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fluffy wrote:I have no idea which song you're talking about here.

I stream the songs and whatever the song is tagged as, that's what shows up in Winamp. I don't normally bother checking that people tagged their songs with the same name as the one they told SF to use, but I have investigated in this case. Ben Kreiger is Pop Quiz Chicken.

Hey Crouton, sorry if I mucked with your art. I saw what appeared to be three identical (and long) posts, followed by a question on deleting them, so I deleted all but one. Then I read the rest of the thread. Oops.

SPUD

CURSES! I do not blame you though, but having put all that (wasted) effort into editing one post, I shall paste it here for the world to enjoy.

"Why not make the best of a bad situation. As I have accidentally posted the same review 3 times, I will now change the two duplicates into different reviews. Make sure you read them all. It's really important!

Acid Cadillac:
When I think of an acid cadillac, this song is what pops into my mind. You have so perfectly summed up the essence of Acid Cadillacs in musical form that I don't know what to do with myself. Actually, I do know what to do... edit more reviews

Adam Adamant+Ron Paul (I assume that's what the rp stands for)
When it comes to Ron Paul, you're the kind of songwriter that I think really associates with him the most. You stick to your guns, believe firmly in the constitution, and you're willing to speak the truth, even if it's unpopular and gets you into a debate with Rudy Giuliani. You firmly support the Free Market and believe that we need less government, not more. This makes you stand out from your running mates as a songwriter, and though your chances of winning the primaries are slim to none, the internet is on your side, which means more now than it has for any election before this. Good luck sir. The fate of the nation rests on your shoulders.

Big Crouton
I stand by what I said before. If I had a crouton as big as you, I would not likely be able to eat it in one sitting, for you are a large fellow.

Blues Manufacturing Facility
From the warehouses of BMF has come a masterfully created generic blues song. This particular song has a groovy walking bassline, bad vocals, and sketchy guitar playing. It all combines to create a true blue masterpiece.

Breast Harvest
If ever there were a harvest of breasts, I would wish to be the farmer. Unless they are man breasts. Those do not appeal to me as much. Either way, I'm sure it would require different harvesting tools than farmers typically use. I don't think the combine is going to come in handy this time farmer Pete.

Caravan Ray
I recorded a guitar solo for you a good while ago. It was a pretty good solo. Rather different than what I typically play, and I think that's why I liked it as much as I did. The song as a whole turned out pretty good too. Well done.

Cynthia Size and the @eclectic spoons
This is a collaboration, and as we all know, that means that two or more people worked on this song. Teamwork, teamwork, that's what counts. (anyone who gets that reference is a bigger underdog fan than anyone I have met before.) Congratulations on working together. You really pulled together out there, and you won us the big game. I'm proud of you.

Deux Freres
You sir, have a very french sounding name to me. Now, I don't know much about the french, but I know Bill O'Reilly hates them, and therefore Steven Colbert pretends to hate them, and therefore I'm not too fond of them either. Why don't you go eat a baguette, you dirty Frenchy!

DJ Sponge and RyGuy
A little known fact about DJ Sponge is that he is actually DJ from full house. he/she has tried to keep it a secret all these years, but I know, and so does the Lord, and neither of us are very happy with you right now. Shame shame, DJ.

g4meboy
The gameboy is an iconic handheld gaming device. I happen to have one, as well as several games and a carrying case for it. I got it at a garage sale for $5. What a deal!

Hell Biscuit
The concept of a biscuit from hell is interesting to me at first, but then I realize that just because it's from hell doesn't mean it's any different from all the other biscuits. It probably just didn't have Philadelphia Cream Cheese used on it before it was devoured, and as a result it was forever damned to Biscuit Hell.

Hello Blue Monday
Hello. How are you?

Jasons Innocence.
This was certainly a song, and definitely one that I listened to. I am finding however that at this point in the game I am running out of things to say, so I will leave you with this little anecdote my father passed to me... poop!

Jeff
Hey guy. How's it going? I talked to my mom about going to Vegas instead of Vancouver to see the Spice Girls, and she was feeling as sketchy about it as you were. She also told me that you can get an airplane ticket to Vancouver for $79 and possibly less, so maybe we should reconsider that. I'll talk to you about it later.

g4meboy
I have Tetris, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Country, Kirby, Kirbys pinball, Yoshies cookie (terrible game) Mortal Kombat, and many more!

Holy Jeez! I'm only half-way through. There are way too many songs. On the bright side though, I guess I'll get that many more reviews of my song.

Jimmy Jet and His TV Set
I am officially running very low on things to say, so I will simply ask you this... What's on the tube Jimmy Jet?

Lopez + The Destroyers
That's a pretty dang metal band name. Except for the Lopez part. It's like if Jennifer Lopez sang for Metallica. That would be so awesome!

Lord of Oats
I was going to make a clever joke about your name, and how you're actually the Lord of Oats, and you rule over the Oat Kingdom, but that seemed a little bit too lame even for me.

Melvin
Melvin and The Chipmunks would've been a suitable replacement for Alvin and the Chipmunks. You could shift your voice up an octave and make it faster, and it would be great. Seriously. You'd just be a real guy talking in a really high voice with CGI chipmunks and an animated Dave hanging out with you. It's hilarious in my mind.

No Horse Town
I recently heard a story about how a guy was going to olds, and there was this kid who wanted to go along, and the guy told him okay, but it's kind of a one horse town. The kid spent the entire time there trying to find the horse. Silly children. A No Horse town sounds like a safe place. Horses are bad news.

Ben Krieger
Ben Krieger, I happen to know a fellow who goes by the same first and last name as you. I'm pretty sure you are not him though, but he is a rather talented guitarist, and is quite good in the ways of Jazz.

Punglect
You made a song, then I made a review, then I posted the review three times instead of once, and now I have to come up with original things to say instead of reviews. Seriously, it's getting really hard. It felt natural near the beginning, and I just wrote whatever popped into my mind, but now it's rather difficult. Not much is coming to me.

Sausage Boy
Hey Sausage Boy, you should marry Hamburger Patty. (hey, that was pretty clever if you ask me.)

Sockpuppet
Sock puppets are the worst kind of puppets, because they spend all day on your feet, and then you put your hand in them and pretend that they can talk and dance. It's really rather odd if you think about it.

Thanks for the Frisbee
Your welcome. (look, I'm getting sick of doing these, alright?)

The Worldly Self-Assurance
I got nothin'.

Vegetarian Rage
I wouldn't be too scared of a raging vegetarian, cause they don't have the balls to eat meat, so really, how much damage are they going to inflict on another human, who is essentially a hunk of meat? Think about it.

Wages
It would appear that Wages is your last name, which seems peculiar to me. It's not really that weird, but it's not a common last name, I wouldn't think.

The Weakest Suit
The Weakest Suit shall get the weakest edited review.

There's no way I'm doing this again for the next one."

No Horse Town wrote:

fluffy wrote: No Horse Town - WHAT? I CANT HEAR YOU! TALK LOUUUUDER!!!!!!!!!! christ, when you recorded this did everyone hear it from Four Hills to Rio Rancho? jesus fuck, man.

Is it that you think the vocals are too loud in comparison to the music? Or just everything too loud in general? Sorry if you don't have volume control where you're at.

Both, and there's more to loudness than volume. Dynamic range, my man.

for the two people who care I've posted the <a href="http://sockpuppet.us/raw/raw_baby_be_quiet.php">raw tracks for my song</a> if anyone wants to fuck with it

fluffy wrote:Did I miss this one or is that a forum name for someone who submits under a different name? I mean I know that's the dude with the bee avatar (and bees are awesome) but I have no idea which song you're talking about here.

The song submitted as Pop Quiz Chicken is tagged as Ben Krieger.

Also, Acid Cadillac is tagged as Milo Fultz.

If these people can't get their band names straight, I'm going to...whine about it until they stop..? Do you guys see the kind of problems this shit creates? Pick ONE name: use it in the name of your file, the artist field in the id3 tag, and the body of your e-mail? Is this seriously that hard? Get it together, guys.

I don't think that RWB/Ralph Makes Music fellow showed up this week, but he better have his shit straightened out when he comes back. Honestly, I can't even concentrate on the badness of the songs because I'm so distracted by the artist name discrepancies.

EDIT: It looks like Erik already covered this. But somebody needed to yell about this either way.

That sounds like fun Fluf. Cool tracks.
By the way, I rather enjoyed your entry this week. Your voice sounds very similar to my brain when it talks to me. In fact, when I was listening to your song, I thought it WAS my brain talking to me, until my brain actually did start talking to me and said, "dude, this guy singing sounds just like me!"
....crazy brainz, cha

fluffy wrote:

No Horse Town wrote:

fluffy wrote: No Horse Town - WHAT? I CANT HEAR YOU! TALK LOUUUUDER!!!!!!!!!! christ, when you recorded this did everyone hear it from Four Hills to Rio Rancho? jesus fuck, man.

Is it that you think the vocals are too loud in comparison to the music? Or just everything too loud in general? Sorry if you don't have volume control where you're at.

Both, and there's more to loudness than volume. Dynamic range, my man.

Oh OK, I gotcha. (Full disclosure: had to look up "Dynamic Range")

That's cool. Turns out I really like songs with little or no dynamic range! Quiet/Loud/Quiet/etc. really kinda bugs me most of the time. I declare a crusade on your jihad! You can have first pick of Four Hills or Rio Rancho as a base to mount your campaign.

Four Hills is easy, because that's where my parents live.

Lord of Oats wrote:ranting

Yeah, I agree, which is why I download Song Fight stuff using a little script I wrote which grabs it by the podcast and rewrites the ID3 tags to not fucking suck.

fluffy wrote:Four Hills is easy, because that's where my parents live..

Wild! My ma lives in Rio Rancho. That worked out quite neatly. My troops are gonna have some trouble overtaking those Four Hills speed humps... but all the look-alike Rio Rancho houses should make it hard for you to find my base. While you're searching, my Intel engineers will be hard at work producing the No-Dynamo-Range-Cannon! Uwa ha ha!

fluffy wrote:G4meboy - oh good more nerdcore okay I guess you want a review but you don't want a bad review so uh. I like red cherry slurpees. Do you like slurpees? Do you sing into a slurpee cup?

I do infact like red cherry slurpees. They hit the spot when I'm spending the day at Great America. I don't sing into a slurpee cup though. I have before. At the moment I sing into a Samson R10S microphone.

big crouton wrote:g4meboy
You've already lost points from me by using a 4 instead of an A. I know they look rather similar, but seriously, the left-most stick of the 4 does not go all the way to the bottom of the line. Even if it did, the right-most stick of the 4 is vertical, so it still wouldn't look right. It would probably look even more awkward. Furthermore, the rest of the letters in your name are lowercase, and the 4 is clearly imitating an upper-case A, not a lower case one. What's so special about the 'a' that it deserves to stand out so much by being both a capital and a number? I think you need to take a good long look at your life and what direction you see yourself going in before you substitute anymore numbers for letters.

g4meboy
I was going to leave your review at that, but given the controversy already caused in this thread by an 'improper' review, I figure I should actually say something about the song. I didn't like it.

g4meboy
here's an actual review, now that I've messed with you twice. Seriously, I don't like it, but it's mostly because the vocals had a very disjointed feel to them. Really, the whole song had a rather disjointed feel to it. Nothing seemed coherent. I think the downfall of this song is just timing. The main loop you have going on doesn't fit rhythmically with the drums or the rest of the song. Perhaps if the music was more rhythmically coherent you would have had an easier time rapping on tempo. I think you've got some good loops going on, but you just need to put them together in a way that works rhythmically.

I used a "4" instead of an "a" because I am so big and awesome that I had to somewhat alter my name so Nintendo wouldn't sue me.

At least you listened, and I thank you for that.

Yeah, I did disjoint for a reason. Just trying it out. Gotten pretty mixed reviews between people. My next entry is not disjoint so we'll see. Thanks for the input. I'll work on my timing.

big crouton wrote:g4meboy
The gameboy is an iconic handheld gaming device. I happen to have one, as well as several games and a carrying case for it. I got it at a garage sale for $5. What a deal!
g4meboy
I have Tetris, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Country, Kirby, Kirbys pinball, Yoshies cookie (terrible game) Mortal Kombat, and many more!

Awesome! Not only is my material worth more than the price of admission, but I am so important I can fight along side the greats! Thank you very much. I'm quite humbled.

Not that I'm particularly offended, but my entry was not supposed to be funny. It is about the Frank family's discovery of the upstairs apartment and how they thought it would save them. I was trying to keep it focused on the positive things that were happening, like them not getting shipped off to death camp. It's reflected, albeit accidentally, in the transition between the chorus and verse. The word "out" marks a change in the color of the song from the upbeat, "we're safe don't worry" message, to the more moribund notions of the Nazis destroying their community and violating their rights. It may not be my best work, but it should taste a little better with the proper contextual seasoning.

Lord of Oats wrote:rant

chill, dude. use whichever name you want in your reviews. the recipient will know who you are talking about.

g4meboy.
You've asked for detailed criticism. so here you go.

Backing:
It sounds like your loop isn't in time with itself. Nothing wrong with echo on the melodic parts, but take it off the drums, as it amaturises the whole song by smearing where the bars and beats start and end. You want to keep those clear so that you can get an extra lift by breaking through them occasionally.
Also, a fatter Bass and Snare wouldn't have hurt - it sounds like you're banging a low tom rather than a bass drum and overall it's eq'd too weedy (or not eq'd at all and is naturally weedy). I like the melodic/synth parts.
What did you use? A tracker of some kind? Buzz/Psycle? Or is it externally sourced?

Theme:
Lame. Don't be rude to your girlfriend because she wants some attention from you. She's not your mom. If computer games are more important than a real person, then you deserve to be single. I hope this is some sort of satire on a loser friend you have and not the way you actually feel about things. As part of the song, this makes me not like it. Of course, it'd be completely different, and a great tactic if later on in the story you get dumped by your girlfriend for being an ignorant prick. Doesn't seem to happen though.

Delivery:
I think your delivery on this song matches it well. The staccato style really brings out the complete lack of empathy or human feeling the rapper is showing, and emphasises their impatience and distraction. I can't say whether your timing is good or not due to the fuckups in your loop. This pretty much has to be a one-time gimmick though. That's not saying don't use it again, just make sure you save it for a song that's better than this one, don't make it your house style.

Arrangement:
At no point does the song stop long enough for me to hear what's going on in the background. Take a break from time to time, vary the accompaniment. Go to a complete stop in places you want to emphasize. Add hits at key points, or at a particular part of each verse. Consider mimicking other characters in your story for example, sticking a "does this make me look fat" in falsetto in the background. Eq your bass drum so that it is mostly bass, and don't interrupt you saying 'baby'. Line *everything* up tightly. Have more than one loop so that you can play us something different while you take a breath. Consider dropping down to just the beat at some point, then building it back up to the pivotal verse. In one word: Variety.

Overall:
This doesn't sound like nerdcore to me. It's not quirky. It doesn't celebrate nerdyness or geekiness. It just shows that there are a bunch of normal people that prefer automatic stimulation to real company, and virtual success to real achievement, as predicted in hundreds of dystopian sci-fi novels. Not a bad theme to write a song on, but you didn't really deliver the punch required to make it good. Better luck next time. C-

DJ Sponge and RyGuy
My limited experience of rap puts this in the same subgenre neighbourhood as LL Cool J, so I'm going to use that as a comparison.

Lyrics:
Prove my ardour - bad line
it makes me sick to think you think that I would think like that - great line.
The first verse sounds fairly unconvincing. The second dude... Huh? You weren't cheating you just had some sex. Still, nothing wrong with a twist. I feel like I'm missing something.

Delivery:
The delivery is mostly good, though I can't make out the word "wanted to throw me through the wall cos I'm xxxx" - though I'm guessing it's "late" from the context.
Why are there two guys? Is the girl in question cheating on both the men? Are you contrasting her current guy with her ex?

Arrangement:
Not bad. Could still be upped, but there is some variety, and the solo at the end is in the right place and for the right length of time, but not the right notes.

Overall:
This isn't offensive, which is a good thing, though I didn't really like it, as I'm not sure what it's for. It's too quiet to dance to, and it completely fails if it's supposed to convince your girlfriend that you're not cheating on her. C

Deux Freres
I hear the two Durand brothers here. This could be awesome, as they're both great independently. So the standard here is the best of each.

Lyrics: They're pretty good in places, and pretty bad in others. The "You say it all the time....let slip...something with your lips"... is below quality - It turns the whole song into a complicated request for a blow job (in my mind. Of course it could be about kissing, but it didn't feel that way).
"Your constant repetitions...trying to convince yourself" is good, as is the practice what you preach.
The hook is ok, but isn't made enough of musically.

Accompaniment and performance:
I love the middle trumpet solo, piano and guitar. I wish that was the introduction, it's really cool.
For the rest of it, the drums and guitars aren't tight enough. I can't put my finger on it, but it sounds sloppy and stops me enjoying it so much. Also, the chords and so on are complex, and that's a good thing, but the acoustic guitar isn't enough at the start of the song to explain the sequence to me. It gets a lot better when the strings come in, but perhaps having that or a bass at the start would have helped. As I said above, the chorus/hook is alright, but it needed emphasising in the music, and that didn't happen. If I was arranging this, I'd have had you both singing the 'baby be quiet' line together at the same volume, or have Ross backed up by Steve's dense harmonies that appear near the end.

Overall: Not a bad song, with some good moments lyrically and musically, but overall it's a bit too complex, not tight enough and not as catchy as I expected. B

Cynthia Size and spOOns

Lyrics: I get that this is about sex, ("stick your thumb up my bum, make me scream make me cum") although as always, difficult to make out all the words. On the second listen, this varies between the obscene and delightful. Back seat driver looking for love. hmm. Don't know what to make of it, but it's not bad.

Arrangement: Wow, this amazingly abstract. Very clean sound, but a real nice variety in the arrangement. Particularly like the build up from the pan-echoed "Baby don't stop". I think this is the best, or at least, most accessible, song I have heard from you.

Overall: This would have to be the kinkiest, most vinyl and straps song I've ever heard. Good job though. I don't think I'll ever listen to this again, but I have a deeper respect for you after hearing this. B+ but not my thing.

Caravan Ray

Lyrics: Fitting. Lechy. Perfect.

Arrangement: Awesome. This is classic (insert decade here) dance. Reminds me of Madonna in parts. Great breakdowns. Would like to have the bass made more of, but otherwise the arrangement is spot on. From the vocal 'echos' right down to the clicky poppy bits in the drums and the synth parts.

Overall: Really well done. A

Breast Harvest
Lyrics: Were there any? I couldn't make them out if there were.

Arrangement: Linear LOUD with very short breaks. Not very interesting.

Performance: Vocals muffled during the shouting, Drums and other instruments are messy. No discernable melody. Drums don't accentuate any rhythmic devices in the tune, as there is no tune. The lead guitar appears random and uncoordinated. The rhythm guitar is so distorted that the actual accompaniment is almost impossible to recover. Tone down the distortion, or add a clean bass to give the listener some cues.

Overall: I have no idea what you were trying to do here, or if you remotely achieved it. If you have links to other artists in your genre, please post or PM me them. At least that way I can see if you're close to your goals. But this holds nothing other than academic interest for me. I guess this is best described as felt. A whole bunch of different strands all tangled up to make a solid sheet of a low-value pretty useless material, but you feel happy about it because you made it yourself at home for nothing, just by following a few simple steps.

Blues Manufacturing Facility

Arrangement: No obvious variety here, or structure, just a long meandering waffle. Ending is abrupt and atonal. Why?

Lyrics: Just sing the blues. Don't complain about not being able to do it. Not interesting.

Performance: The woodblock sound is the most prominent thing in the mix, but I can't tell why. It doesn't change, or do anything exciting. It just distracts from the mumbly, and badly eq'd voice. It might be that the voice is a deliberate effect, but
it doesn't help an already difficult to listen to vocal style. Guitar - walking bass is ok. But could do with actually being in the bass, an octave lower at least.
Lead is awful.

Overall: Just because it's blues, doesn't mean that it can't have some life. D-

Big Crouton

Lyrics: I don't get what you're doing here. It seems pretty straightforward, which doesn't make sense for the current view of women in society.
Oh. Ok, there's a God reference I missed first time. So it's a song about outdated social values perpetuated by religion? ... And then... Apologies? Taking back threats. This lyricist is a pussy.

Arrangement: Pretty long, But broken up. The solos don't go anywhere, they're just gaps. To be fair, in places they are fairly angry sounding gaps, but I don't know why they're angry. In context, they'd be great, but as it is they're flat.

Performance: Flat. Boring. You have the skills to do something great, and that's obvious, but this song isn't anything. What's it for? What are you trying to communicate? I get nothing but a sense of vague unease and boredom. You can do much better

Overall: Wtf? Make better use of the skill and talent you have. C/B -

Adam Adamant

Lyrics: They don't grab me, but I didn't hear anything awful. Not very interesting.

Arrangement: There is some variety, but it's disorganised and messy, particularly in tone. The instruments are a mix of quiet and thoughtful, and loud and percussive. Which were you aiming for?

Performance: This is dying for some indie guitars, it's the only way you can get away from the lack of dynamics in the cheesy organ sounds. The drum pattern is pretty bad. Claps are nearly always the wrong choice. It would be OK if it was backed up with something generic, or if the whole song were quirky. Or you were doing a really ballsy dance track. Given the tone of the rest of the song, I'd have gone for a fairly steady bass drum beat, with some gentle ride cymbals and maybe a shaker.
It sounds like you can sing, and it's good that you're doing all original instrument parts, but it lacks dynamics, as everything is the same volume. Have you considered building up your songs by starting with a strong bass and drum section, and then adding the other instruments on top of that?

Overall: Not very interesting. D/C

Acid Cadillac

Lyrics: Can't really make them out on the first listen. Oooh. It's about hiding from the law! Great take on the title.

Arrangement: This is good. I like the solos, the crowd parts, and the ending. Perfect length for the amount of ideas, it keeps interesting right to the end.

Performance: Vocals could do with being nearer the microphone, and are indistinct in places. Great to hear a song performed with enthusiasm.

Overall: Good job. B+

veGetar Ianra Ge wrote:...my entry was not supposed to be funny.

I meant to say something to this effect earlier, but since it's your work, your words probably do a better job. Regardless, I stand here in your support. Solidarity, bro. I wasn't really seeing the "untapped comedy gold," myself. At least I've never heard any good holocaust humor. I think there are good reasons you've never seen "The Ultimate Genocide Joke Book" at Barnes and Noble. Of course, that would make it untapped, wouldn't it? There does seem to be a bit of a juxtaposition of the lyrics against the musical context, which is probably the closest anyone's going to come to tastefully joking about the holocaust. But it came off to me more as a philosophical probe into the family's situation than an attempt at humor.

big crouton wrote: Ben Krieger
Good sir, you have a desirable bass tone. Everything is rather distorted though, which is annoying. Maybe it's the distortion, but this song is kind of a mush to me. There's nothing memorable or stand-out to me about it. Sorry. I know you were hesitant about sending this one in, and I can understand it. It just feels underdeveloped and unmemorable.

Yeah, I just kind of made up the bass line on the first take before I knew the chord changes to the chorus. And I didn't know how to end it, so I put in a theremin solo. Theremin solos can often save the day.

I've always wanted to call myself Pop Quiz Chicken.

big crouton wrote:
Good sir, you have a desirable bass tone.

Oh, and I have to say: a SansAmp bass pedal run direct through a good tube preamp is the only thing I ever use. If you want a good bass tone and can't wake the neighbors, that is a great way to do it.

Lord of Oats wrote:

veGetar Ianra Ge wrote:...my entry was not supposed to be funny.

I meant to say something to this effect earlier, but since it's your work, your words probably do a better job. Regardless, I stand here in your support. Solidarity, bro. I wasn't really seeing the "untapped comedy gold," myself. At least I've never heard any good holocaust humor. I think there are good reasons you've never seen "The Ultimate Genocide Joke Book" at Barnes and Noble. Of course, that would make it untapped, wouldn't it? There does seem to be a bit of a juxtaposition of the lyrics against the musical context, which is probably the closest anyone's going to come to tastefully joking about the holocaust. But it came off to me more as a philosophical probe into the family's situation than an attempt at humor.

Ummmm, read my posts a little closer next time. I didn't say dude should joke about the Holocaust. I said that there's untapped comedy gold in inventing a reason why Anne Frank would be loud, like she has really loud orgasms or something. The comedy comes from finding a tangential way to present jokes related to something taboo, while maintaining the taboo nature of the taboo thing.

veGetar Ianra Ge wrote:Not that I'm particularly offended, but my entry was not supposed to be funny. It is about the Frank family's discovery of the upstairs apartment and how they thought it would save them. I was trying to keep it focused on the positive things that were happening, like them not getting shipped off to death camp. It's reflected, albeit accidentally, in the transition between the chorus and verse. The word "out" marks a change in the color of the song from the upbeat, "we're safe don't worry" message, to the more moribund notions of the Nazis destroying their community and violating their rights. It may not be my best work, but it should taste a little better with the proper contextual seasoning.

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Sure, there's a change in tone between the chorus and the verse, but the whole thing still sounds upbeat. Write an upbeat song about anything bad, and people will think you are making light of said topic. I can believe that you didn't intend to write a funny song about Anne Frank, but there are many markers in the song that will make a listener think "This is funny": the intro in general, the phrase "little Anne Franks out there", the affectation on your voice (which is markedly different from the voice in the intro), and the general light and upbeat nature of the song.

erik wrote:I said that there's untapped comedy gold in inventing a reason why Anne Frank would be loud, like she has really loud orgasms or something.

pedophilic fantasy and antisemetic rhetoric in one statement. sad.

here are some reviews to go with all the hate in this thread:

Acid Cadillac (Milo Fultz) – Groovy. I like the walking bassline and when it really kicks in it gets pretty rocky. This is a nice short number. I like it.

Adam Adament – Something about the way you’re singing reminds me of Gomez. I think it’s the way you pronounce the T in quiet so prominently. This seems real different from your stuff awhile back. I like this style a lot more. Maybe the fake handclaps are a bit too frequent, and I’m not a big fan of the change just after 2 minutes. The vocals are not mixed well into the new sound there.

Big Crouton – Lyrics about beating up on a woman = no review, and no consideration for a vote. Did not finish listening to it.

Blues Manufacturing Facility – Another “song” threatening to kill a woman. Nice and imaginative. Quit listening after 1 minute.

Breast Harvest – Exactly what the fuck can anyone say about this one? It’s horrible sounding, and that’s the nicest thing I can say about it. I scanned this one to see if it got better. It didn’t.

Caravan Ray – This is a nice light-hearted number. I like the groove and the overall feel. This could be a contender for the vote.

Cynthia Size and the Spoons – Nice and slutty. I never knew Cynthia was so daring. Thanks for including the lyrics because I would have missed a lot of the smut otherwise. One of your more enjoyable numbers.

Deux Freres – I like the instrumentation here, but not a fan of the vocals. I like the horn section near the end too. If this was submitted as an instrumental, I may have voted for it. As it is, I quit listening about 2:30.

DJ Spooge & KYGuy – Absolutely no emotion in the “rapping” here. The deadpan delivery is boring and the misogynistic lyrics are ridiculous. The background noises are nicely done, but that’s about it. I quit listening after the “demean” lyric. This is completely stupid.

L4meboy – The pauses…are too…annoying…quit listening…after the word…shower. Take a breath and get some real rhythm to your song. The lyrics are kind of interesting, if incredibly stupid, but the delivery couldn’t be any more annoying. I can’t take it.

Hell Biscuit – I like this one, but either the vocals are a bit loud, or the instrumentation is a bit low in volume. I really like the verse to chorus transition, and the song overall. This is one of the better ones so far this week. The ending is great. Good job.

Hello Blue Monday – Get a damn popper stopper. They are not expensive. Beyond that, I like this one. It’s a nice laidback number. The chorus is pretty catchy. I imagine if I have any songs from this fight in my head later, it’ll be this one. Your singing reminds me of someone I knew in college. Nice song.

Jason’s Innocence – I like the experimentation here. This is nice and ballsy. You get the originality award for this fight. Me likey.

JT Henderson – Nice production values. Here’s another catchy chorus. This is a great song. I’m not going to nit-pick it.

Jimmy Jet and his TV Set – I like the minstrel feel to this one. It stands out from the pack, and is nicely performed. But what’s up with the ID tag naming this song: Vienna, 1939 from the album Clever Girl. I can’t tell if this was written for the fight or just taken from your archives. Because of that I cannot vote for this one.

Lopez and the Destroyers – Goofy. I like it.

these are all the songs i will review this time.

jackfrost wrote:

erik wrote:I said that there's untapped comedy gold in inventing a reason why Anne Frank would be loud, like she has really loud orgasms or something.

pedophilic fantasy and antisemetic rhetoric in one statement. sad.

Oh, please. People make awful, offensive shocking jokes all the time. I was commenting objectively about the nature of offensive comedy, not suggesting things that would make me giggle. There is nothing pedophilic or antisemitic about what I said. Grow up.