Re: Please read, critique this song

Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 03:40:43 GMT
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.songwriting
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"gmab" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> Irene, I guess that is precisely my point. There is a charge back into
the
> past that is relentless.
Is there? I don't get a sense of that.
Yeah, I did the google search and looked at the
> crit. It was good.
What critique? Of this song?
I can't say I had the time or the advantage to be in
> the stream of things and know how much of the past discussion was fine
stuff
> or how much was hob-knobbing, but perhaps you can tell me how much of it
was
> a relentless charge into the past tense when things were better.
How much of what, Tim? I don't get your question.
> And, if you got the time, what's the "chicken or egg" thing? Great lyrics
> before great crit? I just don't know what you are trying to point out. I
> can tell you what it means to me. If you keep saying things were better
> then it's bound to make it so.
No, I was referring to the question of whether lyric critiques went by the
wayside before people got into audio files, or whether audio files somehow
made lyric critiques a thing of the past. And I've never said that things
were "better" in the past, just that there was more of a focus on lyrics.
Irene