front a lot nonsense

Mogosagatai · Post by **Mogosagatai** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:42 pm

Think along for a second:

You're kinda famous, in certain internetty circles anyway. You enjoy making music. You enjoy and appreciate Song Fight! and want to contribute to it when you have the time and inspiration. You know you have a large fanbase, many of whom will flock to SF as soon as you mention your latest contribution to it and vote for you without listening to any others.

What do you do?

Probably exactly what MCF did, on the front page of his website.

PS: A good way to deemphasize voting is to not worry about friend flooding. We all know when a "winner" isn't a winner, so who cares.

Post by jb » Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:49 pm

Should anyone have the impression that

A) crossovers happen constantly or
B) MC Frontalot only enters highly publicized fights...

...it should be noted that MC Frontalot did not enter the first Achewood-themed songfight, and in the three YEARS since that fight he has entered at least three songfights as himself and a couple more as other band names.

JB

Mogosagatai · Post by **Mogosagatai** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 7:53 pm

Out of curiosity mixed with unwillingness to do the research, I ask: What was the first Achewood-themed fight?

Märk · Post by **Märk** » Sun Nov 26, 2006 8:29 pm

Mogosagatai wrote:Out of curiosity mixed with unwillingness to do the research, I ask: What was the first Achewood-themed fight?

wwnmois

Billy's Little Trip · Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:00 am

From a stand point of a guy that learned the hard way of what the term friend flooding means, and how upsetting it is to this group for an individual to friend flood. I think Frontalot is very diplomatic in his promotion of SF on his site. I'd like to do the same as Frontalot on my site to get more of a variety of listener here. Our member base is from 16 to 60, or there about, and have very different tastes in music. I really like SF and I'd like to help bring attention to some of the styles here. I've been truly loving the great musical creations here since I've joined.
As far as MC Frontalot's entry for D&C? I don't care for rap much, but let's face it, it's original, it's well recorded/engineered, Brad's music is tight, and it has bunches and bunches of words that rhyme.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 5:58 pm

jb wrote:...it should be noted that MC Frontalot did not enter the first Achewood-themed songfight

He sort of did, via MYCC. Which lost severely to MC Hawking, who not only friendflooded but also hotlinked the mp3 from his site. A lot of class, that one.

Front did show up on the review thread and gave his props to Hawking for being nerdcore before nerdcore was invented.

frankie big face · Post by **frankie big face** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:13 pm

fluffy wrote:
jb wrote:...it should be noted that MC Frontalot did not enter the first Achewood-themed songfight
He sort of did, via MYCC. Which lost severely to MC Hawking, who not only friendflooded but also hotlinked the mp3 from his site. A lot of class, that one.

A HA!

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 7:19 pm

fluffy wrote:He sort of did, via MYCC. Which lost severely to MC Hawking, who not only friendflooded but also hotlinked the mp3 from his site. A lot of class, that one.

I love MC Hawking. I can't believe he did a songfight! This place is pretty much hollywood for nerdcore.

Post by **Spud** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:45 pm

fluffy wrote:
jb wrote:...it should be noted that MC Frontalot did not enter the first Achewood-themed songfight
He sort of did, via MYCC. Which lost severely to MC Hawking, who not only friendflooded but also hotlinked the mp3 from his site. A lot of class, that one.

Front did show up on the review thread and gave his props to Hawking for being nerdcore before nerdcore was invented.

I have currently hotlinked our entry on our site, but only because I can't remember my damned songhole password so I can post another copy...

Sorry, JB, will fix as soon as I can. Not like anyone goes to http://www.mightyoctothorpe.com anyway...

SPUD

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:39 pm

Sven wrote:I know who the real winner of that fight was, and I think everyone else does too,

if everyone else knows, who the hell was it?
i just skimmed through all those songs -- most of them don't even sound familiar to me (i.e. weren't all that memorable apparently!) but i can't even remember who i voted for. (something tells me it might have been smoking grapefruits?) and the old messageboard is no longer accessible.. so i can't read what i might have said, or what the general consensus was at the time. and my memory isn't like it used to be...

Märk · Post by **Märk** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:49 pm

I personally like Abom's song the most, but the top 3 (not including front, of course) were all really good.

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Mon Nov 27, 2006 11:13 pm

Sven wrote:the top 3 were all really good.

ahhh... i thought you were going to say you were talking about josh woodward.

glennny · Post by **glennny** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:08 pm

Well I didn't know Front a lot was semi-famous and had a lot of rabid fans until I read this thread. I jumped over my genre bias and voted for his song this week because I thought it was the best. I enjoyed it the most.

I don't mind going up against pros, I'll take Melvin over that last Weezer album, I'll take Jordan Seavers over Grandaddy, I'll take Carpeturn over that "Two More Years" song by Bloc Party (but I still hold Silent Alarm in the highest regard), I'll take Paco Del Stinko over the last few Mike Patton projects, etc.....

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 9:25 am

fluffy wrote:Which lost severely to MC Hawking, who not only friendflooded but also hotlinked the mp3 from his site. A lot of class, that one.

Oh, that reminds me, one of my local cd stores had a copy of a cd of his in the used bin once. I picked it up, said "huh, that's the guy that friendflooded songfight and won with that song I hated" and put it back.

JBB's song was a million times better than that.
-bill

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 4:47 pm

WeaselSlayer · Post by **WeaselSlayer** » Wed Nov 29, 2006 10:03 pm

You just put Jordan Seavers above Grandaddy and now you must die.

Smalltown Mike · Post by **Smalltown Mike** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:37 am

For what it's worth, I've always really liked Frontalot's songs, but have always been really bothered by what I perceived to be friend-flooding. I don't think Fresh Dog was the best song in that fight, by far.

However, I recently checked out his site again, and watched a documentary clip about nerdcore. I got a much better impression of Front as a person. I was also impressed by his disclaimer on his site, urging people to vote fairly. Really, what else can he do?

Cheers.

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:40 pm

besides: have you people listened to the damn fight?

if anyone whines that the front+brad song wins due to flooding or any other reason besides that pretty much every other song this week sucks ass... i will laugh heartily.

MintyHandy · Post by **MintyHandy** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:08 pm

[entire comment redacted; too late at night to make sense. instead, I present this comment in its place]

The more good songs this site gets, and the more traffic this site gets, and the more constructive criticism we all get, the better off we all are. The end.

MintyHandy · Post by **MintyHandy** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:13 pm

Wow. I posted that, then saw the "glutton" results. I guess I can understand why some people would be irked by that (I really thought Glenn Case should've taken it, myself) so I retroactively redact my flippancy in the previous post.

Instead, I offer this gem: have one week where everyone entering does their best MC Frontalot impression (Front hisself may or may not enter) and see who gets da votes. Heh.

jack · Post by **jack** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:20 am

people getting so worked up over a meaningless vote is pretty silly. like frank said, the best song is the best song, and if you don't know which one that is, go figure it out for yourself by listening to all of them.

also, frank, that was a bold statement you made there about in-jokin. kudos!

jseavers05 · Post by **jseavers05** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 12:43 am

WeaselSlayer wrote:You just put Jordan Seavers above Grandaddy and now you must die.

oops

front a lot nonsense

front a lot should be banned because