I gotta love it first and foremost. It's my child. I hope others will love my child, but it will always have my love.




This is not my music in case you were confused.

I enjoy listening to home recordings. Studio recordings don’t get much of my attention. By the time I’ve heard the songs umpteen times after mixing and mastering, I don’t want to hear them ever again.

I really enjoy listening to things that I’ve forgotten about. I’ve recorded hundreds of songs over the course of my life, and it’s fun to hear something two or three decades removed. It’s been awhile since I sat around and listened to old tapes.

Not crap, wf 7

I know I don’t because I’ve been in the same room as people who REALLY enjoy listening to the music they’ve made and its not the same thing at all.

I do 100% make the music I want to hear, but I can’t just put it on like any other record, and I wouldn’t want to do that anyways.

I'll put something on as a Nostalgia Hit from time to time or to show Heather that she should work on music more than she does. Kinda a little good hearted shame weapon I guess, But I mostly have made unlistenable music and most of it has never been finished so I don't really enjoy hearing it.

I can only listen to current projects to evaluate work or relearn a song. Kind of like penningtron said, it's enough to push yourself out in the world without spooking, I can't go spinning out on whatever mood I'm in when I hear a going concern, "It's genius!". "It's shit!". Neither are conducive to putting on a good show or writing a good song.

A trip down memory lane now and then for old projects can be a hoot though. It's a rare mood, like digging out old photo albums. Even more fun when you're trading messages with old bandmates after sharing stuff. The drummer from my old band was moved to comment, "I think this was where I peaked." But he's out of the drumming business these days so that's easier for him to say.

I enjoy listening to practice room recordings, demos and live recordings more than studio stuff by far. It’s nice to reflect on this stuff I think, 20odd years on.

Generally speaking I think I make things that are interesting to me so I usually enjoy occasionally listening to something I've made. The big exception being something I sang on, that shit's awful and I can't even subject myself to that. Playing something I made for someone else is torture and I never do that.

Yeeeaahhhhh…not that often once it’s done

Sure.
All the time thinking: "Like Sting at a dinner party", after what may be an apocryphal story from Trudie Styler about Sting listening to his own demos on headphones at a dinner party.

I make like DIY musique concrete basically, or stuff adjacent to that. I can imagine it would be very different if voice and/or lyrics were involved.