Help Save Somesongs!

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:35 am

roymond wrote:Pimpin my I'd Be Scared If I Believed for a little extra love (or attention). It wallows in its 14 vote "didn't make the cut" status. If it had one more vote it wouldn't be so close to the edge (or down by the river).

Congrats, Roymond. At the time of this writing, you're #3.

And Frankie, wouldn't your highest-rated song without enough votes to be in "Top Songs" be your Heart of a Lion?

I don't have anything highly-rated enough to even be considered, so I'll just say, go and rate my recent posting of my Rhymes with Lucia. Many of you have already heard it anyway; it was my entry to that Songfight in '06.

Post by **Lunkhead** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:59 am

Merisan has only two songs up, but our "controversial" cover of the much beloved classic "Need Stilts" by Glenn and Rachael doesn't have 15 votes yet:

http://www.somesongs.com/song_info.php?select=4087

And Otalgia has one of its two songs on there and that doesn't have 15 votes yet either:

http://www.somesongs.com/song_info.php?select=4672

frankie, you've already rated these bad, so this for the rest of you, who I hope rate them good to negate and then counteract frankie's ratings.

Also, thanks to Tuuur who has rated 4 out of 5 of the Lunkhead songs on there "good" and called most of them underrated, sentiments with which I happen to agree.

jeff robertson · Post by **jeff robertson** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:16 am

My version of "White Light White Heat" has only 9 votes.

http://www.somesongs.com/song_info.php?select=4805

I also noticed I have several songs that are "hidden" because they have been deleted by the place where they were hosted. I am going to rehost and repost them.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:29 am

My songs struggle to get 5 votes. The most recent one I posted is ...

http://www.somesongs.com/song_info.php?select=4830

(note - it was written for a 155 hour frenzy, not a 55 minute frenzy)

Post by **Spud** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:33 am

Even though Tuuur doesn't like it, I am more than happy to pimp our <a href="http://www.somesongs.com/song_info.php? ... ">greatest hit</a> in this here thread. Sorry, we don't have any songs with less than 15 votes. I will dig something up and post it. Long live somesongs.

SPUD

jeff robertson · Post by **jeff robertson** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:36 am

Spud, is that a Casio CT-470 I hear?

j$ · Post by j$ » Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:45 am

Jeff, is your avatar from some REALLY dodgy porn?

Post by **Spud** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:47 am

jeff robertson wrote:Spud, is that a Casio CT-470 I hear?

Close, Jeff. CT-670

Unfortunately, stolen a few years back. FROM us, not BY us

jeff robertson · Post by **jeff robertson** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:14 am

j$ wrote:Jeff, is your avatar from some REALLY dodgy porn?

It's from "If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?" -- an ultra low-budget Cold War era propaganda film about a Communist invasion of the U.S.

The film is the source of the soundbite, "Christianity is stupid!" used in the Negativland song.

I think I look like the guy laughing in this picture.

obscurity · Post by **obscurity** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:15 am

MY highest-rated <15 votes is The Elements Of Style, which is a couple of years old now. I need to write more stuff. Turns out somesongs was quite the motivator for me.

jeff robertson · Post by **jeff robertson** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:17 am

Spud wrote:
jeff robertson wrote:Spud, is that a Casio CT-470 I hear?
Close, Jeff. CT-670
Unfortunately, stolen a few years back. FROM us, not BY us

I have a 470 (and a MT-520) that I have been thinking about making WAV files of all it's drum sounds so that I can have it's particular sound anytime without needing to haul it out of storage. If I actually get around to doing that, I'll shoot you a copy.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:20 am

jeff robertson wrote: The film is the source of the soundbite, "Christianity is stupid!" used in the Negativland song.

It is! Awesome. I love that sample. Is there somewhere to view that online? It doesn't seem to be on archive.org.
-bill

Billy's Little Trip · Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:25 am

jeff robertson wrote:I think I look like the guy laughing in this picture.

Then you must look like Brian Posehn, because I've always thought that was the guy in your avatars, lol.

jeff robertson · Post by **jeff robertson** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:30 am

HeuristicsInc wrote:
jeff robertson wrote: The film is the source of the soundbite, "Christianity is stupid!" used in the Negativland song.
It is! Awesome. I love that sample. Is there somewhere to view that online? It doesn't seem to be on archive.org.
-bill

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... rch=Search

Post by **Spud** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:34 am

OK, in response to Frankie's actual tip of the day, I have posted this:

http://www.somesongs.com/song_info.php?select=4841

SPUD

I should have saved Skyline for a different tip.
And Jeff, the drums on Skyline are actually a combination of the Casio and me playing live on the Yamaha DD-55.

jeff robertson · Post by **jeff robertson** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:37 am

Billy's Little Trip wrote:
jeff robertson wrote:I think I look like the guy laughing in this picture.
Then you must look like Brian Posehn, because I've always thought that was the guy in your avatars, lol.

Well, maybe I only look a little bit like that guy. This is the most recent photo of myself I have handy in digital form:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77886165@N00/2202303544/

But this thread ain't about what I look like.

It's about SOME SONGS.

jeff robertson · Post by **jeff robertson** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:47 am

Spud wrote:And Jeff, the drums on Skyline are actually a combination of the Casio and me playing live on the Yamaha DD-55.

Was the Yamaha also stolen?

Billy's Little Trip · Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:02 pm

jeff robertson wrote:
Billy's Little Trip wrote:
jeff robertson wrote:I think I look like the guy laughing in this picture.
Then you must look like Brian Posehn, because I've always thought that was the guy in your avatars, lol.
Well, maybe I only look a little bit like that guy. This is the most recent photo of myself I have handy in digital form:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77886165@N00/2202303544/

But this thread ain't about what I look like.

It's about SOME SONGS.

Well, now you look like Rob Coddry, but with glasses, lol.

OK, back to SOMESONGS!

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:15 pm

jeff robertson wrote:
HeuristicsInc wrote:
jeff robertson wrote: The film is the source of the soundbite, "Christianity is stupid!" used in the Negativland song.
It is! Awesome. I love that sample. Is there somewhere to view that online? It doesn't seem to be on archive.org.
-bill
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... rch=Search

Darn, those clips don't have that part in them... oh well!

Hey, somesongs? Yeah!
-bill

jeff robertson · Post by **jeff robertson** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:32 pm

HeuristicsInc wrote: Darn, those clips don't have that part in them... oh well!

Hey, somesongs? Yeah!
-bill

This appears to be the entire movie:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 4747636591

Now we just need a way to use this information for the benefit of somesongs.

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:18 pm

somesongs has been good to me in the past, so I will try and do my part.

Have stuck up My Love Is Forever, which I did for Purple Reign, but didn't get it finished in time to enter it.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:12 pm

jeff robertson wrote:
j$ wrote:Jeff, is your avatar from some REALLY dodgy porn?
It's from "If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?"

Funny, I thought it might be a frame from that God awful Tim & Eric's Awesome Show, Good Job! .

jeff robertson wrote:
Billy's Little Trip wrote:
jeff robertson wrote:I think I look like the guy laughing in this picture.
Then you must look like Brian Posehn, because I've always thought that was the guy in your avatars, lol.
Well, maybe I only look a little bit like that guy. This is the most recent photo of myself I have handy in digital form:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/77886165@N00/2202303544/

But this thread ain't about what I look like.

It's about SOME SONGS.

NO, its about <a href="http://chris.hoblit.net/hoblit/FuneralHoblit.jpg" target="resource window">WHAT I LOOK LIKE</a> in zombie make-up!