j$ wrote:Hi my name is Jherek Carnelian, a bemused denizen of the End of Time. At some point in late 2005 this thread implodes under the weight of its own self-indulgence, swallowing its own tail and creating a strange time-travel vortex, through which I will be able to peer and thus discover songfight at some point in the 89th Century, a wild and decadent place where the only music allowed is the ouevre of the great God Johnny of Cashpoint. It is a beautiful dystopia.

are you related to John Titor?

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:46 pm

Jack! Spewgrass worked!

jack · Post by **jack** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:47 pm

hahaha...i was actually thinking the same thing!

ken · Post by **ken** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:28 am

I've been contacted through spewgrass by an old college friend and a distant relative. When will the A&R people start noticing?

Ken

Post by **Lunkhead** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:35 am

Hey drew, come back, tell more tales of ancient SongFight! history!

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:21 am

Yeah, even those of us who have been around for five years don't know everything!

Märk · Post by **Märk** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:01 am

I first accessed songfight on my HAM radio back in '53 or '54.... those wre the days, I tell you. You only had 1/3 of a title to work with, and 18 seconds from when the (1/3) title was posted to submit your (1/3) song....

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:16 am

okay so like back in the early days of songfight it was invite-only and the forum was only there for people to post random stuff about narbotic's songs and it took a while for people to start review threads and i think the first actual review thread was when the shortcakes reviewed everything in shipwreck but before that when i submitted for i love you i started a thread specifically for that fight a few days before the fight went up and said how much i loved all the songs because back then narbotic didn't have the mp3 directory protected so you could listen to songs early and also he had some other neat stuff scattered around like a copy of 'dog in the sand' by frank black but i asked him about it because i didn't know who frank black was at the time and then he was all like 'oh no it looks like i need to protect that directory' and stuff.

also this is the way drew used to talk only he would also be more aggressive about it because HE WAS AN INTERNET ROCK STAR and whatever but okay.

and if anyone is wondering about the blurb on the old 'i love you' fight on the 'five years ago this week' thing on the front page in a couple weeks there was someone who posted a few messages under the name laurie pastkowski who was complaining about how nil was always winning and so nil sure showed her who was boss by winning again while beating my crappy song.

however i have a present for people. you may <a href="http://beesbuzz.biz/music/songfight/plus5/">unwrap it</a> on january 26 but there is no peeking before then.

blue · Post by **blue** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 7:06 pm

is it a time machine for five years in the future?

also, does this mean that drew is the internet's first ex-rock star?

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:07 pm

OKAY WELL IT LOOKS LIKE SPUD IS ENJOYING MESSING WITH ME BY POSTING THINGS EARLY ON THE FRONT PAGE

So okay. plus+5 is now alive.

Please enjoy.

frankie big face · Post by **frankie big face** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:22 am

fluffy wrote:Please enjoy.

Weird. For some reason, I had remembered your "I Love You" as an instrumental. (What am I thinking of?) Anyway, this new version is about a million times better than the old version. Your singing has improved immensely and obviously, the production and performance are much better. Cool project!

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:14 pm

You're probably thinking of Repair My Heart, which is up next (and already completed as well).

Thanks. :)

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:56 pm

Second track is up. (For those who care.)

pegor · Post by **pegor** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 2:27 am

.. uhm so... I'm curious, what happened on "Mon Jan 24, 2005 (at) 8:49 pm" that caused 110 users to be online?

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 2:35 am

http://www.songfight.org/songpage.php?k ... of_the_sky
http://www.songfight.org/songpage.php?key=ninja_gang

May have something to do with one of those fights going live. Or the fact that they may not have been posted on time and all the n00bs may have been all like 'OMG where are teh songs?!?!'

Post by **Spud** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 4:35 am

Yeah, if the entire Frontalittle Squad showed up all at once, that would pretty much do it.

blue · Post by **blue** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:52 pm

that wasn't the attack of the show night, was it?

Post by **Spud** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 3:56 pm

No, that was Wednesday, September 28, 2005. Nice Try.