Nur Ein II Round Three "State of Emergency"

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Tue May 29, 2007 10:33 am

Title: State of Emergency
Challenge: Guest Vocals

Abominominous f/ Heather Redmon and Brian F

The BeWells

Billy's Little Trip

The Bovine Recyclery f/ Bjam & Steuym

Frankie Big Face

Jim Tyrrell f/ Bob King

Jolly Roger f/ his family

Merisan f/ Amy Richey & Geech Sorenson

Paco Del Stinko and The Greek Thunder

Puce f/ Brad Sucks

Ross Durand f/ Smalltown Mike

Steve Durand f/ Wes Davis

Tex Beaumont and the Dirty Hearts f/ The Chorus of Lost Souls

Thank Glennny For The Frisbee f/ Balance Lost/Balance Regained

WreckdoM f/ Judge Wooly

<a href="http://www.glenncase.com/m3u/NurEinRound3.m3u">STREAM ALL</a>

The Jury will now deliberate. The Jury's decision as well as the new title will be posted on May 31st at 1PM(EST).

NUR EIN!

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Tue May 29, 2007 12:06 pm

damn, bewells. that is a great song. it sounds a lot like Essex Green, that kind of 60s pop/elephant 6 sound. sound more like this all the time, Andy. Lindsay sounds great on it too.

drë · Post by **drë** » Tue May 29, 2007 1:21 pm

All songs sound good, but holly molly does that Billy Little Trip tune sound's good! It’s like The Talking Heads on steroids or something... great fucking tune! My all-time favorite BLT song.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Tue May 29, 2007 1:50 pm

So, is Frankie Big Face the first person to actually take the "I-am-not-going-to-enter-a-song-because-I-am-immune-and-I-am-a big-girl's-blouse" option?

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Tue May 29, 2007 1:53 pm

HaHa, thanks Dre. Although I enjoy it too, I was a little worried about how it would be received. I'm not sure what to call it, so I'm going with punk funk, but acid should be in there somewhere. Maybe acid pfunk?

I love to get dirty and groove, so it was a lot of fun.

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Tue May 29, 2007 1:55 pm

Caravan Ray wrote:So, is Frankie Big Face the first person to actually take the "I-am-not-going-to-enter-a-song-because-I-am-immune-and-I-am-a big-girl's-blouse" option?

Yep.

(There was no need to reply to the post, other than to repeat my favorite insult in the world- big girl's blouse. How did that insult come about? It's so ridiculous yet reeks of insult).

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Tue May 29, 2007 2:05 pm

HaHaHa!!!! Big girls blouse. I think I just peed a little.

erin. · Post by **erin.** » Tue May 29, 2007 2:29 pm

At least he didn't call him a "sheila" , a "pink fluffy curtain", or a "handbag"...because that would make me really upset.

Besides, you know y'all would take that immunity in a heart beat. (except Puce, but we all know he is an exception to most rules, and has super powers.)

So FBF, I hope you enjoyed your week off!

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Tue May 29, 2007 2:42 pm

Reviews - By Jolly Roger

Abominonimous - With Heather in there, this sounds a lot like a lighter Hell Yeahs tune. It's cool to hear those one word harmonic vocals like at 1:00 there (the word cure). The trade off vocals get a bit tiring for me, but the cheerleader chants spelling out 's-t-a-t-e etc' are pretty cool.

Bewells - As soon as the vocals come in, I just know that I'm going to like this one. You guys use really cool chord progressions and interesting vocal harmonies, which puts you up in my books. Your production is pretty stellar too. One problem - it's a bit tough to tell what you're saying - the female needs to pronounce her words a bit better, but at least you all sing on key. You may want to tighten up the vocal timing a bit more so that it kind of sounds like it's all one person who sings multiple notes at once - I had problems like this when I was getting people to record my doo-wa-dops in my song, so I know it's tough. Overall, I'd say it's a pretty great song (the keys are really cool - just noticed those!)

BLT - The vocals are cool, but I honestly can't handle them for too long - some of the harmonies are a bit painful too. I love your bass sound, I love your drum sound, and I love the funkiness of it all. I really like the guitar solo - I wish I could have creative solos like that. You guys have a pretty cool sound, and I would really like the song if the vocals had a coherent tune in more than just the chorus.

The Bovine Recyclery - I really like how you don't take yourself too seriously - which is sweet considering how you're a top competitor here. Your mixing is great. The vocals are dead on, and the trade-off vocals are dead on and not hard to listen to like a few of the past ones. What else can I say - this song is radio-worthy. There's no advice I can give here.

Jim Tyrell - I always hated country, but I like this tune. I don't think it really sticks out for me, but it's better than a few of the others. I can't really think of much advice for this style, since it's not really my thing. Pretty good.

Jolly Roger - I think this is my best song to date. No lies. It's about a peasant who gets his village owned by the king's army. I hope y'all like it, and maybe it'll keep me in for the next round.

Merisan - You guys make such beautiful music together. It's hard to rate this one, since it doesn't really hold my attention, but it's a really good song to relax with. The chorus deal at 3:08 is so cool that I just have to put this near the top of my list.

Paco Del Stinko - Your guitar-work is really good, dude. I'm not a huge fan of three note vocal songs, so the vocal tune is not doing it for me, but that bridge is cool. Good, but not my fav.

Puce - I sort of wish you'd sing less through the nose, but who am I to say that? Chorus is rad, verses are rad - really natural way to fit in the title there. Pretty good.

Ross Durand - YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH SMALLTOWN!!! That's bonus points right there. I always get a kick out of SM's vocals. Top notch song here, dude. I like that riff there - well done. I'm gonna have to place this one pretty high.

Steve Durand - It's good to have one of your songs with a guest vocalist, since your music is tight, but your voice usually has some issues. I like it, especially the verses. I probably like the verses more than the chorus, which is probably a first for me.

Tex Beaumont - Honestly, I think you are underrated - just because everybody knows what Caravan Ray sounds like, they shove you to the side, but the reality here is that this song is top notch. It's funny, has good vocals, the classic oohs, Genghis Khan etc.. Good. Really good.

Thank Glenny 4 the Frisbee - Is that steel guitar or something? Whatever it is, that's kind of annoying. Aside from that obnoxious sliding whatever it is, I don't mind the song - it's just not my favorite. Sorry.

WreckdoM - You guys always crack me up, but I wish you'd stay away from that drum machine, especially since I think you guys could rock pretty hard. That fast siren in the chorus is doing a similar thing to me as that steel guitar deal was doing for me in TG4TF. It's just distracting and obnoxious. I was hoping for a bit better from you guys, especially with how much I liked your Let Me In entry.

*Jolly Roger (I'm kind of biased, so this doesn't really count)
The Bovine Recyclery
Merisan
Ross Durand
Tex Beaumont
Puce
Steve Durand
Bewells
Paco Del Stinko
Jim Tyrell
BLT
Abominonimous
WreckdoM
TG4TF

Firstly, if you find yourself near the bottom of the list, that doesn't mean that you are bad. It just means that I didn't like your song as much as the rest. This is just too good of a lineup for me to number them up easily. They were all pretty good, and in a normal SongFight review, I would have rated them all well.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Tue May 29, 2007 2:47 pm

erin. wrote: "handbag"..

Is that the same as a coin purse?

We love the Big Face von Frankie. I laughed at his link. He is a creative man.

erin. · Post by **erin.** » Tue May 29, 2007 3:02 pm

I'm not really sure what any of them mean...I just watch a bit of the old BBC and I like Aussie films. I guess I've been collecting insults as a result. Even if I tried to use them, no one would know what I was saying!

frankie big face · Post by **frankie big face** » Tue May 29, 2007 3:39 pm

Okay, listen up people! It seems my character is being called into question over the immunity issue. Please look at the following timeline of my recent life:

Monday, May 21 - song title is announced with original deadline of May 27.
Monday, May 21 - conducted evening concert at work
Tuesday, May 22 - free night - made dinner for my wife
Wednesday, May 23 - conducted music demonstrations at five elementary schools all day long.
Thursday, May 24 - conducted another evening concert at work
Friday, May 25 - conducted two daytime concerts at work, packed for weekend trip
Saturday, May 26 - traveled to Atlanta to visit JB and watch the Braves get swept by the Phillies
Sunday, May 27 - dealt with severe allergy attack from killer Atlanta pollen, slept through extremely long and dull Pirates of the Caribbean movie
Monday, May 28 - traveled home from Atlanta, unpacked, continued dealing with mutant pollen
Tuesday, May 29 - went to work

So yeah, I took the immunity and I'd do it again. In fact, I plan to in Round 5!

Thanks For The Frisbee · Tue May 29, 2007 4:47 pm

jolly roger wrote:Jolly Roger (I'm kind of biased, so this doesn't really count)
The Bovine Recyclery
Merisan
Ross Durand
Tex Beaumont
Puce
Steve Durand
Bewells
Paco Del Stinko
Jim Tyrell
BLT
Abominonimous
WreckdoM
TG4TF

.

" you cut to the heart of me baxter"

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Tue May 29, 2007 4:56 pm

Billy's Little Trip wrote: I laughed at his link. He is a creative man.

That joke was my bit of creativity. This Nur Ein juror keep himself amused.

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Tue May 29, 2007 5:19 pm

I'm trying to do a SaveAs on the stream all .m3u file (so I can turn it into an .rss file and let juice download all the songs for me), and for some reason, it's not saving the file on my machine. Usually that works fine.

Anybody else having problems with the stream all .m3u file?

Thanks,
Charles

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Tue May 29, 2007 5:25 pm

Frankie, I raise my glass (currently full of a Bully Hill white wine) to you. It's immunity, dammit. You shouldn't have to make excuses for it.

I thought the .txt file was pretty funny, too.

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Tue May 29, 2007 6:31 pm

Frankie had immunity and still submitted a cool entry - what's the big deal? Good crop of songs but my early fave is probably Abomb.

bz£ · Post by **bz£** » Tue May 29, 2007 7:11 pm

Wait-- how many of you jokers get kicked out this time around?

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Tue May 29, 2007 7:15 pm

Paco Del Stinko wrote:Frankie had immunity and still submitted a cool entry - what's the big deal? Good crop of songs but my early fave is probably Abomb.

Did you listen too his entry Charlie?

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Tue May 29, 2007 8:18 pm

bzl wrote:Wait-- how many of you jokers get kicked out this time around?

4

Post by **Spud** » Tue May 29, 2007 8:27 pm

king_arthur wrote: Anybody else having problems with the stream all .m3u file?

I had no problem saving it (Firefox).

SPUD

Steve Durand · Post by **Steve Durand** » Tue May 29, 2007 8:38 pm

bzl wrote:Wait-- how many of you jokers get kicked out this time around?

Hey! I resemble that remark.

I am a jester, not a joker.

Steve