Spiderlegs' Advances to the Next Round in the MASSPIRE Battle of the Bands Beta contest

Round Two!
Posted on July 2, 2012

 

Round One is at an end.  The Beta Season did wonders for our faith that small artists are capable of creating awesome things.

Here’s a List of All the Songs that Qualified:

1. Perfectly Broken
2. lyric
3. hussy
4. Where Are You
5. Into the Fray
6. Cross Walk
7. The Willies
8. Like Rain Like Rust
9. Funkyness
10. Insanity
11. Mintberry Slush
12. Heavy Groove
13. Olive Juice
14. Note From Her
15. Everything
16. Kristy Ray
17. Already Home
18. A Wavering Line
19. Jackass
20. Space Journey
21. Grey Wool
22. The Boy Left Behind
23. A Piss Before Dying by Spiderlegs
24. Go to Hell
25. Superman
26. Peyote Coyote
27. Under an Atom Bonding

Round Two ends on July 7th. Round Three will go from July 8th – 31st. The prize for 1st is $500.

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If you wouldn't mind, folks out there, click the song link and upvote it, if you like it. I'd appreciate it.--jef

Morrissey as superhero: Smiths songs are transformed into comics

US publisher hopes to create a series of comic-book stories based on songs by Morrissey and Johnny Marr

The Smiths' songs as comics – in pictures

Sean Michaels
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 3 August 2011 

 
Unite and Take Over re-imagines Smiths songs as comic strips. Photograph: Jason Pedersen
 
What if the Smiths' songs were comics? An American publisher is taking that idea to the printing-press, organising a new anthology that transforms songs such as Girlfriend in a Coma and How Soon Is Now? into comic-book stories. Each tune will unspool as a four-to-eight-page comic strip, with the whole thing published in November. Unite and Take Over: Comic Stories Inspired by the Smiths is the brainchild of Shawn Demumbrum, a Phoenix, Arizona comics geek who clearly likes his Batman with a dash of melancholy. Instead of imagining Morrissey and Johnny Marr as vinyl-wielding superheroes who seek out happiness and, er, destroy it, the Smiths' influence on Unite and Take Over is subtle. "What's the story that plays in your head when you listen to your favourite Smiths songs?" he explains in a promotional video. The book's authors use these songs as "an inspiration, a jumping-off point, a theme or a mood". In an email to the Guardian, he added: "As a teen in the 80s, one of my favourite soundtracks was the Pretty in Pink soundtrack. While training for cross country, I played the cassette over and over on my Walkman as I ran. There was always something about the Smiths' Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want. It tapped into my teenage psyche, a combination of loneliness and yet hopeful optimism, that only Morrissey's vocals seem to capture." Demumbrum is funding the project on the crowdsourcing website Kickstarter, hoping to raise $3,000 (£1,841) toward printing costs and ISBN codes, as well as to license song lyrics from the Smiths themselves. He has already gathered 13 writer/artist teams, each of whom will take on a different Smiths classic. Although the anthology lacks any major names, most of the contributors are indie comics veterans, including Christian Vilaire, Henry Barajas, Jeff Pina and Shelby Robertson. The finished product, which will run to at least 72 illustrated pages, is due out at the upcoming Tucson Comic-Con.

You have to draw the line, sometime...

This song, by a band called Easterhouse, is one of the greatest political laments/call to arms I've ever heard. It's one of the few songs that still gives me chills 25 years after I first heard it in 1985. With the refrain of
“You have to draw the line/sometime/and I draw mine..."



video link

1969 by easterhouse

it seems that i remember
scattered shreds of far off days
the savage beat of soldiers feet
on streets of broken glass
that crushed the lie of justice
england brings to foreign lands
the truth came out and out and out
in 1969

how many must have thought that things
would work out differently
the labor hand of government
the workers' own party
who brought out their true colors
and nailed them to a mast
serve the union jack as they always have
1969 

You have to draw the line
sometime
and I draw mine
at Labour’s house-trained socialists
the lowest form of hypocrite
Who talk but when the chips are down
stay loyal to the King and crown

how desperately they tried
through schemes of treachery and lies
they hide their hands stained reddened
from countless irish lives
and talk of dangerous gunmen
the sectarian divine
and they tried to kill the truth behind
1969

You have to draw the line
sometime
and I draw mine
at this machine of murder
this system of brutality
and make ourselves a concrete hill
to bury the truth alive

and they talk of any sin
from the midst of the slaughter
they talk of their justice
and pain from the merger (murder?)
and the peace that they bring
is a piece of the grave
they are ripe for the fire--
there are none fit to save

no man can serve two masters
this surely is the truth
your country or your class
when it comes down
our kind must choose
from dark days of oppression
we must forge ourselves a lesson
while we are part of history
we can not make ourselves clear

You have to draw the line
sometime
and I draw mine
at Labour’s house-trained socialists
the lowest form of hypocrite
Who talk but when the chips are down
stay loyal to the King and crown