Which song do you wish you wrote?

1P18

(warning, you will want to rock out to this guitar intro)

enc

Not songs as such but masterpiece I wish I'd wrote ...

RUST( i )K

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oat_phipps

@JRSIV said:
Mmmm...

I think it goes without saying we have to forge our own path and let our influences nudge us down that road and not lead us...BUT, playing along I gotta go with:

•For slow/ballad type song:

"How Can Mend A Broken Heart" by the BeeGees, they of course are forever smeared with the "disco" image but they were extraordinary songwriters. The chord progression and release of the chorus is Lennon/McCartney territory, really great song that survives without the record, as some songs are more the record than a guitar & vocal at the kitchen table song.

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Their earlier stuff was some real genius. When they were on (meaning not getting too sappy) they were as good as anybody. Cucumber Castle is excellent.

I think their disco era stuff is real genius too. I like it just as well.

JohnnyGoodyear

@1P18 said:
I bought a product
I never use it

Never realized Stan was such a ringer for Harry Dean (RIP).

JohnnyGoodyear

@Fruitbat1919 said:
Are Friends Electric

Wow. That's self-confidence for you

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@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@Fruitbat1919 said:
Are Friends Electric

Wow. That's self-confidence for you

Well gotta have some belief in oneself even if it's just a dream lol

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@Fruitbat1919 said:

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@Fruitbat1919 said:
Are Friends Electric

Wow. That's self-confidence for you

Well gotta have some belief in oneself even if it's just a dream lol

Just a quick plug for the new album from Gary Numan:

Savage (songs from a broken world) - it's really good!

[Deleted User]

I am of the firm belief that their is one great song in everybody. You may not come across the circumstances that always brings your song out, but it's there! Great artists have many many songs and they force them out through sheer force of will.

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@Tritonman said:
What ever song that has earned the most royalties I don't give a damn what it sounds like.

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I believe that song is 'Happy Birthday.'

No, not the Altered Inages 80's tune, but the original 'happy birthday to you' ditty.

JeffChasteen

@Zen210507 said:

@Tritonman said:
What ever song that has earned the most royalties I don't give a damn what it sounds like.

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I believe that song is 'Happy Birthday.'

No, not the Altered Inages 80's tune, but the original 'happy birthday to you' ditty.

I think you are right. It is why people sing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" during birthday parties in lower budget productions.

JeffChasteen

Along with Waterloo Sunset, I also wish that I had written You Are My Sunshine. I have to agree with Merle Haggard; it is an example of a perfectly written song.

Oh, and Rock and Roll by Lou Reed. That one and Gimmie Shelter are the two songs I am most likely to automatically begin playing whenever I pick up a guitar that is lying around.

MrsChasteen said her choice would be These Foolish Things. She does have good taste.

JeffChasteen

@ALB said:
"Loose" by the Stooges. Within my ability, but sort of a perfect rock song.

The whole album is just fucking great. Even LA Blues.
I learned to play bass many years ago thanks to Funhouse. And pharmaceuticals.

anomieholiday

Honestly? Two songs. Both way simple and effective in a way I can't comprehend yet. Up until recently, I'd be like "HOW many notes in this scale? Let's use em all!"

Fischerspooner - Emerge

SALEM - Sick - This is the song that turned me from an engineer and sound designer into a producer and composer

oat_phipps

@Fruitbat1919 said:
I am of the firm belief that their is one great song in everybody. You may not come across the circumstances that always brings your song out, but it's there! Great artists have many many songs and they force them out through sheer force of will.

On a similar wavelength, Alex Chilton of Big Star said he was happy if he could write one good song per year.

JohnnyGoodyear

@oat_phipps said:

@Fruitbat1919 said:
I am of the firm belief that their is one great song in everybody. You may not come across the circumstances that always brings your song out, but it's there! Great artists have many many songs and they force them out through sheer force of will.

On a similar wavelength, Alex Chilton of Big Star said he was happy if he could write one good song per year.

What I'd like to know is how many he attempts to write in the same period

JohnnyGoodyear

@JeffChasteen said:
Along with Waterloo Sunset, I also wish that I had written You Are My Sunshine. I have to agree with Merle Haggard; it is an example of a perfectly written song.

Oh, and Rock and Roll by Lou Reed. That one and Gimmie Shelter are the two songs I am most likely to automatically begin playing whenever I pick up a guitar that is lying around.

MrsChasteen said her choice would be These Foolish Things. She does have good taste.

And a good sense of humor. Lucky man...

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At the other end of the day...

I'd love to have written 'A Day In the Life' and 'One of These Nights,'

oat_phipps

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@oat_phipps said:

@Fruitbat1919 said:
I am of the firm belief that their is one great song in everybody. You may not come across the circumstances that always brings your song out, but it's there! Great artists have many many songs and they force them out through sheer force of will.

On a similar wavelength, Alex Chilton of Big Star said he was happy if he could write one good song per year.

What I'd like to know is how many he attempts to write in the same period

Ha, he had a much better rate than one per year. But also a lot of obvious toss-off crap.

JeffChasteen

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@oat_phipps said:

@Fruitbat1919 said:
I am of the firm belief that their is one great song in everybody. You may not come across the circumstances that always brings your song out, but it's there! Great artists have many many songs and they force them out through sheer force of will.

On a similar wavelength, Alex Chilton of Big Star said he was happy if he could write one good song per year.

What I'd like to know is how many he attempts to write in the same period

Earlier this week, Dangerous Minds had a feature about AC's lifelong interest in astrology, and how he used it in determining many of his life decisions. In light of so many of those decisions, it's not necessarily the best advertisement for the science of the stars.
He did write some great songs, though...

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@oat_phipps said:

@Fruitbat1919 said:
I am of the firm belief that their is one great song in everybody. You may not come across the circumstances that always brings your song out, but it's there! Great artists have many many songs and they force them out through sheer force of will.

On a similar wavelength, Alex Chilton of Big Star said he was happy if he could write one good song per year.

I'm happy that I am in a position to enjoy trying to make music. My head pains have made me cherish all the things in life I maybe once took a bit for granted

Masanga

Dory Previn's Lady with the Braid. Musically very simple – she only taught herself guitar, and started to write tunes, after Andre dumped her for Mia Farrow and her shrink told her to use her songwriting to work out her issues. But she'd been writing and performing lyrics for two decades (starting as a club act in the forties; taught herself by writing new verses to her favourite songs, still the best songwriting tip ever) and had built a fantastic ear for a tune along the way. Twenty-Mile Zone, Mythical Kings and Iguanas, and Doppelganger are also works of stone-cold genius.

oat_phipps

@JeffChasteen said:

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@oat_phipps said:

@Fruitbat1919 said:
I am of the firm belief that their is one great song in everybody. You may not come across the circumstances that always brings your song out, but it's there! Great artists have many many songs and they force them out through sheer force of will.

On a similar wavelength, Alex Chilton of Big Star said he was happy if he could write one good song per year.

What I'd like to know is how many he attempts to write in the same period

Earlier this week, Dangerous Minds had a feature about AC's lifelong interest in astrology, and how he used it in determining many of his life decisions. In light of so many of those decisions, it's not necessarily the best advertisement for the science of the stars.
He did write some great songs, though...

What's dangerous minds? A google search just gets me the movie.

ALB

@JeffChasteen said:

@ALB said:
"Loose" by the Stooges. Within my ability, but sort of a perfect rock song.

The whole album is just fucking great. Even LA Blues.
I learned to play bass many years ago thanks to Funhouse. And pharmaceuticals.

Yep, the whole mess that is "Funhouse" is a swaggering, pulsing machine.

JRSIV

@oat_phipps said:

Their earlier stuff was some real genius. When they were on (meaning not getting too sappy) they were as good as anybody. Cucumber Castle is excellent.

I think their disco era stuff is real genius too. I like it just as well.

@oat_phipps The "Saturday Night Fever" movie soundtrack and singing complete songs in falsetto just painted them with a broad brush. The early stuff like "To Love Somebody" & "Words" are just tremendous songs, and so are many of the disco songs. "Staying Alive" is relentless, it has such a slinky groove going through it but the average person is going to see John Travolta the minute they hear it.

ABBA is another band where the kneejerk is "this is some lightweight disco bullshit" but really listen musically to what's going on...monster songwriters.

thesoundtestroom

I think I could. Oil it down to a choice of about a 1000 but if I really had to choose just one it would be Comfortably Numb

DeVlaeminck

Something

lukesleepwalker

@JeffChasteen said:

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@lukesleepwalker said:
Some great tunes already!

I'm going to go with These Days by Jackson Browne. Eighteen year old me is cringing at current me right now but screw that punk kid. "Don't confront me with my failures, I've not forgotten them." Nuff said.

A very fine choice Mister Luke. And as for the kid, I think life is a matter of constant revision...

Years?
I experience that in three day increments.

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@oat_phipps said:

@Fruitbat1919 said:
I am of the firm belief that their is one great song in everybody. You may not come across the circumstances that always brings your song out, but it's there! Great artists have many many songs and they force them out through sheer force of will.

On a similar wavelength, Alex Chilton of Big Star said he was happy if he could write one good song per year.

What I'd like to know is how many he attempts to write in the same period

He died too young but it's safe to say his best songs were all written within the big star years (also tragically short lived).

JeffChasteen

@oat_phipps said:

@JeffChasteen said:

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@oat_phipps said:

@Fruitbat1919 said:
I am of the firm belief that their is one great song in everybody. You may not come across the circumstances that always brings your song out, but it's there! Great artists have many many songs and they force them out through sheer force of will.

On a similar wavelength, Alex Chilton of Big Star said he was happy if he could write one good song per year.

What I'd like to know is how many he attempts to write in the same period

Earlier this week, Dangerous Minds had a feature about AC's lifelong interest in astrology, and how he used it in determining many of his life decisions. In light of so many of those decisions, it's not necessarily the best advertisement for the science of the stars.
He did write some great songs, though...

What's dangerous minds? A google search just gets me the movie.

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