SongFight! Song Ideas Generator/Idea List

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:33 am

Here's a thread for writing down more song ideas.
Generally not song titles; as that's for another thread... but what's the song about, or how do you figure out what it's about.
Things you'll use once and then discard.

Here's an idea for you:
Write a song about electricity, and where it goes inside your computer.

-bill

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:35 am

This is the original thread where we started writing these ideas. Good work, 1516, for starting this thread in the first place!
dumbrella post
-bill

bz£ · Post by **bz£** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 2:54 pm

It would be swell if you're on-line generator had some sort of access to the whole database. I'd like to snoop through all three hundred and forty-one ideas without all the refresheration.

merci!

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 5:55 pm

yeah, i was wondering if somebody would ask for that.
i didn't want to provide the whole list to the world at large since it's the collected brainstuffs of many songfighters, but those in the know can read the dumbrella post and see everything that's in there.
notwithstanding the fact that the page isn't linked from my site anywhere else, it is one of my most-requested pages at good ol' heuristicsinc.com.
-bill

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 5:57 pm

of course, if most people thought i should post the whole list somewhere, i could be convinced.
-bill

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue Dec 14, 2004 8:01 pm

The fun of it is the refreshing. Stops it being a once-only thing. But a button within the html would be better than just 'click yr refresh button'.

To add to the list

'Write a song about why you're not going to school/work/the cemetary today'

'Write a song about words being pointless.'

'Take a previous lyric. Translate it into another language via an online service. Translate it back again.'

'Write an answer/response to your favourite song.'

'Write a foul-mouthed lyric then replace all the obscenities with a randomly selected word/set of words.'

'Take a generally accepted concept - smoking is bad for you, the sun comes up at dawn - and then write a song about the opposite viewpoint.'

'Write a song about going to the shops.'

j$

Tony Asbestos · Post by **Tony Asbestos** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 9:53 pm

H Inc.

Thank you for posting this dealie- it was just what I was looking for. I am also proud because whenever that person writes about eating that pound of cheese (even if I do it) I will know I contributed to the ultra-magnificence of songfight.
And to all a good night.
And party every day.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 11:24 pm

j$ wrote:The fun of it is the refreshing. Stops it being a once-only thing. But a button within the html would be better than just 'click yr refresh button'.

Oh, good idea, remind me to ask Craig if he knows how to do this. Craig is my Internet Guru and Learned Master.

Tony Asbestos wrote: Thank you for posting this dealie- it was just what I was looking for. I am also proud because whenever that person writes about eating that pound of cheese (even if I do it) I will know I contributed to the ultra-magnificence of songfight.

Wasn't really my idea, except the putting it on the web in a "draw-a-card" format... the idea was really 15-16's. But you're welcome. Now get that feeling several times over by contributing more song ideas

-bill

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:45 pm

Speaking of old threads from December, I miss the song ideas.
Freudian Slip, get over here!
-bill

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:19 pm

Kinda sorta unrelated here, but my Band Name Generator, while not so great for band names (Ride the Wild Hardmeat, anyone?) puts words together in a mental goosing sort of way, when you're stuck for a line or in need of a laugh... [/pimping]

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:52 am

bumpin' the ideas thread, now that i have found it.
i'm still taking submissions!
-bill

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:28 pm

Pretty cool to see this again, especially now that I don't remember which ones are mine (though there's a couple I remember). Here's some fresh ones:

Write a song whose lyrics are self-depracating.
Write a song about your own experience with an artist, song, or album, that your listener presumably knows of (such as Nerf Herder's song "Van Halen").
Free-associate for about five minutes. You'll come up with *something*.
Write a "sequel," using the same characters or ideas from a previous song.
Try to imitate someone you admire.
Write a song about flappers (remember them?).
Write a song defending a public figure who has come under attack in recent years, or attacking someone who is universally-loved -- even if you don't agree with what you're writing (A defense of Charles Manson, or a Philipic against Mother Teresa, for example).
Take an enjargoned abbreviation and write a song about it, or an instance of it.
Write from the persona of:
--The bull in the bullfight.
--Your cable guy.
--Your dog/cat/hamster/rabbit/degu/whatever.
--A teacher you had in middle school.
--A shingle on your roof.
--The pilot of your airplane.
--Your neighbor, or a past neighbor.
Pick a random part of speech and write a whole song without it.
Pick a random letter and write a whole song without it.
Fiddle with the Baby Name Voyager and find a name that you find unusual or striking. Make it the title of your song.
Take the chorus of another song and read it from the bottom up.
Summarize your favorite book in song form.
Imagine that you've been comissioned to write the new theme song to your favorite TV show.

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:25 pm

Rabid Garfunkel wrote:Kinda sorta unrelated here, but my Band Name Generator, while not so great for band names (Ride the Wild Hardmeat, anyone?) puts words together in a mental goosing sort of way, when you're stuck for a line or in need of a laugh... [/pimping]

I added Death Bus For Ugly to your generator. Where's my movie check?

Justincombustion · Post by **Justincombustion** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 2:12 pm

I have to say H.inc's generator really helped me out of a few writing funks I was in. Sometimes I just don't know what to write about.
Thanks for that!!

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 10:15 pm

Awesome! What ideas and what songs? I'd love to hear the success story.
-bill

the idiot king · Post by **the idiot king** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 7:23 am

i used it on "just to be difficult"...

Æpplês&vØdkã · Post by **Æpplês&vØdkã** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 9:29 pm

Write a song that sounds like it's a deep metaphor for something but actually isn't.

A track whose lyrics, when printed, spell out a secret message on the side.

Take a well known poem, and go through and substitute different verbs and nouns with similar accent patterns.

Deliberately fail to enunciate words that really aren't very sensible, but cover it up with spacey sound effects and lots of reverb so it just sounds mystical.

Write entirely in 'pataphor.

Take a common scenario, make a metaphor for it, translate it into a different language, translate it back, and then attempt to derive what the original meaning behind the screwed up metaphor is.

Justincombustion · Post by **Justincombustion** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 7:05 pm

HeuristicsInc wrote:Awesome! What ideas and what songs? I'd love to hear the success story.
-bill

None we've recorded...yet

. Glenn Case is real, real busy and I'm...well..I'm his Oats. Without my Hall, I'm just some dude with a porn 'stache. Also, he has all the mics and cables.

First one was "write a song about someone who thinks they are going to die, but wakes up alive." Or something similar. I wrote a song about feeling invincible.
Sometimes I just can't think of what to write about, because I think my life experiences are kinda boring.