OK, "'mlog" is just too unwieldy a term, but I've decided I'm going to start posting music logs here, whether they're about my music, or someone else's, or just music in general. I love music, and I love writing, and it's about time I started putting them together and utilizing this 'blog space.
I hadn't written any new songs in quite a while. This was mostly deliberate; I've got a number of songs already written that I haven't recorded yet, and I didn't want to end up writing and writing, and ending up with 20 or 30 songs that needed to be realized. That kind of backlog would be overwhelming, and I'd probably never catch up! So, while I've had ideas, I've just been jotting them down briefly without fleshing them out into complete song lyrics.
I realized the other day, though, that I shouldn't let my lack of progress on the recording front (which is a topic for another 'mlog) prevent me from writing. Many of the songs I like best have been the ones I've written at a particular moment in my life, where the lyrics really reflect how I was feeling when I was writing them. It's not always easy to recapture that feeling six months or a year or two later, when one is finally feeling ready to write.
With that in mind, I threw together the lyrics to "Occasionally Tormented Soul" last night, after coming up with the title and the idea the day before. Not one of my best, but I like it. It's a song about not being quite as miserable as one might seem, and maybe not as miserable as one might LIKE. Heh-heh... I should probably try to get this one and "I'll Live" recorded during the same session; they're similar in their dark humor. The latter song is most likely going to have a harder sound, the lyrics (and music, in my head) having been greatly influenced by the Who's John Entwistle. "Occasionally Tormented Soul" may turn out to be a semi-acoustic antifolk tune. Or not. We'll see.
Well. That was more writing about writing than I'd expected to do. I'm not going to commit to these 'mlogs being produced on a regular basis, but perhaps I can get through two or three a month. See you next time!
