Ever listen back to something you did a while ago and re-appreciate it?

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I have.
But I've also listened to things and asked myself wtf I was thinking.
 
Schwarzenyaeger said:
I have.
But I've also listened to things and asked myself wtf I was thinking.
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Ha ... there is that flip side to it. Fortunately it's just a couple songs off my first album in certain parts where I go, "Yeah, I would so not do that now."

One learns. :)
 
I listen back to things I did a month ago and question my own decisions :D
I guess it shows how much you can learn is such a short time.
 
Schwarzenyaeger said:
I have.
But I've also listened to things and asked myself wtf I was thinking.
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Done that, after long enough I'll wonder why didn't I make this or that happen. Re-open the project, poke around the tracks and see all that was done to get it where it was, then it's 'Oh yeah, I remember now.'
What could'a/should'a been there.. simply wasn't. And that was the best solution!
 
I love listening to old recording of my friends and me jamming in the garage, it really brings you back.
 
Maybe it changes as one becomes a more experienced songwriter?

I've been writing songs for at best a couple years now, and only the last year or so in a serious manner. I'm really amazed at how poor my early attempts were - however, in ten years, the early efforts that make me cringe now may develop a bit of sweetness through nostalgia.

Anyways, I really like the song K-Dub - it grooves deep but feels airy all at the same time. Nice vocal hook too.

Daryl
 
I listen and like my old stuff quite a bit. The garbage is garbage, but the good stuff is good still.
I think it's more common than you would think. Look at how many albums done by major artists where the best work was the early stuff.
 
It's been a long habit of mine. I didn't start out at recording knowing what I was doing, and some of my early ... well let's be kind and call them "prototypes" (Fostex 4 track Cassette Rocks!) were akin to "scratchpad" waste bin worthy. Still ... I kept my portfolio of my various attempts and once I got to the point where I began to better figure out the process (digital being the Godsend), I'd revisit the earlier passes and extract ideas that I thought would work ... with the newer knowledge of recording gained.

For instance, the piece above would never have happened early in. Although I wrote the piece complete, I had to record each of the passages individually, and then load the separate parts next to each other in a new project ... lining them all up, adjusting relative levels and adding the string section that was intended the first and second movements in the trilogy.

As cool as my eventual Alesis ADAT was, it still couldn't do that with the ease of digital.
 
The influence is clearly there, yet you don't sound like a rip-off, which is good. There are certainly worse artists by which you could be influenced. Cool tune, by the way. :)
 
My music is heavily 70s oriented. I'm kind of the weird singer-songwriter who will go from James Taylor to Bowie.

For The Beatles taught me that doing different shit made you interesting. :D
 
I've always equated your songs to SuperTramp. That would be a compliment, btw. ;)

I'll go back and listen to some older songs and enjoy what I've been able to accomplish. Some ideas worked out pretty good, others not so good. :) But it is fun to see how I've progressed since really getting into the home recording thing.
 
I like it but the noise with your 1st syllable keeps putting me off.
There's quite a bit of harsh sib through out actually.
Can you tame it?
 
I really liked your tune. Very tight and wonderful arragement. I loved the delay on one of the vocal lines that kept slapping back in time with the beat that was barely audible...that was cool. Good writing too.

Yeah, I listen back on some of my recordings and think it worked. But, usually my "looking back" falls into 2 categories...
1) the idea that seemed so good at the time really sucked.
2) man, that would be great if I had known how to record it decently, and now I would never recapture that performance and vibe.
 
Chili said:
I've always equated your songs to SuperTramp. That would be a compliment, btw. ;)

I'll go back and listen to some older songs and enjoy what I've been able to accomplish. Some ideas worked out pretty good, others not so good. :) But it is fun to see how I've progressed since really getting into the home recording thing.
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Quite right. You're bloody well right. You got a bloody right to say. :D

Thanks Chili!

I still have a lot of prototype material that I've not yet tapped. I'm working with a bunch of musicians now, and we've not yet started recording together ... but eventually that's the plan.
 
jimistone said:
I really liked your tune. Very tight and wonderful arragement. I loved the delay on one of the vocal lines that kept slapping back in time with the beat that was barely audible...that was cool. Good writing too.

Yeah, I listen back on some of my recordings and think it worked. But, usually my "looking back" falls into 2 categories...
1) the idea that seemed so good at the time really sucked.
2) man, that would be great if I had known how to record it decently, and now I would never recapture that performance and vibe.
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True ... which is why I'll extract pieces of what I like and then build new around it. It's best to move on and not mire in the old ways. That way, inspiration can hit again ... for you're not trying to recapture something so elusive.

Even playing live w/ the new band, I told them from the beginning "Learn the songs, but we're going to play them the way we play them, and not the way they were recorded."
 
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