The Song Fight Bulletin Board

so my home boy e money just called me to tell me that he had the latest issue of Magnet magazine (apparently some hot stuff indie music mag) and he said Songfight! got mentioned in it. he said specifically it mentions SMU and LEF by name. and apparently it's uh...less than flattering?

haven't actually seen it yet but he read me the blurb over the phone.

Someone buy a copy and scan it, please. I haven't been able to find Magnet here in town in a couple years.

Confimed. I checked it out at lunch. It is the one with Sleater-Kinney on the cover.

Ken

magnet

apparently, the fight the writer/editor listened to was the "dog without warning" fight. among the other notable SF artists in that particular fight:

Chop Shop, Fat Steaming Bag, Forty Second Songs, Johnny Cashpoint, Roy Castle, Spy vs. Pie, and Urine Luck.

none of whom got mentioned or maybe even listened to.

i'm kind of glad i didn't get mentioned either.

I read the blurb, and it's not so bad. I'm one who would easily fly off the handle and write them a nasty letter if they dissed us, and the blurb they came up with doesn't make me want to do that. Seems kind of straightforward "feature-style" writing. I didn't come away feeling insulted.

Too bad the writer didn't pick up on "Dog Without Warning" as being taken from 2 Live Crew's "Me So Horny" lyrics. Lotta fodder for interest there he missed out on.

can someone, please type in the blurb or like asked above, scan in the page?

bortwein wrote:can someone, please type in the blurb or like asked above, scan in the page?

I went to some bookstores I don't normally frequent. The article is pretty straight-forward, FAQ type of stuff.

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SITE INSPECTION >> http://WWW.SONGFIGHT.ORG

The first rule of Song Fight: there is no song. There is, however, a song title. Each week, this site's editors post made-up song titles (samples: "Here Comes Your Dragon", "I'm With Steve Now", "Gin or Ginseng") and invite musicians to come up with the accompanying music and lyrics. Visitors listen to the mp3 submissions and vote to decide which aspiring artist wins, hell, nothing. The real thrill- and oftentimes, agony- is in hearing bands like Swedish Masturbation Unit and Lightning Ear Fart perform their versions of "Dog Without Warning".

I think it was C Hack that said he stopped telling his friends about song fight because they would always go and end up listening to a LEF "song".

Anyways, kind of cool to think somone at the magazine could've listened to our "Gin or Ginseng".

Typical that they choose the accentuate the 'look at these kooks with the kerazzy song titles/band names and their wacky tunelessness' aspect of songfight. For sure it's part, but not parcel, of all that is us.

Any publicity is good publicity? And it took them over a year to go from visiting the site to talking about it in their magazine?

j$

They probably heard the songs in the archives like a month ago, or whenever they wrote the article.

erikb wrote:...this site's editors post made-up song titles...

As opposed to those that god created. I mean, uh ... wow.

I try to stress to anyone I tell about songfight that there are gems among the trash, and the best thing is they're all less than a week old. Like holding a new born baby. Well, not exactly, because apparently these are "made up" babies.

I think the guy was trying to make the important point that songfight isn't posting titles to songs that already exist (most of the time) and then asking people to make up new songs for pre-existing titles. It's about posting titles that they have "made up" themselves.

erikb wrote:The first rule of Song Fight: there is no song. There is, however, a song title.

Referencing <i>Fight Club</i>? Very trite and quite outdated now. (I'm referring to the writer's reference, not the movie or the book, neither of which I've gotten to intake.) Lame.

Agony or thrill - it's ambiguous enough to easily be mistaken as a compliment. Perhaps I should prepare for interviews and a tour next? Who is driving tour bus? JUDAS DRIVING TOUR BUS!?

I'd bet that if Songfight! makes an anti-war CD I WILL be the one interviewed. And with subject matter so rich, how could I NOT perform for the President too? Imagine sharing the stage with the likes of The Sober Irishman, Fluffy Porqupine, Jack Shite and Lightning Ear Fart. An incredible command performance to bury the gears of the war machine in a smoking hole. Let's bring em' on!

what?

You know, I really do miss your posts, mc3po.