This will be a short one…

Most of the time for today’s email was taken up putting together the page that I am about to give you a link to:

Basically, we are interested in some feedback from you, the insiders.

We’ve been working in the studio for months (years?) now, and we have had some pretty strong disagreements on the quality (or lack thereof) of some of the songs we are working on.

The disagreements are usually between Mick and I, as when it comes to creative judgements, Simon tends to be pretty agreeable. But in this instance even Naomi is taking Mick’s side.

The two biggest points of contention are, somewhat ironically, regarding songs that I have written, but that I no longer care for very much.

I mean, I know that at some point I liked both songs, as otherwise they never would have seen the light of day. But for some reason, I just don’t find them to be very strong songs anymore, and have considered cutting them from the album that we are currently in the process of making.

There has been some suggestion that I should be taking this all up with a therapist, because it does just so happen that the two songs I have lost interest in are two of the most intense divorce-related songs. I admit, there may possibly be some truth in this. I do find that things are so much more happy and life-giving compared to that period of life, and I feel a certain urge to move on and leave the intensities of that time behind.

But it has also been suggested that documenting that time and all that came out of it is the very purpose of what we intend to do with this album – and I don’t disagree.

So we are putting the songs in front of our people. Are these songs tired and not worth working on anymore? Or is my disdain for them influenced by issues that go beyond simple creative judgements, and, as Mick and Naomi contend, these songs need to be included?

Click that link and have your say….