Turn The German Power Snow Tank On The Fort prefight

Post by **Spud** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:25 pm

Please fasten your seat belts.

erik · Post by **erik** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 1:39 pm

There is more than one title on this flight, please take a moment to locate the closest title to you, taking into account that it may be behind you.

Post by **Spud** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:00 pm

If this fight loses pressure, bags of hot air will descend - wait, maybe even if it doesn't lose pressure...

Justincombustion · Post by **Justincombustion** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:03 pm

The HalfRacks are gonna TURN THE POWER ON!!

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:14 pm

Yikes. I say, Yikes.

EDIT: My horror at the above photo is completely off-topic. Let's bring this post back into focus by claiming to be preparing a song this week. I know someone who is house-sitting at a place that has a grand piano, so I'm gonna go over with my digital 4-track and see what I can come up with.

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:47 pm

I'm returning home on Friday, by which point I may or may not speak German, as it were. No guarantees.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:18 pm

For those who don't know I've had a tough couple of months. And coming out of this dark patch, I've come to realize that I've been lacking focus. So I am going to attempt to participate into a fight a week until March of 2006. Yes, that means everyone dealing with a lot of antifolk g^2 (but that's my thing) except when I'm collaborating. But I think I need to do this. (Plus, I finally have my equipment set up in a place where I can record in peace.) Wish me luck.

Andy Balham · Post by **Andy Balham** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:49 pm

Niveous wrote:Wish me luck.

Consider it wished. I'm always up for a collab if it grabs you, I find they help when you need a kick up the backside motivation-wise.

drë · Post by **drë** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:08 pm

Andy Balham wrote:
Niveous wrote:Wish me luck.
Consider it wished. I'm always up for a collab if it grabs you, I find they help when you need a kick up the backside motivation-wise.

LET'S NOT ALSO FORGET THAT EDDIE'S SHOP CHOP IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS THIS WEEK

http://songfight.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19605#19605

KICK ASS!

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:41 pm

Niveous wrote:For those who don't know I've had a tough couple of months. And coming out of this dark patch, I've come to realize that I've been lacking focus. So I am going to attempt to participate into a fight a week until March of 2006. Yes, that means everyone dealing with a lot of antifolk g^2 (but that's my thing) except when I'm collaborating. But I think I need to do this. (Plus, I finally have my equipment set up in a place where I can record in peace.) Wish me luck.

Don't forget to take a break on week 27!

Liechty · Post by **Liechty** » Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:41 pm

I'm turning the power on.
fools leaving the power off for too long.

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:58 am

I may be in this one.

Then again, I may not be.

To die. In the rain.

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:26 am

I predict Turn the Power On will be this week's winner in the Most Entries category, with Man Speaking German coming in dead last.

Though I think it is admirable that underdogs will get a good chance at the other fights due to the imbalance, I imagine some more effort could probably go into producing viable titles.

But then I am a hopeless whiner.

*gets to work*

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:29 am

I don't know if I agree with you, Sparks. Just because SFers like speaking German. Example- "Violet Wants It Her Way" by Klownhole.

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:33 am

Hmmm that argument doesn't really make sense, Sparks, unless you're suggesting the 'most viable' titles will always attract the 'best' songwriters .....

And anyway winning a fight against an 12 second spoons 'n' piano instrumental recorded on a computer mic and a 7 minute sound collage by f*Art in a Jar, has no real bragging rights, does it? it's kind of like winning a little league by taking in a team of professionals.

ps I am talking about a metaphorical fight here, and I am and always will be a member of that metaphorical f*Art in a Jar

j$

Oh by the way I will be in 'man speaking german' - with an ode to Kompressor.

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:34 am

Really, M, Y and K all have a good chance at the "loser fight of the week" spot. Snow Fort will surely pull in some less-than-amusing rap attempts, to its credit.

And no, I'm sure the minor fights attract good fighters as well--but it is always embarrassing when a taltentless oddball pulls a win out of his pocket due to poor competition or "voting irregularity". Keado is still the timeless example.

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:35 am

Ah, OK, if I had known you were delibrately talking toss, i wouldn't have replied in the first place :p

sparks · Post by **sparks** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:37 am

I don't think I know what that means, but I somehow still assure you that I rarely do anything but.

Is that a brit-ism?

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 12:43 am

Sparks, I respect you, but really. How aren't all four titles really awesome this week? And what about "Snow Fort" do you think lends itself particularly to bad rap?

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 1:03 am

Can you post the .pdf we made of the rules we all agreed upon for deciding which titles everyone has to think are awesome? Because I cannot find my copy anywhere.

drë · Post by **drë** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 2:01 am

15-16 puzzle wrote:Can you post the .pdf we made of the rules we all agreed upon for deciding which titles everyone has to think are awesome? Because I cannot find my copy anywhere.

it took me awhile, but searching through the old dumbrella forums i found the old links..
theres actually 2 .pdf files, the original rules, and then the revise version, as people kept changing their minds.

http://songfight.net/docs/titles_rules.pdf

http://songfight.net/docs/titles_rules_revised.pdf

hope it helps, but i doubt you'll get anything out of it.

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 10:17 am

Snow fort brings back memories.

Don't know if I'll actually put them into song... or riff....or a collab... I think a title is what you make of it....either it inspires you or it doesn't . That's half the charm of the competition though.