#the scary jokes - a mannequin adrift

[bloodbagcutesy2112]

An Album That Helped Me: April Fools

Basically since 2019-2020, when anyone asked me my favorite band, I'd say The Scary Jokes. Sure, they're not as mainstream as some of my other favs like My Chemical Romance or The Beatles, but oh well. And if someone asked my fav album (either from TSJ or in general) I'd say this one; April Fools. The balance of happy sounding vocals and instrumentals with deeper messages like drug use, heartbreak, liminality, and erm... icicles, drew me in the first time I heard it. But even not talking about the vocals or messages, the songs are just catchy. I commonly find myself going back to this album, whether the OG from 2019 or the 2021 remaster. When the remaster came out, I spent the whole day listening to it and marveling over how beautiful it sounded, how crisp it was. I tend to binge the 2019 version, sit in silence for a few minutes, and then binge the remaster just to experience that joy and awe I felt the first time I ever heard it. I've even showed this album to my aunties, mum, and friends. It really is my favorite album, and my favorite songs are Catabolic Seed, Pink Smoke, A Mannequin Adrift, and Toynbee Tiles. But, unfortunately, the story of my affection for this album takes a turn for the melancholy here. I always thought my life wasn't harsh enough for me to have a comfort album. Sure, I had songs that calmed me down, like Sandy Farina's version of Strawberry Fields Forever, but never a whole album that I could use to cope. Until now. My Nani passed away today. My first instinct is to say I wasn't that close to her, so I can push away that sadness and move on, but I can't do that. I literally started learning Spanish to make her proud, since she was Panamanian. I kinda don't wanna keep learning Spanish, since it reminds me of her. But, I can't stop now. Just a few days ago, my parents went to visit her in the hospital, and even though my brother and I were left in my grandparent's house, Nani told my parents to tell me that she was so proud of me for continuing to learn Spanish. I always hoped I could have a conversation with her in Spanish one day, but now I can't. Sure, I can talk with my godfather/her husband, but it just isn't the same. He's proud of me too, but it feels different, you know? I can only end this post off with a lyric from the album; "My world has turned so cold, but I won't cry... because icicles don't soften when they die, so why should I? Why should I...?"

[taswelle]

I think perhaps,

things might be better off this way...

[nonsensical-shitposting]

I don’t understand how people put together character playlists so easily. I’m currently trying to make one for Simon Semblanceofsovereignty and the whole thing has just been me saying “this song would be perfect if Simon had the slightest bit more self-awareness” over and over again for half an hour.

[ask-the-rag-dolly]

oh , also , will you ever release your blog related playlists ? /nf

it's all youtube so i can only sustain links right now . here's the playlist i got for phase 2 , taken from my drafts !

Raggedy Ann Broadway Demo - Rag Dolly " but i'm a rag dolly way down inside , and my heart says i wanna go home . "

The Bird And The Bee - Again & Again " do it again , do it again ... "

Pepoyo - Easy Peasy Euthanasia " in the end , i can't do this whole ' dying ' thing alone ! "

Kero Kero Bonito - Time Today " rueing what i said wrong "

Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure - I Love You " you may be all in tatters , but laughter's all that matters ! "

Mom - Bloodeater " it feels like i'm underwater - not content to do whatever ! "

Kero Kero Bonito - I'd Rather Sleep " now i know what's real , what's fake "

The Scary Jokes - A Mannequin Adrift " surely you're sick of the sorry predicament you've landed yourself in ? "

Tom Cardy - Repress It " are you ready for a breakthrough ? no - repress it ! "

Karen Skladany - Animal Cannibal " have we met before ? ( possibly in michigan ) "

[cameroneatsdirt]

guess who decided to make a pmv ^^

I’d really appreciate if you went and looked at it because I put a lot of hours into it :)

I was obsessively listening to this song once I realized how well it fit pebbles and now here we are!

all interaction is very much appreciated but reblogs<comments<likes :3

(the song is a mannequin adrift by the scary jokes fyi)

[dogboyratgirl]

troy lougferd

[illusionaryneil]

@go-go-devil tagged me to pick a song for each letter of my username!!!

It Is What It Is - Thundercat

Life During Wartime - Talking Heads

Look Ma, I Fly Now! - Chuck Salamone, Mason Lindroth

Up - Worthikids

Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA - Devo

IZ-US - Aphex Twin

One More Time - Daft Punk

Nightmare Fuel - Lemon Demon

A Mannequin Adrift - The Scary Jokes

Running On A Treadmill - Oingo Boingo

Y-Axis - Melt Banana

Need Your Love - Cheap Trick

Everyone's A V.I.P To Someone - The Go! Team

In The Garden - Red Vox

Little Birdie - Ween

gonna tag @actualsquid , @emperornero , @fruity-boy-bruno , and @magdaluxe (don't feel pressured though just if you'd like to :])! also anyone else who sees and wants to try go and ahead and tag me if you try!!

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Friends with You • Apple Pie • Feelin So Matryoshka • In a Bitter Syrup • Catabolic Seed • Icicles • A Mannequin Adrift • Blood from the Concrete • A Night at the Movies • Pink Smoke • Pleasure Cruise • Toynbee Tiles

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ YouTube

[zombiechara42]

if i tried making an undertale animatic to 'a mannequin adrift' by the scary jokes would yous be interested...................

[prompts-woooo]

Lyric prompts 3

Chosen by inexplicable feelings they give me

“You’ll be fine, you honey comb”

“Who could ever hurt you? Who could be so unkind”

“Stop crying, let’s see you smile”

“I feel like my body has died with my soul trapped inside”

“Come on, don’t you remember me?”

“Have you burned my effigy?”

“But traditions I can trace against the child in your face”

“I’m lost in admiration, could i need you this much?”

“It’s hard to be a (man) when there’s a gun in your hand”

“Fall apart without me, body”

“Your beauty never ever scared me”

“The horrible din when you play the violin”

“My whole existence if flawed”

“You can have my isolation, you can have the hate that it brings”

“You can have my absence of faith”

“You can have my everything”

“Help me become somebody else”

“but I’ll grind against your bones until our marrows mix”

“I’m your servant, my immortal”

“You die like angels sing”

“My pulse will be quickenin’ with each drop of strychnine”

“I wanna feel you in my bones”

“I’m gonna tear into your soul”

“Follow me, I’m on the brink of visual epiphany”

“God is in my skin”

“now you’re the only one here who can tell me if it’s true, that you love me, and i love me”

“Leave all your love and your longing behind, you can’t carry it with you if you want to survive”

“I don’t wanna die, I don’t wanna be alone tonight”

“You keep me dreaming, all I dream is you”

“I don’t care where you’ve been, how many miles, I still love you”

“I’m fucked up just like you are, and you’re fucked up just like me”

“If i die or perish, don’t mourn me. Just drink some red wine and break the glasses”

“If I die or perish, don’t call for any preist, just come to my grave to play a folk-dance”

“And I might know of out future, but you still control the past”

“Andevery night, I will be with you”

“But every night it just stays the same, in my dream of an absolution”

Songs listed in order under the cut

1-2 Community Gardens - The Scary Jokes

3-6 A Mannequin adrift - The Scary Jokes

7-9 Head Over Heels - Tears for Fears

10 Body - Mother Mother

11 Mary On a Cross - Ghost

12 When You Play The Violin - The Gothic Archies

13-17 Closer - Nine Inch Nails

18-20 The Horror of Our Love - Ludo

21 Poisoning pigeons in the park - Tom Lehrer

22-23 desire (slowed) - Hucci

24-25 Mirror man - jack Stauber

26 Kiss me, Son of God - They Might Be Giants

27 Dog Days Are Over - Florence + The Machine

28 Full Moon - Rare Americans

29 Soul On Fire - Mystery Skulls

30-31 Sloppy Seconds - Watsky

32-33 Ako Umram Il’ Zaginam - ??? (Translation by MoniStan on Lyricstranslate)

34-36 Dreams of an Absolution - LB (Remix Factory)

[ramenwithbroccoli]

Music ask game

A song you liked as a child

A song that features an element (earth/fire/water/air)

A song you’d choose to introduce someone to your favorite genre

A song you’d put on a playlist for a character you love

A song you think most of your followers won’t have heard before

A song that makes you think of a family member

A song you know every word to

A song from a soundtrack

A song in a language you don’t speak

A song that makes you feel relaxed

A song that makes you dance

A song from the 90s

A song by a performer you’ve seen live

A song you love to sing along to

A song you’d play for a toddler

A song that makes you think of an old (or current) crush

A cover song

A song you’d play to set the mood on a date

A song that makes you emotional

A song you’d put on a playlist for the person who sent you this ask

OOOH THOSE QUESTIONS SEEM REALLY NICE thanks for sending me this! i just found a cd that my dad used to play all the time and it got me thinking about certain songs so it's really fitting :]

not sure if i'm supposed to choose some or do all. so i'm just going to do all of them, hope that's alright

"Dam ci ptaszka" by Artur Andrus! we used to laugh at the lyrics which were pretty nonsensical, especially paired with choir-like style it's recorded in

"Fire Fire" by Steam Powered Giraffe :]

i don't listen to one specific genre, but if i were to introduce someone to, let's say, Will Wood, i'd choose "Hand Me My Shovel, I'm Going In"

"A Mannequin Adrift" by The Scary Jokes. it's really nice with all the symphonies going there and can fit with a lot of stories

"Co Ty Tutaj Robisz" by Elektryczne Gitary. it's been stuck in my head for a past week and i don't think most of you have a chance to hear it

"Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads. it's one of my dad's favourites

hmmm. there's a lot. but i still remember the words for "Addio Pomidory" that i learnt as a kid for a school performance once

"Under a Technicolor Sky" by Will Wood from the Camp Here & There soundtrack

"Gardenia" by Malice Mizer

relaxed... "Cottonwood" by The Forgetmenauts

ironically enough, "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" by Scissor Sisters

"Twisting" by They Might Be Giants

"Make Room!!!" by My Chemical Romance

"Against the Kitchen Floor" by Will Wood. i might not have been that well lately. but IT IS a banger

i just know a toddler would go bonkers after hearing "Fart Patrol"

"Friends With You" by The Scary Jokes. really makes the nostalgia kick in

"Lay All Your Love On Me" by Brian David Gilbert. the vampire aspect really adds a lot

oughhhh honestly no idea what you're supossed to play on such occasions... "Careless Whisper" by Richard Cheese.

there's a lot, but the one that affects me the most is probably "Euthanasia" by Will Wood

"bfourbbo" by bubbo. got that silly energy :]

[bloodbagcutesy2112]

This song makes me sleepy in a good way.

[alice-doesmusik]

#1 April Fools-The Scary Jokes

April fools is a Dream Pop album released by music project The Scary Jokes in 2016. This album feels like you are in a dream but a really weird and sad dream but one that sticks with you in the best way possible. The tracks varies from a really catchy song that imo feels like one of those candies that pop in your mouth (feelin’ so matryoshka) to a sad melancholic song about losing yourself (a mannequin adrift). This album will make you FEEL things, what things? That depends on your perspective on the album.

Review in 4 words: melancholic maniac fever dream.

Song reviews (personally)

Friends with you 15/15 I relate to this song and i don’t think that’s good

Apple Pie 15/15 I cried a lot to this song

Feelin' so matryoshka 15/15 this makes my brain feel funny

In a bitter syrup 12/15 honestly only eh song like it’s good but I’m not really a fan

Catabolic Seed 15/15 I CANT RUN I CANT HIDE BUT YOU CANT SAY I DIDNT TRY!!

Icicles 13/15 I don’t get the hype like it’s good but I don’t know why it’s one of the top TSJ songs, also the transitions are *chef kiss*

A Mannequin Adrift 14/15 :( hits to close to home it’s so relaxing I love it…

Blood from the concrete 20/15 I relate to this song SO HARD and I know it’s not good

A night at the movies 14/15 the only sin it’s that it should be longer

Pink Smoke 5/15 I don’t like pink smoke.

Pleasure Cruise 15/15 I think that it’s a universal agreement that this is the best song in April Fools

Toynbee Tiles 14/15 a perfect ending to the album and its really sad and it makes me cry and I love it

FINAL SCORE: 18/20 🎪🤡🎪

Really Really Good so close to perfection!! And it’s in my top 10 albums of all time!

[saltedsolenoid]

ok rhen music nores rosine togetherhell

oh you're getting the whole playlist highlights because i am OBSESSED. utilizing the readmore

the Simplest Words - The Narcissist Cookbook

Best Friend - AJJ

A Mannequin Adrift - The Scary Jokes

Toynbee Tiles - The Scary Jokes (all of it but this verse in particular)

Friends With You - The Scary Jokes

Contractual - Chase Petra

a conversation about identity - tea

anyways WHOOPS that was a lot. sorry. this isn't necessarily in any set order because then i'd go insane over that and i am trying to keep rambling to a MINIMUM!!!

[another-whump-sideblog]

hello i come bearing songs that remind me of jane’s pets

the story as a whole:

-bloody nose by jack conte

-imposter syndrome by sidney gish

liam/ethan/bunny:

-trial by song by the mechanisms

-i can’t handle change by roar

-oom sha la la by haley heynderickx

-rule #4 - fish in a birdcage by fish in a birdcage

kitty/kit/charlie/lionel:

-brave as a noun by ajj

-be nice to me by the front bottoms

-the hand that feeds by the crane wives

puppy/dollie/amanda:

-lysergide daydream by will wood and the tapeworms

-canary in a coal mine by the crane wives

-boreas by the oh hellos

-saint bernard by lincoln

-a mannequin adrift by the scary jokes

jane:

-i’m just a kid by simple plan (the most jane song ever)

-the dismemberment song by blue kid

-terrifyer by ajj

-pure comedy by father john misty

-laplace’s angel (hurt people? hurt people!) by will wood

-i can’t decide by scissor sisters

-abbey by mitski

-people ii: the reckoning by ajj

-catabolic seed by the scary jokes

-🪴

I love you I love you I love you I lo

[c4nn1blr]

I feel the opposite

“It’s so hard to function, I feel like my body has died with my soul trapped inside.” - The Scary Jokes (A Mannequin Adrift)

It’s like I have to drag it around and shit

I literally feel dead in a living body