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Such as i re-arranged my dying brides song for my fallen angel, the instrumentals in that song go on way too long before singing happens again, and just for fun once i edited bathorys song one rode to asa bay, and made it an instrumental, as i didnt like his singing in it.    What you do with your own songs like others have said in this thread is your own business really, if it floats ur boat, do it lol.

 

Personally i think to do it to a prog rock/metal song kind of defeats the purpose of it all.  Its like for example if you concise the pink floyd song Time, you kill what its meant to be about.

It is fine if you can do that too, and truth be told, I also enjoy music that cuts up different pieces of existing music - paste it all together and swoosh: a brand new piece of music is born, ie The Prodigy. 

I just get a bad taste in my mouth, when we deliberately herald our fast modern times, where we are able to pick and choose within a time frame of minutes - what type of music to listen to, and then not really commit - jump straight over to another one - and then another. It diminishes the work - and erases the journey. I just think some(not you specifically) have lost the gift of real submersion, that's all I am saying really.

Sorry if this sounds like I was having a go at you in particular, but I am rather taking a swing against the itunes culture.

So you are not heretic for me, but it is not way for me personally.

If you play your CDs on PC (or some other intelligent device), you can easy temporarily to change sequence of short tracks into one neverending suite using some function in your player, in WinAmp for example crossfade with sfuffle for "just in time" self compose.  Yes, it is not creative - but very effective.

 

 

 

Well, i think you lost the point a little. Im not criticizing the digital format...If would be possible to edit in vynil i certainly would do it... And the general idea is not justto make the songs shorter, you dont got it: it has to do with the own prog failures, are not all progressive bands that are able to make a great composition last for 20 min. Some bands, which are in the "B league", so to speak, first try to make a long song, by presuming that's what progressive bands do. So all I do is take the excesses recognizing the great parties. 

So, I'm always able to hear a particular artist without torturing myself with parts that I got lazy. Of course this is based on purely personal taste, you may not agree with that would eliminate the songs, but it does not mean that it's insulting to the artist, is only for personal purposes, like I said, and yes it is a positive phenomenon in modernity: customization. If the King found that the composition of Mozart had many notes, he could edit it on his personal computer, without needing to ask the artist to change it in its conception. The result is an amazing myriad of endless possibilities and unimaginable, without any losses for nobody. I have spoken.