Live
Receiving feedback about my music is interesting. A few people have said 'I liked it better live'. Obviously the recording is better in our 'studio', and I have a recording of that gig and it sounded bad but they liked it better. Why? Because you can't possibily take it all in in one listen and you forget (or forgive) the bad parts more easily. The music melds into one single line of mush that is either good or bad? Maybe it's seeing it being done. Seeing music being made that improves it no end. You also have the interesting problem of people liking what they see first. They see a band live first and the song is done one way, and then they do it differently in the studio and the fans don't like it because it's different, not because it's bad or worse.
Hidden Meaning
I'm vague. I don't like talking about things that hurt me, but I want everyone to know. So I hint in my writings (most commonly email) by saying something that makes no sense to anyone but myself or 'those who understand'. Until the tide breaks I will remain like this, looking generally happy but randomly spouting the unexplained. When the tide breaks I let it all flow to anyone who'll listen and everyone who won't, and then wish I didn't.
Some of this tell-everything-but-say-nothing attitude is found in the lyrics of 'Right Again' (not the chorus which is just on the spot made up on the spot shite that happened to fit fairly well).
I have yet to learn to let the dam break first and avoid the vagueness. It's pointless and doesn't tell anyone anything, except myself.
Much like this post.