The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Me and Paco have finished - I will post it tonight

I'll be finishing it off tomorrow and mailing it in mid to late afternoon, eastern time.

Well underway. Outlook for deadline: hopeful.

Tonight's primary goal: do a vocal take I can tolerate.

ok, i'm in. just sent you a link johnny.

jim t, sorry i couldn't get something to you sooner. it was a stretch to get it done as it was. i would have really liked to do something with you, and look forward to the day when that might finally happen.

No worries, it'll happen. Glad you made the deadline, and I'm looking forward to hearing it!

Man, due to the fact that I apparently cannot sing a Smiths song to save my life (even thought I've been a fan for 20+ years) we will be missing the deadline and will be entering late. Sorry to let you down j$.

OK final reminder that the deadline for this fight is today, St George's Day (waves Union Jack limply.) Midnight in whatever timezone you're in.

I will then get the songs (in alphabetical order) I have up by tomorrow evening, with a page, voting mechanism, stream and all that crapola. I will also set up a thread (seperate from this beast) for reviewage, which, as always, I encourage everyone to do.

So far 7 songs received (Cock, Eclectic Spoons, Hoblit, Jack Shite, Jim Tyrell, Melvin and my own).

tuuur wrote:I'm not going to make the deadline... too much going on here, with wife and kid in the hospital...

Christ - nothing too serious I hope?

Albatross wrote:Tonight's primary goal: do a vocal take I can tolerate

Heh, that's never stopped me before (or this time either!)

Heather Redmon wrote: going to be late

Damn! I was so looking forward to hearing it as well! You're not letting me down tho'. - I'm just hosting the thing!

Anyone who is going to be late (within reason - i.e. not next year) please finish up anyway and send it over as soon as you can - I will add it to the page and the stream as soon as I get a moment in my "oh-so-busy" schedule.

j$

I may be late as my work on this song last night was an epic fail. Not very good at all. The voice was there, the music wasn't.

groovy! looking forward to hearing everyones!

*Hoblit shakes tiny fist.

Whats a deadline anyways!

I know I know... I've definitely got to respect any excuse that involves Hospitalization and I totally understand getting the product right. I'm just chidin'

In light of these circumstances I may go back and fix a few vocal spots in my song. Overall I'm happy with it but I did rush that part a little.

-Hoblit

I just mailed it off. Music: Ok. Vocal: mmm...what?

Craptastical...I can't meet the freaking deadline. I look forward to hearing the songs though

It is now 11:59 PM Pacific Time. I think I've done better mixes. And my singing is shit, as usual. I really had no business trying to sing Morrissey.

Nevertheless, I am in.

So here we go ...

http://www.johnnycashpoint.com/smithspage

Vote, stream and invidivual links all up. 10 songs, all of which I have to admit are pretty fabulous in their own ways (bar mine of course, but hey, I tried.)

Niveous, Hell Yeahs, Sleestak and others - if you can get your songs to me by the end of the weekend, i will upload them on Monday morning. Voting is set to close on Wednesday May 7th.

Enjoy!

j$

ha, I'm already enjoying these. Sweet.

hey johnny, i think it's tyrrell. 2 r's and 2l's.

god damned caravan ray (and paco too?), that is one kick ass version dude! you too hoblit!

i've only listened to those 2 so far, but wow!

jack wrote:god damned caravan ray (and paco too?), that is one kick ass version dude!

Yes, of course it's Paco - you've seen me play guitar - you know I can't play like that

But thank you v. much - I was very pleased how it came out. Maybe me and Paco should quit our day jobs and just tour the world as a Smiths tribute band

I'm having problems with this and I'm surprised that I am. I enjoy the Smiths alot and doing a straight up acoustic cover of "This Night Has Opened My Eyes" just didn't work out. I can get the right vocal feel but the music wasn't falling into place. So my next idea was to go creepy electronic a la XTRG. But I feel like I'm losing all essences of the original song and now I don't know what to do....

Well, the problem with Wife and Kid were not that serious. My son had to be under observation for a month. Now he and his mum are back again since a few days, but getting back to normal proves too be difficult.
I guess I have to cancel my version altogether. Maybe later, in a few weeks I am able to do something, but not now...