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CHALLENGE: The Collaboration Station

Put your name down for the much-requested collaboration challenge! [more inside]
posted by greenish on May 15, 2021 - 5 comments

CH ch ch ch CHANGES

The First Music Challenge of 2021 [more inside]
posted by greenish on Apr 6, 2021 - 4 comments

MUSIC CHALLENGE - ideas and votes!

Music Challenges - do you want them back? Please vote! [more inside]
posted by greenish on Mar 29, 2021 - 17 comments

My challenge submission via Youtube video- Poor Mouth

I loved the idea of the March challenge A Change Will Do You Good, but midway through the month my computer and digital recorder got stolen and I've been on a Chromebook with no time to sort out recording options. Below is my submission, via Youtube. [more inside]
posted by twoplussix on Mar 29, 2019 - 0 comments

Challenge (Size: XL) - THE KATE BUSH BONANZA

The time has come for another big cover version event, and this time we honour the High Priestess of Weird Pop, her Excellency Ms Kate Bush [more inside]
posted by greenish on Jan 28, 2019 - 25 comments

Challenge (Size: Regular) - A CHANGE WOULD DO YOU GOOD

I think a change (a change would do you good) would do you good (a change would do you good) [more inside]
posted by greenish on Jan 21, 2019 - 5 comments

THE CHALLENGE RETURNS?

YOUR MEFIMU CHALLENGE NEEDS YOU [more inside]
posted by greenish on Dec 30, 2018 - 13 comments

May-June Music Challenge: I Saw This Thing On The Blue And...

As suggested by comealongpole and rangefinder 1.4, the next challenge is to post music inspired by something you saw on the MF frontpage. [more inside]
posted by greenish on May 5, 2017 - 6 comments

Challenge Idea: Username-inspired songs?

Admittedly potentially fraught! Similar to how a previous challenge invited non-MefiMusic regulars to opt-in by suggesting ideas for songs (e.g. set "When The Toad Came Home" to music), what about writing songs inspired by MeFite's usernames? They'd (we'd) have to volunteer themselves and willing Challenge-takers could call dibs on whichever they liked. Slight potential for drama, but considering some of the more creative, odd or merely unfamiliar usernames I reckon there's plenty of potential to whip up a song/piece/ditty based exclusively on the name given not the person. Good/iffy/bad idea? I lean towards iffy, but I'm a natural pessimist.
posted by comealongpole on Apr 12, 2017 - 6 comments

March Music Challenge: Tell Us a Story

A short one-month challenge, so feel free to post something old, new, borrowed and/or blue - so long as there's a story behind it [more inside]
posted by greenish on Feb 28, 2017 - 5 comments

Dec/Jan Music Challenge: Do The Thing That Scares You

Lets step out of our comfort zones for something completely different. [more inside]
posted by greenish on Dec 2, 2016 - 15 comments

November Music Challenge: 60 Seconds and Under #2

A short and sweet challenge in preparation for the longer December/January one - this November, keep it short and sweet. [more inside]
posted by greenish on Oct 31, 2016 - 18 comments

MeFiMusic Challenge: Music By Women

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it: record a song by, with or as a woman. [more inside]
posted by greenish on Apr 29, 2016 - 15 comments

Mefi Cover Challenge

In case there's anybody who follows Music Talk but not MetaTalk, Greg Nog has laid down a challenge there, to wit: "Please record a cover of a song that you only know about because it was in a post on metafilter." (See the link for more info.)
posted by Shmuel510 on Feb 28, 2016 - 1 comment

Festive Season Challenge: Pessimism/Optimism

Either bring the blues or put on your rose-tinted specs... [more inside]
posted by greenish on Nov 16, 2015 - 2 comments

August-September Music Challenge: Tunes of the Unexpected

After the well-chosen and lovely city songs, we need some chaos to balance the order. [more inside]
posted by greenish on Aug 14, 2015 - 1 comment

May-June Music Challenge: We Built This City on Rock and Roll (/Folk/Jazz/Hip-hop/etc)

...with apologies for getting that song in your head. Or NOT because it is FREAKING AWESOME. [more inside]
posted by greenish on May 1, 2015 - 28 comments

March Music Challenge: MeFiAnthems

At this time of change, let us band together in solidarity, gratitude, and general weirdness, and express ourselves in the best way we know how in this little corner of MetaFilter - via music. [more inside]
posted by greenish on Mar 5, 2015 - 27 comments

January Challenge: 10-Second Sample

The January Challenge: 10-Seconds of Something [more inside]
posted by greenish on Dec 19, 2014 - 11 comments

Music Challenge: Your Theme Tune

Hell's Clanging Bells - it's the August/September Music Challenge [more inside]
posted by greenish on Aug 10, 2014 - 4 comments

April/May Music Challenge: MetaMeta

With extremely humble apologies for the lateness, please accept this offering of the challenge for April/May, as suggested by dagosto. [more inside]
posted by greenish on Apr 10, 2014 - 5 comments

January-February Challenge: Musicologize a Book

As suggested by Doleful Creature, this two-month challenge is to pick a popular book and a scene or character from that book and write a song about it. [more inside]
posted by greenish on Jan 8, 2014 - 20 comments

December Music Challenge: Seasonal Special

It would seem rude not to do a seasonally-relevant challenge at this time of year! [more inside]
posted by greenish on Dec 3, 2013 - 0 comments

November Music Challenge: 60 Seconds and Under!

An idea from our dear friend Sweet Mister that's short and sweet [more inside]
posted by greenish on Nov 2, 2013 - 11 comments

Bowie Challenge - Wrapup!

Well folks, Sept 1 has arrived. Here's a summary of our summertime Bowie Challenge. [more inside]
posted by dubold on Sep 1, 2013 - 15 comments

Bowie Summer Challenge - submit tracks by Sept 1

Wham bam, thank you ma'am/sir [more inside]
posted by dubold on Jun 10, 2013 - 35 comments

Revamp the challenge?

Recent challenges haven't been attracting much interest, and I've been doing it for long enough that I feel a bit burned out. So I suggest that we have a blue sky discussion about what the challenge is/should be, what works and what doesn't, and maybe someone else feels like picking up the torch and running with it? [more inside]
posted by unSane on Jun 5, 2013 - 62 comments

It's about that time....

A couple of years back we had us a time with "The Velvet Underground & Nico". Last year it was "OK Computer". This year, and as a challenge say for "summer" or "fall" (more properly "autumn" but we have to make allowances for the verbal idiosyncracies of our colonial friends) rather than a single month, may I suggest.... [more inside]
posted by Hoops McCann on May 19, 2013 - 66 comments

May Challenge - the music of tomorrow, today!

May's challenge is a mindbender. Cover a song (possibly your own) from one era in the style of an earlier one. Tag your entires 'futurecovers' and 'mefimusicchallenge'. Explanation within. [more inside]
posted by unSane on May 5, 2013 - 16 comments

Possible May challenge idea - you scratch my backing track, I'll...

....have my wicked way with yours. The idea here is very simple. Upload the backing track of something you've previously posted to MeFiMu (that's not strictly necessary I guess but it sort of closes the loop) and the challenge is for anyone who fancies it to have a go at writing and recording a new top line/melody and, if you want to go the whole hog, lyric. You could of course try to use the existing lyric but with a new melody - that's even more difficult and may cause the masochists in the community to become moist. Go right ahead and swap stems if you so desire, but that's not essential for this bit of fun. Stating the bleedin' obvious: upload the result when you're done. 'andsome! [more inside]
posted by Hoops McCann on May 3, 2013 - 6 comments

Whispery vocals? Brushes on snares?

Another future challenge idea: ASMR trigger song [more inside]
posted by umbĂș on Apr 3, 2013 - 12 comments

APRIL CHALLENGE - BACKWARDS

April's challenge is to play something backwards. It could be a backwards guitar solo, or a song based off the chords of another song played backwards, or a melody played backwards, or ANYTHING. YOU GET IT, RIGHT? Feel free to tease us by not revealing what the source material, if there is any, is. Tags 'backwards' and 'mefimusicchalenge' please.
posted by unSane on Mar 29, 2013 - 4 comments

March challenge - Odd Time

Thanks to Hoots Hoops McCann for this one. March challenge is to record something In a time that is odd to you. [more inside]
posted by unSane on Mar 2, 2013 - 13 comments

Future challenge ideas

Not sure whether this has been done before, but how about songs that aren't in 4/4? Or not in 4/4 from top to tail (this leaping immediately to mind). Additional kudos to whoever can handle the weirdest time signature. I was in a prog band millions of years ago that did a track - I kid you not - in 13/8. I still have nightmares. Another idea is to cover a track by a non-Western artist, maybe from a particular continent (Africa gets my vote). Something that might well have a rock and/or roll influence but which has a very distinctive non-Western flavour.
posted by Hoops McCann on Mar 1, 2013 - 13 comments

February Challenge - Major to Minor

Apropos of this recent FPP, February's challenge is to record a version of a song, changing it from a major key to a minor one, or vice versa, turning (say) a murder ballad into a jolly polka, or a sunny pop song into a grinding death metal dirge. And hopefully improve it in the process. [more inside]
posted by unSane on Jan 30, 2013 - 15 comments

January Challenge -- Happy Birthday / New Year

January is a split challenge - do either or both or none. Option A: Write a simple, catchy, singable ditty to replace Happy Birthday. Option B: Record a piece of music on the theme of the year turning. [more inside]
posted by unSane on Jan 1, 2013 - 3 comments

Jingle Smells

December's challenge is, OF COURSE, holiday music! Have at it. [more inside]
posted by unSane on Dec 2, 2012 - 1 comment

Challenge idea for general consideration

So...we've done VU+N and OK Computer. I was just watching TV, minding me own business, nursing a pint and watching a BBC 4 doc about Chas & Dave, when it struck me..........Tubular Bells. Tub-u-fuckin'-lar-bellzzzzz....oh...yessssss. Obvious really isn't it? A loop with that unmistakeable figure and then, one by one, MeFiMoo-ers contribute the constituent parts.... [more inside]
posted by MajorDundee on Oct 26, 2012 - 6 comments

October Challenge - It Gets Better

October's challenge is simple: produce a piece of music on the theme of "it Gets Better", for possible inclusion in the MeFi "It Gets Better" video, as described in this Meta thread. Use the tags 'mefimusicchallenge' and 'itgetsbetter'. I'm sure accompanying videos will be heartily welcomed and if you have any other questions or suggestions, feel free to post them in this thread and I'll make sure the organizer, jph, gets to see them.
posted by unSane on Oct 1, 2012 - 9 comments

Future challenge idea

I've been listening on and off in the car to the best of The Faces - disgracefully scruffy records but with a certain Jack-the-lad charm. I've ended up subconsciously synthesising a mash-up of Ooh La La and You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything with an admixture of Cindy Incidentally. Works suprisingly well musically. Anyway, I thought.......how about a challenge where you have to do a mash-up of songs by the same band (I don't mean The Faces)? Obviously not an earth-shatteringly original idea, but perhaps a useful backstop challenge if nothing better is in the offing?
posted by MajorDundee on Sep 7, 2012 - 7 comments

the devil! - he's in our music!!

unsane's proposal for the sept music challenge [more inside]
posted by pyramid termite on Sep 3, 2012 - 23 comments

May! Evacuate all the schoolchildren!

May Challenge [more inside]
posted by dubold on May 2, 2012 - 10 comments

April is the cruellest challenge, breeding Songs out of the dead land...

April Challenge - Into the Waste Land [more inside]
posted by dubold on Mar 28, 2012 - 24 comments

March Challenge - Four Chords

Hey all. unSane here, posting via sockpuppet cuz I already posted something to Talk this week. Anyhoo, the March challenge is to write or cover a song which uses the infamous Four Chords of Predetermined Pop Success. [more inside]
posted by sweet mister on Mar 2, 2012 - 23 comments

February Challenge - The first single you ever bought

Feb's challenge is pretty darn simple. What was the first single you ever bought? Cover it! [more inside]
posted by unSane on Feb 5, 2012 - 20 comments

January Challenge -- Your Metafilter Theme Music

According to Fuq, "Everyone needs a theme song to play when they enter a thread". What's yours? [more inside]
posted by unSane on Jan 2, 2012 - 11 comments

December Challenge - HOLIDAY MUSIC

Just to confirm - your December Challenge is HOLIDAY MUSIC, with possible bonus points below the fold. [more inside]
posted by unSane on Dec 8, 2011 - 8 comments

November Challenge: A Song Never Written

November challenge: A song never written [more inside]
posted by unSane on Oct 26, 2011 - 9 comments

October Challenge - Pantless

To enshrine a fine music.mefi tradition, your challenge for October will be to record a track before you put your pants (or your gender-equivalent) on in the morning. [more inside]
posted by unSane on Sep 26, 2011 - 26 comments

Future Challenge Idea: My Life In The Rush Of Posts

I recently bought the remastered Eno/Byrne "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts". They've generously made the multitracks for two of the songs "My Secret Life" and "Help Me Somebody" freely available for general malarkey and how's-your-father. Now....... I got to thinking that it might be an interesting challenge to download these multitracks and see what you come up with? You can do a straighforward remix or write something new using a few of the individual tracks or whatever you like really. Multitracks available here, but you'll have to register to access them (nothing onerous about this).
posted by MajorDundee on Sep 15, 2011 - 7 comments

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