The Song Fight Bulletin Board

Looks like I'm going to be hosting a weekly hour on our college station (WMBC, AM560 in Baltimore and the county), so I'd like to make a call to all fighters, posters, lurkers and otherwise:

What are your all-time top ten picks from the archives? A top ten from a bunch of you-alls will help me find some picks from MODERN fights that might rock, but which I've neglected for the past year or two just as I have so shamefully neglected all of you.

Should SF get a promo? Because I want to advertise it, if you guys aren't still concerned with over-submission issues. This is the University of Maryland Baltimore County station, not the UMCP (UM) station, so we're only talking what, 15,000 students total, approximately two of whom actually listen to the unviersity station, so there's not exactly the kind of worry we had when, say, we heard we were in Spin.

MCF, Frankie, JB, and all the other bigwigs are already very likely picks, so if you recommend something of theirs, lean toward the newer material that I may not (again, shamefully) have heard.


If any of you local folk want to listen in, we're not on the air yet, but will be within a couple of weeks, probably in the Tuesday 3-4pm spot; working show title is "Auntie's Operation". Yes, there is a webcast (http://broadcast.umbc.edu:8000/wmbc-hifi), yes, the station is quite tolerable even when my lovely vox aren't on the air. So come on, kids, bring on the lists.

Here's my top 10 of all time (in no particular order)

1. "Polaris" by Klownhole
2. "Foam Rubber" by Jute Gyte
3. "Under the Horse" by Sonofsupercar
4. "Need Stilts" by A Kid Named Ace
5. "Zombie Son" by Frontalittle Squad
6. "Death Plunge" by Team: Music
7. "Save a Pony..." by Spy vs. Pie
8. "Hold This For Me" by the Hell Yeahs
9. "Friendly Fire" by Bloodberries & Cream
10. "Save a Pony..." by Johnny Cashpoint

Damn that was hard to do. Note- this list is subject to change.

Hey, that rocks, i live only about 15min away from UMBC!
Funny thing is, I had decided on Monday to make a "best-of" songfight CD-length tracklist and am still working on it.
I'll post them as soon as it's ready, but it'll have more than 10 tracks.
-bill

prayformojo - Husky Youth
ADD Music - Birds of our Own
miss - shreds
abecedarian - Promise is a Promise
Loyalty Day - hey Ruth
Glenn and Rachel - Need Stilts
Glenn Case - Take a pill
Dr. Worm - Please don't call me Ken
Octothorpe - Accelerator
John benjamin Band - What we need more of is Science
Frontalittle Squad - Space Cadet
Sober Irishman - Driving
sonofsupercar - Soft Orange Glow

You might think about featuring one fight sometime to really get people to understand the concept. If you do, I suggest the shreds fight.

be well,
Ken

EDIT: There was a list here... but I removed it.

What do you mean by modern?

Here are some of my faves:

MC Frontalot: Yellow Lasers (especially b/c it spawned a genre), A Very Unlikely Occurrence
Starfinger: More Than Soup
Josh Woodward: Waiting Takes Time
Johnny Cashpoint: Don't Forget to Come Over on Wednesday
Henrietta & the Hostage: Blueberry Hassle (but with new lyrics)
Def Author: Say the Word
There's more, but I can't think of them off the top of my head.

And of course, all of mine, because you be drawn to my shipple like a nipple. Holla.

Sonofsupercar - Moscow, Idaho
Roy - Red Zero
Jim Of Seattle - Brown Boxes
MC Frontalot - Romantic Cheapskate
Abominominous - That's Not What I Need
Hostess Mostess - Between The Rain
MC Hawking - What We Need More Of Is Science
Novox The Robot - Fire Bomb
Charcoal - Goodbye Monster
Starfinger - More Than Soup

Too damn hard, man. So, instead, who I voted for in some of my favourite fights

1. So Kind Stacey - Hell Yeahs
2. Adam & Steve - A-Bomb

And after that in no particular order ....

3. Roymond - hey Ruth
4. Doscientos - Thanks for Coming
5. Masters of Grip - Quentin Tarantino
6. King Arthur - Lavendor Splendour (any KA will do really. He should be in there)
7. Jack Shite - Under the Wagon
8. Jute Gyte - Can't Take My Love Away
9. Frankie Big Face - Half a Stone
10. Hoblit - A Spring of Teal

There as so many, but I am drunk (enough to get my band/song order mixed up, and not to fix it)

j$

Crinkle Binkle by Frankie Big Face
Talk About Your Feelings by Pompeii
Quentin Tarantino by R. Mosquito
Elvis in Space by Kapitano
Tomorrow's Almost Over by Lemon Party
Big Disco by Josh Woodward
Firebomb by Jute Gyte
So Kind Stacy by Hostess Mostess
Romantic Cheapskate by Mother Funker
So Kind Stacy by Carol Cleveland Sings

c hack wrote:What do you mean by modern?

Modern: everything that has happened since all y'all showed up

Basically.

I mostly said that out of fear I'd only see people posting stuff I already knew to rock. Fortunately, this has not been the case, and my listening is all laid out for me.

'Cept for bortwein, I'm ignoring that post.

HeuristicsInc wrote:Hey, that rocks, i live only about 15min away from UMBC!
Funny thing is, I had decided on Monday to make a "best-of" songfight CD-length tracklist and am still working on it.
I'll post them as soon as it's ready, but it'll have more than 10 tracks.
-bill

That is funny--and that means there's an off chance the station might even come in.

Though webcasts are more convenient for me usually, anyway, when I'm not in the car.

sparks wrote:Basically.

I mostly said that out of fear I'd only see people posting stuff I already knew to rock. Fortunately, this has not been the case, and my listening is all laid out for me.

'Cept for bortwein, I'm ignoring that post.

Well then BITE ME!

a small list of favorites that come right to mind.

jbb - what we need more of is science
mc frontalot - gonna be your man
frontallitle - space cadet
yoko oh no! - let it be
carol cleveland sings - the chair we share
starfinger - i don't like eggplant (yes, craig, you topped "more than soup." you can give a sigh of relief now. )
hostess mostess - between the rain
r. mosquito - quentin tarantino
j$ - can't take our love away
15-16 puzzle - back to the airplanes
jim of seattle - merry christmas
and anything by his name is dan is pretty awesome.

yo sparks.

direct to helmet - carol cleveland sings
fire bomb - carol cleveland sings
(you just listen to all ccs--greatest songfighter of the "modern era")
fire bomb - jbb
so aggravating - add
bon jour, mon ami - josh woodward
por favor - juan carlos de la something

that's all i can think of right now.

I couldn't agree more about CCS. The production quality amazes me, and that's perhaps only the shallowest compliment I can give him--totally great.

It seems I haven't just missed poorly orchestrated power-chord songs from bands with names like "Dunder-X 4000" and "Footforte Spectactular All Star Team" and "Horganborganjorganjorgan" and "Silly Threeword Indiename".

Sorry, that didn't make much sense. I'm a little sloshy at only 11am and very much ashamed. Still, fixing it to be funny would be difficult.

Perhaps you could include some of that much-ballyhooed "APARTMENT ROCK."

Oh, wait.

"Violet Wants It This Way", "Fire Bomb" by Jute Gyte
"Feathers" by Lonbobby+Mob0id
"Race to Seven", "Danger Bus" by Novox the Robot
"Dinga Da Donga", "Don't Forget to Come to My House on Wednesday" by Forty Second Songs (in fact, everything by FSS)
"Lavender Splendor" by c hack
"Blueberry Hassle" by c.layne
"Bueberry Hassle" by Henrietta & the Hostage
"Pass/Fail" by Jonathan Mann (...of FSS, so yeah...)

Ok, here we go. My compilation of THE BEST OF SONGFIGHT SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE.
It fits (just) on an 80-minute CDR. This is a track order that I like for good segues and flow:

1. Brad Sucks - Bad Attraction
2. Glorious Mono - Firebomb
3. Jon Eric (words by King Arthur) - Race to Seven
4. Ken's Super Duper Band 'n Stuff - Space Cadet
5. Glenn & Rachael - Need Stilts
6. The Befores - A Day In The Life
7. Denmark - Bad Attraction
8. Future Boy - There Are So Many Possibilities
9. High Density - Space Cadet
10. Idiot Kings - Mission Accomplished
11. The Landfills - Dirty Chucks
12. Dollar Bill & the Inkpoints - Chaos vs. Order
13. Starfinger - More Than Soup
14. The John Benjamin Band - What We Need More Of Is Science
15. c layne - Dizzy Spells
16. Revel Yth - A Promise is a Promise
17. Raised by Wolves - Unless I Change My Mind
18. Explode 16 - Thunderstorm
19. Melody Generator - Space Cadet
20. Brother Machine - Thunderstorm
21. Brainpipe - Chainsaw
22. Blind Mime Ensemble - Unless I Change My Mind
23. Gravity - Thunderstorm

Anyone on this list gets a big kudos from me for making something I like THAT much. Many others do, too. Maybe I should have made it a two-disk set
-bill

PS oh yeah, I appear on two of these. Deal!

1-Johhny Balls and the Random Axe of Violence-Space Cadet
2-Code Umber Burn-Ninja Gang
3-Abominominus-Lucky Man
4-Brother Machine-Thunder Storm
5-Marcus Kellis-Shreads
6-Kompressor-Skyline
7-Mc Frontalot-Gonna Be your man
8-History Man-Dog with out warning
9-History Man-Soft Orange Glow
10-High Density-Space Cadet

Yeah those are mine.

I am flattered.