Originally Posted by: Jolly McJollysonI disagree, a hook is pretty necessary. Without a melody people can remember, the song is pretty worthless. I mean, we're not writing tone poems.

eh, i beg to differ that a song could go on without repeating a hook(a melody has to be repeated to be the hook, right?). if you just mean a melodic presence, then yeah, that's needed sometimes. you don't have to necessarily have a repeating of a melody, though.