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This was as blog some years ago. Like so many blogs it got abandoned. Now I’ve discovered an obsession worthy of reviving it. So, welcome to the new and improved Chaos Central.
The home of Songs by Daniel Weinstein
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Too Many Words
Below, in reverse chronological order, are some of my most recent blog posts. Many of them are quite old, but as I write some new ones. If I write them. You never know.
Too Many Words
Daniel Weinstein · Too Many Words · · I had the idea of writing a song that actually didn't have a lot of words. Too Many Words seemed like a good title. It was going to be simple. It was not going to be wordy or too long. But then I found myself scribbling...
Appreciation
Daniel Weinstein · Appreciation When people ask me if I write the lyrics first or the music I will answer "yes", but 'yes' doesn't really tell the story. Sometimes I write some lyrics and then find some chord progressions and work out a melody. Other times I've got a...
Perfect is the Enemy
Daniel Weinstein · Perfect Is The Enemy The phrase "perfect is the enemy of good" is an aphorism commonly attributed to Voltaire in 1770, but even he was apparently quoting an Italian proverb that had been around for a while. It seemed to me to be a good idea for a...
Freely Flowing
Daniel Weinstein · Freely Flowing This is the song referenced in "Blue Book", the story song I released a few days ago. I found the lyrics in a fifty year old travel journal. I tried to find Patrick Dietsch, the composer of the original song, but I was too late. He...
Collaborator
Daniel Weinstein · Collaborator I'm not a performer, a singer, a musician, an arranger, a producer. I'm just not. I do what I can but I dream about what it might be like to work with someone who could do the things I can't do, which is quite a lot. Wouldn't it be...
Mad Hatter
Daniel Weinstein · Mad Hatter The picture attached to this track is from my 1972 passport. I was heading towards South America via Mexico and other parts of Central America. I knew that certain hairstyles were frowned upon at various borders. Rather than doing...
Annette
Daniel Weinstein · Annette When a line of a melody occurs to me I try to record and save it on my phone to be considered later. Sometime the melody is already attached to some words but often it occurs to me without any context. When that happens I try to fit some...
Twenty-two
Daniel Weinstein · Twenty-Two This song began as an anniversary present to my wife, Eve. I started it on the day of our 22nd anniversary and finished it by our next anniversary. We've recently celebrated our 32nd anniversary. When i perform this song it often follows...
November Day
Daniel Weinstein · November Day I wrote this song in early 2017 while Eve and I were travelling around Australia with our camper trailer. It was intentionally ambiguous because I figured that its real subject would cease to be relevant after a while. I wish I'd been...
Immortality
Daniel Weinstein · Immortality This song occurred to me on a morning in Byron Bay when I was going to a friend's 70th birthday in the evening. I didn't know how that particular friend was going to take the reality of a number that big. It's a "no shit" number. It's a...