Album A Week. With Twists For Fun (AAW.WTF[F])

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:11 pm

The Contestants:
Glenn Case
Bjam
Jim Tyrell
Niveous
<3
The Cow Exchange
Jolly Roger

RULES:
Album A Week. With Twists For Fun (AAW.WTF[F])

# It must be written, performed, recorded, post-produced, etc. all in one contiguous 7 day period.
# It must be at least 35 minutes or 40 songs.
# Your band may have multiple participants, but they should not work on different songs simultaneously. (So just one song being worked on at a time.)
# No ideas from before the chosen day! This means covers or reinterpretations are not allowed.
# No out-takes! If you start a song, finish it and put it on the album.
# Competition begins TONIGHT, Midnight Eastern/9pm Pacific (That's early Friday the 23rd for you east-coasters, Late on Thursday the 22nd for the rest of us.)
# Albums due in one week. Midnight Eastern/9pm Pacific (That's early Friday the 30th for you east-coasters, Late on Thursday the 29th for the rest of us.)

Put a link up to a page with all your songs on whenever you're done

The Twists for fun:
#1: Write a song called "In the Desert" -or- "In the Dessert." Know which one you should use for your title.
#2: Don't use the notes C or F# anywhere in the song. Not in the melody. Not in the chords.
#3: Must have one solo from an instrument other than guitar or piano. (i.e. bass, drums, horn, skat)
#4a - Write a song about mustard.
#4b - Bonus points if you use the common lexical faux pas "passes mustard."
#5 - Do a rap song.
#6 - Plenty of cowbell.
#7 - Have all elements reversed.
#8 - Fart into a microphone.
#9 - Play all your instruments backwards or back to front (so right handed guitar in the left, for example). Or upside down. Or underwater. Or travelling in a car.
#10 - Incorporate animal sounds musically into the song: samples; made with your mouth; or picking up a housepet and squeezing him/her to the beat.
#11 -Incorporate COFFEE into your song in some way.
#12 - Use the SF Song Idea Generator for a song.

Original message:

I saw the album-a-day thing and this idea kind of hit me. I'm not sure if it's been done, but if it hasn't, I think it could be pretty awesome. So here's the idea.

This could be an official Songfight thing, so it could be in place of the actual fights for about 3 weeks. There could be like 5 titles a week, and the favorites (not neccessarily by votes) could be put on a cd and people could buy it. This probably is just a dumb pipe dream of mine, but I think it could be pretty awesome if there was some work put into it.[/url][/b]

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:36 pm

It's been done. And in a smaller amount of time with consecutive days. Though, we did have the luxury of coming up with our own titles.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:58 pm

That doesn't look like quite the same thing, as you had to write the songs, instead of just picking one that you feel inspired to do ... but if a similar thing has been done we can change the concept of this one a bit to make it more original.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 6:11 pm

jolly roger wrote:That doesn't look like quite the same thing, as you had to write the songs, instead of just picking one that you feel inspired to do ...

Um, why wouldn't you have to write the songs? Who would write the songs?

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:51 pm

roymond wrote:
jolly roger wrote:That doesn't look like quite the same thing, as you had to write the songs, instead of just picking one that you feel inspired to do ...
Um, why wouldn't you have to write the songs? Who would write the songs?

Oh this is hard to explain. It's not - we don't have to write the songs. It's - we don't have to write the songs. When we write a song, we write it ourselves, but it's not a set list of people where you have to write for every song. It's just like normal fights, except more each week and the most popular get their song on a cd. Did that make better sense, or am I just crazy?

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:59 pm

This is probably a better personal goal. It kinda mushes AAD and FAWM and Nur Ein and SF into one thing, and people rarely have enough time to actually complete any of those things. Try doing an Album-A-Week if you want a challenge. And if you want titles, use old SF ones.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:29 am

I could probably do an album-a-week this week since I have nothing at all to do all week.

Bjam wrote:AAD and FAWM

I'm pretty sure AAD is album-a-day, but I don't know what FAWM is. What are the rules for these?

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:32 am

jolly roger wrote:I don't know what FAWM is. What are the rules for these?

FAWM - I finished 2 the first year, none this year. Goes to show...good intentions and all that

J$ finished both years complete.

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:59 am

chiming in on the "it's been done" thing.. there was also the dong fight (sorry i mean "long fight") where we were supposed to spend like a month doing a song. not a whole album, just a song. and it didn't seem to spark all that much interest, sadly.

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:02 am

Public Challenge!

Hey, JR, I challenge you to Album A Week. With Twists For Fun (AAW.WTF[F])

# It must be written, performed, recorded, post-produced, etc. all in one contiguous 7 day period.
# It must be at least 45 minutes or 50 songs.
# Your band may have multiple participants, but they should not work on different songs simultaneously. (So just one song being worked on at a time.)
# No ideas from before the chosen day! This means covers or reinterpretations are not allowed.
# No out-takes! If you start a song, finish it and put it on the album.

I'm game for it. You?

(It could be fun if SFers throw in non-optional challenges or titles or something for the songs if this gets going)

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:42 am

I could give you a title or two

-bill

GlennCase · Post by **GlennCase** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:07 am

Bjam wrote:Public Challenge!

Hey, JR, I challenge you to Album A Week. With Twists For Fun (AAW.WTF[F])

# It must be written, performed, recorded, post-produced, etc. all in one contiguous 7 day period.
# It must be at least 45 minutes or 50 songs.
# Your band may have multiple participants, but they should not work on different songs simultaneously. (So just one song being worked on at a time.)
# No ideas from before the chosen day! This means covers or reinterpretations are not allowed.
# No out-takes! If you start a song, finish it and put it on the album.

I'm game for it. You?

(It could be fun if SFers throw in non-optional challenges or titles or something for the songs if this gets going)

Depending on when and if this happens, I actually might participate.

I mean, come on! It's got WTF in the acronym! It's a winner of an idea for that reason alone.

I might even try to finish "Ugly-Ass Lunchbox" in the same time period. Not as part of this project, mind you, but while I am in "deadline" mode.

The first 4 songs of the unfinished EP were recorded at the tail end of Marathon Songs, after finishing the first 12 which became "Greenwood Cemetery". I think the bitter vibe of the songs was partially because of nearing creative exhaustion for that week. Maybe I'll crank out the final 2 songs after exhausting myself again, in the hopes of a similar vibe.

ROCK!

Glenn (DR FUNK)

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:14 am

GlennCase wrote:Depending on when and if this happens, I actually might participate.

If I'm going to be able to accept this challenge, it'll have to be starting in the next few days as I'm going to be gone most of July and August ... I just have a lot of time off this week. Anyone want to start tomorrow or monday? Those would be the most convenient for my situation.

mr_lostman · Post by **mr_lostman** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:16 am

# It must be at least 45 minutes or 50 songs.

Jeezas.... i can barely get my real bands album up to 45 minutes. This sounds like it could be fun but that time requirement is daunting. I might be in for this depends on when it is.

But really why cant my album a week album be short? The Brakes album is only a half an hour ...same with Apollo Sunshine.

GlennCase · Post by **GlennCase** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:17 am

Tomorrow = fine with me.

Hell. We could start it tonight as far as I am concerned. I'll roll with whatever.

mr_lostman wrote:
# It must be at least 45 minutes or 50 songs.
Jeezas.... i can barely get my real bands album up to 45 minutes. This sounds like it could be fun but that time requirement is daunting. I might be in for this depends on when it is.

But really why cant my album a week album be short? The Brakes album is only a half an hour ...same with Apollo Sunshine.

Keep in mind that the <a href="http://crapart.spacebar.org/aad/">Album-a-day</a> project expects 20 minutes of music or 30 songs in a single day. When you put it in perspective, you are getting a whole week for this project, and you only need a little more than double the AAD expectations (as far as time goes). It's pretty fair in comparison. More importantly? It's a challenge!

ROCK!

Glenn (DR FUNK)

frankie big face · Post by **frankie big face** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:08 pm

I agree that 45 minutes is unreasonable. Twelve typical songs by me would only run 36 minutes or so and I think twelve good songs in a week would be awesome. This idea has a chance of actually producing a quality product (unlike AAD--no offense to anyone who's done one, but that would be very hard to pull off), so why make the time requirement so steep? Why not give yourself a little time to mix things right and tweak lyrics? This idea shouldn't just be AAD times 7.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:29 pm

frankie big face wrote:Twelve typical songs by me would only run 36 minutes.

36 minute min albumfight? It sounds alright to me. Should we be starting right now, or should we set a start time and a deadline first?

EDIT: I just had this idea! How about we get a list of words that have to be in our songs at least once each on the album? I think it might help with inspiration (we could use them for song titles, but we wouldn't have to - they just have to be said/sung at some point in any song) ... if anyone likes this idea, speak or make a list of words and post them. If you don't, then say so, but we should get this deal rolling soon.

GlennCase · Post by **GlennCase** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:32 pm

jolly roger wrote:
frankie big face wrote:Twelve typical songs by me would only run 36 minutes.
36 minute min albumfight? It sounds alright to me. Should we be starting right now, or should we set a start time and a deadline first?

We should probably start tomorrow, in truth. That way we can give people a chance to see this thread, and to participate if they would like to.

Even if we go for a deadline of 36, I'm aiming to complete 45 myself.

I'll probably even keep an ongoing diary of sorts, like I did for <a href="http://www.glenncase.com/music/glenncas ... ">"Keeping the doctors away"</a>

ROCK!

Glenn (DR FUNK)

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:34 pm

I have spent a large amount of time whining in my lj about needing a new band (of actual people in the area, I mean). I have project after project (Broken Monster, the Sci-fi concept album, the album with Obscurity) that are patiently waiting certain things. My current rate of completion is way too low and it's driving me nuts. I'm in, just because I think I need to be in for the sake of my wellbeing.

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:43 pm

Okay, 45 was just an original throw out. How about 35 mins. That's 5 minutes every day for a week.

Midnight Eastern/9pm Pacific kick off tonight sound good?

Then put a link up to a page with all your songs on whenever you're done

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 2:08 pm

I'd totally do this but for the usual excuses. Plus, I still have to record my "Finish The Album In April" album.

GlennCase · Post by **GlennCase** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 2:30 pm

RULES:
Album A Week. With Twists For Fun (AAW.WTF[F])

# It must be written, performed, recorded, post-produced, etc. all in one contiguous 7 day period.
# It must be at least 35 minutes or 40 songs.
# Your band may have multiple participants, but they should not work on different songs simultaneously. (So just one song being worked on at a time.)
# No ideas from before the chosen day! This means covers or reinterpretations are not allowed.
# No out-takes! If you start a song, finish it and put it on the album.
# Competition begins TONIGHT, Midnight Eastern/9pm Pacific (That's early Friday the 23rd for you east-coasters, Late on Thursday the 22nd for the rest of us.)
# Albums due in one week. Midnight Eastern/9pm Pacific (That's early Friday the 30th for you east-coasters, Late on Thursday the 29th for the rest of us.)

Put a link up to a page with all your songs on whenever you're done

ROCK!

Glenn (DR FUNK)