The Song Fight Bulletin Board

I decided to follow through with this plan. The first frenzy is tomorrow. You can find out all you need to know at the radnoise forum.

I hope that some of you participate. I hope to keep this going if it's a success.

Quite the pioneer you are Roger. Good luck on your maiden voyage.

you're really takng the song skirmish idea to new heights!

It's weird to put so much structure around the skirmish. But it's cool.

Some suggestions: embed the clock in the page (it is very cool you have a frenzy clock!). Or put the time zone on the due date.

roymond wrote:suggestion: embed the clock in the page (it is very cool you have a frenzy clock!).

I took a shot at that - but the forum disallows all html tags aside from ones I personally allow. I tried allowing the iframe tag, but it didn't work. I'll try a few other things, but if it never really gets embedded, you know why.

I won't be able to join you tomorrow, but you should really state the timezone too, right? Good luck!
-bill

I think he's in whatever is equivalent to US Mountain Time, so is that GMT - 7..? In any case, he's two hours behind me; I'm good old Eastern Time. I'm expecting to battle at 8:00 p.m. here.

roymond wrote:It's weird to put so much structure around the skirmish. But it's cool.

Yeah, not that I'll do this but rule #2, Create a 250x250 jpg/gif image file displaying the title of your song, your artist name, and a picture representing the song, seems a bit constraining considering the 55 minute time limit. I'm predicting a lot of G & G songs with Sharpie inscribed poster boards listing the title and the band, but nothing involving the title of the song with the photo.

But hey, I've been wrong so many times before I've lost count. So amaze me.

Dan-O from Five-O wrote:

roymond wrote:It's weird to put so much structure around the skirmish. But it's cool.

Yeah, not that I'll do this but rule #2, Create a 250x250 jpg/gif image file displaying the title of your song, your artist name, and a picture representing the song, seems a bit constraining considering the 55 minute time limit. I'm predicting a lot of G & G songs with Sharpie inscribed poster boards listing the title and the band, but nothing involving the title of the song with the photo.

But hey, I've been wrong so many times before I've lost count. So amaze me.

Yeah, I wanted to say something to this effect, so let me jump on your wagon. Rule #2 is nuts. Is the image supposed to be part of the voting criteria? Honestly, who's going to spend time on the image when they can spend time on the song? The song is the focus, no? I've got to write a song, then go hunting for the subject with my camera? You'll probably get something I make in MS Paint in two minutes.

Billy's Little Trip wrote:Quite the pioneer you are Roger. Good luck on your maiden voyage.

Yes, he is quite the ideas man, our Roger - the Nur Ein concept came from his fertile little noggin remember. Ahhhh - youth and enthusiasm - I don't really recall ever having either of them.

This is a great idea JR unfortunately though it's gonna be between 3am and 3:55am over here in merry old GMT land Which kinda screws me, 'specially as it's a Friday morning, but if any more of these come up I'll definately be interested...

Wow, got yourself a whole forum and everything. Nice work.

By the way, I registered to show my support, Roger. But I don't know if I'll ever be able to meet your song frenzy skirmishes. I'm just too damn slow at the music making thing. But, you never know.

Lord of Oats wrote:Yeah, I wanted to say something to this effect, so let me jump on your wagon. Rule #2 is nuts. Is the image supposed to be part of the voting criteria? Honestly, who's going to spend time on the image when they can spend time on the song? The song is the focus, no? I've got to write a song, then go hunting for the subject with my camera? You'll probably get something I make in MS Paint in two minutes.

I don't expect anything more - it's more of a bonus challenge (it's not part of the voting criteria). I'll be using the pictures as the link to the song. I think it'll give more incentive to fly through the recording process, especially if people eventually start doing mid-quality drawings. As long as there's some sort of image file attatched, I will use it.

Speaking of bonus challenges, will there be any optional or non-optional challenges attached to your titles? Those are typically pretty fun to include. I'd probably say to start out with optional, at least until we all get used to working so quickly.

I think the optional challenge idea is cool, but we'll avoid that for a while (it'll be hard enough as is!!). After a few frenzies we'll probably introduce some other element.

By the way, I seem to have misplaced my guitar tuner. I have a few hours to find it and get prepared. No time for tuning during the actual process.

jolly roger wrote:I think the optional challenge idea is cool, but we'll avoid that for a while (it'll be hard enough as is!!). After a few frenzies we'll probably introduce some other element.

By the way, I seem to have misplaced my guitar tuner. I have a few hours to find it and get prepared. No time for tuning during the actual process.

Here's a tuner. Don't say that I never did anything for you.

The first 55 minute frenzy is a success! Each musician completed their song in 55 minutes (more or less), with a picture.

If you want to, come over to review and vote!!

Yeah! Get your ass over there!

Lord of Oats wrote:Yeah! Get your ass over there!

I agree. There's only three songs to review this week, which is almost no work. The songs are all pretty good for a skirmish.

jolly roger wrote:

Lord of Oats wrote:Yeah! Get your ass over there!

I agree. There's only three songs to review this week, which is almost no work. The songs are all pretty good for a skirmish.

Pretty good? Our songs rock ass! They're all better quality than the median SF entry, and we didn't get a whole week!

There's another frenzy tomorrow, if anybody wants to participate!