Stories of Songfight History

Egg · Post by **Egg** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:05 am

There was a podcast I found once where the guy was doing a holiday special and chose five religious songs off of the podsafe network. He somehow managed to select a Phunt Your Friends song AND a Josh Woodward song without realizing that both groups frequent songfight! Cool oddity.

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:49 am

"Swareing" is so hippie-crunchy-feel-goody-two-shoes history. Vitriol is the new black, babe.

The spambot's subject is what I'm referring to here.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:44 am

She turned me into a newt!

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:44 am

...I got better

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:56 am

Bad news, being a newt in the company of witchy-women... good to hear of your quick recovery!

(The world needs more Caravan Ray! Oi! Oi! Oi!)

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:50 pm

This was on one of the pages that roymond linked to:

roymond wrote:Also, starting with the last fight, the winner of the previous fight is the host. This involves picking a song title and writing clever commentary when the fight is over. Spud will notify you when it is time to do your duty.

I like this rule. Why did it go away?

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:17 pm

It says "starting with the last fight" so that means that it's hopefully DECADES or CENTURIES away! Long live SongFight!
Ok, maybe it meant "most recent fight"
-bill

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 4:27 pm

It meant most recent fight. It went away when Meanwhile turned into songfight.org. I think the fightmasters wanted to bring the air of mystery back to where the titles came from.

blue · Post by **blue** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:39 pm

j$ wrote:I sincerely hope that Mr Woodward is nothing to do with Big Mountain Fudge Cake as,imo, it would indicate a level of bitterness towards Songfight bordering on the psychotic.

Although if I had to make a choice, I would MUCH rather listen to BMFC than any of Josh Woodward's faux-emotive folk dribblings, so it's all good.

it was him.. i found it on his blog or something and called him out about it in the prefight. he admitted to the whole deal and said fu anyways, songfight!

at least, that's how i remember it.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:35 pm

Josh is strangely bitter about Song Fight for some reason.

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:51 am

Jesus, has this not all been done before? Both parties are bitter and acting like dicks.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:06 am

fluffy wrote:
They'll just end up farting around the hotel in a giant virtual circle jerk...

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:05 am

fluffy wrote:It meant most recent fight.

yeah, that was a joke.
-bill

j$ · Post by j$ » Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:37 am

fluffy wrote:Josh is strangely bitter about Song Fight for some reason:

Could be because he can't believe that anyone wouldn't like his music, and if they don't, there MUST BE SOMETHING WRONG WITH THEM?

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:41 am

Caravan Ray wrote:
fluffy wrote:
They'll just end up farting around the hotel in a giant virtual circle jerk...

That's a conga line jerk.

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:49 am

drew from toothpastefordinner has come out of the closet and admitted to being KOMPRESSOR.

j$ · Post by j$ » Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:56 am

I am Kompressor.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:08 am

drew wrote: You busted the smallest, most obvious mystery of the 21st century.

drew wrote: So for whatever reason people assume I am responsible for the Kompressor stuff (probably because I promote it almost as heavily as my own music.) The actual tale of the Kompressor stuff is probably less interesting than most people would believe.

A.K. (not real name - he always referred to himself as "AK", like the gun, and our friends made up some german name for him) is just a dude I met a long time ago, in the early 90s, and he has some problems which get in the way of him getting a lot of things done. I don't think it would be appropriate to talk about those.

His parents moved to the US a few years ago and he lives with them and has a part-time job doing manual labor. He is one of the few genuinely NICE people I have ever met, and he got me into recording music and doing weird avant-noise shit back when I was still playing classical piano, and so I have used my resources to get his stuff out to the public.

I think he deserves every ounce of critical acclaim and professional respect that he gets, and I get angry when people try to say it's my work. A.K. continues to write and record music despite the fact that his daily life is heavily affected by some things beyond his control. I don't know that I could make anything at all under those circumstances, much less several albums.

So are we assholes for figuring it out or are we assholes for figuring it out? Make up your mind!

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:04 pm

yeah. hmm. that is weird. it's like all those scandals recently where dudes are caught posting comments about their own writing under a pseudonym. see here, here

jack · Post by **jack** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:00 pm

my name is not really jack shite.

Post by **Lunkhead** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:22 pm

My name isn't really Lunkhead. Besides, Lunkhead is really a famous J-Pop band.

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:54 pm

My name is Bjam. Well, they're my initials anyway.