Prolific Songwriters (1 Viewer)

[kevin gallen]

Question for any songwriters here. How prolific are you? Do you write loads in a short spell and then not at all for a while or what way do ya do it?

 

[MDR]

On average - one song every 4 months or so.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

little known fact - bruce springsteen wrote and recorded all of his songs in less than one day

 

[JohnnyRaz]

little known fact - bruce springsteen wrote and recorded all of his songs in less than one day

All? what day?

 

[avernus]

little known fact - bruce springsteen wrote and recorded all of his songs in less than one day

didnt he do that for a few albums so he could get out of his contract as quickly as possible?

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

i don't know
i just made it up

andrew

 

[avernus]

i don't know
i just made it up

andrew

shit, youre good with those rumours. but I did hear that he wrote a ream of shit and recorded it all super fast just to complete his contract cos they were assholes. makes sense, I guess.

 

[JohnnyRaz]

shit, youre good with those rumours. but I did hear that he wrote a ream of shit and recorded it all super fast just to complete his contract cos they were assholes. makes sense, I guess.

Ive heard that said about a number of artists(term applied loosely). Maybe its the A&R equivalent of the granny who put her cat in the microwave to dry its fur... It makes sense though

 

[mark]

Question for any songwriters here. How prolific are you? Do you write loads in a short spell and then not at all for a while or what way do ya do it?

i will come up with bits and pieces all day long but i have problems putting them into songs i'm happy with. to answer your question, i write in bursts.

 

[Unclealo]

One song completed every 2 months or so.

 

[ITalkShite]

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[#10-7]

i probably write 2 songs a week.
but only a good one every few months.

anything song i write will generally be started and finished in few hours, i'll write it down and come back to it a few days later. if i think there's something there i'll work on it abit more, fix the words etc, then when i have a format i'll show the rest of the band and we'll play around with it.

 

[kevin gallen]

i probably write 2 songs a week.
but only a good one every few months.

anything song i write will generally be started and finished in few hours, i'll write it down and come back to it a few days later. if i think there's something there i'll work on it abit more, fix the words etc, then when i have a format i'll show the rest of the band and we'll play around with it.

thats pretty good. I used to write about 25 a year. Now i can barely do 10. I very rarely write a song in a day. Tends to be drawn out over a week or more

 

[kevin gallen]

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Oh i just got that. 0.81 songs a day i wish

 

[#10-7]

thats pretty good. I used to write about 25 a year. Now i can barely do 10. I very rarely write a song in a day. Tends to be drawn out over a week or more

yeah but almost all the thinks i write end up not being very good.
i get it right every now and again though.

 

[Jimmy Magee]

About 2 or 3 a year these times I think...back in college when I had time on me hands I did maybe one or two a month. But I was never prolific by any standards.

These are finished articles mind, I come up with tunes as soon as I go near an instrument, but they're nearly all shite like

 

[mark]

ian omo is about the most prolific song writer i know. he writes all the time.

 

[Tombo]

I have an illness. If I sit down on a Saturday I will write and write. On a bad day I can finish three songs at a sitting. Some weeks I end up with about 6 or 7 songs. Then we pick out the best ones (not very hard usually) and work with them. As you can imagine that means a pretty big catalog of songs so we just keep around 20 up to performance standard at any time. It also means lots of scrapping to see which songs are dropped. I usually win because I am fat.

 

[dudley]

about 14 every 2 years!

 

[coast to coast]

ryan adams has diahorrea. he's releasing three albums this year, including a double. did he not learn from last time when both rock and roll and love is hell both chomped on so much cock?

i find it takes absolutely ages to write a song- usually i get one little bit and leave it, mainly cos its a pain in the arse to write it all in one go and becomes too much like work, extending metaphors and shit like that. i usually write the lyrics all in one go having said that.

i've written a couple in one go, but usually starting from a little guitar bit i've been playing subconsciously for weeks on end.

but i don't write that many, with words and melodies and all.