is it hard for you to title tracks/releases?

how do you come up with your titles?

the title should be the least of your worries

i like to approach music holistically

i don't think about what it's called until after the rough draft of the track is finished. naming the track is easy usually.

Made a huge post about this in the other thread like this.

In short, use made up words that are pronouncable, and sound plausible.

Also something that could be pronounced several different ways.

A couple of my recent track names : (yeah they aren't great)

Good Downders (yes, DownDers)

Yogourt Monday

Sidesnap

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  thehauntingsoul said:

In short, use made up words that are pronouncable, and sound plausible.

 

Also something that could be pronounced several different ways.

oh there are RULES for being pathetically imitative of RDJ/Autechre now?

seriously dude. shame - got any?

i find it quite hard to come up with track/release titles sometimes. i usually just use a play on words (eg. reals and dreamity, back to square wave one, easy glistening) or something cryptic to do with my thoughts that i don't want anyone to know, heh.

a lot of professionals will outsource this step and hire a poet, much like most hire a mastering engineer. typically poets are uncredited and prefer to hide their name in anagrams.

They need to meet password reliability tests and obscure at least one obvious word by misspelling.

I usually look at horse races and steal the horses names

I mean look at this:

http://www.horses-and-horse-information.co...senames/a.shtml

can't go wrong

  thehauntingsoul said:

Made a huge post about this in the other thread like this.

 

In short, use made up words that are pronouncable, and sound plausible.

 

Also something that could be pronounced several different ways.

 

A couple of my recent track names : (yeah they aren't great)

 

Good Downders (yes, DownDers)

 

Yogourt Monday

 

Sidesnap

 

 

 

...

oh jesus lol

its a pretty poor do when people need their hand holding through the track naming as well as the production part of making music

maybe you'd like us to come round your house and pick out your clothes for the day too?

i use a bag of letters from Scrabble but with the addition of three extra z's

  beariksson said:

I usually look at horse races and steal the horses names

 

I mean look at this:

http://www.horses-and-horse-information.co...senames/a.shtml

can't go wrong

hi tom

so that's how you titled abacus 2

exactly

I'm gonna wank of my bass guitar now. bbl

race horses are pretty good actually.

  emef said:

its a pretty poor do when people need their hand holding through the track naming as well as the production part of making music

 

maybe you'd like us to come round your house and pick out your clothes for the day too?

is this directed at me? i didn't ask anyone to hold my hand through either track naming or production

I don't have any problem naming tracks really.

I've never bothered with it since it's not particularly important to me and only 10-20 people end up listening to my tracks anyways.

  mr X cue ZZZZ me miss what's yo name?!?!!? said:

...and only 10-20 people end up listening to my tracks anyways.

awwwwwwwwww

i named them how they made me feel, which perhaps didn't work as well if i would have named them all code like like ae and afx

The naming is always the worst part for me. I'd love to just attach no inherent imagery to it through an album cover or song title, but it makes indexing the music a nightmare.

sometimes i make up the song title first, then compose the music to sound like the title.

Example:

Aphid Herder

Tap-Dancing Raindrops

Track titles generally aren't very important, but I think album/EP titles need to be pretty descriptive. I try to come up with a clever phrase or make up a word that sounds real, but isn't [ie. Synesthesiac: http://www.discogs.com/William-S-Braintree.../release/627507].

Or use text in more abstract ways.

  sneaksta303 said:

Tap-Dancing Raindrops

wow you're cool