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City: SALT LAKE CITY
State: Utah
Country: US
Signup Date: 1/24/2006

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Friday, May 19, 2006 

Current mood:  curious

I'm trying to pick between two songs: Rod Stewart's "Forever Young," and Blessid Union of Souls' "Light in Your Eyes."

The choice would be easy if I hadn't already recorded "Forever Young." i'm definitely leaning more towards the Blessid song. However, I'm not very happy with F.Y.-- I'm having trouble getting it to sound the way I want it. Also, I haven't got any "newer" songs-- mainly classic rock, plus the stuff I've written and I thought it might be nice to get a little more variety in there. And it'd be a cool song to arrange slightly differently from the original, try new stuff out on, and so forth.

So, basically I'm trying to decide whether it will be more work to re-do a bunch of stuff from "Forever Young" or just scrap it and record the other one, which is rather simple, just a couple acoustic guitars, some synth pads, and vocals... maybe some bass in there if I decide it needs it. I can't really pick between the two, so here's the question: if you've heard both songs, what's your opinion: Keep Forever Young and fix what needs fixing, or record Light in Your Eyes instead?

Cheers,

Abraxas

Currently listening:
Travelogue: Blues Traveler Classics
By Blues Traveler
Release date: 12 November, 2002
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Abraxas

 

Well, I'd really like to do both of them but I have to pick one or the other, as there's not enough room on the album for both. I've got 14 tracks total, which is pressing length as it is, so I can't do them both... I dunno, I'm still leaning towards Light in your Eyes as the one I keep...

 


 
Posted by Abraxas on Friday, May 19, 2006 - 10:09 PM
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Zeela

 

You might be too close to this issue of Forever Young.  If you are really getting negative vibes from it, it might be time to selve it for a while.  Take a break from it.  Maybe it would be better to work on 'Light in Your Eyes' instead - you might get more positive feedback and progress faster.  Good luck in choosing!


 
Posted by Zeela on Saturday, May 20, 2006 - 2:17 AM
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Abraxas

 
That makes sense. Thanks very much!
 
Posted by Abraxas on Saturday, May 20, 2006 - 11:47 AM
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