VEP - No Offence

This song stems originally from July 1995. It is something I composed mainly to preserve the main idea (that is, the guitarriff), and then filed away. As mentioned in earlier posts, at this time, I was not really interested in pursuing songs that seemed to be too "pop-like", and for me back then, this one fell into that category. Upon joining VEP a few years later, however, I picked up some of these songs/sketches and worked them into something that could fit into the VEP-catalogue. This was also how No Offence came about.

Although being one of the first songs I presented to the band, and therefore one of those that we played the most, it never really gelled at rehearsals. It was something with the sudden change of pace when we went from verse to chorus that we never got right. Usually, the chorus just fell apart because we (and especially our poor unexperienced drummer) had a hard time adjusting from the mellow-paced verse to the more demanding and loud chorus. Furthermore, while the chorus has, and need, two guitarparts and me being able to play only one of them at a time made us miss a vital "voice" in the arrangement. Alas, in rehearsal, it was one of our more chaotic songs. I therefore think I speak for all of us when saying that we never thought this song had much potential.

After recording it, however, the song came into its own, and emerged as something that actually had real drive and energy to it. And, to our slight surprise, the verse and the chorus fit together nicely. All-in-all, I think it turned out to be one of the most extrovert songs of ours. And, it's not really that "pop" after all, is it?