Album-a-Day is a Crap Art project. That means that it's a set of constraints (the rules below) which are meant to help you be creative. There are no special requirements to participate, and no expectations of quality. Embarking on the Album-a-Day project is a significant commitment of time, but I've found that it's pretty fun and rewarding!

To create an Album-a-Day, you record a piece of music following these rules:

When you're done, you should upload the songs to the internet. If you have your own web space, that's great. If you don't mind releasing your work under a public license, try archive.org first, since users dont need to sign up to listen to your stuff, and they have really fast servers. Album-a-day regular Maxfield suggests lulu.com, where you can you put your album up for free download and also sell CDs. (However, an AAD must be available for free to qualify!) If you upload your album somewhere and want to be listed here, let me know when it becomes available.

We're famous! Don't miss the Article in SPIN about us or the 2003 Reuters article covering a number of crap-art-like projects.

Here are some Album-a-Day projects which have been completed:

(The count so far is: 388 registered albums-a-day!)

Spastic Moose - Then Come The Chunks (not yet digitized) - This one was recorded right before my bandmate Sophia and I split for college in 1997. We didn't know it was an album-a-day at the time, but it counts!

Tom 7 vs. Ultimate Warrior - Barmy Badger Backpackers (30 songs, 23:42) - This one was made by me and my roommate Don, and was the first conscious Album-a-Day effort. Mostly pretty embarrassing, but there are some gems, I think. (Scroll down and start with one of my more recent albums, please....)

Tom 7 - Album-a-Day 2 (25 songs, 20:55) - My second project, about 6 months later. Though there are some good songs on this one too, my warning to stick with later albums still holds...

Patrick Shaughnessy - Spongy (30 songs, 23:57) - This one is by a guy named pshaughn and his accordion. Reminds me of Music Tapes, sort of.

Patrick Shaughnessy - Funeral Songs of Happy Cloudland (20 songs, ??) - Wow, a followup! Also by psaughn.

Patrick Shaughnessy - Albumhack (20 songs, ??) - A third by Patrick! Multi-tracks and effects abound...

Wum - In Many Houses & Trees (15 songs, 22:12) - Sophia's first album-a-day. Some US Maple influence, mostly good ol' Sophia. She has really sophisticated hardware and is good at this stuff, so hers sounds quite good.

Tom 7 - Spacewalk Underway (18 songs, 20:00) - My third album-a-day. Very sing-songy; more introverted than my last two since I made it alone.

Patrick Shaughnessy - Hypothesis 40 (40 tracks, 33:19) - Another extensive (!) effort from Patrick. He writes, "Produced over a grueling nineteen hours, this album contains several tracks that actually sound like real songs. I think."

Maxfield - Plugged In (18 songs, 23:18) - Max made an album on 10 August 2001. Sounds like Ben Folds Five to me. Good tunes and many untitled.gif references! (PS. Max requests that I add a disclaimer similar to the one for my own first AAD, urging you to listen to his more recent albums first.)

Tom 7 - type mismatch circularity (20 songs, 22:30) - My 4th album-a-day, featuring mostly guitar songs and more beats than usual.

Tom 7 - Cybercrime Police Station (16 songs, 21:22) - My 5th album-a-day. Mainly more of the same, with some beats and home-brew plugin experiments ...

Brackeen - Cartridge of Fun (14 songs, 21:06) - "i played drums in a band years ago, but since then hadn't done much musically besides fool around with a bass guitar and tap drum beats on my desk. so i went for it, and 16.5 hours later i had 14 amatuerish songs. some of them are really embarrassing, but there are quite a few i really like."

Tom 7 - Operation Exemplary Behavior (15 songs, 20:53) - Another installment of bedroom indie rock courtesy of me. This one's a little topical, and has some misleading educational parts.

Tom 7 - Table of Contents (15 songs, 20:03) - Yet another album (my 7th!). Due to circumstances mostly under my control, I took a break in the middle of this album, so that my 24 hours were not contiguous. How lame is that? This album gets -1,000 points for flagrant rules violation!

Maxfield - The Day Won For The Unshaven (14 songs, 20:06) - Max's second album. This album comes with karaoke-mode!

Tom 7 - Waves 100 Years (16 songs, 20:11) - Very law-abiding AAD to make up for my 7th one.

Tom 7 - Testify in Hockey (15 songs, 20:14) - My 9th. I was shooting for 10 albums in by the end of 2001 but didn't quite make it. I made this one while I was home over the break with makeshift recording equipment.

Maxfield - Dynamic Equilibrium (13 songs, 20:30) - Max is entering the Trilogy club with this one. It's got drum'n'bass, truly.

Pault - Slicing the Mustard (10 songs, 20:02) - Fellow Pittsburgher Paul writes, "I'd been in a songwriting slump lately, so I decided to do this as sort of a calisthenic for the songwriting 'muscle.' I actually ended up with a few songs that I felt OK with playing in public. I tend to write a little longer than I've seen on the other Crap Art projects, but that's just the way I write... hope it doesn't get too dull."

Tom 7 - East Key to Trip (15 songs, 21:23) - Finishing up my decathlon (185 songs, 3.5 hours!). Almost all detuned guitar stuff. I'm planning on a surprise for my next album...

Pault - Pre-Emptive Followup (10 songs, 20:15) - In the music biz we call this Pault's "sophomore effort". I think the idea here is that he wrote this album before releasing his first.

Wum - Los Caballos Poseen La Calle (8 songs, 22:00) - Sophia's second. This one is different every time you listen to it, I hear.

Killjoy, FL - Wading in the Gloom (7 songs, 22:00) - Killjoy says, "Killjoy FL is a folktronica band which will probably dedicate itself entirely to AAD projects. This was the first attempt, and barely got finished in the 24 hour deadline. Some of the songs aren't so bad, some are. But writing, recording and mixing an album in 24 hours is not nearly as easy as one might think. Even one that sucks." They promise more, soon!

Marm & Toc - Reentrant Uperiodic (14 songs, 22:45) - "Marm & Toc" is the new name for "Spastic Moose". Sophia and I only get together once or twice a year, and only for a few days, so I guess this will have to be the new format for our band. Anyway, this album rocks pretty good. Rock, rap, neotechnology. Tight 'n Sloppy style.

Wing L. Mui - Improvised A Crapella (17 songs, 20:19) - Wing writes, "This whole project started at 1:15 PM and, not counting the lack of fast Internet resulting in slow upload, was finished, including the covers and this page, in seven hours. As the title implies, most of the songs here were improvised, sung without accompaniment of any sort, and are crap. To further the crappiness the equipment used for recording was a 5 dollar mic. Well, at least the lyrics are good. They are! Really! =)"

Wing L. Mui - Love Songs With Sugar And Milk (12 songs, 20:00) - Back again! He writes, "My second album-a-day. Exactly twenty minutes long. It was more of a writing exercise since the writing of the lyrics took up the most time... Less silliness here than the other one though." Nice cover art.

Jason Artman - Dodongo Dislikes Smoke (12 songs, 22:48) - Zelda fan Jason Artman has put together an album with it all: Nintendo Entertainment System, Ambient, Trance, Robert Plant impersonations.

Cloud Street - A Tragic Life (13 songs, 20:02) - David from Tasmania recorded this electronica album while procrastinating over an exam. He's right, it does sound like Boards of Canada (but with his own nebular twist).

Def Children In Area - Bitch Tits (10 songs, 22:00) - They write, "been together for roughly 24 hours. This was conceived, written, performed and produced within ten hours, and boy does it show. But hey ten tracks in ten hours...not bad, eh!!!!". This thing has "Parental Advisory" written all over it. NFAP!

Maigin Blank - Illustration (12 songs, 21:52) - I really like this one, the lo-fi stuff and video game keyboards are just my kind of thing.

Arthur Kamst - An Automatic One (9 songs, 20:40) - Arthur earns the unique distinction of being the first AAD artist to record two albums in two consecutive days. This is his second; he writes: "I started at 7:30PM and finished recording 11:30. Three of the guitar/vocals ones (Don Juan, Tight Noses, Cheddar Cheese (wich is too long and dull to my taste)) have lyrics that were improvised while recording. I'm quite happy with how this album turned out to be."

Max and Ben - Jurassic Bomb (11 songs, 20:30) AAD Veteran Max writes, "This album was made in 15 hours on 7/14/02 with help from my cousin Ben, who shared the keyboard drum duties and provided some great (real) orff instrument playing, as well as some New And Interesting Instruments. This was the first time I got to use my newly-obtained Digital Performer 2.7, so it features some harmonies and other overdubs."

Tom 7 - S-P-E-C-T-R-E (16 songs, 20:42) I keep saying that my next album will be something different, but what the hell -- while I've got the energy to keep cranking out the same acoustic bedroom rock, why not? Here's my 11th.

Maxfield - Monograph (10 songs, 23:05) Max writes, "This is, as far as I know, the first ever 'concept' Album-A-Day. Created in a kind of woozy state two days after the removal of my 4 wisdom teeth, this album chronicles the entire experience, from finding out that the surgery was necessary, to recovering from it (which hadn't really happened yet but hey it's Crap Art). Crappy vocals were generously provided even though (and because) I could hardly open my mouth."

Arthur Kamst - Requiem for the Western World (9 songs, 20:40) - Arthur says, "Finally, after two rejected categories (alternative and indie) for the song 'Dies Irae' (which now is enlisted in the Medieval category would you believe) my first Album a Day is online. I guess I earn my 1000 points for rules violaton too, as I didn't write the text of 'Dies Irae'; it's an exerpt of the Catholic mass. Learned my lesson I guess ;-). The first song, 'Borss' I dreamt just before waking up. Much crap, but 'Goldfish' (wich we now play in our band), 'In the end' and 'Visions' have become my personal favorites..."

Taut Blue Quality - You Will Be Towed (17 songs, 22:52) - I got a new electric guitar and Heather helped me make this album. It's basically the same thing as the Tom 7 album-a-day series, except that there's electric guitars and a chick singing sometimes.

Cloud Street - 20'05" Before Death (13 songs, 20:05) - David is back again and writes, "To celebrate the end of University forever, I created this album, unfortuately that's where all good feeling ended. After a (too) pretty album last time I wanted to make something messy and angry. To achieve this I wrote about a topic I feel terribly strongly about, the stupidity of people who insist on killing other people. Dictators, terrorists, right wing pro-war supporters all get my wrath cast upon them."

Belly Wog - Peakin' Out Bruvva (11 songs, 29:07) - Dave writes, "Sorry I think I'm addicted, but this time I teamed up with a couple of my friends (Angus and Paul) who rose to the AAD challenge nicely. We've experimented a lot on this AAD, so what we've done is organise the tunes in crap-a-logical order with the best songs at the top." Right-o. I put the best songs at the top and bottom, too, so that you're forced to listen to the crap in-between.

Arthur Kamst - Third (8 songs, 20:48) - Arthur joins the trilogy club, too: "here it is, my third album a day, just in time for the closing of the year. This time I got an FX-processor to experiment with. which resulted in some nice deformed guitar-sounds; I think 'Tear it Down' is the best song on it."

Tom 7 - Image Gap Committee (15 songs, 20:55) - Another one from me. I think this one is really good; try it.

team.lift - trucking (8 songs, 20:08) - This site's in shockwave, so be patient. It has a song called, "well, tom says I cannot have outtakes." Hehe.

Maxfield - Total Process (11 songs, 20:20) - Veteran Max writes of his sixth album-a-day, "A more straightforward effort after my weird (but adorable) last one. Finished in about 15 hours (with one 20 minute dinner break [-1000 points?!]), this one features more drum 'n' bass stuff as well as the return of the Zube Tube(R)." You don't lose any points for a 20 minute dinner break, Max.

(sub)lime spider - Where's My Bassline (10 songs, 20:04) Dave's fourth: "My old band-mate Hugh has been living overseas for the past three years and we thought that an AAD would be the perfect band re-union, and despite three years of diversified listening on both of our accounts we still made music that sounded incredibly like the stuff we used to make - maybe it was just force of habit."

Tom 7 - Examine Machines and Enrich (16 songs, 20:13) I tried to make an album with no "filler" at all. That's hard when there are no out-takes, but anyway, I didn't make up words as I went along for any of these. I've come to really like this album, so check it out.

Dave Dean - A World Without Words (6 songs, 20:23) Dave writes, "Written in twenty-three hours total, this is a seamless journey from song to song. Something along the lines of BT and Oliver Lieb mixed together, I guess. Definitely 'electronic' in nature, and mostly danceable."

Maxfield - Altered Beats (6 songs, 20:34) Max, the second most prolific album-a-day artist, writes, "I'm pretty pleased with the way this one came out. The songs are more electronic, featuring my new sampler on the title track which is my most legitimately drum 'n' bass song yet. For the most part, the songs are a little more wandering and focused than on my other AADs."

Arthur Kamst - Cheap Mics (9 songs, 20:03) Veteran AAD artist Arthur writes, "Tried to steer away from my standard kind of songs, in which I didn't succeed... ;-) I think it's got the first Dutch song in an Abum-a-day-album."

Taut Blue Quality - Affinity Group (16 songs, ?) Taut Blue Quality is back! Some of these songs are kinda rushed, since all I really wanted to do that day was play my new Castlevania game. But there's some good stuff, too.

Tom 7 - As a Deaf Ear (19 songs, 21:35) - This is my most experimental outing to date. That's because I made it with new "bonus" rules: I'm not allowed to listen to the songs as I'm writing them, or even hear myself play instruments or sing (I recorded a CD full of noise to play on headphones loud while recording.) Given the constraints I think it came out pretty neat, though.

Michael J. Nelson - Elephant and Duck, Together at Last (15 songs, 20:07) - Michael--not the one from MST3K--writes, "Some of it is pretty tolerable, I think. Sounds rock-ish most of the time; lots of guitar, lots of Casio SK-1. Highlights include a Clash-sounding punk/reggae thing, some Jesus & Mary Chain-style feedback madness, and a nice little disco tune."

Home For The Def - Open For Business (7 songs, 21:00) - Home reports, "This is Home For The Def's first AAD recording - recorded on Tuesday 9th July 2003 in under 12 hours (including time taken off for meals and about an hour when I went out and bought a new guitar!). It's a nice genre ride, moving from hip-hop, hardcore, cock-rock, acoustica, electronica, and quite a few different combinations of all that (which is more or less my normal style). I found it quite stressful, lyrics were very difficult - I usually work quite quickly (check my discography at www.homeforthedef.com for proof), but found that being forced to do it all in one day was quite hard. I feel like I should be describing it as building up my chops or something... "

Ammegand - Crazyflakes EP (9 songs, 21:44) - EP my ass! Around here, 20-minute musical outings are called albums. Ammegand writes, "I made everything in fruityloops and the tracks are in chronological order. Alot of the tracks i started at a high bpm and gradually slowed them down while continuously tweaking them and fleshing out parts." (And also points us to an earlier, aborted album-a-day effort!)

Tom 7 - Earthquake Glue (Doppelganger) (15 songs, 20:06) - This is a new kind of album-a-day. To do it, select an album you've never heard before (I chose Guided By Voices' upcoming "Earthquake Glue") and find a track list for it. Then, make an album with the exact same song titles (and imagined subject matter) as the original. Following my 13th, I intended this album to be wholly without filler, though A Trophy Mule in Particular comes close.

Cephalad - Cutups Vol. 1 (40 songs, 23:12) - Gordon from Pittsburgh made this album in January but just finally put it up. Due to IUMA's maximum file size limit, it's presented as two ten-minute MP3s instead of one ultra-long megamix. He describes his music as, "... a potpourri of lo-fi techno/electronica, ambience/drones/noise, and other experiments, with a large number of samples strewn throughout."

James Roberts - Am Aural Drooling (8 songs, 20:21) - James's Favourite bits: "the underwater Latino bit which happens halfway through 'Terms With It', the weird harmonies on 'Conservatory', and the 'what happens when I twiddle these knobs' bits on 'Mr Sun'." James's Unfavourite bits: "the discovery after finishing that I subconsciously copied the 'Inconsequence' guitar from Blur's 'Jets' and 'Increase' chords from Pachebel's Canon. (I think.)"

Cephalad - Cutups Vol. 2 (40 songs, 27:20) - Another 40-song, two-mp3 suite. Gordon remarks, "This features many more solid beat-based instrumentals of a variety of moods and genres, as well as numerous ambient pieces. In terms of production and overall quality, I would consider this a great improvement over my last Cutups EP."

Fewn - The New Collapse of The Fourth World (13 songs, 27:51) - A member of Fewn writes, "i have a band at school with some friends of mine called Blasting Trout Overbite. one day, we decided to form a new band called Fewn and write and record an entire album before the day was done, and we did just that. we wrote 13 songs and recorded them that day. we deemed the Fewn album a triumph, and promptly broke the band up (though we have done a few Fewn songs live). anyway, this was before we knew of the album a day project, but what we did fits all the criteria."

40-16 - I'm Falling Down The Stairs (5 songs, 53:37) - "40-16 is a improvisational art-noise psusdu-ensemble, based out of what could be called Atlanta, GA. While I'm not sure this belongs here, it certianly falls well within the requrements, as it was created, start to finish, in less than 6 hours on August 14th 2001, live without any plans, overdubs, or taste. 40-16's second album is also a 24 hour effort, and will be posted...eventually. Furthermore, considering the nature of the psuedo-ensemble, it's entirely likely that most future albums will also be Album-A-Days."

TNB AllStars - Evil Eyeball of Doom (7 songs, 24:07) - David of Cloud Street/Sub(lime) Spider writes, "Like my other AADs, this album marks a turning point in my life. I'm about to move to Japan to spend 12 months teaching English and exploring the country. Unlike my other AADs, this album was recorded 100% live with a full band. Myself and Bryony on Vocals, Angus on Ax, Andrew on keys, Norman, Tracy and Di on Horns, Richard on Bass and Gaylen on Drums. This was by far the most work I have put into an AAD and I'm very pleased with the result."

Standpipe - Dark In The Park (9 songs, 21:58) - Chris writes, "This is a musical version of my adventures during the blackout on 14 August 2003 in New York City. I began writing at 10pm on 16 August and finished the piece at 9:30pm the next day."

James Roberts - Album name: This Machine Does Not Accept Money (13 songs, 21:20) - James's semi-concept album: "All tracks are titled after signs seen in a Leeds shopping centre. Hence there's a consumer-culturey pick-and-mix of genres: drum & bass, dance, blues, glam rock, ambient, noise and psych. I'm pleased with it: the quality of songs and production is pretty consistent, and at eighteen hours' total creation time it didn't seriously derange my sleep patterns. Still no vocals though." Download the ones that start with "AAD2," which are spread over two pages.

nothing nothings - Doppelganger: Frenzy (14 songs, 45:13) Nothing Nothings finished this one in just over 24 hours, but since it clocks in at a mammoth 45 minutes, it clearly makes the cut-off. This is our second "Doppelganger" album, this time for an album called Frenzy by a band named Split Enz. He's posted a track of excerpts for all of our attention-deficit listeners. Check the site for lots more info!

WiL (aka TB) - Twos, Fives, and Tens (11 songs, 24:15) - WiL writes, "For my album-a-day project, which comes as I prepare to head to Germany for a number of years, I have written a one-man rock opera. An Eclectic mix of various electronica styles, rap, and various vocals done on my five-dollar mic. I tried to make this one listenable and I think I've suceeeded. Considering I had no outtakes, I think I did a pretty good job of avoiding having any crap songs, but you, the listener, must judge that for yourself."

Tom 7 - Isabel "Refuses to Weaken" (18 songs, 20:53) OK, this only "concept" in this album is that I spent only 7 hours on it, total. Very little care was taken in the recording and mixing, but I think the songs are pretty good in general. My sixteenth.

nothing nothings - Font of Wisdom (12 songs, 20:11) Here's another from Nothing Nothings. He describes it like this: "I threw away all my equipment and tried to [do] the indie bedroom alt-rock thing, but I think it came out more folkie kinda often." He gets -1,000 points for taking a break in the middle his 24 hours (for work, I guess), but gets +999 points because all his songs are named after fonts I made.

The Opportunitystakes - Whoops! (12 songs, 20:06) - "This electronica/slop metal/bubblegum punk/cheesecore album was made in my dorm room in about 5 hours. All lyrics were improvised at the time of recording. Interestingly enough, it is the greatest work of high art in human history."

Maxfield - Revolution Forever (10 songs, 20:16) Max says, "Here's my 8th. This one has a more indie rock kind of feel than the others because it features poorly played live drums (I happened to have a drumset at the house for the moment). Also, my good friend Jon Rodgers stopped by about halfway through to help out with some of the songs."

nothing nothings - Suggest A Title (11 songs, 23:10) Nothing Nothings joins the elite few who have recorded a trilogy for the AAD project. He writes, "I invited my friends to give me song title suggestions; I got about 100. I pulled all my equipment out of the trash, went to housesit for a friend where I could play my (electronic) drums, and even went a little crazy with 'keyboards' (which is actually a guitar synth). I spent about 20 hours (and slept for 4 hours halfway throgh). Stylistically, it's all over the map; most noticeable is an attempt at a ska song."

nothing nothings - Suggest A Title 2 (10 songs, 24:47) He says, "The day after I recorded 'Suggest a Title', I recorded another AAD, 'Suggest a Title 2', based on the same list of song title suggestions. For this sequel, I tried to stick more to guitar and avoid the synth-driven stuff. I also did something a little risky: I recorded the basic idea for all ten tracks first, without having any clue what song they were, and then went back through them and picked titles and wrote lyrics for them. (I had done this for a few songs on 'Suggest a Title', but not many.) In a few cases, this worked really well (I think 'Circle Girl' is one of the best things I've ever recorded). On the other hand, I think I was a little over-focused on making things sound good, not crappy (e.g., what was I thinking recording four tracks of the snare drum in 'Out of Service'?!?), and as a result, although I spent 21 straight hours on it, I ran out of time to write lyrics and record vocals for all the songs, so half of them ended up as instrumentals with rapidly dashed-off, over-extended guitar solos."

The Darth Vader Farmers - The Revenge of Zemulust Pontoon (11 songs, 22:04) - Jason writes in the third person, saying, "Recorded in a manic burst of energy with depressing breaks in between, The Revenge of Zemulust Pontoon is the first album-a-day outing for Jason and Ryan but certainly not the last. The August 8th, a friday had been filled with both joy and pain, and so the album- featuring mostly acoustic instruments and found sounds- is a bit like a diary to the day that formed the Darth Vader Farmers."

Maigin Blank - Mr. Drummond's Got a New Son (11 songs, ??) - Maigin writes of her second, "Finally! I got the second AAD that I made up and running (hopefully). This was recorded and made last year in Oct 2002 sometime, and I'm just happy to finally have access to upload it."

Maigin Blank - Mother Superior (9 songs, ??) - And her third: "This is my favorite one. It was also recorded a few weeks after the second AAD in Oct/Nov 2002. I think it has the best 'songs' although they are kind of weird. I dont know what was in my mind when I made it. That's what's so great about 'producing', 'recording' and 'mixing' these albums in a day. You never know what you will end up making."

Arthur Kamst - Bossano (9 songs, 20:43) - Arthur writes, "Started saturday 11 am, I finished my fifth AAD just in time sunday, at 10:30 am. That gets me -1000 points 'cause I had my sister visiting us saturdaynight, ate, and SLEPT in between songs 5 and 6. Oh well. What's worse, this one was meant as a Doppelganger of the Pixies' album Bossanova, but I ran out of time... so I finished it as a regular one with the songtitles sounding oddly familiar to some." You're free to spend the 24 hours any way you like, so there's no -1000 point penalty for sleeping. It's simply not recommended!

Tim L - Tim L Album-A-Day Volume 1 (11 songs, 19:12) DJ Tim from South Africa writes, "This album was written, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered, solo in just less than 23 hours; with no sleep break in-between. It just misses the 20 minute mark. I certainly hope that this does not count against me. I tried a mixture of short songs with the shortest track being 0:35 and the longest track being 4:41. Everything was done by yours truly. No ideas were chosen before the day, which I found encouraged the creative process. So what you are about to listen to is 110% original." Well, I'm pretty sure that Tim gets -1,000 points for not hitting 20 minutes, but, close enough!

Adam Taylor - Singing Out Of My Range (9 songs, 21:00) Adam writes, "My first AAD project and I'm pretty pleased with it. I hope to get some bonus points for inclding a coconut as a percussive instrument. It didn't take me long to write but it always takes me a while to work out how to add to initial versions of songs. The mixing usually takes a while too. A fun experience, I encourage others to do it." OK, +3 points for using a coconut as a percussive instrument.

Tim L - Album A Day Volume 2 (11 songs, 21:06) - Back for more, Tim writes: "This is my second effort and it went much smoother. I completed the project in just under 21 hours. I am really enjoying the creative challenge this provides to my talent. If I can analogize: It's like unpacking the attic in anticipation of finding something really interesting. I hope you enjoy it."

Maigin Blank - Just A Name (10 songs, 20:30) - "A new one! I just finished it. It feels a bit rushed, but the neighbors were stomping so I dont think they were happy! I think the best songs are the 'groupie' ones and the rest are alot of keyboard ones. Still fun to do but I wish I could have continued to be loud!!!"

nothing nothings - I M So Goofy (8 songs, 24:02) - Addict Sean writes, "I M So Goofy is my fifth AAD, written and recorded from 6:30am Saturday to 2:30am Sunday. This time around I wrote all the lyrics before anything else, so the song structures are a little tighter to the lyrics. I think I spent too much time on the lyrics, which is why I only got eight songs done. I do not recommend only writing eight longer songs--would you rather have the chance for a couple of gems or just one longer gem?"

WiL aka TB - starlight:underscore (9 songs, 20:43) WiL is back for more and says: "AAD #2 for me. This one was liked a lot more than the other one. Track 07 inspired a very small southern california dance craze (the 'Jett Dance') which continues to this day. Other people claim to listen to track 03 looped for hours on end. One of my friends said, 'Well, one thing's for sure. Your album doesn't bore me.' SUCCESS!"

WiL aka TB featuing One Legged Bunny - Bootleg (13 songs, 20:05) - But wait, there's more: "This was my third album-a-day in two weeks, when it was first completed maybe two months ago. This one is a total piece of crap art, done by me and a couple of my friends completely on a whim over the course of about forty-five minutes. This superior braindump is, as per precedent, done in reverse crap order, with the songs i deem least crappy on top, and the crappier songs on bottom. Some of this stuff is so messed up I can't even begin to describe how messed up it is to you. Just listen. I guarantee you won't be disappointed, if not a little disoriented."

Quincunx - Listen Compute Rock Home (15 songs, 20:46) - Quincunx's first album, a doppleganger, was completed in 24 hours. "Most of the songs were done in a tracker (sequencer) program; a couple were made directly in the wave editing program. I did play the organ, mini electronic guitar, harmonica, nebulizer tube, etc., myself. (I used text-to-speech for the vocals, since, as I mentioned, my own voice is unsuitable.)"

Zeke the Plumber - Album A Day (10 songs, 22:37) - All that Zeke cares to mention is: "Zeke the Plumber has no nose!!"

Danalog - Things (14 songs, 22:02) - Danalog's clever twist: "Songs written using two music composition programs I've never used before. Two hours were spent finding and installing the programs, one hour each. Each individual songs written within the space of one hour, except for the two songs which were the first I created in a given program, which got two hours each, to give me more time to learn the program. One hour was spent in postprocessing, writing info, uploading, and submitting. Musical styles are all over the place, the main focus was experimenting with the programs and learning what was possible, and not in actual musical creation." His songs all come in one RAR file, so if you click, get ready to decompress!

S/O - Unlit Cigarettes (6 songs, 19:21) - Shany writes, "this was our first AAD, main purpose was to kick shany in the butt, second purpose - explore our music abilties and get rid of that nasty critical sense." -1,000 points for not quite making it to 20 minutes, but good try!

pia-muk - pre/post (6 songs, 20:20) - Pia says: "this was an extreme enjoyment for me. usually i spend way to much time on a song (longest was 3 months) and it always sounds over produced. i started this at 9:00pm, worked till 3:00am, and reconviened at 10:00am, finishing at 3:00pm. the songs are simple and direct, but to have a nice flow into each other. i hope you all enjoy this as much as me and my friends do, (they could just be being nice). they are reminiscent of electronic of yorn. i can notice a trans am influence."

Tom 7 - GGGCAGGG (17 songs, 21:45) - Just another album-a-day from me. This one was a special present. Sorry about those levels...

Steven Mon - Songs of Desperation and Despair (7 songs, 20:11) Steven writes: "This was a lot harder than I thought. I had this idea that I could churn out a song every 30 minutes, but it turned out to be 90 minutes. Most of the tracks were recorded with one take, and a couple of the songs were improvised while recording. After the sixth song, I was dead tired, and I kind of cheated with the last song, dragging it out to over seven minutes. Still, it was fun, and I came up with little bits and pieces I think I can use."

Jason Irvin - Squeezing the Baby Envelope (10 songs, 22:28) Jason is back for his 2nd: "I decided to go solo (from the Darth Vader Farmers) on this album a day. It features a keyboard I borrowed from a friend of mine direct into my computer and recorded in Cool Edit. This album is ambient and noisy, giving it a Merzbow meets The Residents feel. Recorded 1-9-04."

nothing nothings - Seven Sins, Seven Dwarves (12 songs, 30:04) - Lifer Sean gets a double deduction: -1,000 points for taking 26 hours and -1,000 points for the 3rd song being "sort of a cover." Fortunately, if we erase song #3 then it comes in at under 24 hours and over 20:00 minutes, cover-free. Let's just call #3 a "b-side," shall we?

Tree Club - I Found Rock! (16 songs, 22:10) - "This is the first album-a-day by the world famous Tree Club. It was written, recorded and produced in 24 hours: from 9pm 30/01/04 to 9pm 31/01/04 (we slept in the middle, so it was actually completed in something like 14 hours). I think this album successfully chronicles how very strange the members of the Tree Club are, and I think you'll agree when you listen."

Watzo - This Any Day (7 songs, 20:17) - First timer Watzo says: "I decided to participate because I usually write/record one song per month, so I could use a little extra drive." That's the spirit!

pia-muk - 1+ - (20 songs, 20:00) - Coming in at just on the nose, pia-muk writes: "Here it is, my 2nd a-a-d. This was an experiment in which to see the degredation of a single note layered with a one plugin per song. The songs are named after the plugin used respectively (some of which are Tom's creation)."

pia-muk - thirty songs in thirty seconds - (30 songs, 0:30) - Participating in "The Crunch," pia-muk writes, "This one i made during one+. i wanted to push the rules of a-d-d to the limit. this album (along with one+) was made in 5 straight hours." It's actually our first album that only qualifies because of the number of songs rather than the length.

pia-muk - thirty songs in fifteen seconds - (30 songs, 0:15) - Brevity nut pia-muk says: "thought i'd try it again a little shorter this time. theres a bit of a structure to this one. track 31 is all of the songs mixed (it wasnt working out quite the way i wanted it to individualy). am i overdoing this? enjoy!!!"

Whimsical Fetus - The In-Out, In-Outs of Whimsical Fetus - (4 songs, 27:33) - The mysterious and anonymous Whimsical Fetus writes, "We are pretty. And we wear make-up. And our breasts are the super large. You will stare at us and we will hypnotize you with our musical jigglings. We live in small rooms. Attach ourselves to the walls of your favorite Bolliwood super star. He plays the drums. I play the synth. And we give out free hugs. This album is about free hugs."

Whimsical Fetus - The Leg's Urethra - (6 songs, 31:32) - For an apt description of their tunes, read the included blurb: "We sat around in a garage overloading a synth and this cat kept looking at us meowing. A soft little coo of a meow, it reminded me of Skeeter from Nickelodeon's Doug. Once when I ordered a Meatmen album from a respected online music dealership they sent me XTC's 'English Settlement' instead. I think I still have some pent up anger about that. Word is Bond. I've named every single one of my instruments after John Henry, the steel driving man. This album was recorded in one night back last summer. Every child has an August of 2003. This album is dedicated to those that respect the broccoli, and tame the cauliflower."

pia-muk - north avenue, apt. 2 (2 songs, 18:51) - Addict pia-muk writes, "bummer, this one comes in 1 minute under the limit. i recorded this one about 4 years ago when i used to smoke alot of pot. it was recorded in a winter evening in the y2k to a tascam porta-7 using a korg polysix, korg electrovibe, roland drum machine (i think), boss tremolo and a fender strat pluged in direct from a fender combo amp. i was listening to a lot of sonic boom's stuff then (e.a.r., spaceman 3) and it shows. good times and lonely places." -1,000 points for not making it to 20 minutes!

Grinding Apathy - Right places, strange trash (11 songs, 24:17) - First timer Mark, who read about us in Newsweek(!), writes: "I had planned to work for the whole 24 hours but during the time the songs became stranger and stranger. After 21 hours, when I had finished a song that sounds like a soundtrack for a fictitious C64 computer game I realized it was time to stop. For the most part the songs are pure crap but at least they sound very obscure and therefore I like them somehow. And overall the album has a rather dark atmosphere and is really varied so I think despite all it's deficits it has some right to exist." There is a whole ".com" devoted to this album, apparently.

The Cast-iron Geronimos - The Lowland Sessions (12 songs, 30:20) - Spokesman for the Geronimos writes, "The collaboration of two great bands and five great minds. Covering most genre's of music. Pushing the boundaries of possibility even further. The Conversation and The Generalissimos invade and conquer Devon for the good of music!"

Feldspar - Between and Among Friends and Strangers (17 songs, 24:35) - "Feldspar's first album. Guy and guitar acoustic folk stuff. An experiment in cognitive dissonance, mostly. Songs without structure, words without sentences. I started with seventeen improvised-at-random acoustic guitar tracks, each between one and two minutes long. They took a total of fifty-one minutes to record. I took a break to go to work, then came back, wrote lyrics, then, after a nap, recorded the vocals. Then I uploaded. I had a bunch of fun, too!"

Tlogmer - 2 cigarettes (14 songs, 34:15) - "The first 20 minutes of Two Cigarettes were recorded in one fell improvisatory swoop around 1 a.m. on March 3rd (very quietly, so as not to wake my housemates, though the mic being next to the speaker helped the keyboard come through). I spent the next 2 hours dividing it into tracks (1 through 11) and giving them mildly pretentious titles, then took a picture of myself smoking a cigarette and went to bed. On waking I decided that the the second Oasis cover, as well as not being strictly allowed, was really fucking bad, and improvised another 4 minutes (tracks 12-13). Then I took a picture that didn't make me a diseased buffalo and played around with it in Paint Shop; it's desktop size and looks a bit like I'm lighting myself on fire (like a cigarette; get it?) Finally, around 1 p.m., I recorded Dr. Robotnik battles the forces of neutrality."

Whimsical Fetus - Instant Instructions For Those Who Follow No Master (6 songs, 21:02) - Whimsical Fetus strikes again: "Alex Trebek is known for walking around the set of Jeopardy with a button that says 'Pat Sajack Looks Like a Badger.' That is what this album talks about on a visceral level. The perverse, voyeuristic pissing contest between these two giants of the Merv Griffin empire. On the cerebral level, this is an album speaks to those who want to live independently from all rules and regulations, from those written in the law books, to those that are 'innately' attached to us from birth. This album presents the listener with a strict guideline of regurgitations and rools to reach disattachment and disenfranchise their business from the corporate monopoly that threatens to touch each and every one of us in our 'no-no zone.' This was all done solo because all of my friends are married to corruption."

Quincunx - Crystal Aegis Prototype (23 songs, 21:48) - Quincunx toots his imaginary horn: "Quincunx went to amazing lengths for this album. He traveled from Maine to Finland to track down one of the few remaining prototype cartridges of an unreleased game from 1989, made for a rare console few people even remember, let alone own. Using an incomplete ROM dump from the damaged cartridge, obscure software, raw determination and brute force, he failed to compile a fully functional version of the game, but he did manage to extract much of the game's 8-bit soundtrack. Unbelievable, isn't it?"

nothing nothings - Sudden Cabin Decompression (10 songs, 20:28) Sean reports: "My seventh AAD and first entirely instrumental one, Sudden Cabin Decompression was rushed out in 4 hours to help me decompress for the one day I had between running this year's Crap-Art-esque Indie Game Jam and attending a conference. It's pretty crappy, although it offers lots of tritones and funny time signatures, if that bloats your moat."

Whimsical Fetus - Three Points (3 songs, 24:42) - "You know, gang, when you're a noise artist, you never know where the day will take you. You may find yourself strung out in a urine pool of true-to-life living. Or you may find yourself going down to the store for a lozenge. I've witnessed small apes slapping each other on the chest in outrageous displays of bravado. I once bought and drank an entire can of coconut milk before residing into my thinking lab for a few hours of creative expulsion. I have even parallel parked poorly and didn't worry about getting a ticket or my car scratched. So why face the risk of uncertainty every time you pick up your electronic devices? BECAUSE! You gotta soak in that urine, you gotta suck that lozenge! 'Cause if you don't ... who will?" I think Whimsical Fetus will!

Niall Moody - The Outside World (13 songs, 21:25) - First-timer Niall Moody writes, "I ran out of time pretty quickly and ended up using more electronic sounds than I'd intended, out of convenience. I don't think it's too bad, but track 9's pretty terrible."

pia-muk - bludgeoning the witness (5 songs, 20:10) - Regular contributor pia-muk writes: "One long eye burning 20 hour in front of blinking lights and precariously placed 1's and 0's acting as analog synth. Geeks note: reason 2.5, fruity loops 4 (song 4 only) nuendo 1.6, sound forge 7, cool edit pro 2; various plug-ins; izotope ozone and waves ultramaximizer+ for mastering. no midi whatsoever. all carpal tunnel inducing point and click. too jobless for musical insturment digital interface. (all song titles are quotes from serial killers. that outta get yer juices flowin')"

Jason Irvin - The Buzz: 90's Alternative Hits (11 songs, 20:01) - Jason, just squeaking by the twenty minute mark, describes his album as follows: "A piece of primarily computer generated noise that calls to the nostalgia of the grunge era. Each song intends to your love of the songs they are named after without having anything to do with them. Pick up your flannel and write 'i heart kurdt' on your favorite cons, because it's The Buzz. Recorded on 4-4-04, the first day of daylight savings."

Charlie Crane - Crap Art (8 songs, 27:06) - Submit form minimalist Charlie Crane writes only that he began at 8:00 and finished at one minute after midnight.

Danalog - ckt3 (2 songs, 20:12) - Second timer Danalog writes, "Started at 1 PM April 21, finished 8 AM April 22. Written while trying to recover data off my crashed main music hard drive. Since I lost almost all my samples, I had to find a different source, so I used SBaGen. Wrote the first song, had a good night's sleep, and then wrote the second."

berkano - super carbohydrate man (12 songs, 21:20) - Sprinter berkano writes, "This only took an hour and a half (helped in no small part by my Casio's auto-harmonisation & auto-accompaniment). And it shows. All the tracks were improvised and recorded in one take. And it shows. Although it might be unbearable, the album sounds best if you listen to the tracks in order - there is a vague structure to it. Look out for 'mandelbork' and 'more questions than answers', they're my favourites. Most of the titles were inspired by phrases I found in a local newspaper."

WiL aka TB - Project 17 - Sherman Takes a Trip (18 songs, 1:03:02) - Rule-breaker WiL admits, "This AAD does not as strictly follow the guidelines as the others listed here. Rick Veitch, one of the original creators of the 24-hour comics, did his comic in 'short creative periods over a number of days totaling no more than 24 hours.' In that spirit, then, was this album done. The final product did in fact take a little more than 24 hours, but the project is the length equivalent of three albums-a-day, and it took far, far less than 72 hours over the course of the couple weeks worth of mornings that the work was accomplished. I'm rather proud of this one, myself." A couple of weeks!? That sounds like -1,000,000 points to me!

Acrnym - Life Is Too Short To Listen To Records (9 songs, 20:07) Apparent 'enlightened' contributor Acrnym writes of his first album: "21SSST CENTURY COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY!!!!!! This took about two or three hours out of my day to make. It sounds a bit uninspired, but my little sister likes some of the songy songs. Some of it is noisyz for the boisyz. LOLSIEYZ!!!! Encoded into CRUNCHY LITTLE MP3S OF VARYING BITRATES! For your downloading convenience! Less of a dissappointing waste of time when you find out that these little beeps and gameboy camera and guitar experiments were not worth the hassle! !!"

Jute Gyte - Jennifer (4 songs, 20:52) - "For my first AAD I decided to try mixing harsh electronic noise with sludgy doom metal. I chose the Splatterhouse game series for inspiration because I thought the miserable atmosphere of the series lent itself well to the genres. I think it turned out well. Recorded 04/28/04."

pia-muk - space travel for acrophobics (5 songs, 21:30) - AAD Regular pia-muk gives the following brief implementation details: "primary sound: moog modular v; additional implications: reverb compression."

Blue Lang - Beautiful Lunchbox (6 songs, 20:00) - Blue Lang comments: "Eighteen hours start to finish, no breaks. Played all the instrument. Only drum machine is what was used for a click track and later left in. Only sample is a fucking White Stripes song added because I was 8 seconds short. I wanted to do an AAD that was an album with actual songs and singing and whatnot, even tho I suck at both singing and songwriting. It was also a really good studio exercise for just getting my crap together and doing that much recording all at once. 'President' and 'Goals' are everyone's fave so far.."

Glenn Case - Keeping the doctors away (6 songs, 20:04) - First-timer Glenn writes: "This was a lot of fun. It took roughly 10 hours and 35 minutes to make. All of the information should be easy to see from the site." He also promises lyric links and 'more evened out volumes' soon.

charcoal - Don't go golfing (6 songs, 20:38) - Another visitor from Songfight! writes: "First shot at an album-a-day; turned out to be a fun challenge. Pulled six titles out of a random phrase generator, and 24 hours later, this is what I'd come up with. Could probably have used more time, but I think it has its moments of okayness. For style, think slow, electric guitars with off-key singing and drum beats where they don't belong. Lyrics are all on the web-site, and I kept a running diary of what I was doing for the day, which also might make for interesting reading."

Jim Tyrell - Yard Sale (8 songs, 21:30) - SongFighters are (not surprisingly, based on the name) very interested in battle. Jim merely remarks: "Yet another SongFighter throws his hat into the ring."

David Swain - Fish Bowl (7 songs, 20:03) - Dave says: "I wrote, recorded and mastered all 7 tracks on Tuesday in about 10 hours. The styles range from song to song. I have everything from blues to heavy metal to dark acoustic ballads to guitar/techno music. They are all instrumentals because I cannot sing, but they hold up by themselves fairly well. I used Soundforge and Madtracker (http://www.madtracker.org) to compose and write all the songs. I especially like the tracks 'You Can Tell,' 'Ashes' and 'Heroes for Ghosts.' I hope you enjoy the songs and it was a LOT of fun doing this in such a restricted amount of time. I will never forget doing this."

15-16 puzzle - Traditional Classes Don't Work (13 songs, 20:32) - Sometimes people make AADs and then don't even tell me about them, but I find them by some other means. This is one of those.

Avarice - Stickin' It To The Man 24-7 (8 songs, 22:14) - They took a break from stickin' it to write: "This is our first attempt at an Album-A-Day or any album at all. As a result, it is not exactly the finest accomplishment in the history of musical history."

Andre was here at midnight - stream of subconcious thoughs on a friday (10 songs, 24:53) - Andre says: "it was late, i was board.. and i though to do an Album a day where i just hit record and start singing about anything thats in my mind. unfurtunaly it did not come out like that. even though most of the songs where ad lib vocally, i'd try to polish anything i though was worth it." He also has offered his flash AAD browser for anyone who wants to use it.

Heuristics Inc. - a very serious crime (12 songs, 21:04) - "This is an album-a-day project by Heuristics Inc. I took some inspiration from Brad Sucks, and combined it with inspiration from SongFight! and decided to do an album where I had to get all the song titles (and the album title) from spam emails that I had in my spam-box on the same day as the project. It turned out to have an actual story that runs through the songs, so see if you can tell what's going on. Let me know what you think of it! Took 15:36 to finish."

c hack - AAD (24 songs, 42:30) - Newbie c hack submits a fairly hard-core attempt: "24 songs, 24 hours. Begun at dawn on June 20th (the longest day of the year) and finished by dawn on June 21st. I got 3 hours of (mostly accidental) sleep, and ate 10 Newman's O's and a small bowl of noodles and beef. Aside from that, the whole time was spent on this project." Believe it or not, nobody has done a 24 song album up to this point.

Blind Mime Ensemble - Six On Sunday (6 songs, 22:19) - "Blind Mime Ensemble is the home recording plume thing for Bryan Baker. Several folks at songfight.org had been talking about doing one of these things so I figured I'd give it a shot too. Turned out to be harder than I thought, but I made it. Napping doesn't help. Whiskey does. Writing lyrics for 6 songs is tough, but it gets easier once delirium hits. Sweet, sweet delirium. Shouting gets rough as well. I resorted to milk for My Addiction. Also it's a good idea to know that drumming after midnight is gonna lose you some points with the neighbors probably. Not that it matters."

Feldspar - Playing Nuclear Bingo (14 songs, 20:18) - Feldspar says, "This is my second album-a-day. It is about puppets. We're all puppets, you know. Men and women, children, teachers, doctors, mailmen, all, everyone, all puppets. I'm a puppet, too."

John Ingram - Oh Crap, What Have I Gotten Into? (7 songs, 22:29) - "um. well I got about 5 hours into the project when it suddenly dawned on me that I wanted to go do something else. so I struggled through another 2 hours to finish up 7 instrumental sketches. 6 of these were meant to have vocals in some capacity. alas my attention deficit disorder would not allow it. so I left them as they were. I'll admit to sleeping and stopping long enough to take my wife to the OB/GYN (it's a boy, fuckers). total time from start to upload: 22 hours." Thanks for sticking it out.

Starfinger - Ho! (9 songs, 21:00) Starfinger only reports that he "desperately needed to do this."

Jon Eric - Teenager (4 songs, 15:18) Rulebreaker Jon writes: "I know it's below the required length, but I had some extinuating circumstances (damn surprise party wasted four hours), and the worst you can do, I reckon, is refuse to host it, right? I worked really hard on it, and I'm pleased with the results, more or less. I promise to have another one that actually does meet the requirements in one week's time." That's not the worst, Jon, you can get -5,000 points !

Jim Tyrrell - Hey You (9 songs, 20:30) Jim says: "This is my second Album-A-Day, recorded on 6/20/04. I was trying to keep pace with c hack's '24-songs-in-24-hours' challenge, but I couldn't make it. That said, this one went a lot smoother than the first, and I'm happier with the results."

The Tiny Paws of Fury - The Noble Art of the Knob Gag (11 songs, 22:50) The tiny paws write, "On my third attempt, I managed to get over my AAD ADD and finish one! Total time 16 hours and 4 mins. One hour mixing to mp3. It features lots of bad language and depraved ideas, so I guess it's parental advisory, in the sense of 'advise yr parents to leave the room'. Music - Cabaret Voltaire meets Badly Recorded Acoustic Folk, with kazoos. And out-of-tune yet strangely charming crooning. Words - hehehe. Songs about smoking, taking drugs, clowns, science fiction, twisted priests & Hall & Oates. Business as usual!"

High Density - The 4th of July (9 songs, 20:04) True Patriots "High Density" write, "Some people spent Independence Day picnicing, drinking, and watching fireworks. We spent Independence Day recording this damn album. We hope you like it."

Jon Eric - Words (9 songs, 23:43) - A repentant Jon writes, "I promised I'd have a real one in a week. So one week from my dismal failure, out pops this. The cover art is a detail of a painting by my late grandmother. Hope someone out there enjoys this."

Chuck Larish - Things Go Well (20 songs, 20:56) - Chuck, who knows how to use company resources, writes, "This is really an AAWD (Album-A-Work-Day). I work in the audio department for a childrens' multimedia publisher. Things have been a little slow, so to keep myself sane I wrote these songs between 12:00 and 17:00 on 07/08/04. The miniscule amount of post-production took place on 07/09/04 between 08:30 and 11:30. Even with a couple of projects rolling in I was still able to complete this in the 24 hour period."

Niveous - The Scattershot (7 songs, 20:20) - "The Scattershot is lo-fi acoustigoth punk antifolk with themes ranging from werewolves, columbine-esque killers, suicide, overdoses, broken friendships, masochism and the space race. It was a very hard project to do as I had very little time to work on it. But it was a worthwhile venture. Thanks to Johnny Cashpoint, Andrew was Here at Midnight, Fishboy Rex and everyone else who helped me with this album. Get out your headphones and I hope you enjoy it."

Maxfield - Pendulum (11 songs, 21:00) - Max is back again: "Here's #9, recorded 6/19/04. This is a kind of electronic backlash to my mostly live last album featuring extensive use of my sampler. It has a kind of 'time' theme and a general weirdness loosely tying everything together."

nothing nothings - Once More From Personal Experience (8 songs, 22:37) - Our friend Sean writes, "This is my eighth AAD. You know what? I spend way too long writing lyrics for these, given that what comes out at the end is incredibly stupid even if it rhymes carefully. I guess I've gotta work on that. My favorite songs are front-loaded, although my vocals are as weak as ever. Also, much like my last AAD with vocals (my seventh was a throwaway four-hour instrumental thing), one of the songs is sort-of a cover. I know I shouldn't do this, but I get song title suggestions from friends, and 'The Hobbit Mafia', when I thought about it, really seemed to demand a particular reading, although I dunno how many people will get the joke. (As before, I didn't actually listen to the song I was 'covering', so the music isn't actually the same, just inspired by.)"

King Arthur - Dreams To Be Won (6 songs, 23:??) - Another Songfighter checks in with an AAD: "Recorded July 9, 2004, from 6:00 am to 9:30 pm. on an 8-track home studio, using Band In A Box, real guitars and voice and a few synth flutes and strings to get a full band sound. Songs are about... whatever was on my mind that day, I guess..."

Tom 7 - Fake Mars (18 songs, 20:33) - After a long break I'm back with my 18th solo album. Man, none of you guys will ever catch up to me. I like this one pretty good, although I had a bad habit of winding down at the ends of songs--even though they're only about a minute long.

feldspar - Crush! (16 songs, 20:12) - Feldspar says, "Making every attempt to catch up to Tom7. Three AADs down, fifteen to go. Got my work cut out for me. This album was fun to make because it's really really hot in my studio right now and I was afraid that if I turned on the fan then it would ruin the pristine quality of the recording. Also I spilled chocolate milk on my guitar amp."

reg - burn vitcums dreem comas (1 song, 30:28) - One song wonder "reg" describes this simply as "Improvised music with some friends of mine. drums, guitar and modified synth and piano."

Jute Gyte - The Burning Path (5 songs, 20:52) - Regular Jute writes, "This is my second organic AAD (the first being Jennifer) and fourth overall (I have 12 completed AADs collecting dust on my hard drive). I had been listening to a lot of hard, screaming punk, and decided to attempt to emulate it while using only a very minimalist percussive palette (two drum loops recorded by songfight cover artist dude Bortwein). Some of it sounds a little like sloppily-played black metal. The production is intentionally shoddy. I like this album a lot."

jcreed - Meat-Seeking Missiles (8 songs; 24:06) - First timer jcreed says, "My first long-overdue attempt at doing an AAD. I just pretty much sat down and improvised, though a few tracks are multiple passes. There's definitely a bunch of rythmic glitches, but I'm pretty happy with it. My favorite tracks are 'Intoxopower' and 'I Guess We've Solved All Problems'." This album is in MIDI format so you can download it all in like 3 seconds!

jcreed - Truly, All Robot #7JQ Requires Is Love (7 songs; 21:03) - Almost immediately after I posted his first album, jcreed adds: "I couldn't help it; I started playing some stuff while I was doing laundry and I couldn't stop. Album-A-Day 2 is here for your enjoyment or scoffing or what-have-you. Tracks 2, 3, and 6 are somewhat carefully put-together multi-track affairs. The rest are one-off improvisations. 1, 2, 4, and 6 are my favorite."

jcreed - Seek Him Who Shall Stand and Defend Western Music Notation (2 songs; 21:38) - At this rate, I'm doomed.

Peter Toth - Agenturen (7 songs; 19:22) - Peter writes, "'Agenturen' is my first attempt to do an Album-a-day. I failed to comply to the rules, as the process took a bit over 25 hours (due to technical problems, sleeping break etc.) and the total length is only 19.22 minutes. I'm quite happy with the results, anyway. Better luck next time! 'Agenturen' was created using a tiny Casio SA-3 keyboard, a guitar and a computer. The songs are in Swedish and Hungarian." -1,000 points for not making it to 20 minutes!

MC Poncho - Poncho and Spooch's Big Album o' Fun (8 songs, 21:18) - "Well, this turned out much better than I thought it would. I find it funny that Spooch and I considered inspirations and something wrong here to be the masterpieces of the album, and the big hit to be the joke catchy song. Ironically, more people like the big hit, and pressure, than any other tracks. Oh well. I still think it turned well."

Peter Toth - Case study: Beta (11 songs, 21:34) - "I think I'm becoming addicted.. This one contains slightly less electronica than 'Agenturen' did. More guitars and thematic explorations. I'm having a terrible cold, which lends my voice some special, um.. timbre. The songs are in English and Swedish."

pia-muk - muksys (13 songs, 24:38) - Pia-muk says, "after finishing my first attempt at circuit bending a speak and read, i recorded this in one shot. signal flow: bent speak and read - digitech dsp128plus multi effects processor - edirol ur-80 usb recording system input 1 - usb 2.0 - dell optiplex gx270 - cubase sx mono audio channel set at 48kHz 24bit broadcast wave - psp vintage warmer: knee boost @ 30 - eq boost +6 @ 20-500, eq drop -4 @ 500-5k - exported @ 41.Hz 16 bit stereo - cool edit pro 2.0, converted to 192kbps @ 41Hz 16bit stereo CBR improv divided into 13 songs for convienence."

WiL aka TB - In Praise of Dead Girls (7 songs, 21:11) - Regular Wil writes, "Done hastily but methodically. That noise at the beginning is my best representation of what I hear in my head whenver the lights are turned off. I have synesthesia which in my case means I hear colors and feel sounds. Other synesthetics have different brain wiring troubles, such as every letter on a page being a different color, and so forth. This just happens to be my nightly curse, which is perhaps the cause and certainly an agitator of my insomnia. Starting with that sound, I went with the idea of sleep and dreams, and came up with a concept album with ambiguous transitions between an ambiguous number of songs, hence the one big mp3. enjoy."

Avarice - Recorded Entirely Barefoot (5 songs, 26:28) - Riding the tail end of the Labor Day Weekend crowd, Avarice write: "Our second AAD is undoubtedly an improvement on the first production-wise, in that it actually plays from both speakers. Musically, it is probably an improvement as well. The title is true. Also, our first recording of Another Space In Time was wiped out by a lightning-storm induced power cut, so clearly, God is no fan of ours."

jcreed - Comme On l'Aime (5 songs; 22:09) - Jason writes, "The titles are all phrases I saw in French advertising materials while in Montreal. The first three were at McDonald's, all part of one sticker, which the cover is a photoshopped version of, the fourth was a poster in the subway, and the fifth at Burger King. I really love the pun between the letter M and 'aime.' Those wacky Francophone typographers! The audio quality is really bad, but I'm pretty happy with actual music on this one, especially on the title track."

Zen Tormey - Musical Vomit (23 songs; 1:29:44) - First timer Zen writes, "So I locked myself in my room for 9 hours and recorded 24 tracks of randomness with my Roland. Some of it sucks, some of it is all right, but the mixdown (track 00) of all 24 tracks at once is somewhat interesting. This is all instrumental, I can't sing. I kept everything I did, (even the one where I played for 39 seconds before being interupted by someone knocking on my door), and did everything in one take (except track 15, which is 15, 16, and 17 mixed together). This is my first AAD project. This stuff is mostly piano and strings with a few exceptions."

Future Boy - The Hotel Apartment (9 songs; 20:17) - Future Boy says, "This was created in approximately 8-9 hours. The song titles were used as search strings in Altavista's audio search function to find source material for each track. Some of the 'found sounds' were left unaltered, but some were edited and processed so much as to become completely unrecognizable. The resulting collage songs, I think, reflect quite well the mental condition of someone who has had to live in a hotel room for 4 weeks without a job and, until very recently, without a computer."

pilesar - no good for eyeballs (7 songs; 24:56) - Jason AKA pilesar contributes this album that he "threw together last week."

jcreed - On the Breeding Edge (20 songs; 45:53) - Jason drops this lengthy number on us, writing, "Jesus. I was using some different software than before for MIDI recording, and I understood the ruler it had in its interface to be measuring seconds. But no, it was measures. And at 120bpm 4/4, that's two seconds a measure. So an album that was meant to barely sneak past 20 minutes barely snuck past 40. No wonder my hands are so tired. Well, I can also blame practising the crazy finger-over-thumb 5/4 shit in 'Cello Kat' for part of it."

We Are Gloucester - Bathing In Welfare (9 songs; 20:08) - "This was an experiment with completely vocal music. Everything on here is created with my voice, and special computer audio trickery. No instruments. No other band members. Just my awesomeness. Rock."

jcreed - Modal Logic (8 songs; 20:55) - "This was supposed to be some experimentation with modal jazz, but I lost track of the theme somewhere around track six, I think."

Feldspar - Welcome to Iceland (15 songs; 23:33) - Lifer Feldspar writes, "There is a little bit of Iceland inside all of us, and that is what this album is about. This is my fourth album-a-day. It was recorded under the influence of cherry Jones soda and a Quiznos chicken carbonara sandwich."

The Fuck Up - Homemade Bling Bomb Songs (13 songs; 24:26) - An over-caffeinated Liam writes, "I did it in exactly 24 hours, every second maxxed upon and translated back into a vomit of unbridled smacked up gabba killcore pornslutfuckedinthehead mp3's for sick fucks like me and my wretched existence for vengeance. I know, I'm insane, but an'it great!"

Max and Ben - Slide Show (9 songs; 24:00) - Completing his own decathalon, Max writes, "This is my second collaboration with my cousin Ben, made 7/23/04. Ben is really good with his equipment so it was recorded quite well. An organic mix of live and electronic elements. Check it out!"

The Fuck Up - Back With A Vengeance (13 songs; 22:27) - "I suffered for this one, the sleep deprivation mixed with caffeine and cigarettes, gave me, once I finished this album and had slept in bed for a few hours, dementia, causing me to wake up screaming for 10-20 minutes. Stress in other words on my system, awake for over 30 hours with a non-stop supply of the above. Not good but regardless, it's a fine album. I've got to respect my limits otherwise I'll blow my brains out of fear."

Cephalad - Cutups Vol. 3 EP (20 songs; 20:49) - Cephalad is back, and writes, "Part 1, with 10 songs, is the more placid side of this AAD project. Part 2, which also has 10 tracks, is more heavily reliant on beats. Styles range from light IDM ('Warp Fever Fit') to hyperspeed, sample-driven techno ('299 Pennies,' 'Gray Sand Fury Tank') to ambient/noise compositions ('Dream For Minutiae,' 'There's the Scare')."

Heart Shaped Robots - ChromeCoalCobalt (8 songs, 21:00) This first-time robot writes, "Since finding out about the AAD project I'd been waiting nearly 3 weeks for a free 24 hours to really bash something out. Eventually though, I just decided to try cranking something out on a day I had to work. This did get me to move things along pretty quick, but while I spent well under 7.5 hours recording I did go slightly over the 24 hour limit. I know the rules, so I'll be a man and take the -1,000 points for not getting it all right my first time out."

Danalog - 1018 (10 songs; 20:10) - Danalog writes, "Started at 6:30 PM October 18th, finished 6:22 PM October 19th, just under the wire. Named 1018 initially after the date, and then to keep the trend I named all the songs after error codes in various programs. Listening order is unspecified." Available only as a convenient RAR file.

Heart Shaped Robots - Interstellar Discussion (doppelganger) (15 songs; 22:30) - Second-timer HSR writes, "This is a doppelganger of Jandek's Interstellar Discussion in honor of his live performace(!) at a Scottish festival last week. Making an AAD to the doppelganger rules was an interesting challenge/handicap to the time stipulation. It made for some neat departures, although I had to make about half-dozen more pieces than I really wanted to and left a couple things as instrumentals I'd have liked to write some lyrics for."

Thumbs Down - 100% Grade F Filler Vol. 1 (18 songs; 20:04) - These Thumbs write, "I believe I did not infringe on your rules in any way, except that I realized after the fact that track 6 sounds a little like tequila (totally unintentional), and track 18 was inspired by bjork's latest album (but in no way is it a cover - besides who could actually cover bjork?) At any rate, this was a lot of fun to make, and I'd like to thank you for coming up with such a great idea. it really made me work until i wanted to die - which is a good thing now and then. A few of the tracks are completely embarrassing, and ordinarily i would never show them to anyone, ever, but hey, no outtakes, right?"

Garbage Eater - Yeshua (10 songs; 22:53) - Mbeanis N. Alzin says, "Not intended as an AAD, but surprisingly close to meeting regulations. Written and recorded one night and the following morning, but vocals were recorded a few days later due to equipment difficulties. Total record time about 14 hrs. I hope you like 'Check Out My New Beard' and 'Faith Hand Grenade' too." You know the drill: -1,000 points for equipment difficulty.

Michael J. Nelson - Tree Nuts and Peanuts (16 songs; 20:41) - Second-timer mjn recorded this album on Christmas Day 2004. He says, "Lots of fuzzy guitars, crappy keyboards, fake drums, and MIDI bass. I was going to try some bizarre genre-mixing experiments, but the only one I got around to was noise-polka (although I realized later on that maybe another song could be called baroque shoegazing). I think it sounds kind of like Richard Hell's second album, actually--too much lead, not enough rhythm--although it's probably better than my first one."

Fire Swallows the Ocean - Secret Frequencies (6 songs; 21:55) - This story is starting to sound familiar: "Started this at 9:24 AM Dec 21 and finished just over 17 hours later. 6 tracks of electronic stuff left exactly as I finished them - complete with strange mixing levels and the odd mistake. I've been having real trouble finishing anything recently so something like this was the ideal kickstart for me. Hopefully I'll be able to apply what I learnt by doing this to my other stuff. Some of this came out really well and one or two of them weren't so hot - but I stuck to the no out-takes rule and put everything up online."

Tony Asbestos - Two Days After (8 songs; 20:33) - Yet another songfighter graces us, and writes, "Two Days After was recorded on December 27, 2004. It was a very long but rewarding day. When you have to come up with nearly a minute of finished music every hour for 24 hours straight, there is no time for writer's block. The ideas came out, and good or bad they made it into the songs. I like the result."

ClaudiusMaximus and Trel - Din And Sonic (3 songs; 23:50) - "Me (ClaudiusMaximus) on synth, Trel on guitar, we decided to do an AAD the day before we did it. Mostly just jamming, with minimal post production - with the conflicting aims of being longer than 20mins to avoid the -1000 points, and shorter than 24mins so it would fit on 8cm mini-CD. The raw recording of the jam session was 37mins, so if you were being exceedingly pedantic I suppose you could deduct points on the 'no out-takes' rule. Artwork was also finished within 24hours, as was the upload to archive.org."

Marcus Kellis - Bloggin' ...And Other Assorted Love Songs (12 songs; 20:09) - "Came in just shy of 24 hours recording time. Mostly inspired by things around my desk, it's wholly me and my guitar. My guitar has a sticker that says 'Cutie on Duty,' and that basically sums up the album."

Future Boy - New Year's Day (Automatic Writing) (12 songs; 24:30) - The holiday is bringing loads of new albums. Second-timer Future Boy writes, "This album was written and recorded between 3am and 11am on New Year's Day, 2005, after returning home from a New Year's Eve party. The lyrical style is inspired by an improvised song performed by one of the children at the party named Milo. He is almost 5. Some of the words of his song were written down and they appear on this album as the song Hoidle. All of the lyrics were written in the space of about 30 minutes in a semi-stream of consciousness way. The keyboard being used is a Rhodes Mark I Stage Piano, which I am currently baby-sitting for a friend of mine. It is fun to play, but kind of hard on my wrists."

Andre was here at midnight - Songs for the Dead - 7 songs for dreaming (8 songs; 24:51) - Andre writes, "This came about after failing on my original intensions for this AAD (a rock album). Vocals on the original album where getting the best of me so I quit. It was around 2 am already, and I wanted some sleep, so I thought I'd spend the next couple of hours doing 20 minutes worth of music to later sleep through it. The titles are all from actual previous dreams of mine."

The Duckets - Ploop (7 songs; 20:54) - "We're a band who's been playing together for about a year and a half now. I read about the AAD project from Future Boy's site and thought it would make for some nice mental floss. We started at 7:25pm and finished at 5:40am. Unfortunetly I had to take a 4 hour nap after tracking. I can only do 24 hours at a time. Woke up, then did the mixing in 3 hours." Gone over? That's -1,000 points for napping.

Domo Domo - Enemy of EQ (7 songs; 38:42) - "This is my first Album a Day. I learned a lot in the process. For instance, I learned that the little ruler bar in my DAW does not in fact count the seconds, but some different arbitrary number. So songs somehow ended up twice as long as they needed to be, as I was freaking out about time for no reason. The results of this added constraint are, in particular, crappy." I have made this same mistake in the opposite direction.

Niall Moody - Quiet Rings (11 songs; 21:39) - Niall writes, "My second AAD turned out a lot better than the first one, although there's some pretty terrible time-keeping (I should have used a metronome for more than 2 tracks). Almost entirely acoustic."

Kool Shades - Rome (9 songs; 30:46) - The Kool Shades say: "This is our first AAD; actually, it's our first album at all. It was recorded in about 7 1/2 hours on 1-13-05. It's extremely unprofessional and was recorded with the crappy external mic that came with my computer. Play the entire album backwards to hear the secret message."

Calfborg - Tromein (9 songs; 78:55) - "This is my first and only attempt at noise. It took about 6 hours to complete. It was fun."

Andre was here at Midnight - "Loneliness" The Soundtrack (8 songs; 21:37) - Oops! I just found this one from September 2004 misfiled into my spam folder. Andre writes, "I'd been wanting to do an all Classical music AAD for a while...Saturday evening rolled around, I was board and though I'd give it a shot. Fortunately at the time, I didn't feel like doing classical, but more like a soundtrack for a movie that only existed in my mind, And here's the results. started around 11:00pm Saturday night, recorded most of it, till around 7:00 am Sunday morning. Later finish 2 more track, all before 10:00 pm Sunday. Overall am pretty please how the soundtrack came out."

Maxfield - Redlines (8; 20:08) - AAD workhorse Max says: "For this, my eleventh AAD, I wanted to do something really different from my previous ones. So, I cranked up the distortion on everything and made a really loud, lo-fi, and rockin' set of tunes. Equipment included my brand new keyboard (Nord Electro), Kaoss Pad, melodica and Garage Band virtual instruments (needless to say I didn't use any of their prerecorded loops). Everything recorded between 10am 1/9/05 and 12:30am 1/10/05."

Director Feline - "is this outer space?" (9 songs; 21:07) - According to the press release, "Director Feline is 1/2 of the psychedelic rawk band I APACHE EYE. This particular album was written, recorded, and mixed in four hours on 1/27/2005."

Cuban Bimbo - Vampiric Quartet (10 songs; 32:54) - Cuban Bimbo reports: "This is our first attempt at a CrapArt Album-A-Day album. We recorded this album from 1pm 1/29/2005 to 4am 1/30/2005. We recorded the music first and then laid the vocals(?) using lyrics created on various random lyric generators on top of that. Other effects were added with a circuit bent DOD Flanger Pedal dubbed The Drunken Sailor Flanger. Watch those ears!!!"

Spud - A Case of Octothorpe (7 songs; 22:15) - "Glenn Case came out to Seattle and joined the Mighty 'thorpe for a day of song writing and recording." My goodness, they have uniforms!

berkano - a history of reading (10 songs; 23:17) - Wily berkano writes: "My second contribution to the Album A Day project. I saved loads of time by writing this album at 255 BPM then I slowed it down to 120 BPM. The end result is a musical abomination, 23 minutes of material recorded and mixed in 20 mins flat."

Darrin Ailes - Casual Friday (9 songs; 23:11) - Newcomer Darrin writes, "This is my first AAD project; written, recorded and mastered on January 19th 2005 from 9am to 11pm. It was not an easy task, especially since I recorded full arrangements for most of the songs (drums, guitar, bass and vocals). I was in a creative rut, hadn't really written anything in a couple of years, and figured that this would be a good test to see the little creative soul was still there. Amazingly enough, it was. I covered quite a few genres along the way. I wanted to make sure any outlet was available to me. The album is okay, I think, for being written in 14 hours. A couple of the songs I really do like. Some of the mastering is pretty bad, but at 11pm, I didn't much care. Not sure when the next attempt will be. It was mentally and physically draining for me. I think next time I may try very simple arrangements... but then again... what fun is that!"

The Splott Community Workshop - In Absentia (11 songs; 22 minutes) - The workshop reports, "Splott Community Workshop is the sound of two guys, a couple of guitars, a 1980's Casio keyboard and a computer. The entire album was recorded with a crappy little modem mic you get free with your PC. This is our first AAD project and is a doppelganger based on the Porcupine Tree LP 'In Absentia' which we found just typing random search words into Amazon. It's an interesting mix of genres, skipping between Pavement-esque indie rock, tongue in cheek country ballads and death metal to give just a few examples. The project sent us somewhat insane, with the last track that we recorded ,at 4am, ending up as a 43 second circus music romp with French vocals...."

Feldspar - Calc Hole (15 songs; 21:01) - Feldspar says, "This is my fifth album-a-day. This one goes out to everyone who has ever found themselves opressed by mathematics."

Dave Dean - i ♥ crap art (7 songs; 21:08) - Dave is back, and writes: "This took about 19 hours, I thoroughly recommend 'Chris Martin Can Lick My Nuts', and 'Like Helium Balloons To Heaven'. Despite their rough mixes, both of those are amongst my favourite output over the past few months."

BuZ and The Machine - Walking on Black Keys (14 songs; 20:39) - BuZ says: "The juxtaposition of styles may not please to everyone, but who cares? that's art! :P All done from 10 am to 10 am the next day, including the album cover art :)"

Soulseek Records - 24 hour massacre - The 24HM team writes: "24 Hour Massacre (24hm) is a variation of a on-going project series call OneMinuteMassacre (1mm). Using a soulseek chatroom, artists gathered for a 24-hr period to create this album. The idea was to give an artist 40 minutes to press as much creativity as possible into one short song. After the 40 minutes was up, a new artist would be chosen who would download the previous song and create a new one using the previous as a focus point; the idea basically to make the song transition seamless as if it were mixed. The result - 26 tracks, each one with its own special and sometimes insane flavour. In short, '24 Hour Massacre' is a team effort. Everyone's work counts and when put together it becomes a solid piece of creativity under stress."

Peter Toth - Machete (12 songs; 20:54) - Peter says, "My third album-a-day. This time I tackled everything from hiphop to afrobeat to ballads. Well, not really, it's mostly just weird crap. Instruments used: Acoustic guitar, bass, software drum machine, djembÃ© drum, agogo, kalimba, Baby Grand toy piano, vocals and one or two external samples. Once again, I was having a cold when it was recorded, so the singing is messed up. The mixing is awful too. I like it. (I missed the mark by about two hours so that's probably -1000p for me)." Damn straight: -1,000 for running over!

Theophilus Monk - Tries Their Best (9 songs; 20:01) - "Done between April 9 and April 10 2005. I'd done one previously (solo, Marcus Kellis), but this was with my band, Theophilus Monk. We had a blast making it and did, in fact, try our best. 'Punching a Cow in the Face' is my personal favorite."

Andre was here at midnight - Guitar & Violin (9 songs; 24:51) - Andre writes: "Here's my 4th album a day, created out of boredom and a mild case of the flu, late Saturday night / early Sunday morning. The most challenging album yet, but the most rewarding one also. It took me about 26 hours to complete so I'll take a big virtual slap in the face and -10,000 points." Consider yourself slapped, slowpoke!!

The Francisbacons - Protocrystalline (12 songs; 21:42) - News flash: AAD causes delinquency! "Hello. We are Christian & Rafa. Congratulations on the project, it's a great initiative. When we found out about it we couldn't wait to try and do an AAD, so we met the next day and skipped class! We had never done anyhting musical together because we were too lazy and scared to try, so this was the perfect excuse (yes, restrictions can help you be creative!). In the beginning we were planning on doing 30 songs, but as time passed by we got really tired... so we reached for the 20 minutes instead. The name of the band, the album and all the song titles come from Wikipedia's random page generator (www.wikipedia.org), so they didn't really mean anyhting. Oh, we are spanish, even though the third song is the only one in spanish. Maybe that's new."

Danalog - Sanila (10 songs; 20:26) - "Started at 3:00 AM May 7th, finished 3:00 AM May 8th, ended up so close under the wire I had to stop partway through working on a song to stay in the time limit. If converting to mp3, writing this text, packaging up, and uploading counts in the 24 hour limit, I'll take my -1000 points, if not I'm scott-free!" I don't count packing things up as long as you're quick about it. Full score!

Willy & Oli - #01 @ Montpellier (9 songs; 21:27) Another close call: "Written, played & recorded in Montpellier, France, in 23 hours and 50 minutes, between April 7th and 8th 2005. A first experience of Album-A-Day, and probably not the last. It's been a challenge to make this album, but after almost a whole day, we can say we are proud of us... But we'll try not to be so lazy on the next one!"

Scrap Heap - Regressions in Succession (7 songs; 22:13) - "Seven songs in seven genres in seven hours, including a new genre I invented, 'sketch.' No vocals, because things were going just fine without any." New genres are encouraged.

Olivier - The Incredible Sound Of Magic Rabbit (8 songs; 20:17) - Olivier says: "First experience alone, and the result is an incredible sound. 8 songs in less than 7 hours. Enjoy ..."

Cat Podulke - Sango Slingshot Eject - Not a Good Idea (12 songs; 28:30) - In a display of post-AAD hysteria, someone from Cat Podulke writes, "We finished this about 8 minutes before 1 am on Monday morning... almost not completing everything on time.... Not promising anything particulary wowish, but everyone will probably laugh or gasp alternatively at 'Henry Rollins Got No Neck' or 'Baseballhead'... truely not related. It was very fun... my first particular venture into producing an album, although one of the people involved in this project has REAL published music out.... WHEEEE. Pancakes. Now excuse me, for I must sleep for 18 hours."

Les Autistes Vagabonds - T'as Vu Ta Gueule ? (10 songs; 20:14) - Olivier and friends write: "Kind of a challenge to make music with people you don't know very well, and a lot more to make an album ! I especially like the song 'Don't Trust What People Say', sort of warning about medias and stuffs."

nothing nothings - Fictional Characters Get All The Girls (8 songs; 21:17) - Sean writes: "Ten months (!) after my last one, here's my ninth AAD. As usual I took song title suggestions from friends; for some reason most of the titles I used were awfully long. The city of Oakland (and my apartment) lost power for about an hour while I was in the middle of recording it, so it wouldn't be unreasonable to suspect that I chose to interpret '24 hours' as referring to a contiguous block of 24 hours only in the version of the universe where space-time is appropriately ruptured and re-sown together to compensate." A true master AADician rocks through adversity (perhaps by resorting to pre-electricity recording devices like wax cylinders) but we'll let Sean get away with it without penalty this time.

John Governale - Songs of the Oxford Hills (8 songs; 22:50) - John says, "I wrote and recorded these eight songs over May 22 and 23, 2005, just making the deadline in 23 fun but exhausting hours. Though I have written a lot of songs over the years, I never released an album because my recording efforts, despite endless retakes and tweaking, always sounded unprofessional. AAD solved that for me. No more fruitless belaboring—just write 'em, record 'em, then post 'em. I love it."

M#gic Rabbit - Flying Without Wings (7 songs; 21:58) - "I tried to make this one really fast (less than 5 hours) and i didn't sing on it coz a friend of mine told me i was always out of key. New for me : i put some samples of drums on it, and i think it's kind of cool."

Eric Thortsen - Myfirstalbumaday (17 songs; ~20min) - Eric describes his album with only two capitalized words: "MIDI HEAVEN."

Eric Thortsen - New Folder (13 songs; ~24min) - Eric describes this album as, "if you have ears you can listen to my album otherwise take a hike," but then later adds: "I thought this was apparent, but now i'm beginning to think no one will get it. Basically, it's a world where things only communicate with music and it's a story about a couples night together and there experience with god. the song titles are supposed to be translations of what the song means in english. It's supposed to be like really awkward and funny becuase you picture the music being either the husband, wife, or god talking and the way they talk is just so strange."

Swaytek - The Unconditional EP (13 songs; 20:55) - Mike AKA Swaytek says: "this album took me about 3 hours to make...it has a bunch of random hip hop beats i made...hope you guys like it"

5dots - 5dots presents a 24-hour discussion of sonic possibilities, with friends. (10 songs; 20:42) - 5dots say: "I had friends who also make music come over to help, which worked for a while. I did take a break to sleep, then got up and finished production in the morning. I became very aware that I was running out of time, and recorded the last song as an effort to fill up space, which is why it's completely awful. 'With Time' is really good, though."

Kool Shades - The Children's Party Handbook (9 songs; 22:03) - "This is our second AAD and significantly better than the first. Perhaps it's our idea of a children's album, full of gloom and sadness, consistently undercut by goofiness and unprofessionalism. Pure pleasure!"

slappfisk aka neon - sitrondrops (14 songs; 20:13) - slappfisk writes with a lengthy album logbook, which says things like: "slappfisk is norwegian and means lazy fish." and "it was lots of fun. probably not my last aad album."

Juicy Jew - Big Words (14 songs; 18:10) - Asaf writes: "This album is called 'Big Words' mainly because of the way its lyrics were written. I took a piece of paper and divided it into 14 squares and then wrote several words on each, on random places, related to each other only by association. Then i filled the blank spaces between them and got me some lyrics for a 14 songs album. The site where this album is hosted is in hebrew, so I tried to write anything I could in english to make it more international..."

Cephalad - Cutups Vol. 4 EP (20 songs; 20:11) - nth-timer Cephalad writes: "This album was finished June 18, 2005. It mostly consists of heavily distorted beatboxing, spoken word, pure noise, and sounds generated by tapping or hitting objects lying around the computer...lo-fi beats and very few melodies, so you've been warned!"

the guy who did that one album - The Keyboard Instruments, and other Varied Instruments (8 songs; 34:59) - Eric is back, and writes: "Through this journey, we witnesses intrumental music of the highest caliber. Never has, nor could man have alone seeped so deeply into the human spirit crying out truths beyond most mens sight, for this album was created by the Spirit of Nature, and handed down to the one called puppet puppet music pants."

Adhesion - It's Really Hot Outside! (7 songs; 20:48) - Adhesion says, "My first AAD experiment (and second real album) made from 12:30PM July 6th to 2:30AM July 7th, 2005. Went strangely well - I was surprised at how I could write melodies in such a short period of time that didn't suck. Genres explored (exploited?) include eurobeat (track 5), noise (4,6), ambient (7), chiptune/NES (3, my favorite) and, uh, I don't know (1,2). Made entirely in software - be on the lookout for a couple instances of bufferoverride and rezsynth. Also, please note that the weather was actually pretty good when I made this album."

Los Bastardos! - #1 Hits (16 songs; 37:51) - The bastardos write, "This was recorded Feb 12 2005. I put up a bit of a story about our day on the site. We had a few problems actually getting started, not enough spots in the mixer, that sort of thing. So we had to improvise with our equipment a little. No overdubs! Recording took somewhere around 2.5 hours. it was mastered a little later, the entire process from setup to finishing the mastering took approx 9 hours. Recording live is great."

Adhesion - Uncertainty1 (8 songs; 20:35) - Adhesion is back, and writes: "Barely two weeks after my first, I made another AAD: this time I jumped right into crazed experimentalism and tried the dreaded Deaf Ear AAD. None of the songs were heard while they were being written or produced, however, (and take some points off for this if you must) I had to do some post-production mixing work after hearing the songs to make them not sound like crap. Honestly, I don't think it's possible to do a Deaf Ear AAD electronically (all in software, mind you) without terrible mixing. Anyway, some of the songs came out pretty good for having been written without any idea what they were going to sound like - particularly the first and last tracks."

dotCommunism - Making Music Sure Is Hard Work (7 songs; 20:57) - dotCommunism, a friend of Adhesion, says: "My first AAD. Just for the hell of it, i decided to do a deaf ear one right off the bat. It was quite fun and i definitely had enough ideas to go the whole twenty minutes. This album was done entirely with software. I guess making music isn't as bad as the title might make one think"

Tom 7 - Quad Emotional Damage (13 songs; 20:24) - I'm still at the forefront of rapid album making (at least in quantity) despite this one coming a year after my last one! This is a break-up album (like relationship break-up, not band break-up), so it is supposed to be sad. I also enforced a "no gimmick" policy; every song is just me and my guitar and nothing else. There are definitely some good songs on it, but I really suffered to finish...

Adhesion - Opus Magnus (44 songs; 2:23:25) - "Well, this isn't exactly an AAD, but I'd thought I'd submit it as an album made under extreme stress. Originally conceived as an attempt at 7 AADs in 7 days, it ended up taking 11, due to unforeseen circumstances and other things. At the end, I had a double album full of a random smattering of genres as per usual. Again, some pretty good tracks emerged from the chaos, like Fridge, Thorian Ninja and Last Star." Um, -1,000 for taking too long, but like +7,000 points for making seven albums in a marathon.

AOR - Deconstructing Neodialectic Deappropriation (1 song; 25:01) - This may be the least self-recommended AAD so far: "AOR, the collaboration project between Adhesion and dotCommunism, finally makes its first AAD. Made in only five hours, it consists solely of one horrible track that is at best an abomination. At an excruciating twenty-five minutes, Grandiloquent Longorrhoean Pleonasm (the title of the only track or the alternate name of the album) treads the line between music and noise making the listener very uncomfortable in the process. Recommended only for those with a brave heart and hardy ears."

Arthur Kamst - Ain't It So? (8 songs; 23:17) - Summer is the time for old-timers to come back to the game, I guess. Arthur writes, "After nearly two years, here is my sixth Album a Day. It's called Ain't It So?, and was actually all done in one evening, August 16th 2005, between 21:00 and 2:00. Just like its predecessor, it was meant as a Doppelganger; this time of dutch band Hallo Venray's album Merry go Round. But again, I ran out of time, so I ended up using eight of the twelve songtitles for this album, which I actually quite like."

Danalog - FUCK_VERIZON! (13 songs; 20:40) - "What do you get when you combine Verizon screwing me out of internet for over a month plus insomnia? My fifth Album-a-Day, of course!" Don't those bastards know a guy gotta get his inet???

Feldspar - Park Reverse Neutral (14 songs; 20:11) - 'Tis the season for returning elders, and Feldspar has challenged me to a race, at "only a baker's dozen short" of my record! He says of this album: "This is my sixth album. It is about bugs and monsters and girls. Some of the guitar work is really shoddy and the vocals are tired, but I guess those are sacrifices you must make for the comfort of recording an album while lying in bed."

Maxfield - Restless (12 songs; 20:14) I told you 'twas the season. Max says: "I went into this, my 12th AAD, intent on making a sort of song cycle where tracks transition seamlessly into one another all connected by an overarching theme and recurring motifs and subject matter, namely a night of dreaming (sort of using Neutral Milk Hotel's classic 'In The Aeroplane Over the Sea' as a loose model). As ambitious as this was, by some miracle I was able to accomplish this pretty much exactly as I had hoped. The trickiest part was that, since I had to have songs transition into one another, I made the album in chronological order and had to keep thinking at least one song in advance. This resulted in a pretty 'album'-sounding album with a nice arc from start to finish, though. Another tricky part was that these songs demanded far more lyrics than any of my other AAD's. In any case, there's plenty of textural variety and good stuff here IMO so give it a listen!"

Andre Was here at Midnight - Before the Breakdown (8 songs; 21:42) - Andre is another returning elder; he writes just, "Been wanting to do another album a day for a while, this past memorial day weekend finally got a chance."

ClaudiusMaximus - Soft Rock EP (4 songs; 20:48) - Claudius says: "This time solo, armed with a laptop and free/libre open source software. I started about 1am, finished around 7pm with plenty of time to upload. The bulk of the sounds are the result of chaotic interactions between mutually modulating oscillators, programmatically tweaked to make the tracks progress."

Giant Waxy Monkey Treefrogs - Whatever Happened to Elizabeth Gilpin? (9 songs; 29:21) - All that these treefrogs have to say is that this is their first, and best, album in a day.

David Strope - Misery The Audiophile (7 songs; 22:53) - David reports, "It's not long. It's not beautiful. But it is my first attempt at Album-A-Day. I jumped in with a concept album about a guy named Misery who happens to be an audiophile... Recorded in the hours between 8:00 AM and 12:00 PM on Friday, October 7."

Peter Toth - Time warp (7; 20:07) - Peter returns to tell us: "My fourth AAD, the first one after having converted to GNU/Linux and free software. My first AAD using my electric guitar, too. As usual, there are many genres here, as well as more awful singing"

Phunt Your Friends - How the Tales of Incubi, Djinns, and Nymphs May Interweave (13 songs; 25:48) - "This album tells a story about about love and death, and lots of other stuff too. The relevant characters are: Ariane, a prostitute who used to be a nymph; Cosette, a prostitute who used to be a djinn; Freddielove, a debonair playboy who used to be an incubus; Dead Nose (pronounced 'day-odd no-zay'), a incubus who used to work with Freddilove and an assassin working for the demigod Ashok (who doesn't appear in this story)."

Tyler McCool & Friends - are completely effing insane (9 songs; 22:17) - "So this was my second album-a-day. The first one Los Bastardos! - #1 Hits was a lot of fun and I've been wanting to do another for a while. This time the plan was to have as many people involved as possible and create something completely different. Instead of going for the completely low-fi sound like I did last time I wanted to clean up the sound a little and create a nicer sounding recording. I started at 12pm on Saturday and kept going until about 5am Sunday."

Bjam - October 13th (8 songs; 22:12) - Bjam, another songfighter, says: "I decided to do this in a day off from school, and this happened. All songs are vocals, acoustic guitar(Mr Sparkles), and an electric guitar(Mr Sun). I heard about AADs through SongFight.Org."

Olivier - Me vs Myself (7 songs; 20:35) - "Third AAD alone for me, under different names, but this one's the first i made in Canada... I'm waiting for some friends to make one with me, maybe only by internet ... Need to think about it. Again, thanks Tom7 for this f***ing good idea of AAD. It's saving my life." Well! You're f***ing welcome!

A Pisces - Crumbs (10 songs; 20:32) - Zage says: "A pop rock album, lots of melodies, lots of guitars, lots of electronics, lots of my inner influences (Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, Beatles, whatever) but when under the pressure of time it came out all of my deeper unconsciousness."

RedwaX - Silus (1 song; 22:47) - "Began recording at around 2:10PM, 10-24-05, finished mixing at about 5:06PM the same day. Not exactly what I was expecting, most of it is an exercise in annoyance, excess, and dischord. It's the story of a young boy named Silus. Silus is dead. Enjoy."

Pumpkin Buzzard - American Jellyfish (10 songs; 20:12) - These guys are sending in a bunch of albums from way back: "Our first album-a-day was completed in approximately 7 hours. It is also our first entirely organic album. Recorded Summer 2004. Enjoy!"

Pumpkin Buzzard - Vampire Rainbow (7 songs; 20:16) - "Our second album-a-day was completed in approximately 10 hours. ALL vocals are auto-tuned, save in the final song. Recorded Summer 2004."

Pumpkin Buzzard - Sunshine Synthesizer (7 songs; 31:36) - "Our third album-a-day was completed in approximately 6 hours. Recorded Spring 2005. Enjoy!"

Boobootin - pop music (16 songs; 30:16) - Motti from Israel says: "i found this site album a day. i like the idea to do album in 24 hours. i try and i like what i did."

GlaudiusMaximus - Dice Music (99 songs; 38:49) - Here's a 99-song record-breaker: "Laziness strikes a few minutes into an album-a-day project, why not get the computer to do the grunt work? This 'music' is algorithmically generated, but is unpredictable in an amusing and addictive way (at least to someone who has been awake all night). I can't remember when I started, but it's been (not much) less than 24 hours since I last woke up, so by the power of arithmetic I deduce I managed it in time." Algorithmically generated music is totally legit, as long as you do all the programming on the day itself. See also Wum's autogenerated metal on "Los Caballos..."

Total Amateurs - Dead Will Rise - (10 songs; 20:35) - These total amateurs write: "Our First attempt at the whole Album A Day phenom. Completed in 4.5 hours in one straight marathon session. total improv." Unfortunately not available for free download.

Slipperystar - Dandelion Wine (8 