Do You Enjoy Listening More To Other Peoples Music Than Your Own?

[THE INTRANCER]

I don't know if anyone else feels this way about their music or not or if it's just my over critical analysis of music I've created over the years where I'm always comparing it to other works or if it's something that has been the underlaying creature that has driven me to create music in the first place just being a grouch.

It's like the spark and energy has been taken out of it, because you have listened to it too much, you know every change. It's like you've made it, had fun doing it, and then, well the spark goes out.

[mjolnir]

I always listen to other people's music to get inspired for my own musical ideas.
It always leaves me feeling inadequate yet thoroughly entertained.
But on the positive side, at least we actually make music at all and we get to collect some really nice gems from other people a lot.
And if we're really lucky, some of our own music becomes gems too.

Take long breaks from your own music and don't forget to go back and complete unfinished projects.

[foosnark]

It varies, sometimes I listen to my own music a ton, sometimes I just want to hear things in other styles. Lately I've mostly been choosing calming music (but for me that includes Cocteau Twins, the Four Seasons concerto, slow tribal bellydance stuff, 90s etherral pop and darkwave, Sunn O))), really abstract dark ambient, etc. plus a couple of my own albums).

[mjolnir]

...slow tribal bellydance stuff...

I love tribal fusion bellydancing! 2008 was a great year for that.

[FranklyFlawless]

I connect to my own music at an intimate level, but it is too intoxicating/potent to consume and produce daily now, so I listen to jungle as fuel for other activities instead. My music is largely incomparable and incompatible to anything else, but I still keep an open perspective in case someone else eventually comes to a similar conclusion as I do.

[RunBeerRun]

I listen to all here on EAR t h. I dislike midi sequencing drawn in notes, I like hand made performances like they only had in the days of classical music.

[mjolnir]

about the "spark going out";
i feel that way a lot this year unlike any other year.
watching K-pop videos helps to relieve that.
K-pop videos of girl groups have a lot of energy.