#10 – ‘Everything is Here to Stay’
Tenth song in ten weeks is ‘Everything is Here to Stay’. Hopefully not this lockdown… Everything is Here to Stay by AnecdataI wrote the bones of this song in 2012, using some live-recorded drum loops. At its heart, it’s a power-pop tune; that came across a bit more in the demo, while the version above...
#9 – ‘United States vs the Coronavirus’
There’s this thing you might have heard about called “the coronavirus”. Pretty obscure stuff to write a song about, I know, but hey – I like to stay a step ahead of the curve. United States vs the Coronavirus by Anecdata I wrote this song in February, just as the world’s worst wave of COVID-19...
#8 ‘Ricochet’
Number 8 in the list is ‘Ricochet’. Ricochet by Anecdata When I decided to try and record and release 52 songs in as many weeks, it was songs like this that I had in mind – shit I’d had lying around for years, if not decades, left to rot. My production skills have taken a...
#7 ‘Earth Utopia’
Song number seven of 52 will without doubt one of those which dates back the furthest… Earth Utopia by AnecdataI first wrote ‘Earth Utopia’ in 1998 as a teenager, In early 2001 I rewrote some of the words to include references to George W Bush, even taking the time to type them out like they...
#5 ‘UVB-76’
Track #5 – almost 10 percent of the way through my song-a-week project! – is ‘UVB-76’. UVB-76 by AnecdataI wrote this one in 2020 about a particularly well-known Cold War-era numbers station called ‘The Buzzer’, or ‘UVB-76’. Well, it’s particularly well-known by numbers station standards anyway. No one outside of Russia knows what it’s for...