General Music Chat

Hello.

Well, I do single-instrument experimental work for electric guitar! There aren't any lyrics... It's guitar music... I wrote a few words in haiku on Twitter... I rated it All Ages...
I did comment using medical terms... I did mention people wearing AC/DC t-shirts didn't seem alright... I don't think I have many problems with the band... Their fans aren't alright! And, Grateful Dead LP's have titles like "American Beauty" and "In The Dark..." They talked about hunting down undead-creatures with silver-bullets, or something...
Regardless of what their hippie-looking fan-base might think! I said something about that in a previous post... I don't really listen to AC/DC that often... Are these albums lyrically strong?
Pertaining to the Inquisition of Health: Death... I'm fairly certain I described it that way on Twitter...
Metal is full of people who define death accurately... It's full of pirate-oaths and legends... Decent poetry doesn't hurt anything!
"The dead-lay in pools of maroon below..." is noted from a Pearl Jam record... I called this perhaps pervasive, or misleading, in a former post on Bandmix. The band is trending on Facebook, right now. The singer is doing some classic-covers... I don't think the back-up band's very good... These lyrics might be partially responsible for me being trampled at a Neil Young concert, before fatalities were reported in Denmark.
O.K. Disc-Jockey types like some of these lyrics... The poetry doesn't seem that strong...
Another band that comes to mind under the topic of questionable lyrical content is the Offspring. They get a lot of media coverage. I want to tune you into what that guy is saying...
"Like the latest fashion... Like a spreading disease... Kids are strapping on the way to the classroom... Getting weapons with the greatest of ease... Tie your own rope... Keep 'em separated..."
That's what I heard in the thing! And, we don't like happy jump-around party anthems to the tune of these lyrics about gun-violence! It's really weak, poetically. Offspring records aren't my favorite. Perhaps they're something of a problem.
All in all, it's often worse if lyrics don't swear, once in a while... And, if your going to write, please write well!
I'm definitely opposed to illiteracy in mass-media, as my Facebook does declare. You can check out Axe Music there...
Have some fun!

Sincerely,

Robert Lee Kumpf
http://www.facebook.com/rlkumpf
http://www.twitter.com/RLKumpf

I compose music, and I write a lot of songs.
If there's a multitude of chord changes, I leave the song alone, as an instrumental.
But every so often one of my instrumentals is BEGGING for decent lyrics, and that's the only time I write lyrics.
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I think about the emotion of the song, and how it makes me feel, and then I need to / want to write lyrics to match the mood.
And that's not always easy . . .

. . . the chicken, or the egg . . .

The fish! With legs!

Hello.

Well, I do single-instrument experimental work for electric guitar! There aren't any lyrics... It's guitar music... I wrote a few words in haiku on Twitter... I rated it All Ages...
I did comment using medical terms... I did mention people wearing AC/DC t-shirts didn't seem O.K. I don't think I have many problems with the band... Their fans aren't alright! And Grateful Dead LP's have titles like "American Beauty" and "In The Dark..." They talked about hunting down undead-creatures with silver-bullets, or something...
Regardless of what their hippie-looking fan-base might think! I said something about that in a previous post. I don't really listen to much AC/DC. Are these albums lyrically strong?
Pertaining to the Inquisition of Health: Death... I'm fairly certain I described it that way on Twitter...
Metal is full of people who define death accurately.... It's full of pirate-oaths and legends... Decent poetry doesn't hurt anything!
"The dead-lay in pools of maroon below..." is noted from a Pearl Jam record... I called this perhaps pervasive, or misleading, in a former post on Bandmix. The band is trending on Facebook, right now. The singer is doing some classic-covers... I don't think the back-up band's very good... These lyrics might be partially responsible for me being trampled at a Neil Young concert, before fatalities were reported in Denmark.
O.K. Disc-Jockey types like some of these lyrics... The poetry doesn't seem that strong...
Another band that comes to mind under the topic of questionable lyrical content is the Offspring. They get a lot of media coverage. I want to tune you into what that guy is saying...
"Like the latest fashion... Like a spreading disease... Kids are strapping on the way to the classroom... Getting weapons with the greatest of ease... Tie your own rope... Keep 'em separated..."
That's what I heard in the thing! And, we don't like happy jump-around party anthems to the tune of these lyrics about gun-violence! It's really weak, poetically. Offspring records aren't my favorite. Perhaps they're something of a problem.
All in all, it's often worse if lyrics don't swear, once in a while... And, if your going to write, please write well!
I'm definitely opposed to illiteracy in mass-media, as my Facebook does declare. You can check out Axe Music there...
Have some fun!

Sincerely,

Robert Lee Kumpf
http://www.facebook.com/rlkumpf
http://www.twitter.com/RLKumpf

Are you by chance taking twitter posts and combining them into your posts here? Because I can't understand WTF you are trying to say most of the time in this post!

....and Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Little Caesar's coupons, and IRS tax code........

JimmyD

Your song writing method is similar to mine - 90% of the time I grab the words that fall out of my head, edit until they fit together properly, and the music shouts at me - very obvious what it should be. I believe that's the easy way to right songs but I know it isn't for some folks.

I'm working on an album sized project right now and while most of the 'songs' are written the 'glue' is not complete. (theme music - I'm trying a concept approach) I'm lucky to have saved lots of musical snippets and have a spare lyrics file so that's all coming in handy. Putting the puzzle together however, is non-trivial. (as programmers like to say)

Rarely, a song will appear on the guitar or even the piano - that seems to be saying something so I'll make lyrics around it. EG I wrote all the lyrics for my brother's material and for several bands usually working from their guitar stuff.

Oddly, a piano player I'd known a short time (a very good artist - Sinatra style stuff) gave me a title and somewhat imperiously demanded I write the lyrics and music - he didn't have time and it sounded country. I told him I'd written one country song in my life. He replied, "make it two." I pulled it off - it's called 'I'm so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here.' (a chimp could write lyrics to that!)

Talbot

I'm a composer of music.
I like to 'find' interesting songs that are off the beaten path . . . something that will draw a different emotional response, both from me and the audience.
Each song has it's own emotion, and I play songs that are the way I feel (or how I'd rather feel).
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Every so often one of my new songs seems 'unadorned,' without lyrics.
But to add more musical content would detract from the song; sometimes a songs needs to stay simple.
So, then I start looking for a message to sing along.
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But, it's got to be a good message, the right message for the song.
Sometimes the words aren't there, yet, so I set the song aside, and write another.
But I'll come back to it. And sometimes when I do, I've got the perfect message already brewing in my head.
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I'm thinking that not many people write songs that way.
I'm getting the idea that a lot of people write lyrics, and then make a song to sing them to.
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Does anybody else here write instrumentals, which they later add lyrics to?

On occasion I've written songs based on a suggestion or an idea but rarely. I hardly ever write about anything Mike Talbot feels - that well dried up years ago - I write from the perspective of the lyrics that drop out of my head. Sometimes it's from a character's perspective, sometimes a story or what ever.

It does not always work. When it does I'm well pleased though.

Talbot