Annie's Rose

Hey guys

Didn't think it got enough attention in my journal

This is the first track to my CD entitled "Bedroom Music"

I wrote it for a friend of mine who has the same name (and yes it is a matter of love)

I really wasn't trying to be over the top or expressing my love for her in 10 minutes, just keeping it short and simple was my intention.

Any comments on the recording (ways to make it better) and the piece are welcome. And for the record, the title of the CD is exactly what I want the tracks to sound like. Not cheap sounding, just like they were recorded in a bedroom

Anyway, comments welcome

Music page of William Daniel Kirkland - MP3 music page on SoundClick

*cough*

love is a very personal matter, it is very tough to express it musically without being cliche. Personally, I think I would never compose about love exactly for the above reason, cause usually when I lie in bed with my girlfriend caressing her it sounds just like your piece in my head (rather harp than guitar but that's not the point). I'm not so sure it's worth recording though. It lasts for the moment, never more. I'm not saying that there are no non-cliche love songs because there are hundreds of them but it's a very tricky area. In your case you stand for something very broad, well documented and accepted general "love mood" especially on the most common instrument, the guitar. So my question would be. Why do we feel this is love sonically? Isn't it because this is what we immediately associate with it? Sorrow and love. Basic feelings. Very easy to express yet almost impossible to do it in an interesting way. and I'm not so sure feelings are that simple nowadays. I'm almost never in a definite mood. it's always mixed. like always. this is why i don't believe in this piece although I perfectly know what it tries to recall. You made a very nice recording on a very mellow sounding instrument very pure and everything yet you remain on an uninteresting territory. What's interesting to me? Something I don't really know but charms me. Something unpredictable yet perfectly understandable. This piece I know 100%. I can hear it every night in my head. And maybe 9 people out of 10 would associate this piece with love. So in this sense congratulations! It's an another love song... a decent one... you are a good player as well! i can hear you are intimate with your instrument. that's a good thing.

Originally Posted by maaton

love is a very personal matter, it is very tough to express it musically without being cliche. Personally, I think I would never compose about love exactly for the above reason, cause usually when I lie in bed with my girlfriend caressing her it sounds just like your piece in my head (rather harp than guitar but that's not the point). I'm not so sure it's worth recording though. It lasts for the moment, never more. I'm not saying that there are no non-cliche love songs because there are hundreds of them but it's a very tricky area. In your case you stand for something very broad, well documented and accepted general "love mood" especially on the most common instrument, the guitar. So my question would be. Why do we feel this is love sonically? Isn't it because this is what we immediately associate with it? Sorrow and love. Basic feelings. Very easy to express yet almost impossible to do it in an interesting way. and I'm not so sure feelings are that simple nowadays. I'm almost never in a definite mood. it's always mixed. like always. this is why i don't believe in this piece although I perfectly know what it tries to recall. You made a very nice recording on a very mellow sounding instrument very pure and everything yet you remain on an uninteresting territory. What's interesting to me? Something I don't really know but charms me. Something unpredictable yet perfectly understandable. This piece I know 100%. I can hear it every night in my head. And maybe 9 people out of 10 would associate this piece with love. So in this sense congratulations! It's an another love song... a decent one... you are a good player as well! i can hear you are intimate with your instrument. that's a good thing.

Thanks for listening and I appreciate the comment

Although, I don't want to sound stuck up, but that was extremely wordy, you could have easily said "this piece really makes me think of love, I think that's a good thing"

I'm not trying to nitpick, but not every other person might want to read a long message with a short meaning I'm not trying to tear you down, just trying to help

Thanks again

Originally Posted by Will Kirk

Although, I don't want to sound stuck up, but that was extremely wordy, you could have easily said "this piece really makes me think of love, I think that's a good thing"

If that would be what I was trying to describe, yes, I could have easily said that. Considering that you even put a little 'cough' indication cos nobody replied, I can only wonder why you felt tired reading a lengthy feedback. If you can't appreciate my effort to tell you how I did not like the piece and how terribly cliche I think that is, in a long, humane way that I thought you won't be offended about, I can put it this way if you like:

it sucks.

Originally Posted by maaton

If that would be what I was trying to describe, yes, I could have easily said that. Considering that you even put a little 'cough' indication cos nobody replied, I can only wonder why you felt tired reading a lengthy feedback. If you can't appreciate my effort to tell you how I did not like the piece and how terribly cliche I think that is, in a long, humane way that I thought you won't be offended about, I can put it this way if you like:

it sucks.

Well I would still prefer for you to be blunt about it, but explain why it sucks in your opinion. And come to think of it, the wordier you are the more likely some people are to misunderstand you

And just for the record, it's nearly impossible to offend me

I think we both would agree if I said this conversation is dead.

Originally Posted by maaton

I think we both would agree if I said this conversation is dead.

Not if you keep replying to it it's not

By the way, that's a really cheap cop out