3:39 – Just in time for Halloween, a song partially inspired by the Frankenstein story, done in the style of a Broadway musical.
[Verse] A horde of screaming Luddites Come streaming up the hill Their torches shine like floodlights Their pitchforks aim to kill With torches and with pitchforks Their ranks go marching by They’re coming for the rich folks Developing A.I. [Chorus] These friends of Ludd Are out for blood And blood is in their eyes This sabot squad Will sabotage The looming threat, A.I. [Verse] These Luddites are so fearful They fear all things to come They’re giving us an earful But what they say is dumb They’re fearful for their hobbies They’re fearful for their jobs And so they’re forming lobbies And so they’re forming mobs [Chorus] These friends of Ludd Are out for blood And blood is in their eyes This sabot squad Will sabotage The looming threat, A.I. [Bridge] But if A.I. is a monster It’s due to how it’s trained And since it’s trained by humans Its flaws come from their brains And since the brains of humans Are mostly brains of fools How can we blame the monsters? A.I.’s are only tools! [Instrumental Break] [Verse] A horde of sabotagers Come streaming up the hill A bunch of stupid codgers Whose object is to kill They’re whipped into a frenzy There’s fire in their eyes They’re fired up by the whimsy Of dangerous A.I. [Chorus] These friends of Ludd Are out for blood And blood is in their eyes This sabot squad Will sabotage The looming threat, A.I.
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky and Suno V6-MINI – more info: onsug.com & Suno.ai.
3:27 – From my personal adventures as an Uber driver. True story, swear to the gods. Alternate title: “The Bimbo in the Backseat”.
[Verse] Picked this girl up in an Uber And she thought I was a goober She said “Sir, would you turn off the A/C please?” Well, I thought I’s gonna pass out And I shoulda throwed her ass out Cause she’s freezin’ when it’s eighty-five degrees [Verse] Shoulda said, “Cut me some slack, girl” There’s some switches in the back, girl With which you can turn it off or up or down Yes, I really shoulda said it But I didn’t, and regret it I switched off the A/C unit like a clown [Chorus] Well, believe it or not I was havin’ a good day Now she’s makin’ me hot But not in a good way Yes, believe it or not I was havin’ a good day But she’s makin’ me hot And not in a good way [Verse] Well, next thing I know this bimbo She said, “Please roll down my window” I unlocked it and she rolled it down herself Sounded like a helicopter And I really could have popped her Cause this heat and noise was harmful to my health [Verse] Then the bimbo in the backseat She starts groovin’ to a back beat As she’s listening to music on her phone I had no idea what is it But the lyrics were explicit And she knew the words and had to sing along [Chorus] Well, believe it or not I was havin’ a good day Now she’s makin’ me hot But not in a good way Yes, believe it or not I was havin’ a good day But she’s makin’ me hot And not in a good way [Bridge] Oh, the bimbo in the back seat Well, she drove me to distraction As I hauled her through the back streets I could get no satisfaction Yes, the bimbo in the back seat Oh, she drove me to perdition And I bet she had a rap sheet And a medical condition [Instrumental Break] [Verse] After more than half an hour I felt like I had to shower Cause the words were oh so nasty, don’t you know There were F words, there were N words There were “Baby, stick it in” words Fifteen minutes left and ten more miles to go [Verse] And she never changed the station Till we reached our destination She switches off her phone and then she slides out So I turn back on the A/C And I’m thinking she’s so crazy I give her just one star inside my rides app [Chorus] Well, believe it or not I was havin’ a good day Then she’s makin’ me hot But not in a good way Yes, believe it or not I was havin’ a good day Till she’s makin’ me hot And not in a good way
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky and Suno V6-MINI – more info: onsug.com & Suno.ai.
2:32:09 – The final installment of Poisonville contains still more murder, gore, death and destruction, with little or no redeeming social value, presented by an anonymous, antiheroic protagonist who is arguably just as bad as the bad guys he’s up against.
Public domain text by Dashiell Hammett, as originally published in Black Mask magazine in February 1928. Music by Dave in Kentucky and Suno V6-MINI, except “Killer Serials Theme” and “Alcoholic Commie”, which use Suno v4.5. Show art generated by Suno.
3:37 – A new show where I’ll be sharing songs I have created with the Suno A.I. (I write the words; Suno writes the music and creates the show art.) First up is a song called “Other People’s Timelines”.
[Verse] It seems that all my kinfolk Have long since turned to dust Both womenfolk and menfolk The weak and the robust And all my friends and rivals Have moved on from this realm The lack of their survival At times can overwhelm [Pre-chorus] But other people may have timelines Where they survive, while I have passed In other worlds with different guidelines With other futures, other pasts [Chorus] I’ve died in other people’s timelines But this is one where I’ve survived Twixt life and death there is a fine line So I’m just glad that I’m alive [Instrumental Break] [Verse] Your fathers and your mothers May leave you all too soon Your sisters and your brothers In graveyards may be strewn Your uncles and your cousins May leave you quite alone They’re dying by the dozens And soon they’ll all be gone [Pre-chorus] But all these people may have timelines Where they survive, while you have passed In other worlds with different guidelines With other futures, other pasts [Chorus] You’ve died in other people’s timelines But this is one where you’ve survived Twixt life and death there is a fine line So just be glad that you’re alive [Bridge] If timelines abound They’re all still around And they may be mourning our passing And if this is true What should we then do? The answer is there for the asking [Chorus] We’ve died in other people’s timelines But this is one where we’ve survived Twixt life and death there is a fine line Let’s just be glad that we’re alive
License for this track: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Attribution: by Dave in Kentucky and Suno V6-MINI – more info: onsug.com & Suno.ai.
13:26 – Suno recently scrapped all their old versions, including v4.5, the one I had been using. The current model, v6, was trained from scratch using only licensed music, and I’m rather impressed by the results. Here’s a sample of what I’ve been able to do with v6-mini, the current free version. It’s the first four songs from the fourth and final installment of Dashiell Hammett’s Poisonville, the next episode of my Killer Serials series here on the Onsug.
Background: A private detective is shacked up with his female informant. She’s afraid someone’s going to kill her; he’s afraid he’s going “blood simple” due to the amount of killing he’s either done or provoked lately. He tries to escape into a gin bottle, and when that proves insufficient, she mixes him a gin-and-laudanum cocktail or two. Not surprisingly, he passes out. When he awakes, he finds her dead with an icepick embedded in her chest. Instead of raising the alarm, he proceeds to remove all trace of his having been there, wiping away his own fingerprints as well as everyone else’s. Upon leaving, he arranges an alibi for himself. Oddly enough, when the police discover the body, the icepick is nowhere to be found.
1:43:59 – The penultimate episode of Dashiell Hammett’s Poisonville serial is the most violent yet, and Dave in Kentucky’s accompanying A.I. songs are the most stylistically diverse yet. In addition to the usual country and bluegrass, there are three different types of swing, a jazz waltz, and even some punk rock. Enjoy!
Dynamite
Cedar Hill
Their Cover was Blown
But Then Came the Bomb
Gin and Vermouth
On the Run with Reno
Sick of the Killing
A-Hole Piggy
All songs by Dave in Kentucky and Suno.ai (v4.5).
Show art: Bombed-out union hall of the Western Federation of Miners local in Butte, Montana, 1914. Public domain.
2:12:35 – Dave in Kentucky proudly presents his musical version of Part Two of Dashiell Hammett’s Poisonville, featuring eleven complete songs with words by Dave and music by the Suno A.I.
Attempted Murder Number Three
I’m Here to See the Whisper
The Take-a-Dive Waltz
The Fix Wasn’t In
If I Had the Gumption
Unrequited Love
The Woman on the Third-Floor Empty Ward
Easy Come and Easy Go
Not On My Rug, You Stupid Lug
Shots Fired at Dinah Brand’s
Poisonville is Boiling
Show art by A.I. Free Forever (aifreeforever.com).
2:38:33 – Dave in Kentucky proudly presents Part One of Dashiell Hammett’s Poisonville. The fourteen mini-chapters in this installment are summarized by fourteen complete songs written by Dave and implemented by Suno.ai (v4.5). Several musical genres are represented, including country, bluegrass, folk-rock, Latin pop, reggae, doo-wop and jazz. There’s also a new Killer Serials Theme, done in the cheesy style of certain classic TV theme songs.
Song Title
Start Time
1.
Poisonville
9:02
2.
The Only Reds I Ever Liked
21:31
3.
What the Op Seen
33:49
4.
Paperclips and Pocketknives
45:02
5.
When Someone Gets Whacked
52:46
6.
The Hoarse Whisperer
1:02:07
7.
The Lady Likes Dinero
1:10:09
8.
The Cleopatra of Poisonville
1:20:20
9.
Drinking Gin and Chewing Lemon Peel
1:32:28
10.
The Guts to Match the Gall
1:46:06
11.
Holed Up in the Gambling Den
1:57:55
12.
Two Birds, One Stone
2:11:10
13.
The Lousy Red Herring
2:23:45
14.
Should Have Been Farmers
2:29:47
Show art: Public-domain covers of the November 1927 (right) and February 1928 (left) issues of Black Mask, which contained two episodes of the Poisonville serial. The characters depicted are perhaps Elihu Willsson and Bill Quint.
1:14:36 – Alternate Timeline Records presents songs inspired by Dashiell Hammett’s The Dain Curse, as heard on Onsug’s Killer Serials. All of the actual songs (but none of the instrumentals) are included — a double album’s worth!
Song Title
Start Time
1.
A Diamond in the Grass
0:00
2.
Two Men
1:35
3.
Cherchez, as the French Would Say
4:14
4.
Minnie and Rhino
5:28
5.
When Facts Are All Assembled
8:52
6.
Hopped-Up Mama
10:47
7.
A Heck of a Frame
14:07
8.
Trendy Cults
15:15
9.
A Comfortable Stay
17:57
10.
Manuel & the Hollow Temple
20:07
11.
In the Room where Flowers Died
23:27
12.
Not Much Competition
25:22
13.
Ghostly Apparition
27:32
14.
Reno or Bust
29:57
15.
Black Honeymoon
31:42
16.
A Honeymoon in Separate Rooms
33:42
17.
Quesada, Quesada
36:21
18.
Back to Quesada
38:48
19.
Blinded by Ambition
41:57
20.
A Feral Cat Indeed
44:42
21.
Guilty Just the Same
48:06
22.
The Wreck that was Owen Fitzstephan
51:14
23.
Back to the House in the Cove
54:36
24.
These Morphine Blues
57:31
25.
Aaronia Arrives
1:00:23
26.
A Spic with a Shiv
1:04:12
27.
Sit Down, She Said
1:06:53
28.
Funky Pheromones
1:11:06
Words by Dave in Kentucky, music and performance by Suno.ai (v4.5).
Show art: Unknown girl from the 1920s, reminiscent of the fictional Gabrielle Leggett, public domain.
2:16:23 – The conclusion of the serialized version of The Dain Curse, as it appeared in the February 1929 issue of Black Mask. Reading and commentary by Dave in Kentucky, with a feline review by Mr. Bean near the end. Songs and other music provided once again by Dave and the Suno AI.
Musical Selection
Start Time
1.
Bittersweet Intro (instrumental)
0:00
2.
The Wreck that was Owen Fitzstephan
21:16
3.
Back to the House in the Cove
46:34
4.
These Morphine Blues
1:06:40
5.
Aaronia Arrives
1:29:22
6.
A Spic with a Shiv
1:33:11
7.
Sit Down, She Said
1:55:28
8.
Funky Pheromones
2:06:59
9.
Bittersweet Ending (instrumental)
2:11:55
Words by Dave in Kentucky, music by Suno.ai (v4.5). Soundtrack soon to be available in a timeline near you.
Show art: Two early editions of the Dain Curse novel which this serial became, from Alfred A. Knopf (left) and Grosset & Dunlap.
