Back in 2021, during a blessed period of unemployment, I wrote the strange tale of amateur songwriter William Griffin, his love interest slash next-door neighbor Claire Javernick, and their pal Lorenzo, who is inexplicably a sentient triceratops. They spent their growing years in a nowhere-town that William can’t imagine ever leaving. Through this project of producing the songs contained in that story by exploiting the revolutionary AI service Udio, I had to rewrite plenty of songs or even ditch them altogether, but I felt that at the core was a poignant tale of a passionate if misguided young man too raw for this broken world.

In this volume of the four that will contain his story, the trio have left behind their tween years, and are now full-blown hormonal teenagers. Expect rage, rebellion, sexual urges, weird cravings, and a twist toward the end that will constitute the turning point of William’s story.

A 34-song, two hours-long wild ride of an album, one of my favorite creations. I know some of you have downloaded individual songs belonging to this album before (it appears in the stats), but I urge you to download the whole thing anyway, because I’ve tinkered with the sound levels, and fixed minor other stuff.

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. 2:

1. Plan for a Renegade
2. The Griffin Hum
3. Strings and Gunpowder
4. Prehistoric Punk
5. Crap
6. Cruisin’ While Horny
7. Lorenzo 2.0
8. Father God
9. William Gets Heart-Attacked
10. Cancer and Virgins
11. The Hair on Her Arms
12. To Old America
13. Supernova Snack
14. Marmalade Sun
15. Friends We Never Knew
16. Eyes Closed
17. Lorenzo, No
18. Philosophy of the Beast
19. Monster With a Hellmouth
20. Hold in There, Lorenzo
21. Don’t Wanna Be the One
22. The Same as It Is Now
23. Into Hell and Out Again
24. Afraid of His Dick
25. We Can Fly
26. Cretaceous Razor
27. Girl With a Limp
28. No Entiendo
29. God Fucked Us and Made a Mixtape
30. Love Thy Tyrannosaurus
31. When the Fence Is Gone
32. Hell Is This Way
33. Bitter Bites
34. The Devil Inside My Throat

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.

“Prehistoric Punk”

“The Hair on Her Arms”

“We Can Fly”

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”: