Comments on: Masters Of Song Fu #6: Round 2 Challenge Revealed! http://asitecalledfred.com/2010/02/15/song-fu-6-round-2-challenge/ Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:33:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Darrell Maclaine http://asitecalledfred.com/2010/02/15/song-fu-6-round-2-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-22679 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:33:37 +0000 http://www.asitecalledfred.com/?p=12591#comment-22679 Sorry to go back on my promise, but there’s no shadow entry from me this round – I tried at least a dozen times over the weel and rhyming is seemingly hard-wired into me. The good news is that I’ve accidentally started about half a dozen semi-promising new songs during all this (all of them rhyme though!) so I might be further on the way to starting a new LP. The bad news is that I have nothing to show right now (maybe a relief to some).

I can but try again for round 3! I do hope it’s a ‘subject matter’ challenge, or a given song title, or something.

]]> By: Denise Hudson http://asitecalledfred.com/2010/02/15/song-fu-6-round-2-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-22677 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:40:03 +0000 http://www.asitecalledfred.com/?p=12591#comment-22677 Thank you Wilson, as one person who totally changed my tack last minute because of related paranoia. 🙂 I think I know better, and that I was just tired. We should these sorts of things to heart. My last ditch ended up better last round than it would have otherwise, but still … I like the phrase “eat away at your joy”

]]> By: Wilson http://asitecalledfred.com/2010/02/15/song-fu-6-round-2-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-22674 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:48:04 +0000 http://www.asitecalledfred.com/?p=12591#comment-22674 s useful for all us writers to remember no one work pleases everyone, and you can’t make anyone like it if they don’t, and you can’t keep them from telling other people what they think of it, even if they hate it… and that’s fine. Learn to deal with it. Otherwise it doesn’t matter how much success or praise or satisfaction you earn through your writing, you’ll still obsess over those one-star reviews and it will eat away at your joy. That’s no way to live." I may repeat this comment on the 'Voting Begins!' post for this round.]]> On a topic other than how to avoid rhymes, here’s a good blog post for those of you who obsess about the votes in this :

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/02/22/one-star-reviews-revisited/

Author John Scalzi has 2 of his works nominated for the Nebulas (for those who don’t know: awards for science fiction/fantasy stories, nominated by fellow sf/fantasy writers). In this article, he highlights the 1-Star reviews those works have received on Amazon.

Some of his comments on the subject:

“I think it’s useful for all us writers to remember no one work pleases everyone, and you can’t make anyone like it if they don’t, and you can’t keep them from telling other people what they think of it, even if they hate it… and that’s fine. Learn to deal with it. Otherwise it doesn’t matter how much success or praise or satisfaction you earn through your writing, you’ll still obsess over those one-star reviews and it will eat away at your joy. That’s no way to live.”

I may repeat this comment on the ‘Voting Begins!’ post for this round.

]]> By: Denise Hudson http://asitecalledfred.com/2010/02/15/song-fu-6-round-2-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-22672 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:31:43 +0000 http://www.asitecalledfred.com/?p=12591#comment-22672 Fu sent. I tried hard to avoid rhyming. This was tougher than expected. I have really TRAINED myself to have words just … “ring” even if they don’t exactly … rhyme. This was really a lot of exercise!

]]> By: Lex Vader http://asitecalledfred.com/2010/02/15/song-fu-6-round-2-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-22660 Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:04:18 +0000 http://www.asitecalledfred.com/?p=12591#comment-22660 A lot of Morrissey’s songs don’t bother rhyming. Some only rhyme occasionally.

]]> By: sevinPackage http://asitecalledfred.com/2010/02/15/song-fu-6-round-2-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-22653 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:12:24 +0000 http://www.asitecalledfred.com/?p=12591#comment-22653 In the 1940s, Benny Bell performed a set of bawdy, inappropriate comedy music, with such gems as ‘Shaving Cream,’ which would be a good example if it weren’t for the fact that the brief chorus repeats the only rhyme.

If you didn’t hear it when Dr. Demento made it popular again (35 years ago), listen to it now! Your funny bone will thank you.

Shaving Cream:
http://www.archive.org/download/BennyBell/BennyBell-ShavingCreamdouble-entendrepartyrecord.mp3

Other Benny Bell classics:
http://www.archive.org/details/BennyBell

]]> By: Travis Norris http://asitecalledfred.com/2010/02/15/song-fu-6-round-2-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-22645 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:02:33 +0000 http://www.asitecalledfred.com/?p=12591#comment-22645 Some of “S***loads of Money” by Liz Phair meets the challenge, and actually I think the things that do “rhyme” in that song aren’t true rhymes… which would probably meet the letter but not the spirit of the challenge. 😉

]]> By: Hazen of Quiet Desperation http://asitecalledfred.com/2010/02/15/song-fu-6-round-2-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-22637 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:47:12 +0000 http://www.asitecalledfred.com/?p=12591#comment-22637 Or “The Assumption Song” by the Arrogant Worms.

There was an old farmer who lived on a rock
He sat in the meadow just shaking his
Fist at some boys who were down by the crick
Their feet in the water, their hands on their
Marbles and play things…

You get the idea.

]]> By: Inverse T. Clown http://asitecalledfred.com/2010/02/15/song-fu-6-round-2-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-22627 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:42:51 +0000 http://www.asitecalledfred.com/?p=12591#comment-22627 The verses of “Everything You Know Is Wrong” and “Albuquerque” by “Weird Al” Yankovic would also be something to look at.

]]> By: Caleb Hines http://asitecalledfred.com/2010/02/15/song-fu-6-round-2-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-22614 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:24:49 +0000 http://www.asitecalledfred.com/?p=12591#comment-22614 Actually, “Skullcrusher Mountain” almost qualifies for this.

]]> By: Darrell Maclaine http://asitecalledfred.com/2010/02/15/song-fu-6-round-2-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-22603 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:12:45 +0000 http://www.asitecalledfred.com/?p=12591#comment-22603 Wah! This is all because Michael McKean Twittered that B-Rhymes site, isn’t it! My past lyrics are awful but at least they rhyme! How will I cope without my crutch?!

You could probably count virtually any They Might Be Giants or XTC song in this category, actually. And JoCo’s “Kenesaw Mountain Landis” and Neil Innes’ “Under The Evening Sun” are the best examples by previous Masters. What the hell to write about though? I’m severely blocked for new ideas…

Come back next week to see if I’ve failed miserably or not for my shadow entry! Oh, to make things even harder I’ve set myself one further limit – it must make sense outside of the competition in its own right (people here probably do that anyway – I need the extra reminder!). I sort of feel I threw Strawberry Fool away by not making it something I could go on to perform live, so I’m going to try extra hard to get a ‘proper song’ banked this time.

Oh, and I’ll try hard not to do a Beatles pastiche. If it turns out like that despite trying, I know I should just run off and join a tribute band…

]]> By: Don http://asitecalledfred.com/2010/02/15/song-fu-6-round-2-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-22602 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:27:59 +0000 http://www.asitecalledfred.com/?p=12591#comment-22602 Further inspiration, if such were necessary: the beautiful standard “Moonlight in Vermont”. I love the late, great Jo Stafford’s version, but can’t find it online. But you can’t go wrong with Billie Holiday, either: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StNAmz7kpe4&feature=related

]]> By: Denise Hudson http://asitecalledfred.com/2010/02/15/song-fu-6-round-2-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-22600 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:07:28 +0000 http://www.asitecalledfred.com/?p=12591#comment-22600 That was my wondering, Bryce.

]]> By: Gorbzilla http://asitecalledfred.com/2010/02/15/song-fu-6-round-2-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-22590 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:52:58 +0000 http://www.asitecalledfred.com/?p=12591#comment-22590 This is perfect,
because sometimes I’m a poet
and I didn’t even think I was!

]]> By: Bryce Jensen http://asitecalledfred.com/2010/02/15/song-fu-6-round-2-challenge/comment-page-1/#comment-22589 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:15:31 +0000 http://www.asitecalledfred.com/?p=12591#comment-22589 Mr. Plume,

Do you mean just the end of lines can’t rhyme anywhere, or that no two words in the entire song can rhyme (except for repeated phrases)?

Thanks!!

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