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    Song Title Association Game

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    On March 5, 2017 at 9:02 PM, RobAsh15 said:

     

    That's a double score, bro.

     

    Smith - okay, this one's obvious.

     

    Gun - Shank... right...? - both are weapons, both kill people, both will get you a day (or a weekend if you get popped on Friday) in jail in most states.

     

     

    Happy Accident.

     

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    Song Title Association Game

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    Posted

    31 minutes ago, RobAsh15 said:

     

    I had a feeling. I also appreciate this as an attempt to draw a challenge. Well, you did.

     

    I lose.

     

    What's that make me now, Rudi?

     

    Oh for nineteen...?

     

     

     

    I was wrong also. Did you see scotsmans post above? Much better than I thought. 

    Beyond Music - Image and Your Appeal?

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    Posted · Edited by Just1L

    Good topic John. And one I've given much thought. One thing I definitely won't be doing is wearing a g-string an shaking my buttocks. I have always felt sex is a cheap ploy regardless of how good it sells. My obvious strong suit is anti-internet. Not the entirely of the internet, just the parts which are obviously not good for society as a whole. The addiction that comes along with it, trolls, fake news/propoganda, privacy, content stealing, etc… What we have today with the internet will not last forever. Nothing does. Eventually things will come to a head, they always do (Coming to a Head may be a good song title. :) ) And more importantly, there will be more and more people that feel the way I do about the internet as time wears on them. I've had the same idea for about 7 or so years to target those people eventually. Almost like a hippie movement against what is dumbing down society. Will it change anything? Maybe, maybe not. Will it last forever? No, nothing does. In reality, I'm looking at a 2-4 year window of time, again similar to the hippie movement, that gives rise to the common sense of humanity versus the machine. I realize that is not an original thought, but I do see signs of that sentiment rearing it's head more and more every day.

     

    As for my actual visual image I'm not sure on that yet. If I were to go onstage today I'd probably wear my skull and crossbones pajama pants, a nice big comfortable shirt or t-shirt and possibly my slippers just to keep it real. I thought of doing a concert in all black lights. All the outfits were symbols, numbers, letters, etc... which merged and changed to form messages.

     

    The world needs a new musical movement desperately. I will not be it. But, what I envision and stated above may very well be.

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    Is there a point to making an album?

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    Posted · Edited by Just1L

    11 minutes ago, starise said:

    Calling it an album is accurate in one sense, yet in another sense it isn't because it isn't mostly sold as a collection online. If I bought an album of 15 tracks and only wanted two, that's pretty much like the woman who went on a diet and lost 10 pounds. The diet costed her 1000 dollars. So it realistically costed her 100.00 a pound :)

     

     

    I def hear what you're saying. When I used to buy albums, especially from a newer group, it was based on a song or two I heard on the radio. Using Van Halen as an example, it's those songs that weren't on the radio, the deep tracks, that I truly loved more than the hit songs played on the radio. In a way I felt like I was getting the "true" Van Halen, not just the songs that were destined to become hits or singles. Radios were playing "You Really Got Me", I was cranking "Ice Cream Man". 

     

    Of course by and large a lot of songs on a lot of albums by a lot of bands ended up feeling like filler material sounding relatively uninspired compared to their hits.

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    Is there a point to making an album?

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    5 minutes ago, Alistair said:

    Some of my Soundcloud albums were actual physical CDs. Everything up to Charm Offensive was. Though I have tinkered with Hidden Talent by adding and subtracting tracks. It's a compilation in any case.

     

    So as someone who has actually made a physical CD, what are your thoughts on that? Would you say it was a waste of time? After doing both types, CD/virtual, which do you think helped you the most?

    Interview on Rolling Stone India

    in Musician's Lounge

    Posted · Edited by Just1L

    Smashing! I remember the first time you posted a song over at thesongwritersforum around 2009 or 2010 and I thought "If this guy can't make it anywhere, my chances are nil to none." IMO your an inspiration to all.

     

    But, the link never fully loads when I click on it. :(

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    Is there a point to making an album?

    in Musician's Lounge

    Posted · Edited by Just1L

    52 minutes ago, chumpy said:

    What I would like is to have my music heard by more people. I was mostly looking at the question of making an album from that perspective. The album format was dictated by the 'Long Play' record format, it wasn't created because it was the best way for consumers to hear music. I'm starting to think that the EP length is more digestible length for listeners. 

     

     

    So based on this I misinterpreted the question. I was thinking of Album as being some sort of physical product, i.e. CD/Vinyl/etc… Now I understand it as just a group of songs, maybe with a certain theme tying them together? Or, is it the just the actual number of songs grouped together? Technically if you have all your songs available on Soundcloud, boom, there's your album/EP. Done. Use their album feature like Alistair does and you're good to go.

     

    Now, if the main goal is definitely to have your music heard by more people I would take more to mean as many as possible. So in that case you have your online album. Now do a CD for those that are still into CDs. Do a vinyl version for those still listening to vinyl. Get your songs on all the streaming services. Get them on local radio stations if you can as well as internet stations and so on an so forth.

     

    Promote everything on every single social site available, there's at least about 200 of them.

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    Is there a point to making an album?

    in Musician's Lounge

    Posted

    On February 10, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Alistair said:

     

    I mostly listen to music in my car!

     

    Yeah, me too. That was kind of what I was getting at. I found it interesting that listening in the car didn't even crack the top 10. Which means, in my eyes, it's all phooey meant for tech promotion for one thing or the other. Tech companies are the "original" fake news spreaders. Do this, buy that, this is the future, everyone is doing this or that … say it enough and for long enough and people will start to feel old and out of touch or even uncool, even though they shouldn't, and start buying tech gear just to keep up with the lesser quality society. And it works like a charm. Hell, right now, people think politics are the worst ever when in reality it's "business as usual". Go back through the decades and it's the same b.s. There's even been cases where a person had their opponent killed. Nothing new to see, just the way we see it.

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