Songwriting Frustration

Driven · #16 08-06-2003, 04:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Proud Pig
Here is a brief comparison, they have the same "theme". Who cares, the music is excellent!

Echos:
Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me

RW PCOH
I recognise...
Myself in every stranger's eyes

And in wheelchairs by monuments
Under tube trains and commuter accidents
In council care and county courts
At Easter fairs and sea-side resorts
In drawing rooms and city morgues
In award winning photographs
Of life rafts in the China seas
In transit camps, under arc lamps
On unloading ramps
In faces blurred by rubber stamps
I recognise...
Myself in every stranger's eyes

Actually, Roger himself has made the comparison between those two sets of lyrics.

As far as songwriting goes...I have written ten or fifteen songs and I think they are uniquely me.

Wing'd Icarus · #17 08-06-2003, 10:25 PM

well done, then.

Defyant · #18 08-07-2003, 12:10 AM

Driven, would you know the interview or where the statement was made? I've listened to these songs for years and recently caught the similarities.

Piper@Gates · #19 08-07-2003, 12:16 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Shane G.
On that note, anyone here played Am/Dm/C9 before? 'Cause I have.

That's a good one. How about

C/Em/Am/F

or

D/Am/G/D

Some stuff ive been messing with.

Wing'd Icarus · #20 08-07-2003, 01:24 AM

I would put down something I really like that I wrote recently, but I know very little of the chords involved.

Piper@Gates · #21 08-07-2003, 01:38 AM

You can tab it. You play anything besides guitar, icarus?

Wing'd Icarus · #22 08-07-2003, 01:41 AM

i've got a harmonica...can't play it...i can fake it.

same with piano. though at one point I did know Baba O'Riley...not the synth bit. And Jack the Pumpkin Eater.

just a quick question, how exactly would one phrase a C9?

Piper@Gates · #23 08-07-2003, 01:45 AM

http://www.guitar9.com/cgi-local/chord.pl

One of the greatest sites I've found.

Wing'd Icarus · #24 08-07-2003, 01:53 AM

ahuh....thanks.

Driven · #25 08-07-2003, 07:35 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Proud Pig
Driven, would you know the interview or where the statement was made? I've listened to these songs for years and recently caught the similarities.

I can't find the EXACT quote, but here's an interview where he says pretty much the same stuff:

RW: Yeah. Before I found my voice, there were orchestral experiments that sound pretty (lame) now, and on albums like Meddle (1971) you can detect a groping for form. But most of the songs survived reasonably. The song Echoes, a long, drawn-out piece, has a lyric about strangers passing on the street that's become a recurrent theme for me, the idea of recognizing oneself in others and feeling empathy and a connection to the human race.

http://www.pinkfloyd-co.com/band/int.../rw/rwusa.html

Da_Floyd_Fan · #26 08-09-2003, 01:41 PM

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On that note, anyone here played Am/Dm/C9 before? 'Cause I have.

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Yes, I have. And it sounds pretty bad (no offense).

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