Yup. Got a brand new page for 2026! Where all my tunes go to die. Or not. Most I have to reconsider mixing again or changing the structure of the song. I salvaged these from my tune trash bin. Every musician has a secret folder with tunes that may never see the light of day. Hey, good title for a song, of which I’m sure there are plenty of. Although the question remains – since I am the person that wrote these, and at the moment have my finger on the permanent delete button, shouldn’t we (musicans) let the listener decide? Maybe a tune that makes me cringe or cry makes another listener happy and glad? Or maybe not. Still bundling these tunes for the copyright office as unpublished tunes just in case I rework them.
I get lots of criticism about my tunes sounding like they written in the 80’s and 90’s. And, well, they do. Because that’s the era I grew up in. So many of my tunes are dated. No apology there. It’s the way I write. When I finally go to the great studio in the sky (SITS) maybe this style will have a huge renaissance? Eh, maybe not.
So, hard decisions I know. So, I came up with a temporary solution. Based on an old tune I had written called “Fall in Love” which I found years ago in a windows 7 trashcan. After transferring the tune to a new DAW, and changing a few parts, I uploaded it here. Started to grow on me. I am still kinda ambiguous about it, but redid the tune again and released it to streaming. There’s that.
All for a tune I had trashed. Now it’s time to to give other tunes destined for the trash bin, a chance to survive in the world. Starting with 4 tunes now and any additional misfits that land here.