Rainhat – the band

Recycling and blog lists

I’ve been recycling music today.

I keep all the songs I write, even if I don’t like them. It’s very easy to get a bit blinded when you’re that into the process, so you might like something that actually isn’t very good, or hate something that others might love. So I save every song that I reject, forget about it for a few months and then take a second look at it to see if my first impression was right. In most cases it was. There’s a lot of junk. But in some of the crappy songs there are some half decent ideas, so I pick up those ideas and rewrite the rest of the song around them. I rewrote one song like that today, and I’m quite happy with how it turned out. Way better than the original version. I think I’m going to record it.

I thought some more about how to get people to see my website and hear my music. I found a Swedish blog top list, and figured it might be worth a try, so I signed up. Let’s see if that brings any more traffic to this blog. The list counts how many hits a blog gets every week and lists the ones that had the most during that week. There’s an English version of the top list as well, but it has way more blogs listed, so mine would drown in the ocean of blogs more easily and get ignored. Besides, if I’m going to build an audience and draw people to come see me live, I guess it makes more sense to start locally anyway.