Originally Posted by Fdemetrio


But if you think because somebody has a good recording of their song, that makes it any better than somebody elses you're wrong.



As a practical matter, I fully believe that. I fully believe that the recording is the ultimate scoreboard for a song.

Have no knowledge of the actual music industry, just the ammy sites industry.

But have always read that when a producer for a star is sorting through hundreds of songs for ones that he/she will stake his/her's and his/her's client careers on.... that producer is unlikely to spend any time dressing a song up in their own mind. They want to hear what it will sound like then and there. The underlying assumption appears to be that if you cant deliver a good sounding song, then you aren't good.

Can't confirm that but it looks like reality to me.

Anecdotally, when I'm sitting in my office at home listening to some of the offerings here over speakers and my wife yells in "that sounds awful" I get a pretty clear indicator of where human nature and bad sounding songs part company. wink

https://soundcloud.com/sunset-poet-of-texas