The 2011 song-a-day-a-thong

Month

July 2011

50 posts

Chihuahua, Presidio and cheap souvenirs

Eric here. Today’s topic was Chihuahuas.  I bent the rules, but the word Chihuahua is in the song like seven times, so I think that’s fine.  This is the last song by the way.

Poorly recorded (some clipping toward the end), but these things happen with demos.

Day 30 - Chihuahua

Jul 25, 2011
Songwriting is cheaper than dirt (but dirt is useful)

This is Eric. Everyone out there is a songwriter, and the good ones are rarely the ones who are serious about it.  FYI I HATE songwriting. HATE IT. I’ve hated almost every part of this stupid exercise.

Day 29 - songwriting is the cheapest lamest %#^@& thing

Jul 24, 2011
Skins never cheat, shirts always quit

Eric here. Today’s suggestion came from Patrick Day, who’s probably a better songwriter than Donavan and me put together.

Day 28 - shirts v. skins

P.S.: Tumblr was down yesterday. I know you noticed.

Jul 24, 2011
Listen

pulchritudinous. i bet i’m the only one who posts today. cuz im not a pusy

donivan

Jul 22, 20111 note
Bachmann on top (of Palin)

Eric here. Only FOUR MORE DAYS!!!

Today’s suggestion was Michele Bachmann. I hope you get all the stupid jokes.

Day 26 - Bachmann on top, man

Jul 21, 2011
Day 25: song suggestion list

Day 1 - stormy
Day 2 - wish
Day 3 - la playa
Day 4 - Josey Wales & the pussycats
Day 5 - carburetor
Day 6 - blowfish
Day 7 - Calvillo’s buffet
Day 8 - glitter
Day 9 - esophagus
Day 10 - armadillo
Day 11 - satellite dishes
Day 12 - beauty
Day 13 - free spirit
Day 14 - love is annoying
Day 15 - cigars
Day 16 - big empty house
Day 17 - bubbles
Day 18 - innocence/naivete
Day 19 - irony
Day 20 - rude canadians
Day 21 - no more GMOs
Day 22 - Gretchen Wagner Borders
Day 23 - gous
Day 24 - turquoise
Day 25 - CO guy in love with LA girl
Day 26 - Michele Bachmann
Day 27 - pulchritudinous
Day 28 - shirts vs. skins
Day 29 - songwriting
Day 30 - Chihuahuas

Leftovers - pizza, song about a bookshop that sells ice cream and is trying to survive a year-long construction project that’s choking the life out of it and killing the souls of its owners (basically the same as day 29), portend, verklempt, ravens in a sunflower field, trash kitties, posture, laurelin’s european vacation, Tang, percolate, steak, moment with a bashful raccoon

NOTE: We reserve the right to accidentally skip ahead as whims dictate. Thanks very much for your suggestions and understanding.

Jul 20, 2011
Colorado guy, LA girl

Eric here. Dave from Boulder asked for “Colorado guy in love with LA girl.”  This is my version of a folk song by this girl Emily Robinson who’s crazy scary good.  100 times better than I am.

ONLY 5 MORE DAYS OF THIS!!!!  HELL YES!!!

Day 25 - LA Girl

Jul 20, 2011
Turquoise crapola

Eric here. Mark Mauldin of Denver suggested “turquoise,” which is a pretty cool word I think.  If I’d had the energy to produce it out with strings and bass I think this might have been decent.  But I was exhausted. Probably the worst song-a-day I’ve done.

Day 24 - turquoise

Jul 20, 2011
Gretchen Wagner Borders → youtube.com

Its a song that uses her name frequently.

Donovan

Jul 20, 2011
Gous → youtube.com

New Artist That Amazes Nearly Everyone!!!

Donovan

Jul 20, 2011
gmo Donovan Armijo

GMO. Donovan. It was gonna be instrumental but that seemed lazy.

Jul 20, 2011
Irony → youtube.com

God i got behind. I’ll be caught up tomorrow and it will be awesome

Donovan

Jul 19, 2011
Rude Canadian → youtube.com

Rude Canadians don’t exist. Donovan

Jul 19, 2011
My Song 3 Donovan Armijo

Innocence is the girl next door. 

Donovan

Jul 19, 2011
Gous Gous

Eric here. Professor Steven Bauer took the suggestion guidelines to heart and reduced his song topic to one syllable. Gotta love when someone gets creative with the “one word or less” rule.

So he gave us “Gous.”

Awesome.

Day 23 - Gous Gous

Jul 18, 2011
Bubbles → youtube.com

Bubbles. Song. 

Donovan

Jul 18, 2011
Big House → youtube.com

This song is about a house and emptiness and stuff.

Donovan

Jul 17, 2011
dino Donovan Armijo

Catching up!!! you probably thought i quit. Here is beauty.

Donovan

Jul 17, 2011
Gretchen Borders (are like flowery victorian details)

This is Eric. Gretchen Wagner Borders suggested we use her name for today’s song topic. I decided Wagner Borders are some kind of fancy wallpaper or wood trim.

Day 22 - Wagner Borders

Jul 17, 2011
Today I gave up and winged it

Eric here.  Today was the second time I couldn’t come up with anything that felt worth finishing.  The first time was about five days ago and I forced myself to finish the corny idea I had.  Today I just turned on the mic and ad-libbed for 3 minutes.

Thing is, right now in the coffee shop “I want your sex” by George Michael is on the 80s station. It’s such a crappy song.  I never realized exactly how bad it is.  Some of my songs on here are crappy, but I don’t think they’re that bad.  And I wrote them in like an hour each

Day 21 - no more GMOs

P.S.: Just noticed I left the mic on while transferring the song to PC. So yes that’s me cracking up at myself. No I don’t really think it’s that funny. And no I don’t drink.

Jul 16, 2011
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