Want To Make A Street Performers Song?

**Lynneski** · Oct-20-2003, 10:55 AM

[I'm really sorry, folks, but I just can't sit still for this. Maybe he's just trying to take a poke with a sharp stick, well, OK then, I'm the patsy. Bring on the s**t storm ...]

Trevor, are you completely, utterly, freakin' mad???!

You're proposing to create (by committee) an international street performer theme song? A jingle? The "brand name" in street performing? So everyone can sound alike? Or is it so any Pavlovian pedestrian, from Stockholm to Sydney, knows it's time to stand still and look around for something interesting when they hear the first few bars?

There aren't enough large punctuation marks on my keyboard to fully register my level of shocked and appall-edness.

And if all that weren't enough, you're also proposing that we create a huge international phone-poll conspiracy to drive this danceable little ditty through the roof of every pop chart on the planet?

Oh. My. (Insert favourite deity here).

**Dead Wood Records** · Oct-20-2003, 11:35 AM

Knew this one would get some response!

10s the highest score you can get here so you get a zero rating for your lyrics?

Try again Lynneski, lets see if you get better marks
next time round.

Next please!

Trevor Rooney

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**Jim** · Oct-20-2003, 11:43 AM

Oh no, not again...

**Dead Wood Records** · Oct-20-2003, 12:59 PM

Hows about this for a title!

I'm sick of being poor N sometimes rich?

Trevor

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**clapchap** · Oct-20-2003, 02:58 PM

Wait but are you serious? I think Lynneski was, and I agree with him. Thats like having an international routine. I know i dont want to see someone eating an apple while juggling in every friggen town i go to. The fun of watching street performing is seeing the new and unexpected. Key words: New and Unexpected. Jugglers get enough publicity as clowns, and i know some of the street performing violinsts might not want to be put with the same class as the kids in the airports practicing. Think about what you're really trying to do.

-Eric

**Dead Wood Records** · Oct-20-2003, 05:37 PM

Hi Clapchap

Logged the "new and expected" you get a few points for that one mate!

Wait but are you serious? you say..............

How many shows songs and comedy lines have been covered and copied in the past? Watching the original artist live on stage is much better than watching the cover act. The fun of watching a street artist I agree can be fun and unexpected, every tune and every bar can be different. Musicians get enough publicity as clowns but the clowns and the artists always envelop themselves in the music ot the musicians. Where would the performer be without the music if it were not written for them. How many street musicians rely on music that the public know? It's safer that way!

But really if this be the case then whats up with a musician that's totally independant and offer something new and original?

So I know aht I'm trying to do, Do you?

Maybe these people are unfulfilled in their current occupation and envy the musician who does not need to answer to the ungrateful few.

Thank you Clap Trap

I award you with a 3 on that one, are you capable of writing?
If you were sitting in a studio the size of this one you would be seeing things much differently im sure?

Best Wishes

-Trevor Rooney

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Never judge a book by it's cover.

**clapchap** · Oct-20-2003, 06:05 PM

It's a bit snide that you would critique us on the opinions you asked for. If this song is to represent buskers, it would be foolish to make it if the buskers themselves are against it. What is your relationship to the busking world? At a glance it seems you are trying to make a buck off of other's passions: "write some fab lyrics for me."
I think someone needs to step out of their studio a bit more...

**Peter Voice** · Oct-20-2003, 07:12 PM

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**Greedybogle** · Oct-20-2003, 07:17 PM

I have to weigh in. Honestly, I think it's a fine idea - after all, we're competing with such pinnacles of human creation as WalMart and McDonalds, which are virtually identical everywhere in the world. People don't want variety, they want the expected. If it's familiar, it's comfortable.

On that note, I would like to submit my own set of lyrics for Trevor. These are intended to be set to something really upbeat, along the lines of 'it's a small world after all' or something similar. Here they are, in verse format:

Chorus:
Bite me bite me bite me,
bite me bite me bite me,
bite me bite me, oh yeah.

Verse 1:
Screw you screw you,
Oh yes screw you,
You corporate bastard.
Oh yes, I said it: screw you.

*chorus*

Verse 2:
Sellouts make me sick,
Sellouts make me sick.
If you show me money,
I still won't suck your dick.

*chorus*

Verse 3:
Whoring my profession,
Whoring my profession,
I've put too much effort into this.
You piss me off.

*final chorus*

Bridge:
How's that for new and unexpected for you?

Hope these please! I look forward to my rating <img src="graemlins/jester.gif" border="0" alt="[jester]" /> !

**Lynneski** · Oct-20-2003, 07:39 PM

Bwah hah hah hah hah! Good on ya, ~bogle!

Oh, Jim...May god save us all.

**Dead Wood Records** · Oct-20-2003, 08:07 PM

Hello Greedybogle

I go straight to it here you get a 6 for that one
no probs there, up tempos no problem what kind of style do ya
think the song should be then?

Spitting punk?

Off the street Greedybogle discusses how he developed his charisma as
a songwriter?

Thank You Greedybogle

Best Wishes

Trevor Rooney

**Dead Wood Records** · Oct-20-2003, 08:17 PM

Hello Lynneski

You said:

"Bwah hah hah hah hah! Good on ya, ~bogle!

Oh, Jim...May god save us all.

I'll give you a 2 nearly three for your stuff so far

Thank you Lynneski

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PS: I'm dedicated to living a life less restrictive than most?

**Dead Wood Records** · Oct-20-2003, 08:26 PM

Hello ClapChap

Gather you dont know who I am that's Ok mate you'll figure it out in the end.

Cant give you any points for lyrics yet though?

I'll give you a 1 for the doubt?

Thank you Claptrap

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It's often said that lyrics are there to simply serve the tune?

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**Dead Wood Records** · Oct-20-2003, 08:45 PM

Hello

I will keep on replying to your posts dont worry about that.

If your going to write some lyrics gentlemen then you can try to get them on a more of a street performing level, if you can bear in mind that this will be a public song placed on the net for download.

Presumebly you guys rant and rave like this to your audiences packed out with families and children? Like the rest of you I am street I know the street well, so I do know what the public will respond too!

Up to now I cannot see anything that portrays the nice people we are supposed to be and I cannot see anything that presents a special message about us yet?

Carry on sooner or later one of you might find the key to the safe deposit box where Ya locked your brains up by accident?

The best lines, choruses and verses get onto the song?

Fire away!

Trevor Rooney

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"There are a million different ways of saying "I love you" - or even "I loathe you."

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