The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Wow, "So Much Universe" ... "So Much Reviews"! Thanks. I wasn't originally going to do reviews myself, but it only seemed fair.

Berkeley Social Scene

"I was counting on forever". I really like that line. I also dig the bass. Lots of cool parts actually. Really full production. The guitar solo is very tasteful. (vote)

The Chocolate Chips

Cool! A kraut rock, psychedelic revival! The vocals could use more processing of some sort to make them more trippy. For the sake of reviews, a short taste like this is best, but if you go on with it, this kind of track works better if the groove is held for longer and sucks you in. (vote)

Holly Furlone

Great vibe and great singing. I'm not crazy about the vocal effect. Did you add reverb or is that the way you recorded it? A little drier would be nice. The beat is pretty cool and I love the harmony, too. (vote)

Inflatable Vegetables

Fun vibe. The vocals drop too low during the B section/chorus and sound a bit monotone in general.

MC oh!

Feels kinda sloppy. The chorus for instance. Hip hop works best if it has a solid groove, but this is a bit erratic.

Michael Karns and Wolf Kier

I like the feel of this track. It's very vocal driven and you do a good job, but need to continue working to really nail it. There are some parts with cool changes, but you're not really hitting the lead notes there.

Nick Soma

"Look at all the stars up in the sky even the stars up there will die." Great line. Good production overall, but I do think live drums would help if possible, they sound kinda thin.(vote)

Nobody and the No Shows

I like the lyrics. The synthy stuff in the second part is a nice touch.

~)*|*(~

Ride the Lightning, baby! Haha. Kind of a weird technique... sort of like a metal version of hip-hop, cutting up a track and screaming over it instead of talking. I like the energy of it.

tobyroktot

Reminds me a little of Syd Barrett (who I'm a big fan of). Lyrics are interesting. Good dynamics and the chords in the verse are intersting. Production is simple, but I kinda like it. (vote)

Tuners Union

Cool mellow vibe and interesting sounds. Good pacing and timing. Abstract, trippy lyrics. I like it a lot. (vote)

Zack Facco

I basically agree with what you guys said. The feel is cool and the instrumental performances are generally good, but sloppy at times, esp. the drums. The vocals are grating during the chorus in part because I drove them too hard, but it was also a very loose performance and not exactly nailed pitch and tone wise.

I really like the Tuners Union song. I think because it has that mellow vibe like Steve Miller band. I noticed jast said he'd like to hear it change up more, but I think the repetitive keys riff is what held me in to the song. It just works. I did notice the percussions to let the song build, which is cool. First the rhythm of the synth, then the hand percussions, then the drum kit along with simple guitar notes. I like it.
I often think that when the time comes that I feel I'm getting too old to rock out with my cock out, this is the direction I'll most likely go. Mellow and soulful.

Thanks for the kind words BLT. That makes a loss feel a helluva lot better .

Way to be, Toby. Great fight.

My vote went to Tuners Union....
great song... one vote does not a win make... you rock !!! congrats !!!!

HeuristicsInc wrote:

Lunkhead wrote:I was very puzzled about the way that the songfight.org archive page for "In The Ditch" sorted the ~)*|*(~ entry amongst the other artists. Then I did this most recent fight update and I realized it's sorting the artists to match the sort order of the mp3 filenames, and the filename starts with "tilde". Whacky.

On Unix systems, files with the tilde usually means a file is a temporary file for editing something else, or maybe a backup.
-bill

Also prefixing a filename with ~ tells the shell "expand this into the home directory of the named user" and so can be really tricky to work with in some cases. This is the basis of how old-fashioned shared hosting usually put personal pages in example.com/~username/ dirs.

Toby Roktot wrote:My vote went to Tuners Union....
great song... one vote does not a win make... you rock !!! congrats !!!!

You did good too. There can only be one winning and this time you got the votes.

tuner-- win or lose, you are on my blue tooth