#Teddy Hyde

[311ways]

even from a distance i can hear her, i try to listen but her whispers make my ears hurt

erifef sex with a gohst animatic. do you see my vision

[keeb0y]

New Playlist!

PARANORMAL PURSUIT PLAYLIST!!

Devil Town -Cavetown

Freaks -Surf Curse

New Flesh -Current Joys

Jealous -Eyedress

Eighth Wonder -Lemon Demon

YKWIM? -Yot Club

Soft Fuzzy Man -Lemon Demon

505 -Arctic Monkeys

Ghostbusters -Ray Parker Jr.

Deceptacon -Le Tigre

Bang Bang Bang Bang -Sohodolls

Little Dark Age -MGMT

Hayloft -Mother Mother

Touch-Tone Telephone -Lemon Demon

Sex with a Ghost -Teddy Hyde

Knife Fight -Lemon Demon

Hey Kids -Molina

The Perfect Girl -Mareux

Die Anywhere Else (From "Night In The Woods") -Julia Henderson

Swimming Pool -Marie Madeleine

We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives -Los Campesinos

Notes: This playlist is 1 hour and 14 minutes long.

Requested By: AnonyJerboa

Next Playlist: None (Feel free to request!)

Likes and reblogs are appreciated!

[put3rb0y]

Hello I made some blinkies on blinkies.cafe based on songs I associate strongly with some of my OCs... Feel free to use without credit idc!

The songs in order - as a heads up, some can be suggestive/have NSFW lyrics so tread with caution!

-Abington's Arcade (Teddy Hyde)

-Brain Problem Situation (They Might Be Giants)

-Jesus on the Telephone (Machinery of the Human Heart)

-Thermodynamic Lawyer Esq, G.F.D. (Will Wood and the Tapeworms)

-Coin-Operated Boy (The Dresden Dolls)

-Call This # Now (The Garden)

-Nobody Loves You Like Me (Jonathan Coulton)

-Gallery Piece (of Montreal)

-Waltz in E-Major, Op. 15 "Moon Waltz" (Cojum Dip)

-Under the Willow (Shayfer James)

[pigeonriot]

tumblr just presented me w this order of posts

anyways, sex with a ghost by teddy hyde

[shed0kryptz]

teddy hyde fans are u real. ive never met a singular person who knows + listens to teddy hyde outside of sex with a ghost. cmon theres gotta be some of yall out there

[leev444]

anyways I was working on something and this sorta just. put itself together lol

[opportunityarose]

crowley is so teddy hyde coded

[everything-on-red]

THE BIG SONG RANKING

ladies and gentlemen, to make good on my promise to @daniel-profeta, a list of my 40 favorite songs.

TIER 1 - GOD TIER:

“No Children” - Mountain Goats

Made me cry, made me feel seen, made me feel like a grape in a microwave, cooking from the inside out, dying on the vine, stuck in a box, about to explode, glowing with light. Made me confront my family life, made me ascend to a higher plane of being, made me a sad bastard.

“Staring At the Sun” - U2

I wish I had written these lyrics. I spend 90% of my life in denial so I felt very targeted by this song. I fly up in preparation whenever I hear it starting, and remain floating for the entire song, drifting in the ribbon clouds.

“It’s Alright” - Jack Stauber

This song just grabbed the otherworldly concept of placid hopelessness and frantic optimism and blended it all up in a blender and released a thousand screaming beautiful animals like sun spots on your eyelids in an empty indoor water park where you go skinny dipping with your favorite person and everything feels warm and electric.

“Only Skin” - Joanna Newsom

I have listened to this song probably over 40 times (and it’s 16 minutes long! So that’s 10 hours) and the lyrical tapestry of it is still an explosive mystery to me. It makes me weep and be very happy to be a woman because my body and brain are twisting in a living fairytale fever dream.

“Oh Comely” - Neutral Milk Hotel

How the fuck is this song about so many things and yet one thing. It is some of the most beautiful poetry I have ever had the pleasure of washing over me. Especially the part where it turns into a story about Hansel and Gretel freezing to death after they run away from the circus. See what I mean? It’s about so many things, but it’s about one thing. One solid feeling that you can’t get anywhere else.

“Hey” - Pixies

This song is a screaming roller coaster like an apocalyptic car ride down into the red and blue twilight city, divorce, and the Devil tarot card. Does that not sound like a good time?

“Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing Reprise” - David Bowie

This may be cheating, since it’s 3 songs, but the instrumentals in this suite are INSANE, the lyrics are SO FUCKING RESONANT I’M LITERALLY RESONATING, and Bowie is vocal goals here. Wailing makes everything better. “With you by my side it should be fine. / We’ll buy some drugs and watch a band, / then jump in the river holding hands.”

“Never Let Go” - Tom Waits

You know a song is magnificent when it can be both a loud tavern song and a quiet campfire song. This one reminds me of my father, so I can’t say too much else for fear of revealing my bias. But it’s beautiful, and like all Tom Waits, gives weepy 1930s vibes.

“All Eyes On Me” - Bo Burnham

Y'all ready to retreat into the dream and slowly disintegrate as we assimilate into the digital opiate hivemind in death as natural as a river at the end of the world? Because when I listen to this song, I feel fucking HYPED.

“Liquid Smooth” - Mitski

This is a song about Mary and you cannot change my mind. It is achingly powerful and desperate, ringing with the fear of death and ugliness and impotence, the intense and inescapable body horror of our mere existence as bags of throbbing flesh, the bottomless maw of sex.

TIER 2 - FUCK YEAH TIER:

“Rainbow Connection” - Kermie Da Frog :D (Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher)

This song always makes me smile, and I am proud to be a writer. I feel strong.

“Rock ‘N’ Roll Suicide” - David Bowie

The fumbling and melancholy mundanity that builds into such a beautiful plea for understanding and empathy. I get the sense that everyone who has ever reached out their hands is reaching out for a reason. They hold that reason tight to their chests and ride it into the ethereal plane. “Oh no love, you’re not alone!” The scream is so powerful. We are all David After Dentist. Even David.

“As The World Caves In” - Matt Maltese

Similar thematically to the last entry. Words cannot describe the feelings that the story in this song gives me. “It’s you. / That I lie with.”

“Freedom” - Teddy Hyde

This song is downright picturesque. The sentiment is beautiful, the instrumental is meltingly lovely. And oh my god the horn part. You are not prepared for this, it will pulverize you (tenderly).

“Down By the Side of the Road” - John Prine

This one is definitely about Mary, and it’s one of my favorite stories I’ve ever heard. I highly recommend listening to this, it is the missing link in a long line of ghost stories.

“Toes” - Glass Animals

You ever just wanna feel all the horror of The Island of Dr. Moreau PLUS The Most Dangerous Game in less than 5 minutes? Well with Toes by Glass Animals, now you can!!!

“The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn” - The Pogues

THIS SONG MAKES ME FERAL. GRRRRRRRRR.

“I Bleed” - Pixies

This is my favorite Pixies song, despite the fact that Hey is probably better. I love the desert. I love coterminosity and cyclical time. I love devolving into the fluid consciousness of the past! And I love the weird, dissonant harmony in the final chorus.

“505” - Arctic Monkeys

I’m in love again. The smoky hotel rooms and wet streets. I’m drifting away, catch me. Or don’t.

“Pizza Boy” - Jack Stauber

The perfect song to sing for any empty room, rainy day, life change, mental breakdown, or lovely person. And sway away.

TIER 3 - HELL YEAH TIER:

“Los Ageless” - St. Vincent

This is just a really really really good song about Los Angeles that has some of the sickest guitar I’ve ever heard. It also happens to be one of the horniest songs I’ve ever heard, and I would not trade it for anything.

“Body of Years” - Mother Mother

Every writer should hear this song.

“Rockets fall on Rocket Falls” - Godspeed You! Black Emperor

The first instrumental on this list, because I generally prefer lyrical songs, but this song tells a story in its own right. I feel like I’ve listed a lot of apocalyptic pieces so far, and this is perhaps the apotheosis of apocalyptic vibe.

“How Long” - Anais Mitchell

There is a deep kind of mystery to this song that is not in the other songs on Hadestown. A sense of inscrutability, despair, and wide separation that not even love can fully heal. A sense of bitter and cold resignation. And an amazing chorus, both lyrically and melodically, that builds with vocal layering and lyrical changes in a way that just makes me so fucking happy.

“Life During Wartime” - Talking Heads

The lyrical world of this song is so expansive and immersive and exciting and escapist and terrifying. It’s so fucking fun, it makes me want to jump around and get all sweaty.

“Love Love Love” - Mountain Goats

Raskolnikov reference, automatic W.

“One Summer’s Day” - Joe Hisaishi

I have extremely nostalgic attachments to this beautiful piano piece from my favorite animated movie, which is also the movie I happened to watch before leaving for college, appropriately.

“Atlantic City” - Bruce Springsteen

WOAH BREKAING BAD REFERENCE? This song low key gives me the same narrative and visual vibes as Hey, only with very different lyrical sensibilities. A beautiful, mournful melody and lyrics packed with sharp, astute characterization and wistful, desolate imagery.

“Wriggle” - Cosmo Sheldrake

Gospel song. Baptism song. Edward Lear would be proud. I am screaming and cheering.

“The Mind Electric” - Miracle Musical / ミラクルミュージカル

SEE HOW THE SERFS WORK THE GROUND AND THEY GIVE IT ALL THEY’VE GOT AND THEY GIVE IT ALL THEY’VE GOT AND YOU GIVE IT ALL YOU’VE GOT TIL YOU’RE DOWN SEE HOW THE BRAIN PLAYS AROUND AND YOU FALL INSIDE A HOLE YOU COULDN’T SEE AND YOU FALL INSIDE A HOLE INSIDE A SOMEONE HELP ME UNDERSTAND WHAT’S GOING ON INSIDE MY MIND DOCTOR I CAN’T TELL IF I’M NOT ME

TIER 4 - LET’S GOOOO TIER:

“Pepper” - Butthole Surfers

Something tells me this fountain was not made by the hands of man… idk though… this song makes me want to die in a parking lot on a summer afternoon.

“Dead Flowers” - The Rolling Stones

No explanation needed.

“An Open Letter to a Ruby-Shoed Pixie” - Teddy Hyde

Incredibly well written, the poetic flow is astounding. You can tell it comes from a place of raw and tender unfiltered love and that’s impossible to ignore.

“Hymn 131,513” - Daniel Profeta

The force with which this song is vaulted into the world is unparalleled. You can feel the heart pumping behind it. The lyrics tumble into each other, each truer than the last. Weird tangent--the “look above you, I’m never far” obviously implies some satanic or corrupt element, but I am also kind of obsessed with the idea that this God is simply chthonic. We’ve had too many sky daddies, we need more earthly pantheons. We need to walk on the gods. “Bury me a thousand feet deep in a form-fitting coffin an inch shorter than me.”

“Sunny Afternoon” - The Kinks

I’m partially nostalgic for this song, but also, I think it’s one of the best the Kinks have to offer. It’s just an utter vibe from beginning to end. I feel like I’m sliding down a half-medicated poolside chair into the rotisserie pit of my own mistakes.

“Moonsickness” - Penelope Scott

From the first line this is extremely relatable. Penelope Scott managed to write a song about periods and womanhood that is about so much more than that, that is universally relatable and painful.

“Sundial” - Lemon Demon

There’s just something I can’t describe about this song--the lyrics, the unique rotating melodies, all feel so quirky and fun and engaging.

“Paris 1919” - John Cale

We are all ghosts dancing to this song, “down on darkened meetings on the Champs-Elysees.”

“I’m Always In Love” - Wilco

Describes me to a T. I have problems. And you know I had to put Wilco on here.

“You’re Mine” - DAGames

Don’t eat ass in the halls.

Phew. That's it.

I wanted to put a Clipping song on here but I feel like I haven’t explored their catalog sufficiently yet. I also wanted to put an Advance Base song, but that might be one of those situations where none of his songs stand out tremendously, but Nephew in the Wild is still one of my favorite albums.

Thank you to @my-ancient-marss and again to Daniel Profeta for the inspiration for this list. It was a lot of fun to sift through and organize, and I definitely have a new appreciation for some of the songs on this list. Anyway, I hope others will follow suit. See you all on the flipside!

[justplainsimon]

Albums I've listened to: Late Summer 2023 Edition

Okay, Last one for the summer, and most likely until Halloween.

Not a super hard "Summer Heat Death" but, idk, a pendulum between psychedelia and Hard Rock, and this and that...

[beepbeepdespair]

just experienced the highs and lows of tumblr in about a minute. i said the title of the song 'sex with a ghost' by teddy hyde and almost immediately had someone asking me to tag it for nsfw bc god forbid i said the word sex. and then immediately after a mutual dmed me "sex with ghosts? yes please"

[haveyouheardthissong-poll]

[slightlydeceased]

sex with a ghost by teddy hyde is about daniel and armand in the devil's minion btw. hope this helps.

[trasho-pando2011]

hey you. yeah you. listen to Terry's Taxidermy by Teddy Hyde right now

[gfanlocalcryptid]

Sex with a ghost - Billford

So, yeah, this song has been struck in my head for a while and I love it. Enjoy!

“I'm getting hickeys from my bed bugs I'm getting busy with a bad perfume I'm sticking kisses to a pen drug I'm making friction with a sad vacuum”

“I'm getting jiggy with a rifle I'll pull the trigger with my eyes closed Hoping to hit you somewhere vital 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐤𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞“

“𝐈’𝐦 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐡 𝐬𝐞𝐱 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭, ’𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 (𝐬)𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐈’𝐦 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞 (𝐒)𝐇𝐞’𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬, 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐥. I'm sleeping with a Sex with a ghost, 'cause (s)he knows I'm alone (S)He's a freak in the sheets, play it cool I'm sleeping with a ghoul”

“The only time I ever see her/him Is when (s)he's behind me in the mirror Even from a distance I can hear her/him 𝐓𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫/𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭”

“𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐤𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐞, I need a break, maybe I'll take five Shake it up and medicate, maybe I'll take five”

Tell me this song isn’t about Ford losing his mind because of Bill.

[arsonsara]

Babe, get in here, it's starting!

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I wanted to cover this song in particular for a few reasons: I wanted to test myself and see how far i've come along with my vocal training, I wanted to cover this song because of how fast it went from being "a good song" to becoming something that crawled its way into my soul slowly over the course of two months. But above all else I wanted to do a cover of a song that let me break down while singing, a song that gave me the chance to absolutely invert my soul out and put it on a pike to spin around like a plate on a stick. It was very cathartic. A very special thanks to my irreplaceable friend @tunnelva for doing the professional audio mixing, and for also being such a wonderful person in my life.~ Support Teddy Hyde by purchasing Splitsville on Bandcamp or buying the Physical Release. I highly encourage you do so if you have the money, it's quickly become one of my favorite concept albums.

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