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What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 12:33 am
by Spud
What Kind of Love Are You Looking For
Due: Friday, 05/14/10 9:59am pdt
mp3 with artist name sent to fightmaster@songfight.org

subject: What Kind of Love Are You Looking For
message: Your Band Name
attachment: yourbandname_wkolaylf.mp3

Re: What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 5:02 am
by AJOwens
Title inspired by the new Christina Aguilera video? (You won't see it on TV.)

Re: What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 8:43 am
by HeadShot
Title inspired by the hairy guy in leather who grabbed you at the bar?

Re: What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 6:36 pm
by erik
I want the kind of love where you can be a whore and I can be a drunk.

Re: What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Wed May 05, 2010 4:52 am
by j$
I want the kind of love where I can be a drunk whore. Doesn't matter what you do.

Re: What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 11:59 pm
by thebreadbox
Not sure as yet, but my guess is it'll be on the dirty side.

Re: What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 12:53 am
by blue
Pylon writes a VW commercial with the Rev Horton Heat channeling Bob Dylan while singing lyrics written by Jim Morrison.

Re: What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Fri May 07, 2010 5:16 am
by AJOwens
If I get it finished, it'll be what the youngsters call a "dance song."

Re: What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 6:06 pm
by HeadShot
When I actually think about this song, in my head it's playing to the tune and melody of Desmond Dekker's "You can get it if you really want." If I'm gonna contend in this one, that's the style I'll do it in.

Re: What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 1:56 pm
by signboy
heh. In, with a quickie.

Re: What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 10:25 pm
by king_arthur
Working on something, but it's that blues song that was everybody's first idea for the song, and then they came up with something better. So if I don't submit it, it'll be because I don't want to tarnish my reputation as... uhh, forget it...

Actually, I kinda wore out my voice trying to sing it in A, and now that I'm trying to do it in G, it still sounds too raspy...

Charles (KA)

Re: What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 9:19 am
by AJOwens
It's coming along. It was supposd to be a dance song, but maybe it's disco, I can't always tell the difference. The lyrics (now posted) are not well-matched to either genre. I still have to add vocals, but I don't have a dance-song voice. The track will therefore be a strange hybrid.

Re: What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 1:48 pm
by jast
king_arthur wrote:Working on something, but it's that blues song that was everybody's first idea for the song
My first idea was actually something singer-songwriter-y, and now that I think about it, Ross has actually already written that song. I only write blues songs if I make an actual effort to do so, and I've only done that once.

Anyway, I'm now in with my second idea. It's not singer-songwriter-y, it's not bluesy, it's not dancey, it's not disco-y. Imagine that.

Re: What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 6:06 pm
by rone rivendale
Country Martyrs are OFFICIALLY in. It's about damn time too.

Re: What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 6:20 pm
by Caravan Ray
HeadShot wrote:When I actually think about this song, in my head it's playing to the tune and melody of Desmond Dekker's "You can get it if you really want." If I'm gonna contend in this one, that's the style I'll do it in.
Don't you mean Jimmy Cliff?

I'd prefer you it to the tune and melody of Desmond Dekker's "Israelites".

Re: What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 8:01 pm
by Ross
I am writing a sappy character study on piano.

Re: What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 9:30 pm
by Madren
In it - but not to win it.

I have officially gone all live tracks this week, no programming in the mix (not even effects beyond some chorus and reverb). Since I do not own drums, this means there are no drums :'( but gosh I love my new Danelectro U2 on clean settings.

Now it's time to eat the dinner I should have eaten hours ago.

Re: What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 12:08 am
by AwesomeGorgeous
Yes yes y'all. I'm back. ... apologizing in advance.
You don't even remember me. Several years ago I used to post as Chucky, enter as Extra Credit. We've entered as Apply Liberally to Inside of Mouth (maybe, or that might have only been me, but anyways..)
Anyways: our band is called Bad Catholic Schoolgirls.
A little set up I guess:
I'm Awesome F. Gorgeous, he's Special-T. We're some sort of rap-group, I guess.
I demand you all listen to our shit: http://www.myspace.com/badcatholicschoolgirls/
because this is what we do so it'd be cool if people hear it.
We've been lurkin all your shit for years. ;)

Anyways, stoked to be 'back in the game', can't wait to hear the other entries.

Re: What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 1:17 am
by Ross
I'm in. here are some more characters:

Ahab, Charlie Brown, Oliver twist, Henry Vi, Salvor Hardin, Godot, Dirty Harry, Peter Rabbit, Hannibal Lecter, Jesus

I think that's ten characters...

Re: What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 6:09 am
by AJOwens
In. I'd edit the ending to make the song shorter, but I'm out of time. (I have a day job.)

Best enjoyed with strobe lights.

Re: What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 10:50 am
by longfellowstreet
Country Martyrs is a kick-ass band name.

Longfellow Street is in. We're from Jacksonville, FL, a five-piece sort of kinda alt-country-rock-jazz-swing band. We do one of the songs I wrote for Songfight a long time ago, called "I'm With Steve Now", which evolved nicely from music-dork-and-friend-in-front-of-computer-with-guitar into a jazz-blues number with pedal steel and striding bass. For this one, Mallory and I were looking for something fun to do to kill an afternoon. Hey, look! Awesome title on Songfight! Longfellow Street's been together for almost two years, but Mal and I had never written a song together, so here you go. Was freakin' fun to make up. Cody came over and did drums the next day, but we never could get either of our other guitar players to do a lead bit, so you get me banging away on the glockenspiel instead. We did the song at Jam Night the next evening, went over well. Hope y'all dig it.

Peace,
Trey

Re: What kind of song are you writing?

Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 12:26 pm
by AJOwens
Ouch. My timing is impossibly bad. This news just broke.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/windsor/story/ ... 00514.html