How did you find out about Song Fight?

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How did you find out about Song Fight?

Word of mouth
47
31%
Attack of the Show (the tv show, not the blog)
1
1%
Nerdcore Rising
2
1%
MC Frontalot's Blog
4
3%
Paste
1
1%
So You Think You're The Only One
0
No votes
Googled for song competitions
7
5%
Googled for something else and it caught my eye
10
6%
A link on a Song Fighter's Web site (list who in the thread please)
22
14%
A link on some other Web site (list the site in the thread please)
27
18%
Podcast (list which in the thread please)
1
1%
Other (describe in the thread please)
32
21%
 
Total votes: 154
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Post by Adam! »

On my father's recommendation I borrowed A Brief History of Time from the public library which--in a roundabout way--lead me to google Steven Hawking about 10 years later, at which point I discovered MC Hawking who linked to MC Frontalot who linked here.
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USA Today "Hot Sites" - Feb 2004
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word of mouth---magnatune---brad sucks
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It was mentioned on the Through the Looking Glass forums.
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Puce wrote:On my father's recommendation I borrowed A Brief History of Time from the public library which--in a roundabout way--lead me to google Steven Hawking about 10 years later, at which point I discovered MC Hawking who linked to MC Frontalot who linked here.
Oh, that is so you.
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Heard about it from Rabid Garfunkel. He found it when it was linked directly from Penny Arcade - that was the same week that MC Frontalot got 600+ votes.
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blue posted something about it on craigslist in the musician section, where i always surf for cheap gear.
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Post by Lunkhead »

Shouldn't fluffy be chiming in with "I heard of SongFight! before you were a gleam in your daddy's eyes, you whippersnappers!"? He's been posting a little longer than I've been listening.
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Post by Denyer »

al gore told me about it.
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Post by jimtyrrell »

I had a long bout of writer's block, and was looking for a bit of lyric writing help. In my search I happened upon the Narbotic site Lunkhead mentioned earlier in this thread, and then found SF. This was the day before Moscow, Idaho entries were due. I had a song written that night.
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Post by j$ »

Are you guys talking about the not very lamented actually Sharemachine? Or is that something else entirely?

I remember they had some good titles but were far too discouraging in the entry stakes. And some people think songfight's tough!
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for some reason, I read that as Chermachine... which, to me, seemed so terrifingly scary.
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Post by Eric Y. »

i said "link from a songfighters website" but that isn't quite accurate...

the short answer: i found songfight through kompressor.

the less short answer: i found drew through kompressor and came to songfight directly via the short-lived sharing machine competition.

* * * * stop reading here if you are lazy or don't care * * * *

the LONG answer: sometime around 2001 or 2002 the girl i was dating at the time got kompressor's song "don't dance" e-mailed to her, and we liked the song a lot. a few months after this i was searching out more kompressor stuff (i think this is when his songs were posted at ampcast or wherever) i found the original songfight site -- poked around a bit (discovered octothorpe in the process) and i thought it was about the coolest idea ever. however the site was pretty much dead at the time (whenever that was) and i found elsewhere something called "meanwhile", evidently a sort of songfight-junior for those unhappy with the site being dead. too lazy or pressed for time to investigate further, i forgot about it.

around the same time, i found that kompressor cds and t-shirts were being sold via the "drew store" (at corrupt.net), and poking around a bit i found stuff like "lego porn" and weird stories about ninja squirrels. kept an eye on the site for a while, and maybe a year later "toothpaste for dinner" was born. read this daily and when "the sharing machine" wannabe-songfight began, i wrote and submitted a couple songs, and also in e-mail communication with drew said the concept reminded me of the old songfight website, which i remembered had died some time back. he wrote back that it had been reborn and was going strong again. or something like that. so a week or two later when sharing machine bit the big one (insert witty commentary here), i decided to test the waters at songfight proper -- "troublemaker" was the title; i wrote some reviews and then recorded/submitted several songs beginning with "direct to helmet". and here we are.

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j$ wrote:Are you guys talking about the not very lamented actually Sharemachine? Or is that something else entirely?
i'm not sure whom you refer to when you say "you guys" but immediately prior to your message jim t. was talking about narbotic's website... this is totally unrelated. after dropping songfight, for a few years narbotic had operated a personal site which was precisely the opposite concept: other people sent him titles and he wrote the songs. (now also defunct, but formerly linked via the "originated by narbotic" text on the SF main page).
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jolly roger wrote:Dr. Spectacular's Power Circus entered their Adonai song ... I'm actually their drummer, but I was left out of the recording for that song (I was at school, apparently) and our guitarist and keyboardist did the drum tracks. They told everyone to go on and vote for them, so I checked it out, and I loved it. So now I am here.
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I thought Colin/Narbotic was running his "send me a title and I'll write a song" site before he started SongFight!, but I could be wrong.
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Lunkhead wrote:I though Colin/Narbotic was running his "send me a title and I'll write a song" site before he started SongFight!, but I could be wrong.
I believe you are correct, sir.
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Kompressor > Exploding Dog > Dumbrella > Song Fight!

Or something similar, perhaps in a slightly different order.
It was Stubs who found it and insisted that we enter.
Octothorpe was formed for the sole purpose of entering Song Fight!
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Spud wrote:Octothorpe was formed for the sole purpose of entering Song Fight!
No wonder the general public has problems with genetic modification, cloning, etc.
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them wreckdom fellers let me play on a couple of their tracks... and i dug it! one thing lead to another... and a sheep and a fifth of bourbon later and here i am.
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Post by king_arthur »

I think I heard about songfight on the rec.music.makers.songwriting newsgroup, way, way back. Although it might have been a reference on Glade's songwriting bulletin board, but probably r.m.m.s.

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Post by Hoblit »

i was listening to 99x in Atlanta via web stream. (Back when they had the best morning show in the world) They had a guy who came on once a week and touted off a few cool websites in his bit. Songfight was one of them.

--don't bother past this point--

Another guy was here who was listening that same morning. He's not been around in years but he entered a few songs too. Broken Class... Sore Looser... Gkort was his messege boards handle. Whats funnier...I called that morning show once after that because they were looking for people in other cities listening to their show via web...and Gkort heard me on the radio that particular morning. Oh and we laughed...good times...good times.
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Someone linked to Songfight! (and somesongs) from slashdot (not an article, but buried in the comments somewhere).
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