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Song Names

Post by bassbum » Sat Jun 01, 2013 3:21 am

It's 4am and I have just finished a track. For some reason I can't for the life of decide on a name. I know I'm not going to be a be to leave it alone or go to bed until I have named and exported it.

How do you guys find/decide/create song names?

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Re: Song Names

Post by ThisIsSovereign » Sat Jun 01, 2013 3:30 am

I usually name my tracks based on what they sound like or what the mood of the track is. I use samples from movies or TV shows a lot though so the tracks usually name themselves in that case.

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Re: Song Names

Post by bassbum » Sat Jun 01, 2013 3:42 am

I normally do exactly that. The only samples in this one are "Ahhh"s and "ohhh"s. I just can't seem to decide.

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Re: Song Names

Post by ThisIsSovereign » Sat Jun 01, 2013 3:46 am

Well this is a pretty general suggestion but when you listen to the song what does it make you do? For example there is a song called Headtwiss by Kromestar and when I listen to that shit I'm definitely twisting my head. I know that's not very helpful but still. Try and feel the name of the song.

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Re: Song Names

Post by Flywheel » Sat Jun 01, 2013 3:49 am

Imagine a scenario during which your song might be played. Imagine a kind of person or thing your song might describe. How fast is it? How harsh is it? Does it have a major or minor key?

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Re: Song Names

Post by bassbum » Sat Jun 01, 2013 3:51 am

I have a name... I posted a facebook wall post and the first person to post a name got to name it. What strange is that I really feel the name fits.

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Post by ThisIsSovereign » Sat Jun 01, 2013 3:53 am

bassbum wrote:I have a name... I posted a facebook wall post and the first person to post a name got to name it. What strange is that I really feel the name fits.
Did they listen to the song at all or was it completely blind?

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Re: Song Names

Post by Crimsonghost » Sat Jun 01, 2013 4:11 am

I always thought people put way to much thought into song titles. Just go with the first thing that comes to mind. I usually just name mine after something in my house or something i like/dislike regardless if it has something to do with the song or not.
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Re: Song Names

Post by Gurnumsbug » Sat Jun 01, 2013 5:43 am

Usually go with 'feeling'..
Also questions and emotions you ask yourself during creation.
That's how I come up with names.

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Post by syrup » Sat Jun 01, 2013 8:04 am

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Re: Song Names

Post by bassbum » Sat Jun 01, 2013 8:48 am

ThisIsSovereign wrote:
bassbum wrote:I have a name... I posted a facebook wall post and the first person to post a name got to name it. What strange is that I really feel the name fits.
Did they listen to the song at all or was it completely blind?
LOL blind.

using a Thesaurus is a good idea.. never done that.

Yeah normally I have a name way before I finish but this time nothing I thought of seemed to fit.

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Post by wub » Sat Jun 01, 2013 9:09 am

Whatever I was doing that day or whatever I've got close to me that seems relevant at the time. Of the tunes in my Soundcloud page, Ice box was because I'd just setup my new studio and it was freezing cold in there compared to the rest of the apartment, Six Day Weekend was because I'd just come off a long weekend spent at my girlfriend's villa (one of the local beaches is also the artwork for this track), and Shirts Obscuring The Light was named because at the time my washing was hanging up to dry between my computer and the window, with my shirts blocking out the sun and giving the room a weird colored tinge.

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Re: Song Names

Post by rockonin » Sat Jun 01, 2013 12:27 pm

Have you tried using a random name generator, some of them will let you put in a word that you want to incorporate in the name.
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Post by Crimsonghost » Sat Jun 01, 2013 1:18 pm

wub wrote:Whatever I was doing that day or whatever I've got close to me that seems relevant at the time. Of the tunes in my Soundcloud page, Ice box was because I'd just setup my new studio and it was freezing cold in there compared to the rest of the apartment, Six Day Weekend was because I'd just come off a long weekend spent at my girlfriend's villa (one of the local beaches is also the artwork for this track), and Shirts Obscuring The Light was named because at the time my washing was hanging up to dry between my computer and the window, with my shirts blocking out the sun and giving the room a weird colored tinge.

See, Wub gets it. You can make anything sound interesting if you phrase it right.
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Re: Song Names

Post by ThisIsSovereign » Sat Jun 01, 2013 3:15 pm

bassbum wrote:
ThisIsSovereign wrote:
bassbum wrote:I have a name... I posted a facebook wall post and the first person to post a name got to name it. What strange is that I really feel the name fits.
Did they listen to the song at all or was it completely blind?
LOL blind.

using a Thesaurus is a good idea.. never done that.

Yeah normally I have a name way before I finish but this time nothing I thought of seemed to fit.
Haha that's amazing, that's one way to get a name I guess.

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Post by Augment » Sat Jun 01, 2013 3:46 pm

bassbum wrote:I normally do exactly that. The only samples in this one are "Ahhh"s and "ohhh"s. I just can't seem to decide.
name it aeoh. havent read the thread, so you may have a name already xD
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Re: Song Names

Post by Samuel_L_Damnson » Sat Jun 01, 2013 4:51 pm

I just call it what it sounds like basically or what was going on at said point or sometimes i just look around the room see something and name it that. Im working on a tune atm. That samples Is you is or is you aint my baby by louis jordan. So i called it "You aint my baby". Theres millions of ways really.
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