#6UP 5OH. THE MAIN CHARACTER

[potato-lord-but-not]

Do you have songs that relate to Going Postal because I’m going a project on the book and I can’t get into quite the right headspace other than looking at my pin collection

I have a really embarrassing Moist centric Spotify playlist which consists of like 5 artists and it’s honestly so embarrassingly bad I’m so sorry,, the Jhariah and Will Wood ones are where it’s at tho

[fallingforyouforeverr]

𝐌𝐘 𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐖𝐎𝐎𝐃 𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐋𝐘𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐒

A/N: i was listening to music earlier, and it gave me lots of different ideas based on some of the lyrics but because i'm too lazy to write any myself i decided to make a list so other people could use them for inspiration

if you use any of these prompts please tag/credit me ♡

"It just don't come natural to me to think that you'd want me for me" - Against the kitchen floor

"I find myself lost in what you think of me, too confused to choose who i should be" - I / Me / Myself

"You're trying to replace yourself" - Mr Capgras Encounters a Secondhand Vanity

"Home is where the heart is. You ain't homeless but your heartless" - Suburbia Overture

"If sick is defined by what's different, well pull the plug out and let me die" - 2econd 2ight 2eer

"Well who should I be then, if I'll never be the same?" - Dr Sunshine is Dead

"Cry my name, remind my brain of my identity" - Cotard's Solution

"Say my name like a slur, but I've been called worse" - I / Me / Myself

"I've lived more lives than enough, I haven't died quite as much" - Against the kitchen floor

"Say you're still her, the woman you were" - A little bit mine

"The only ones in need of love are those who dont receive enough" - Laplace's angel

"It's better to be lost than loved" - Well...better than the alternative

"Villains are everywhere, that's how i know that im a hero" - The main character

"I expect no dreams, or no sweet goodbye to me" - Tomcat Disposables

"Well it seems she broke me, but I swear she could not break my heart" - Thermodynamic lawyer

"And if dreams can come true, what does that say about nightmares?" - Cotard's Solution

"I hold on so tight for so long, it's just not right" - Tomcat Disposables

"If you were in my shoes, you'd walk the same damn miles I do" - Laplace's angel

"Is another man wearing your face?" - Mr Capgras Encounters a Secondhand Vanity

"Heaven knows God is sitting up there like 'hell no!'" - 6up 5oh Cop-Out (Pro / Con)

"What's so wrong about what's wrong with me?" - Well... better than the alternative

"If we can't see each other then there's no more use for hiding" - Dr Sunshine is Dead

"And some of the best liars only want the truth" - Skeleton appreciation day

"I just haven't learned how to be human as you are yet" - Against the kitchen floor

Thanks for reading! Requests are always open!

Divider from @cafekitsune

[judging-will-wood-confessions]

Almost every Will Wood song I listen to is the "I do not need any more music now, this will sustain me for eons" song for me, and after said eons, then and only then do I listen to another one. For context, I have listened to: Dr. Sunshine is dead

BLACKBOXWARRIOR 6up 5oh Cop-out (pro/con)

2econd 2ight 2eer

Hand me my shovel, I'm going in! Soapbox Tao

Cotard's Solution (Anatta, Dukkha, Anicca)

Red Moon, well... better than the alternative and Main Character didn't quite compel me as hard on the first listen like the previous had.

[ssoupcup]

2econd 2ight 2elfie if there's any will wooders out there. this is a twitter thing but i love will wood and i must make it known.

[static-scribblez]

*listens to laplace’s angel* wow this is the best will wood song *listens to front street* wow this is the best will wood song *listens to cicada days* wow this is the best will wood song *listens to mr capgras* wow this is the best will wood song *listens to and if I did you deserved it* wow this is the best will wood song *listens to suburbia overture* wow this is the best will wood song *listens to lysergide daydream* wow this is the best will wood song *listens to 2012* wow this is the best will wood song *listens to outliars and hypocrites* wow this is the best will wood song *listens to i/me/myself* wow this is the best will wood song *listens to when somebody needs you* wow this is the best will wood song *listens to 6up 5oh cop out* wow this is the best will wood song *listens to 2econd 2ight 2eer* wow this is the best will wood song *listens to the main character* wow this is the best wi

[jdsgothwife]

some will wood songs with cartoon villain energy, as requested by @mega-magolor

"cut/clap"

"yes, to err is human, so don't be one."

"1fish2fish"

"laplace's angel (hurt people? hurt people!)"

"the main character"

"6up 5oh cop-out (pro/con)"

"hand me my shovel, i'm going in!"

[leonenjoyer69]

Welcome to my big list of Will Wood songs I relate with Jekyll and Hyde/TGS!! Including what character it's associated with (ie, Jekyll, Hyde, or Lanyon lmao)

I also have art ideas for like, half of these songs so that's fun too (I'm so normal about these things)

Front Street- Hyde

Venetian Blind man- Jekyll, with big chapter 8 vibes, BUT SPECIFICALLY the line:

"Feet, don't fail me now the ways my eyes did

Mind, don't snap and heart, don't break, not now

No, not like this, any but this breakdown"

2econd 2ight 2eer- Hyde

Cotards solution- Jekyll and Hyde

6up 5oh cop-out- Hyde, but also big Chapter 14 vibes

Mr Capgras encounters a secondhand vanity- Jekyll and Hyde (and a little Lanyon, being the one to question what you feel and what you do, is that really you? And things of the like, At least in my silly mind)

BlackBoxWarrior- OKULTRA - Jekyll and Hyde

¡Aikido!-Neurotic/erotic- Jekyll and Lanyon

A little bit mine (cover this song)- Lanyon

Red Moon- Hyde

Chemical overreaction/ Compound fracture- Jekyll

Dr Sunshine is Dead- Jekyll (and a little Hyde)

The song with five names- Jekyll and Lanyon

.. And if I did, you deserved it.- Jekyll

Suburbia overture- Jekyll and Hyde

Marsha, thankk you for the dialectics- Jekyll, and I like to think some of the song is Lanyon talkin to him

Hand me my shovel, I'm going in! - Jekyll, making the potion mayhaps, or his little mind escapade where he figures out what Hyde actually is of him

Against the kitchen floor- Lanyon and Jekyll

Outliars and Hyppocrates - Hyde, talking to Jekyll

The first step- Hyde

2012- Jekyll

When somebody needs you- Lanyon and Jekyll

Misanthrapologist- Lanyon

Sex, drugs, rock 'n roll- Jekyll

Laplaces angel- Hyde

The main character- Hyde

Conclusion: the Will Wood/TGS fan relationship makes sense bc this man could NOT stop popping out songs that people can relate a repressed Victorian man with a despicable Alter ego to.

Also, while on the topic of Will Wood songs, a bonus for my fellow Picture of Dorian Gray fans:

Yes, to err is human, so don't be one is SUCH a Dorian Gray song, specifically him towards Basil, and if I could get my brain to write rn I'd totally write a fanfic of that.

ALSO I'D LOVE TO TALK ABOUT ANY OF THESE SONGS AND WHY I ASSOCIATE THEM IN MORE DETAIL FOR ANYONE THAT MAY BE WILLING TO WATCH ME STUMBLE OVER WORDS AND CONFUSINGLY TRY TO EXPLAIN WHAT I MEAN :33

[cricketfucker]

Will Wood Song Tournament!

Good morning ladies, gentlemen, boys, girls, neithers, boths, and in-betweens. We gather here to vote upon the best Will Wood songs of all time.

Below is our roster of 64 Will Wood / Will Wood and the Tapeworms songs, placed in a randomized order, my only rule being that none of the matches in the first & second round will be from the same album:

ROUND 1 - Voting Date & Time: January 31st, 2pm CST

Match 1: Becoming the Lastnames VS Self-

Match 2: Euthanasia VS Chemical Overreaction / Compound Fracture

Match 3: Welcome to Camp Here & There VS You Liked This (Okay, Computer!)

Match 4: Falling Up VS Cotard's Solution (Anatta, Dukkha, Anicca)

Match 5: Momento Mori: the most important thing in the world VS Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll

Match 6: Laplace's Angel (Hurt People? Hurt People!) VS Morning Announcements

Match 7: Mr. Capgras Encounters a Secondhand Vanity: Tulpamancer's Prosopagnosia/Pareidolia (As Direct Result of Trauma to the Fusiform Gyrus) VS Everything Is a Lot

Match 8: Evening Announcements VS Ferryman

Match 9: Love, Me Normally VS Good Morning, Campers!

Match 10: Afternoon Announcements VS Destroy to Enjoy

Match 11: Misanthrapologist VS Lysergide Daydream

Match 12: Hand Me My Shovel, I'm Going In! VS That's Enough, Let's Get You Home.

Match 13: Dr. Sunshine Is Dead VS Yes, to Err is Human, so Don't Be One.

Match 14: When Somebody Needs You VS Big Fat Bitchie’s Blueberry Pie, Christmas Tree, and Recreational Jell-o Emporium a.k.a. “Mr. Boy is on the Roof Again” (Feat. Pasta by Sneakers McSqueakers) [From “B.F.B.’s B-Sides: Bagel Batches, Marsh-Mallows, & Barsh-Mallows”]

Match 15: 2econd 2ight 2eer (that was fun, goodbye.) VS Your Body, My Temple

Match 16: Cover This Song (A Little Bit Mine) VS The Main Character

ROUND 2 - Voting Date & Time: February 1st, 2pm CST

Match 1: Red Moon VS I / Me / Myself

Match 2: Cicada Days VS Outliars and Hyppocrates: a fun fact about apples

Match 3: BlackBoxWarrior - OKULTRA VS Half-Decade Hangover

Match 4: Front Street VS Vampire Reference in a Minor Key

Match 5: Tomcat Disposables VS Thermodynamic Lawyer Esq, G.F.D.

Match 6: White Knuckle Jerk (Where Do You Get Off?) VS ...well, better than the alternative

Match 7: Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave VS Alma Mater

Match 8: Um, It's Kind of a Lot VS Under a Monochromatic Sky

Match 9: ...And If I Did, You Deserved It. VS Against the Kitchen Floor

Match 10: -ish VS Venetian Blind Man

Match 11: Under a Technicolor Sky VS 2012

Match 12: 6up 5oh Copout (Pro / Con) VS The Song with Five Names, a.k.a. Soapbox Tao, a.k.a. Checkmate Atheists! a.k.a. Neospace Government, a.k.a. You Can Never Know

Match 13: Jimmy Mushroom's Last Drink: Bedtime in Wayne, NJ VS White Noise

Match 14: Willard! VS ¡Aikido! (Neurotic / Erotic)

Match 15: The Rhumba of Death VS The First Step

Match 16: Skeleton Appreciation Day in Vestal, NY (Bones) VS Suburbia Overture / Greetings from Mary Bell Township! / (Vampire) Culture / Love Me, Normally

ROUND 3 - Voting Date & Time: February 2nd, 2pm CST

Match 1: Becoming the Lastnames VS Chemical Overreaction / Compound Fracture

Match 2: Welcome to Camp Here & There VS Cotard's Solution (Anatta, Dukkha, Anicca)

Match 3: Momento Mori: the most important thing in the world VS Laplace's Angel (Hurt People? Hurt People!)

Match 4: Mr. Capgras Encounters a Secondhand Vanity: Tulpamancer's Prosopagnosia/Pareidolia (As Direct Result of Trauma to the Fusiform Gyrus) VS Ferryman

Match 5: Love, Me Normally VS Destroy to Enjoy

Match 6: Misanthrapologist VS Hand Me My Shovel, I'm Going In!

Match 7: Dr. Sunshine is Dead VS When Somebody Needs You

Match 8: 2econd 2ight 2eer (that was fun, goodbye.) VS The Main Character

ROUND 4 - Voting Date & Time: February 3rd, 2pm CST

Match 1: I / Me / Myself VS Cicada Days

Match 2: BlackBoxWarrior - OKULTRA VS Front Street

Match 3: Tomcat Disposables VS Thermodynamic Lawyer Esq, G.F.D. VS ...well, better than the alternative

Match 4: Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave VS Um, It's Kind of a Lot

Match 5: Against the Kitchen Floor VS Venetian Blind Man

Match 6: 2012 VS The Song with Five Names, a.k.a. Soapbox Tao, a.k.a. Checkmate Atheists! a.k.a. Neospace Government, a.k.a. You Can Never Know

Match 7: White Noise VS Willard!

Match 8: The First Step VS Suburbia Overture / Greetings from Mary Bell Township! / (Vampire) Culture / Love Me, Normally

ROUND 5 - Voting Date & Time: February 5th, 2pm CST

Match 1: Chemical Overreaction / Compound Fracture VS Cotard's Solution (Anatta, Dukkha, Anicca)

Match 2: Laplace's Angel (Hurt People? Hurt People!) VS Mr. Capgras Encounters a Secondhand Vanity: Tulpamancer's Prosopagnosia/Pareidolia (As Direct Result of Trauma to the Fusiform Gyrus)

Match 3: Love, Me Normally VS Hand Me My Shovel, I'm Going In!

Match 4: Dr. Sunshine is Dead VS 2econd 2ight 2eer (that was fun, goodbye.)

Match 5: Cicada Days VS BlackBoxWarrior - OKULTRA

Match 6: ...well, better than the alternative VS Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave

Match 7: Against the Kitchen Floor VS The Song with Five Names, a.k.a. Soapbox Tao, a.k.a. Checkmate Atheists! a.k.a. Neospace Government, a.k.a. You Can Never Know

Match 8: Willard! VS Suburbia Overture / Greetings from Mary Bell Township! / (Vampire) Culture / Love Me, Normally

ROUND 6 - Voting Date & Time: February 7th, 2pm CST

Match 1: Cotard's Solution (Anatta, Dukkha, Anicca) VS Laplace's Angel (Hurt People? Hurt People!)

Match 2: Love, Me Normally VS 2econd 2ight 2eer (that was fun, goodbye.)

Match 3: BlackBoxWarrior - OKULTRA VS Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave

Match 4: Against the Kitchen Floor VS Suburbia Overture / Greetings from Mary Bell Township! / (Vampire) Culture / Love Me, Normally

ROUND 7 - Voting Time & Date: February 8th, 4pm CST

Match 1: Laplace's Angel (Hurt People? Hurt People!) VS Love, Me Normally

Match 2: Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave VS Suburbia Overture / Greetings from Mary Bell Township! / (Vampire) Culture / Love Me, Normally

ROUND 8 - Voting Time & Date: February 9th, 5pm CST

Final Match: Love, Me Normally VS Suburbia Overture / Greetings from Mary Bell Township! / (Vampire) Culture / Love Me, Normally

WINNER!

Suburbia Overture / Greetings from Mary Bell Township! / (Vampire) Culture / Love Me, Normally

[soggytapeworm]

Round 1 Lineup

1st Battle: I/Me/Myself vs. That’s Enough, Let’s Get You Home

2nd Battle: White Noise vs. Skeleton Appreciation Day in Vestal, N.Y. (Bones)

3rd Battle: Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll vs. ¡Aikido! (Neurotic/Erotic)

4th Battle: …well, better than the alternative vs. Mr. Capgras Encounters a Secondhand Vanity: Tulpamancer’s Prosopagnosia/Pareidolia (As Direct Result of Trauma to the Fusiform Gyrus)

5th Battle: Love, Me Normally vs. The First Step

6th Battle: Um, It’s Kind Of A Lot vs. Your Body, My Temple

7th Battle: Thermodynamic Lawyer, Esq, G.F.D. vs. Misanthrapologist

8th Battle: Falling Up vs. 6up 5oh Cop-Out (Pro/Con)

9th Battle: Chemical Overreaction/Compound Fracture vs. Ferryman

10th Battle: (Cover This Song) A Little Bit Mine vs. Laplace’s Angel (Hurt People? Hurt People!)

11th Battle: Lysergide Daydream vs. Front Street

12th Battle: Mr. Fregoli and the Diathesis-Stress Supermodel, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Con (An Untitled Track) vs. Dr. Sunshine Is Dead

13th Battle: Marsha, Thankk You For The Dialectics, But I Need You To Leave vs. 2econd 2ight 2eer

14th Battle: Jimmy Mushrooms’ Last Drink: Bedtime in Wayne, NJ vs. -ish

15th Battle: The Song with Five Names, a​.​k​.​a. Soapbox Tao, a​.​k​.​a. Checkmate Atheists! a​.​k​.​a. Neospace Government, a​.​k​.​a. You Can Never Know vs. 2012

16th Battle: Memento Mori: the most important thing in the world vs. Vampire Reference In A Minor Key

17th Battle: BlackBoxWarrior - OKULTRA vs. Half-Decade Hangover

18th Battle: Cicada Days vs. Tomcat Disposables

19th Battle: White Knuckle Jerk (Where Do You Get Off?) vs. Euthanasia

20th Battle: Destroy To Enjoy vs. Cotard’s Solution (Anatta/Dukkha/Anicca)

21st Battle: When Somebody Needs You vs. Willard!

22nd Battle: The Main Character vs. Outliars and Hyppocrates: a fun fact about apples

23rd Battle: ...And If I Did, You Deserved It. vs. Against The Kitchen Floor

24th Battle: Becoming The Lastnames vs. Self-

25th Battle: Wealth & Hellness vs. Red Moon

26th Battle: Venetian Blind Man vs. Yes, To Err Is Human, So Don’t Be One

REMEMBER!! This one is for the WORST song!! so just keep that in mind when voting and stuff!! (I will be putting reminders in each poll)

[ineffable-ezra]

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[potato-lord-but-not]

Any recommendations to get start listening to will wood?

I guess it really depends on what kinda music you’re into yk? cus he has that range bb

mellow more acoustic songs that still have some twang to it: becoming the lastnames, white noise, against the kitchen floor, vampire reference in a minor key, misanthrapologist, well, better than the alternative

songs that go insanely hard and sound fucked up and just have a lot going on: thermodynamic lawyer, chemical overreaction, Dr sunshine is dead,

silly goofy disney villainesque songs but if they fucked severally, needs to be in an stop motion animated horror movie: hand me my shovel I’m going in, laplace’s angel, your body my temple, 2econd 2ight 2eer, love me normally, Willard!, yes to err is human so don’t be one

others I like but don’t have a good category for…. maybe goes hard in a silly kinda way: the main character, I/me/myself, cicada days, 6up 5oh copout, blackboxwarrior,

Didn’t give ya a lot of Self-Ish songs but I’m sure others can point ya in the right direction there. I don’t actually know where’s the best place to start I just listed my favs lmao

[wervinsky]

hi to my fellow ww enjoyers! that’s a list of all of my song illustrations which certainly will be expanding any time soon. so follow to be sure you won’t miss updates, or either way we’ll meet in the tags once again (it’s a threat)!

from newest to oldest:

hand me my shovel, I’m going in!

cotard’s solution

red moon

lysergide daydream

chemical overreaction

(vampire) culture

willard!

6up 5oh copout

2econd-2ight-2eer

vampire reference in a minor key

the main character

your body, my temple

Laplace's angel

the song with five names

[ginger-lime]

Will Wood (and the Tapeworms) Songs as Ride the Cyclone Characters!

Recently decided to wade through Will Wood's discography more and I think some of the songs by the 30-something year old dude really embody them

How this half asleep rant will work:

[Character]: [Song(s)]

Explanation of why song is chosen

"Certain excerpts from the song I think embody the goober chosen"

Note: all songs wils be linked when they're written (mostly as youtube lyric videos), also this will probably be very long

Ocean O'Connell Rosenburg: The Main Character

Local ‘gifted kid’ teenager has yet to find out that the world doesn't revolve around her and stepping on anyone who doesn't fit in with her isn’t okay, more at 7

"I mean, imagine if protagonists just died in the first scene"

"I loot plot armor from NPC’s / Well, they are to me"

Noel Gruber: Suburbia Overture / Greetings from Mary Bell Township! / (Vampire) Culture / Love Me, Normally

This song (in my opinion) is really the embodiment of Noel's character. attempting to fit in, being told to "tone it down" by his mother until eventually arriving in the afterlife and essentially going "fuck it, we ball" with Noel's Lament (and Vampire Culture in this allegory) until eventually arriving at a state of peace with Love Me, Normally/It's Just a Ride

"a snowflake only matters in a blizzard"

Mischa Bachinski: 6up 5oh Cop-Out (Pro / Con & ¡Aikido! (Neurotic / Erotic)

6up 5oh with it's plot(?) of running from the police and proceeding to get mistreated by them is how Mischa is viewed by essentially everyone is Saskatchewan (and to an extent how he lets them see him). While ¡Aikido!, is more of his 'passion' side, specifically with Talia. The more aggressive reprise at the end of Aikido in the 2020 remaster also reminds me allot of the techno section of 'Talia'.

"It's never too late to embrace your fate"

"So we can touch instead of feel"

Ricky Potts: White Noise & Dr. Sunshine Is Dead

Imagine being so forgotten by everyone around you so the innocent bean stereotype is put on you automatically despite the fact that you’re real personality is far from that and then having a mini identity crisis over it

"You're not meant to sing along"

"I'm no one if I'm nowhere in between"

Jane Doe: Big Fat Bitchie’s Blueberry Pie, Christmas Tree, and Recreational Jell-o Emporium a.k.a. “Mr. Boy is on the Roof Again” (Feat. Pasta by Sneakers McSqueakers) [From “B.F.B.’s B-Sides: Bagel Batches, Marsh-Mallows, & Barsh-Mallows”]

No thoughts, story, or plot, just funky carnival music

Constance Blackwood: Falling Up

This song is essentially 'Sugar Cloud' but more melancholy. This is what I'd imagine a song about Constance's life before she died would be about, or Constance's Monologue in song form. What especially reminded me of her monologue was the rapid fire listing of objects and even the title 'Falling Up' being repeated in the song feeling like the roller coaster when it derailed. They're falling but being upside down it feels more like they're flying.

"You make a wish upon the dead, but turn and call it a weed"

"Much larger than life, 'cause from such height / Life looks awful small"

"Well, I cry on skies of blue linoleum, Clouds o' spilled milk"

Penny Lamb: Willard!

Aspiring animal conservationist doesn't know how to relate to "normal" people partially due to her upbringing. Parts of the song were the singer wants animal traits the make their life easier reminds me of Penny's whole "I vomit fire" thing before absolutely destroying JK-47

“Until frustration makes me wish my teeth were sharp as yours”

“I've never understood what humans do and want / It's quite confusing to me to try to connect / Never learned how I should feel, instincts somehow stunted”

Extra characters outside of the choir:

I'll go less in depth for these as i think most of these are self-explanatory

Karnak: Memento Mori: the most important thing in the world

funky sentient machine is constantly aware of his imminent death and decides to be a goofy goober because of it

Virgil: Tomcat Disposables

rat just wants to vibe and chew on a power cable. oopsies he's dead now

Monique Gibeau: White Knuckle Jerk & Front Street

oh em gee she's so gorgeous and dangerous and the world described in Noel's Lament is very gritty and a little gross

Ezra Lamb: Euthanasia (Live)

this mostly feeds into my hc that Ezra ditched school to go to the fair with the choir and had to see his sister get beheaded, being completely inconsolable, and not being listened to because he's "a kid looking for attention"

It's the end yay!!

That's the end folks! I really enjoyed making this (i am a very big fan of both rtc and will wood) there were a lot of other songs i wanted to include (skeleton appreciation day, i/me/myself etc.) but didn't because either

a. they fit too many characters for me to just pin one to them or

b. the character already had two songs assigned to them

i hope anybody reading this is having a good day/night and listens to will wood more in the future ig

[erinelliotc]

A tip I give as a listener and music lover: don't give up on songs after listening to them for the first time.

You know, one thing I've learned from my experience listening to music (and which I'm confirming even more now that I've started listening to Will Wood) is that sometimes it's not that you think the song is bad or meh, sometimes you just haven't listened to it enough. Sometimes it's not that you don't like the song, you might actually like it and just not be in the mood to listen to it at that exact moment. And especially if you're listening to several songs at once for the first time, you may not absorb them all well, so it's important to listen to them again other times.

This happened to me with a lot of The Living Tombstone songs. I'd listen to a song for the first time and think "That was kind of weird, I didn't like it very much", or "That wasn't bad but it wasn't good either", then I'd decide to listen to it a few more times, usually at other times, and then I'd start to LOVE the song.

Now this is happening to me with Will Wood.

Before going to the main topic I'll contextualize the following: I discovered Will Wood through "I / Me / Myself" on TikTok (don't judge me I'm trans okay 😭 this song means a lot to me. This is still my most listened song of his so far, but "Front Street", my favorite Will Wood song, is almost taking the top spot) because of an edit (made by @flowerpuff09) with Double D from "Ed, Edd n Eddy" (my biggest hyperfixation) and it immediately became a song I listened to every day almost all the time for many weeks and I even made 4 Eddy edits with this song (first I realized that the song on Spotify wasn't exactly the same as the one in the edit, and then I discovered that there was a demo version and an official version, and I ended up loving both equally in different ways). So in another Ed, Edd n Eddy edit on TikTok, this time an Eddy edit, I discovered "The Main Character" and loved it, and then I discovered that it was ANOTHER fucking Will Wood song! At that moment I thought I should listen to the rest of his songs because it was already the second song of his that I loved, and so I did.

The first time I listened to all of his songs (January 30th), I added to a playlist the songs that I felt I really liked from the first time I listened to them. If you're curious to know what songs they were here's the list so you can judge me (observation: I listen to the 2015 "Everything is a Lot" album except Aikido and EIAL / Destroy to Enjoy, and to the 2020 Remastered Version of SELF-iSH):

6up 5oh Cop-Out (Pro / Con)

Skeleton Appreciation Day in Vestal, NY (Bones)

Front Street

Thermodynamic Lawyer Esq, G.F.D.

Chemical Overreaction / Compound Fracture

Cotard's Solution (Anatta, Dukkha, Anicca)

Hand Me My Shovel, I'm Going In!

Suburbia Overture / Greetings from Mary Bell Township! / (Vampire) Culture / Love Me, Normally

2econd-2ight-2eer (that was fun, goodbye.)

I / Me / Myself [demo]

I / Me / Myself [official]

…well, better than the alternative

Outliars and Hyppocrates: a fun fact about apples

BlackBoxWarrior – OKULTRA

Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave.

Love, Me Normally

Memento Mori: the most important thing in the world

Your Body, My Temple

When Somebody Needs You [Song]

Tomcat Disposables

The Main Character

Against the Kitchen Floor

Willard!

Then I listened to my 23-song playlist non-stop for almost 3 weeks. And even the songs I already liked seemed to get better over time after listening to them more times, like "Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave.".

One day while reading Reddit, I saw some people commenting about not listening to "Euthanasia" because it was too sad, then I decided to watch the "Euthanasia" music video and ended up crying and loving the song, so I added it to my playlist. 2 weeks later, I added "Mr. Capgras Encounters a Secondhand Vanity: Tulpamancer's Prosopagnosia/Pareidolia (As Direct Result of Trauma to the Fusiform Gyrus)" to my playlist too after giving it another listen and really liking it (I was trying to increase the number of songs on this album because I felt sad listening to only 3 songs, even though it's a small album). A few days later I added "Ferryman" and "The First Step" after watching a video compiling the best parts of Will Wood's songs. Almost a week later I decided to give the "Everything is a Lot" album another listen and then I added "White Knuckle Jerk (Where Do You Get Off?)", "(Cover This Song) A Little Bit Mine" and "Lysergide Daydream". I also added "Venetian Blind Man (Song)" after seeing someone on Reddit say it was an underrated song, listening to it again and realizing it really was.

And something unusual happened. Somewhere in the middle of all this I also removed "BlackBoxWarrior – OKULTRA" because even though I liked it the first time I listened to it, it became a song I kept skipping, then I realized I didn't like it that much (please don't kill me. I know a lot of people love this one, but I found it to be my least favorite on "The Normal Album"). Whether I like or dislike a song ends up being about the sound, not the lyrics, mainly because English isn't my first language, so I end up not caring that much about the lyrics. It's not that the lyrics aren't important to me, what happens to me is:

If I like the sound of a song, and the lyrics also talk about something I like, identify with or find important, the lyrics come as a bonus so I like the song even more

If I like the sound of a song, but the lyrics have nothing to do with me, the song is still just as good for me

If I don't like the sound of a song, but the lyrics talk about something I like, identify with or find important, it doesn't change anything for me, it doesn't make me enjoy listening to the song one bit

Basically, the lyrics make songs I already like better for me, but they don't make a song I don't like better, or a song I like worse.

Fun fact involving me not being a native English speaker: besides Will's lyrics being very abstract in general, I'm also not fluent in English and I never made any effort to pay attention to his lyrics either, so I had no idea what "Tomcat Disposables" was about. But every time I heard it, I became inexplicably extremely sad and melancholic and even teared up even without knowing what he was talking about. One day I decided to look for the meaning and now I know that it made perfect sense to be sad about this song, and of course now I feel even sadder than before listening to this song. He did a really good job of making the melody capture the sad feeling of the story.

So from March 15th until the day before yesterday (for 1 month), I listened to this playlist of now 30 songs. So the day before yesterday I decided to listen to his albums again, and now I just added one song after another. The more I listen to his songs, the more I realize that I actually really like them. The songs that were added practically all at once were:

¡Aikido! (Neurotic/Erotic)

Everything Is a Lot

Destroy to Enjoy

2012

The Song with Five Names, a.k.a. Soapbox Tao, a.k.a. Checkmate Atheists! a.k.a. Neospace Government, a.k.a. You Can Never Know

Dr. Sunshine is Dead

Laplace's Angel (Hurt People? Hurt People!)

Cicada Days

That's Enough, Let's Get You Home

Um, I Mean, It's Kind of a Lot

Half-Decade Hangover

Vampire Reference in a Minor Key

Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll

White Noise

Yes, I like "Destroy to Enjoy" more than "BlackBoxWarrior – OKULTRA", leave me alone. And yes, it took me a while to like "Laplace's Angel (Hurt People? Hurt People!)". It's my second least favorite song on "The Normal Album", but it's still good enough for me to put on my playlist. I swear, I REALLY wanted to like this song more, considering that "The Lorax" and especially the Once-ler were hyperfixations of mine in 2021. And yes, it took me a while, but now I love "The Song with Five Names [etc etc insert 4 more names here ...]". "Cicada Days" also finally got a special place in my heart, but the one I'm listening to most from the album "In case I make it," is "That's Enough, Let's Get You Home", the ending really touches me.

Anyway, now I have a playlist of 44 songs. I may still add more, but in general I'll enjoy listening to all of his songs (except "You Liked This (Okay, Computer)" and generally those that are only instrumental), even the ones I don't consider favorites (the ones that aren't on my playlist).

Then that's it. Give a second, third, fourth listen to that song you didn't like. It might even become a song you love and listen to all the time.

[donaviolet]

What's your fave Will Wood song of all time?!?!?! I GOTTA KNOW

HOW I AM SUPPOSED TO CHOOSE ONLY ONE?? THEY'RE ALL SO GOOD I CAN'T!!!

But if I HAD to pick one I think it'd be Laplace´s Angel - or as we can call it now The Moral Implications of a Deterministic Universe feat. The Onceler -, it's one I never get tired of and it makes me feel like an evil villain dancing around >:D The lyrics keep getting stuck in my head because of how good they are, I'm even learning how to play it in the guitar!! Plus the Onceler reference lol

Besides that I also really REALLY love:

2econd 2ight 2eer since it's the first song of his I've heard, and it's so so catchy

6up 5oh Copout, my fav from Everything is A Lot but the other ones are also absolutely amazing

Dr. Sunshine Is Dead, I can't even describe why I love it but it makes me go asasajhshjadhjashjd

The Main Character!! I keep replaying that final part over and over it's so good!!

Outliars and Hyppocrates!! Which I also learned to play in the guitar

The Song With 5 Names - it fits so so well with my original story it actually scares me

Suburbia Overture / Vampire Culture!! I could go on for paragraphs for my interpretation of the lyrics, and the both sides are so good!!

Euthanasia - legit almost made me cry, Tomcat Disposables too aaaaa

Yes, to Err is Human, So Don't Be One - the whole album is such a hidden gem askjkdasjkdjk

Mr. Capgras Encounters a Secondhand Vanity, it's so so so good!! On second thought the entire Self-Ish album is so so so good, probably my fav album of his but very tied with the Normal Album

I ended up talking a lot but Will Wood is probably my fav musician of all time, I can't go one day without listening to his songs :P

[raw-law]

!!! WILL WOOD MENTION I love his music :)

I know you said you don't have any particular favorites with music, but do you have a favorite Will Wood song or album?

L:

he's a great lyricist. plus storyteller and musician overall.

for albums, i'd pick "The Normal Album". all of the songs already work well separately, but they're even better when analyzed together. my favorite song, however, would either be "6up 5oh Cop-out" or "Red Moon". very neat. :)

Light:

I love Will Wood. His songs read somewhat like poems and they're always so beautiful in that elusive way that's hard to understand.

For albums, I don't really have a favourite? Though I suppose 'In Case I Make It' is nice...for my favourite song, probably 'Against the Kitchen Floor' (credit to RD for recommending it to me) or The Main Character. Cicada Days isn't bad either, it was the first Will Wood song I listened to.