The goal is quality.

Stan was a great guy, no question. But he posted hundreds of lyrics of very poor quality...no hooks/titles, wildly uneven meter rendering them unusable by composers, themes no one would ever want to sing etc, etc. He never improved. His lyrics weren't rungs on a ladder to quality.

JPF had many such posters back then. If you go back and read posts from 2004, you'll see weak lyrics with dozens of positive comments that went nowhere. An honest critique about writing to the hook, smoothing meter or structure was a rare bird, indeed.

Also rare from those days is a viable demo born of those lyrics. Part of being viable is a meter and structure where the
singer isn't forced to "talk" the lyric because it's unsingable. Verses that support a memorable hook. A theme that lends itself to a second vs and bridge that progress beyond the section that preceded it. Quantity means nothing without those things.

Last edited by couchgrouch; 09/07/19 11:11 PM.
Nashville demos etc:

https://www.soundclick.com/bands3/default.cfm?bandID=431939

other demos:

https://soundcloud.com/wabash-cannibal

Amazon Kindle books by Robert George you may enjoy:

1) Americana

2) Teenage Graceland

3) The Will to Be

4) Fort Mystery

5) Wheel Sea

6) My One True Love