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SXV is in for "Brimming With Tears." I don't even know where I'd start on Rockapolusaninjamambosalutaninonanobingophone.

Oh fuck the Hot Tub Combo is back with a brand new edition.

Here's a tip - my RE:TVC entry is really freaking good

...and another tip - my daughter has selected No. 10, Hugs Dancer for tomorrow's Melbourne Cup

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WeaselSlayer wrote:Oh Fuck The Hot Tub Combo

That's an excellent band name

Well I'm going to end up being one of the losers that mispronounced the title, literally breaking it down to rocko-polo-usa-ninja-nano-phone, but I think I'll be able to live with it. Oh, by the way, this is my first songfight entry and post. Be kind.

Oops, I entered songs for both fights this week. I didn't know that was a no-no. What a sucky rule, though. Some weeks, I wish I could enter 3 or 4 songs because I make them rather impulsively anyway, and if I couldn't enter them here, I'd have to go back to the meagre pay off of calling my mom and playing them for her over the phone just to avoid going totally insane with loneliness.

A band that really should be called The Flea-Coloured Cow will be in Rockopolousaninjananophone, with a song that makes a surprising amount of sense (so, any at all).

melvin wrote:if I couldn't enter them here, I'd have to go back to the meagre pay off of calling my mom and playing them for her over the phone just to avoid going totally insane with loneliness.

Hmm, you can try: http://somesongs.com if you want to post songs, get a few reviews, and hopefully post some reviews of your own...
-bill

melvin wrote:calling my mom and playing them for her over the phone just to avoid going totally insane with loneliness.

songfight is not your therapist.

You've always been a dab hand with the EST here, blue.

melvin wrote:Oops, I entered songs for both fights this week. I didn't know that was a no-no. What a sucky rule, though. .

You've done it before, you've been told before. By me, if not others.

Don't use the rule as the excuse.

Mind, in a world where novelty tracks can sail away with both fights, I don't really care too much for trying to protect it (the rule, that is, not the world). Well-written and performed songs both, but throw-away novelty nonetheless. Who needs me to destroy music when you are all marching to the beat of its destruction quite happily anyway?

Oh and, unlike CR, my RE:VC: is not great! But it's not meant to be. And the lyric is fantastic and insightful - so up yours Puce & the Cow Exchange

j$

j$ wrote:Mind, in a world where novelty tracks can sail away with both fights, I don't really care too much for trying to protect it (the rule, that is, not the world). Well-written and performed songs both, but throw-away novelty nonetheless. Who needs me to destroy music when you are all marching to the beat of its destruction quite happily anyway?

I think this is how people in England say "Congratulations."

No, we say it like this

blue wrote:i think i'm giving up my religion today.

I am pleased you won a fight, if not by what you won with.

j$

Rabid Garfunkel wrote:You've always been a dab hand with the EST here, blue.

did Caravan Ray infect you with his weird pseduo-english disease? what the heck does that mean?!

re: Mike's win:

i thought his song should have been a lot better, but i figgered it'd win. at least it didn't just suck big nasty balls. it definately had a pleasant sound and some hook quality.

which brings me to losing my religion - how the hell do a bunch of good songs get zero votes while that wanktastic garbage from JoS wins? voters, i am calling you out! PUT DOWN THE CRACK PIPE. would George Winston win every fight?

aaand.. Melvin's tunes are pretty good, judging from his BYF entry. Melvin, as long as you submit GOOD songs, no one's going to yell at you much. i mean, it's still a crappy thing to do, and there is probably still plenty of room for improvement in ONE song, but it's not like you're one of the Phuntards or something.

*shrug* I voted for JoS because I thought his song served the title well, was smartly composed, cleanly produced, and well-performed.
That said, I did expect a better showing in the vote-getting from several of the other songs in the fight. My own included, I don't mind saying. Two votes; sheesh.

hey, you tied RxW!

but you're still a crackhead for voting for JoS

you're a crackhead for not voting for jim of seattle.

blue wrote:did Caravan Ray infect you with his weird pseduo-english disease? what the heck does that mean?!

Ha, no, I read too much and it just leaks back out. You're adept at the electro-shock therapy aspect of reviewings and postings, blue.

JoS deserved the win. (I voted for him)

So did 4 or 5 other entries.

But this isn't happy go lucky joy fight. And as it says in Highlander "There can be only 1".

Rone Rivendale wrote:And as it says in Highlander "There can be only 1".

Until the bloody sequel And the sequel after that

j$ wrote:Oh and, unlike CR, my RE:VC: is not great! But it's not meant to be. And the lyric is fantastic and insightful - so up yours Puce & the Cow Exchange

You've got the cycle psychosis!

After peeking at the strange lyric thread, I'm soverymuch excited to hear them performed. Lyrical puzzles are the best.

Hey, I did NOT know I couldn't enter two songs until I saw it mentioned yesterday. Perhaps, J$, you just cursed my name and slammed your head against the mixing console a few times, but didn't actually remember to type out the memo.

I mean, if my mom is my number one fan, do I really strike you as the type to be knowingly breaking rules and acting like a jerk in the only other forum I know of for my music? I'd at least have the decency (okay, deviousness) to enter the second song under an alias.

So is there a thread somewhere, or would someone mind explaining, why this practice is so frowned upon? If you don't mind me saying, it's not like I don't spend a large amount of time obsessing over each of my entries, and making sure they are well-formed, complete, respectable and worthy SongFighters each time.

I somehow doubt the majority of my cohorts here are so petty and nasty as to make a big deal out of it if I repeat this practice every few fights or so. Plus, I entered nothing in the last fight. Maybe there's an averaging formula that we can apply? Anyway...

Congrats to Smalltown (a pet favourite of mine) and to JoS (catchy AND clever). While I agree with J$ that there's a fair bit of "novelty" to these tracks, I see no need to "take the piss". Good work, boys.

There's a lot of songs to listen to and review. Believe me; I didn't even finish my Welcome To reviews last week.
If you submit two songs, it's arguable that you could have chosen the better or most promising of the two, and crafted it in even finer detail. Regardless of the quality of the two pieces submitted, they are watered down by default. So you're asking me to spend twice the time to listen to something I know is not as good as it could have been.
Here at SF the only bar is the one each of us raises for ourselves. It's my opinion that we owe it to those downloading and listening to raise it as high as we can. Whether this sentiment is reflected in my submission this week is another matter entirely. I tried my best though.