Nur Ein VIII Round Six "Weekend in the City"

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Nur Ein VIII Round Six "Weekend in the City"

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Round Six is underway

Title: Weekend in the City
Non Optional Challenge: Epic story song
Songs are due on Monday, June 3rd @ 12:01 AM EDT
Send your MP3 to nurein.sidefight@gmail.com

3 bands will be eliminated.
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What is an epic story song?
I work at epic systems, can I write about my job?
If I had a dollar for every one of my songs j$ has called a 90s pastiche, I'd have $1 for every song I've written.

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Too late. I already wrote a song about computer programming. If I get eliminated, it's on your heads, judges.
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Oh man, I'm having bad flashbacks to Nur Ein II Round 6's six-minute challenge. :P
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To truly classify as an Epic, your lyrics must be composed of at least twenty separate books.

Better get crackin'.
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psssst....if anyone needs any help, I will let you have this cheap:
Niveous wrote:Round Two
Title: I Don’t Want An Answer To That

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http://songfight.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9051


Just change the word "week" to "weekend", and change the word "beach" to "city" and you're golden. Ticks all the boxes. It's a Songfight winner and a proven Nur Ein performer. You can't go wrong
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Shame Chokehold Princess wasn't in for this. I think Ben woulda taken ya'll to the cleaners with this challenge.
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Title: Weekend in the City
Non Optional Challenge: Epic story song

Ben Krieger and Furry Pedro get special Wildcard entries.


I would be happy with that - to hear the NY/London smack down.

(I don't even know if Pedro lives in London - but England is so small - I guess all of it is London. Right J$?)
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The Cavedwellers have studied under the great Ben Krieger, we once backed him up on a live version of Cable Beach.
I agree Ben would have owned this challenge. We have some epics in our old catalog, it's nice to have motivation to do a new one!

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I think this is the only potentially epic song Erin and I have made:

http://nurein.songfight.net/nureiniv/st ... s_sttf.mp3
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Oh hey, what are you guys all up to? I've just been kicking back with a book and some LPs and watching some baseball. It's pretty sweet.



(and then when their backs are turned: :cry: )
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Getting hammered and reading the internet, with the occasional outburst on acoustic guitar. My songwriting process is very organic, you see.
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Wrote "Scientific 7" for Songfight, recorded part of it. Went to the beach. Wrote up ideas for a "Nein" version of "Weekend in the City". Trying to figure out why my mixes sound half the volume of everybody elses, and how to sing/ play/ record/ mix better...
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Do you run a "maximizer" plugin on your main outs? This video explains it pretty well:

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Thank you! Using Audacity right now, and maximizer isn't in the basic plugins. I can run a limiter + normalizer, tho. I'll try that this week.
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Ah, Saturday. Time to start...EVERYTHING!
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Caravan Ray wrote:(I don't even know if Pedro lives in London - but England is so small - I guess all of it is London. Right J$?)
Small enough to be in two camps - London / Not London.

That said, FP lives close enough to London that we performed together on stage as recently as February this year. I was amazing, him ... let's just say "Not London" :)
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If I could get a decent vocal take before midnight, I would be so happy.
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Hell, Man Glut. I'm in without a decent vocal. What's your problem? Damn kids these days. :roll:
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Not all of us are blessed with a perfect voice, paco.

This beer may help with nourishment, but it will probably not help my song.
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We suffered some last minute technical difficulties but our song is on its way, a touch late. :( We throw ourselves on the mercy of the judges.

(Accidentally posted that in the Round Five thread at first. Oops!)
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