What are your favorite songs you wrote during FAWM 2022 NOW?
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@unpronounceable Apr 2022
Now that it’s been a month or so, I’m curious if you would make any changes to the songs of yours that got hearts? I was looking at my page and realized I might make some adjustments myself. Please share yours!
For me, I originally <3-Ed :
* Too Tired
* A Felt Sense
* I Choose Food
* May Your Love Be Enough
If I had to re-assign hearts now, I’d <3:
* You Are Here
* Too Tired
* My Heart
* I Choose Food
* Dance Alone
Looking forward to yours! -
@andygetch Apr 2022
I added a couple to collabs that turned out well.
* The A-Team
* Coelacanth -
@nadine Apr 2022
I wrote too many good songs so I cannot decide! I use the heart symbol for all songs I want to rerecord and produce in a semi-professional quality during the year.
But if I had to choose favourites I have two groups:
The heavy ones:
*Dorian Gray
*At your command
*Take the black
The mild ones:
*How are you
*Dust
*Disco Blues
Did it change? Yes. One of them started as a draft I did not want to continue but I'm in love with the vibe. -
@chipwithrow Apr 2022
This is a great topic - I'm surprised only a couple have responded, but I know the traffic around here is lighter and lighter each day.
I listened to a few of the songs listed here - I have a couple more days of listening and commenting in me, as long as others are around.
As for me, I don't "heart" songs as favorites - one reason is that, in the moment, usually I think the song is awesome!
And, as @unpronounceable points out, after some distance from a song we'd usually appreciate it differently. For me, it's more like a year, even longer. Recently I went back seven years or so and found some gems I'd all but forgotten I'd written.
I did just go back and look at this year's songs - there are probably a half dozen I'd consider performing with guitar and voice, which is often how I determine a song's worth. And lately I'm getting the urge to perform again, but I just don't know what the venue would be. -
@mandolinda Apr 2022
I think the ones I hearted , are still my favorites. Reasons are different, accomplishments made and just love the fact that I did it.
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@dukongp100 Apr 2022
made 6 in total, first was an ep, tough question! probably Jam Cushion, a few others liked it so im happy with it
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@gubna Apr 2022
Definitely this https://fawm.org/songs/134811/
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@gm7 Apr 2022
Wow...that is a tough question Your Honor...so here they are:
Butterfly Dance
Little Gerri
Cool Cool ways
Prairie Prayer
Disco Blues
Working man Blues
..in no particular order (great title for a song! or has it been used before?) -
@hornesgiftshop Apr 2022
By a country mile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4IExYMZH0E
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@hmstreetteam Apr 2022
“Exactly Where You’re Meant to Be” is the one that has grown in importance. It was a foggy one-hour write, which really means I wrote it in 10 minutes and spent 30 minutes memorizing it, and I guess that made it easy to overlook at the time.
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@falconbridge Apr 2022
I happened to hop on today to just look in on things, and to grab feedback because I'm really hoping to take some additional time with a few of these, revising and polishing. (My goal for FAWM is to have a demo version that can give the overall sense of the piece not necessarily a "releasable" recording.)
All my favorites were space songs:
Your Orbit
Leaving (Engines Down)
The Butler Will Not Rendevous
Speed of Light / Indulgence
and Ocean of Stars -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
I was light on for hearts to begin with. I've just finished changing them (before I saw this thread) largely on the basis of how frequently I've listened to them since (ie which ones appeal to me). So, here they are:
I would fain lie with thee : first one I put a heart to, no change
Deep summer night's dance : just got a heart transplant, none previously
General Irving Cisski : collab with @billwhite51 and probably the one I've most listened to, just been given a heart (not that it would help said General)
Missing you ; collab with @fearlessflight2014 who put the heart on early on and with which I concur, a toss-up for me between this and Lie With Thee as my top fave.
Not many is it, out of a songlist of 35 (okay, some are semiduplicates, but still...) -
@fuzzy Apr 2022
I usually "heart" all of my songs!
(I'm a contrarian - the recommendation is to use them "sparingly", so I was immediately thinking "no, they go on every track".)
Until I do a collab; I don't like to impose my "hearts" on other peoples' song lists, so after a collab I remove all the hearts. (No shade to you, @andygetch; I like COELACANTH as well!!) -
@rayboneor Apr 2022
I've been away from the site for a few weeks. The only song from this year's fawm that I can even remember is the first one :)
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@unpronounceable Apr 2022
I love that you called it a heart transplant, @timfatchen . Might have to make that the official phrase of this kind of thing :)
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@chipwithrow Apr 2022
@rayboneor - I listened to your first one yesterday and really dug it!
And I had to go back and listen to my first one this morning to even remember it - and I liked it!
I like most of my songs enough that I could do an EP of ukulele songs and another of banjo songs. And I might even do that - the uke EP might inspire my 20-year-old daughter, who has decided she wants to try for some uke/vocal gigs of her own.
If I had to pick a uke favorite right now, it would be "Welcome Home, My Friend" (my first one). My banjo favorite would be "Wooden Bridge."
It's been fun to go through this thread and discover others' favorites. -
@adambeiter Apr 2022
I have revisited "Lotus Eater", "Pool Song", and "Self-Referential" the most. I think those are my three favorites. I even played "Pool Song" last night at a gig I had, it translates pretty well to the live stage as I have found out!
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@metalfoot Apr 2022
Yeah, I can't do this exercise yet; too early for me.
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@wylddandelyon Apr 2022
This is so hard! I guess right now my favorites, in no particular order, are:
Dead Dog Filk Song
Takeout Time
Starlight Fairy Waltz
The Bitter Aftertaste of Dreams Left Unexpressed
Derelict
Daidi's Ditty
Sundae Skirmish
Steel Skeletons of the Past
Waves
Sacred Cliff (I really love the dance between the harp and the guitar)
The Vampire's Haunted Guitar
I suspect My Sweet Library Fairy will become a favorite, once I've given it a tune (Gotta do that!)
And this may change as I have time to practice more of them. I'm really surprised, given how many songs I wrote this FAWM, how many of them I do really like, and that I think I'll be singing for years. -
@chrishope Apr 2022
still this one https://m.soundcloud.com/chris-hope-5/down-all-the-love
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@psyt Apr 2022
Songs 3-13 + 15.
