Should add an option challenge of not writing about Trump. Haha.

First fight in quite a while! My submission is dedicated to Leonard Cohen.

I left my home in the early morn' in quite a rush as I put my shoes on wish that I'd paid more attention instead of trying to eat for I only put one shoe on my two feet oh my sole it's bleeding and raw oh my soul if I only saw what I'd done I left my home (again) in the early morn' to feed my family...

Haha, haven't logged on here in quite a while! Umm... I ended up recording some terrible vocals on that one for submission and now the original master is gone, so I don't have the backing tracks... oh well.

Doh, no excuses here, had plenty of time, I just didn't make it happen and I'm about to head into work for the rest of the day. Wasn't for lack of trying though. I wrote some alright lyrics and recorded a few different basslines and drum takes, but never figured out how to put it together. Oh well, ...

The nice thing about throwing a capo on is that you can make use of all the same tricks that work in open position. Plus it sounds completely different using a capo vs. barring. I'll play barre chords on an acoustic sometimes, but I don't think they sound as good as open chords.

Thanks for posting those Niv, it's interesting to see how divisive some of the songs are. Micah for instance got mostly top ranks except one judge gave him 3 points. That's wild!

Listening in reverse order of score (the default) is pretty funny. While I don't agree with the rankings in all cases (Inflatable should have been higher!) there is undoubtedly a feeling of things slowly falling apart as the list goes on

You're a bit on the A-type side of thing, eh?

Genius! Would have never got it

I'm guessing Buffo was using some serious sarcasm there. Unless I'm missing something, too. That being said, technically speaking we almost always employ animal sounds into our songs structure

I'll have to check it. I took a peek at the artist listings and it all seemed to be artists I don't know, artists I don't care for or artists I dig talking about their latest stuff and not their iconic works... but maybe it's entertaining anyway.

@Michael: Wrong place for the lyrics, check out "Ye Ole Lyrics Archive"

Well, Rabid didn't show up... so I only gotta beat three people. Just might see Round Two Haha. I actually got into Round Two last year but I'm pretty convinced there was a mistake.

Fido I, don't wanna hear what you have to say anymore 'Cause you keep giving me bad advice and I am scared that I'm gonna die I don't wanna drive my car in the rain I don't want to fight a bull in Spain I won't amputate my toe for a splinter I won't try to invade Russia in the Winter {Chorus} Pour m...

you can't roll back to win 7?

One of the true greats. Purple Rain... can't beat it.

Tempting but looks like it's not exactly easy to get these installed on Linux :-/

Ya, know, I originally was hoping to find a sample of a "this is not a test" from the Emergency Broadcast System. But I couldn't find it anywhere. Do they say that during a real emergency? I feel like I've heard a real emergency broadcast before, but maybe not.

Well, I won't defend the music, it's a bit of a mess *but* there most certainly is an origin story in there (Alfred Nobel's origins and TNT), it doesn't rhyme because it's prose (will you be taking off points for not rhyming in every round?) and it wasn't stolen from a book, but was purposely meant ...

My take is that they wanted to make sure you don't just throw a random animal sound in but instead make it a real element of the song.

Damn, j$ you're a machine (no suck-up!)

P.S. "There I did it..." aka "Nur Ein!" ... indeed.