What I’ve Taken From Other Music

It is really easy to see from where I have robbed my ideas. Every idea every musician has ever had has come from another source, however obscure the reference might be. That is what I suspect, at least.

One way that I get the urge to write something is when I am listening to music that I like. When I get the (copious) hair on my arms rising then I go and turn on the computer and try to transfer that feeling to what I am writing myself.

I like to be able to recognise patterns of chords that I hear and recognise as familiar in other people’s music. I think a good musician has an identifiable signiature sound but also a wide range of influences to draw upon and the imagination to twist those influences round and change them. I would say that is one of the crucial factors in deciding whether I like a piece of music.

There is some music that I like which is my Pot Noodle. I’m not supposed to enjoy it but I do anyway. That music has had a big direct influnce on what I do. There’s also music in which I hear something very unique. I aspire to writing something similar and of the same quality. Whether I can apply my own success criteria to the ideas that I steal in order to be a better musician, I don’t know.

The point of this is a series of posts I’m writing which flits between artists that I think might have affected the songs I write. There are hundreds of things that have indirectly made me the way I am and affected the music I come up with, but I can’t claim that any direct influnce has made what comes out of my head and into the computer any better, unfortunately.

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