Should I really bother with Listen Close for plus+5?

[fluffy]

"Listen Close" was my worst Song Fight entry ever. I'm pretty sure I don't want to do it for <a href="http://beesbuzz.biz/music/songfight/plus5/">plus+5</a>. But I'm a completionist. But I'm totally at a loss for how to go about doing it without it still being a big pile of suck. But its 5th birthday is in only 3 days and I haven't even started on it.

So, should I do it?

[catch]

I'm all for completion.

[Eric Y.]

i think it would go against the spirit of the +5 concept to simply skip a song because you don't feel like the original is worth revisiting.

i voted option #b.

[edit: before you get confused, fluffy, that's an alpha "b" not a hex digit.]

[fluffy]

But part of the point to +5 was reminding myself how to make music and now I'm actually doing that again. But I guess my entry for this week is done so. Hm.

[j$]

You've probably already made your decision, but I would advise trying it and then deciding if you like it or not. You'll have a copy for 'completist''s sake, and if you don't like it, then you don't have to let anyone else hear it...

Or do it as an instrumental (as the drift of the questions above seem to suggest it's the lyric you don't like in particular)

j$

[roymond]

You could always completely re-do it, and claim that this was the original version, abandoned during recording of what became your worst entry, so you decided to finish it off in the spirit of being a "completionist"

[j$]

Roymond, your eye patch looks like a thong.

j$

[roymond]

Roymond, your eye patch looks like a thong.

Coming from you I'll take that as a compliment.

[erik]

The music itself for Listen Close isn't bad. Do it over and change alot of the words.

[fluffy]

The people have spoken, I guess.

Well I'm already late with it but what I've done for it fits in with the greater (and as-yet unstated) purpose of +5 so. I turned it into an instrumental jam. I guess I'll try finishing it up tonight.

[king_arthur]

I actually started playing around with hxaro'ing this a while ago... kinda gave up on it because I was noticing that if you slow it down just a little bit, it starts sounding an awful lot like "Stairway to Heaven" and I thought that might come across like acusing you of stealing the melody or something.

But, I dunno, try turning it into a Zep tune and see if you like it like that...

Charles (KA)

[fluffy]

if you slow it down just a little bit, it starts sounding an awful lot like "Stairway to Heaven"

...? No it doesn't.

Anyway the original song was a long-ass multi-instrument jam (and a pretty basic one at that) which I hastily recorded some crappy ad-hoc lyrics over, which I recorded while angry for some reason and I felt like I had to prove something to the Song Fight community (of course all I ended up proving is that I'm a temperamental bitch).

So far the only thing I've come up with which is half-decent is a massively scaled-back jam with no lyrics. Every time I try adding something to it to make it more interesting it gets suckier. So the song is telling me I should just keep it simple, but I hate doing simple. But of course this project is more about expanding my horizons than simply about re-recording old crappy songs.

[Eric Y.]

the song is telling me I should just keep it simple, but I hate doing simple. But of course this project is more about expanding my horizons...

i feel like buried somewhere in there is some kind of zen truism about expanding inwardly as well as outwardly, but i'm probably not wise enough to figure it out.

[fluffy]

well anyway if I do finish it it'll be late because I'm feeling like shit

[fluffy]

<a href="http://beesbuzz.biz/music/songfight/plus5/#001545">fuck it</a>