Dux! Revisited!

Nigel (spOOn) Clements · Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:25 pm

Some of you may remember the Dux! topic, originally placed by King Arthur (Charles), and acted upon by several SongFighters! (I myself did a cover of Octothorpe's 'The Blue Signal'), I always thought that this was a brilliant suggestion and always had it in the back of my mind to go back to this idea and begin a slow and steady process of ploughing my unwieldy way through the archives of nil-vote-getting tracks...

So with an air of trepidation may I present my cover version of the Marcus Kellis original 'A Variation on Two'.

A Variation on Two (Marcus Kellis Cover)

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:30 pm

Cool Nige, now I need to go hear the original.

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:13 pm

don't bother

Nigel (spOOn) Clements · Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:21 pm

Without inadvertently sparking the "That's not really a cover version" debate again, I'd like to explain how I go about the process of 'Interpreting' or 'Re-imagining' a track, first I'll listen to the original a few times, until I can hear it in my mind, but what I'll hear isnt the original version, but a warped spOOnitized version, I'll then set about trying to get those sounds from my mind and into an audible format (though not always with decent results!!!)

Anyway here's the second in my occasional series...

Gonna be your Man by King Arthur

Re-Imagined in a spOOnish kind of way!

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 4:19 pm

Very cool - different, but cool! Thank you very much!

Charles (KA)

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:52 pm

Cool. Nigel, you are so far ahead of your time, that you are about to lap yourself.

Do me next, do me!

Nigel (spOOn) Clements · Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:22 am

Would love to dude, but from perusing the records I seems you've never scored a duck!

rone rivendale · Post by **rone rivendale** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 7:14 am

Quack Quack....

Billy's Little Trip · Fri Jul 13, 2007 10:44 am

spOOn wrote:Would love to dude, but from perusing the records I seems you've never scored a duck!

Damn friends! 8)
I'll try harder to do worse in the future, I promise.

Nigel (spOOn) Clements · Fri Jul 13, 2007 12:10 pm

m' only joking dude, I'm busy compiling a list of other SongFighters! I'd like to take an attempt at, and you're more than definately on my list, (but I'm probably gonna do a couple more of these first... shhh! though don't let anyone know).

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 2:49 pm

Did anyone ever work out who "The King of All The Ducks" is? I think I've got about 4. (yes - that number seems surprisingly small to me too - I better recheck that)

Plat · Post by **Plat** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:51 pm

Caravan Ray wrote:Did anyone ever work out who "The King of All The Ducks" is? I think I've got about 4. (yes - that number seems surprisingly small to me too - I better recheck that)

5 according to my list. Here are the top 25 zongwriters (not accounting for submissions under multiple names, e.g. @eclectic_spoons vs. @eclecticspoons):

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| rank | artist_identifier              | entry_count |
+------+--------------------------------+-------------+
|    1 | wages                          |          16 |
|    2 | andre_was_here_at_midnight     |          12 |
|    3 | baker                          |           8 |
|    4 | phunt_your_friends             |           8 |
|    5 | rone_rivendale                 |           8 |
|    6 | flvxxvm_florvm                 |           7 |
|    7 | jolly_roger                    |           7 |
|    8 | special_relatives              |           7 |
|    9 | steve_durand                   |           7 |
|   10 | @eclectic_spoons               |           6 |
|   11 | jonny_juice_and_good_time_boys |           6 |
|   12 | noah_mclaughlin                |           6 |
|   13 | pigpen                         |           6 |
|   14 | caravan_ray                    |           5 |
|   15 | charcoal                       |           5 |
|   16 | jimmy_richards                 |           5 |
|   17 | poor_june                      |           5 |
|   18 | sausage_boy                    |           5 |
|   19 | abecedarian                    |           4 |
|   20 | andy_balham                    |           4 |
|   21 | ants_(invisible)               |           4 |
|   22 | doscientos                     |           4 |
|   23 | kamakura                       |           4 |
|   24 | paco_del_stinko                |           4 |
|   25 | cheap_bastards                 |           3 |
+------+--------------------------------+-------------+

Nigel (spOOn) Clements · Sat Jul 14, 2007 2:00 am

That's a terrific list Plat, you are the king of compiling stuff

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:06 am

Just looking over that list, I'm a master of dux. It may only say 3 dux for Niveous but when you add in Calque's duck, Silent E's three dux, Tokyoquake's duck; that's 8 dux for me.

I have had an odd relationship with the voting public.

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 5:43 am

i get the sausage boy dux as well as the jonny juice and the good time boys dux.

Looking at my standing on the list kind of makes me wonder what the hell i'm still doing here.

Nigel (spOOn) Clements · Sat Jul 14, 2007 9:35 am

What you're still doing here is being entertaining and original, mainstream will always win in the end, but left of centre independant will always be cool! (least that's what I think!!)...

furrypedro · Post by **furrypedro** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:39 am

Something I've been meaning to do for a while. Don't know why this is even elligible as I'm pretty sure I voted for it. Also I couldn't decide how to cover it so I did both; so, Those Meddling Kids & Carpetburn presents the song Michael Keaton dreads hearing.....'Glutton' by Denyer.

hip-hop

indie-rock

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:50 am

I probably would be the king of dux if I hadn't voted for myself several times in my old fights.

Nigel (spOOn) Clements · Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:23 am

Nice work Pete, The Indie-Rock version is jangle-pop excellent (shit, now I sound like smashy or is it nicey!?!), think like the track covered that way because it's so different from the original.

Nigel (spOOn) Clements · Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:18 am

Furthering my pursuit of taking rough gems and overlooked treasures and then turning them into mush, here's another, originally from 2003 (I think!)...

Cynthia Size and the @eclectic spOOns - Brown Boxes - Johnny Cashpoint Cover

Sorry John...

j$ · Post by j$ » Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:39 am

That's awesome, Spoons. Thanks so much - I love the space dub feel, the bassline and the overall chilled vibe. This song always held a soft spot in my black heart (I played it live at SF:UK) but never felt I had the requisite light touch to do it justice. And yes, i chould check the dates, but it's either late 2003 (I first SFed in late November) or perhaps Jan 2004...

j$

wages · Post by **wages** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 7:14 pm

Plat wrote:

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| rank | artist_identifier              | entry_count |
+------+--------------------------------+-------------+
|    1 | wages                          |          16 |
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Harsh! So who is gunna cover or re-invent one of these puppies?