If you work on a song for longer than a week, you are doing something wrong. Leave it alone and don't come back to it for a long while (or until creativity hits you while you are cooking/in the shower/in the car/etc.).
Exoslime: Some songs just don't want to be written. I have hundreds of unfinished great choruses etc. You have to acknowledge when things don't work at that time and just move on. Keith Richards once said: "Make sure that the verses are much crappier than the chorus, otherwise the chorus doesn't stick out enough and nobod cares about anything but the chorus anyway ..." and as much as I don't care for the Rolling Stones, but he is right.
you are absolutly right with that, i fully agree,
as you can read in several release notes, often songs (classic hits) were often about 5-10 years old, till they got released in the way they are then,, they just need to grow, and yourself grow as a musician/artist too, and your vision for your music, etc. and then, sometimes, as you side, while cooking, bash... here it comes...
I never understood bands who just tried to write "perfect" songs. Those are usually the musicians with barely any output, barely any shows and barely any fan following ... especially cause what's perfect to one person may be super-lame to the next!
well, i´m quite pleased when i buy a cd and can listen to it from beginning to the end and all/most songs on the cd are great,
but i often make the experience that there are one or two really great songs on the record, but everything else is just shit.
We dont want that for our music, we want to have great songs only, haha, yeah, really, i´m honest with that, but its very hard and very much work too, but thats what it takes to satsify ourself
but of course, that does not define the term "perfect" at all,
We just think that putting time and effort into songs is natural and they way it usually works good for us.
we like to work things out and polish our a songs
I´m talking about the song itself, not the sound or recording quality,
so for us, its ok to take time and make things good (for us), and maybe release a album were we are complitly satisfied with, each 3-5 years instead of putting out a mediocre each year.
Yeah I think the problem may be that I don't work on enough stuff. I only have one track properly in the works at the moment. So I don't take time outs i.e work on other tracks and let the current one sit for a while.
I find it hard to just compartmentalise like that. It's hard to switch off from one thing and start up on another. I'm used to going at one thing alone until it's done and dusted.
Probably best for my own sanity to in the fture work on more than one thing at a time...
currently i´m working on 4 different songs and swap them every few hours,
also my wife is working on 2 different songs lyricswise, so there are like 6 songs around the time now, and whats great about it, when going from one to another, you forget about the other, and when you come back, you have a fresh mind and see things different.
