Originally Posted by Martin Lide
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...that 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 will make people download his client, 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.

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

Anecdotally, when I'm sitting in my office at home listening to some if 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


Oh no doubt, any music listener needs a good sounding recording to like it....or NOT like it even. And today most publishers have little vision and cant hear a song either.

Dont get me wrong, sounding good is a huge part of it. All im suggesting is that as songwriters, people who write with pen in hand and a lone instrument, we must "know" what is worth recording and what isnt. Otherwise we'd record every song we ever wrote.

How do we know whats worth it? Based on the elements of the song, remember we are writing it, it hasnt been recorded. How do we know whats worth recording?

Last edited by Fdemetrio; 02/25/19 05:23 PM.