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Bad Happy

by Bubblegum Octopus

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1.
SpazzPop! I think it's here to stay SpazzPop! Bring love to enemies SpazzPop! Confusing everyone SpazzPop! Melodic blasts of fun I'm going to miss you, my voice has run away from me But I think it's worth it, to show the world colors and love I brought joy and sorrow, to my dinner table last night We all had marshmallows, we washed it down with ginger ale SpazzPop! I know that nothing's bleak SpazzPop! Brought everything I could SpazzPop! I want eternity SpazzPop forever! SpazzPop Forever!!!!!~
2.
Oh, these days go fast. I seem to misplace my life. I wish I was a cat so my days would feel longer. I detect the pressure build to meet prerequisites, but no one grasps this concept I'm pushing around. There's nothing in my code to tell me what to do. I'd like to act on impulse, thinking with my stomach We're in harmony, if you accept bruitism We've become good friends, if you'll hang with my cats I have no chorus, because I want seclusion, but I'd play with you, if but just for one night These eight hundred and eighty eight days go by so fast I don't notice when the dawn breaks
3.
Sleep Void 01:20
I'm in a sleep void Taking me from normal life Drifting to far lands My room's the ocean, I have to sail my bed ship out of this wasteland Why am I awake? The sun is gone And now it's rising: Morning dew forms I've been asking carrots to release the things that they're carrying that could help me fall asleep Asleep That feeling that I miss they call sleep Awake past morning, Yellow sun hits inside me Blow out my candle My heart is pounding My lungs feel like they're being crushed by a demon Open the portal, take me beyond this abyss Cuddle me softly
4.
Oh, this world is growing black The clouds are moving in Evil will rise again Oh, there's no place I can hide They'll steal the ground away They'll steal my ground away Platforms rise you see This planet made of floors Lost above me Hold on as the ground breaks Barely alive I'm not lying when I say that the world is melting Getting dizzy Dissolve everything that makes me conscious Hallway growing blacker than I have ever seen No lights shining Aggrandizing avaricious monsters from other lands Jingoist xenophobes My best offense is strong defense Running is cowardly and I'm but a milquetoast My world is falling apart and myself becoming nothing I am weakened by my nightmares Tried: my song did fail No, not heard that well You can save this earth Play this forever Now the planet slips away Life all gets taken off, but it just seems okay I know that my friends are dead, but so is everyone, all bad guys gone for good I won't miss them anyway What good did they do me? What friends stood up for me? Now I get what I deserve Some time alone at last; some time to cogitate I wasted my time here, of this there's no debate But here's a second chance, the oceans all roll back The sun is rising now: I'm sitting up in bed
5.
Tubular and long is the snout Searching through the dirt for bugs Cooler than a dog that's for sure Underrated beast he is Expected to become an icon of desire From your kids to your mom, I'll show you my maneuvers I am a stalwart creature if you are having nightmares I can show you my love with my dream eating powers You will never sleep alone again at night. You will never sleep again in fear Tubulidentata Later you can rest in the woods And the forest floor is clean No night terrors up in the sky No bed bugs to bother you
6.
I look back on every thing that I have done 'til now and I see that I can never feel the same way again I'm sitting down in the basement, one twenty eight sounds are filling my head And then I break, a sacred bank. I'm pleasantly lost. My fighter plane into the sky I'm over cities in the dark My battle tank through desert lands We all roll out the spotlights on Feudal method of combat wins Hot blades they can destroy cold guns Fighting is wrong but so is God He lied to me he double crossed I hate the stars (I hate the stars) Drown the sun (drown the sun) Crush the moon (crush the moon) Defenseless now (I'm left unsheltered) Light destroyed (light destroyed) Blackened heart (blackened heart) Laser was just a gun Lasers made to raze this bubble Now I just think, I just worry I never rest so I can't dream There is no fight, no bravery I'm no white knight, I'm barely here
7.
I understand that our goals are different, perhaps you will, perhaps you will listen But we can find separation together, oh no it's not, it's not a problem You can go and do what you want, see who you want to You can trade me in as a villain, just don't forget, no matter what: I don't want you to become my opposition. As long as nothing outside my snow globe ever changes, I don't care what you're doing if it doesn't hurt me. I haven't any clue what relationship you think we have You constantly forget all our plans. You lie about calling me back. You make me clean up your messes. You bring my food two hours late. You yell at me and trash my room because I'm getting on edge, but somehow I've found it within the husk of a human to see that you're still somewhat alright. All of my words tend to mislead you, but at least they tend to at least be polite But we still have to function together, we must act as if we're all alike
8.
We ARE Sick 00:45
We are sick, oh we are sick You're a plague, you're disgusting I'm a mess You're hurting me, taking all my time I don't want to deal with you, I don't want to deal with you I am a mess You broke my lungs, infected all my bones, axed my synapses, and now I can not read We are sick, oh we are sick You're a plague, you're disgusting
9.
I don't need to write another violent song I've matured; it's all behind me now But for you I'll show my suppressed violence Critical damage received, I'm tired of thinking about things this fucked up Blood Shovel Ground Everywhere everything Endless Rift right into fucking nowhere, Traveling nowhere
10.
Sleeping in, take a nap Made of metal, endless life span Don't be sad, don't freak out You will be here for forever I can't love you, I can't get to know your name Temporary, fast forwarding in my life I don't have to show you my wool, you should know I'm made of metal I don't think it's worth it for me, I am scratching, burning static Metallic, sheep will sleep Not because they're getting tired It's a lie, it's contrived It's a trick to feel normal I can't sleep, steel mattress Stay alert, keep lights on I won't sleep, restless thoughts Stay awake, suppress dreams
11.
I'm getting older, no stopping time I can't believe this at all Before you know it I'll be long gone You can sing this when I'm dead Feeling less joy Hurdling towards death I'm slowing down Not long ago I'm sitting, slow ticking I'm kneeling, fast ticking I'm standing, no ticking I'm leaving, no living Feeler than I'm old, it's accurate I wish I knew how to act Coming to terms with mortality Ephemeral perspectives Clocks broken are better left unfixed Sly tricks to persuade less advance I'll take this lie over that truth I'll take to my wings and run away Soaring beyond all of my past life These chemical storms in my eyes The unified consciousness forgets that melody always lives on My body unravels Feel my noise No violent words Loud silences They're always here Cloudy white lines No cats live here Knock down my trees
12.
Something doesn't feel right, Feel it in the wind Looking down upon the, Town I'm smiling softly, Nothing on my face true I feel like the mayor of (tiny little town, perfect little town) But I'm feeling weaker still I have things to care for (its so beautiful, in my little town) See my people smiling -------? Can you see perfection? (I don't see it here, maybe over there!) My heart almost bursting Breathing all this fresh air (time to clean my lungs, fill me up with love!!) See the puffy white clouds Breaking sculptures like glass (I don't deserve praise, don't give it to me) I've made all of my mistakes I've let people suffer (never thought I would, wish that I did not) It's my turn again now -------+ Now I'm in a new place, I think it's my home Every thing's just splendid, won't take this for granted, I won't burn this place down There's things fucking with me (get away from here, I don't want to deal with you) I've learned things I can apply Some will never get here (stuck until they die, no one to mourn them) to my perfect little town But some things might never change for me forever, I may never lead well in my perfect little towne
13.
A prism spectrum above the land I'm looking up, now spinning out, we're flying up, and crashing down The mountains tower, but they're beneath us White patterns break, past summers snake There's reason to believe that I'm making this up I'll go back to make loud noise in my room There's reasons for the sounds I produce I'll go back to loud things in my room I promise they're just ugly to you I'm just making loud noise in my room I'll just make more loud noise in my room Shouldn't stay inside for too long Life is only everything that you do, so make it something worth remembering Wake to the feeling of cat friends They're running off, no stopping them, my blanket's gone, I'm feeling cold They look at me. I'm an enemy. They know what's inside (bursting outside) Nothing saves me from my insides I'll go back to make loud noise in my room There's reasons for the sounds I produce I think that my reasons are all true I hope that I convey things to you These noises make up things I call songs These songs make up places I can call home Look at me I'm making noise in my room I'll do it, make a song about you I'm going broke I'm losing my hair I don't think you will even care Can you hear me ruining both of my ears? Unpopular pop music fantasies
14.
Now I've wasted all of my time waiting for it: Life's own rewind Zooming beyond finer moments Look back fondly towards your future I know that vision is a simulation, replayed, reused from my imagination There was a time when what I saw was real, but that's not now: I am pretend I've been hoping for elation, but I meet beasts in perdition Trying to save everybody Some will be helped, some fates sealed Evoking repressed sensations Feeling giddy, jumping stomachs Perverse things will supplant small joys This Good Sadness, this Bad Happy I know that I will wake up when this game ends Alive, outside, might be a dream Looking back, I know I've been wrong All my feelings were ill advised I can't take things from this life time Proclivity to change time zones
15.
On the hilltops overlooking everything Pulse spiking as light weakens and goes away Millenniums pass by like seconds did before: time dilates We're resting in the valley forever We're sleeping, napping while the sand glass shatters We're resting in the valley together We're fast asleep while history repeats and fractures Ongoing struggles have dissolved Our mortal fears have disappeared A life time spent fighting for false icons This planet that barely took place Good memories, that's all we ever were Just abstract thoughts inside a machine god Analogous to artifacts of past We never know, we never know how fake we are There's panic, no one understands my comfort There's screaming, violence builds and overflows I ask them if they could please just keep it down I tend to be loud, but for once... We're resting in the valley forever We're sleeping, napping while the sand glass shatters We're resting in the valley together We're fast asleep while history repeats and fractures The things above are laughing now The tidal wave made from the tears But I'm okay, sleeping with you right now This nap is all that took place Good memories, that's all we'll ever have Spatial infractions of capacity Electric star matter: We burst/implode I'm sorry it took so long to be happy

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Written and recorded between August 2009 and March 2011.

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released March 18, 2011

All composition, programming, lyrics, vocals, guitar, bass, theremin, synth, other electronics, and whatever else by Matthew "m@ the c@" Morden

Track 3 features MS-20 by Sean Lango

Track 12 contains a cut-up sample of Matthew on drums and Keith Williams of Washington Square Park on guitar.

Track 13 contains a cut-up sample of Ultra Death Men (Matthew on bass, Jon Lango on drums, Sean Lango on guitar)

Album mixed by Matthew Morden and Sean Lango

Album mastered by Alex Saltz (www.apsmastering.com)

Artwork by Inés Estrada (www.inechi.com)

Most percussion samples are things Matthew created/recorded or drum machines and software, but a few came from Freesoundproject.org

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REJECT IRONY,
EMBRACE DISCOMFORT!

LOVING BLISS & CHAOS AT LIGHTSPEED!!~

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(2005 - FOREVER)

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