Sarah, I just saw this : "or quickly wrote a song of their own that they knew was crap..."
Come on!
I don't know anyone that has ever willingly recorded a song they knew was crap, except for an artist who knowingly records a mega-hit for commercial success.
Icehouse's Iva Davis hated his hugely successful "Electric Blue" which he wrote with Mr.Oates, from Hall and Oates.
See this is the problem. Most artists would call the mega-hit which sells all their records "crap" and call the "filler" which you're calling hastily written garbage, an inspired work of genius.
Robert Plant hated "Stairway to Heaven." Dave Dobbyn hated his mega hit "Slice of heaven" so much he wouldn't perform it at gigs - much to fans disappointment - and had his career go down the toilet.
Paul MacCartney wrote a hastily written song called "Yesterday". John Lennon derided Pauls higher selling songs as "Grandmothers music".
Jim Morrison hated the Doors biggest hits - which the guitarist Robby Krieger usually wrote - and poured his soul into the obscurer poetic songs of his own creation.
Filter have one song called "Take a Picture" which was huge, yet was totally different to the rest of their work, which undoubtably expresses their musical creativity way more that the simplistic, radio friendly, repetative "Take a picture" did. I haven't heard another single of theirs to date, yet that single sold albums for them. I've been influenced by the far more experimental songs on their record, I wouldn't have otherwise heard.
[ 04-20-2003, 10:42 PM: Message edited by: Yorick ]