From about the mid 90's and following the idea from the American magazine "MAD" I occasionally wrote alternative lyrics to popular songs.
Then in 2024 I discovered the AI website "SUNO". The result of this can be found here on this page in two concept albums.
My contention is that, because my lyrics were already based on music, SUNO was able to respond to them from the word go.
I had enough material to create two albums which you may download from this web page as a zip file.
The tracks in each folder are numbered in the order they should be played. Drag them into a media player.
Songs are based on:
1. Rhythm is a Dancer by Snap.
2. The Hills Are Alive from Sound of Music.
3. Jammin by Bob Marley.
4. All My Lovin by Beatles.
5. Long Way To Tipperary Trad.
6. Yesterday by Beatles.
7. Jumping Jack Flash by Stones.
8. We Will Rock You by Queen.
9. Back in the USSR by Beatles.
10. My Guitar Gently Weeps by Harrison.
11. Pinball Wizzard by The Who.
12. So Long Ace.
Songs are based on:
16. Born To Be Wild by Steppenwolf.
17. Rawhide Trad.
18. Firestarter by Prodigy.
21. You Never Give Me Your Money by Beatles.
The other lyrics in this album were initially written by AI. The process used was to seed the subject with ideas and iterate the ideas until satisfied.
From there modify and personalise
the generated lyrics as writing words to the tune of another song.
This gives SUNO a meter it can work with. With that done SUNO can be directed with its usual tokens to a custom music genre in the usual way.
There is this stand alone song 'Bourne By The Sun', written while walking upon the Franz Josef Glacier.
The form is that of a fourteen line Sonet but without the ending rhyming couplet. (Repeating the last four lines is Suno's idea). The twelve line acrostic spells 'wakatopatopa' the Maori for 'helicopter'.
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