#finite form viator

[peridotporygon]

i love jack stauber so fucking much. this is not a new statement i'm sure but i need to SPEAK.

i feel like people usually only listen to his micropop stuff (the extended songs, not the album) which isn't a bad thing!! some of my favorites are from there!! but i really want to bring more attention to some of his other stuff because a lot of it is really unique :))

so anyways. here's my list of super awesome jack stauber song recommendations

(under cut bc long post)

listen to the ENTIRETY of finite form. please. it's SO GOOD. but more notably:

'smooth' is a really fun song imo and it's one of those songs that makes me feel like i'm hanging out with friends :) very good vibes here

on the other hand, WINDRAG. this one makes me feel AUUUFHHFH. listen to this one to feel WORSE.

'trust flower' is another really emotional song, and i also 'the diverge' :)

again for hilo i BEG YOU to listen to every song on there but some highlights include:

'pad thai' feels like having a panic attack (so this one's pretty overwhelming) but SO GOOD. AUGH. 'it's alright' feels like the opposite, being comforted during a terrible time.

'pizza boy' makes me feel everything (and there's a very nice story behind the name, id recommend looking into that too :)

'getting my mom on' is just funny tbh. i love this one when i'm sad because it just makes me feel GOOD

'small world' and 'dead weight' are more popular, but it's for a REASON. they're GOOD. (particularly small world imo)

pop food is definitely the most popular for oh klahoma and buttercup but it's still good :) i don't listen to this one a lot so i don't have much to say about it, but i recommend 'my plea' and 'bothersome'

viator seems like a bit of an intimidating album at first (considering it has 35 songs,) but here's a few i like:

pressed flowers

bald rainbow

mara

lake

lifeline

and if you REALLY want some micropop songs then. here. i love these guys

order

4.99

polarizer

i hope you miss me in heaven

bubblegun

lima bean man

shattered molars

pumpkin pie

angel

blood pump

is anyone there

and for the extended songs:

there's something happening

out the ox

today today

al dente

the ballad of hamantha (i know this one's fairly popular but still putting it here because GOD IT'S SO GOOD)

thanks for listening to my deranged rambling. i love jack stauber so much if anyone wants to add onto this or tell me about lyrics or YOUR favorite songs then PLEASE DO!!!

[prompt-master]

EVERY SINGLE DAY I WAKE UP WITHOUT JACK STAUBER CDS IN MY POSSESSION

[hardkandiwitch]

I wonder is Jack Stauber will still release more music….

;-;

[aristomal]

sirens (may jailer) was lanas viator (jack stauber)

[kingwolfie08]

silliee goofy music goober guy-2

i would draw something with a background, but this drawing of jack stauber took me all day to draw, and i was suffering through the whole time drawing this, since i was forced to use ibis pain, because i wasn't on my ipad. so your getting this instead.

oh yeah- i woulda probably not put the drawings of his albums in the drawing, but since i took time on making them look good, i decided to actually have them be shown, instead of not letting anyone see them, and making my suffering a waist of time.

also jack stauber with sunglasses = cool 👍

[amarithecat]

Not including the EPs because I think they're too short.

[morallyambigayous]

im bisexual which means i like jack stauber and tally hall equally

[a-little-rough-around-the-edges]

Here's some Jack Stauber posters I made! :)

[samstarium]

jack stauber album lesbian flags! for when you’re a lesbian who really likes those funky fresh beats (captions for album names)

[foureyes802]

What if I gave YOU jack stauber for the music ask game. What then

ohoho luckily i am PREPARED because i was JUST listening to him the other day!

Favorite Song: this is tough, i always struggle to pick favorites. my top 3 are maybe Today Today, Hamantha, and Tea Errors but it's SUPER close with lots of other ones too

Least Favorite: eh. i'll say the middle of Pop Food really blends together for me and Dog Nightmare kinda drags but i don't think i HATE any of it.

Favorite Album: does Opal count? Opal's great. I also enjoy HiLo and the micropop album with Dinner Is Not Over.

Least Favorite: again idrk ;_; i have never listened to Finite Form or Viator and i'm not really interested in doing so, i guess

Song That Got Me Into Them: i remember exactly, i was scrolling thru instagram and i saw his little animation for Benny Worm. this must have been like 2017, 2018

Seen Live?: not applicable! the closest would be watching shorts as they premiere i guess but i haven't done that either </3

Rating: Solid 8! Not my favorite of all time but i appreciate all the hard work and clear intent that goes into his art. it really shows through and leads to some spectacular material, especially the little animations. i didn't talk about those as much but that's my favorite way to go through his stuff. Since I keep picking 3 favorites go watch Lima Bean Man, Pumpkin Song and Library

[bregee13]

B...bro... I was browsing the Jack Stauber subreddit (yes I have reddit account. But I rarely use it and only use it to browse and ask dumb questions). And someone is doing a survivor thing (people vote out their least favorite of the album until there's one left) and I swear whoever is voting on these don't know what they're doing. I look at the ranks and as much as I don't have a great grasp on all the songs (I have trouble remembering songs when I listen to albums 😭) I can still tell these people don't know what they're doing. Like... what? I know I got opinions and so do they but... idk.

Why vote Pizza Boy out first? I don't care for it much, but it didn't deserve that. And It's Alright just barely right after (it won the tiebreaker and got to the next level)?? I love that one. It made me cry it's good who's responsible for this?? Idk I guess I'm just mad they voted Leopard out. It's one of my favs. Actually it is my fav of the album! :( I'm mad, who is voting in this? I might talk about the HiLo survivor more when it's done.

The Pop Food survivor was ok I guess. The results of that one made at least a little sense. Although I'm disappointed I Love Verne Troyer and I Understand ranked so low... They aren't my favs, but I really like them. 

I haven't listened to Viator yet, so I'll skip that survivor. Though it is split up weird, so yeah.

Can't really say anything about the Finite Form one either (I heard it, but I don't really recall most of it oof), but I like that Curl made it to the upper half of the ranks. Sure it was kinda in the middle of the ranks, but I like Curl. You can't make a song sound like that and expect me to hate it. On the contrary, I will be drawn to it like a magnet.

[yarik-driver]

Знакомьтесь - jack stauber

Создатель оригинальной и просто клёвый парень, который создал такие альбомы как:

Pop food

HiLo

Finite Form & Viator

Самый любимый из его альбомов является Pop Food

А именно такие треки как:

“Мои музыкальные вкусы становятся более разнообразнее чем моя жизнь” 

                                                                                         Ярослав Водила 

[mi4011amandithewarathanthri]

Assessment 1

2. conduct research into their life stories

Jack Stauber - work

He started off by making music. He released his debut album, titled “Finite Form”, at just the age of 16 on March 18th 2013. The album was more experimental than his later works, but what would become his distinctly unique style still shined through in this early piece. This initial album is what gained him a small cult following. 

Less than a month later, on April 1st 2013, he also uploads his first video to Youtube. This was meant to just be a test of cool psychedelic effects that included his band’s music in the background. From 2013 to 2015 he started uploading short animation pieces consistently. They were mostly simple looped 2D animations. 

It was also around this time that Stauber founded Plopscotch Records: a record label created solely enact copyright on his own songs. Stauber is still signed to Plopscotch Records to this day.

In 2015 he released his second album “Viator”. This album contrasts heavily with all his other  works, leaning more heavily toward folk pop than any of his other albums. However, his knack for incorporating mixed sounds and media to is evident in this album though his use of a calming acoustic guitar mixed with his surreal and off putting vocal performance. Stauber was grieving a loss when producing this album. As a result,  it would be noted for being spontaneous and have various mood changes and many different interludes in the album, which was meant to give a true experience of what was going through Jack's mentality at the time.

On September 27th, 2015, Jack would upload an animation titled “Marketing” to his Youtube. It was his first ever animation using Microsoft Paint. It would later become a staple in most of his animated pieces.

On March 15th, 2016 Jack uploaded a singing video titled “Quicksand.” This would be his first publicly documented use of his iconic VHS effect. 

“Pavlov” was uploaded to his Youtube on June 16th, 2016. It was the first micro pop he ever posted to the channel. From late 2016 to 2017, Jack would start experimenting with more surreal and psychedelic animation styles and would start to incorporate the VHS aesthetic and mixed media into his work. He experienced with mixing 2D animation, live action and CGI.

In 2017 Jack uploaded mutiple animations: a four-part musical series titled "Doodle Music”, a music video for a song called “Koi boy”, and some promotional videos for his upcoming album “Pop Food.”

“Pop Food” was released on March 25th of 2017 and later became his most popular album with the first two songs on the track becoming viral on social media. 

Jack once again continued to upload his animations to his various social medias and continued to make music. On November 17th 2017, he would upload an animation called “Trent the Baby.” This was his first animation incorporating his Microsoft Paint animations with a VHS effect. Once again, bringing him closer to his current distinct art style.

The Youtube channel only started gaining popularity in March of 2018.

His most notable works from 2018 include: Inchman, Fighter, Benny Worm, Bumblebees are out, and Peppermint. At the time the latter two were his most famous animations/songs. He also uploaded his first claymation animation at this time titled “Al Dente.”

April 5th 2018 - created a music video for “dead weight,” which was one of the songs on his new album called HiLo.

April 15th 2018 - released HiLo. Would also later release animated music videos for “Two time” and “cheeseburger family”.

May 2018 — created animated video called “Hamantha” and an animated music video for “getting my mom on”

In July 2018, Jack created his first animation for Adult Swim, titled “Wishing Apple.” In it, two friends eat and apple and discover that it is actually a ‘wishing apple.’

After this he was also invited to create a short for “Off the Air” — an Adult Swim series played in the early hours of the morning that is presented without explanation and shows surreal footage, all based around a loose theme. For this series Stauber provided a pre-existing video he had made called “Valentine's Day is Not for the Lonely,” and it aired on August 29th, 2018. In typical Jack stauber fashion the piece is described as funny yet bittersweet.

Continued to create animated shorts. One significant one was “nurpo” which featured a character that would become famous in internet pop culture. He also wrote two songs called “doctor” and “lima bean man,” the latter of which would end up becoming very popular.

On December 1st 2018, he held a major live show at the Rex Theater, PA, which would end up being his last major live show. During the show his keyboard was surrounded by seven tube TVs with half the TVs displaying 2D stop motion teeth while the half displayed claymation eyeballs.

At the start of 2019, Jack uploaded Baby Hotline, cooking with Abigail,  Good Morning Blondie, Cupid, and Day Job to his Youtube — all of which would go viral and become some of his most well known works. 

In March 2019 Stauber partnered with Adult Swim again to create a cartoon mini series titled “SHOP: A Pop Opera.” The series followed a man in a grocery store as he bought his groceries and meets a series of weird and eccentric people. Each episode was titled after each item on the character’s grocery list. This was probably is second best received piece he had done for Adult Swim and one of the best animations he had created in his overall discography, with many of the songs from the series becoming popular even outside of his community. 

Later in March Stauber would also produce some more very poplar animations, namely: Hope, Deploy, and Rain. 

In April he would produce only four animations due to a serious arm injury: Good Luck Chasing Your Mind, Help, Dinner is Not Over, and Out The Ox. 

In 2019 Stauber also produced his last piece for Adult Swim. The short was titled “Opal” and it is widely regarded as one of his best works ever. It was noticeably darker in tone compared  to Stauber’s earlier projects for Adult Swim, and dealt with heavy topics such as childhood trauma and abuse. This was also Stauber’s first time fully delving into psychological horror. 

Later in the year he uploaded “Library” to his Youtube. The animation dealt with grief and how recovering from grief can feel a lot like betraying the person you lost. It addresses the mind numbing depression you experience when you are grieving and the worry that you might someday forget what your loved one looked like. This is another animation that would become wildly popular in the internet. 

Jack continued to post animated work throughout 2019 and into 2020. In May 2020, Jack Stauber won the Shorty Award for ‘Best in Weird.’ 2020 was also the year that many for Jack’s music, animations, and art style become extremely popular all over the internet. 

In the past few years Jack Stauber has uploaded a few animated videos but overall has maintained a hiatus (possibly due to the stress of constant hacking into his different social medias) and any possible new projects have not been mentioned. Although he remains semi-active on his patreon. 

[mybackiskillingmebb]

the only thing wrong with jack stauber's trust flower is that it's not long enough