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[streifig]

Mother Month was awesome and so are all our contestants. Congratulations to the winners!
 
#1 Careless Juja, Brandon Strader - Earthbound - Secret Life, Chapter Three - above average +0.41
#2 Sagnewshreds, Katamari, Trohnics, Manny - Earthbound - Pokey.biz - above average +0.31
#3 M-H - Mother 3 - Welcome to Feeling a Little Strange - above average +0.27
#4 Claude D. - Earthbound - Saturns The Drunk - above average +0.22
#5 Purely Grey - Earthbound - You've Come Far - above average +0.07
#6 Czyszy - Mother 3 - Love Letter to J-VGM - above average +0.06
#7 newip - Mother - Queen Mary's Song - above average -0.02
#8 valence - Earthbound - Summer's Eternal Blues - above average -0.06
#9 Hat - Earthbound - Free Too for Mother - above average -0.09
#10 Jer Roque - Earthbound - Smiles and Tears - above average -0.23
#11 Orie Falconer - Mother, Earthbound - Twinkle Little Starman - above average -0.3
#12 zykO - Earthbound - Eulogy For a Brave Bee - above average -0.49
#13 jvincion - Mother - Mother in Ruin - average -0.34
Voters: 22
 
ALTS
dasaten - Earthbound - Cracklin of the Sea
Katamari, zyko - Mother - MOTHER?!?!??!
streifig - Mother - Mother...
zykO - Earthbound - Hotel Pollyanna
 
Get updated songs here: http://dwellingofdue...s/16-05-mother/
 
Thanks so much to everyone who wrote reviews. You guys are the best!
 
Next month is 
Free Month!

Banner by Mr. Tame. It is awesome. Miles is awesome.

Submission Deadline: June 26 at 01:00 PM EST
Email submissions to dodsongs@gmail.com

EDIT: This month is run by Ivan Hakštok, because I'm gonna be on vacation and very much afk at the end of the month. So, use the dodsongs@gmail.com for all communication, not PMs.

[3ngag3]

And it's STILL not Data East month

[Ivan Hakštok]

Yep, nobody guessed which song was mine.

 

Because I didn't enter. For the first time since December 2012.

 

 

 

Congrats to the top 3. I feel a few songs deserved to be a bit higher, but the rankings do look pretty close.

 

Also, the banner is awesome.

[streifig]

I'm very satisfied with the results. All my favorite songs are in top 5.

[Sagnewshreds]

Holy shit second place awesome! I'm glad it's finally announced so I can tell the god damn awesome story of Katamari and Trohnics traveling all the way to my apartment in NYC to record this one. I wasn't lying when I said I had no time for DoD this month because I was traveling for work for most of May.

Trohnics texts me while I'm at a conference in Seattle saying "hey will you be back in New York next weekend? Wanna win DoD? Me and Katamari will come hang" obviously the winning DoD thing was a joke at the time. But that was the one stretch of several days where I'd be home so I said fuck yeah.

They came up to NY and I met them after work. We had no clue what time we were gonna do at first. I said something like "let's do something funky" and Katamari said "no I wanna do something metal if I'm entering with you" so I immediately thought of the most metal SNES tune of all time: "Porky Means Business." I showed it to them and we were nonstop humming and shouting that br00tal, groovy, bendy riff the entire weekend.

After that we went to grab some BBQ and went to a bar with my roommate Manny (who was also on our entry btw I think Katamari forgot to include him) to get nice and toasty before starting. I took them to a secret hidden bar on the second floor of a five guys because that's a cool unsuspecting spot to show people visiting NY.

So this girl outside of the bathroom came up to us and started talking to us. The conversation went something like this:

Girl: hey what are you guys doing.
Me: we are about to record the greatest video game cover of all time
Girl: what does that even mean?
Me: have you ever played earthbound for the Super Nintendo?
Girl: no but I played Mario before
Me: well towards the end of the game there's this REALLY sick riff.
Girl: Oh
Me: Show her the riff boys
Katamari: (uh dude how does it go again?)
Me: dun dun dah duuuuhhh
*Me, manny, Katamari and Trohnics at the top of their lungs in her face*: DUN DUN DAH DUUUUUUUUUUHHHHH DUN DUN DAH DUUUUUUUUUHHHHH DUN DUN DAH DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHHH

Then she was like ok I'm gonna go to the bathroom. And we left immediately after freaking her our because we were done our drinks anyway and wanted her to come back out and be like "where the fuck did those freaks go"

The next two days involved is arranging a remix from scratch and recording most of it in my apartment. After they left Katamari fine tuned it over the next week or so and pieces all of the sections together and recorded a couple of transitions and the squealy whammy bar part of the guitar solo. Also we recorded Trohnics making a bunch of weird noises (and a couple of riffs and the first quarter of the guitar solo section. I'm so proud of you buddy!)

Other funny quotes from the weekend include:

Guy in bar to Trohnics: oh have you heard of Anheuser/Busch? They're like the biggest beer company ever

Guy on street referring to Katamari's KDB shirt: OH YEAH KIRBY's MY LITTLE BIIIIIIIITCH

[Roque]

Nuts.  Maybe I should pick up guitar...

[streifig]

After that we went to grab some BBQ and went to a bar with my roommate Manny (who was also on our entry btw I think Katamari forgot to include him) 

Katamari forgot to include Manny of course, but he sent me another message to fix that and then it was me who forgot to include Manny. Fixed that.

[Chernabogue]

Nice month! I actually recently did a cover from Earthbound but forgot it was a Mother month. Oh well, congrats guys!

[Ivan Hakštok]

Nuts.  Maybe I should pick up guitar...

 

Well, DoD always had a bit of bias towards guitars, but getting a better rating on DoD is no valid reason for changing your style

[Leonidus]

Getting 404 not found on the second track

 

[streifig]

Of course I fixed that missing Sag's collaborator everywhere but forgot to upload the file itself. OF COURSE!

[Sagnewshreds]

Nah just delete it

[Demonstray]

Just delete the whole damn month.

[Trohnics!]

Just fuck my shit up

[Sagnewshreds]