God I hope this is in the right subsection. I don't like to be made into an ass on Fridays............................only Mondays. Anyways, there's a lot of interesting topics around these forums in regards to the music scene that pose a lot of good questions for composers. Such great topics like "how do you start a song?", "how'd you come up with your name?", "how many wives have you had?" and "what's your social security number?". As we discuss these topics, we find that a lot of us show great passion in what we do and what we produce, right? I mean, this is what we do to fulfill our creativity, and we can achieve very positive feelings from it. Positivity is cool and all, but I'm a narcissistic pessimist with a warped sense of humor. So I'm here to spoil the party with this super downer question:
Any regrets?
What I mean by this is, as a composer or a writer, is there any piece of work you made that you put out in some way and then looked back in retrospect thinking, "yeah, that was a piece of shit"? It could be a song, a collection of songs, or even just a handful of lyrics or a bad middle eight. Just anything you made or put out that you regret letting make it past your fingertips into fruition. Now I know it's easy to just kinda shrug and say "nah, they're all my babies, I'm immortal, blah blah", but I want to tap into your inner critic. Mostly 'cause I'm sadistic, but besides that. Acknowledging our shortcomings is pivotal in us improving and achieving our greatest potentials. So, how about it? What are your musical regrets?
For me, personally, it's my band's first two albums. Everything on Synergetic and Metamorphica is absolute crap. I sincerely think they're both poorly-produced and poorly written albums, and I never recommend them to anyone. We weren't in a position to produce much better, though, at the time. We were using very cheap programs and preset sounds to make our music, and our experience with production was limited. It wasn't until after Metamorphica that I bought a Yamaha DGX 650 and could actually use quality sounds for the recordings, and then luckily our compositions started to improve around the same time as well. I haven't been very sour about too much of Seismosphere's work since. Enough about me, though. What's your two cents?