"Now That's What I Call ILX" (comp # whatever: we cover/mutilate/remix the POP HITS of the day)

kinda want to do "firework" cuz I think those absurdly terrible lyrics would be fun to sing, but I dunno if I actually have the range for it

(then again, neither does katy perry)

excellent point.

xp All you'd have to really do is shout.

oh, speaking of the dreaded pomplamoose (upthread), who's going to do the hyundai jingle?

nobody doing "being a dickhead's cool"?

looks like we filled that slot actually

ah ok.

maybe i could actually finish the 'rolling in the deep' remix i started for this

What's the deadline, gbjbr?

oy. weekend after memorial day?

Translation into English, please?

june 5?

Soft deadline, with hard deadline St Swithin's Day?

too far out. hard deadline is june 12, no lollygagging allowed. you've already got a month and a half!

Wholly tempted to try covering Friday as A Silver Mt Zion

Who's going to take on Whip My Hair?

aw dammit i was thinking about 'what's my name'. m bison, let me know if you change your mind!

I'm not participating, but I would LOVE to hear someone do Robyn's "Call Your Girlfriend" (is that a hit?).

...unless I got Ned to do the toasting bits on Lights On! ha hahaha.

Oh dear.

That's a yes?

...I guess?

Then yay!

Count me in for Rebbeca Black - Friday (cancerous strip mall/charred angel's halo mix)

tsk Rebecca (cures eyoiu ophone)

can't decide between "being a dickhead's cool" or "double rainbow all the way across the sky"

if I don't do "Firework", I might try "Whip My Hair".
thought about "Black & Yellow" but I'm not really sure what I'd do with it.

can i try black and yellow if u don't want it?

Hats off to anyone who does cover it - it's basically some guy going "black and yellow black and yellow black and yellow black and yellow" for 3 minutes.

i'm at the black and yellow pizza hut and taco bell

I'm in for "Born This Way"

can i try black and yellow if u don't want it?

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sure, go for it! think I'm gonna tackle "Firework" after all

i will tentatively claim "six foot seven foot" but i don't know if i'm really going to have time to work on this

Not sure the klezmer idea is going to fly, but I'll still take "DJ Got Us Falling in Love."

it's may, and the sounds of $c!3n+0l0g3333 have made it into the ears of innocent children. let's boogie!

if you haven't checked the aforementioned comp out yet, here it is:

music: http://official.fm/playlists/60920
artwork: https://www.yousendit.com/download/MEtUZXQrYSs3N0R2Wmc9PQ

Can I sign up for "Now! ILX"?

hell yeah. any idea what you wanna do?

will take a rough headcount soon -- who's doing what and with whom.

OK, hang on: I'm wanting in.

Is that last link the picklist? If not, what is?

(I know there was some discussion upthread, but I feel an official source is needed)

(OK that's obv not the source, being as how it's the sciento orgy thing.)

OK, might put dibs on "Don't stop believing"

umm, i'm going to remix something. not sure what yet.

I guess I should put in for "tik tok" b4 somebody else swipes it

Not sure why, but I can't really get as excited about this project as some of the other ones. Maybe if it'd been covers of the entire Now #1 catalogue or something...

Catalogue? Um, album.

pick yr most hated pop song of the recent past and try to redeem it

get bent - "till the world ends"
snoball - 'S&M'
jaymc - "DJ Got Us Falling in Love"
absolutely clean glasses - "like a G6"
karen d. tregaskin and ned raggaskin - "lights on"
m bison - "what's my name"
bernard snowy - "firework"
blueski - "rolling in the deep" remix
maresnest - "friday"
ken c - can't decide between "being a dickhead's cool" or "double rainbow all the way across the sky"
elvis telecom - "born this way"
rent - "black and yellow"
n/a - "6 foot 7 foot"
edward iii - "tik tok"

and mark g - "don't stop believing" (is this a glee thing?)

here's the current u.s. hot 100: http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100#/charts/hot-100

really liked kate's track

bernard is our finest interpreter of modern song, looking forward to his covers album

kinda hate my own contrib but whatevs

your contrib is loads of fun!

i made a page: http://grannykart.com/now-ilx/

cool. i will try and remember to download this when i'm not at work. looking forward to it. i had fun making mine.

Heard it this morning, it's truly great.

Mind you, at one point I did think "whoa, spotify ads?"

spotify ads?

I'll explain:

I recorded a bunch of Kraftwerk tracks onto minidisc from Spotify, back when I didn't have the Premium service. On playback, I had to edit out all the damn commercials. One of which was Ke$ha's "tik tok" featuring that very segment.

Good album, wd everyone! Gonna single out Scare Quotes's contribution as particularly +. :)

aw thanks dude

bernard is our finest interpreter of modern song, looking forward to his covers album

still need to listen to the comp; I sorta lost track/didn't realize it had come out!

the phrase "in a frozen lake eating frozen cake" goes thru my head at least once a month

i got a request to put this up again:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/4epqd3

yissss

Grannykart page is still there, but the megaupload links are gorn.

My "Six Foot Seven Foot" "cover" (really more a remix of the banana boat song) is one of my favorite ILX comp submissions.