The Song Fight Bulletin Board

REM is a bit cryptic, and TMBG are certainly lyrical gamesmen. But there's a craft exhibited in their work that I don't see in Closing Time. Your interpretation makes sense, but given the less-than-profound nature of the rest of the song, I think it likelier that the line is just a hamfisted grammatical compromise for the sake of prosody. Eww, that last sentence was just about as ugly. Forget I brought it up. I retract my suggestion, and offer Starship's "We Built This City" in its place.

Niveous wrote: "Fidelity" by Regina Spektor
"1234" by Feist

I found these two albums to be superb, actually.
That’s just me, though.
Carry on.

jimtyrrell wrote: Forget I brought it up. I retract my suggestion, and offer Starship's "We Built This City" in its place.

THAT IS a terrible song. I think people play it parties and events because they are convinced that somebody must actually like it. I think is a one big misunderstanding. GAWD at least I hope so.

"We Built This City" is one of the worst songs ever made. Sounds like a good suggestion for a let's all do the same song cover fight. Could it be made to rock? I built this question on stu-pid-nesss.

Wow, I like so many of these. And I always thought I was the snobbiest. "Toxic" is awesome (okay, that one's kind of a guilty pleasure). I lovelovelove Amy Winehouse and find her UNDERrated. I also think Regina Spektor and Feist are decent. And while I'm not going to make a big case for Kelly Clarkson, SUBG is the best song to come out of an American Idol protege by far.

i'd saw this a while back..
"Toxic" ukulele style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWxxTph7ibU

drë wrote:

Niveous wrote: "Fidelity" by Regina Spektor
"1234" by Feist

I found these two albums to be superb, actually.
That’s just me, though.
Carry on.

No - it's me too

drë wrote:i'd saw this a while back..
"Toxic" ukulele style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWxxTph7ibU

That girl is brilliant. Did you see her myspace song? Someone needs to invite her to Song Fight!

Kill Me Sarah wrote:

drë wrote:i'd saw this a while back..
"Toxic" ukulele style
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWxxTph7ibU

That girl is brilliant. Did you see her myspace song? Someone needs to invite her to Song Fight!

She would end up kicking all of our asses, and then some.

I just invited her.

I love Feist, obviously Niveous doesn't get that 1-2-3-4 is about Armageddon.

The worst song ever is "Wordplay" by Jason Mraz

OK maybe 2nd worst after "Built this City" by Starship.

glennny wrote:I love Feist, obviously Niveous doesn't get that 1-2-3-4 is about Armageddon.

Or maybe he just doesn't like Feist. Her music is weird. Not everyone can stomach that stuff, including me (and I can tolerate a lot of weird music).

Mah Hump! Mah Lovely Lady Lumps! That is one awful song... as well as that Banana song by that No Doubt chick...

We wound up using "Don;'t Stop the Music" by Rihanna {link}.

Incidentally, just about every song that anyone has mentioned in this thread is really fun to play on Audiosurf. Especially "Girlfriend." Wow.

glennny wrote:I love Feist, obviously Niveous doesn't get that 1-2-3-4 is about Armageddon.

Actually, Niveous listens to every song he put on his list (except the Daughtry one) and admits that they are awful pop songs but likes them anyway. Even the Lindsay Lohan one.

here's where you start and end: "Summer Girls" by LFO.

If no one has said, which I'll be surprised, "Hey there Dalila" sucks pretty good.

"Hey There Delilah" is way too laid-back and downbeat for our purposes.

Mkilly is so right it scares me.

Billy's Little Trip wrote:If no one has said, which I'll be surprised, "Hey there Dalila" sucks pretty good.

I get requests for that song at shows pretty often. I tell them I don't know it, and they usually say something like 'but it's such a simple song!' and I reply 'yeah, it's actually more work to NOT learn it, but the effort is worth it' and then I don't get any tips.

Reïst wrote:

glennny wrote:I love Feist, obviously Niveous doesn't get that 1-2-3-4 is about Armageddon.

Or maybe he just doesn't like Feist. Her music is weird. Not everyone can stomach that stuff, including me (and I can tolerate a lot of weird music).

1-2-3-4 was actually written by Sally Seltmann of New Buffalo - an Australian
/shameless jingoism

Caravan Ray wrote:

Reïst wrote:

glennny wrote:I love Feist, obviously Niveous doesn't get that 1-2-3-4 is about Armageddon.

Or maybe he just doesn't like Feist. Her music is weird. Not everyone can stomach that stuff, including me (and I can tolerate a lot of weird music).

1-2-3-4 was actually written by Sally Seltmann of New Buffalo - an Australian
/shameless jingoism

co-written.