The Song Fight Bulletin Board

I currently have Lunkhead's version of "Soft Orange Glow" stuck in my head, as I have for the last couple of weeks. I occasionally make Song Fight references in my comics (usually in the hover-popup text) and the one which went up yesterday actually has two such references, one of them being to the aforementioned song (of course the lyrics were written by mico saudad nee Abecedarian so I guess I could be referencing either version).

I think the previous overt reference I made was to Metalmags' "Repair My Heart," again just in the popup text.

Anyway it's usually the songs getting stuck in my head which lead to the references and not the other way around.

So this leads to two QOTDs:

QOTD1: Which Song Fight songs do you tend to get stuck in your head?

QOTD2: Do you tend to make oblique Song Fight references in other things you do, and if so, does anyone else ever get them?

QotD1: Yes, I get Songfight songs stuck in my head all the time. The last SF song to be stuck in my head was "Hollywood Fantasy" by Loyalty Day.

QotD2: All the damn time. Once I asked someone if something smelled like "burnt fur and regurgitated drinks" or "baked infants and fried cheese". And of course, no one gets it but me. Let's hear it for the esoteric.

I have no idea what you're referencing there.

Oh and in my first webcomic (which I am now so ashamed of I don't make it available to the public anymore) pretty much every business was named after a Song Fight song. For example, the local nightclub was The Atom, and there was a clothing shop called "TrendWhore: Experimental Fashion." There was probably more.

Both of those examples (there have been many many more) come from MC Frontalot songs: "...Dude & Catastrophe" and "Rappers We Crush".

1. these ones have gotten stuck in my head a bit (they're not old school or nuthin', but neither am I...) :
Lymph - Maki
TV's Kyle - And Counting
Jeff Robertson and the Neo-Candylanders - Radio Ready
Sunshine Jackson and the Temple of the Righteous Beach Party - I'm Outstanding

2. I haven't really made any songfight references that I can think of, unless I count my own songs. I don't really have any community of people who would get songfight references. Well, my girlfriend might get some of it.. uh, and there's my friend Aaron/"City of Dis", but.. oh wait! Yeah, he and I have, on one occasion, made references to the sun and the moon as Styop Quoons' balls. So that counts. Again, definitely not old school. But it's sumthin.

Yes and yes. Not including any songs I worked on, of course, because those should get stuck in your head, I have often had these stuck:
Starfinger "More than Soup" (like when I see soup, I say to my wife "I like soup!" She's very patient.)
TV's Kyle "Babaganoush"
Brad Sucks "Bad Attraction"

Hmm, there's one that has an unusual word in it, and every time I see that word I think of it.... dunno, can't recall.

M knows many of my SF favorites so I can refer to them in conversation with her and she gets them.
-bill

Niveous wrote:Once I asked someone if something smelled like "burnt fur and regurgitated drinks" or "baked infants and fried cheese". And of course, no one gets it but me. Let's hear it for the esoteric.

Funny, I would think these would be common phrases in deportation hearings.

QofD1: the usual suspects get stuck...

Raised by Wolves' Poison Pill
sonofsupercars' Red Flag
Frankies' I Hate You

It's kind of strange to think of people having a song of mine stuck in their heads. I should really rerecord at least the vocals for that song... Anyway, I listen to a fair amount of SF! music and lots of it gets stuck in my head, especially after I watch people play their songs live. Erin and Ken and I talk about SF! regularly. Hooray for the Berkeley/SF/Bay Area pocket of the SF! universe, I suppose.

Speaking of which are we ever going to do shows here? There are a hell of a lot of small venues near my place which I think would be excellent for a Song Fight show. But I suck at motivation.

Yeah, I'd like to play some shows, and I think many of the other locals would be interested. I was talking to Ken about seeing if we could set up a regular thing at Space Gallery, too. I need to get their contact info. If you want to book something somewhere, though, I'm sure enough people would be interested to fill the bill.

A regular SG show would also be quite excellent, modulo my persistent transportation issues (i.e. my unwillingness to buy a car even though I have a parking spot now).

Niveous wrote:Both of those examples (there have been many many more) come from MC Frontalot songs: "...Dude & Catastrophe" and "Rappers We Crush".

Funny, I got the MC F-a-Lot, burnt fur, one instantly. It was one of those lines that made me chuckle and it stood out, at the time.

Lunk, Ken, fluffy: if there was a regular thing (i.e., something we could plan well in advance), we might make it down from time to time, as in the past. Mad Dog is down in Cali all the time.

SPUD

qotd1: jbb what we need more of is science
qotd2: I steal the music and chorus from it and enter it into songfight and people on songfight still don't know what I did. damn kids have no sense of history

I knew what you did, I just thought it was funny.

Spud wrote:Lunk, Ken, fluffy: if there was a regular thing (i.e., something we could plan well in advance), we might make it down from time to time, as in the past. Mad Dog is down in Cali all the time.

SPUD

Yeah, part of the thought of having something regular would be to try to get different folks from out of town for every show.

QOTD1: Yeah, all the time. Every time I boot up a Windows XP computer, I have to fight the impulse to finish the phrase, as in Jim of Seattle's "Welcome to _____." I had the Idiot Kings' "Bad Attraction" stuck in my head earlier today. I got Elysian Ring's "Bad Dreams" stuck in my head a few days ago, which prompted me to do a "band name literatlism" of them. JBB+ADD's "Look Good in Black" resurfaces in my head periodically, and just Thursday, I was sitting in a deli when some Jesus-rock came on the radio and made me think of King Arthur's "Need Stilts."

QOTD2: Hardly ever, actually, which I guess is kind of weird because I'm the kind of person who does that stuff. I do periodically break out into Starfinger's "More than Soup" when indulging in a particularly awesome soup, but no one gets it.

HeuristicsInc wrote:(like when I see soup, I say to my wife "I like soup!" She's very patient.)

Yeah, that.

Generic wrote:I was sitting in a deli when some Jesus-rock came on the radio and made me think of King Arthur's "Need Stilts."

Ouch, sorry man. I've done my best to forget that one myself, but like Reist's "My Life" post in the DRC (which, by the way, hasn't been bumped since July 3rd), it keeps coming back...

Most of the stuff that's been stuck in my head lately has been from all the old LPs I've been dubbing over lately... I just finished a bunch of old Bruce Cockburn stuff that I never re-bought on CD, doing some Smokey Robinson right now. Weirdly, there are at least a couple old LPs that I want to do, that just haven't turned up yet, and I'm wondering if somewhere there's a stash of "the albums I really want to dub to CD" that won't surface until after I send the turntable back...

DRC: there's a lot of background to this, but we got a call last night that a woman from one of the churches in Mexico where our church has gone to do construction projects was shot and killed yesterday. She had been working as a security guard for the local police, and yesterday as she walked out of the police station, in uniform, she was shot, and died last night.

She had eight children, and the father of some of them is a guy who I have been trying for several years to do a recording for - he writes worship songs and used to lead worship at one of the other churches where we did some construction work, and he wanted to get the songs recorded for posterity if nothing else... he is currently "out of the picture," but it's a more complicated situation than it sounds...

Charles (KA)

qotd: "Piece of my Heat" by Deshead