Who's Shakin It? (prefight)

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Pandora's podcast this month is about electronic dance music: http://blog.pandora.com/podcast/
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WesDavis wrote:I don't have the resources. Maybe I could make it in Garageband, but it would sound REALLY shitty.
Probably a bit late now but try Ardour, I use it and for free it's not a bad DAW. Although I don't know how difficult it is to use on MacOS.
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MintyHandy wrote:I may be backing out. Hopefully I'm just having a bad night, but I have a sneaky suspicion that two years of raising kids (and a bit longer than that playing cheesy uke/piano songs) has killed my ability to write a pop song. That, or I'm just getting old. Damn kids. One more try tomorrow, and if it doesn't gel, I'll pull the plug and leave it to the young'ns.
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i.p. wrote: As far as applying genre's to songs, I suck.
Genre's what?
Oh, I get it. But you spelled songs wrong. It's "song's".
Sorry. Sometime's I have problem's with folk's learning this difficult language. Keep trying!
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See, this is what happens: after completely failing to make my pop song gel, in five minutes I accidentally wrote the slowest, gentlest acoustic song I've ever written...but for this title.

sonofabitch!

Edit: JB, listening to that Podcast now; very interesting. I grew up in Chicago and I've known house music for as long as I can remember -- I had no idea it actually started there.
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Post by Dan-O from Five-O »

jb wrote:if i were you, i'd do a pop dance number.
jb wrote:Pandora's podcast this month is about electronic dance music: http://blog.pandora.com/podcast/
Are these the guidelines JB? Is this what we should be striving for in our entries?
jb wrote:Dan-O has a point.
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jb wrote:Pandora's podcast this month is about electronic dance music: http://blog.pandora.com/podcast/
thats a great podcast, thanks for the link.
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Dan-O from Five-O wrote:
jb wrote:if i were you, i'd do a pop dance number.
jb wrote:Pandora's podcast this month is about electronic dance music: http://blog.pandora.com/podcast/
Are these the guidelines JB? Is this what we should be striving for in our entries?
no. it's just background if you want to do the optional challenge.
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Sick and Wrong wrote:
i.p. wrote: As far as applying genre's to songs, I suck.
Genre's what?
Oh, I get it. But you spelled songs wrong. It's "song's".
Sorry. Sometime's I have problem's with folk's learning this difficult language. Keep trying!
The period should be on the inside of the quotation marks.
Sick and Wrong wrote: ... spelled songs wrong. It's "song's."
Sorry.
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i.p. wrote: The period should be on the inside of the quotation marks.
Only in America.

Also, how did you guys miss this one?
sdurand wrote: Polka's rule!!!
Is that kind of like Murphy's Law?

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Two! Two! Two burns in one!
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Spud wrote:
sdurand wrote: Polka's rule!!!
Is that kind of like Murphy's Law?

SPUD
Polka's Rule No. 1:
Play a polka anywhere near Caravan Ray and you risk having a piano accordian jammed up your arse.
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Note: Big Dumb Jerks will not be submitting techno, either.
I am definitely too square for how experimental this is, but I can imagine that if I was in the right state of mind, the section starting at 2:20 might transport me to another dimension - jeffhenderson
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King Arthur actually tried to take the challenge seriously and do a dance number. Please be gentle, those of you who actually understand the genre :-)

FMs, I'm guessing that "bandname_tss.mp3" is the correct submittal name this time, rather than "bandname_ss.mp3". If the truth is otherwise, let us know, we aim to please :-)

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jb wrote:Pandora's podcast this month is about electronic dance music: http://blog.pandora.com/podcast/
This was neat. I'll have to check out Pandora's other podcasts.
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Spud wrote:
sdurand wrote: Polka's rule!!!
Is that kind of like Murphy's Law?
Asshammer! (the one-off WreckdoM cover band) has to figure in that rule somewhere. Which also ties in nicely with Caravan Ray's comment above, heh.
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Spud wrote:Is that kind of like Murphy's Law?

SPUD
It's "Murphys Law".

Also to the above: The period is only within the quotation marks if you are finishing a sentence within the quotation marks. As in, "Joe went to the store."

At least, I'm pretty sure of that. I might be wrong.
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i.p. wrote:The period should be on the inside of the quotation marks.
I hate's it when you're right.
...what?
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Spud wrote:
sdurand wrote: Polka's rule!!!
Is that kind of like Murphy's Law?

SPUD
Mis-reading some sacred text as "Polka's rule!!!" while you are on camera, bound and on your knees, and surrounded by pissed-off religous fanatics with AK-47s, and then saying with disgust, "Oh, Jesus... why the fuck is there an apostrophe in 'Polkas?'" That's Murphy's Law.
...what?
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WesDavis wrote:It's "Murphys Law"
Is not.
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Spud wrote:
sdurand wrote: Polka's rule!!!
Is that kind of like Murphy's Law?

SPUD
It went wrong didn't it?


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Spud wrote:
WesDavis wrote:It's "Murphys Law"
Is not.
Wes must have it confused with Coles law
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