Warning: long post ahead.
I started the 50/90 challenge on July 1st; it is now Oct 2nd, and the challenge is over. I “won” — I ended up submitting 52 songs total (just like a deck of cards!), each with a demo, whether it be a full-out demo or just me strumming a guitar. For the record, the 52 songs are as follows (told you it would be a long post):
01. Exposed
02. The Gov’t
03. Suicide
04. Manslaughter
05. Simon, Go Home
06. Song for Plasma Lady
07. Singing My Song
08. He’s Not Mine [Meg's lyrics]
09. Still on Board?
10. Porcelain Garden [Meg's lyrics]
11. HLL – Cut Coupons
12. HLL – Ellie Mae
13. HLL – A Million Things
14. HLL – Something
15. HLL – Wam-Bam-Boom
16. Sad Song at 3am
17. HLL – Railway Train
18. Nothing Less (The King’s Conquest)
19. HLL – Lady’s Lace
20. HLL – Chicken Bone!
21. 911
22. HLL – Dance, Hipsters, Dance!
23. HLL – Nothing Left
24. Reputation
25. HLL – Black Socks & Birkenstocks
26. Katerina Sokolova
27. Zadebce-Kolonia
28. HLL – Diana
29. HLL – The Laundry Blues
30. The Theremin Song
31. Aaron vs. the Tornado
32. I’m Finally Here!
33. Drunk Party Love (O Madeline!)
34. Puffy Red Hands
35. Davy Crockett [w/Debs]
36. KoT – Rant on the Corner of 82nd
37. KoT – This Home
38. KoT – I Need the Sun
39. KoT – Union Station, 2pm
40. Expired ID
41. The Fifth Element
42. The Paintress, Searched For
43. Solipsizing
44. What I Was
45. The Josh Belville Show Theme Song
46. Too Naive (to Be in Love)
47. Thank God It’s Over
48. A Toast to the Wicked and Wretched
49. Elephant!
50. HLL – The White Whale
51. The Evil Singer-Songwriter
52. Goodbye, Everything I Loved
Damn, that is a lot of songs. So now what the hell do I do with them?
Welllll… Some songs have already been put onto other albums. Most of the AK EP is there. A couple of Songs for Summer tracks.
At this point I have enough material for three albums. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. “SLOW DOWN,” and I couldn’t agree more. One of those albums is a Here Lies Laika album, which will be put indefinitely on the back burner until I can find an adequate band to record those songs. This leaves me with two albums: one being a “me + guitar” album, the other being more of a “band” album, with drums and bass. Three years ago I would’ve just released both of them and called it a day, but today I am all about the All Ighty Ollar, and so this month, October, will be spent remixing, rerecording, and getting ready to release a proper album. I figure it will be released around Novemberishish.