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therage: Sorry 'bout the server. Sometimes it goes really fast, other times it slows to a crawl. Try again in a few minutes, maybe it'll speed up. This will be fixed soon (maybe I should sign up for NWR). TripleM: Thanks for the tips, especially the heads up on the outro guitar. I wanted...

Haha...I didn't say she could dance, or sing, or even lip sync convincingly. I just meant that her fans probably think she's the most talented artist in the world...

Hi Jim, Thanks for listening! I hear all your crits and am taking them to heart in my next attempt...I'll have to mess with the drums a lot more to get them to sound remotely good. We'll see what I can do! *edit: New mix coming soon, if anyone cares to hear. :) -Derrick

Well, guys...I've been nervous about posting anything because I only have *one thing* to post and it's far from being close to finished...but I figured that I've been lurking and posting for the past month without actually contributing anything to the community, and it's time I started really...

This is good stuff, man...I can't say I know a thing about mixing or recording, but I know it sounds near-pro to my inexperienced ears. The snare sound is the best out of anything I've heard on this site so far. The band is really tight - that drummer sounds pretty incredible. I'm not really...

Come on...let's not get paranoid, here. I highly doubt that music corporations' deliberate intention is to "deaden our hearts." Top-of-the-chart music has never been the cream of the crop as far as artistic music goes; as someone said before, the music that is both artistically groundbreaking...

;) Speaking as someone from the US, if you want to make it "big time" here you might as well abandon all artistic musical ambition. There are plenty of other musical markets in the world that are quite lucrative and more artistically accepting...I'd say there's no reason to compromise your...

Oh, I don't hold any illusions that I have the barest fraction of the skill that Lennon or Dylan had, but they certainly are models of inspiration for my lyric writing. If I can write lyrics that are a third as humorous and rhythmically perfect as their worst stuff...I'll be one happy dude...

Once when I was in high school a bunch of fellow band nerd friends and I played Christmas carols on Main St. of our small town for a school function...we left a trumpet case open for a few hours and by the end of the night we had enough to buy a slice of pizza each...if I were to go outside and...

The first song has oodles of potential. Good, rockin' feel to it, the time sig in 3 grooves very well. Nice chord progressions, and the two-guitar dynamic works well in the middle section. It needs lyrics, like manifold says. Definitely develop this one some more! The second song sounds a...

'nother noob opinion here...since I know nothing about recording, I'll comment on the songwriting. Good quirky feel to it; I like the drums because they add to the unusual quality of the song. Good harmonies, too! Lyrics are like what you talked about in your post...meaningful, but with a...

I absolutely agree with this. I'd be quite screwed if I thought otherwise, since I'm so bad at writing lyrics. :( But when I do write lyrics, it's almost always with the intent of at least a little humor, however dark. My other defense mechanism is to make lyrics that are so surreal that they...

That's often a problem for me...I'm not too adept at deciding what sounds awkward or amateurish. I guess that's what years and years more of songwriting will bring me. I wish I were better with words...maybe I should've been an English major. :) -Derrick

True, the only Norwegian bands I've heard of are Spiral Architect and Green Carnation, and both sing in English... By the way, your lyric is perfectly correct. It's also a widely used idiom in the English language, so if you wanted it to be catchy and recognizable...you've got it! Just be...

Here's a question from me, I guess just to spark some discussion. Frequently I find that writing lyrics is the hardest part of composing for me. Usually, the music and the melodies come pretty easily, but I have to wrack my brain for lyrics that don't sound cheesy as hell. My question is, how...

Obscure music, hmmm...? I don't know what kind of music you're looking for but I'd definitely recommend GYBE as an experimentalist band (though they're not really obscure anymore). I haven't heard much Sigur Ros, but I'm kind of turned off by the whole idea of Hopelandic — how cheesy and...

Well, since I'm a complete Newb, I'm not sure my opinion counts so much, but since I've actually been writing songs for some length of time, I figured I'd lend my two cents... I usually (almost unfailingly) start with the music first. Mostly I'll come up with a cool chord progression on the...