I've talked about this terrific Boingo tune before.  I once performed it live with the Songfight band Octothorpe, but at the time the studio version didn't seem to exist anywhere.

Since then, someone on U2be has created a video featuring little stop-motion animated plastic army men.  Score!  Now I can post it.  And you can go hear it.

Watch the aforementioned YouTube fanvid for "Little Guns."

Before this year's GoM, I had never heard of Les Savy Fav.

Holy cow, this song rocks.

As does the cover version done by Songfight's own Sven Mullet.

Don't believe me?  Click these links and be rocked.

Hear "Raging in the Plague Age" on YouTube.

Hear Sven Mullet's cover.

It's Gift of Music time once again in Songfightland.  Well, at least it was - I was out of the country when it was first revealed.  It's kinda dying down now, but I'd be remiss if I failed to give it a nice fat plug here.

You may remember when I featured a whole week of songs from last year's GoM.  This year it will be more of a mini-theme, so today I am putting up this Frank Black song along with a new version done by Billy's Little Trip.  I've talked about that guy in the past, so posting his entry shouldn't be a surprise.

For the record, I covered the Dave Brubeck piece "Take Five" for this project, which I've discussed before.  You can hear my version here.

Oh, I also started to rework my sorted song logs that Internet Explorer recently fubared.  They're at least up-to-date and readable, although a lot of the formatting has been removed, so they'll be rather plain looking for now.  But my God, I didn't quite realize just how much IE had butchered them.  For some ungodly reason it threw in a bunch of paragraph tags, and that made adding a new entry very difficult.  I eventually decided to just take all of the formatting tags out, and I'll put the applicable ones back in at some point.

Moral of the story:  Don't use IE.  Ever.  Especially if you wanna do something bold and daring, like, you know, some random blog no one reads...

Watch the video for "Headache" on YouTube.

Hear BLT's cover.

Showing some Songfighter love today.  I was going through some of the Paco del Stinko el Catalogo in the car this morning and thought I'd put one up.  I've talked about him before, so my fondness for his recorded output is not surprising.

This guy just makes some of the most, well, fun music on Songfight right now.  In an age where it seems like every Intarweb musician is trying to be the next indie darling or the next artsy-fartsy coffee house folk hero or the next punk icon or the next metal god or the next whatever, I find Paco's irreverence and total absence of pretense refreshing.  He's the next "guy who makes fun music that both defies any contemporary convention and makes for some good mindless headbobbing."

Plus, his voice reminds me of Joe from the Dead Milkmen.  Channeling DM is always a good thing, deliberately or otherwise.

Visit the "Late for Babies" Songfight page.  Ignore those voting results.  None of those other schmucks who scored higher than Paco even post on Songfight anymore.

Paco del Stinko website

Earlier today on the Songfight forums, someone posted an original lyrical snippet containing a B.F. Skinner rhyme.  I immediately thought of this Dead Milkmen song, which also has a rhyme involving B.F. Skinner.

Of course, often when I put up a Dead Milkmen tune I will refer back to this post, which gives my general band spiel.  That song, like this one, comes from Eat Your Paisley.  Eating paisley?  Please explain that concept to me.  I mean, sure it involves some wordplay having to do with parsley, other than that, there must be some high concept here that's going over my feeble head.  I guess I need an art student to clarify this.  Wait, no, scratch that idea.  Art students lose me the exact instant the word "dadaist" comes out of their mouths.

Eh, forget it.  It's just a cool Dead Milkmen song.  This is a song blog after all.  There's no cosmic wisdom here.

Hear "Where the Tarantula Lives" on GrooveShark.

And the iPod week ends with another Songfight entry.  Remember the Total Request Coverfight?  This was Caravan Ray's entry.  The song was originally done by Heuristics Inc., who appears to have abandoned his song blog completely.

That's my bass guitar sticking out in that picture.  Just so you know.  And that's Pat to the left.  We played in his impromptu house band during a Santa Cruz show in 2006.  He came all the way from Australia to do that show.  He's insane like that.

Hear/download "Fight the Sea."

This is part of a week-long series on songs chosen at random by my iPod.

And here is the obligatory Songfight song.  We knew this was coming.  It's simple mathematics.

Glenn Case won this fight.  But this little "guy-and-guitar" ditty from the Endless Attention Seeker was what came up.  Songfight G+G songs usually don't work for me.  This one, for some reason, does.

Visit the "Georgia's Hand" page on Songfight.

This is part of a week-long series on songs chosen at random by my iPod.

Here's another Songfight song.  I did two weeks of Songfight songs once, and for some ungodly reason that not even I could fathom, this Jim of Seattle entry from August of '04 was left out.  I honestly cannot comprehend why it was overlooked, it's been a top-tier SF favorite for going on five years now.  So, on this random Wednesday, I am presenting it for your approval.

Actually, my original omission from this daily exercise in musical bloviating wasn't the first time this song had gotten shafted in some way.  As you well know by now, Songfight is a competition amongst truly independent musicians.  And by that I mean "regular folks with regular jobs who play and record stuff."  Original songs are written, performed, recorded, submitted and then voted on by the general public.  Anyone can vote for any song(s) they want.  For any reason.  Which means that you could tell everyone you know on the Intarweb about it and have them vote for your entry.  It's commonly called "friend flooding."  It's somewhat less of an issue now that you can vote for as many entries as you want, but back then you could vote for one song and one song only.  If you gave your friend a flood vote, you couldn't vote for any of the others.

Jim's "Gin or Ginseng" was the victim of one of Songfight's most obvious and egregious friend floods.  I mean, there couldn't have been any doubt whatsoever - the song that "won" the fight was nothing short of abysmal.  It was the worst entry by far.  Hell, Pat and I entered that fight as well (it's one of the earliest Primitive Screwhead tunes) and the "winning" entry made our song look good by comparison.

I guess if there's a silver lining, it's that the truly great entries stand the test of time.  Obviously no one remembers or talks about the piece of crap that "won" the "Gin or Ginseng" fight, but I'm sure that some people (like, uh, myself) still appreciate and enjoy Jim's entry.  We all absolutely raved about it at the time, and we knew who the real winner was.

Visit the "Gin or Ginseng" page on Songfight, where you can hear Jim of Seattle's entry as well as our own and every other.  Give the "winner" a listen at your own risk.