The Song Fight Bulletin Board

'Tis the season for our yearly version of Secret Santa, it's:

2008/2009 GIFT OF MUSIC

Here's the concept:
Anyone who wants to be a part of this cover challenge simply needs to post here, telling me that they're in and listing 4 songs (links to the songs are appreciated). These 4 songs are 4 songs that you really like and would like to hear covered. Once the list of participants is compiled, the names will be tossed into a hat and paired off.

From there, each participant will get a private message telling them who they'll be giving the gift of music to as well as the 4 songs that person chose. The participant picks 1 song from the 4 and covers the song. Then on the due date, we post the results and everybody wins.

It's Secret Santa meets Coverfight meets Hxaro with incredible results. The previous GoMs have been exceptional. Check them out on Eddiebangs' website Soul Tree Records:

2003 http://www.songfight.org/giftofmusic.php?key=gom_one
2004 http://www.songfight.org/giftofmusic.php?key=gom_two
2005 http://www.songfight.org/giftofmusic.php?key=gom_three
2006 http://www.soultreerecords.com/GOM/2006.html
2007 http://www.soultreerecords.com/GOM/2007.html

SONGS ARE DUE ON 1/12/09.

Finished songs should be named in the same manner as songfight entries.

To submit your finished song, send it as an attachment in an email to:

GOM (at) SOULTREERECORDS.COM

ALSO INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING INFO
(copy & paste, then add your answers please)

1. Original atrist:

2. Song Title:

3. Your Name/Group Name (as you want it displayed):

4. Link to your website(s):

5. Quote:

6. Requested by:


The deadline to be eligible for prizes is Jan 10
Late entries will be included in the GOM, but will be flagged as ineligible for prizes.
ALSO PLEASE NOTE:
The email address you use to send your submission will be used to verify your identity during prize voting. Please only use an email address you check/use regularly to facilitate prompt and accurate voting results.
Your email address will not be sold or shared, and will be discarded by soultreerecords.com upon completion of voting.

I am in.

My choices this year:

1. Stevie Wonder - Overjoyed

2. The Divine Comedy - Songs Of Love

3. Citizen Cope - Bullet And A Target

4. Liz Phair - Stratford-On-Guy

I'm in. I'll get back with my songs.

It's GoM time ALREADY? Good gravy, where does the time go? Anyway, I will most assuredly be in. Songs to come.

This year I'd like to see an effort to unearth the older GoM entries. A lot of the links from the '03 and '04 pages don't work anymore, so I'd like to see updated ones. For example, I'm dying to hear Glenn's Megadeth cover and Starfinger's Billy Joel cover from the '03 GoM.

I think I'd like to try this again.


I don't have links at this time, but I'm gonna pick songs from my youth...


Things I do for Money- The Northern Pikes

I will Follow - U2

Master of Puppets - Metallica

Fight like a Brave - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Albatross wrote:I'm dying to hear Glenn's Megadeth cover

You're not missing much...

I have participated in GoM every year since it's inception. Needless to say, I am in.

Song choices forthcoming.

ROCK!

Glenn Case

I was wondering why this was happening so early, then I realized...it's October...

Yeah, I'm in. Lemme holla back in a bit.

It felt early to me too but every year, it starts up in early October. 'Tis the season.

I'm in, I suppose, with the same four songs I picked last year. I'll look them up later but for now I'm drunk and tired.

I think I still owe someone a song. I will finish that before posting a new list.

I'm always in. These are great. Ho ho and all that.

Count me inski. I'll post songs tomorrow, or no later than Friday. Yipee!

I hereby offer to organize the "help the stiffed" committee.

I had a great time recording the tune I did last year, but it was a little disappointing to be waiting to see who would cover one of the songs I asked for and never get one. I know that Jack and some others took the time to do a few covers for some of the stiffed and I thought that was really cool, it is what inspired this idea for me.

Therefore - I am offering to organize a group of fighters who will take the responsibility to record something for each artists stiffed in the GOM exchange this year (assuming that some get stuffed - it would be awesome if none did). Assuredly there would be a reasonable grace period for those who are merely a little late, but once things shake out, I'd like to organize a group to make sure each individual gets a song. Niveous already does tons just to make this happen, so this is meant merely as support. I figure that those stiffed are the ones who covered a song for someone else but did not have anyone cover one of theirs.

So - drop me a PM if you'd like to be part of the team to help the stiffed. Then we'll lie in wait till January or so and see how we can help - it would be great if it wasn't necessary - but we'll see what happens

Albatross wrote: This year I'd like to see an effort to unearth the older GoM entries. A lot of the links from the '03 and '04 pages don't work anymore, so I'd like to see updated ones. For example, I'm dying to hear Glenn's Megadeth cover and Starfinger's Billy Joel cover from the '03 GoM.

The links are dead? Hmm... I've got folders for 04-07 here (but not evidently 03). Oh, I see, I think I deleted the ones I didn't like from '03 and stuck the ones I did like in a collection folder.
Anyway, I have many of the files... Is this a King Arthur job for the sidefights archive?
But just for you: State of Grace. I don't think he's happy about how it came out

I had been wondering when Niv was gonna announce this... I'm in! I have the idea to pick songs from my wedding.
-bill

Ross: I'm on board with that. No one gets left behind.

Albatross wrote:This year I'd like to see an effort to unearth the older GoM entries. A lot of the links from the '03 and '04 pages don't work anymore, so I'd like to see updated ones.

Two of mine never got updated on the old pages:

XTC's It's Nearly Africa for Jim of Seattle (2003)
Devo's Pink Pussycat for Albatross (2006)

I'd prefer if my first two (three?) didn't re-emerge. Anything from 'Tainted Love' onwards is fine.

Oh yeah, i'm in again, please. This will be my fifth GoM (after boycotting one year for a reason that i only vaguely remember)

j$

Sausage Boy is in.

The return of paranoia.

Change in direction this year.

I have always very patriotically provided all Australian content for these things in the past. This year - it only makes sense to shift it all across 'the ditch', for an All Aotearoan GOM list:

I See Red - Split Enz
Down In Splendour - Straitjacket Fits
Not Given Lightly - Chris Knox
There Is No Depression In New Zealand - Blam Blam Blam

(will post mp3s later)

Blam Blam Blam video is a bit crap - but there is a cool shot at about 2:18 of Mt Taranaki. That is what I go out of my house and see every morning (well, on the rare mornings when it isn't raining anyway)

OK, here we go. One of these is a holdover from last year's list, which went unfulfilled:

"Popcorn" - Gershon Kingsley ( original (1969) | Hot Butter (1972) | M & H Band (1987) | Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra (1998) | Fiddler's Green (2003) )

"Dog Police" - Dog Police ( mp3 | lyrics | YouTube )

"The Frogs" - Wesley Willis Fiasco ( mp3 | lyrics | live YouTube )

"Teenage Enema Nurses In Bondage" - Killer Pussy ( mp3 | lyrics )

Hell yeah, I'm in.

Tentatively:
1) Melvins/Skeleton Key- Spineless
2) Jane's Addiction- Mountain Song Big Wreck- How Would You Know Broken Hands
3) Queens of the Stone Age- Regular John
4) C'mon- uhn

Subject to change.

i think i'm gonna skip this year, but ross, i'm happy to join your "stiff committee".