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Dux! Revisited!
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:25 pm
by Nigel (spOOn) Clements
Some of you may remember the Dux! topic, originally placed by King Arthur (Charles), and acted upon by several SongFighters! (I myself did a cover of Octothorpe's 'The Blue Signal'), I always thought that this was a brilliant suggestion and always had it in the back of my mind to go back to this idea and begin a slow and steady process of ploughing my unwieldy way through the archives of nil-vote-getting tracks...
So with an air of trepidation may I present my cover version of the Marcus Kellis original 'A Variation on Two'.
A Variation on Two (Marcus Kellis Cover)
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:30 pm
by Billy's Little Trip
Cool Nige, now I need to go hear the original.
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:13 pm
by mkilly
don't bother
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:21 pm
by Nigel (spOOn) Clements
Without inadvertently sparking the "That's not really a cover version" debate again, I'd like to explain how I go about the process of 'Interpreting' or 'Re-imagining' a track, first I'll listen to the original a few times, until I can hear it in my mind, but what I'll hear isnt the original version, but a warped spOOnitized version, I'll then set about trying to get those sounds from my mind and into an audible format (though not always with decent results!!!)
Anyway here's the second in my occasional series...
Gonna be your Man by King Arthur
Re-Imagined in a spOOnish kind of way!
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:19 pm
by king_arthur
Very cool - different, but cool! Thank you very much!
Charles (KA)
Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:52 pm
by Billy's Little Trip
Cool. Nigel, you are so far ahead of your time, that you are about to lap yourself.
Do me next, do me!
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:22 am
by Nigel (spOOn) Clements
Would love to dude, but from perusing the records I seems you've never scored a duck!
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:14 am
by rone rivendale
Quack Quack....
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:44 am
by Billy's Little Trip
spOOn wrote:Would love to dude, but from perusing the records I seems you've never scored a duck!
Damn friends! 8)
I'll try harder to do worse in the future, I promise.
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:10 pm
by Nigel (spOOn) Clements
m' only joking dude, I'm busy compiling a list of other SongFighters! I'd like to take an attempt at, and you're more than definately on my list, (but I'm probably gonna do a couple more of these first... shhh! though don't let anyone know).
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:49 pm
by Caravan Ray
Did anyone ever work out who "The King of All The Ducks" is? I think I've got about 4. (yes - that number seems surprisingly small to me too - I better recheck that)
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:51 pm
by Plat
Caravan Ray wrote:Did anyone ever work out who "The King of All The Ducks" is? I think I've got about 4. (yes - that number seems surprisingly small to me too - I better recheck that)
5
according to my list. Here are the top 25 zongwriters (not accounting for submissions under multiple names, e.g. @eclectic_spoons vs. @eclecticspoons):
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| rank | artist_identifier | entry_count |
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| 1 | wages | 16 |
| 2 | andre_was_here_at_midnight | 12 |
| 3 | baker | 8 |
| 4 | phunt_your_friends | 8 |
| 5 | rone_rivendale | 8 |
| 6 | flvxxvm_florvm | 7 |
| 7 | jolly_roger | 7 |
| 8 | special_relatives | 7 |
| 9 | steve_durand | 7 |
| 10 | @eclectic_spoons | 6 |
| 11 | jonny_juice_and_good_time_boys | 6 |
| 12 | noah_mclaughlin | 6 |
| 13 | pigpen | 6 |
| 14 | caravan_ray | 5 |
| 15 | charcoal | 5 |
| 16 | jimmy_richards | 5 |
| 17 | poor_june | 5 |
| 18 | sausage_boy | 5 |
| 19 | abecedarian | 4 |
| 20 | andy_balham | 4 |
| 21 | ants_(invisible) | 4 |
| 22 | doscientos | 4 |
| 23 | kamakura | 4 |
| 24 | paco_del_stinko | 4 |
| 25 | cheap_bastards | 3 |
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Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 2:00 am
by Nigel (spOOn) Clements
That's a terrific list Plat, you are the king of compiling stuff
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:06 am
by Niveous
Just looking over that list, I'm a master of dux. It may only say 3 dux for Niveous but when you add in Calque's duck, Silent E's three dux, Tokyoquake's duck; that's 8 dux for me.
I have had an odd relationship with the voting public.
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:43 am
by sausage boy
i get the sausage boy dux as well as the jonny juice and the good time boys dux.
Looking at my standing on the list kind of makes me wonder what the hell i'm still doing here.
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:35 am
by Nigel (spOOn) Clements
What you're still doing here is being entertaining and original, mainstream will always win in the end, but left of centre independant will always be cool! (least that's what I think!!)...
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:39 am
by furrypedro
Something I've been meaning to do for a while. Don't know why this is even elligible as I'm pretty sure I voted for it. Also I couldn't decide how to cover it so I did both; so, Those Meddling Kids
& Carpetburn presents the song Michael Keaton dreads hearing.....'Glutton' by
Denyer.
hip-hop
indie-rock
Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:50 am
by Reist
I probably would be the king of dux if I hadn't voted for myself several times in my old fights.
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:23 am
by Nigel (spOOn) Clements
Nice work Pete, The Indie-Rock version is jangle-pop excellent (shit, now I sound like smashy or is it nicey!?!), think like the track covered that way because it's so different from the original.
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:18 am
by Nigel (spOOn) Clements
Furthering my pursuit of taking rough gems and overlooked treasures and then turning them into mush, here's another, originally from 2003 (I think!)...
Cynthia Size and the @eclectic spOOns - Brown Boxes - Johnny Cashpoint Cover
Sorry John...
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:39 am
by j$
That's awesome, Spoons. Thanks so much - I love the space dub feel, the bassline and the overall chilled vibe. This song always held a soft spot in my black heart (I played it live at SF:UK) but never felt I had the requisite light touch to do it justice. And yes, i chould check the dates, but it's either late 2003 (I first SFed in late November) or perhaps Jan 2004...
j$
Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 7:14 pm
by wages
Plat wrote:
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| rank | artist_identifier | entry_count |
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| 1 | wages | 16 |
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Harsh! So who is gunna cover or re-invent one of these puppies?