Blog: Two (2) New Songs

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As anyone what is following me on the socials will be aware, I have spent much of this year re-posting and commenting on some of my old blogs from the space year 2003. This has been a DELIGHT for me as I have been reminded of all sorts of LARKS, but it has also shown me that I have fallen behind in some of the Old Ways Of Blogging.

Primarily it has shown me that I used, long ago, to get all excited about having written a new song and dash to Blogger (for such it was back then) to tell people about it. I don't really do that anymore, in part because my songwriting has slowed down massively since then, but as I've written a couple of new songs this week I thought I would have a go at speaking about them.

The first of these is Time Wasters Need Not Apply which, as the accompanying song notes say, came as a result of REFLECTING on a) the lovely gig me and Chris did in Brighton and b) Alan Jenkins' amazing book How To Be In A Pop Group. Basically, I wanted to write another story song, and Alan's book reminded me of being in bands in Leicester in the early 90s, where you'd sometimes meet people who were always going to form AMAZING bands but never did. It is, I think, a bit of a WEEPY, and so I am looking forward to getting it out into the world and seeing if I'm right.

The second song is called Goodness Knows I've Been Good and is very much in the rich vein of Me Attempting And Failing To Do A Country And Western Song. I don't think this one is quite as likely to cause mass outpourings of EMOTIONS, but it is VERY catchy and I have been singing it around the flat all week!

I've know idea when or indeed IF these songs will get out into the live environment, let alone recorded, but it's lovely to have my brain working in this way again, and I have high hopes for MORE SONGS soon-ish! Also, this is a reminder to me in the futuristic year of 2047 to do some more too!

posted 4/9/2025 by MJ Hibbett

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