If I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't have made it, so, yeah, I listen to it! This is cheesy but I remember being around four-years-old, in first grade, taking piano lessons, and thinking to myself that I was going to be on a stage someday performing songs that I've written. I'm delighted to have done so with the added bonus of having others enjoy it. Why wouldn't I listen? I find them memorable, interesting, and somewhat universal in a pop-leaning context. Also this:

I enjoy listening to practice room recordings, demos

It's fascinating to hear music that you've written and collaborated on with friends evolve into a different thing entirely. Here was this formless idea floating around and with the bonus of time plus creativity it lives as something bigger than what you had planned.

NC

penningtron wrote: Sat Mar 14, 2026 8:44 am For me it’s a mix of being exhausted of working on it…

This little snippet here is I think a big reason I don’t enjoy revisiting my music. It’s really easy for me to hear something I recorded and want to mentally edit it. I have a hard time knowing when anything I’m doing is capital “D” Done; usually it takes someone else’s approval to let it out the door. But there’s always gonna be some part of me that wants to keep changing it and that’s not great for my headspace and can keep me from wanting to create at all.

The music by my kinda-serious band: I can't listen to it anymore because the vocalist turned out to be a really shitty friend and I can't stand to hear his voice anymore.

The rest of it: I'm proud of it and people seem to like it, but been there done that.

The only piece of music I consistently listen to: a 90 second cover/destruction of "Jailhouse Rock" which ends with 20 seconds of hysterical laughter.

I only make music for me. If other people like it, great, but I am my biggest fan. If that was narcissistic I would make everyone around me listen to it and insist they agree with me on how great it is. I like when people like it, but I don't expect it from anyone.

I do. With what I do I try to find all those musical sweet spots I want to hear but ignored by most. Even when doing pastiches. Probably why most ignore what I do.

I'm also inspired by demos and music snippets Ive recorded through the years but yet to actually turn into finished pieces.