Category: Music
Merry Christmas
For some reason, all the cliches of the Christmas season are more comforting and dear to me this year. I wish you a Merry Christmas if you need one, a more solemn but still Happy Christmas if you need that instead.
Monday Music by Suno: Tommy (Rudyard Kipling)
Monday Music by Suno: Thou Shalt Not Kill
By G. K. Chesterton, collected in The Wild Knight. (Note: contains dark humor about murder and suicide.)
Monday Music by Suno: Boot and Saddle
Based on the poem by Robert Browning.
I strongly advise anyone signing up for Suno to use their Discord accounts, if they have one. This allows them to bypass Suno’s rather intrusive demands for personal information.
Monday Music by Suno: Lepanto (Chesterton)
Severely abridged version of this famous poem:
Music by Suno Monday: Rikki Tikki Tavi
I know the female vocalist is kind of a different choice, but just pretend that it’s Rikki’s ally, the female tailor-bird, singing: https://suno.com/song/9b369786-912d-41d6-aa94-9c456021ea54
Also none of the male versions that Suno generated really captured the menacing agility of Rikki the mongoose and Nag the cobra.
If you’re not familiar with the story, the Chuck Jones adaptation is pretty faithful, with word for word narration by Orson Welles, and can be viewed here: https://archive.org/details/rikkitikkitavi_201701
Music By Suno Monday: Beowulf and the Dragon
I used an excerpt from some verse translation on gutenberg as the lyrics.
Musical Monday: Harry Potter Redneck Wizard
This seems to be a purely or nearly purely AI construct, with human prompting and editing, but I thought it pretty amusing.
