THEMESONGFIGHT! 2005 ("OPEN SEASON")

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:26 pm

Bjam wrote:Hee. I like J$'s song. Bee-Jam for the record

really? i always pronounced byam in my head. and now i don't know what to think. i guess i'll have to reconsider everything.

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:34 pm

I think if I ever become famous I'll have to change my name.

thehipcola · Post by **thehipcola** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:38 pm

yah, totally feel dumb for not being done already, but that's life for ya. Dre, it's coming dude. I think you'll like it, if that helps....

I'm not listening to anyone else's until I'm done. Self-imposed themesong strike against myself protesting me and my late-assness.

It's really heavy though.

starfinger · Post by **starfinger** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:55 pm

bjam, i love it!
but i must confess I think I'm missing some of the lyrics.. do you have them transcribed anywhere?

that chorus is great. i want to have something on my body that plays that when i press a button.

thanks!
-craig

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:03 pm

Craig Tanis, Dr. Kong Balong,
Got his PhD in songs to sing along
New Jersey representing
These tunes he will bring

He loves soup,
He hates eggplant,
Pray for pancakes,
The Songfight Iron Man

Starfinger
Starfinger

Starfinger, he'll raise you to the sky
The doctor with his rhymes will defy
His other monikers shows he's a deftly man
And in Boston, his kid could bust some moves

Went to Tulane,
Learned he could entertain,
Married Chrissy in 02,
Then made his SF debut

Starfinger
Starfinger

More to him than
Soupidy-doup-doup
He also won for
Dinga-Da-Donga

Starfinger
Starfinger

Something like that...

starfinger · Post by **starfinger** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:08 pm

awesome, thanks.

-craig

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:15 pm

Stueym: International Man of Mystery

He's a well-meaning moderate family man
If he's doing something, anyone can
That's what he wants everybody to think
But a vodka martini's his favorite drink

He doesn't work for the BIA
But I think he's Scottish anyway
A freelance consultant who sells people dreams
Or something like that, maybe he builds up teams

His daughter's his partner in his master plan
To rid Song Fight of all the avant-garde bands
Folk music is his favorite thing
He likes anything to which someone can sing

His weapon of choice an Ovation guitar
If anyone breaks it he has twenty more
What is he doing this side of the pond? he's a
traveling musician vagabond

jack · Post by **jack** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:26 pm

first off, everyone did a pretty great job on this. i enjoyed them all for different reasons, alot of variety, and alot of love went into making them and it showed. nice job you guys.

in lieu of reviews, i decided to write down what sort of theme song your song made me think of. this is what i came up with. it might not make much sense but stream of consciousness rarely does on first glance.

feldspar by jim of seattle
i'm seeing bill bixby playing a widowed single father as a lifeguard captain in santa monica.

bjam by johnny cashpoint
i'm seeing some wacky saturday morning kids cartoon about some dora the explorer like girl

freddie love by phunt your friends
some odd movie short on IFC between features

rabid garfunkle by sausage boy
something from adult swim

weasleslayer does sven
left on the cutting room floor from midnight cowboy

heuristics inc. by marcus kellis
mister rogers while i'm on acid

marcus kellis by kamakura
one of those sensitive, adolescent, angst-filled sitcoms like my so called life, or blossom maybe

tonetripper by hoblit
it's got almost a danny elmanish feel to it, something like futurama maybe. great singing chris. actually, it's more quincy jones than elfman. i'm thinking baretta.

kamakura by jim tyrell
i smell alan thicke. takes different strokes to rule the world.

stuyem by fluffy
fuck yeah, way to mine that G band. this reeks of cable, like maybe that show about that bounty hunter named dog.

fluffy by starfinger
holy crap, i'd watch this show just to hear this tune each week. awesome job craig. it's about a six million dollar porcupine that gets all bionic badass on badguys. and he busts out the gratuitous lily clip. nice. very nice.

hoblit by caravan ray
man, this is awesome too. perfect. i'm seeing sleeveless shirted nash bridges driving a piece of shit chevy impala.

starfinger by bjam
a reality show featuring the loser from rock star INXS.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:26 pm

mkilly wrote:http://glitterandtwang.org/songs/ts.html

For the UNIX jockeys in the crowd:

Code: Select all

#!/bin/sh

wget -O - http://glitterandtwang.org/songs/ts.html | grep href | grep mp3 |
  while read line ; do
        url=`echo $line | cut -f2 -d"`
        artist="`echo $line | cut -f2 -d\> | cut -f1 -d\'`"
        title="`echo $line | cut -f4 -d\\"`"
        echo "url:$url artist:$artist title:$title"
        file="$artist - $title.mp3"
        wget -c -O "$file" "$url"
        id3v2 -t "$title" -a "$artist" -A "Themesong Fight 2005" --TCON "CoverFight" -y 2005 "$file"
done

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:30 pm

HA!

Awesome! Last line's the best, imo. Thanks Sausage Boy!

HipC, it's coming... looks like sunday Sunday SUNDAY from my tardy punk-ass.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:01 pm

jack wrote:first off, everyone did a pretty great job on this.
tonetripper by hoblit
it's got almost a danny elmanish feel to it, something like futurama maybe. great singing chris. actually, it's more quincy jones than elfman. i'm thinking baretta.

hoblit by caravan ray
man, this is awesome too. perfect. i'm seeing sleeveless shirted nash bridges driving a piece of shit chevy impala.

WOW, dude... to even being mistakenly and later correctedly compared to the..THE Danny Elfman is a thrill in itself...even if you took it back.

Whats funny is that ... I used to drive a <a href="http://www.techimo.com/photo/data/5/1265MVC-027F.jpg" target="resource window">Blue Chevy Citation (this one is purple)</a> ...and we all know about Hoblit's preference in sleeves and hot weather.

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 8:01 pm

Glad you liked it. I'm pretty happy with it, obviously it can be improved, which I may or may not do.

Pffw. Whatever.

Mogosagatai · Post by **Mogosagatai** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:09 pm

Note to Caravan Ray: WTF does <i>not</i> rhyme with Hoblit!

Mogosagatai · Post by **Mogosagatai** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:33 pm

JoS, Luke Henley, and Caravan Ray made amazing themesongs, fwiw. Johnny Cashpoint's and Starfingers were just short of amazing, which is still pretty darn good.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:01 pm

Michael Gum theme song
Sorry it was late. Hope you like it, Mr. Gum, I'm sure you'll notice I sampled you twice.
-bill

Märk · Post by **Märk** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:03 pm

Yeah, mine's done too. http://sven.songhole.org/JoS.mp3

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:08 pm

wow, kellis is fast.
heh, that made me laugh, especially the end. you should write down the lyrics! i don't think i got it all.
also, please no comma in "heuristics inc." thanks

-bill

Märk · Post by **Märk** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:41 pm

J$ does Bjam: This is totally sweet! You should be the singer in a post-punk brit band or something... oh, whoops.

Phunt Your Friends does Freddie Love: Hmmm. Sampled static is not doing much for me. This is pretty funny though.

Sausage Boy does Rabid Garfunkel: Oh this is fucking cool. Is that a distorted bass? Or a synth? It sounds ass-kicking.

Weaselslayer does Sven Mullet: Oh man, thank you! This is like a weird hybrid of Tom Waits... and something. That ending fucking rules! Thank you thank you thank you.

Marcus Kellis does Heuristics Inc.: HAHAHA You sound like you smile a lot when you sing. Classic killy.

Kamakura does Marcus Kellis: The first straight-up ode to a songfighter so far! This is really nice. If *I* were mkilly, I'd be beaming right now.

Hoblit does Tonetripper: Wow production values. This sounds a bit like a cheesey beer commercial, but it's pretty damned good. The homoerotic thing caught me off guard, I admit it

Jim of Seattle does Feldspar: Holy crap! This sounds mainly sampled, but it's very nice. See? SEE?! Aren't you glad you never flaked out?

Jim Tyrrel does Kamakura: Another straight-up ode. And this sounds exactly like a TV show theme song about Kamakura. So, congratulations. (I'm thinking about Welcome Back Kotter right now)

Fluffy does StueyM: Frikkin awesome.

Heuristics Inc. does Michael Gum: Fantastic.

Starfinger does Fluffy: OH MAN YOU RULE. That's all I can say.

Caravan Ray does Hoblit: Holy crap, when did you learn to totally rock?! This is fucking sweet.

Bjam does Starfinger: Yet another stright-up ode. This is pretty, if not a bit sparse. Good job.

Everyone did a great job! Thanks again to Weaselslayer for my great Themesong.

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:49 pm

Sven wrote: Sausage Boy does Rabid Garfunkel: Oh this is fucking cool. Is that a distorted bass? Or a synth? It sounds ass-kicking.

Distorted bass. Plugged the bass straight into the back of my comp, turned the comp mic up full, turned the bass up full, started the beat running and just fully rocked out.

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:29 pm

The "funny story" was going to be about Anita Hill but then I remembered you wanted me to keep it PG so I changed it to Grant Hill.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 6:19 am

heh, thanks!
-bill

michael gum · Post by **michael gum** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:33 pm

Haha, "he's won two or three songfights, which I can't seem to do". Great line, I laughed...

And Jim Tyrell (and everyone else), I'm sorry I forgot about this and don't have a song. I feel really bad