FAWM

j$ · Post by j$ » Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:31 pm

Finished.

well, finished, anyway.

j$

Adam! · Post by **Adam!** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:14 pm

When I signed up I had temporarily forgotten how much I suck at this. Instead of doing 14 songs for FAWM, I'm instead doing some songs for my own damn self.

stueym · Post by **stueym** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:53 pm

Puce wrote:When I signed up I had temporarily forgotten how much I suck at this. Instead of doing 14 songs for FAWM, I'm instead doing some songs for my own damn self.

Yeah me too sadly. Been a very distracting time at work with lots of time away and not enough time at home. However I did get my ABBA fight song in on time

Denyer · Post by **Denyer** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:06 pm

three amazing songs done :]. and I have done my part of 13 that the other guy still needs to finish.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:08 pm

I've written 3, recorded none, updated nothing on the site. Is it just me, or does anyone else only count recorded songs. I know it's not required, I'm just in this mode of "if I can't hear it, it don't exist", which doesn't hold up to anything, in the court of songwriting.

j$ · Post by j$ » Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:51 pm

Absolutely and have moaned about the very same on the fawm message boards. repeatedly

stueym · Post by **stueym** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 4:54 pm

Phew...glad I am not the only one who has had "real life" cramp their FAWM stylee

That said J$, feel free to enter that spiffy new version of your "Don't you" with guest artist appearance

That qualifies doesnt it?....kinda....sorta...ish

deshead · Post by **deshead** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:34 pm

Man, I pulled it off.

Hmm, now about that ABBA song ....

roymond wrote:does anyone else only count recorded songs.

As long as I get a scratch "me'n'guitar" version done, I call it a wrap. Though given the style of music I write, it's usually easy to guess how the finished song will sound. Your stuff's more complex, so maybe it's harder to envision the end result.

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:32 pm

I love this idea, and I am definately clearing my calendar for next years.

ken · Post by **ken** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 5:09 pm

Congrats to J$ and deshead.

I wrote almost 14 songs, but recorded nothing. I am going to keep working on it until it is done.

Ken

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 5:18 pm

Yes, congrats to all who made it.

deshead wrote:
roymond wrote:does anyone else only count recorded songs.
As long as I get a scratch "me'n'guitar" version done, I call it a wrap. Though given the style of music I write, it's usually easy to guess how the finished song will sound. Your stuff's more complex, so maybe it's harder to envision the end result.

i don't see it that way. I write a good amount of my stuff as lyric/chord charts before recording, but I always flush them out as charts in any case (with few exceptions), since the production process messes everything up anyway.

I guess I think of albums being recorded entities, and not an album's worth of songs. A collection of sheet music, of course, could be called an album. Nevermind, I'm just a loser looking for justification

j$ · Post by j$ » Wed Mar 01, 2006 5:23 pm

My argument is that in terms of an album-in-a-month on the web, not posting something listenable, makes it poetry fight, not album fight.

Yes we could argue semantics about what constitutes an album. But, hell, you could put up 14 photos, and call it an album. (which some might say is what I did last year). If I wanted to imagine from a set of lyrics, I'd go to fpwm.org.

Mainly I take this stance because as FAWM gets bigger, there are more 'hey this lyric is great! Can't wait to hear the song' type entries that mean that less people scroll down to my latest entry as it disappears into the 'previous page' void at an alarmingly alacrious rate

j$

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 5:33 pm

Ah, so your not angry they aren't writing actual songs, you are angry they are raining on your parade?

Quite rightly so, too.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 5:42 pm

j$ wrote:But, hell, you could put up 14 photos, and call it an album. (which some might say is what I did last year).
j$

What you pulled off last year is so beyond poetry, photography & songwriting. Where's that link?

deshead · Post by **deshead** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 6:51 pm

j$ wrote:not posting something listenable, makes it poetry fight, not album fight.

Uh ... "fight"?

j$ · Post by j$ » Wed Mar 01, 2006 7:58 pm

sausage boy wrote:Ah, so your not angry they aren't writing actual songs, you are angry they are raining on your parade?

Abso-frickin'-lutely! Don't they know who I am, etc etc

Roymond wrote:where's that link?

Signs of Life is down at the moment (when kongbalong went to a different domain it got left behind. Thanks again for the year's worth of free hosting, Craig!) I will upload it again next week to my website, once I have re-mastered and mixed it all (about 3/4 way through at mo)

deshead wrote:Fight?

Hey I'm not the one who made Fawm put a little 'winner' by everyone who completed 14 songs

Denyer · Post by **Denyer** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:22 pm

It's not called February Album Recording Month.

j$ · Post by j$ » Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:38 pm

Didn't finish then, denyer?

jack · Post by **jack** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:40 pm

Denyer wrote:It's not called February Album Recording Month.

then i'd say you need a better way to validate finishing than the word of an internet stranger.

Denyer · Post by **Denyer** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:54 pm

j$ wrote:Didn't finish then, denyer?

I was doing it with another guy and I finished my half.

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:20 pm

Denyer wrote:
j$ wrote:Didn't finish then, denyer?
I was doing it with another guy and I finished my half.

Are you still talking about your album? Was there a subject change?

blue · Post by **blue** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:30 pm

Leaf wrote:
Denyer wrote:
j$ wrote:Didn't finish then, denyer?
I was doing it with another guy and I finished my half.

Are you still talking about your album? Was there a subject change?

jealous?