Nur Ein VIII Round Five "Firestorm"

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Tue May 21, 2013 6:35 pm

Round Five is underway

Title: Firestorm
Non Optional Challenge: Use of Falsetto
Songs are due on Monday, May 27th @ 12:01 AM EDT
Send your MP3 to nurein.sidefight@gmail.com

3 bands will be eliminated.

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Tue May 21, 2013 7:19 pm

Ouch. I don't recall "significant use of" being discussed. I really hope folks don't decide that means "a lot of"

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Tue May 21, 2013 7:20 pm

Eric Y. wrote:Ouch. I don't recall "significant use of" being discussed. I really hope folks don't decide that means "a lot of"

You're right. We didn't mention that. Out that goes.

BenKrieger · Post by **BenKrieger** » Tue May 21, 2013 7:23 pm

Niveous wrote:You're right. We didn't mention that. Out that goes.

Oh come on, it's Round 5. All the challenges should incorporate "significant" or "judicious" from hereon out.

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue May 21, 2013 7:24 pm

Bwah and indeed ha, ha. (<--- Ted Kord laugh)

I'm expecting injudicious. Can't wait

Ross · Post by **Ross** » Tue May 21, 2013 7:24 pm

Hmmm.

Good title.

[edited to remove snark

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j$ · Post by j$ » Tue May 21, 2013 7:28 pm

[NOT EDITED, TO RETAIN SNARK]

No. Just trying to push *you* out

I would attract all singers still in the competition who don't feel they have falsetto in their range to LOOK AGAIN AT THE CHALLENGE.

I love capitals, me.

Ross · Post by **Ross** » Tue May 21, 2013 7:30 pm

j$ wrote:No. Just trying to push *you* out

Nur Ein!!!!!

glennny · Post by **glennny** » Tue May 21, 2013 7:33 pm

I don't recall Frankie's Heartshaker going over that well, though I'm still a fan of it.

This judging panel and Frankie remind me of NE4s judging panel and Reist.

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue May 21, 2013 7:36 pm

glennny wrote:This judging panel and Frankie remind me of NE4s judging panel and Reist.

Oh do elucidate, sir, I wasn't listening those days. Did Reist charmingly and against the pail not do a song about STAR WARS? :p

[/stirring a firestorm]

frankie big face · Post by **frankie big face** » Tue May 21, 2013 8:03 pm

I still love my "Heart Shaker" though I think it could do with a vocal re-take. Unfortunately, I was living the live of a hobo at the time and I believe it was recorded in GarageBand on my (ahem) work computer. So it's not an easy fix.

"Firestorm" is not my favorite title. It's kind of dull as a concept. Too fantastic to take literally and too cliché to use figuratively. But that's the game, I suppose, so "Firestorm" it is.

frankie big face · Post by **frankie big face** » Tue May 21, 2013 8:04 pm

glennny wrote: This judging panel and Frankie remind me of NE4s judging panel and Reist.

I don't know that that means.

glennny · Post by **glennny** » Tue May 21, 2013 8:29 pm

My memory was that the judging panel of Nur Ein 4 ( the 2nd best panel of all time, 2nd only to NE8) seemed to collectively favor Reist. I consulted the data, and it was more even than I remembered between Reist and Frankie. Anyway, it's not a criticism, a complaint nor anything other than an observation. This panel sure loves Frankie, not totally undeserved he's awesome. Reist was awesome too.

Star Wars- I guess if i put myself in your shoes I can see why Star Wars is out of left field. In my world there is Star Wars everyday. I have a 5 year old son. There are daily light saber battles, he'll use the force to choke me from across the room, I'm always trying to get him to come to the dark side so we could rule the galaxy as father and son. Legos, wii games, action figures, comics, all 6 movies, seasons of clone wars, etc...

BTW i made a 3:20 version of our last song because a little J$ was on my shoulder muttering "efficiency!", we decided the longer version was stronger. I also had a brief chat with Frankie (what would Frankie do) and he told me to be true to myself. So I was and we scraped in.

NUR EIN !!!!!

frankie big face · Post by **frankie big face** » Tue May 21, 2013 8:43 pm

glennny wrote:This panel sure loves Frankie...

Not everyone! There's usually one judge (probably not the same one every time) that has me ranked quite low. *shrug* What are you going to do?

I'd love to hear the 3:20 cut of your song. I'm curious to see what you did. I'm a fan of brevity. My metal tune clocked in at 2:45 and I think that played to my advantage. One of my favorite challenges of all the Nur Eins was the "Bullets and Lovers" "Two Minute Challenge." Keeping things tidy is one of my strengths, I think, and it seems to work well in this context where judges have a lot of songs to digest in a short period of time. I think a lot of times longer songs suffer from repetition without variation, especially when they're made quickly for the competition and you don't have the luxury of time to come up with more and more interesting ways to present an idea.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Tue May 21, 2013 10:11 pm

I did falsetto last round. Do I get extra points?

Actually - would be OK if we just pretend that the "use a mother" challenge is this week, and I just enter this song that I did for FAWM last year:

Firestorm of Emotion
https://soundcloud.com/#caravanray/firestorm-of-emotion

where I wrote and performed music for lyrics written by a lady named Nightengale.

I think it came out quite well.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Wed May 22, 2013 4:25 am

...mind you - I have spent most of the last decade or so living in Brisbane - and as you probably know, Brisbane is an Aboriginal word that means "place of the men who sing in falsetto".

Here are some of my homeboys from across the river in Redcliffe:

carlo bruno jr · Post by **carlo bruno jr** » Wed May 22, 2013 6:14 am

Caravan Ray wrote:
Here are some of my homeboys from across the river in Redcliffe:

And their spaghetti sequel !!

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Wed May 22, 2013 1:20 pm

carlo bruno jr wrote:
Caravan Ray wrote:
Here are some of my homeboys from across the river in Redcliffe:
And their spaghetti sequel !!

Awesome!

Which one are you Carlo?

carlo bruno jr · Post by **carlo bruno jr** » Thu May 23, 2013 8:00 am

Caravan Ray wrote: Awesome!

Which one are you Carlo?

The drummer/singer, of course!

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Thu May 23, 2013 9:51 am

I like how high tensions get in this competition. Not for the conflict factor, but to see the passion everyone has for their music and just music in general. It makes me swell with pride.
......in my pants.

Manhattan Glutton · Post by **Manhattan Glutton** » Thu May 23, 2013 10:16 am

Hey what happened to the other thread? Why's it locked? We have more things that need discussion and stuff.

BoffoYux · Post by **BoffoYux** » Thu May 23, 2013 4:30 pm

Damn.

I leave you guys for a few days, and WHATTHEFUCKHAPPENED?

I thought I locked the liquor cabinet.

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