Interesting comments, scotmill, and welcome to JPF. smile

Personally, I think songs born entirely out of emotion tend to affect the songwriter more than the listener. The most emotionally effective song in the world will also be well-crafted. I trust my emotions to come through in a song, but I rely on mechanical songwriting skills like melody, arrangement, lyrics, dynamics, performance and chords to deliver those emotions to the listener.

Not disagreeing with you, just introducing another element to it.

-Mark