Journal - December 30th, 2004 @ 6:16PM

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freddemillio	Date: January 3, 2005 @ 2:12 PM Fred - You're most welcome. Music is an important part of my life and I can feel how important it is to you too and it is a pleasure to know and work with you. I'll start working on my list of favorites right now.
Rodrica	Date: January 4, 2005 @ 4:30 AM Awww...thank you Fred It's always a pleasure to listen to your music. Music is about personal expression...so I can only give my own opinion as to how a song affects me when I hear it I think it's possible to argue for ever about technicalities, structure, arrangements, mixing etc...no one is entirely right or wrong. The depression...I reckon it goes with being a musician I get that now and then, especially this time of year for some reason...it often holds up my drive to complete songs (and has done so recently). I think The Muse plays tricks with our imagination sometimes Now for my top 5 - Oh boy, I had REAL trouble here...I love them all!! But here's the ones I've chosen for the "wow factor" - sheer entertainment, songs that stopped me in my tracks (and not for any technical reasons or because they necessarily fit into any standard songwriting format...just because I LOVE them!) 1. There's Nothing New Under the Sun 2. Day & Night 3. Paranoid 4. You Never Know 5. (Not trying to cheat here, but there's a load that tied 5th for me)... Shotgun The Corporate World As Far As I Can Go What I Am In the Great Hall Not sure if you wanted to include any covers...I loved those too...and that would make it even harder to make a choice
GTLive	Date: January 5, 2005 @ 9:05 AM You working nights is cutting off your exposure, leading to a simulated Seasonal Affective condition. I am an expert of the topic. Vitamin D is the way to go. I also bake under a full spectrum light this year, that's why I'm almost functional. But anyway enough outta me. My 5 picks are: The Corporate World Day And Night Do You Do Nothing New Under The Sun Paranoid Shotgun Agree with Rodrica on the covers, but Mr. B is my favorite one.
Snoogans775	Date: January 5, 2005 @ 10:24 PM Thinking in CD terms this is really hard, I think what you're missing is a sort of "deafen em'" intro, so I'm not sure what it is you need for the structure of a CD, I'm going to arrange these as I would picture them best in order on a CD. Shotgun You Never Know(it's too long for an intro, but it would've most definetely been otherwise.) Gringo with a Guitar(probably a remix, it would be very cool kickback mid-CD stuff) The Corporate World Nothing New Under The Sun !Take Me Away!(This is actually my favorite song, but it would be a great outro, you could probably keep the original mix, but tighten up the "snap") I'd like to see a lot of vocal focus, Those are always my favorites.
Snoogans775	Date: January 6, 2005 @ 1:57 AM Listening to "Take Me Away", I think that using some metronome device during the recording would really be necessaryfor a CD quality track, I don't know if you're comftorable with headphones or not, but I love that song so much besides some of the off sync interruptions.
craiglab	Date: January 15, 2005 @ 10:37 AM Hi Fred! I'm overdue in adding my five picks for your CD project. Here they are: 1. You Never Know 2. Paranoid 3. Corporate world 4. Shotgun 5. One in a Million Guy If I could go beyond five picks, I'd also add in "Day and Night" and "Gringo with a Guitar." If were to include covers, I would add "Can't Find My Way Home" and your latest Moby Grape medley.