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Gargoyle · Post by **Gargoyle** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 12:40 am

... I dug up one of my CDs I did (and didn't do anything with except give to family and "friends") about 4 years ago. After listening to it, it got me contemplating if anyone has done the same thing and been left thinking that although their instrumentation might not have been too hot and there's a certain limitation technology-wise...BUT that their songwriting and ideas were actually better than what they are now?

Hmmm... does anyone share this experience?

Warmonger · Post by **Warmonger** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 12:42 am

Nope, every song I've done has been better from both a song-writing and a production standpoint than the previous song. Then again, I've only been doing this a couple of years, and I'm only counting the 4 or 5 songs I've completed.

nool · Post by **nool** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 12:48 am

sounds like you just need to take more chances, and experiment more

Gargoyle · Post by **Gargoyle** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:10 am

There could be some truth in that, or perhaps I just need to "unlearn" a little and try to start out with more of a blank canvas...

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:38 am

20 years ago verse-chorus-verse-chorus
today
verse-chorus-verse-chorus...
hmm. maybe I ought to stretch and throw a bridge in there sometime.

endmusik · Post by **endmusik** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:09 am

bluedad wrote:20 years ago verse-chorus-verse-chorus
today
verse-chorus-verse-chorus...
hmm. maybe I ought to stretch and throw a bridge in there sometime.

hehe.

all my songs are just long bridges, with a chorus thrown in as an afterthought

seriously though...

it's funny, as my song-a-day-for-a-month thing really stands out to me still, it's now up on Magnatune as the etherine album "24 days" and it still has moments on it that make me smile. I was alot more experimental then, but I'm getting much more engaged in recording for the various projects in different ways, which is getting some neat results

jon - your stuff has always been great to me. You have a great overall ability with melody alongside some great sound selection. I've still got a disc around here with a bunch of your tracks burned, every once in a while I throw it on while I'm playing tony hawk pro skater

/michael

androidlove · Post by **androidlove** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:15 am

At times I would feel down and listen to my old stuff and be inspired. I wasn't progressing. I was down because of my situation. I got a new life, threw away ALL my old recordings (20 yrs worth), and now I write stuff that is much better.

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:20 am

I was certainly more prolific 20 years ago than I am now but I think my song-writing has definitely improved, but not as much as one might hope after so long. If I had to pick the 20 best songs I've written, half of them would be from the first 5 years of proper song-writing, the other half coming from the last 17 years. If I had to pick the best five, they would all be from the NOVAkILL era.

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:33 am

Well, maybe there's some truth in all those "limitation forces creativity" statements.
For me it seems to be like that, at least partially. Some of my older ideas, even those using tape-to-tape recordings, along with guitars tuned as low as possible to get a somewhat bass-ish sounding thing, are still sounding pretty cool to me after all those years - while I'm allways rather unhappy with what I'm coming up these days.

dgkenney · Post by **dgkenney** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:39 am

bluedad wrote:20 years ago verse-chorus-verse-chorus
today
verse-chorus-verse-chorus...
hmm. maybe I ought to stretch and throw a bridge in there sometime.

Hey,...I got a bridge I could sell you

Dan

Gargoyle · Post by **Gargoyle** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:51 am

Some interesting replies., thanks.
And thanks for the compliment, Michael

I have some thinking to do...

Kriminal · Post by **Kriminal** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:53 am

bluedad wrote:20 years ago verse-chorus-verse-chorus
today
verse-chorus-verse-chorus...
hmm. maybe I ought to stretch and throw a bridge in there sometime.

Far to flambouyant for me, just one note rolling along is a good as it gets here

CypherOne · Post by **CypherOne** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:04 am

songwriting seems to have got worse, but my production is way better nowadays.

pHz · Post by **pHz** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:55 am

it was all progressing nicely here until i started thinking about singing ...

slainte

rob

Hellbilly · Post by **Hellbilly** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 12:15 pm

I do think "limitation forces creativity" has truth to it.

I had to with a Roland W-30 and an Emax when i first started and i made some really cool stuff with it.

And now, as i have all this great equipment with awesome sound, i find myself more often just play the VST's and think, this is cool stuff, instead of actually using it to make music.

So, i actually spend more time admiring the equipment then using it to make music.

Looking back....