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Otis and the Professors
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2/7/2009 12:10:31 AM
Your most popular song VS. Your best song
The more we get out there and have people listen to our stuff, the more obvious it becomes that there are a few of our songs that could be considered quite "popular". I find we try not to get defensive of our other material, but it can be difficult not to. I alluded to this in another topic but I was wondering what you here in the IAC community have to say about this as artists.
Do you feel that some of your best stuff is not as well received as you would have guessed, or what you would like compared to other songs? Do you worry that people only like ONE of your songs, or just a few? I would imagine most of us have felt these feelings and wanted to see how you guys deal with it. Just curious.
Peace,
OatP
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Conversation Suicide
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2/7/2009 1:11:37 AM
---- Updated 2/7/2009 1:12:23 AM
They like what they like.
What can you do?
Keep those ones that YOU like, for the special fans, who want to hear what you're REALLY about; and hope that eventually your "really good" songs, as determined by listeners and promoters, etc., will EVENTUALLY include the stuff that YOU feel the most proud of.
-pHLeGm
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Steve Ison
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2/7/2009 1:38:17 AM
Ye h Otis-Like Phlegm said people definitely like what they like and its their choice!..I've got a song called 'If I Met You Again' which has always been really popular,but i'm not that keen on it at all anymore,so don't even have it on my page..
I personally much prefer a strange eclectic song like Heart On Ice,tho i know that appeals to far less people..
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The Man With No Band
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2/7/2009 11:26:31 AM
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Good subject ...
I find a lot of the songs I write that I really like get ignored somewhat, but I chalk part of that up to my lack of proper equipment and recording skills ... So I feel my two most popular ... "Everybody's Got A Song" and "Whiskey Symphony" must somehow strike a chord with a broader range of listeners ... and they must be fairly good songs for people to ignore all my mistakes and still like the songs ...
Both of these songs were written "out of the blue" and very spontaneous ... where as some of the others I toiled at, wanting to make a good song, so I'd say the ones that come to me the quickest turn out to be the "best" ...
Steve Ison's ... "If I met you again" ... is an absolutely marvelous tune ! ... Although I like almost All of Steve's stuff, that one is one of my favorites ... I think it also "Strikes a Chord" with a broad range of listeners ... It's a song that one can actually see themselves as a character in the story line and they can see that "girl" as the one they know in real life ...
I play this song a lot ... and if Steve could here the Harmonies that I'm belting out while this plays he might really like it ... but then again maybe not .. ha !
...and I forgot .... one of my best songs is by far one of the simplest in lyric style and my version isn't even up on my page, because it is rather bland, but the version Crack*A*Jack*Crow did is AMAZING, so it has a permanent resting place at the top of my page ...
... sheesh ... I also forgot "Hey Girl" ... which is one of my favorite tunes I wrote ... and you will find it on J. Patrick Sharpe's page ... He did a Great job on it !
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Otis and the Professors
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2/8/2009 12:09:59 AM
Great points guys and thanks for sharing.
We too find that it is often our most simple stuff that was created in the shortest amount of time tends to be the stuff that is most popular, while the stuff we work on endlessly tends to be less so. I wonder if that is coincidence of if it is because the more work a song takes the less organic it sounds?
Hmm, interesting.
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