Remember , Remember the votes for November

[lurksalot]

As if by magic we have arrived at the end of the last true composition challenge of the year and we now need to sort the pecking order.

The entries were all based on the picture chosen by Octobers winner , @upside downer

 

 

 

Your choices are as follows in order of presentation , please vote for 3 of them 

 

1  @xgsjx

 

Well this pic for some reason really struck me.  I decided to write about how much my wife means to me.  There's personal stuff in here that I'm not willing to go into, but I think I've said it how I want to.

 

 

 

 

2 lurksalot

 

what with COP26 going on and still being in a T-shirt, I thought a folky appreciation of the cycles of the seasons was in order , but this happened instead 

 

 

 

 

 

3 @Dad3353 

 

A celestial sculpteur, modelling a new vision for the night sky, after a fashion. Giving a fresh shine on an old, friendly face; somewhat daft, maybe, but with Good Intentions...

 

 

 

4 @Leonard Smalls

 

This month we have a celebration of the Full Moon, in all its forms 😁

 

 

 

 

5  @fingers211

 

I heard a play on the radio a few days after the picture was posted. The play told a story of a clever young woman who manipulated two men, so much so that they ended up in a very bad state. Not with her body but purely with mind games, t'was very clever. So that was the premise.

 

 

 

 

6  @NickD

 

Based on the picture, I had the idea of a shift tasked with resetting the universe after the day is done, and from here I got the notion that there are folks that do that in a practical, non-celestial way... The truck drivers, shelf stackers, train engineers, office cleaners, etc... so this is for them.

 

 

 

 

7 @Nail Soup

 

Initially tried to do some thing free-form and moony sounding, but scrapped it and wrote something song-based on the acoustic with moon based lyrics. But even that ended up sounding completely different when transferred to electric guitar etc.

 

 

 

8 @Nicko

 

We've all been there.  A night out, moon shining, date looking great, and you spoil the romance by doing exactly the wrong thing.  I don't know how you'd describe the genre - maybe indie pop.  Unusually for me this is a proper song, with a verse, chorus and middle eight, although it's pretty simple musically.

 

 

 

 

9 @upside downer

 

Here's my entry for November. It's a slow, mellowish instrumental with lots of chiming guitar to try and get that twinkly, night sky, relaxing feeling while everyone else is doing the heavy lifting to put things in order.

 

 

 

10 @Doctor J

 

 I kept looking at the picture... van... moon... van ... moon... and then it came to me... Mooned Ants! The next level of pest control using lunar gravity to discombobulate pesky ant infestations. Call Morrisson's today!

 

 

 

11 @skankdelvar

 

Levon Helm and Garth Hudson are living in my head

 

 

well that's it folks, another fine selection for your listening pleasure ...

 

But please make your choices based on your favourite 3 

 

Voting ends at midnight 30th November 

 

Good luck all 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[NickD]

That was really tough to keep down to three choices!

Edited November 25, 2021 by NickD

[lurksalot]

You know when you think you’ve nailed the brief , and then , you think , bring it on, and well, yeah everyone brings it on , yeah , WOW , yeah , that ! 

[lurksalot]

Woah , it’s proper tight at the top , last call for some last minute votage to bring a solution or it will come down to a quiz on the colour of lurksalittle’s car 😂

 

just a thought to mention that as tradition demands , the December topic is a ‘cover version challenge’ 

open to all to enter a recording that you have done during the year.... or start from scratch as soon as you like.

 

the November winner’s chosen photo will be the inspiration for the January challenge 👍

 

 

[Dad3353]

And the winner is...

@skankdelvar ..!



Here, then, is your Winner's Certificate (download and save as pdf file, then proudly print and frame...) ...

BC_Chal_Cert_2021_11.pdf

... which looks like this (but bigger, of course..!)...

[lurksalot]

Well done sir , a marvellous  win to set up your festive season😁

 

the urgency of your chosen picture is not as critical as normal as we will use it for January.

 

I will set up the December thread this evening 👍

[upside downer]

Bravo Mr Del Var 👏 a quality tune. And not the only one, really tough to narrow it down to a top three.

 

Onwards to the random tombola of covers for Christmas, marvellous! 🌲

[Doctor J]

Congrats, Skank, a top tune in a very strong month!

[NickD]

Congrats... Nice work Fella!

[lurksalot]

It's official get covering 

 

 

[skankdelvar]

Thank you all, you're very kind. It was indeed a strong month with some frankly mind-blowing compositions.

 

Have a lovely Christmas, everyone