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I'm not sure where else to post this... It's too self-indulgent for Taste My Kids or any other related web-log thing..
I became kind of disappointed after completing this list. I decided to post the titles of every song I've ever written in my life, and I was expecting the number to surpass 100, but it didn't. Some liberties were taken here as well...
I didn't include anything written prior to my first high school rock band. When I was 10 or 11, I wrote a 2-minute song that might have been called "My Christmas Wish" which won some type of award for my school's "Reflections" submission.
I didn't include anything from Lowt Ide, despite that songs like "Bring God Back to America" or "Performance Alert" were written by me as fully realized completed songs with intros, outros, verses, choruses, bridge sections, etc.
And I didn't include anything from GLU, which were mostly just experiments on Sound Recorder, even though a collaborative project like "Mister Gerbik" could easily be considered a fully realized song.
However, I thought it would be ok to include my lengthy experimental recordings, such as "Summer College" (a collage inspired by "Revolution 9" that I recorded in high school, which underwent several different edits, originally starting at 19 minutes long and eventually getting whittled down to 8 minutes) or "Good Suffering" (a 12-minute 4-track experiment that I'm actually very proud of, which has since appeared on "Trumbull Scene: The Big Hits" and as a bonus track on Dead Wives' "Hellrazor," with a 3-minute edit appearing on Dead Wives' "Demon Priest" demo and Speedy Ortiz's January 2013 tour CDR).
If I'm remembering correctly, "See You On The Other Side" was the only original song I both wrote and sang for No Exit, which was performed once in front of 100 people in Jaunary 1996 at the Monroe Teen Center and then never played again because everyone hated it.
"New Song Cry" is the only Hoveral song where I would feel comfortable claiming any credit. I also included "User Friendly" and the Interface song "No Vision" because I think the drums in both of those were kind of the base of their structure. Everything else in Hoveral was like 95% Luke and Adam. I pretty much wrote nothing in Bernie, or G-Spot.
"Cancer Kids" was the first completed song for Lip Keebler / Dead Wives / Hellrazor. (The lyrics allude to the Michael Jackson trial, and I somewhat regret its ugly title.) There were probably some other completed songs from around 2004-2005 but I'm having trouble finding any record of their existence. (I'll have to go through some tapes at some point.)
A recent song called "Fill You Up" was contributed for the Dream Husbands album. "Slack" and "Hydro" were submitted for Speedy Ortiz and rejected.
I guess I'm disappointed because I thought I was more prolific than this. I was disappointed with the stuff I wrote in 2011 for a demo that I put a lot of effort into. It was called "The Crack Game," and it came out around the same time one of my friends posted a similar batch of home-recordings that ended up receiving way more attention and sorta made me feel as though I was no longer good at writing. Within the next few weeks I'm planning on trying really hard to surpass 100 songs. I hope something good comes out of it.
1995
1. See You On The Other Side (No Exit)
1996-1997
2. Webster Will Be Back In a Moment
3. Summer College
4. Rock Part 1
1998
5. No Vision (Interface)
2000
6. Rock Part 2
2001
7. Theme from Afro Beach
8. New Song Cry (Hoveral)
9. User Friendly (Hoveral)
2004
10. Bring God Back To America (Lowt Ide)
11. Cancer Kids
12. Girlfriend/Goodfriend
2005
13. Young Sun
14. Bloodflow
15. Hip Hop Car
16. [It’s Never Ripe]
2006
17. Crash Landing
18. Mild
19. Wildfire
20. Covered In Shit
21. Yawn
22. Lofi Daze
23. Chloroform (Wrapped In Plastic) / [Tell Me What You Want]
24. Eye Presser
25. Down 9
26. Girl Cursive
2007
27. Witch Trials
28. Ain’t My Kid
29. Summer of Luv
30. Static
31. Shut the Fuck Up
32. Now & Laters
33. Don’t Wait Up
34. Railroads
35. The Raptor
36. Scuz Bucket
37. Crab
38. Pocketz
39. Ibuprofen
40. Chloroform / Another Conversation
41. "The Sun Shines Through"
2008
42. Edicuis Sick (Cemetary Picnics)
43. Follow The Chain
44. Camera
45. Recycled 1
46. Recycled 2
47. Recycled 3
48. Hail Storm
49. Move In (VHS)
50. Null (Zilch)
2009
51. Capitol Hill
52. Vegas
53. Horrified
54. Yard
55. Ammo
56. Good Suffering
2010
57. Action Park
58. Allergic
59. Pharmacist
60. Fill You Up (Discovery) (Dream Husbands)
61. Don’t Stop Bleeding
62. Partisan (Wut)
63. Bitch We Deep
64. Slack / Slop (Speedy submission) (Jobber)
65. Performance Alert (Lowt Ide)
2011
66. The Vomit Inside
67. Get At Dat Money Tho
68. Spider
69. Pinhead
70. Jello Stars
71. Slouch
72. Barberea
73. Ice Climbers
74. Mavis
75. Raise Your Rifle
76. Hydro (Speedy submission) / Just Wanna Impress You
77. [Cool Things]
78. [Water Mill]
2012
79. Away from View
80. Menthol
81. Cop Car Graffiti
*82. A Cool Mill (Win For Life)
83. [Three Ideas thing]
84. Badger
85. Angry Hive
86. Mason
87. Honeycrunch
88. [Cure Merch]
2013
*89. Big Tick
*90. Beekeeper
*91. Angry Swarm (78rpm)
*92. Incinerator
*93. Deity
*94. Sputnik 6
95. Blowin' Up My Wall (Speedy tour comp bonus track, written with Matt Robidoux)
2014
*96. [Right Outside the Room] / [Overdue] / Track 4
*97. [Make My Mind Up]
*98. [Blankets and Sheets]
*99. [Prices Will Increase]
*100. Sometimes Dead Is Better / [Turn Me On Dead Man]
2015
*101. Hale Bopp
*102. Ants vs. Dragons
*103. Sad Satan
*104. Nova
*105. Jargon Scott
*106. Ouija Bot
*107. My Three Shirts
*108. [This Is Called]
*109. [That's What's Up]
2016
110. [B148]
111. Landscaper
112. Drill
113. Push Me Back Into The Doorway / Push
114. Break / Sense of Certainty
2017
115. No Brainer (Muddy Winter)
116. Alimony (Midnight Hour Drive)
117. Violent Confrontation
118. Plan 9 (Rue The Night)
119. Page Six
120. Baptism / Mars Attacks
121. [nada surf thing] / Hi-Lo
122. Globbed
123. Party Slasher
124. Party Slasher rock version
125. Heart Bus
126. Sweet Sweet Kush (Overdrive)
127. Slippity Slappity Doo
128. Uncle Fuck 4
2018
129. Uncle Fuck 5
130. Glitter Guilt
131. Big Bees / Big Buzz
132. Ugly Machine
133. Mars Attacks / OG
2019
134. Punch / Punchy
135. Skate The Mall / Get Fucked
136. Scuz Bucket 2019
2020
137. Stainmaster
138. Trip Heavy
139. Come Back Billy
140. Certificate
141. Why Don't You Like Me
142. I Swear To God
143. 666
144. Baptism / OG
145. Heavy Doobies Jam (Jobber)
146. Holy Ghost (23 Months In The Trap)
147. 7-11
148. Sounds like the words are "Dolemite?"
149. Out Of The Blue (Subvert Normality)
EDIT: An asterisk denotes titles that have been re-titled or added since the initial post. (Note: I got tired of doing this part.)
EDIT: Still short of 100 songs as of 4/9/15. :(
EDIT: Okay, now there's 100 as of 1/22/16, but I dunno if My Three Shirts or Prices Will Increase should count because they aren't finished and don't have words.
EDIT: Okay, I'm def well past 100 as of 3/12/2017. Hellrazor II coming soon.
EDIT: Added more on 11/3/2018.
Counted 93 real actual complete demoed songs so that means I'm not counting 26 of these.
EDIT: Added more on 7/23/2020. I'm also went back and added "Performance Alert" and "Bring God Back To America." This time I counted about 112 complete actual songs. It sucks that it took one month short of seven years to get to that point.
I also went through some tapes and accidentally found a couple CDRs with stuff that I had totally forgotten, and some of these should probably count them as completed songs.
- 2009: Untitled grungey power-pop song with no vocal take. I did not include it in this list. (Found on a late 2009 early 2010 unmixed demo tape with "Allergic" "Pharmacist" "Recycled 3" & "Fill You Up.")
- Late 2011: "Water" and "Cool Things." (From a CDR recorded late 2011 with "Raise Your Rifle," "Slop Demop" and a couple instrumentals)
- 2012: "Cure Merch." (There were a few other songs on this tape that I forgot about.)
- 2015: "This Is Called."
- Early 2016: "Sense of Certainty." (I think this was the 3rd song written around the time of "Jargon Scott" and "Nova.")
Also this officially feels like I should just start a spreadsheet.
Also I have lost my motivation for songwriting, which is evident in the low numbers from the past three years. New Hellrazor should be done soon but I don't think there will be much more after that. Maybe an EP or two so that we can wrap up the incomplete ones here.
I became kind of disappointed after completing this list. I decided to post the titles of every song I've ever written in my life, and I was expecting the number to surpass 100, but it didn't. Some liberties were taken here as well...
I didn't include anything written prior to my first high school rock band. When I was 10 or 11, I wrote a 2-minute song that might have been called "My Christmas Wish" which won some type of award for my school's "Reflections" submission.
I didn't include anything from Lowt Ide, despite that songs like "Bring God Back to America" or "Performance Alert" were written by me as fully realized completed songs with intros, outros, verses, choruses, bridge sections, etc.
And I didn't include anything from GLU, which were mostly just experiments on Sound Recorder, even though a collaborative project like "Mister Gerbik" could easily be considered a fully realized song.
However, I thought it would be ok to include my lengthy experimental recordings, such as "Summer College" (a collage inspired by "Revolution 9" that I recorded in high school, which underwent several different edits, originally starting at 19 minutes long and eventually getting whittled down to 8 minutes) or "Good Suffering" (a 12-minute 4-track experiment that I'm actually very proud of, which has since appeared on "Trumbull Scene: The Big Hits" and as a bonus track on Dead Wives' "Hellrazor," with a 3-minute edit appearing on Dead Wives' "Demon Priest" demo and Speedy Ortiz's January 2013 tour CDR).
If I'm remembering correctly, "See You On The Other Side" was the only original song I both wrote and sang for No Exit, which was performed once in front of 100 people in Jaunary 1996 at the Monroe Teen Center and then never played again because everyone hated it.
"New Song Cry" is the only Hoveral song where I would feel comfortable claiming any credit. I also included "User Friendly" and the Interface song "No Vision" because I think the drums in both of those were kind of the base of their structure. Everything else in Hoveral was like 95% Luke and Adam. I pretty much wrote nothing in Bernie, or G-Spot.
"Cancer Kids" was the first completed song for Lip Keebler / Dead Wives / Hellrazor. (The lyrics allude to the Michael Jackson trial, and I somewhat regret its ugly title.) There were probably some other completed songs from around 2004-2005 but I'm having trouble finding any record of their existence. (I'll have to go through some tapes at some point.)
A recent song called "Fill You Up" was contributed for the Dream Husbands album. "Slack" and "Hydro" were submitted for Speedy Ortiz and rejected.
I guess I'm disappointed because I thought I was more prolific than this. I was disappointed with the stuff I wrote in 2011 for a demo that I put a lot of effort into. It was called "The Crack Game," and it came out around the same time one of my friends posted a similar batch of home-recordings that ended up receiving way more attention and sorta made me feel as though I was no longer good at writing. Within the next few weeks I'm planning on trying really hard to surpass 100 songs. I hope something good comes out of it.
1995
1. See You On The Other Side (No Exit)
1996-1997
2. Webster Will Be Back In a Moment
3. Summer College
4. Rock Part 1
1998
5. No Vision (Interface)
2000
6. Rock Part 2
2001
7. Theme from Afro Beach
8. New Song Cry (Hoveral)
9. User Friendly (Hoveral)
2004
10. Bring God Back To America (Lowt Ide)
11. Cancer Kids
12. Girlfriend/Goodfriend
2005
13. Young Sun
14. Bloodflow
15. Hip Hop Car
16. [It’s Never Ripe]
2006
17. Crash Landing
18. Mild
19. Wildfire
20. Covered In Shit
21. Yawn
22. Lofi Daze
23. Chloroform (Wrapped In Plastic) / [Tell Me What You Want]
24. Eye Presser
25. Down 9
26. Girl Cursive
2007
27. Witch Trials
28. Ain’t My Kid
29. Summer of Luv
30. Static
31. Shut the Fuck Up
32. Now & Laters
33. Don’t Wait Up
34. Railroads
35. The Raptor
36. Scuz Bucket
37. Crab
38. Pocketz
39. Ibuprofen
40. Chloroform / Another Conversation
41. "The Sun Shines Through"
2008
42. Edicuis Sick (Cemetary Picnics)
43. Follow The Chain
44. Camera
45. Recycled 1
46. Recycled 2
47. Recycled 3
48. Hail Storm
49. Move In (VHS)
50. Null (Zilch)
2009
51. Capitol Hill
52. Vegas
53. Horrified
54. Yard
55. Ammo
56. Good Suffering
2010
57. Action Park
58. Allergic
59. Pharmacist
60. Fill You Up (Discovery) (Dream Husbands)
61. Don’t Stop Bleeding
62. Partisan (Wut)
63. Bitch We Deep
64. Slack / Slop (Speedy submission) (Jobber)
65. Performance Alert (Lowt Ide)
2011
66. The Vomit Inside
67. Get At Dat Money Tho
68. Spider
69. Pinhead
70. Jello Stars
71. Slouch
72. Barberea
73. Ice Climbers
74. Mavis
75. Raise Your Rifle
76. Hydro (Speedy submission) / Just Wanna Impress You
77. [Cool Things]
78. [Water Mill]
2012
79. Away from View
80. Menthol
81. Cop Car Graffiti
*82. A Cool Mill (Win For Life)
83. [Three Ideas thing]
84. Badger
85. Angry Hive
86. Mason
87. Honeycrunch
88. [Cure Merch]
2013
*89. Big Tick
*90. Beekeeper
*91. Angry Swarm (78rpm)
*92. Incinerator
*93. Deity
*94. Sputnik 6
95. Blowin' Up My Wall (Speedy tour comp bonus track, written with Matt Robidoux)
2014
*96. [Right Outside the Room] / [Overdue] / Track 4
*97. [Make My Mind Up]
*98. [Blankets and Sheets]
*99. [Prices Will Increase]
*100. Sometimes Dead Is Better / [Turn Me On Dead Man]
2015
*101. Hale Bopp
*102. Ants vs. Dragons
*103. Sad Satan
*104. Nova
*105. Jargon Scott
*106. Ouija Bot
*107. My Three Shirts
*108. [This Is Called]
*109. [That's What's Up]
2016
110. [B148]
111. Landscaper
112. Drill
113. Push Me Back Into The Doorway / Push
114. Break / Sense of Certainty
2017
115. No Brainer (Muddy Winter)
116. Alimony (Midnight Hour Drive)
117. Violent Confrontation
118. Plan 9 (Rue The Night)
119. Page Six
120. Baptism / Mars Attacks
121. [nada surf thing] / Hi-Lo
122. Globbed
123. Party Slasher
124. Party Slasher rock version
125. Heart Bus
126. Sweet Sweet Kush (Overdrive)
127. Slippity Slappity Doo
128. Uncle Fuck 4
2018
129. Uncle Fuck 5
130. Glitter Guilt
131. Big Bees / Big Buzz
132. Ugly Machine
133. Mars Attacks / OG
2019
134. Punch / Punchy
135. Skate The Mall / Get Fucked
136. Scuz Bucket 2019
2020
137. Stainmaster
138. Trip Heavy
139. Come Back Billy
140. Certificate
141. Why Don't You Like Me
142. I Swear To God
143. 666
144. Baptism / OG
145. Heavy Doobies Jam (Jobber)
146. Holy Ghost (23 Months In The Trap)
147. 7-11
148. Sounds like the words are "Dolemite?"
149. Out Of The Blue (Subvert Normality)
EDIT: An asterisk denotes titles that have been re-titled or added since the initial post. (Note: I got tired of doing this part.)
EDIT: Still short of 100 songs as of 4/9/15. :(
EDIT: Okay, now there's 100 as of 1/22/16, but I dunno if My Three Shirts or Prices Will Increase should count because they aren't finished and don't have words.
EDIT: Okay, I'm def well past 100 as of 3/12/2017. Hellrazor II coming soon.
EDIT: Added more on 11/3/2018.
Counted 93 real actual complete demoed songs so that means I'm not counting 26 of these.
EDIT: Added more on 7/23/2020. I'm also went back and added "Performance Alert" and "Bring God Back To America." This time I counted about 112 complete actual songs. It sucks that it took one month short of seven years to get to that point.
I also went through some tapes and accidentally found a couple CDRs with stuff that I had totally forgotten, and some of these should probably count them as completed songs.
- 2009: Untitled grungey power-pop song with no vocal take. I did not include it in this list. (Found on a late 2009 early 2010 unmixed demo tape with "Allergic" "Pharmacist" "Recycled 3" & "Fill You Up.")
- Late 2011: "Water" and "Cool Things." (From a CDR recorded late 2011 with "Raise Your Rifle," "Slop Demop" and a couple instrumentals)
- 2012: "Cure Merch." (There were a few other songs on this tape that I forgot about.)
- 2015: "This Is Called."
- Early 2016: "Sense of Certainty." (I think this was the 3rd song written around the time of "Jargon Scott" and "Nova.")
Also this officially feels like I should just start a spreadsheet.
Also I have lost my motivation for songwriting, which is evident in the low numbers from the past three years. New Hellrazor should be done soon but I don't think there will be much more after that. Maybe an EP or two so that we can wrap up the incomplete ones here.