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Jonas Undrawing 8th January 2004 14:44

NZGames does the Summer Soundtrack
 
You know that Telecom ad with Che Fu? Where he emails that song around and all them musicians add a little something and pass it on? Well, Simon and I were chatting a coupla nights ago, and together we came up with a similar idea for all of us musicians here at NZGames. The idea is that we pick a theme, then all of us write a song that fits the theme, and at the end of it we'll have a hugely diverse compilation of songs that kinda fit together. In addition, a few suggestions for song titles will be supplied to help the creative process.

One song from each person / band. Doesn't have to be a masterpiece. Hell, it could be good for some of us to compose a song about something we normally wouldn't write about.

So without further adu, the theme is:



Here's some suggested song titles:
- The Summer That Died
- Sand Gets In Your Butt-Crack
- I Butt-Banged A Drunken Slut At Piha On New Year's Eve
- My Dandruff Helped Make This A White Christmas
- Hayfever Blues
- Law Breakin' n' a'Whinin' (for that nzgames connection)
- I Once Knew A Boy Named Summer, He Was Weird.
- Summer Is To Blame For Everything (from Googlism =)

There it is, have fun, and I look forward to hearing what all of you come up with.

Zag0r 8th January 2004 14:52

die irl.

pluck 8th January 2004 14:57

Why don't for the music you do what che fu does in the ad and get all the musicians to do a 20 - 30 sec piece of music and post the results here?

DevilWTKC 8th January 2004 14:57

Do you think it would be helpful to set a tempo, then write around that? Just for integrations sake...

Jonas Undrawing 8th January 2004 15:02

Nonono, we're all writing individual songs, to a similar theme. It's the composer's freedom to make whatever they want. But with Summer in mind, it might turn out that we all put the songs together and come up with an album of songs that fit well together.

cEvin 8th January 2004 15:07

i'm working on it

DevilWTKC 8th January 2004 15:10

Quote:

Originally posted by Jonas Undrawing
Nonono, we're all writing individual songs, to a similar theme. It's the composer's freedom to make whatever they want. But with Summer in mind, it might turn out that we all put the songs together and come up with an album of songs that fit well together.
ahhh righto, gotcha now...

Well....I dont have any ampage any more, just my bass.
Bassious Acousticus!

Simon 8th January 2004 15:14

Already working on mine :)

At first I tended towards one-word suggestions for song titles, because I figured that gave each contributor the maximum possible range of possibilities -- I was thinking of stuff like "Sand", "Sunburn", "Cold Ones" -- but you know, the more we threw ideas around, the later it got, the sillier the ideas got :)

Seriously though, to everyone who wants to contribute, just come up with something musical with a theme of "Summer". It'll be cool.

wizardofOz 8th January 2004 15:48

achoooooo
 
I'll start on mine tonight. I'm thinking something like "5 day drinking binge ends badly", although I do like the "hayfever blues" suggestion.

Zag0r 8th January 2004 15:53

aha this is serious? *suicides*

Jonas Undrawing 8th January 2004 16:05

Good, now that you're suicidal, write a song about it. You can call it "Self-pwned"

wizardofOz 8th January 2004 17:03

This was my xmas/ny's break song:

http://www.nzgames.com/forums/showth...threadid=55131

http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/pro...s%20where3.mp3

Jonas Undrawing 8th January 2004 17:17

Well, yes wizardofOz, that's fine... But that isnt exactly the purpose of this thing we are embarking on. The challenge is to try and make something that suites a theme. To compose outside your comfort zone.

Give it a go, play around with something with this theme in mind. You liked Hayfever Blues... think about a way to soundtrack hayfever. It's a worthy challenge, no? What kind of rhythm suits hayfever? Does the melody flow like your snot, or jump around like your random sneezing?

Jonas Undrawing 8th January 2004 18:01

Here's cEvin's wonderful contribution. Dig it. No prizes for being the fastest songwriter, I'm afraid.
cEvin - nzgames ruined my summer.mp3

Ashley 8th January 2004 18:15

For the love of sweet virgin mary, what the fuck is this shit

Jonas Undrawing 8th January 2004 18:23

It's a thread with a purpose. Don't be alarmed.

tarzan007 8th January 2004 18:40

Quote:

Originally posted by Ashley
For the love of sweet virgin mary, what the fuck is this shit
you suck at music

Jonas Undrawing 8th January 2004 18:52

Welcome Tarzan... we look forward to a little something from you too Mr Jazzman.

cEvin 8th January 2004 20:25

if you listen closely at 1:45 the lyrics are "lol @ ashley".

MadLep 8th January 2004 20:45

Hmmm.

I might have to drag out the trusty of soft-synths and sequencers and through something together then.


Cover your ears ladies. This is gonna get unpleasant...

Cyberbob 8th January 2004 21:50

Quote:

Originally posted by Ashley
For the love of sweet virgin mary, what the fuck is this shit
Ashley, Talent.
Talent, Ashley.

I don't believe you two have met?

Perfk 8th January 2004 23:13

Quote:

Originally posted by cEvin
if you listen closely at 1:45 the lyrics are "lol @ ashley".
funniest thing ever!
all I could hear was "CCS" most of the way through :)

it's really nice though, a bit more 'sparkly' than the other 2 CDs I've got of your stuff. _b

circa 8th January 2004 23:43

^^ what she said :>

pretty sure i heard "duckstab" somewhere along the line? ;p

SepulchraL 9th January 2004 00:37

Quote:

Originally posted by Jonas Undrawing
Here's cEvin's wonderful contribution. Dig it. No prizes for being the fastest songwriter, I'm afraid.
cEvin - nzgames ruined my summer.mp3

any chance of seeing the lyrics?

OdditY 9th January 2004 00:55

aww, busted link! bshax!

wizardofOz 9th January 2004 09:16

hehe nice cevin

ZoSo 9th January 2004 09:48

o/~
Nobody on the road
Nobody on the beach
I feel it in the air
The summer's out of reach


cEvin: _b

RedeviL 9th January 2004 10:02

I'm still trying to work out when the song starts...

FULLCYCLE 9th January 2004 10:09

haha sweet i have two weeks of living alone so i will put something together.
tempo will be 174BPM

tarzan007 9th January 2004 11:47

slothking - write me some lyrics buddy ;)

cEvin 9th January 2004 12:49

it says:

"CCS, Bogan, Cyberbob, Simon, chiQ, Whiplash, Devil W T K C !, Cinclant, CCS, Simon, chiQ, mpx, Simon, Cinclant, CCS, Bogan, yeh... alright!, Jonas, Simon, CCS, lightspeed, duckstab, ashley, lol @ ashley"

Ashley 9th January 2004 18:51

Quote:

Originally posted by Jonas Undrawing
It's a thread with a purpose. Don't be alarmed.
My point!

tarzan007 10th January 2004 00:49

Heres my song

I started off trying to do something with the nzg summer theme, but that theme gradually dissipated away and I just wanted to jam with the harp.
No words to this piece, it's very mellow with just guitar and the old harmonica, both of which I have taught myself to play and am still not very good at - only got my harp a week ago :D

[edit] oh yes a link would be helpful too :D
http://dteam.orcon.net.nz/harmonica.mp3 - 3.08mb and 3 mins 22 secs long

Jonas Undrawing 10th January 2004 01:09

aww, that's beautiful Tarzan.

That's exactly what I needed to hear at this time of day.

*seldom 10th January 2004 01:15

can we get that promised Bogan rap?

Bogan 10th January 2004 11:14

Yeah yeah - I'm working on it.

fobski 10th January 2004 11:22

Quote:

Originally posted by tarzan007
Heres my song


http://dteam.orcon.net.nz/harmonica.mp3 - 3.08mb and 3 mins 22 secs long


that

is pretty dam sweet my good sir

"adds that and cEvins song to his MD"

Slothking 10th January 2004 11:27

What the hell? I'm not going to bespoil the purity of that beautiful track by inserting lyrics on how Nzgames ruined my summer.

I think you should leave it as it is, Allstar.

cEvin 10th January 2004 12:51

tarzan, your song is fantastic :>

tarzan007 10th January 2004 13:11

Quote:

Originally posted by Slothking
What the hell? I'm not going to bespoil the purity of that beautiful track by inserting lyrics on how Nzgames ruined my summer.

I think you should leave it as it is, Allstar.

We will make another song then!! for old times sake, c'mon steve :D


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