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8​-​Legged Dance Moves (2005 demo)

by Bubblegum Octopus

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Acid Wash 01:40
In the factory I tried to run I tried to see in But a man in a white coat put a gun right to the back of my head I got mad so I took out my carefully guarded revolver I popped t he little prick way more than just a couple times the smell of blood was overwelming so I began to run away from the rotting carcass all I could think about was the thing that I had gone and done but I guess my life was in danger so I had to do what I did Inside the chemical plant I saw the awful truth of the twisted things done to people and animals, empty hollow bodies lined up on the walls in a disturbing fashion that made me so sick I vomited The stench of chemicals that I have not ever seen began to slowly enter my nostrils and pierce my frail brains remains after this ordeal I think Im going to destroy it absorb the bomb get crash power and mutilate with fire annhilate what will haunt me for eternity I just hope that it doesnt rain bodies on my way out I popped four more of those assholes right in their faces with only one more bullet I had to resort to more powers I created one more blast of concentrated energy it could have destroyed anything but because of my superior level I controlled it enough to just take out the factory and the things inside it with nothing left I started to laugh no more pain and suffering for specimens of all species I walked through the ash that was once the twisted factory I dont know what they were trying to make oh my god what have I done to the world the had the cure for AIDS and HIV and Cancer Ive made a mistake here come the cops I better not make one more oh god no I can just feel it
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Deathworld 01:10
welcome to the death world no one is alive here except for the devil he is not a nice guy he’ll cut you a bad deal and laugh at your sadness he’ll laugh at diseases and he’ll laugh when children die and he;; laugh when their mothers cry he knows no fear and knows no shame causing horror is his game I said it and I mean it hes really getting angry hes gonna fuck you to death he makes it look like nothing its not gonna feel good unless you like the feeling of rusty barbed wire and demon semen in your hair you will amount to nothing that is not a nice thing but I speak the cold truth death world is so frightening I dont know why youre so scared maybe its because you like to do such bad things to me I was once to die but the execution loved me im not about to cry because of the pain that this loser demon is causing dont you want to just yell Id rather go to hell your wish is my command you’re just jealous of me what is there to envy? love and hugs and candy not to mention family what makes you think that I give a shit about this crap Id rather crush skulls with an axe
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pearly great white building; huge fight I had the egg gun stuffed in my black shoes (untied, never lied, some have died) face to face with harsh death from it the egg beam rips out and kills all in its path oh no, please don't make the chicken angry cuz he's got this beam on stun not kill shredding white lights burn up atmosphere [fear] the egg beam hens with big guns dont cluck for fun squiggly lines! chickens eyes! pearly white! egg mines!! not to knock the things, but what I do with you never seems to make an ounce of fucking sense
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Disco Party 01:23
Welcome to the Disco Partay we dont want to drink a thing except for blood and vinegar but we have some party games like shoot him up and shoot him back and fuck his ass to death with lead I never saw a game like that one but it sounds pretty god damn fun I brought the beverages! what did I just tell you about drinking at my fucknig house He said the food is good if by food you mean the broken glass Im shoving down your throat this evening I didnt know my house was party central I will make those shit rods pay for what they did to me no one leaves this room alive if they scheduled all this glee partial repent for what youve sinned is certainly not okay if you planned the mess Im in now your life will end today what were you thinking... the drums beat out your death march as I throw more dirt on the coffin your body lies in with out rest NOW I HAVE THE DISCO PARTY! LIFE IS SO GOOD! AT LEAST WHEN YOU GET TO HAVE THE DISCO PARTY!!
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stay away bad dog get back on your pointy collar please do not eat me Ill bribe you with a brick or dollar dont you recognize me? it hasnt seen your face for years you look hungry dont forget it Im not gonna hurt you it’d be funny if you thought you were I will not tease you Ill give you your treats I had a dream about people jsut like you I dreamt that I ate them all gobbled them up and the bones I threw fell to the ground and away I flew I took the fast lane a one way trip right out of this dog town dogs makin’ me frown rabies took the souls right out of the dogs minds eyes fucknig blood shot red and getting way hot saw the foam drip right out of his damn mouth gross and disgusting hydrophobic busting sexual pride of non neutered pups is rather disturbing blood started gurgling Id take a drink before you even try to understand whats really going on here Id take some pills too just make it less weird canine machine guns this isnt that fun bullets tear through bloody holes tearing remains of our souls Die! No! Stop! Go! Chain clanking madness dark and heartless excercise tearing out the beet red eyes wolves now command you to pull the trigger on you fang bullets enter into my body this just cant be real this isnt what i should feel I havent lived a mildy sufficient life Im only 12 now Im going to hell
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Pizza Party 01:36
I don’t think, that you’re invited to my real big , pizza party we’ll have drinks, just lots of soda games and movies, it’ll be so fun but now because you have to be so cool and ruin all of my fun Im gonna kick you in the intestines and now your smile is gone christmas time is almost upon us and you havent bought me one gift thanks alot jerk yeah some friend you are Ill never let you in my house again you asshole GO! the five 9s deal, is super cool its almost so cheap that it will pay for school thats reall good, for people like me who love pizza but have no money pizza, important as gasoline and,your clothing goods expensive, I know it is but its jsut that, I can’t neglect flavors, like anchovies and pine apple, its just so yum don’t you, dont’ gimme that look like it is, jsut really dumb I cant, believe you just can see you, hating pizza
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cupcake mountain is above the dying land of candy treats. full of squirrel carcass cherry in the snowy frosting last time that I visited, that place was covered with a ton of dead.... rats ---- climb the top and eat the sugar what the fuck do you think this is, I havent ever heard of that one no Im telling you its all true that place is a garbage heap it isnt worth a half a shit Id rather take a bath of acid then have to make a trip there no not ever the. clock. ticks. down. cries. from. the. town. chil. dren. all. frown. be. fore. they. drown. “and the frosting came down, melted right off the side of the mountain, and cascaded over the village. The sweet white goodness quickly turned into a death and terror. people tried to run , but the frosting moves too fast for anyone to get to safety. their lives were all cut short and no one in the town survived, what was once considered a blessing is now the worst disaster that that town has ever seen.” I love cupcakes they’re so yummy what the fuck are you tripping on, I just told you the story I don’t listen when its gory The whole damn story was a god damn mess, and the cream you eat I must confess, was stripped, from the mountain
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I wanted on the 8-bit compilation so I wrote a song that sounds like this it’s pretty cool its gameboy stimulation I never thought I’d make a song like this... -------- this song is a story about itself and the reasons that it came about today hooray? whats the fucking point in rhyming -------- so heres the end of my song for the CD take it and listen all you damn well please I hope its worth all of my effort It took me over an hour
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Meow Flute 01:41
the kitten plays a happy jig on his flute but the notes are violent they cause HP loss to us running from the death ray makes this look like a piece of cake I never heard such awful sounds they pierce brains and tear out souls magic songs that the damned composed I had to run from the green notes that obliterate tear holes in the ozone rutpture brains and corporates he played another round of angry melodies the ground had just begun to shake and my team was massacred nothing saved them from the words but I have brought the power of the antient gods wind and darkness focus in my hands en ergy forces out of me and tears throguh the lepecat I have brought the pain now sees how thing have turned out I should get going cat is defeated life is so gleeing see that puss in hell now I am gone until I die dont let this shit make you cry yeah! yeah! yeah yeah yeah!!
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02:03

about

This embarrasses me to put on the internet again. It embarrasses me that this is what a lot of people still think Bubblegum Octopus is all about, ten years later. It embarrasses me that people have heard this and never listened to me again because this is what they heard. Some parts of this even just patently embarrass me, because that's just what looking back at your teenage self is like. However, this collection of music is very important to me and to the context of this project. Bubblegum Octopus is the piece of art that has grown with me the most. It is the expression of my passions and emotions and interests, as honestly as possible, with the only filter being the scope of my imagination and physical abilities.
On August 12th of 2005, this project began in the midst of a sleepless fervor. The composition of the very first Bubblegum Octopus song, Neighbors Do Bad Things, lead me to believing that I was able to write melodic music after all. And on that first night, I not only composed that song, but several others: Disco Party, The Flavors Of One's Self And Sky, Paper Punch Out Dreams, and Mischief Song. The remainder of that year saw me finding more artistic direction.

This official re-release is the defining collection of music from the demo era; the most naive, lo-fi, and amateur of my work with BgO. I assure you, all of it was done in earnest and, with the exception of Cupcake Mountain (more on that if you click on the track), is all fueled by emotional weight I was feeling. When I made these songs, I couldn't believe I was capable of something like that, and that's a feeling I've used as a guide toward making my music better over the years. There is still the same incredulous excitement in my heart when I make something new. When I stop feeling that is when this project will truly die.

This collection also includes 6 bonus demo tracks and 2 b-sides from the first year. Do me a really huge favor and don't put them on youtube or anything. I only want them to be presented with the correct context. I hope you can understand that wish.

Re-reading these lyrics, I'm really struck by just how violent everything is. In some instances (mostly just Cupcake Mountain) I was subscribing to an aesthetic I accidentally built, but didn't necessarily want, but most of the time I think what I was really doing was fighting with my identity, my obsessive/unwanted thoughts, and my anxiety, as well as trying to ameliorate the conflicting feelings I had about violence (I am very much a pacifist, but I liked violent video games and often, at the time, had trouble relating to others without saying over the top, often violent things; I drew guns and blood on everything when I was really young but never wanted to hurt anything).
This music also came out of a phase where I first started to explore my gender identification/sexual identity/etc but had then become betrayed and violated by those people that fostered that environment for me, so I think a lot of the angst came directed from a further broken sense of self. By this time, I embraced the decidedly un-masculine aspects of myself, but often in a guilty, self-deprecating way.

Basically, I was just a mess of conflicting ideas, and I was equal parts expressing them in full, and reacting with shame and anger at myself. One of the biggest themes of this project has always been the effortless combination of ideas that conflict to create something harmonious.
On top of all of that, feigning exorbitant self confidence is a way I coped with my immense self-loathing (I still do it some times!) so there's a lot of very intentional posturing done in these words.. a theme I carried over to many more songs on TAFKA8LDM and even beyond.

Over all though, I wanted things to be fun, because I have a really tough time just letting myself have fun, and I always have. While I really wished people would see it for the heartfelt expression it was, and see that there were layers of meaning to almost every word I wrote, I also wanted people to have fun and get silly with me, once I noticed people gave a damn at all. I'm just really fortunate anyone ever did.

Here's to ten weird years and to whatever the future holds.

"I'm fucking tough"

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released December 20, 2005

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