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ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 8:02 am

I mean seriously? My own stuff sends me into a zone of contemplation. Granted, getting drunk first helps....justsayin.

AsPeeXXXVIII · Post by **AsPeeXXXVIII** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 8:05 am

Except that it becomes not-so-awesome once you progress further as a musician/producer/whatever-the-heck and those "awesome" tunes that you made a few years ago now make your own ears bleed. Prime example of this being me.

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 8:08 am

Let go young padawan....the true spirit lies within you....allow it to consume you and flower in your musical expression....

e@rs · Post by **e@rs** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 8:29 am

I don't think my music is awesome and never actually received a comment like that (only this section is awesome). People often use the word weird in the comments of my tunes. No idea WTF they mean...

foosnark · Post by **foosnark** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 2:31 pm

At minimum, I can say "isn't that neat?" about my own music, and I like most of it more than that.

Aleatoriac · Post by **Aleatoriac** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 2:41 pm

Personhood is linguistic, used to describe reality, but is not reality itself. The fundamentals of what (and therefore who) I am constantly change. So in that sense I am not really the same person who made the music I sometimes find and hear with my name on it.

Thus when I proclaim this new discovery that I forgot "I" made long ago is "awesome" there is no hubris involved. Merely an accurate assessment of reality some fools like to label "dementia."

Get off my lawn.

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 2:45 pm

Codestation wrote:Personhood is linguistic, used to describe reality, but is not reality itself. The fundamentals of what (and therefore who) I am constantly change. So in that sense I am not really the same person who made the music I sometimes find and hear with my name on it.

Thus when I proclaim this new discovery that I forgot "I" made long ago is "awesome" there is no hubris involved. Merely an accurate assessment of reality some fools like to label "dementia."

Get off my lawn.

Yes!

Karma_tba · Post by **Karma_tba** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 2:51 pm

What's not to like?........Apparently, everything.

cryophonik · Post by **cryophonik** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 3:25 pm

Codestation wrote:Personhood is linguistic, used to describe reality, but is not reality itself. The fundamentals of what (and therefore who) I am constantly change. So in that sense I am not really the same person who made the music I sometimes find and hear with my name on it.

Thus when I proclaim this new discovery that I forgot "I" made long ago is "awesome" there is no hubris involved. Merely an accurate assessment of reality some fools like to label "dementia."

Get off my lawn.

Now, that I can relate to. On a similar note, a singer and I released an album a couple of years ago. By the time I was done with the mixing, the mastering, the second round of mixing/mastering, the album cover design, CD production, etc. I was completely burnt out and basically never wanted to hear the songs again. It wasn't until just a few months ago that I was actually able to listen to it again and, yeah, I actually really enjoy it now. Not that it's the best album I own or anything, and there are some things I wish I would've done differently in hindsight, but it's everything we set out to make, and then some. Now, I listen to it regularly and, in many ways, it doesn't really feel like something I created. I feel far removed from that experience now.

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 3:26 pm

Well, if it wasn't clear, nobody else likes my music. That is, nobody else wants to pay anything for it. I'm totally cool with that though.

But seriously, I enjoy working on my stuff these days, putting it on bandcamp, and then listening to it regularly.

harryupbabble · Post by **harryupbabble** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 3:58 pm

My music? Ewwwww. Fecal. Fecaaaaaaaaal. Fecal, I tell you. Temporary, I hope.

justin3am · Post by **justin3am** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 4:00 pm

I don't frequently listen to my own music, so I'm not sure if it's awesome.
When I listen to something again after not hearing it for a long time, it often sounds better than I remembered. If I listen again more than once, I start picking apart the details and I realize why I don't listen to my own stuff.

ghettosynth · Post by **ghettosynth** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 4:02 pm

So many people don't like their own stuff...so, why is that?

I'll tell you this. I didn't like my own stuff until I stopped trying to do stuff that I thought other people would like. This came after I realized that the only stuff of my own that I liked was the stuff that wasn't really interesting to other people.

harryupbabble · Post by **harryupbabble** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 4:11 pm

ghettosynth wrote:So many people don't like their own stuff...so, why is that?

Well, in my case I don't like my own stuff because I have high standards. Or so, I like to believe I have high standards. Cos, like, I think Beatles is quality stuff. And David Bowie. And the Cure. And Roger Waters. Roger Waters most, maybe, but they rotate. Tends to be Brits. Why? I don't know. Songwriting people. Freaks. Admirable freaks.

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 5:05 pm

cryophonik wrote:[...] released an album a couple of years ago. By the time I was done with the mixing, the mastering, the second round of mixing/mastering, the album cover design, CD production, etc. I was completely burnt out and basically never wanted to hear the songs again. It wasn't until just a few months ago that I was actually able to listen to it again and, yeah, I actually really enjoy it now.

This is normal. Expect it every time if you're going to really try for something which you will stand with over time.

I have some things which are all the way there. I have some things which are tantalizingly close. If there's something that can be addressed, even a year later or something, I will if I can, and in a way because I can.

I'll stand with all of what I've released, all of what's on youtube I mean.

What's not to like about your own Awesome Music?