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| “This book will teach you how to become a relevant artist, how to write much better music, how to write awesome songs with hit potential, how to record a revolutionary killer album, and how to promote your records all on your own.” |
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Songs you should definitely know...
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January 21 On this day, in music history... "Killing Me Softly with His Song" is a song composed by Charles Fox with lyrics by Norman Gimbel.The song was written in collaboration with Lori Lieberman, who recorded the song in late 1971. In 1973 it became a number-one hit in the United States and Canada for Roberta Flack, also reaching number six in the UK Singles Chart. The song has been covered by many artists; the version by the Fugees won the 1997 Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
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“Really bad music often also sells quite well, as the so-called die-hard lemmings will buy even the worst crap on the market.”
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| “We will have to recreate the workflows that once led to the production of really great music.” |
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January 21 On this day, in music history... Jack Leroy Wilson Jr. (June 9, 1934 – January 21, 1984) was an African American soul singer and performer. A tenor with a four-octave range, Wilson was a prominent figure in the transition of rhythm and blues into soul. Wilson was considered a master showman, gaining the nickname "Mr. Excitement", and one of the most dynamic singers and performers in pop, R&B, and rock & roll history.Wilson gained initial fame as a member of the R&B vocal group Billy Ward and His Dominoes. He went solo in 19...
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| “No a&r executive will ever listen to all of the demos that artists will be sending.” |
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| “Even today’s best songs would only have been average class songs in the golden age.” |
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| “Producing and promoting irrelevant clones has been the music industry’s strategy over the past 20 years.” |
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| “The lack of great songs featuring exciting new ideas is partly responsible for the fact that all music out there has become boring and irrelevant.” |
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Artists you should definitely know... Sir George Ivan Morrison OBE (born 31 August 1945), better known as Van Morrison, is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and record producer. His professional career began as a teenager in the late 1950s playing a variety of instruments including guitar, harmonica, keyboards and saxophone for various Irish showbands, covering the popular hits of that time. Van Morrison rose to prominence in the mid-1960s as the lead singer of the Northern Irish R&B band Them, with whom he recorde... [ read more]
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“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” —Gandalf, Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring
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| “Personally, i’d recommend not to over-compress, no matter what kind of music you make.” |
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“If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” —Steve Jobs (co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.)
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| “In the golden age, real artists released insanely great songs that made people go crazy all of the time, thus great music was omnipresent in the top 40, and many of those songs became classics or evergreens.” |
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“Signing a record deal with a larger company usually means selling your soul and giving up your artistic freedom.”
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“I’m just so out of the loop when it comes to pop music, because it all sounds the same. It’s all the same chord progressions with the same quirky chorus, or the same hiphop beat that took 21 people sitting in a room to come up with. It bores me.” —Corey Taylor (Slipknot)
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