Comments on: 500 greatest songs of all time? http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2004/11/20/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time/ Honey Bowtie Music blog: where sticky songs meet (occasionally) overdressed ideas. Sweet. Mon, 21 May 2012 20:39:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: anonymous http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2004/11/20/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time/#comment-1302 anonymous Tue, 26 Jun 2007 03:18:43 +0000 http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2004/11/20/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time/#comment-1302 If you never have, I highly recommend reading the liner notes to Boston's Third Stage. Very interesting story of the album's production. Good stuff. Sorry about being 2 1/2 years late with this comment! If you never have, I highly recommend reading the liner notes to Boston’s Third Stage. Very interesting story of the album’s production. Good stuff.

Sorry about being 2 1/2 years late with this comment!

]]> By: hitchhiker http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2004/11/20/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time/#comment-1301 hitchhiker Tue, 23 Nov 2004 07:47:14 +0000 http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2004/11/20/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time/#comment-1301 Finally got a chance to listen to the mp3s, and Verily do they Not Suck :) And it's great to find a fellow fan of clever lyrics - a lot of my friends are musical snobs, and have given me no end of flack for weighting the lyrics of a song above the music. Oh, and thanks for the link to the discussion in <lj user="vito_excalibur">'s journal - that was indeed a fascinating read. I don't quite agree with the antigenre stance, since I've found a reasonably high correlation between whether I'll like a song and whether I like the genre it belongs to. Also, my favourite genres (filk, musicals, folk and celtic) have a definite qualitative difference from most 'mainstream' music, so I'm grateful for the fact that the songs are preselected by their categorisation. And even though some of the the ultrafine divisions between genres most people couldn't tell apart anyway seem ridiculous from the outside, from the inside they probably go a good way towards fostering the community aspect of music. Finally got a chance to listen to the mp3s, and Verily do they Not Suck :) And it’s great to find a fellow fan of clever lyrics - a lot of my friends are musical snobs, and have given me no end of flack for weighting the lyrics of a song above the music.

Oh, and thanks for the link to the discussion in ’s journal - that was indeed a fascinating read. I don’t quite agree with the antigenre stance, since I’ve found a reasonably high correlation between whether I’ll like a song and whether I like the genre it belongs to. Also, my favourite genres (filk, musicals, folk and celtic) have a definite qualitative difference from most ‘mainstream’ music, so I’m grateful for the fact that the songs are preselected by their categorisation. And even though some of the the ultrafine divisions between genres most people couldn’t tell apart anyway seem ridiculous from the outside, from the inside they probably go a good way towards fostering the community aspect of music.

]]> By: kateo http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2004/11/20/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time/#comment-1300 kateo Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:51:41 +0000 http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2004/11/20/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time/#comment-1300 Wow. Big questions. :-) For the time being, I write songs intended for pop/country radio. My partner and I just moved to Nashville in February 2003. We haven't had anything cut yet, and we don't expect to have anything cut for quite a while. I'm sure it'll take time to work our way into the business here. After we have some success, we may be able to broaden the range of styles we can write and get recorded, but we think our chances of getting in the door will be improved by concentrating on this (musically) fairly narrow, but profitable, genre. (You can hear a sampling of our demos <a href="http://www.honeybowtie.com/songs/index.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. These are fairly old songs by now; most of them were written sometime in 2002 and demo'ed in 2003. We haven't spent any money on demos since we got our requisite five done*, but we'll probably go back and record a few more in early to mid-2005, and I believe those are likely to show a lot of improvement.) Anyway, my influences are all over the map: although I grew up on pop radio, I've always been passionate enough about music to enjoy nearly all of it. Most of what I listen to for leisure is sort of folk-rock or alt.country, like Ryan Adams, Shawn Mullins, or the Wallflowers, but I also love music I can dance to, like reggae or Afro-Caribbean, or even teen pop like Britney Spears or Kylie Minogue. More to the point, I love clever and/or engaging lyrics, which means I'm a fan of Tori Amos, Cake, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, etc etc etc. It's a long, long list. :-) By the way, you might be interested in <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/vito_excalibur/26666.html?thread=275754#t275754" rel="nofollow">this discussion</a> as well as <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/vito_excalibur/26666.html" rel="nofollow">the original post I was commenting on</a>. And if you don't already know <lj user="vito_excalibur">, boy howdy, are you gonna be glad you clicked that link. ;-) * Yes, there are six recordings there, but "Mango Sun" doesn't count. That was a one-off demo done in Chicago as a pitch for a film project we heard about. It's a fun song, but it certainly doesn't get included in our Nashville demo CDs. Wow. Big questions. :-)
For the time being, I write songs intended for pop/country radio. My partner and I just moved to Nashville in February 2003. We haven’t had anything cut yet, and we don’t expect to have anything cut for quite a while. I’m sure it’ll take time to work our way into the business here. After we have some success, we may be able to broaden the range of styles we can write and get recorded, but we think our chances of getting in the door will be improved by concentrating on this (musically) fairly narrow, but profitable, genre.

(You can hear a sampling of our demos here. These are fairly old songs by now; most of them were written sometime in 2002 and demo’ed in 2003. We haven’t spent any money on demos since we got our requisite five done*, but we’ll probably go back and record a few more in early to mid-2005, and I believe those are likely to show a lot of improvement.)

Anyway, my influences are all over the map: although I grew up on pop radio, I’ve always been passionate enough about music to enjoy nearly all of it. Most of what I listen to for leisure is sort of folk-rock or alt.country, like Ryan Adams, Shawn Mullins, or the Wallflowers, but I also love music I can dance to, like reggae or Afro-Caribbean, or even teen pop like Britney Spears or Kylie Minogue.

More to the point, I love clever and/or engaging lyrics, which means I’m a fan of Tori Amos, Cake, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, etc etc etc. It’s a long, long list. :-)

By the way, you might be interested in this discussion as well as the original post I was commenting on. And if you don’t already know , boy howdy, are you gonna be glad you clicked that link. ;-)

* Yes, there are six recordings there, but “Mango Sun” doesn’t count. That was a one-off demo done in Chicago as a pitch for a film project we heard about. It’s a fun song, but it certainly doesn’t get included in our Nashville demo CDs.

]]> By: kateo http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2004/11/20/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time/#comment-1299 kateo Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:27:59 +0000 http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2004/11/20/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time/#comment-1299 Hee! Well, thanks. :-) Hee! Well, thanks. :-)

]]> By: kateo http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2004/11/20/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time/#comment-1298 kateo Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:27:32 +0000 http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2004/11/20/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time/#comment-1298 Isn't it great? I'm gonna be poring over this list for days. Weeks, maybe. Isn’t it great? I’m gonna be poring over this list for days. Weeks, maybe.

]]> By: hitchhiker http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2004/11/20/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time/#comment-1297 hitchhiker Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:08:06 +0000 http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2004/11/20/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time/#comment-1297 What kind of songwriting do you do, and who would you say your inspirations were? What kind of songwriting do you do, and who would you say your inspirations were?

]]> By: therealjae http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2004/11/20/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time/#comment-1296 therealjae Sat, 20 Nov 2004 06:47:37 +0000 http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2004/11/20/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time/#comment-1296 I have nothing of substance to say, but I just wanted to say that I love this post! It's so very you. :-) -J I have nothing of substance to say, but I just wanted to say that I love this post! It’s so very you. :-)
-J

]]> By: nightfly http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2004/11/20/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time/#comment-1295 nightfly Sat, 20 Nov 2004 06:12:28 +0000 http://www.honeybowtie.com/blog/2004/11/20/500-greatest-songs-of-all-time/#comment-1295 WO! Thank's for posting that link. I am diggin this list. WO!

Thank’s for posting that link. I am diggin this list.

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