Song Fight! Poetry Slam... part II
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:27 pm
Alright, this went on around this time last year, and it was pretty fun, so I see no harm in resurrecting it:
Song Fight Spoken Word!
The idea is to take a fellow song fighter's song and do a Spoken Word "cover" of it. No real rules, no obligations, no deadline; just taking people's lyrics that you like and re-imagining them. They can be funny (Yook did a version of Duboce Triangle's "Alright, Alright" that was hilarious) or serious (Jim Tyrell's interpretation of Jonas's "On my Block" is pure brilliance), it's really whatever you want. You can throw in some background sound effects, play the bongos or snap like a beatnik, or just use lots of William Shatner-style pauses, whatever, just have fun with it. It's a fun project because it's flattering for the people who have their songs "covered" and because, really, who hasn't wanted to do a beat poet interpretation of Starfinger's "More than Soup"?
Anybody want to do this? It's not a hugely time-intensive project, and it's really a blast to do and to listen to, so I thought it would be a nice sidefight to resurrect. I threw up one of Jim's entries from the last fight as an example, but don't feel constrained to any particular style... hell, it'd be pretty funny to run the lyrics through Babelfish a few times before recording. No deadline, so the fight'll just run until everybody's sick of it and the thread gets pushed to the bottom of the page.
Just post links to anything you do. Hope some of you guys do it, I love stuff like this. In particular, I'd like to hear someone do an epic monologue version of add's "Across the Dusty Plains" and a hep coffeeshop rendition of Octothorpe's "Skyline".
Song Fight Spoken Word!
The idea is to take a fellow song fighter's song and do a Spoken Word "cover" of it. No real rules, no obligations, no deadline; just taking people's lyrics that you like and re-imagining them. They can be funny (Yook did a version of Duboce Triangle's "Alright, Alright" that was hilarious) or serious (Jim Tyrell's interpretation of Jonas's "On my Block" is pure brilliance), it's really whatever you want. You can throw in some background sound effects, play the bongos or snap like a beatnik, or just use lots of William Shatner-style pauses, whatever, just have fun with it. It's a fun project because it's flattering for the people who have their songs "covered" and because, really, who hasn't wanted to do a beat poet interpretation of Starfinger's "More than Soup"?
Anybody want to do this? It's not a hugely time-intensive project, and it's really a blast to do and to listen to, so I thought it would be a nice sidefight to resurrect. I threw up one of Jim's entries from the last fight as an example, but don't feel constrained to any particular style... hell, it'd be pretty funny to run the lyrics through Babelfish a few times before recording. No deadline, so the fight'll just run until everybody's sick of it and the thread gets pushed to the bottom of the page.
Just post links to anything you do. Hope some of you guys do it, I love stuff like this. In particular, I'd like to hear someone do an epic monologue version of add's "Across the Dusty Plains" and a hep coffeeshop rendition of Octothorpe's "Skyline".
