Title: Weekend in the City
Non Optional Challenge: Epic story song
Songs are due on Monday, June 3rd @ 12:01 AM EDT
Send your MP3 to nurein.sidefight@gmail.com
3 bands will be eliminated.
Re: Nur Ein VIII- Round Six
Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 8:06 pm
by Manhattan Glutton
What is an epic story song?
I work at epic systems, can I write about my job?
Re: Nur Ein VIII- Round Six
Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 9:12 pm
by Manhattan Glutton
Too late. I already wrote a song about computer programming. If I get eliminated, it's on your heads, judges.
Re: Nur Ein VIII- Round Six
Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 9:18 pm
by Lunkhead
Oh man, I'm having bad flashbacks to Nur Ein II Round 6's six-minute challenge.
Re: Nur Ein VIII- Round Six
Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 10:01 pm
by JonPorobil
To truly classify as an Epic, your lyrics must be composed of at least twenty separate books.
Better get crackin'.
Re: Nur Ein VIII- Round Six
Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 10:45 pm
by Caravan Ray
psssst....if anyone needs any help, I will let you have this cheap:
Niveous wrote:Round Two
Title: I Don’t Want An Answer To That
Just change the word "week" to "weekend", and change the word "beach" to "city" and you're golden. Ticks all the boxes. It's a Songfight winner and a proven Nur Ein performer. You can't go wrong
Re: Nur Ein VIII- Round Six
Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 11:47 pm
by furrypedro
Shame Chokehold Princess wasn't in for this. I think Ben woulda taken ya'll to the cleaners with this challenge.
Title: Weekend in the City
Non Optional Challenge: Epic story song
Ben Krieger and Furry Pedro get special Wildcard entries.
I would be happy with that - to hear the NY/London smack down.
(I don't even know if Pedro lives in London - but England is so small - I guess all of it is London. Right J$?)
Re: Nur Ein VIII- Round Six
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 9:58 am
by glennny
The Cavedwellers have studied under the great Ben Krieger, we once backed him up on a live version of Cable Beach.
I agree Ben would have owned this challenge. We have some epics in our old catalog, it's nice to have motivation to do a new one!
Nur Ein!!!!!!
Re: Nur Ein VIII- Round Six
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 10:17 am
by Lunkhead
I think this is the only potentially epic song Erin and I have made:
Oh hey, what are you guys all up to? I've just been kicking back with a book and some LPs and watching some baseball. It's pretty sweet.
(and then when their backs are turned: )
Re: Nur Ein VIII- Round Six
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 11:55 am
by Manhattan Glutton
Getting hammered and reading the internet, with the occasional outburst on acoustic guitar. My songwriting process is very organic, you see.
Re: Nur Ein VIII- Round Six
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 1:10 pm
by iVeg
Wrote "Scientific 7" for Songfight, recorded part of it. Went to the beach. Wrote up ideas for a "Nein" version of "Weekend in the City". Trying to figure out why my mixes sound half the volume of everybody elses, and how to sing/ play/ record/ mix better...
Re: Nur Ein VIII- Round Six
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 1:47 pm
by Lunkhead
Do you run a "maximizer" plugin on your main outs? This video explains it pretty well:
Re: Nur Ein VIII- Round Six
Posted: Thu May 30, 2013 2:24 pm
by iVeg
Thank you! Using Audacity right now, and maximizer isn't in the basic plugins. I can run a limiter + normalizer, tho. I'll try that this week.
Re: Nur Ein VIII- Round Six
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 4:12 am
by Paco Del Stinko
Ah, Saturday. Time to start...EVERYTHING!
Re: Nur Ein VIII- Round Six
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2013 2:59 pm
by j$
Caravan Ray wrote:(I don't even know if Pedro lives in London - but England is so small - I guess all of it is London. Right J$?)
Small enough to be in two camps - London / Not London.
That said, FP lives close enough to London that we performed together on stage as recently as February this year. I was amazing, him ... let's just say "Not London"
Re: Nur Ein VIII- Round Six
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 9:48 am
by Manhattan Glutton
If I could get a decent vocal take before midnight, I would be so happy.
Re: Nur Ein VIII- Round Six
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 12:44 pm
by Paco Del Stinko
Hell, Man Glut. I'm in without a decent vocal. What's your problem? Damn kids these days.
Re: Nur Ein VIII- Round Six
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 2:24 pm
by Manhattan Glutton
Not all of us are blessed with a perfect voice, paco.
This beer may help with nourishment, but it will probably not help my song.
Re: Nur Ein VIII- Round Six
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 9:23 pm
by Lunkhead
We suffered some last minute technical difficulties but our song is on its way, a touch late. We throw ourselves on the mercy of the judges.
(Accidentally posted that in the Round Five thread at first. Oops!)
)
We throw ourselves on the mercy of the judges.