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Release of album Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 1 (v2)

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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”:

Song “Ponopodon Blues” from Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 1

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In case you don’t know, I recently released an album (of actual songs) named Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 1, based on the nowhere-town adventures of amateur songwriter William Griffin, his blind love interest Claire Javernick, and his best friend the sentient triceratops Lorenzo (no last name), back when they were 12-14 years old. You can download that album here.

I’m strengthening methodically the first volume for the rerelease (one of a few) by removing some songs, redoing one, and writing entirely new songs. The following song, one of the last in the album, renders the way William takes rejection.

Song “Tricera Troubadour” from Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 1

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In case you don’t know, I recently released an album (of actual songs) named Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 1, based on the nowhere-town adventures of amateur songwriter William Griffin, his blind love interest Claire Javernick, and his best friend the sentient triceratops Lorenzo (no last name), back when they were 12-14 years old. You can download that album here.

I’m strengthening methodically the first volume for the rerelease (one of a few) by removing some songs, redoing one, and writing entirely new songs. The following one, titled “Tricera Troubadour,” renders William’s and Lorenzo’s childhood antics before a girl came into the picture.

I’m burning through Udio‘s monthly output, so I may only have two or three songs more to create before I find myself helpless.

Song “I’m Cactus” from Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 1

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In case you don’t know, I recently released an album (of actual songs) named Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 1, based on the nowhere-town adventures of amateur songwriter William Griffin, his blind love interest Claire Javernick, and his best friend the sentient triceratops Lorenzo (no last name), back when they were 12-14 years old. You can download that album here.

The following song, that will be included in the next release of the first album, delves into young William’s private struggles.

Song “Tricera Girl” from Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 1

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In case you don’t know, I recently released an album (of actual songs) named Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 1, based on the nowhere-town adventures of amateur songwriter William Griffin, his blind love interest Claire Javernick, and his best friend the sentient triceratops Lorenzo (no last name), back when they were 12-14 years old. You can download that album here.

These last few days, I’ve been relistening to my AI-generated songs almost exclusively, in the album’s order (both the first and the unreleased second one). In the first album, I noticed myself skipping certain songs. No reason to include in an album songs that I’d want to skip over, so I’m considering redoing some songs and moving others to a B-sides album thingy. In addition, I’ve written a couple of new songs for the first album, that I will include in a future re-release (one of a few, I’m guessing).

Anyway, here’s the sole song I’ve managed to produce today, titled “Tricera Girl.” It renders William’s infatuation with his next-door neighbor shortly after meeting her. I think it came out very well.

Release of album Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 1

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If someone had told me in summer of 2021, when I started my bizarre story Odes to My Triceratops, that I would end up producing a fifteen songs-long album of studio-quality music out of its silly lyrics, I would have vomited out of happiness. I have become a jaded old man, I guess. Anyway, you can download the album right here:

Link to the compressed album

Please tell me if you have any trouble downloading it. It would be quite sad if I intended to make it available only to screw up the delivery.

Anyway, this album features the fifteen songs included in the first part of that story (out of three). It’s a sort of a concept album that follows the troubles, particularly romantic ones, of amateur songwriter William Griffin from the years twelve to fourteen or so, as he enjoyed his youth with his blind next-door neighbor Claire Javernick and his best friend, the sentient triceratops named Lorenzo (featured in the banner of this site). William isn’t all that bright, nor all that talented, but that won’t stop him from producing as many songs as humanly possible in the hopes of processing his turbulent feelings.

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

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

  1. Lorenzo
  2. Lemonade and Willies
  3. My Friendo Lorenzo
  4. Better Dead Than Blind
  5. Claire With a C
  6. Fairy Tale Too Real to Be
  7. I Am Your Stegosaur
  8. For Claire, Who Can’t Read
  9. Let Me Eat Your Stuff
  10. Part Goldfish
  11. No Magic Potion
  12. Wait About a Month for Love
  13. Helpless and Pure
  14. Please, Play With my Guitar
  15. The Burning Heart Inside Your Throat

Quite a few hits in this album. Check out the song “Fairy Tale Too Real to Be” right here, for your listening convenience:

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Magnificent AI music generator #6

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I hope you are enjoying my forays into Udio‘s AI services so it will generate songs according to my absurd specifications. You better have been enjoying them, because I’m about to clobber you with five new songs, a few of them excellent.

They are based on the song lyrics included in my bizarre free-verse narrative titled “Odes to My Triceratops.”

First one is a grunge track called “Lorenzo.” Possibly my favorite of the bunch.

Next up, a soothing traditional folk song titled “Lemonade and Willies.”

Now check out this lovely lullaby titled “My Friendo Lorenzo”.

Listen to this uplifting song about three friends having fun, titled “Claire With a C”:

Finally, an energetic garage rock song titled “Fairy Tale Too Real to Be.”

We’re Fucked: Playlist

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Midway through my ongoing novel, “We’re Fucked”, I started linking songs in the Author’s Note section that often comes after the chapter. I wanted to have a convenient list at hand of the songs I have already mentioned, so I created a YouTube playlist: here’s the link.

Nobody has actually mentioned anything about the songs I’ve linked, so I don’t know if anyone has even noticed them or listened, but in any case, the playlist contains the fifty-six songs mentioned so far, and I’ll keep adding new ones as I write the following chapters.

Guitar practice (06-12-2021)

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Today I could have either developed the scaffolding of the next scene of my ongoing novel, or I could have played the guitar. For now I’ve done the latter. Maybe a mistake, because the booster shot caused me some lung issue and after singing it’s gotten harder to breathe.

As usual, I uploaded to YouTube the whole session of me playing the guitar and singing poorly. The link is below.

Guitar practice (06-12-2021)

Guitar practice (28-11-2021)

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I hadn’t played the guitar since my current contract started. I could have either written today or played the guitar. Well, I can’t play the guitar at work, while with some luck I’ll progress on my latest novel tomorrow morning, turning the otherwise pointless Monday workday into something meaningful at least for me. Although there’s a good chance that the guy I’m covering will simply appear at the office, so I’ll have to turn around and go home. This is my life as a thirty-six-year-old guy who wishes he was either born as a giraffe or not at all.

Anyway, I uploaded the guitar playing session in two parts. I get into it quite a bit, and I sing poorly.

Guitar practice (28-11-2021), Pt. 1
Guitar practice (28-11-2021), Pt. 2