If We Have More Appriciation Of Other Peoples Music, Then Why Create Music Ourselves ?

[ghettosynth]

I realised other people cook better than me, so I starved to death.

well there's your problem right there, other people cook better than you because they are plump and juicy...if you starve yourself, what's left to cook...like eating pan fish, all bones

Yes, also you have to get the right amount of salt. To little and you're unseasoned, too much and, well, you're just salty.

[Hink]

I realised other people cook better than me, so I starved to death.

well there's your problem right there, other people cook better than you because they are plump and juicy...if you starve yourself, what's left to cook...like eating pan fish, all bones

Yes, also you have to get the right amount of salt. To little and you're unseasoned, too much and, well, you're just salty.

I just blame it on the clam flats, that's not a salty ol' mainer you're smellin, it's just the clams waitin to be picked

[ghettosynth]

I just blame it on the clam flats, that's not a salty ol' mainer you're smellin, it's just the clams waitin to be picked

Flats you say?

Keeping on topic, it's usually pretty easy to tell when your audience is having the desired experience with certain kinds of "musical" expression.

[Hink]

I just blame it on the clam flats, that's not a salty ol' mainer you're smellin, it's just the clams waitin to be picked

Flats you say?

Keeping on topic, it's usually pretty easy to tell when your audience is having the desired experience with certain kinds of "musical" expression.

that's what we call em, where it's all muddy and at low tide and there's lots of clams. I googled clam flats Maine



As a kid there were no license laws on clamming, we had the old school clamming rake and a clam basket, we'd walk down to this little bay called Morgans Bay on an old trail at low tide. We probably spent more time walking to and from than on the flats, but we sure got a lot of clams

[ghettosynth]

I just blame it on the clam flats, that's not a salty ol' mainer you're smellin, it's just the clams waitin to be picked

Flats you say?

Keeping on topic, it's usually pretty easy to tell when your audience is having the desired experience with certain kinds of "musical" expression.

that's what we call em, where it's all muddy and at low tide and there's lots of clams. I googled clam flats Maine

Ok, I admit, my schoolyard humor needed more funny.

[Hink]

or it could be me

[kelvyn]

I have so much fun creating music - with or without other people but it’s mostly just me - that the process after that has always seemed arduous and tedious. Striving to be an individual with ones own voice sets you apart from others where the collective taste of the moment creates a difficult path to navigate. I’m not looking over my shoulder and as much as I appreciate ‘Blue Monday’ that was then and this is now. The only thing about other peoples music is to discover what you like and if you so desire, not to emulate but abstract.
I started a project 25 years ago that some record companies thought was unsellable despite liking it, now 25 years later people are saying it’s right for this time. Go figure!!!!
Oh! And it’s not 80’s or 90’s retro;)
I love this duality... In my studio everything I create is me spending my time living to my own rules...I’m Trevor Horn, Quincy Jones whoever I want to be.
As soon as I take that outside it’s other people...the scenes rules.
Ultimately it’s a question of who’s rules do you want to abide by.
Mmm! Think I veered a little off course here maybe:)

[AnX]

I tell you what, though, if I couldn't make a better song than Blue Monday, I'd shoot myself.

Better in your opinion, or everyone else's?

[jancivil]

You got nowhere to fuckin’ go tonight [...]
because if I hear one fuckin’ clam from anybody, you’ve had it! One clam and this whole fuckin’ band is through…tonight!! Try me!

[BONES]

Better in your opinion, or everyone else's?

Clearly there is only one opinion that counts. Interestingly, I used to roadie for this Pommie guy who used to be the demo artist for Fairlight CMI. He swears blind that one of his demo pieces was pretty much exactly Blue Monday and New Order were one of the bands he demo'd to in 1982. He sure as hell did a really good cover of it that fitted his style almost perfectly, so I tend to believe him. He was quite philosophical about it, though, and he didn't think they had consciously ripped him off.

[AnX]

New Order have said it was a rip off of 4 diff songs...

[polarsky]

[BONES]

I've written lyrics for hundreds of songs and they're never about me. They reveal very little about me as they are mostly inspired by external factors, like whatever my band-mate calls the piece or which bit of movie dialogue we put into it.