People say Haay Hope for the Dying....why you make so many loooong songs?? Well Ill tell ya. We honestly dont set out to make a song a certain length or have a minute mark in mind when we start writing. That said, we dont typically do much trimming away either, but we do like to think the parts and riffs that end up in our songs are critical to the integrity of the song and the musical and emotional concept that the song is trying to convey. That means songs that will regularly go up to and beyond 5 or 6 (or 10...or 12) minutes in length, and some people see that as a bit of a turn-off. Personally, I tend to come at it from the perspective that a long song either has a lot to say or maybe just wants to take its time in getting the point across. Think of it like a movie versus a book. Where a movie will tell a story over the course of a couple hours, the book may take a thousand pages to tell the same story. This longer, less restrictive format gives the artist freedom to use even more imagery and detail, and the same goes for making music. In the old days, it was pretty typical for a piece of music to last 45 minutes or more (even modern prog rock bands tend to venture into the half-hour territory for a track); it just takes a different kind of attitude to allow oneself to be immersed in an artists creation for that period of time. For HFTD, we dont feel the need to put a time limit on our songs; we just let them be what they turn out to be. Whether that means a song that is 3 minutes or 20 minutes, theres no specific formula for what makes a song complete in the Official HFTD Songwriting Handbook. So thats the long answer to why we have some long songs :)
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:17:13 +0000
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