What’s the word? (psst… its “contest”) (UPDATED)
March 4, 2009 | misc
Ever try to make a vision/mission statement? Or maybe just a clever tweet? There’s an art to summarizing something down into just one or two sentences. And that’s exactly what we’re trying to do right now. We’re in the process of setting up a press page and are trying to summarize some of our favorite songs into little tidbits for people that havn’t heard our music. This where YOU come in.
We love comments. And we need some help describing our songs. So we need you to leave a comment describing our music. And the winner gets free, unreleased tunes! How do we determine the winner? Simple enough. If you leave a comment that follows the guidelines… YOU WIN! Keep reading to get the full rules and leave a comment to enter…
UPDATE: We changed the rules… as in I wrote it wrong the first time. If you enter… you get the free tunes. Boo Yah!
Here’s how the contest works:
- LISTEN to the songs
- Make a comment on THIS entry.
- Your comment must include AT LEAST one adjective along with the name of the selected song you’re describing. If you’re more ambitious you could even write down a whole one or two line description.
- Adjectives CANNOT include things like good, awesome, great, sucks, etc… they need to actually help describe the song..
- If you leave a coment and follow the guideline you score some FREE tunes. We’re going into the studio this week and re-recording a few songs. These songs will not be available for free anywhere else.
Here’s the songs we’ve chosen to promote and need descriptions for…
Fall, Freakin Me Out, Incredible, A Feeling, Apathetic Skies, Lying next to Me
And just to get the juices flowing… here’s one description we’ve come up with for Incredible:
“a quirky, feel good song with jazzy guitar and a whistle reminiscent of the Andy Griffith show”
Good luck!
Comments (9)
Fall:
a melodic and chaotic glimpse into the search for something to believe in. copeland meets postal service.
Fall
Loving a God you cannot see, is a difficult task for pilgrims. Fall captures the dissonance felt when living in both the fallen world and spiritual realm.
Apathetic Skies
It tells about what many people feel with the direction their life is going. It can describe how many of us feel without any personal statements being made or without having to find someone to talk to. For many people someone is their to mourn with you even when you feel that no one is their that you can trust going to. It’s got a good feel to it; not a “depressing” song but a “feel-good” tone… if that makes any sense.
With Apathetic Skies, Two Seconds Away uses disarmingly simple words coupled with a perfectly contrasting and inspiring guitar to share subtle truths about depression and feeling alone that are often only realized after experiencing it ourselves.
@Jeremy: I really like your description!
A Thousand Bars:
“A haunting and mesmerizing reminder of life without salvation.”
Everyone who hears this will have their own translation, but I am reminded of a kind of suffering that entraps a person within their own body (like a prison with a thousand bars). So many people that I work with live life like this. This is possibly one of the most mesmerizing and powerful poems (and songs) I have heard to date. I know there was a lot of talk about this being a “different” kind of song. While it is different, it is also powerful beyond words. It is among my favorite TSA songs to date.
Note: I just realized that the song I chose to comment on is not one that you requested comments on. Oh well…for what it’s worth!!
@Michelle But since your comment was so nice I think we can let it slide this time
Glad you liked it!
for “Freakin’ Me Out”
a harmonically jumbled canon of all the things you wish you could say to someone caught in a cycle of bad decisions
great suggestions everyone!
“Freakin’ Me Out”
Freaking Me Out: an effervescent soliloquy on discombobulated emotions…