Fake and Bake is the New Black (All Tan Reviews)

Jefff · Post by **Jefff** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:39 pm

Sorry about that, Steve.

Yours is actually quite nice. Your vocal isn't very strong, but I like the way the arrangement develops around it, building strength.

jack · Post by **jack** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 6:54 pm

ADD
don't remember this during the live fight (i think you went pretty early after our set) but this is very nice man. splendid. you clean up nicely.

the bewells
i do remember yours during the live set, as i was thinking damn that's a well structured tune for this live fight. wow, both you and jeff really did nicely by re-recording your tunes. the multiple harmonies really shine, especially lindsey's octave vocals in the chorus. you guys really, really know how to work the harmony vocals to really beef up your arrangements. love that subtle electric guitar you throw back in the mix too. damn, this is excellent too. you guys and jeff set a pretty high bar this week.

ross durand
gotta love a good reason to throw a little clave into a tune. and eggshaker. and a vibraslap! you're a man of my heart ross durand. all you parrotheads....simmer down! it's achin for some of your brother's backing horn stabs.

the dave patrol
decent for cock rock. the mix sounds really overcompressed to the point where the drums and bass are so buried in mud, but it kind of works for the concept, although if this mix could breathe more, i'd be waving my bic instead of my....well you know.

still, the lead singer's got the axl down, and guitar is ok. pretty gratuitous use of the title. and the beavis and butt head intro/outro could go, but it still decent headbanger fare.

the seamus collective
excellent. i missed this at the live fight too. great play on the title. whistling and horns are great. electric guitar is too loud. the doubled and harmonized vocals are stellar. great job dude. very beatlesque.

glenn and rachael
killer. recording is amazingly clear and your vocal and guitar work is just killer. rachael's vocals too. i remember when you got the clapping going

it's like this excellent, unplugged, soon to be a collectors item recording of the next great thing.

thanks for the frisbee
wow, this is awesome. haven't heard anything by you but i'm impressed enough to go searching now. nice job! i love everything about this.

guitarotica
for winging it, this is pretty solid. good.

sockpuppet
it doesn't suck.

high density
this has gotta be a remix. huge production, great tune. the live version was pretty damn good too. but this takes it to a monster level. it's like you just crushed the competition with this mix D.

and heather, your vocals are killer here, and were great live too.

prayformojo et al
brilliant concept. words can't begin to describe how much i enjoy this.

bjam
other than the guitar sounding a little out of tune, pretty good. singing is the good. nice bridge change too. like JB said, it's about the passion and you bring that.

caravan ray
Caravan Ray! Oi! Oi! Oi! too funny dude.

flvxxvmflorvm
i like the rock. it's got a nice white stripes kind of feel to it so i say yeah, it's ite. deep it's not.

paco del stinko
fake live is good. production is excellent. playing is also excellent. nice job dude!

eclectic spoons
conceptually i like it. the vocal phrasing lags in parts. it's got an endearing goofiness to it (see starfinger), but the whole mix sounds very flat and compressed. open it up.

phillipsox
very cool tune, and very well done. excellent guitar work, and production is really good. drums and percussion are kicking and fit the production really well. not that big on the talky vocal parts but it serves to break up the arrangement ok. but man, kickin guitar playing dude!

steve durand
killer. the horns make this. great arrangement. your singing fits the arrangement perfectly. awesome steve.

klownhole
first, i just have to say that going straight from steve durand into klownhole is just one of those little songfight moments that make you realize what a great place this is. klownhole, you guys always bring the rock, you're one of my all-time favorite songfight bands, you can do no wrong in my book. if you guys ever play another songfight live, you have to close the show. anything else would be anticlimactic.

stueym
a well deserved second place finish. love it. the emperor has no clothes. you had my live vote all the way until the bewells.

blue spud shoes
it's like octothorpe unnplugged! except the vocals are on the beat. nice klownhole reference.

melvin
sounds good to me. i really like the organ. are you sure your name isn't ken?

noah mclaughlin
production is pretty solid, and the execution is good for guy and guitar, maybe a bit too heartfelt for me, but it's still well done.

tam lin music
that descending riff reminds me of too many other songs, so it's a little distracting, but i like the sparse arrangement, and really love the strings coming in. great bass too, and the singing is really good and fits the tune perfectly. yeah, even that riff you break it up nicely. actually, this is fucking awesome man. might be my favorite in the fight.

primitive screwheads w/freudian slip
is this one danceable? it's a head bopper and finger snapper.

william parsons project
garldarn that's a hot mix. maybe a mastering thing as the indivual tracks sound pretty clean but splittingly loud in the space between my ears. the full falsetto vocals would be more effective having a low register vocal tossed in for harmonies instead of just doubling another falsetto vocal. lots of potential but just isn't fully gellin for me.

rone rivendale
i guess someone had to bring up the rear.

JBB
hey, it's JB doing a 1-4-5! albatross, your bass is absolutely wicked here. recording sounds pretty good, and rabid, i'm loving that harp dude. i remember this one working the crowd really well.

bonfire of the manatees
more very solid production. it's got some sloppy moments, but they are endearing sloppy moments. i'm diggin this. it's got a cool jesus and mary chain feel to it.

the special relatives
not doing much for me. maybe it's just because you're at the end of a long fight and i'm burnt. sorry.

favorites:

seamus, ADD, bewells, high density, frisbee, steve durand, klownhole, tam lin music, JBB, mojo

high density's production is sick, but i'm leaning towards seamus or tam lin right now. still a very good quality fight.

Post by jb » Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:00 pm

that's Albatross rockin' the blues progression on my All Tan, Jack.

JB

jack · Post by **jack** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:03 pm

jb wrote:that's Albatross rockin' the blues progression on my All Tan, Jack.

JB

right! on the bass. ok, albatross, you da man!

still gleen, you rocked that pawnbroker bass lick.

Plat · Post by **Plat** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 7:32 pm

Caravan Ray's entry is totally cracking me up. I've played the original and submitted versions to a few people so far, and it's still hilarious to me. Thanks for that.

blue · Post by **blue** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:57 pm

Rone Rivendale wrote:
Caravan Ray wrote:
blue wrote:i voted for rone rivendale
Rone has sold out. He's starting to sound like Denyer.
Blue, thank you. (if you were being serious)

no chance in hell. klownhole all the way.

jseavers05 · Post by **jseavers05** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:05 pm

why are so many of the songs sounding recorded live? i must have missed something?

blue · Post by **blue** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:06 pm

jseavers05 wrote:why are so many of the songs sounding recorded live? i must have missed something?

jesus

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:06 pm

Uhhh... I got nothing.

It's neck-punching night for Blue.

Albatross · Post by **Albatross** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:11 pm

jack wrote:right! on the bass. ok, albatross, you da man!

Gracias, gentlemen.

What was so wild about that is that I'm really not one for winging it. I'm one of those uptight types who has to overrehearse and know everything note-for-note before I hit the stage. Then JB asks me to do a song with him totally off the cuff, and I get a little panicked. I figured, OK, 12-bar in F, shouldn't be too hard, but that didn't stop me from asking him annoying questions and generally being anal-retentive.

Then his turn comes up, and all of that goes right out the window and we just cut loose. I stayed pretty much anchored to the root notes, watched JB's fret hand for cues, and it came off both hunky and dory.

That was totally invigorating. Definitely a highlight, if not THE highlight of the whole event for me.

jseavers05 · Post by **jseavers05** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:13 pm

im guessin since santa cruz. i thought that people just got together and played old songfight songs. anyways, high density's song is super cool. the end.

Post by jb » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:19 pm

jseavers05 wrote:im guessin since santa cruz. i thought that people just got together and played old songfight songs. anyways, high density's song is super cool. the end.

Yes, but in a very organized, concertlike fashion. With a venue and a sound system and an audience.

And at the end, everyone who had an "All Tan" played their "All Tan" live, on stage. And those who didn't wished they had.

Molten · Post by **Molten** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 5:58 am

jb wrote:
jseavers05 wrote:im guessin since santa cruz. i thought that people just got together and played old songfight songs. anyways, high density's song is super cool. the end.
Yes, but in a very organized, concertlike fashion. With a venue and a sound system and an audience.

And at the end, everyone who had an "All Tan" played their "All Tan" live, on stage. And those who didn't wished they had.

What is an "All Tan" and where can I get one?

bz£ · Post by **bz£** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:35 am

n00b wrote:What is an "All Tan" and where can I get one?

You don't really want one, it'll just make you angry

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:11 am

Also there was an optional challenge that said "Record it live". I believe it's always that challenge during a SFL week because it encourages those that won't have time to record to do a song live at SFL and it'll still get recorded for the fight. Even if you weren't at SFL you could've recorded an "All Tan" at an open mic, or a concert, or in the living room to your parents and it would've been embraced with the other 'live' recordings.

We need more optional challenges.

Mostess · Post by **Mostess** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:47 am

Dear Fightmasters,

May I please, this week only, vote as many times as I want? I cannot in good conscience vote for Caravan Ray but not for Tam Lin Music. Or for StueyM but not for @eclectic spOOns. Or for The BeWells but not High Density. I can't even compare these gems, they're cut so differently and so well.

This site is the greatest thing on the Internet.

Jefff · Post by **Jefff** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 10:47 am

Hey, I didn't realize High Density re-recorded. I thought the live version was plenty good enough for the fight, I guess. This danced-up version rocks too. It will be the second track on <i>Song Fight on the Dance Floor</i>.

Smalltown Mike · Post by **Smalltown Mike** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:30 pm

So far, the sheer brilliance, catchiness, simplicity and rockingness that is "Caravan Ray! Oi! Oi! Oi!" will get my vote.

Seriously. That chant as the beat to a song rocks.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 2:17 pm

Smalltown Mike wrote:So far, the sheer brilliance, catchiness, simplicity and rockingness that is "Caravan Ray! Oi! Oi! Oi!" will get my vote.

Seriously. That chant as the beat to a song rocks.

Thank you - though I feel unworthy. Mainly because I should have performed it like that live - but I sadly didn't think of it till several days after the event.

Anyone who is interested - the actual live version was this:
All Tan - Phunt Caravan Ray (live)

..and you will notice that Mogosagatai on drums was far more on the ball than I. I didn't even notice on the night, but he was drumming along to the chant as it started - I should have been paying attention and gone along with him...

BTW: Great mix job Ken. You must have used that new "Drunken Man Effect" plug-in on my vox.

Will try to review later - but so far. High Density, JBB and Dave Patrol are rocking my world

Post by jb » Tue Aug 29, 2006 3:57 pm

pretty sure drunkenmofo... I mean, prayformojo gets the credit for coming up with the "Caravan Ray, OI OI OI" chant.

prayformojo · Post by **prayformojo** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:28 pm

jb wrote:pretty sure drunkenmofo... I mean, prayformojo gets the credit for coming up with the "Caravan Ray, OI OI OI" chant.

It was easily my best performance of either night.

Future Boy · Post by **Future Boy** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:59 pm

Jefff wrote:Hey, I didn't realize High Density re-recorded. I thought the live version was plenty good enough for the fight, I guess. This danced-up version rocks too. It will be the second track on <i>Song Fight on the Dance Floor</i>.

And we might have gone with that had moboid not messed up a bit on the second verse. Anyway, how could I pass up the opportunity to make another cheesy dance track?