The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Holy Christmas, there are some real obscure tunes listed here.

Alright, count me in. Here are my choices.

Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTdD1QqsrfI
Love hurts - Incubus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_bQ80xZ ... re=related
Heaven - by Live http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqEmw2Y2tVg
Breathe - by Moist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5B6salCYBk

This is gonna be a good Christmas !!!!

Quite in. It's been a couple years since I last GOM'd, and I've been thinkin' all year how I've got to do it this year. My choices are below. Please have Santa email me and let me get you high-res versions if you're lucky enough to be doing one of the songs below.

I picked fairly rockist stuff for all you rock dudes.

the unicorns - jellybones
: http://www.mtvu.com/video/?title=The_Un ... &vid=61130
jay reatard - night of broken glass
: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JXfdfXKIII
hello i'm a truck - airwave paraguay
: http://www.myspace.com/hiat
screeching weasel - hey suburbia
: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_itiXOeEnzw

Generic wrote:The more I look at this list, the more I shake my head and wonder, "Jeez, do I honestly expect anyone to try to tackle 'Razor Face?'"

Jon, if I get you I'm doing Razor Face. Like The Soft Pink Truth version of Minor Threat's "Out of Step."

I'm in, without a band backing me.

Here's my list:

Sonata Arctica - Don't Say a Word
Beach Boys - Do it Again
Patti Smith - Land
Talking Heads - I Zimbra (Original not available on Youtube; live versions do NOT approximate the studio version. If you end up getting this list and can't scrounge up a copy of the original, contact me by proxy or with a temporary account and I'll forward it down.)

I got stiffed both of the last two years, so if anyone wants to make good on said stiffing or just cheer a stressed-out college student up, here were my requests for each of the last two years:

2008:
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
Sonata Arctica - Don't Say a Word
Animal Collective - My Girls
Of Montreal - Gronlandic Edit

2007:
Animal Collective - Leaf House
Devo - Mecha-Mania Boy (b-side off of New Traditionalists)
Sonata Arctica - Don't Say a Word
They Might Be Giants - Withered Hope

LSK wrote: I got stiffed both of the last two years, so if anyone wants to make good on said stiffing or just cheer a stressed-out college student up, here were my requests for each of the last two years:

2008:
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
Sonata Arctica - Don't Say a Word
Animal Collective - My Girls
Of Montreal - Gronlandic Edit

2007:
Animal Collective - Leaf House
Devo - Mecha-Mania Boy (b-side off of New Traditionalists)
Sonata Arctica - Don't Say a Word
They Might Be Giants - Withered Hope

As the guy who worked hard to be sure no-one got stiffed last year, I am going to take umbrage with this claim. Last year's deadline for participation was Nov 4, you posted your list on December 21. I don't think this properly qualifies as having been stiffed - just saying.

LSK wrote:2007:
Animal Collective - Leaf House
Devo - Mecha-Mania Boy (b-side off of New Traditionalists)
Sonata Arctica - Don't Say a Word
They Might Be Giants - Withered Hope

Sorry.
I'll keep sitting out until I get the damned thing done.

Ok, I don't think anybody really weighed in on the issue, but I think I'd say let the stiffers give it another go, but if you stiff again that should be it. We have the stiffee committee to cover for the slackers, so ...

And it's not just that I don't want to go back and collate who is a stiffer, but that is also true

19 entrants so far. Let's wrap up the signups. Deadline for signing up 31 Oct.
-bill

So Bill, are you saying us dirty rotten stiffers can enter this, no strings attached? (other than don't bloody do it again)

Just saw the thread! GoM again!

Let me know if any of these have been requested this year and I'll make a change.

Queens of the Stone Age - Make It Wit Chu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5ivZ-4DmPY

Kings of Leon - Charmer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHzDSmav0NM

Blind Melon - No Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r--at8M9tjI&feature=fvst

Mars Volta - Televators
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPeSbITit5U

SELF-REFERENTIAL ALTERNATE:
The EAF - I Miss Disco
http://www.tuneflow.com/artist_profile.php?aid=12112

I'm in. Song choices to follow shortly...

Okay, I'd might as well participate in this thing for once. Most preferred first:

Katamari Damacy soundtrack - Lonely Rolling Star
Radiohead - Creep
The Bird and the Bee - Again & Again
Dave Brubeck - Take Five

my choices:

Fred Rogers - You Are Special
Pinback - Offline P.K.
Cornelius - Count Five or Six
Swilington - Bullets and Lovers (I would really like to hear a cover of the song we did for Nur Ein IV but I don't know if that's allowed or not.)

here's another song just in case:

Heavy Vegetable - I Owe You

__________

My picks for this year:

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Blue Murder - Jelly Roll

Chicago - Saturday In The Park

Panic at the Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies

I hope whoever gets my list has some fun with it.

Dear Swillington,

Count Five or Six is one of my favorite songs of all time. Excellent choice. Also, and fan of Rob Crow is a friend of mine. I hope Glennny gets your name so I can drum for him on one of these songs.

You're in the Bay Area? What part? You should come meet up with the Berkeley Social Scene sometime. We just go out for beers too sometimes. Any chance you are going to see the Dirty Projectors at Bimbos on Sunday?

Ken

swilington wrote:my choices:

Fred Rogers - You Are Special
Pinback - Offline P.K.
Cornelius - Count Five or Six
Swilington - Bullets and Lovers (I would really like to hear a cover of the song we did for Nur Ein IV but I don't know if that's allowed or not.)

here's another song just in case:

Heavy Vegetable - I Owe You

I guess i better join GOM this year yeah? Umm I was a stiffer, and at this point I will not make good by Halloween. But last chance right?

Let me decide on a list.

Ken,

Swillington was there at the BSS headquarters for our Cold War and Longest Road session during FAWM. Also you have met him at the Cornelius show as well as Song Fight west coast tours.

Swillington, are you coming to Dirty Projectors on Sunday? We got Martyr, ken, and myself so far.

swilington wrote:my choices:

Heavy Vegetable - I Owe You

I opened for Heavy Vegetable once in Idyllwild.

glennny wrote: Swillington was there at the BSS headquarters for our Cold War and Longest Road session during FAWM. Also you have met him at the Cornelius show as well as Song Fight west coast tours.

hey ken,
glennny speaks the truth. i went to a couple of songfight shows but i don't play live because i can't (i just sequence and play a very small amount of guitar). i'm in for the dirty projectors. are you going to pinback on nov 13 at bimbo's?

glennny wrote:Swillington, are you coming to Dirty Projectors on Sunday? We got Martyr, ken, and myself so far.

glennny,

i just tried to buy a ticket for dirty projectors online and it said that i should choose a smaller quantity. did you guys already get tickets or were you planning on buying tickets at the door? they were just on letterman and jimmy fallon so...

Ross wrote:I opened for Heavy Vegetable once in Idyllwild.

ross,

that is one of the coolest things i've ever heard! when was this?

swilington wrote:

glennny wrote: Swillington was there at the BSS headquarters for our Cold War and Longest Road session during FAWM. Also you have met him at the Cornelius show as well as Song Fight west coast tours.

hey ken,
glennny speaks the truth. i went to a couple of songfight shows but i don't play live because i can't (i just sequence and play a very small amount of guitar). i'm in for the dirty projectors. are you going to pinback on nov 13 at bimbo's?

glennny wrote:Swillington, are you coming to Dirty Projectors on Sunday? We got Martyr, ken, and myself so far.

glennny,

i just tried to buy a ticket for dirty projectors online and it said that i should choose a smaller quantity. did you guys already get tickets or were you planning on buying tickets at the door? they were just on letterman and jimmy fallon so...

Ross wrote:I opened for Heavy Vegetable once in Idyllwild.

ross,

that is one of the coolest things i've ever heard! when was this?

June of 1994. I was living in Idy at the time and some friends put on a sort of Arts Event with live music and films by local filmmakers.

I'm being sappy this year:

Pomplamoose - Expiration Date
Matisyahu - Youth
Gogol Bordello - American Wedding
Moby - Southside

fluffy wrote: Dave Brubeck - Take Five

Do we have to write lyrics for this to make it a proper song? After all - this is songfight - not "noodling-jazzmonkey-fight".

Caravan Ray wrote:

fluffy wrote: Dave Brubeck - Take Five

Do we have to write lyrics for this to make it a proper song? After all - this is songfight - not "noodling-jazzmonkey-fight".

Take Five actually does have lyrics but I've never heard them performed - ideally if someone selects this song they'd make a true gift by actually performing it with the words and all.

Otherwise, I'd have posted a backup choice like so many others have but that seems like cheating seeing as how the whole point to having four choices is that three of them are, by their very nature, a backup. (And anyway Take Five was a concession based on lyrics - I'd much rather hear an interpretation of Blue Rondo A La Turk, frankly.)

Won't you stop and take
A little time out with me
Just take five
Stop your busy day
And take the time out
To see if I'm alive

Though I'm going out of my way
Just so I can pass by each day
Not a single word do we say
It's a pantomime and not a play

Still, I know our eyes often meet
I feel tingles down to my feet
When you smile, that's much too discreet
Sends me on my way

Wouldn't it be better
Not to be so polite
You could offer a light
Start a little conversation now
It's alright, just take five
Just take five

(Repeat all from 2nd verse on)

fluffy wrote:

Caravan Ray wrote:

fluffy wrote: Dave Brubeck - Take Five

Do we have to write lyrics for this to make it a proper song? After all - this is songfight - not "noodling-jazzmonkey-fight".

Take Five actually does have lyrics

Well OK then. I didn't know that. Carry on.....