Zong of the Week - http://zongoftheweek.com

Zong of the Week was launched in February 2004 as an experiment in creating and distributing music directly from the recording studio to the listener. The Zong of the Week creative team, led by songwriter-producer Paul Nordquist, delivered a fresh new song to the web every week. "You hear it when the bytes have barely dried on the hard drive, sometimes mere hours after the musicians have finished recording it," the Zong website boasted.

The Zong team also launched Kids' Zong of the Week in May 2004 to create new kid-friendly song downloads.

At the end of 2004, after churning out an impressive catalog of new songs, the Zong of the Week team called it quits and moved on to other projects. Zong of the Week became a blog spotlighting other artists' free MP3 download offerings.

This site presents the highlights of the 2004 Zong of the Week experiment. Click the song titles below for lyrics and information on individual songs. Most of these songs can be downloaded for free at music.download.com.

Lyrics and Credits

October 31, 2004

Cheese Shop of Horrors

October 24, 2004

Who's Undead?

October 17, 2004

Extra Garlic

October 3, 2004

Dewey Beats Kerry

September 26, 2004

Stop That Train

September 19, 2004

American Cheese

September 12, 2004

Boss of You

September 5, 2004

I Buried Paul

August 29, 2004

We Can Make Soup

August 15, 2004

Hurricane Santa

August 8, 2004

Genetically Modified Gingerbread Man

August 1, 2004

Christmas in July (in August)

July 18, 2004

Plan B

July 11, 2004

My Time Travel Machine

July 4, 2004

Teen Angst-a-Rama

June 27, 2004

Repossessed

June 20, 2004

One Terabyte Drive

June 13, 2004

(Please Don't Play) That Badger Song

June 6, 2004

'Saturday Night' on Friday Night

May 30, 2004

My Big Fat Starship

May 23, 2004

Grand Piano

May 16, 2004

I Can't Get Played on Air America

May 9, 2004

The All-Occasion I Hate My Mind-Numbing Corporate Job Song

May 2, 2004

Boyfriend from Another Planet

April 25, 2004

Hot Dog

April 18, 2004

Weapons of Mars Destruction

April 11, 2004

Mad Cow Farm

April 4, 2004

If I Had a Sledgehammer

March 28, 2004

One Nation Under the Goddess

March 21, 2004

Dear Mr. President. . .

March 14, 2004

All Your Base (Are Belong to Us)

March 7, 2004

Freedom is the New Word for French

February 29, 2004

Clan 9 from Outer Space