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Best TheSession.org Composition Award

Hmm just kidding, no awards here. But I'm bored, and I was looking at Gian Marco's compositions.

So... tell me. In your opinions, what's the best composition a TheSession member has ever composed and posted?
I'm torn between Arianna's Tower and Bang Your Frog On The Sofa:
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/1548
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/371

But there might be many other good ones that I haven't discovered yet, so that's why this thread is going to be so useful.

# Posted on January 14th 2009 by Pere

Re: Best TheSession.org Composition Award

I'd suggest any of these...

Trip To Dorrigo, Alyssia's Reel or Breakfast Epiphanies

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8150
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/6778
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8278

Written by the annoyingly talented Davydd, who by the way will be appearing on "Australia's Got Talent" in February.

I had to mention that, because he's too shy and retiring to mention it himself...NOT! :-)

Eno

# Posted on January 15th 2009 by bc_box_player

Re: Best TheSession.org Composition Award

You have to ask ?

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display.php/9069

That's the best of 2008 period.

In my humble opinion of course

# Posted on January 15th 2009 by McCracken

Re: Best TheSession.org Composition Award

Could session tunebook additions be a measure of worth? Stats for the suggestions thus far:

Arianna' Tower - added to 38 tunebooks
Bang Your Frog on the Sofa - added to 224 tunebooks
Trip to Dorrigo - added to 9 tunebooks
Alyssia's - added to 10 tunebooks
Breakfast Epiphanies - added to 12 tunebooks
Bush's Farewell - added to 22 tunebooks

If so, Bang Your Frog on the Sofa would seem to take the accolade - by quite a heavy margin ....

# Posted on January 15th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian

Re: Best TheSession.org Composition Award

McCracken - even my poor effort has a small edge over yours (in my humble opinion, of course) ;-)

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/8767

(in 24 tunebooks)

# Posted on January 15th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian

Re: Best TheSession.org Composition Award

But how DO you beat a song with a name like 'Bang Your Frog on the Sofa'?
Anyone know who came up with that name?

# Posted on January 15th 2009 by steve...r

Re: Best TheSession.org Composition Award

....Phil Cunningham is a Session member

# Posted on January 15th 2009 by domhnall.

Re: Best TheSession.org Composition Award

Will CPT always acts embarassed when a visitor or someone at our session brings out that tune. He says it doesn't even sound Irish. But secretly he likes the attention.

The aforementioned sofa was really a padded booth in the corner of a brewery taproom. Besides being able to bang it with your frog to make triplets, it had other unique qualities. At one end the cushion was loose from the frame, so that if you leaned too far forward while playing it would lose its center of gravity and tip you forward into the drinks table.

# Posted on January 15th 2009 by polkageist

Re: Best TheSession.org Composition Award

"Bang Your Frog On The Sofa" ~ Will's reel, tune #371 ~ 225 tunebooks
Submitted on November 14th 2001

"Everybody Knows That One!" ~ mixolydian's jig ~ 24 tunebooks
Submitted on July 31st 2008

"Bush's Farewell" ~ McCracken's jig ~ 22 tunebooks
Submitted on November 8th 2008 by McCracken.

For me it could never be about quantity, but here's one of many I enjoy ~

"The Pockar"
C: Martin Donohue
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7286
Submitted on May 30th 2007

# Posted on January 15th 2009 by ceolachan

Re: Best TheSession.org Composition Award

I've always been much too embarassed to post any of my noodlings here, so I'm gonna go with Bang your Frog. Fabulous tune.

# Posted on January 15th 2009 by snowyowl

Re: Best TheSession.org Composition Award

I don't mean to sound braggy when I say I like my tunes.... I'm just embarassed that anyone else might like them as well, which is why they're not here... (Sorry for the incredibly bad wording, I don't really know how to explain this)

# Posted on January 15th 2009 by snowyowl

Re: Best TheSession.org Composition Award

I really like this tune.

http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/4753

# Posted on January 16th 2009 by fidkid