bothgoners:

Both Goners // Summed Up

I’m in love with this song. I think we did a great job writing it. This song and Sepia are the only two songs I think I’ve been able to want to show people. Maybe because those two songs involved me more, but I also think just for the fact that they’re relevant to what’s popular; especially Summed Up.

I just love how Summed Up has the whole emo feel and the lyrics, while simple, express themselves pretty well. That’s always been my biggest problem with Both Goners lyrics up until that song; they’re either pretentious or too narrow for people aside from the writer to relate (the writer usually being Rory, who just wants people to listen and simply wonder, not relate). The songs that are a true collaboration between us are always the best. Summed Up, Sepia, Aaron’s Untitled (hopefully soon-to-be released), and Real Eyes are the only songs we’ve written that I’ve been at least 75% content with. The two newest are the ones I’m most content with, and I would even venture to say there’s almost nothing I would ever change about them.
When Rory comes to practice and says “here’s a song, I wrote everyone’s parts and the lyrics” I instantly know I’m not going to like it, whether it is actually good or not. Usually the songs that are written that way don’t turn out very well in the first place; i.e. “Lay Me At The Bottom Of A River” (the most pretentious song, and especially song title, I’ve ever been a part of) and whatever the name of the other song is.

Rory has always just written parts of songs, and thrown them together whether they belong together or not. If they’re in totally different keys, he won’t even bother to transpose the parts so that they fit together, he just writes a minute long transitional key change that completely takes away from the parts it’s combining.
When we write songs as a whole, we get songs like Summed Up and Sepia, which flow from part to part well because we wrote each part while we wrote other parts so they could easily come together and be easy on the listener. There are no time changes, no key changes, and each part transitions itself into the next part, unlike some of our other songs that are essentially one big transition into another big transition.


Back to what I really wanted to say.
I’m just really happy about certain things about music right now. Like the couple songs I enjoy and the fact that my first production sounded as good as it did. You would imagine that someone’s first production would be really low quality and the mix would be absolutely terrible. The audio itself was more or less industry standard and the mix was decent enough to release it and promote it.
It’s going to be awesome doing this for a living.