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Post by fodroy »

fluffy wrote:Why would someone write music that they themselves wouldn't like listening to?
You've never listened to your own music and found it to be inferior to what you had hoped it would be? I think this is the perfectionist side of me.

I can never listen to my own songs for a while after finishing them. I have to separate the creative process from the final product, otherwise I'll still look at the music as something to work on. With the Flypaper Orchestra album, I took it offline for a while because I was sick of it and saw so much wrong with it, but I just had to go ahead and put it up. I'm fine with it now. It was a period of life and that album is a document.

So, I'll admit I listen to my own stuff from time to time, but usually as a way to look back on what I've done, like a photo album. I like moving on and discovering new stuff.
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Well my point is that people tend to write the sorts of music they listen to. I have that perfectionist side too and usually listen to my music with an ear for what can be improved for next time (yes, really), but I still genuinely like most of my own stuff, except for those few intentionally-crap songs I did when I was feeling pissy.

(Oh, and the answer to my original rhetorical question would probably include Lightning Ear Fart, Kokiri Warriors, etc.)
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obscurity wrote:
fluffy wrote: Why would someone write music that they themselves wouldn't like listening to?
Buggered if I know, but somewhere along the line I'd got the impression that most people don't listen to their own stuff that much.
No - I'm pretty much all I listen too. I rock!
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Post by rone rivendale »

I listen to my own stuff on a daily basis. Some songs get better as the weeks go along and some uhh don't.

Honestly, someone who wouldn't listen to their own songs proabably isn't making music for the right reasons. Or needs to swtich genres.
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Caravan Ray wrote:
obscurity wrote:
fluffy wrote: Why would someone write music that they themselves wouldn't like listening to?
Buggered if I know, but somewhere along the line I'd got the impression that most people don't listen to their own stuff that much.
No - I'm pretty much all I listen too. I rock!
Yes......yes you do. :wink:
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Billy's Little Trip wrote:
Caravan Ray wrote:
obscurity wrote: Buggered if I know, but somewhere along the line I'd got the impression that most people don't listen to their own stuff that much.
No - I'm pretty much all I listen too. I rock!
Yes......yes you do. :wink:
actually, the proper response should be OY! OY! OY!
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I'd link to the appropriate YTMND-esque minisite but I lost it my hard drive crash a few months ago. :/
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Post by martyr »

Billy's Little Trip wrote:
Heather. Redmon. wrote:My favorite Hell Yeahs song by far is our most recent, Outside Paradise. I love them all (except maybe Spirit World). My favorite GOM/Hxaro songs are Charlotte Sometimes and Too Goth to Rock. And of course there's my all time favorite sidefight The One. I know that's more than one favorite, but whaddaya gonna do?
Those songs kick ass! Good job.
Hell Yeah thesydo rock! What's GOM/Hxaro? I like those especially.

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martyr wrote:[

Hell Yeah thesydo rock! What's GOM/Hxaro? I like those especially.

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What's GOM/Hxaro
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