Do you listen to your own songs?

[Hangin' From A Cloud]

That is when you are not working on them.
Or have you heard them enough for a lifetime when making it?

I know I do sometimes. But then I always notice some small error and I have the urge to go and correct it immediately. That's the downside if it, can't really enjoy it without being very critical about it.

[TheAnonymousColt]

Yeah, I listen to my songs all the time when I'm driving down the road, it lets me compare it to "professional" work and such, especially since i'm very nit-picky when it comes to perfecting my song.

[ThatRobChap]

I do this a lot, mainly to see what's wrong with it that I can work on in the next song.

[colortwelve]

I listen to my own stuff all the time, and I have no idea why. Ostensibly, I suppose, it's because I want to listen for my own errors, but I listen to them so much that even the errors become an inextricable part of the music to me... I think I have a problem

[Anforium]

I think it's stupid to make music you don't enjoy yourself.. so yeah.

[Thyrai]

Yup! I do it to find mistakes I made and to compare it to commercial volume/mixing

[SpyPie]

Sometimes :I

[MorteMcAdaver]

I'm pretty proud of my work, so I do listen to it occasionally. When I'm working on something, I usually overplay it and hammer it into my head, obsessing over errors and such and planning on how to fix them. Once an album is done and my obsessive period is over, I usually just let others enjoy it, hear the feedback, and take a good few months off from listening to my own material.

[Magnitude Zero]

I listen to the songs I'm proud of, and avoid the ones I'm not like the plague.

[SoaringFlight]

Not really. If it was really good, then maybe, but since im kinda picky at songs, that wont happen.

[Captain Ironhelm]

If I want to see how I've improved, I do.

[soup2504]

I usually do, yes.

[5COPY]

No I hate everything I make ever and I will forever.

[MorteMcAdaver]

No I hate everything I make ever and I will forever.

[meletric]

It depends on how recently I made it. Once I've finished something I immediately go into self loathing mode, but usually after 4 months or so I can listen to it again. I still pick out things I should've done differently, but the initial anxiety of "Should I have even bothered making this?" has passed at that point.

[Makkon]

I do often, and then I listen to other music and try to understand how they got a certain sound.

This may be egotistical, but I find my own music very soothing and it helps me to think.

[icedog25]

Just by coincidence, I'm listening to one of my songs right now. Not because I'm looking at it critically, just because I like how it sounds.

[5COPY]

No I hate everything I make ever and I will forever.

Moo u

[Ed Viper]

I don't listen to my stuff because I really don't like my music. I just think I suck

[K3WRO]

All the time, I usually notice how many mistakes I made.

[Freewave]

Yep all the time although as people said it's easy to see flaws and things you could have done better.

[CommandSpry]

Oh hell no

[Counterwise]

I find it extremely difficult to listen to one of my songs right after I finish creating it. Usually a couple weeks later I give the song a listen and see my mistakes

[Applejinx]

...somebody has to!

[Friv]

It depends on how recently I made it. Once I've finished something I immediately go into self loathing mode, but usually after 4 months or so I can listen to it again. I still pick out things I should've done differently, but the initial anxiety of "Should I have even bothered making this?" has passed at that point.

Heh. I do almost the exact opposite. I'm really happy and semi-proud about a new song that I've made, and then a week later I realize that the song sucks like shit and never listen to it again.