For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I tend to name albums after one of the songs.
For the most part, works of mine are untitled. There was a brief period where I had poetic titles for works, and they're embarrassing now. I think, for the most part, it's not something that I have talent for.
I don't ever use my name for anything in terms of getting the music heard.
When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?
Most people can't tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that can't be related to other forms of historical poetry.
I was in a band at school, and almost from the day we started, I started writing songs, just because that seemed what you did.
'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.
One day when I have a band I will have a band name, but since it's just me I feel it should just be my name. For me it doesn't make much sense since the music is from me and about me. I haven't ever been in a band.
I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.