No, I haven't fallen into mainstream society quite yet folks. I was playing with Adobe Audition today, and was thinking that it might be fun for us to have a little forum game, ripped from American Idol.

We could have about 8-10 members record a song (either with or without backing vocals, free MIDI's are available throughout the internet which work fine) using Windows Sound Recorder or another program (the only thing not allowed is audio manipulation or vocal effects).

Every person would submit their song in .mp3 or .wav (or whatever is easiest, .mp3 would be the smallest) format, and we could have the rest of the BB vote for the BB idol?

Sound stupid? You bet. But I figure, we're doing too much arguing these days, and maybe not enough stuff to be loosened up. So let me know what you guys think.

-DJ

I'll do it.

Can LDV and I do a duet?

Organize it and you'll get te best damned version of "Night and Day" yet!

Well, I'd do it. Sully, Geoff/LDV...that's three (No, Geoff, you only count as half a person :p )...who else is in?

Sounds good. Now excuse me, I must channel Stevie Nicks into me starting now.

Okay, that's 4! Keep going, folks!

Can I be Simon?

"Absolutely terrible.....Geoff." :p

You and your veiny ass should belt out a couple of showtunes, DV!

Hilarious idea, DJ!

I don't think I'll be making one, partially because I wouldn't know how/wouldn't be able to, and partially because I'd be laughed off stage! But I will be cheering on all of the brave contestants!

I've made some videos with my cousin on his camera, but we play a song and then mouth the words to it, instead of singing. We've done, "There's A Tear in My Beer," which was hilarious, as well as some Blues Brothers songs.

Turn around. Every now and then I get a little bit lonely and you're never coming round. Turn around. Right round. EVERY NOW AND THEN I FALL APART.

I FUCKING NEED YOU NOW TONIGHT

I FUCKING NEED YOU MORE THAN EVER...

I think it's a great idea.

Interesting interpretation -- What's your Gay-O-Meter score, Turi?

So can we start sending .wav files now? I'm ready to kick "Simon's" ass.

Who is judging this anyhow?

That's the wedding song from Old School!! I died laughing when I saw that.

Btw, don't laugh, but I love the original. :p

Where should I send the .wav files?

I'm thinking we should get all the contestants together in this thread, and then make a new poll thread where the .wav/mp3s are submitted. I thin we have 5 or 6 people now willing to do this, right?

You can upload your .wavs/.mp3's (free hosting with Tripod or another site) just temporarily so we could download them. I might be able to host a couple, but I only have so much space on my ISP.

What options should be in the poll?

I would think the member name and the corresponding song title. That way, whomever gets the least votes from the rest of the BB, would be "voted off."

Also, we could put a time-limit on the poll so it closes in a week or something, too, that way the winners would move on until we have a decisive BB idol!

I think someone should collect all the sound files, and they should be posted so no one knows who's who. That way, people are judged by talent rather than popularity.

Everyone is a judge - via a poll.

There could be a preliminary round, where people judge a short clip to see who moves on to the "next round"...

There are many options that could be done - I'd gladly help with that... but anonymity would be cool I think, and winners announced after voting...

I can't wait until I can hear them.

Interesting interpretation -- What's your Gay-O-Meter score, Turi? [/b][/quote]36% but I felt it should be much higher.

That's the wedding song from Old School!! I died laughing when I saw that.

Btw, don't laugh, but I love the original. :p [/b][/quote]I love Old School - and the original song too. Nothing better than a good power ballad.

The reason I don't do this is because I get irritated by my own singing. It is awful. You can give me a razzie ahead of your poll.

Tripod sucks ass! I have no choice but to email files to whoever is in charge.

Changed my mind. I uploaded a test file for you Double-J. See if it works. And here's the URL:

Gangster BB idol page

Wow, beatlewho - you sound just like Peter Gabriel!!

Fuggedaboutit! You gotta be in it, too! :p

Another thought -

If we have more than one round, we can have people vote on which genre/artist/whatever contestants have to cover! Could be pretty funny...

If we could get Parts to sing Madonna's "Like a Virgin", then we may just have a success on our hands.

Damn, I can't get my first file on my site. I'll have to give it to someone else.

Yes, I like Geoff's idea of anonymous submissions, though I'm wondering if we could find a temporary web host to locate all this stuff (unless someone would be generous enough to host this until it's over, then you can dump it :p ), and then put each song into the new poll thread. Under anonymity makes it fantastic as well, we probably should go by song title though (i.e. for example, if I sang "Bohemian Rhapsody," we'd say "Bohemian Rhapsody" by #1" or something along those lines.

Our contestants so far appear to be:

Myself
Mikey Sullivan
Geoff/LDV (?)
Beatlewho
Turi (?)

It'll be a short contest with only 5 or 6, but oh well. Anyways, please let me know what you guys want to do as far as hosting. I suspect it would be temporary anyways. I know I've almost reached my 10MB limit, so unless these were really small .mp3's, I dunno if I'd be able to host it. But I'm sure there has to be a free domain out there that we could use, if only temporarily, to dump our files and then close it once the contest is over.