Don’t Be Like the Sun

Neil Cicierega began releasing instrumental music and several remixes of video game music under the moniker Trapezoid in the late 1990s and early 2000s, creating 4 albums: Outsmart (2000), Microwave This CD (2001), Dimes (2002) and Circa 2000 (2007) while he was frequently active on Adventure Game Studio . The artist name was retroactively anagrammed to “Deporitaz” as an existing band called Trapezoid demanded that he change it, despite Neil having moved on from releasing music under Trapezoid. On January 21, 2003, Cicierega released Lemon Demon’s first song on mp3.com , “Don’t Be Like the Sun”, later saying “eventually I started experimenting with singing, and once I felt ready to do that full time, I christened myself Lemon Demon and went into it head on”. He then released his first four albums: Clown Circus (2003), Live from the Haunted Candle Shop (2003), Hip to the Javabean (2004), and Damn Skippy (2005).