Have any of you been to Songfight?

I've just discovered it (thanks to Fluxblog) and I'm quite taken with it.

It's a site where they have a new topic every week, people upload mp3s of songs on that topic, and they fight for dominance - or at least, votes and positive reviews on the related messageboard.

There are some real gems in archives....

...from the humorous ("More Than Soup" winner Starfinger)

... to the poetic ("Toronto Star" winner Josh Woodward)

...to the strangely moving ("21" contender Roymond).

(That last is based on a recent column in the Toronto Star, which earns some sort of self-referential cleverness points. But it also features a typewriter and a surprise female vocal at the end, so all is forgiven.)

It seems to have been running for quite some time. I'd love to see the model taken up by record labels or mainstream music distributors... just to see if 50 Cent could win a songfight against Christina Aguilera. But in my world, both of them would be out cold if they dared challenge most of what I've found in the songfight archives.

I may try it myself....

...not that I'd have stood a chance against the mighty (and renowned) MC Hawking in the "What We Need More Of Is Science" competition, which he so rightfully won with this brutal set of high-tech rhymes.

I feel schooled, and I wasn't even IN it.