Peregrine (and not of the took variety)
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In light of their new release last month, which i haven't fully committed to yet, I have been listening to some of my favorites of the past. This brings the track "Ceremony" back into full rotation. When this album came out in 2006, I was doing volunteer work in South Africa. I had been placed in the desert in the middle of nowhere for little over a year. A buddy of mine had sent a mini mp3 player filled with songs that he thought i might like.
During my time there, I was working in schools to help out with the new curriculum. This task involved walking to different school at an average of six or seven kilometers a day. On a particular day after receiving the player, I had hitched a ride to cut my walking distance down to four kilos. Walking in the middle of no-where at the end of the southern hemi summer, this song came on. Maybe a minute and a half in I had to stop and scan the playlist to find out who was the artist. Then I played the song over and over on my entire walk home. Every time I hear this song I am brought back to this moment and can almost feel the sand, the heat, and my enjoyment.
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Don't you love it when this happens? Often I'll listen to one dud after another, imagining all the work that went into each of them and for what? Just when I'm seriously wondering whether to subject myself to the rest out of stubborn curiosity, a gem reveals itself from behind the pessimistic expectations with which I've pre-judged it thanks to its predecessors, and my finger lifts itself from the fast-forward button. If the musicians didn't realize how inadequate their earlier tracks were, how could they notice how good this one is? Am I the only one in the world who knows?
i have always imagined that a band knows when they have written a good song, but never thought about if a band knows they wrote some crap.
Everyone likes to feel important. That causes someone to appreciate something they created themselves, and all the work they put into it, more than anyone else appreciates it. Plus, playing an instrument or singing is more fun than listening to someone else do it, other things (like the quality of the music) being equal. If people didn't overestimate their accomplishments, they wouldn't have the courage to do anything.
If a band's recording contract demands that they come up with a CD's worth of material by a certain date, they usually know not to just wait around until their muse comes up with so many masterpieces.