Round VI

Bookshelf: Switch Opens by Soundgarden
IC Light Years: Communication Breakdown by Led Zeppelin



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Round IV

Walter Sobchak: I Don't Like Mondays by Boomtown Rats
Xwayne: Carvel by John Frusciante
Whygodeep: Long Time Gone by Crosby, Stills, and Nash
IC Light Years: Thrill is Gone by BB King
Chris: One Step Up by Bruce Springsteen
Jblagg: All I Want is You by U2
Badabing: Hard Time Killing Floor Blues by Skip James
Porchball: Going to California by Led Zeppelin
Welaughindoors: I Won't Follow You Into Dark-Death Cab For Cutie
WhiteRider: Don't Let Me Down-The Beatles

Round V

Walter Sobchak: Cliche by Fish
Bookshelf: Amsterdam by Coldplay
F.U.B.A.R.: Build me Up Buttercup by the Foundations
IC Light Years:Immigrant song by Led Zeppelin
Porchball: Brother by Alice in Chains (exhibition)
Raziel: To Shelia by the Smashing Pumpkins
Chris: Talkin' 'bout a Revolution by Tracy Chapman
MF: Fiddler's Green by the Tragically Hip
Mikeyisgod: Trapped Under Ice by Metallica

Round VI
MF: Father and Son--Cat Stevens
WhiteRider: Oh My Sweet Carolina by Ryan Adams
BadaBing: Trouble by Cat Stevens

Nice job to both of you in our battle of the frenchmen.

A similar laid back, clean feel to both songs that were very evenly matched. Vote goes to walter, although it is close. I felt like his cover captured what seemed like the essence of his song a little better.

vote for walter

a nice matchup of laid back songs. walter it's nice to hear you do something non-full band for once. i loved the guitar tone.

i liked them both alot, but i give a slight nod to walter.

I really liked both songs...nice and simple, but effective. I think walter pulls this one out. Nice harmonies...better recording quality than in some of your other stuff.

vote to walter

Hi folks,

Thanks for the votes. Xwayne has made a really nice cover choice. I like Frusciante's solo work and Xwayne really did a good job in this one.
For my recording quality, as said in the old threads, the previous entries i submitted were rehearsal recordings : a band and two mikes with no overdubs or studio tricks of any kind so the sound was a bit rough. This one I made last week with my old Fostex multitrack tape recorder and passed it in the comp (soundforge) for a bit of compression. This is as close as home-studio-ing as I can get .

i'm looking forward to listening to these tonight.


stip, you need to change the link in the announcement thread in PJ chat. it leads to the Round III thread.

thanks for the heads up

vote goes to xwayne. nice job on a good song

Nice job Walter, it's strange to hear both songs, mine after yours, I totally left out the production work ! I don't think I'll make it to the next round, it's been a fun ride, I have now to finish 1 song and some lyrics for a live show in two weeks, can't wait !

Good luck fellow Frog !

i voted for Walter.

i still hate you both for kicking my ass though

Both good covers. I like XWayne's cover more though, so he gets my vote.

I voted for Xwayne. Both were very nice covers and very evenly matched. I chose Xwayne because his singing was better. I think Xwayne could have gotten more votes if he had turned up the guitar a little. ( Also to me it seems like the song has verses and Pre-Chorus, I was always waiting for the "pay-off"/chorus) I still liked it enough to get my vote good job

I pulled up both originals, both good songs. The doubled singing in Walters chorus in the end forced me to chose Xwayne. Walter good guitar work.

Neither of these knocked me out of my chair.

I thought XWayne executed better, although the vocals were pretty distant in the mix...and actually the presence of the mix overall was pretty low.

The harmonies is Walter's were pretty rough up there in the upper register. Vocal EQ had a cool early Elvis Costello vibe though. I kind of dug that.

2 very similar entries each with its own set of problems and successes.

Tough to call this one...

okay--my wife stayed home to finsih some work on the computer where i have the songs saved, so this mornings round will start at 11 or so, but the match goes to Walter. Congrats Walter and I'm sorry to see you go Xwayne . Hopefully you'll be back for the originals contest (after the PJ olympics)

new songs are up

wow...real impressed by you two.

WhyGoDeep sounds like Mick Jagger singing CSN. The high notes in the chrous weren't there but I loved the Rolling Stone vibe. You have a good band brother.

IC Light Years...if whygodeep had the Stones vibe your tone reminded me of Santana...awesome leads....just wish your singer was a little higher in the mix. The drummer was awesome too. His parts sounded complicated.

Vote goes to WhyGoDeep by just a little...it had a lot of energy...I can see this one going to overtime...


edit...I think I can't hear the high parts in WhyGo's song cause of my lousy speakers...I think they are there...I've listened to the song like 6 times...it's my fav of the tourney for sure....awesome...

Alright, so this piece dates back to 2004, a week or two before the '04 presidential election, and this was another song we recorded to give my voice some practice (although I chose this song for its political bent, as well). There are spots where my voice is a bit out of tune, but it's a pretty good performance overall, and I actually do all the harmonies on the track, as well.

two AMAZING songs for this round. both are going into my GH nomination pile


I'm leaning a little more towards IC at this time. I felt it had a little bit more character. But it is close, and both of these need more listens

Nice harmonies and strong vocals overall whygodeep, by the way. I wasn't a big fan of your One, but this one is just terrific

Fantastic job to both of you. it isn't fair that one of you will be eliminated here

WOW!! Boths songs Rock! No way I can decide right now without a few more listens to each.

Whygodeep, it would have been cool if the lead singer sang the harmony during the chorus and let another member of the band take over lead vocals like CSN (just to get two different sounding voices). Recording sounded great. Great levels on everything. Real good singing.

ICLightyears - turn up the vocals, she has a great voice. Band was tight, liked the keyboard. Excellent Job.

Again this one will require more listens, because both are great. I know we are pretty far along in the contest, but it still seems too earlier for both of these to be going up against each other. Both would have crushed anything I could put together.