The songs below are from Capital High School’s School of Rock students

The Details

• The Prompt: Everything Has A Cost
• AMES Itch Showcase Page
• AMES.team website
• Vote for the Top 6 Songs to Represent CHS at the 2025 AMES Song Showcase
• Contest Rubric
• Contest Rules
• YouTube Playlist

• Audio Files in Google Drive

Top Student Picks to Represent CHS at 2025 AMES

• But It Cost Everything
• By any Means Necessary
• Spiraling Out Into Despair
• Gilded Words
• Poets Go to War
• Snow from March
• Diazepam/P.B. Tulpa
• wip1071956
• Basement Stairs
• Kitchen Sink

But It Cost Everything

A long build-up to a climactic moment that’s meant to symbolize loss.

By any Means Necessary

Experimental Hip-Hop beat type thing

Spiraling Out Into Despair

See 1225; “House of Leaves,” 2000, Mark. Z. Danielewski

Gilded Words

bad

Poets Go to War

Grunge-Bluegrass protest song

Snow from March

A jazz-hop song inspired by Nujabes uses samples from Hizuru-浮花 (Floating Flowers). Hizuru-浮花 is an avant-garde jazz project that uses traditional Japanese instruments.

Diazepam/P.B. Tulpa

Lo-fi Indie Rock song

wip1071956

The main part is a high-toned guitar, with a lower background guitar.

Basement Stairs

Random bass strums, fast-paced drums, and deep but bouncy-sounding piano. It’s changed to sound deep and dark while also leaving anticipation

Kitchen Sink

Chaotic, aggressive track about frustration and self-inflicted mistakes.