P.S. You are right about one thing. These songs wouldn't appear on normal albums by these artists. Because they all suck and would be cut. The Duran Duran song is a good example. The Garbage song is another good example. There are many.

I sure wish I'd known that there was an actual Bond novel titled Carte Blanche before I wrote my lyrics, but, hey, c'est la vie. I'm a little surprised that Frank apparently can't hear the commonalities among James Bond movie themes. It's true that most of them are in the style of the person or ban...

Thanks for all the replies, everyone. I will do my best! (Only slightly sarcastic, I promise)

But I will not be reading a James Bond book, furrypedro. That I will not.

Are we supposed to incorporate the actual Bond theme song? My take, given the bond theme song playlist, is that every bond movie has a theme song. There are just more popular ones that we'd consider *the* bond theme song. Each theme song is more or less about the movie it's associated with. In this...

Are we supposed to incorporate the actual Bond theme song?

“Bond” is referring to James Bond, a famous book and movie character. Sorry if that wasn’t clear. Yes, I understand that. But the Bond movie songs are basically just songs written in the style of the performers who made them. The Duran Duran song could have been on any of their albums. The Adele so...

So what does this challenge even mean?

@Glenn and @see-man-ski: For what it’s worth, I haven’t turned on my monitors for this entire competition. That’s probably why you heard issues with the electronic drums, Glenn, that I don’t. To be frank, I just got tired of driving myself crazy and figured everyone is listening in headphones now an...

Looking forward to my walk and listen today. All the lyrics look really great. Reading through I realised in my haste to put something together I forgot to put put in a mention to a rear window in my lyrics, whoopsees. If I was having a driving test I would have failed :( It's not an explicit requi...

Rear Window - Frankie Big Face (featuring Shenna) I carried the last box down the steps It seemed heavier than the rest I stopped midway to catch my breath I pushed the key through the mail slot I’ll never forget the sound Metal pinging against the ground I swore I saw a smile flash across your face...

Frankie Big Face - I like this big-ass bass riff. Vocal reverb is a little big for my taste, but whatever. In a take that in the same vein as the Moss Palace one (from Chupacabra POV), this one maybe wouldn’t stand up as well in English, but the Spanish somehow makes it feel emotional weight. Good ...

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Maybe there wasn't a Round Zero the first time?

Frankie Big Face - I enlisted the assistance of a friend who speaks fluent Spanish. She said you did good with the pronunciations. This is the thing that scared me the most. I don't know who speaks Spanish out there in Nur Ein world, but I most definitely do not. I asked a student to check my trans...

Yeah, I was just talking to Grumpy Mike about Drummer the other day. You select a drummer and a basic style but you have all kinds of variables to play with. Simple vs. complex, loud vs. soft, what percentage of ghost notes you'd like, push or pull of tempo, etc. It's quite amazing. And then if you ...

Frankie Big Face - It was the blend of the effects on the guitar and those gorgeous drums that I loved about this. I was dubious at first but then the drums kicked in and it fitted so well. Those gorgeous drums are courtesy of the Apple Drummer function of Logic, my new best friend. Love the ease a...

No dead air! There like a shimmer at the end but maybe you can only hear it in headphones. Thanks for the review!

My instruments are bass and drums.

Chupacabra - Frankie Big Face Estoy solo Estoy triste Me escondo en las sombras Ha pasado mucho tiempo desde que vi alguien Yo como Yo tomo Me muevo solo de noche Ha pasado mucho tiempo desde que sentí amor Ha pasado mucho tiempo desde que sentí amor Soy chupacabra Soy chupacabra Estas solo Estas tr...

(This is just a side bar, I don't assume anybody cares, but just fyi having a band is not necessarily as "easy" as you may think it is. There is a lot of communication and coordination overhead, and compromising, that isn't present for a solo act. I'm not complaining, it's great, but it's...

:roll: If attempting to clarify isn't helping, fine. You can go back to complaining after the judging. Oh come on. I was just being playful. (Cheeky? Is that what you say?) You have to admit the whole "risk/reward" thing is not a good substitute for clarity of communication. And having ju...

My understanding is you can’t have multiple tracks of the same instrument. At least not sounding simultaneously. The examples they have have one track of each instrument, not layered tracks of each instrument. We're not saying you can't - it all falls into the risk / reward stuff outlined by Glenn ...

+1 to being bummed about you dropping our rain. :( Hope you heal up quickly and well. This is an especially rough time for having medical/health issues. OK, sorry to be "that guy" but ... this rule seems very oriented toward participants made up of single individuals. For a band, let's sa...