Beauty is Imperfection

(Originally posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 )

I have reposted the song “The Names” at ER Salo Deguierre’s page. The lyrics are included there, if you are interested. I thought I’d mention it because people who don’t like my music sometimes like this one. It’s a bit more somber and less, um, crackly.

I should mention that, like everything else I produce, this song sounds better in headphones, maybe because that’s where I master it. I know that this is a bit of a cop-out, but it will probably be this way with most of the music unless I were to pay for a professional producer and engineer.

Here’s a list of other things that sound better in headphones:

–*Sonic Youth

–*The Firebird by Stravinsky

–*Montagues and Capulets from Suite II of Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev

–*The private conversations of Martin Luther King as recorded by the FBI

–*Any surreptitious surveillance of two cheating lovers in the park

–*”Stairway to Heaven”

–*”May This Be Love” by Jimi Hendrix (so that you can hear the cool drum and bass audio panning back and forth from left to right)

–*”Such Great Heights” by The Postal Service (so you can hear the panning beeps at the beginning)

–*The instructions from Karl Rove

–*Any Kid Rock song, only the song itself should be coming from outside while the headphones nicely protect you from hearing any of it