The Song Fight Bulletin Board

A: Cute Boots
Due: Friday, 01/25/08 9:59am pst
optional challenge: Live Recording

"Cute Boots" and "They Control the Weather" will be posted simultaneously.
You guys in New York send in your live recordings!

At least the first night we had dual laptop recordings from different mics, so hopefully one of them came out ok.
-bill

I assume that even if you entered for "They Control the Weather", you're still allowed to enter for "Cute Boots"? Just making sure.

jeff robertson wrote:I assume that even if you entered for "They Control the Weather", you're still allowed to enter for "Cute Boots"? Just making sure.

Absolutely.

Would that also mean that I have to enter in order to maintain my streak of continuous entries?

Absolutely not.

Lord of Oats wrote:Would that also mean that I have to enter in order to maintain my streak of continuous entries?

It seems to me that that call is up to you. If it were me I'd say yes. Two separate titles posted in succession with different due dates. The second title posted after the first was due. They look like serial entires to me. Not parallel.

Steve Durand wrote:

Lord of Oats wrote:Would that also mean that I have to enter in order to maintain my streak of continuous entries?

It seems to me that that call is up to you. If it were me I'd say yes. Two separate titles posted in succession with different due dates. The second title posted after the first was due. They look like serial entires to me. Not parallel.

Dude, you just blew my mind...especially with the double "that that".

And yet it seems that that "that that" - that it really was necessary in this context.

Charles (KA)

I'm gonna go ahead and warn ya'll.

The lyrics I've got so far are one of those things where the fight title is briefly mentioned in one of the verses, but isn't part of the chorus, and a casual observer would probably think the song was called something else.

Lord of Oats wrote:Would that also mean that I have to enter in order to maintain my streak of continuous entries?

the song titles were both prefaced by A:.
if the two titles were going to be considered as a group, i would think that the second one would be labeled B:.
so i say, yeah, if you don't enter this one, you lose your streak.
my continuous streak, however, goes back to last april with the "Clause 5" fight. it'll be a year here for me pretty soon, which would be about 51 weeks longer that i thought i'd be here.

king_arthur wrote:And yet it seems that that "that that" - that it really was necessary in this context.

Charles (KA)

I actually think that that "that that" that that Songfighter said was kind of forced. 8)

I might be in. No promises.

Gettin' dizzy here...

I'm working on something for Cute Boots. I really like that that title for some reason.

everytime i think of this title i hear it in an elvis presley voice.
the second optional challenge should be: sung in the style of elvis presley.

I'm in. The live performance was spirited enough, so if the sound is okay then I'll submit that. Actually, I might toy with adding some extra instrumentation to the live track. And some raucous audience response. If I remember correctly, the song could really use both. Heh.

jackfrost wrote:everytime i think of this title i hear it in an elvis presley voice.
the second optional challenge should be: sung in the style of elvis presley.

That is ALWAYS an optional challenge.

Lockheed symphony is in here. I've never really been much of a songfight streaker, even though I'm not sure if my songs are revealing enough for you to care, but I'm pretty sure that my longest streak was all of three fights. I've done that three times, I think (ottoman-anomaly, night terrors-and counting) (just to be difficult-the last year). Actually, the only one of those that I used the same band name each time was the last one. Whatevs.

My first twenty-six weeks of Songfighting were all consecutive, comprising something like 75 different songs, including all the collabs and stuff. I probably could have done even more, but I intentionally stopped short of breaking Octothorpe's record.

Then, something odd happened... I developed standards! Suddenly, I was listening to songs as the deadline approached, and realizing they weren't good enough! Weird.

I might be in "Cute Boots," but I won't know for sure until tomorrow night. If I don't have most of the recording done by then, I won't be in at all.

Generic wrote:Then, something odd happened... I developed standards! Suddenly, I was listening to songs as the deadline approached, and realizing they weren't good enough! Weird.

checking...nope...no standards here. this site gets me to finish songs and let go of them instead of half writing things, never finishing them, and constantly listing long lists of songs that were never finished, and waxing nostalgic about getting back to them someday. personally, i'd rather have a song locked down, recorded and out the door instead of another if-only-half-song. i've never promised quality, rarely has it been present in the fights i've listened to, and never has it been present in my submissions. i don't listen to the songs here for quality, i listen for the inspiration and inventiveness that comes with working under the deadlines and conditions that this site imposes.

I'm in.

Ever since the X-Files was still on TV, I've always wanted to write a song called "Cigarette Smoking Woman". Never did, but always thought about it.

As I was in the middle of writing "Cute Boots" it hit me, this was more or less what I wanted "Cigarette Smoking Woman" to sound like.

So I made it be both. Genre: psychadelic southern rock disco.

The Weakest Suit wrote: i've never promised quality, rarely has it been present in the fights i've listened to, and never has it been present in my submissions. i don't listen to the songs here for quality, i listen for the inspiration and inventiveness that comes with working under the deadlines and conditions that this site imposes.

That said, I do believe my songs have improved in quality since my first fight. Not necessarily improving in every fight, but improving on average over the course of months and years.

My songwriting skills will probably remain on the same plateau they've been on for over a decade, as will my guitar chops. But if I didn't think I was gradually improving in terms of overall sound quality, I'd probably find a different hobby.