The Song Fight Bulletin Board

My guitars and stuff arrived in Australia from NZ yesterday - but are all still sitting in a container in the Port of Brisbane somewhere. But it will all have to stay there until we find somewhere to live. Hoping that we will buy a house in the next few days - so, all going well - I may be back and ready to record again some time just before Christmas, with this project the first cab off the rank.

Update! Nobody has complained, so stiffers, join in if you will perform this year.

Here is the list I have so far. Tell me if I am missing anybody or anybody's list or if anybody is on there twice or something silly like that.

Signed up:
1 Jim Tyrrell
Morphine - Buena
The Posies - 20 Questions
Joe Jackson - One More Time
Gonzo The Great - I'm Going To Go Back There Someday
2 Generic
Warren Zevon - "My Ride's Here," from My Ride's Here (2002) (link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JDEdDxloJk )
Billy Joel - "Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)," from Turnstiles (1976) (link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CgigVZefWQ )
The Band - "Acadian Driftwood," from Northern Lights - Southern Cross (1975) (link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZwkxHYM7lI )
Elvis Costello - "Pidgin English," from Imperial Bedroom (1982) (link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tnVF3Z9qgE )
3 Paco Del Stinko
The Breeders - Invisible Man
Les Savy Fav - Raging In The Plague Years
DEVO - The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprise
The Monkees - Velleri
4 Albatross
"To Hell With Poverty" - Gang of Four
"Four F Club" - Mentors
"1-800" - Dog Police
"Camouflage" - Stan Ridgway
5 Heuristics Inc.
Pink Floyd - "Time"
Frankie Valli - "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" (M's pick)
Wire - "Map Ref. 41N 93W"
Primus - "Too Many Puppies"
6 Caravan Ray
I Like It Both Ways - Supernaut
Throw Your Arms Around Me - Hunters & Collectors
I'll Make You Happy - The Easybeats
Hey Santa Claus (Where's Me Fucking Bike) - Kevin Bloody Wilson
7 J$
Frank Black - Headache
The Last Shadow Puppets - Age of the Understatement
The Kinks - Village Green
Rafael Cara - Do It, Do It Again
8 inevitableguy
LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
The Thermals - Pillar of Salt
Fishboy - Proper Names Spelling Bee
The Helio Sequence - Can't Say No
9 BLT
Nirvana - In Bloom
The Pixies - Where is my mind
The Breeders - Cannonball
The Ramones - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker
10 Wreckdom
ABC by the Jackson 5
123 by Len Barry
Night Fever by The Bee Gees
Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel
11 signboy
Alabama 3: Woke Up This Morning
Primus: The Pressman
Beatles: I Am The Walrus
Filter: Welcome To The Fold
12 swilington
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
13 Teplin
Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage!
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - The Devil May Care (Mom & Dad Don't)
Castanets - You Are The Blood
Animal Collective - Peacebone
14 Me$$iah
Cygnet Committe Bowie
Don't stop Believing Journey
Maybe Tomorrow The Littlest Hobo
Trail of Tears Dogs D'Amour
15 furrypedro
The Ropers - Revolver
Sun Kil Moon - Salvador Sanchez
Buck 65 - Pants on Fire
The Wrens - Happy
16 Niveous
"Guitar Hero" by Amanda Palmer
"Maps" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"Best of You" by the Foo Fighters
"The Passenger" by Iggy Pop and the Stooges
17 2dogs
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
18 reve
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
19 LSK
Sonata Arctica - Don't Say a Word
Beach Boys - Do it Again
Patti Smith - Land
Talking Heads - I Zimbra
20 Wages
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
21 Eddiebangs
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Blue Murder - Jelly Roll
Chicago - Saturday In The Park
Panic at the Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies
22 fluffy
Katamari Damacy soundtrack - Lonely Rolling Star
Radiohead - Creep
The Bird and the Bee - Again & Again
Dave Brubeck - Take Five
23 Enter It In The Art Show
Mutemath - Goodbye: imeem I Lyrics
Bayside - Masterpiece (Acoustic): Youtube I Lyrics
The Shins - Australia: Youtube I Lyrics
Jamie Cullum - All At Sea: Youtube I Lyrics
24 roymond
Pomplamoose - Expiration Date
Matisyahu - Youth
Gogol Bordello - American Wedding
Moby - Southside
25 Mark
1> Change of Heart - Biggest Wave
2> Odds - Wendy Under the Stars
3> Leonard Cohen - You Know Who I Am
4> The Tragically Hip - Put it Off
26 glennny
Suede (the London Suede in the USA)- the Drowners : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDyKYlMunQk
Superdrag- Slot Machine / Phaser : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d39MrZ0vdL4
American Football - Never Meant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV0LJ0Dnl7A
Jeff Beck- Let Me Love You Baby : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U85Eeh1_hcc

Signed up late:
27 Todd McHatton
Abba - Thank You For the Music
Black Sabbath - Neon Knights
Kiss - Do You Love Me
Sid and Marty Krofft - The Lidsville Theme Song
28 Tomski
1. Ego Tripping in the Gates of Hell - The Flaming Lips
2. Dune Buggy - The President of the United States of America
3. Sprout and the Bean - Joanna Newsom
4. Tropicalia - Beck
29 Mike Lamb (Kasper)
The Carpenters - Goodbye to Love
John Hiatt - Dust down a Country Road
Kevin Johnson - Baby Let's Go Downtown
Yaz - In My Room
29 Lord of Oats
The National - Lit Up
My Morning Jacket - Sec Walkin
Fall Out Boy - Disloyal Order Of Water Buffaloes
AFI - Darling, I Want to Destroy You

-bill

What do we do if we get assigned someone that we've already had? Not complaining, by any means, about someone's picks, but mightn't it be better to get someone new? Just tossing it out there. Tee-hee.

I updated my post with song choices and links.

Also: Al Jarreau did a version of Take Five with lyrics; I had a copy of it a long time ago, at the end of a cassette of an XTC show (Boston 1980) originally broadcast on WBCN.

jimtyrrell wrote: Also: Al Jarreau did a version of Take Five with lyrics; I had a copy of it a long time ago, at the end of a cassette of an XTC show (Boston 1980) originally broadcast on WBCN.

I have the sheet music for that, somewhere around here. My grandmother acquired a huge pile of sheet music once at a discount at someone's garage sale, and gave it all to me. One of the books was something like "Jazz Classics Simplified." The first one in the book was "Take Five," and the first thing I said when I look at it was, "Who wrote these stupid lyrics?"

So... yeah. Al Jarreau. Good to know.

Jim, if I get your list, I'm doing "Take Five" without the lyrics, thankyouverymuch.

Generic wrote:Jim, if I get your list, I'm doing "Take Five" without the lyrics, thankyouverymuch. :P

Why would you be doing Take Five if you got Jim's list?

Also, according to the Internet, Dave Brubeck wrote the lyrics. Al Jarreau just performed them once. The original recording with lyrics was performed by Carmen McRea - with Dave Brubeck.

Okay, what the heck. I'll do this. My list is all Canuckstyle.
1> Change of Heart - Biggest Wave
2> Odds - Wendy Under the Stars
3> Leonard Cohen - You Know Who I Am
4> The Tragically Hip - Put it Off

Thanks for letting a stiffer have another chance!

The fashion of vocalists adding vocals and lyrics to instrumental standards in the early 60's is one of the more painful trends to ever happen. Take 5 was originally instrumental. It was a couple years later they came up with a lyric/vocal version. It sounds like Bill Murray adding lyrics and vocals to the Star Wars theme to me.

Anyway my 4 picks which have little to nothing to do with jazz:

Suede (the London Suede in the USA)- the Drowners : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDyKYlMunQk
Superdrag- Slot Machine / Phaser : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d39MrZ0vdL4
American Football - Never Meant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV0LJ0Dnl7A
Jeff Beck- Let Me Love You Baby : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U85Eeh1_hcc

To (hopefully) clarify: my picks for this year, as they appear in my earlier post, are:

Morphine - Buena
The Posies - 20 Questions
Joe Jackson - One More Time
Gonzo The Great - I'm Going To Go Back There Someday

jimtyrrell wrote:To (hopefully) clarify: my picks for this year, as they appear in my earlier post, are:

Gonzo The Great - I'm Going To Go Back There Someday

THAT - is a brilliant choice - almost makes me hope you get stiffed.

Ross wrote:

jimtyrrell wrote:To (hopefully) clarify: my picks for this year, as they appear in my earlier post, are:

Gonzo The Great - I'm Going To Go Back There Someday

THAT - is a brilliant choice - almost makes me hope you get stiffed.

I was thinking the same about this:

jimtyrrell wrote: Joe Jackson - One More Time

Paco Del Stinko wrote:What do we do if we get assigned someone that we've already had? Not complaining, by any means, about someone's picks, but mightn't it be better to get someone new? Just tossing it out there. Tee-hee.

Might be, but I was not planning on editorializing any picks, just doing it randomly. M says she'll help me pick them.

I edited the list to have the most recent updates here. swilington was indeed listed twice. I am silly.

I also made my list. Here is is sans links:

Pink Floyd - "Time"
Frankie Valli - "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" (M's pick)
Wire - "Map Ref. 41N 93W"
Primus - "Too Many Puppies"

The Primus wasn't covered before, was it?
-bill

HeuristicsInc wrote:

Paco Del Stinko wrote:What do we do if we get assigned someone that we've already had? Not complaining, by any means, about someone's picks, but mightn't it be better to get someone new? Just tossing it out there. Tee-hee.

Might be, but I was not planning on editorializing any picks, just doing it randomly. M says she'll help me pick them.

You mean you won't be writing some sort of ramdomising program that takes into account all previous linkings of names to give us a new random but unique combination? I am disappointed.

[quote="jimtyrrell"]To (hopefully) clarify: my picks for this year, as they appear in my earlier post, are:

Morphine - Buena


Morphine has a great style. I will definitely play the sax parts if I get that puppy.

It looks like the Primus was roymond's cover of DMV... ok then!

Note: we are missing lists from BLT, Wreckdom, Me$$iah. The deadline for having your list in is midnight tonight.
Or something like that. I'll draw the matches tomorrow sometime, so you better get them in.
-bill

Excited!

Sorry it's late folks, hopefully still in. I'll work on the MP3's

ABC by the Jackson 5
123 by Len Barry
Night Fever by The Bee Gees
Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel

Thanks!

Right these are the choices from the Welsh jury:

Cygnet Committe Bowie

Don't stop Believing Journey

Maybe Tomorrow The Littlest Hobo

Trail of Tears Dogs D'Amour

a holdover from last year and one for Moses
enjoy.

Linkage

"Guitar Hero" by Amanda Palmer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJVWSu5Nfi8

"Maps" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cweU7DlXVAk

"Best of You" by the Foo Fighters
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DKXGpMGY_o

"The Passenger" by Iggy Pop and the Stooges
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4hPnZUMBwA

Have I mentioned how much I love almost everyone's lists? I don't think there's anyone here I won't be happy to get assigned.

Generic wrote:Have I mentioned how much I love almost everyone's lists? I don't think there's anyone here I won't be happy to get assigned.

I concur. In fact, I almost wish that the lists were collected in secret, so that I didn't know all the great selections I was missing out on!

(Also, my original post has been edited to include links)

Luckily a little Billbird reminded me to get my list in. It's always so hard, because there are so many songs I love and would love to hear a tribute to. But I've been in a punky mood of late, so here are my 4 songs. I hope you have fun, gifter. I know I would.

Nirvana - In Bloom

The Pixies - Where is my mind

The Breeders - Cannonball

The Ramones - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker