The Song Fight Bulletin Board

voting is broken, but the songs are up. might as well use ken's page until i get the voting fixed. in the meantime, here's mine:

http://johnorama.com/songs/jb_does_cr_ikmr.mp3

jb

Thank you so very much Bill at HeuristicsInc. for an excellent job - I love it! A proper transformation from comic goofiness to terrifying delight. I am genuinely thrilled!

Also, thanks to Ken for putting this together and to all who put up links and streams - this is a blast. Good work everybody!

starfinger wrote:flvxxvm florvm! this sounds like the flesh eaters. i love it

Thank you! At first I wasn't sure what to do with it, since so much of it is rap and I'm not a rapper.

Paco you bastard, you actually learned my solos and played them better than I did!

jeff robertson wrote:At first I wasn't sure what to do with it, since so much of it is rap and I'm not a rapper.

I think that's why these coverfights are so cool. The one I covered was basically a G&G song, and I can't really play the G... it forces bizarre reinterpretations.

Anyway, thanks again!

Oh yeah.. I haven't listened to many others yet, but Caravan Ray's Fight the Sea is really amazing!

-craig

Paco Del Stinko wrote:Thank you so very much Bill at HeuristicsInc. for an excellent job - I love it! A proper transformation from comic goofiness to terrifying delight. I am genuinely thrilled!

Heh, awesome, you're welcome. I decided really early on when I thought about your song that I thought I wanted to do it goth-style. I am still not sure if it was the right decision, but it sounds the way I wanted it to! Glad you like it. I like the contrast between Devo-style and goth-style.
-bill

jimtyrrell wrote:Dan-O: Thank you. This is a wholly unexpected interpretation of my song, and I like it a lot. Thanks again!!

Hey Jim, I'm glad you liked it. There's actually more I would have liked to have done to it. The drum machine was borrowed and I don't really know how to program it yet, so I just went with the same beat all the way through and some cymbal hits. I decided pretty early on that whatever song I got I was probably just going to blow up and make a new song out of it. I was messing with that drum machine and hit on that beat and thought "here it is". The horns and keys are courtesy of a couple of guys from my gigging band and were composed by the musical genious of said band. (Obviously I'm not referring to myself) I was very pleased with the arrangement he came up with. Glad you liked it.

ken wrote:Okay, I made a very plain page for all the songs. Hopefully, JB will get the actual Coverfight page up for voting and further songs.

http://kni.songhole.org/coverfight/coverfight.html

bore @ work, so i though i add some color to this.
http://fvs.blaststream.com/testapp/shar ... fight.html

feel free to use this HTML (ken/JB)... just copy & paste.

mine should be in next week.

too. damn. gay.

Tokyoquake.... terrific stuff. I know I like something when it makes me smile uncontrollably. I am impressed that you managed to keep the feel of the original, while still making your own mark on it.

Thanking you muchly.

j$ wrote:too. damn. gay.

i. completely. agree.

http://fvs.blaststream.com/testapp/shar ... fight.html

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Hey Dan-O, glad you like it. I kept imagining your version being done by the Velvet Underground ala "Pale Blue Eyes", so that's kinda what I went for. That bit at the end, with the typing--That's supposed to represent a teenage girl blogging, because I also imagine the entire song to be a fantasy-dream-sequence. The hard-to-hear lyrics are "P.S.: I'm over you-know-who, that makes my whole life better, tee hee!" (a reference to Egg's "Tigerlily").

Feldspar: It's good to hear my song coming from a better performer. You took my lazy ass and whippersnappered it all up! Thanks for the early xmas.

I think my favourite here so far is between Jolly Roger doing 15-16 puzzle, that is exactly the kind of cover I love, a cool song punked up in a caP'n Jazz stylee - taught and melodic, nice one - and then there's Plat doing Rabid, absolutely brilliant and totally gay. DRAGON DRAGON DRAGON AAaaaAHAHAH

So any news on the people who didn't come through? Do we just get left out in the cold?

I'm still going to do mine, but it won't be till after Thanksgiving. Sorry, to my mystery coveree, I am a loser.

Furrypedro wrote:I think my favourite here so far is between Jolly Roger doing 15-16 puzzle

Thanks! It's nice to know someone liked it. Not sure if 15-16 puzzle has even listened yet.

Jim of Seattle wrote:So any news on the people who didn't come through? Do we just get left out in the cold?

Jim, I didn't post my list either, maybe for the same reasons you did. Anyway, if you PM me your request that you had for me I'll have a listen and give it a go.

Lunkhead wrote:I'm still going to do mine, but it won't be till after Thanksgiving. Sorry, to my mystery coveree, I am a loser.

Same goes for me. Working on about 2 hours sleep a day here for the past few weeks. Yeah!

Dan-O from Five-O wrote:

Jim of Seattle wrote:So any news on the people who didn't come through? Do we just get left out in the cold?

Jim, I didn't post my list either, maybe for the same reasons you did. Anyway, if you PM me your request that you had for me I'll have a listen and give it a go.

OK, I just posted my list. Go for it!

Alright this is going to be an uphill battle for me. For starters, I'm not the biggest fan of Christmas (the overly commercialized version, not the birth of Jesus Christ thing), and thus, I hate Christmas songs. Although this song is kind of funny so maybe I can get past it.

But then there's the misspelling of words which I have a really hard time with as well. First off it's Kris Kringle, not Chris Cringle but maybe that's a joke. And then there's the "E is for Everything" in the spot where the "A" should be, but maybe that's a joke too and I just need to quit finding reasons not to work on this.

Let me listen to this a few more times and see what inspiration comes along. I will say upfront that if your missing song shows up before I get started / finished with this request, I'll probably end up bailing on this. I just wanted to make sure your stocking wasn't empty, not fill everyone's requests.

I'm not trying to be a jerk, but this is a pretty busy time of year for me. I have all those lumps of coal to buy, about a bazillion "Bah Humbugs" to hand out and I'm way behind on things after mocking all those people who slept in tents waiting on the PS3's release last week.

But I'll see what I can do.

Our coveree will not be left out in the cold. If that is you, Jim, and I am not saying that it is, hang in there.

I started mine yesterday! ... Now I have to leave town for a week. Doh!