Should songs that offend be banned?
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Alice Cooper
The 7 albums that most influenced my taste in music (Part 1)
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A Grunge Cut Up Technique case study – Something Awful Happens
It’s been almost a year since I first read about the Cut Up technique and how artists such as David Bowie and Kurt Cobain used it to create the lyrics […]
How to create a character to base a song around – part 1
In my last post I recommended re-using main protagonists from your lyrics in other songs. I talked about how artists such as Pink Floyd, Alice Cooper, and David Bowie have […]
Re-using characters in songs
I came to writing lyrics having first of all spent several years writing comedy sketches. In the world of comedy sketch writing it’s considered normal, indeed extremely desirable, to re-use […]