The Song Fight Bulletin Board

A: Ease Up On The Drugs
Due: Friday, 02/08/08 9:59am pst
B: Why So Serious?
Due: Friday, 02/08/08 9:59am pst

Ease up on the drugs? C'mon -- why so serious?
We're musicians, after all!
You need to loosen up, Spudster!

Why so serious-------Here come the Heath Ledger tributes....

thanks for allowing these titles a bunch of february time for the fawmers. is it offically all right to submit songs for both titles this month due to the competition? what is the will of the fightmasters?

It is perfectly okay to RECORD both titles. Submit the better of the two.

Yeah, no reason some event unrelated to Songfight should change Songfight's rules.

And seriously. A long due date during February is kind of counter-intuitive to FAWM, isn't it?

I'll see if I can't turn in something for "Ease up on the Drugs," but as a FAWMer, I won't be able to, in good conscience, put that in my February album.

I can guarantee that my song has NOTHING to do with Heath Ledger, and I just posted the lyrics to prove it.

I will also take this opportunity to state my self-imposed optional challenge for this fight:

A previously unreleased Jonathan Richman song from the same period as "Hospital" and "I'm Straight", as covered by the Cars circa 1978.. if they were from Alabama.

Generic wrote:I'll see if I can't turn in something for "Ease up on the Drugs," but as a FAWMer, I won't be able to, in good conscience, put that in my February album.

Why not? I don't see anything in the FAWM rules that says songs have to be written specifically for FAWM. Just curious.

And a reminder to everybody who had fun doing the "Make Own Album Art" thing... new titles! Since a lot of the "most interesting photos" from flickr are fairly recognizable, we might want to say "use a photo of your own" instead of a flickr shot (that's what I did for the art I just submitted).

Charles

king_arthur wrote:

Generic wrote:I'll see if I can't turn in something for "Ease up on the Drugs," but as a FAWMer, I won't be able to, in good conscience, put that in my February album.

Why not? I don't see anything in the FAWM rules that says songs have to be written specifically for FAWM. Just curious.

Because I started writing it yesterday, and February isn't till Friday.

Ding! "Ease Up on the Drugs"

Oh, and I see we won 5 years ago...:)

Belated congratulations!

I'm coming up on my four year anniversary, which means in about a year I'm gonna start losing a bunch of fights all over again.

Why is Rone so serious? Find out in a week (give or take) when I make a rare SF appearance with Why So Serious?

I'm in. I'll try and have a real song for this one, but if time is not on my side, I will have to resort to 30 seconds of vocoder and cheesy chords.

ok just sent one in for why so serious.
i'd have to say...between the pointless lyrics and screwing around with autotune this is possibly the crappiest song ive ever made. ENJOY!

Ha ha... I love how people who can't sing resort to autotune (myself included). I intend to run Melodyne through all of its gears in this fight. That is, if I don't get sent to camp like the last million fights.

I'll be in for "Why So Serious?".

signboy wrote:Ha ha... I love how people who can't sing resort to autotune (myself included). I intend to run Melodyne through all of its gears in this fight. That is, if I don't get sent to camp like the last million fights.

It's not the tuning, so much as the timing for me. Do these gadgets also snap your syllables to the beat?

Yes, Melodyne does, although you (probably) still have to tweak it.
-bill

jeff robertson wrote:

signboy wrote:Ha ha... I love how people who can't sing resort to autotune (myself included). I intend to run Melodyne through all of its gears in this fight. That is, if I don't get sent to camp like the last million fights.

It's not the tuning, so much as the timing for me. Do these gadgets also snap your syllables to the beat?

GarageBand does both, and let's you adjust the amount of correction for each using simple slider controls. Musicianship has never been so user friendly!

Now, when someone invents AutoRock!, so I can just turn up the amount that I Rock!, I will be eternally grateful. (Assuming I can get AutoGratitude to go to infinity...)

Mostess wrote:
Now, when someone invents AutoRock!, so I can just turn up the amount that I Rock!, I will be eternally grateful. (Assuming I can get AutoGratitude to go to infinity...)

I'd be more interested in AutoTimeControl, so that I would actually have enough time to actually finish some of my fights.

I just finished my first run of "Why So Serious?" and it went pretty well. I'll probably write a metalish "Ease Up On The Drugs" and see which I like better and send that.

Should be fun.

SO, I know people have discussed this before, but I don't realy get why someone would send in something they actuallythink is crappy, or deliberately create a throwaway track, like LSK is suggesting (and may be joking about).

Are these posts just defense mechanisms to protect against if other people think its terrible?

This probably ought to go in Monkey business, but since some of these posts are along these lines I thought I'd pos the question here.

So, to those of you who do this, - why send in something if you think it's crap?