Hey look, it's Songfight with a goatee

Bjam · Post by **Bjam** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:11 pm

(Ie. Its evil twin.)

http://www.dieyoung.org/songfight/

Here's their messageboard.

Whaaaa? It's like a crappy version of "Real" Songfight.

Billy's Little Trip · Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:53 pm

We should challenge them to a song off.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:16 am

The idea of the site is fine and dandy. But calling it songfight is despicable. It's not a fight and it's not a part of the songfight realm. Nur Ein is in the songfight realm but I wouldn't dare call it Songfight Presents Nur Ein (or some other Songfight related name) unless I had the expressed permission by JB or Spud.

Why didn't they just make up their won name instead of using a name that has been in existence for over half a decade?

Like I said good concept but lame execution. Get your own name.

The Weakest Suit · Post by **The Weakest Suit** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:28 am

did you notice, that instead of octothorpe, they have a "contributer" with the band name of octofist? hella-stupid.

jack · Post by **jack** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:39 am

imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:18 am

Yeah, if Songfight was a corporation...there would definitely be branding issues. Lets send them a cease and desist. We worked hard on branding SONGFIGHT! and affiliates for them to infringe? !

(I'm joking of course)

On a serious note, do they know about us? Wouldn't they almost have to? I could see them trying songfight.com only to find a steep price on the domain name...but any search engine...

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:53 am

Niveous wrote:Why didn't they just make up their won name instead of using a name that has been in existence for over half a decade?

I was going to answer "Because they didn't bother to check that no one else was using the name" but then I saw "Charles V" on that page. Doesn't he know about Songfight?

anti-m · Post by **anti-m** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:59 am

They only have, like, 21 members...so I wouldn't be too concerned.

Maybe Oust got his shit together?

Edit:

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:00 am

erik wrote:
Niveous wrote:Why didn't they just make up their won name instead of using a name that has been in existence for over half a decade?
I was going to answer "Because they didn't bother to check that no one else was using the name" but then I saw "Charles V" on that page. Doesn't he know about Songfight?

They know about Songfight. Their myspace headline is "this is kind of a stolen idea... i guess"

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:19 am

Let's do covers OF ALL THEIR SONGS and send them a note

EmbersOfAutumn · Post by **EmbersOfAutumn** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:24 am

roymond wrote:Let's do covers OF ALL THEIR SONGS and send them a note

But, of course, that would mean we'd have to listen to all of their songs and thus play right into their hands.

Devious fiends!

The Weakest Suit · Post by **The Weakest Suit** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:39 am

EmbersOfAutumn wrote:
roymond wrote:Let's do covers OF ALL THEIR SONGS and send them a note
But, of course, that would mean we'd have to listen to all of their songs and thus play right into their hands.

Devious fiends!

not really.
a lot of their submissions are covers themselves.
you could just listen to the original and cover that.
personally, i don't how you can songfight with just a vague idea for a song, and people contributing cover songs. what are you judging then except for technical ability and production value? why call it songfight then?
rediculous.
if you're going to copy it, then copy it right.

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:55 am

Niveous wrote:They know about Songfight. Their myspace headline is "this is kind of a stolen idea... i guess"

Where is their MySpace page?

Sober · Post by **Sober** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:00 am

I guess Oust is finally living up to his threat to start his own Utopian community.

*This guy probably picked up on SF from the dumbrella days. He's got links to a few of those comics.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:04 am

erik wrote:
Niveous wrote:They know about Songfight. Their myspace headline is "this is kind of a stolen idea... i guess"
Where is their MySpace page?

http://www.myspace.com/arsongfight

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:24 am

What does the AR refer to? Also, arsongfight parses to Arson G-Fight.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:42 am

erik wrote:What does the AR refer to? Also, arsongfight parses to Arson G-Fight.

Automated Redemption

Essentially, Automated Redemption has a forum that has a bunch of musicians on it. They knew about Songfight from the Dumbrella days. One of the people there wanted to get the AR musicians to do more music and decided to throw an AR songfight.

Maybe we should go over and invite them to play in our sandbox. Any of them any good?

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:49 am

Well, I see Charles V's name over there, and he is 1/2 of the talent behind that song "Genius #1" by "Genii (Genius Plural)".

I like that song alot.

Albatross · Post by **Albatross** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:55 am

We should make a map like this.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:00 am

I think I'm gonna pay a visit to our father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.

Billy's Little Trip · Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:13 am

Where on here have I seen that name Colonpipe? Or Colonpipe.org? Didn't a couple SFers have that name?

Post by **Lunkhead** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:38 am

For a second there I thought "AR" might have meant "Alternate Reality" or "Australian Rules" or something...