Have you written songs you really dislike ?

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VomitHatSteve said:
I still remember parts of the first song I ever wrote (or at least wrote down). .
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I included one of the first songs I ever wrote on my newest album. "A Creep Aint Good". I wrote that song in like 1988 or something like that. During Algebra. Funny enough, it's no worse than the juvenile shit I write now.
 
I've written heaps of songs that I know aren't any good. I uslaly stockpile them and raid them for ideas later on - a line, a word, a structure, a pair of chords that worked in the middle of a mess. I'm forever picking over the bones looking for a way into the marrow.
My 1st song, (1976) had 3 chords and I haven't progressed much beyond that though I did, finally record that song with a new section thrown in. I knew it wasn't any good as it was and 30 years later I picked it up, added some more stuff and made it better if not good. If you want to suss it out it's Gimli's Lament at any of the links below. The intro & outro were added and the male lyric/melody as well otherwise the female lyric/melody & chords are as thrown together way back then & left on the back burner until I could improve it.
I still have a stack of junk to dismember for the next one or three.
 
Every thing I write is golden........then I run in to my inability to finish because of my short comings as a musician, singing, drumming, playing bass or guitar, the recording process. And I have such a winning personality that I can not get another human being to collaborate with me.......
 
I don't feel bad a bout not liking my songs because many other people have written songs I don't like, so I'm in good company.......or something. :eek:
 
I'm often disappointed trying to audibly re-create what I hear(heard) in my head. Was it a good idea that I screwed in the process, or was I trying to make something work that wasn't worth the time spent. A half-assed musician or wasting effort attempting to polish a turd?

Sometimes i'll have a verse and chorus that I feel I want to work on, then during the process I figure I need a bridge. Then in the end the bridge is the only part of the song I like. :confused:
 
heatmiser said:
Yes.
Personally, I get off more on the playing and hearing things come together in the phones while tracking. That's the closest rush I can get these days to playing with other people.

I think the songwriting part for me is just an excuse to experience that rush.
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oh, i know that very well. i don't even really write songs anymore, i just record an 'whatever' part and layer upon it. or i build a song in my head while lying in my bed before sleep and record some parts of it the next day. just a simple riff/bassline/groove or something.
most of it comes out as trash though.
 
The songs I don't like are the ones that I tried too hard to write.
 
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