Another Form of Relief

I haven’t written in a couple of days as I’ve been trying to sort out a bunch of site related stuff, some things directly connected to this blog, others not so much. A few days ago I wrote that I was considering setting up a regular (ie. personal) blog like I used to write in the ‘good ol’ days’, but after playing about with that idea for a bit, I don’t have the time, nor the motivation to maintain two blogs at at time. Before anyone starts getting worried about a Nayblog occuring here, it’s the idea for the second blog that I scrapped, nothing to do with this one.

Regarding Another Form of Relief though, some changes have been occuring in what I’m trying to do with this blog. My initial attitude when posting was one of “copyright be damned”, and while I still have major issues with the way copyright law works, I’m slowly moving in the direction of making more and more of the content here entirely legal. When I first started this blog, I doubt even half of the songs I posted were freely available online, now I’d say it’s closer to three quarters. When bands only had one song available, I’d put up a couple more unauthorised ones. Of late, I haven’t bothered with that part, just relying on the available songs. As such, I’m also going to drop the Five for Friday thing that I’ve been doing. In part it was an attempt to talk about songs I genuinely have a love for, but if I’m honest, it was also an attempt to boost traffic numbers, and that’s the wrong attitude with this.

Does this mean that I’m going to become holier than thou, just posting things that are freely available? No, probably not. While that will work for the majority of posts, it doesn’t work for a few. I enjoy things like the covers posts, and as they are usually made up of non-album songs and the such, I have no real qualms in posting them. There are also times when I throw up a small collection of songs in relation to a particular event or day or something, and I think these are fun for any blog, so I’ve no real desire to stop doing that. I guess the overall attitude is that I’ll go with freely available songs when I can, but I’m not going to be 100% on that rule.

Finally, I still want to write about things that aren’t music even if I’m not writing a second blog, which means those things will go up here. Music will obviously still be the main drive on this blog, and will make up the majority of the posts, but whenever I feel like talking about something else, I’m going to. It’s my blog, and I’m free to do what I like with it. I may be alone in this, but I feel that variety adds more character to a blog anyway.

So the brief version for everyone asleep at the back: More legal songs, less dodgy ones, more non-music content.

I’ve had a lot of fun with this blogging thing over the years, and Another Form of Relief has by far been my most interesting venture. I’ve met a bunch of great people, have discovered some fantastic music, and it’s introduced me to an entire world of music writing that I never knew existed. It’s just time to do what I want with this thing, not what I think the reader wants.

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