Is it narcissistic to listen to your own music?

I was thinking to myself, sometimes I like to listen to my own tracks often after I´ve finished them, just listen on my own, just to remind myself of how nice they sound, because even though you cannot ever really be completely satisfied with your own work, there is always something you must be proud of, right?

Just wondering if anyone else does this or if it´s just me being weird..

No, and it kicks ass when you're really digging it. One of my favorite feelings. Inhale dem farts deep!!!

Not weird at all. Why produce something that you wouldn't enjoy listening to yourself?

:p

  On 3/29/2012 at 10:03 PM, Hermann said:

I was thinking to myself, sometimes I like to listen to my own tracks often after I´ve finished them, just listen on my own, just to remind myself of how nice they sound, because even though you cannot ever really be completely satisfied with your own work, there is always something you must be proud of, right?

Just wondering if anyone else does this or if it´s just me being weird..

  On 3/29/2012 at 10:06 PM, StephenG said:

Not weird at all. Why produce something that you wouldn't enjoy listening to yourself?

 

:p

This pretty much sums it up.

I do know what you know though. Sometimes I listen to them with the purpose of finding things to improve. Other times I merely listen to them, think about how awesome they are and feel amazing for a moment. A rare feeling for me though.

It would be more weird if you didn't listen to your own stuff all the time. the fact that you want to listen to it means that you made some good stuff

My own music is probably my favourite music. Of course I don't mean it's objectively the best out of everything I've ever heard, but naturally it exactly fits the specifics of the sort of things I wanna hear (at least for a while after I make it).

I add them into itunes then I think of a cover artwork and take them with me.

  On 3/29/2012 at 10:21 PM, Cryptowen said:

My own music is probably my favourite music.

I can kind of recall Aphex Twin saying something like that ;)

If it's wrong I don't wanna be right

according to fashionable opinion it's narcissistic to be a white man

don't worry about the manipulations that are going on in world culture in order to bring about a twisted revolution

embrace the kaiser and god

listen to your own music

fuck idm (fake genre)

I listen to my own stuff more than anything else but only things I'm working on or recently completed. Its a vital part of the process and if you listen to something enough times you will begin to like it and then its easy to convince yourself that you're not a totally useless cunt.

My feeling has always been, if you don't like listening to your own music, why should I listen to it?

The exception being musicians who record a few tracks a year and spend months of studio time on each one - then I can see being sick of the tracks. For instance Scott Walker would spend ages and ages on each song, and then listen to the finished product once or twice and then never listen to it again.

making something i'll want to listen to is 95% of the reason i make music.

i'm pretty bad at sharing music, but i'll keep working on tracks every day of my life even if nobody else hears them. it's what makes me happy, and stepping back and listening to what i've made is the ultimate culmination of that happiness.

hope this gets not too offtopic and is not too egocentric.

I am convinced that I have good taste for music, I know if somethings good, I don't need anyone to tell me if somethings good or not, if its ok to listen to it or not.

But judging my own stuff is hard for me. Its something like being in love.

If I have a fresh tune, I listen to it often. I love it, but the more I listen to it, the uglier it gets.I begin to see the imperfections, the mistakes.

In the end its all shit. Also I don't get much feedback if I post a tune from time to time so I assume I suck (as the conformist I am), but by the end of the day it doesn't matter. I couldn't stop making tunes.

I love it, I love to listen to my shit, but it brings me down often enough, the euphoria I get is not for free.

but yeah its ok to listen to your own shit

How do you expect to impress anyone, if you cant impress yourself?

  On 3/29/2012 at 11:01 PM, The Face Culler said:

The exception being musicians who record a few tracks a year and spend months of studio time on each one - then I can see being sick of the tracks.

Yeah this happens to me sometimes when I spend ages on a song getting all the bits just so, & by the end of it I've got the thing so engrained in my mind I've pretty much memorized every LFO sweep & delay fade throughout & listening to it again doesn't bring any fresh satisfaction.

Of course this wears off if I leave it sitting long enough so it's no longer so fresh in my head.

I love listening to the music I make, just like I love playing an instrument by myself.

A healthy amount of narcissism is awesome.

Probably 95% of my listening ot music is my own tracks lol.

  On 3/30/2012 at 12:18 AM, schlucharski said:

hope this gets not too offtopic and is not too egocentric.

I am convinced that I have good taste for music, I know if somethings good, I don't need anyone to tell me if somethings good or not, if its ok to listen to it or not.

But judging my own stuff is hard for me. Its something like being in love.

If I have a fresh tune, I listen to it often. I love it, but the more I listen to it, the uglier it gets.I begin to see the imperfections, the mistakes.

In the end its all shit. Also I don't get much feedback if I post a tune from time to time so I assume I suck (as the conformist I am), but by the end of the day it doesn't matter. I couldn't stop making tunes.

I love it, I love to listen to my shit, but it brings me down often enough, the euphoria I get is not for free.

but yeah its ok to listen to your own shit

this

  On 3/29/2012 at 11:01 PM, The Face Culler said:

My feeling has always been, if you don't like listening to your own music, why should I listen to it?

 

The exception being musicians who record a few tracks a year and spend months of studio time on each one - then I can see being sick of the tracks. For instance Scott Walker would spend ages and ages on each song, and then listen to the finished product once or twice and then never listen to it again.

bit of a challenge though, because if you spent months and months on something and genuinely STILL loved it in yourself and knew that it'd age well then that's the standard

only put releases out that you're really proud of and bore very little from (keeps it strictly quality).

Kenny Larkin says it's okay.

I listen to my own music more than anything else. That's why I made it, cause it's awesome and needs to be listened to.

I love listening to my music, even though I know it's shite. In fact, the music I make isn't even much like the music I listen to, and I know I'd hate it if I hadn't made it. My songs are like children to me; it doesn't matter if they're fucked up, narcissistic bastards, I still love them.