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Thrillho:
Every now and then, I go through a songwriting drought and I worry. During such droughts, I often find myself accidentally rewriting my own worst songs, or as has happened lately, accidentally lifting entire chord progressions or lyric ideas from bands that I love.
This drives me crazy, and to try and avoid such in the future, I have written a list to myself of the subject matter of some of the songs that my best friend and I have written together or that I have by myself (including his is kinda pointless since it's about my self-assessed artistic merit on this occasion), to try to remind myself that I'm not always a complete hack.
Song subjects have included:
(click to show/hide)- Growing out of teenage cynicism
- Webcam masturbation
- The feeling you have when on the beach in Blackpool
- Accidentally murdering your spouse and continuing the relationship anyway
- The death of record shops/my marriage/self loathing
- A suburban serial killer/good guy with a monster on his back, based on the Tooth Fairy from Red Dragon
- Apologising for the poor quality of the song's lyrics, recording, guitar solo, vocal take and the rest of its home album
- Committing suicide over a teenage crush
- How hard it must be to live like Ric Flair
- Hardcore Holly
- An assessment of Mario (of Mario Bros fame)'s sexual attractiveness, and how that has evolved over the past 30 years
- Mario's response to hearing this song, which is a descent into alcoholism
- A tribute to one of our friends who moved to Japan
- Cannibals running a takeaway in Lancashire
- A duo of idiot criminals whose crime escalate by mistake
- A delusional young actor who moves to Hollywood but is convinced he will one day be a huge star
- A boyfriend's all-too-honest answer to his girlfriend's query about his darkest fetishes
- What is essentially an entire song about coming down off MDMA on the tube in London and how much that sucks
- Getting dumped because your girlfriend likes Hoobastank and you don't
- Being in a sexual relationship with a series of bowls of bran flakes
- Trying to convince a sexually withholding girlfriend to allow 'just the tip'
- A song aimed at teenagers observing that school is usually shitty and that life gets better afterwards
And that's just missing out songs of mine that I do love but have less original subject matter. I think some days I need to look at this list a bit more closely.
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 28 Sep 2014, 22:52 ---Then again, my sense of smell is basically gone, but I figure it's one of the less important ones.
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I couldn't disagree more. Then again, maybe that's because my sense of smell is really good. My sight's pretty good and my hearing's ok, I guess, but my sense of smell is as far as I can tell way above average. It also gives me more enjoyment than sight or sound, probably (although I can't imagine parting with any of them).
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Gareth on 29 Sep 2014, 14:44 ---Song subjects have included:
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- Cannibals running a takeaway in Lancashire
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I need to hear this.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 29 Sep 2014, 20:05 ---
--- Quote from: hedgie on 28 Sep 2014, 22:52 ---Then again, my sense of smell is basically gone, but I figure it's one of the less important ones.
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I couldn't disagree more. Then again, maybe that's because my sense of smell is really good. My sight's pretty good and my hearing's ok, I guess, but my sense of smell is as far as I can tell way above average. It also gives me more enjoyment than sight or sound, probably (although I can't imagine parting with any of them).
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Well, IIRC, those of us who aren't blind receive about 70% of their sensory information through sight. There's a lot too with hearing. I have problems being touched, so I won't get into that sense, but as far as they go, smell is fairly expendable. I can even be a good cook without it, though I do have to taste all the time. And I know that my ability to taste is weakened by my weak sense of smell. Still, if I'm going to nuke one sense, the one I get from my nose is the one to go.
Papersatan:
--- Quote from: Jordan B. Petterson in Three Forms of Meaning and the Management of Complexity ---"Whatever anxiety might arise at the failure of our actions is nothing compared with the terror of having to recalibrate our perceptions."
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