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Niveous wrote:

kill the preps wrote:stuff

Hey, slow down there. You might wanna do stuff like introduce yourself in the Introduction thread or participate in a Songfight before jumping into these waters.

Ban Kill the Preps.

senza valore wrote:the Crystals - 'He's a Rebel'

This was on our list last year!

I'm in.

"Jesus for the Jugular" by the Veins
"Downtown Train" by Tom Waits
"Apes Dos Mil" by Glassjaw
"Summer Cannibals" by Patti Smith

"Drug Test" by Yo La Tengo
"River" by Versus
"Somebody's Watching Me" by Rockwell
"Swamp Thing" by the Chameleons UK
"Links Forthcoming" by "I'll send mp3s later"

bzl wrote: "Swamp Thing" by the Chameleons UK

I once tried to convince Mo that sos should cover this. In response he quit the band and moved to another continent. Well, I'm sure he'll claim that this wasn't really the reason, but I can see right through him.

bzl wrote:"Drug Test" by Yo La Tengo
"River" by Versus
"Somebody's Watching Me" by Rockwell
"Swamp Thing" by the Chameleons UK
"Links Forthcoming" by "I'll send mp3s later"

Oh damn, that last band rocks! I saw them live in Uranus.

My list.

1. CSS' Let's Make Love & Listen To Death From Above
<strike>2. Peaches' Fuck The Pain Away</strike>
2. The Soft Boys' Underwater Moonlight
3. Andy Williams' I Think I Love You (his version because it's the one that comes most easily to hand ... it's been done by loads of bands)
4. Stevie Wonder's Superstition

my 4 for the gom are:

diddy wah diddy - captain beefheart
gold digger - kanye west
fat bottom girls - queen
everythings alright - jesus christ superstar soundtrack (thanks senza valore for reminding me )


i tried to keep it varied so my gifter will find something they can gift.

So David Casady didnt write I Think I Love You?

sorry everyone, i didn't mean to be offensive.
1. what i meant by the links thing is i have no idea how.
2. also, only four songs, i was speaking for all the good songs of which there are very many.
trying to help clear things up with this post

the first time i heard gogol bordello i was hooked

I AM REALLY REALLY SORRY!!!
i didn't understand we had to cover a song for someone. i thought we just put up 4 good songs we'd like to hear covered. you guys can ban me or whatever you want, that is a grave mistake. i feel quite badly about this.
is there any way i can get taken off this? i don't want to not do it and have left someone musicless

So is it like, legal to upload the originals and post them? I won't get fined by the RIAA or something Not all of mine are on youtube.

kill the preps wrote:I AM REALLY REALLY SORRY!!!
i didn't understand we had to cover a song for someone. i thought we just put up 4 good songs we'd like to hear covered. you guys can ban me or whatever you want, that is a grave mistake. i feel quite badly about this.
is there any way i can get taken off this? i don't want to not do it and have left someone musicless

It's okay Kill the Preps. No harm, no foul.

I'm in:

Ted Weems Orchestra - Collegiate Love

Sacred Harp Traditional - Hallelujah (sheet music)

Kelly Joe Phelps - Sally Ruby

Bob Brozman - Down the Road (trad)

I cannot let another year go by without joining in on the fun. Count me in. I've pretty much narrowed the list down to these four songs (with the selection process likely influenced by spending most of this past weekend in San Francisco at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival).

Daniel Lanois - The Maker
Kathleen Edwards - In State
Neko Case - Furnace Room Lullaby
Patty Griffin - Rain

Here are mine, chosen without much thought:

Led Zeppelin - Out on the Tiles
The Velvet Underground - That's the Story of My Life
Jonathan Richman - Lydia
Etienne de Rocher - Big Black Wall

EDIT: links added.

I'm in. List to follow after careful deliberation.

Tom Waits - Everything Goes to Hell
http://www.ourwines.us/gom2007/waits.mp3

Philip Glass - Knee Play 5
http://www.ourwines.us/gom2007/glass.mp3

The Decemberists - The Bagman's Gambit
http://www.ourwines.us/gom2007/decemberists.mp3

Beat Happening - Black Candy
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dsIZg74mLt8

Would like to hear

AC DC - Thunderstruck
Catatonia - Road Rage
Randy Newman - Political Science
Placebo - Special Needs

Especially if they turn out very different to the originals.

jeff robertson wrote:So is it like, legal to upload the originals and post them? I won't get fined by the RIAA or something Not all of mine are on youtube.

Ehhh... Your risk is lowish, I'd say, but I'm with you on not wanting to risk the ire of the RIAA. I'm happy to act as third party messenger on your behalf! So, people of Songfight, if someone pulls Jeff's name out of the hat, contact me, and I'll work with him to get the files sent directly to you. (He'll send 'em to me, I'll forward them on) I'm also happy to do this for anyone else who has tough-to-find selections.

I'm happy to do this, 'cause I'm also a scaredy cat where the RIAA is concerned, and it's very likely I'll have to do the same thing with my semi-obscure (? I really didn't think they were THAT obscure) musics.

Kill The Preps wrote:I AM REALLY REALLY SORRY!!!

Ah, we were just giving you a hard time! Good-natured ribbing is hard to discern on these faceless boards. We should have used more emoticons.

anti-m wrote:Ehhh... Your risk is lowish, I'd say, but I'm with you on not wanting to risk the ire of the RIAA. I'm happy to act as third party messenger on your behalf! So, people of Songfight, if someone pulls Jeff's name out of the hat, contact me, and I'll work with him to get the files sent directly to you. (He'll send 'em to me, I'll forward them on) I'm also happy to do this for anyone else who has tough-to-find selections.

I'm happy to do this, 'cause I'm also a scaredy cat where the RIAA is concerned, and it's very likely I'll have to do the same thing with my semi-obscure (? I really didn't think they were THAT obscure) musics.

I've been making Niv do this for me, since he presumably already knows who to send the links to. I'm pretty sure he said this was okay at some point but I may have just imagined it.

I'm okay with being the go-between.

Have you ever given someone a mix CD or mixtape? According to the RIAA, that's a capital offense.

Giving someone a mixtape is a crime?????? Balderdash!

(Plus it's part of a coverfight covering copyrighted material. It may be non-profit but it's being released on the web. Someone could make a case about that too.)

Niveous wrote:I'm okay with being the go-between.

Have you ever given someone a mix CD or mixtape? According to the RIAA, that's a capital offense.

Giving someone a mixtape is a crime?????? Balderdash!

(Plus it's part of a coverfight covering copyrighted material. It may be non-profit but it's being released on the web. Someone could make a case about that too.)

The main reason I'm concerned about doing it is because my webhosting is being provided to me by a friend in high places, for free, and if I did anything bad with it he might get in trouble along with me.

I found "Jet Boy Jet Girl" on youtube, only it's periodically interrupted by German sketch comedy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQlsfsypBi8

Just search for "jet boy jet girl" and you'll find a number of versions, including Captain Sensible and/or The Damned. (Which is the first version I heard anyway)

Also "Sunrise (Come My Way)" is on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaCGS46qFnc

Oddly, nobody ever seems to get in trouble for posting videos to youtube, even though the audio track of the video essentially *is* an MP3. Or at least not enough people get in trouble for it that you hear about it as something to be wary of. So, if you want to post an mp3 somewhere for free, just use some freeware video editing software to make a one-frame "video" for it..