On April 14th, I released my first album of AI-generated songs based on a peculiar story I wrote in 2021. It told the tale, primarily through song lyrics, of amateur songwriter William Griffin from his tween years to his untimely departure, as he experienced his youth in a nowhere town alongside his best friend Lorenzo, who’s a sentient triceratops, and his blind next-door neighbor slash love interest, Claire Javernick. William is obsessed with dinosaurs, is significantly unhinged, and lacks conventional talent, but compensates with passion. Witness his fumbling attempts at meaning, his mixed metaphors, and his contradictory statements, on this 22-song wild ride of an album.

Link to download the album

I wouldn’t have been able to produce these songs if it weren’t for the magnificent AI service Udio.

Songs contained in Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 1:

1. Lorenzo
2. Lemonade and Willies
3. Tricera Troubadour
4. Playground of the Prehistoric
5. Dinosaur Carnival
6. Claire
7. Tricera Girl
8. Better Dead Than Blind
9. I’m Cactus
10. Who Even Knows What Girls Like?
11. Claire With a C
12. Part Goldfish
13. Let Me Eat Your Stuff
14. Fairy Tale Too Real to Be
15. Eat Your Friends
16. I Am Your Stegosaur
17. Ceratopsy
18. Ponopodon Blues
19. No Magic Potion
20. Helpless and Pure
21. Please, Play with My Guitar
22. The Burning Heart Inside Your Throat

Changes from the first release:

• I removed the songs “For Claire, Who Can’t Read” and “Wait About a Month for Love,” as I found myself skipping them while listening to the album. I didn’t consider the lyrics good enough to rework them into better songs.
• I rewrote the song “My Friendo Lorenzo” and renamed it “Playground of the Prehistoric.”
• I added the songs “Tricera Troubadour,” “Dinosaur Carnival,” “Claire,” “Tricera Girl,” “I’m Cactus,” “Who Even Knows What Girls Like?,” “Eat Your Friends,” “Ceratopsy,” and “Ponopodon Blues.”
• I reordered the songs to improve the progression of events.
• I messed with the volume of some songs.

Perhaps I will rerelease this album in the future, but for now, I can’t figure out what new songs to write for it, and I’m already deep into volume two.

Here you can listen to some of the songs contained in this album, in case you think that AI-generated songs must sound like garbage.

“Tricera Girl”:

“I’m Cactus”:

“Ponopodon Blues”: