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Josh Woodward: Creative Commons Music

40 in '04

The Goal:

40 songs, written, recorded and published for free online in 2004.

The Result:

Mission accomplished. The best of these songs were assembled into a CD called Crawford Street.

The Songs:

Click the title name for a full MP3 download.

# Title / MP3 Link Date Genre Description
1 Troublemaker Jan 5 Hard Rock (SF) Adventures in trash-talking and booty-shaking.
2 Brown Boxes Jan 23 Pop Rock (SF) Isn't moving fun? My first song with the 12-string.
3 Swimming to Cambodia Jan 30 Dark Folk (SF) My darkest song to date. And I mean dark. :)
4 Cheapskate Romantic Feb 13 Pop Rock (SF) Pop goes the Joshy. Look out, John Mayer.
5 Upcoming Downtime Mar 9 Folk Rock (SF) Starring Tom Cadaret as the suicidal router.
6 Across The Dusty Plains Mar 15 Chamber Folk (SF) My first piano song. Very dark and perrty.
7 Danger Bus Mar 22 Experimental (SF) Abandon all hope, all ye who listen to this song.
8 The Spirit World Apr 5 Folk (SF) The first folk song o' the year, but not the last! *
9 She's On My Mind Apr 12 Hard Rock (SF) The world needs more BossaNovaCore music.
10 Fight The Sea Apr 20 Hard Rock (SF) Have I mentioned that I love dark and heavy songs? *
11 Talk About Your Feelings Apr 27 Pop Rock (SF) I borrowed The Postal Service for this arrangement.
12 Twelve Monkeys May 4 Dark Folk (SF) Leave it to me to have a dark song about monkeys. *
13 Snooter May 13 Pop Rock (SF) A tale about a unitasker in a multitasking world. *
14 Hey Ruth May 20 Western Swing (SF) The Beatles kick Hoagy Carmichael's butt.
15 Fear is Free Jun 7 Hard Rock (SF) Fear my new drum set. It will surely rock you.
16 Thanks For Coming Jun 14 Chamber Folk (SF) It's the return of chamber folk, and it's perrty. *
17 Wrong Side of the Revolution Jun 22 Hard Rock John Ashcroft is the AntiChrist. That is all.
18 Please The Pig (live) Jun 24 Bluegrass (SF) Seriously, you gotta please the pig. Just do it. *
19 Texas Jun 30 Experimental (SF) This song is sparse, just like its namesake. *
20 Gigolo Jul 9 Pop Rock (SF) Just another day in the life of a Gigolo.
21 Keep In Touch Jul 16 Pop Rock (SF) Welcome to Findlay, OH circa 2030. Fun, huh?
22 Dizzy Spells Jul 23 Dark Folk (SF) This is the brain of a cult leader who likes Radiohead.
23 Baba Ganoush Jul 30 Experimental Wosh Joodward returns with his Ganoushettes.
24 Five Minutes Aug 6 Hard Rock A spooky and "electrifying" tribute to the hotseat. *
25 Chainsaw Aug 16 Folk Sweet Charlene McGray has a very bad day.
26 Can't Take Our Love Away Aug 23 Folk Why can't we all just.. like.. get along? *
27 Waiting Takes Time Aug 30 Electropop The feel-good dance hit of the summer, slightly late. *
28 Big Disco Ball Sep 6 Indie Rock This song isn't dance music. Well, ok, it kinda is. *
29 Are You Having Fun? Sep 13 Celtic Rock I think this is the song where I've mentioned "underwear".
30 Frannie Sep 20 Folk Our bodies are no longer frozen in time. *
31 Dark Roads Sep 27 Experimental I've never been to Montana, and now I probably never will. *
32 I Hate You Sep 27 Pop Rock How I really feel about a certain 10% of the population.
33 Motorcycle Murder Psycho Oct 2 Rock Mothers, lock up your daughters. He's coming to your town. *
34 Shower Scene Oct 11 Experimental The world's first (and probably last) Shower Scene meta-art. *
35 Bonjour, Mon Amie Oct 19 Trad Blues The character in this song speaks more French than me. *
36 Parasite Oct 28 Folk/Punk I put the "fight" back into "SongFight".
37 Cherry Nov 6 Pop Rock She's my cherry pie, got a smile on her face 10 miles wide. *
38 New Sex Nov 24 Punk The fudgecake puts the "neato" back in incognito.
39 Zero to Phantom Nov 24 Electropop Everything old is new again.
40 The Pawnbroker's Stepdaughter Dec 31 Dark Folk A fittingly dark end to 2004.