AJJ - Getting Naked, Playing With Guns

[@sideonedummy]

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[@namesake112]

This is the best description of childhood I have ever heard. Children are violent, unintentionally (sometimes intentionally) cruel, little scientists. Nobody admits to metaphorically "microwaving" a gerbil, or "killing" their neighbors, but we've all done it at one point or another when growing up.

[@NOTaStranger-H2O]

Gummo

[@izzeay911]

Wonderful music to listen to while having an existential crisis in the middle of the night. 10/10.

[@dexses2184]

same :(

[@skylerharman3835]

:(

[@vinegar8079]

Agreed

[@blobinski9160]

wow yeah mood

[@lucyraethornes5983]

Very🤣

[@lupusetluciferi27]

A friend and I were listening to this, and singing along, and instead of "take a trip to future town" he said "flavor town" which, of course, made me laugh uncontrollably and I couldn't listen to the song for like a week haha.

[@felixfdsj6808]

we'll make a wish and take a trip to flavor town like our daddy did-ryder fieri

[@bloodmaged]

lmfao

[@malding1]

I'm deadd 💀💀

[@undercolor6110]

Lot's of people seem confused by the lyrics here. As a kid that grew up in a trashy small town environment though, I know *exactly* what this song is all about. It's a perfect journey through the mind of a hyperactive 11 year old stuck in a dumpy suburbs, influenced by peer pressure and the increasing presence of media. At least, that's what I get from it.

[@smoot2337]

im glad someone else gets the same feeling from it. im always brought back to living in shitty apartments by the highway watching the high school kids shoot squirrels with bb guns and not knowing what the fuck to make of anything

[@chao9111]

HEAR HEAR. Born and raised in Iowa, diagnosed at a YOUNG age with ADHD, this song is my childhood. From getting picked on and paying it forward 10x, from being good enough to be called sweet and acting bad enough to be arrested before age 12 to hotwired thoughts and highpower anxiety inducing bizarre/erratic behavior, having a moral compass spinning 100rpm, all I can say is I set it off like microsoft in '94 in my back yard. It's a miracle I didn't kill a kid and it's a miracle those kids didn't kill me.

[@seacrystal6189]

This song feels like remembering the dreams you had as a kid about running away to a better life while sitting on your bed in your childhood home and realising that will never happen. And yet, the faint, bitter memory of the time when you still had hope for the future helps you fall asleep

[@poprockss]

god. yeah.

[@bellpebber63]

I think this songs about the violent ideas we'd have as kids in a rapidly changing world, searching for the nostalgia, never finding it, and being violent without understanding the consequences or why I love it

[@rowan3037]

"i can see the playground through the trees, and i can see the playground from the trees" CHILLS

[@theworstpear6080]

Listen to the live version, I now go treeeeees after listening to it lol

[@ams_1046]

I showed this song to a friend,he compared the lyrics to grabbing refrigerator magnets and compiling them into a song. I'm not sure how to feel about this..

[@jacoburiah6046]

Amanda Sheep that's actually like a super creative song writing idea... Well i know what I'm doing when i get home :)

[@masondailey4431]

I mean... is he wrong? lol

[@wesleymcdermid9351]

Your friend isn't bipolar. That's good!

[@pogo9162]

thats fair

[@DreamGyrl360]

I agree

[@brinesella5891]

This is easily my favorite AJJ song.

[@ScreecH506]

same tho, it makes me feel again

[@ChristinaFromYoutube]

Us

[@rowan-priince1860]

This has the energy of sitting on your bed, naked after a shower realizing you still feel dirty because you can't stand being in your own skin

[@stoneman18]

Yeah

[@laurenw_30]

I literally just did that

[@ChloeGore]

Literally ftw but I love you goodbye

[@kelceyfirth]

Sitting in the shower trying to cry but being incapable

[@lucyraethornes5983]

Why is that absolute facts

[@macbooklegend9193]

long legged birdy boi

[@cameronpederson8227]

Syrmor brought me

[@str0680]

Best boi ever

[@seaby67]

why I am here

[@jimjam3256]

KEVIN COSTNER

[@wolfcub1835]

Did he sing this which video? This is like my favorite ajj song

[@d4tsuc800]

About a month back, I got sent to an in-patient center. The people I met there changed my life and I’ll never see them again. Christmas Island and especially this song sound different for me now. Not only am I mourning them, I’m mourning a better version of myself.

[@steroalt]

GETTING NAKED AND PLAYING WITH GUNS (ALTERNATE) LYRICS [Chorus] Getting naked and playing with guns There's a gerbil in the microwave A baseball bat in everyone Sharing kisses and building a bomb We'll set it off like Microsoft in '94 We'll set it off like Microsoft in '94 [Verse 1] McDonalds PlayPlace before the Xbox Cake frosting, sweet talking bedroom wall Covered in knives, touching God, burning shit We'll make a wish and take a trip to Future Town Like our daddy did And we'll kill the neighbor kid Who only wants to be our friend His dad is dead enough that His new dad can cure the bends We'll make a wish and take a trip to Future Town Feeling weird, yet tasting sweet It's a top-bottom, rock-smoking, magic mask Making it bleed Feeling sweet, getting weird Now I can see the playground through the trees And I can see the playground from the trees [Verse 2] And we'll show the neighbor kid What our love actually means He's here from out of town and I heard he's got A.D.D We'll climb the tallest branch with a rifle full of dreams And we'll blow the little dickweed up to smithereens [Chorus] Getting naked and playing with guns There's a gerbil in the microwave A baseball bat in everyone Sharing kisses and building a bomb We'll set it off like Microsoft in '94 We'll set it off like Microsoft in '94 We'll set it off like Microsoft in '94 In our backyard

[@macbrizzle]

dickhead*

[@junkiechurch]

MacBrizzle it’s the alternative one; that one says dickweed instead of dickhead

[@calcassidy1999]

alternate my arse

[@jossbracero9158]

This song always gives me like second grade summer day feelings?? Idk I love this song so much though

[@seaby67]

Thank you to that singing bird for this. Amazing guy.

[@jimjam3256]

my man Kevin Costner

[@TaylorSwiftlover1316]

i know

[@LonersUnderXanax]

This is true

[@exiaaa6249]

sadly, there's no kazoo solo here.

[@sw1269]

there's a kazoo sonata elsewhere in the album, on the bright side

[@throgsneck5770]

sw it’s i not in this album, it’s in can’t maintain

[@mr.albert__3361]

It's a shame that birb mom hasn't made a official cover of it yet

[@MSPilotCrexote]

Man...

[@nahhhhh7675]

Fucking yes

[@Ricardo5911jakakak]

You probably (both you, reading this and aj) dont care but this song is very important to me, it was the first song i learned on the guitar

[@Celadian67]

Good choice

[@noahbrulesss4574]

fair enough, i like the song too

[@skylarfox_bmb]

This song is so odd to me. I was never nearly like this as a kid, even figuratively, but it feels so nostalgic. The violence of the lyrics with the soft instrumental sets a tone in my mind where even if that's not me at all, I get it. Like hell yeah, microwaving gerbils

[@bloodmaged]

I remember hearing this for the first time in January 2018 or February. Crazy how fast time goes by

[@spicerice8116]

King gizzard fan spotted

[@bloodmaged]

@@spicerice8116 yessir

[@goshapplesauce3878]

This song fills me with such a weird mix if nostalgia and melancholy.

[@drakoinx]

Will always be in my top three favourite songs, thank you so much Andrew jihad Jackson!

[@lucyraethornes5983]

A friend played this at a big group picnic only about 2 months after I met her and I didn’t know what the song was until she recommended AJJ to me and I found it.

[@l.overama]

cried and had a nosebleed listening to this. 10/10, would do again

[@Dyers69]

Fun fact: the instrumental riff after playground from the trees is from Just What I Needed by The Cars.

[@7a25b3-hj2ub]

what a great song

[@stelloola]

God i wish i could listen to this song for the first time again

[@Baileybunn369]

Your the only music that doesn't make me feel alone

[@alwaysalone6412]

😶‍🌫️

[@dcc105]

This is the wierdest but best sounding shit I've ever heard.

[@woodhousii2445]

just another tuesday for me

[@RyanFalls]

"Taking off our shirts, bout to make these rifles burss."

[@nicholas3125]

Ryan Beresford omg 10/10

[@TaylorSwiftlover1316]

hi lolllllllll

[@aquilaorion3531]

One of my favorites in this album

[@TallgrassMeander]

They have a whole lot of great songs, but this has to be their greatest

[@maxnickles]

To me this song is about being chaotic and destructive as a kid, how the line “before the Xbox”. They were being chaotic for fun, a dude and a girl (or a dude and a dude) sharing kisses and being chaotic and hanging just enjoying each other but that’s just how I see it

[@felixfdsj6808]

this gives me memories of my childhood what did you do

[@shiftyshapers]

im crying. this is a good song

[@ihateithere8846]

What upsets me the most about this song is how new it felt the week it came out

[@GLASSB182]

1:51 "guess you're just what I needed!"

[@grimsiebear3836]

Tag yourself I'm the gerbil in the microwave

[@throgsneck5770]

i’m the daddy

[@throgsneck5770]

@@racconsoup the one that went to future town.

[@okiedokeymokey]

i’m the wall covered in knives

[@Cyburim]

Kid with ADD getting shot

[@paigebird2341]

I'm the rifle full of dreams

[@tadiyah245]

Loved this song in Baltimore, Sean

[@kenna8069]

this song reminds me of when me and my friend used to crash the games on my old xbox one of the games was a weird cars game from YEARS ago and what me and her talked about at night when we didnt even know what we were saying we just said anything that came to mind

[@tedfegrow]

What a fun afternoon

[@amyvic5121]

This is as chaotic, disturbing and at the same time comforting as kimya dawsons the beer in my opininion.

[@Kyuubiawsome]

My uncle had his schizophrenic snap at 8 years old an walked around the neighborhood with his dad's rifle shooting various animals (cats an dogs mainly). He hid out in the trees through out the neighborhood an the police couldn't find him for over 8 hours!!! He finally climbed down an turned himself in. This song reminds me of that x3.

[@Soyconsumer1000]

"x3"

[@tarjet3867]

@DeviledEgginator my great-great-grandpa got drunk and shot cats on his back fence. this was in the 50's tho

[@wolfcub1835]

TAR JET my great great great great great great grandpa got drunk and shot up and pillaged a few Indian villages

[@okiedokeymokey]

my great great grandma murdered me, i’m literally a corpse. and then all the skeletons clapped when i was buried

[@thecatmeow757]

And then the whole town clapped and cheered

[@CatsBreadBikes]

I imagine that if John mulaney took up singing, he'd sound pretty close to sean

[@burntbeanies7886]

As someone who had loved AJJ forever, I WELCOME THESE WHO WERE BROUGHT FROM SINGING BIRD! Please check out all this lads songs, they are wonderful, I recommend kokopelli face tattoo as well!

[@Foxbl00d_Gaming]

I have no words.

[@GLASSB182]

"Gerbil in the microwave" always reminds me of Screeching Weasel's "Wavin Gerbs"

[@swagupbekilln1]

smokinnn magic 😷

[@mugniman4699]

Does anyone know the song that has the same melody as 1:51 but its like a soft rock song or something its bothering me that I cant find it or remember

[@gwenmanley-muller2670]

mugni man I don't know if you're still looking but it's Just What I Needed by The Cars

[@jectblade]

@@gwenmanley-muller2670 FUCKING THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've been wondering where i heard that goddamn tune and I've been looking for 4 HOURS STRAIGHT!!!!!!! You just made my day.

[@Jose-zh4rq]

EmBy the synth rhythm

[@mellowcide53]

i really like these specific guitar parts and i can't explain why. anyone know what these parts are called, if they even have a name? 0:13, 1:53, 2:02

[@jacoby7036]

This is so good

[@pios5434]

Glory to long-legged bird.

[@jefferyebel3097]

i knew ajj befor but this kid i liked played me this song he was a hella good artist annd now hes gone R.I.P. scabby doooooooo

[@communistdaughter2861]

s... *_scabby_* doooooooo?

[@charlesgriffingibson]

love love love

[@mothman6264]

This song is oddly relatable

[@alymatronicdoesrandomness505]

Between me missing the childhood I never really got and my intrusive thoughts, you get this.

[@billji360]

Interesting lyrics!

[@woodhousii2445]

I miss my friends.

[@apeydawg]

this is my favorite song to smoke too. i love how "fucked up" the lyrics are and the oooooo (u know what im talking abt)

[@futsuu]

This song is intensely North Phoenix or Tempe, Mid-90's.

[@novacipher1715]

This is my favorite song

[@lucystarlight8887]

This whole album is pretty cryptic but this song in particular is basically nonsense and I love it

[@i.c.weiner2591]

Summer was a fucking blast

[@leafyyay6960]

really reminds me of lord of the flies honestly

[@Nickbrawnr]

Sounds influenced by Daniel Johnston and NMH I like it...

[@TaylorSwiftlover1316]

im 9 and love this song

[@ddhhh567]

Yee

[@harmonygarcia333]

pog

[@takerock4615]

This song is Mad Libs gone wrong. Or right? I don't know, this song makes me very confused.

[@octoblur2560]

I guess it's not supposed to make sense, It reminds me of childhood, but AJJ's songs usually spew glorious garbage

[@specialk5680]

salty grey sea depending on the album tbqh bud

[@robdob1710]

The synth solo is the same as what other song??

[@alwaysalone6412]

Am I the only one who was the neighbor kid?

[@johnbacile9495]

I plyed this song over Ballad of A law Abidnig Sophisticate by Colter Wall, they are very similar in almost every aspect

[@officerbort]

Is the title referencing the Sex Pistols? Awesome song, btw

[@SteamPunkWillie64]

mcjack11 Whoa, never occurred to me, but it totally could be!

[@arkwryte]

Maybe, but it's also really fun to take off your clothes and cuddle your anodized aluminum lead spitter.

[@krooked7631]

I feel like this song was somewhat inspired by mean creek

[@swagupbekilln1]

stagecraft teacher showed me this song 😂😂

[@wesleymcdermid9351]

What I wouldn't give to be the neighbor kid..

[@deroivano4431]

WHERE'S THE KAZOO?

[@sonoskay]

I wonder if the neighbor kid is cody.

[@jeanrose3196]

this song is beautful idc what anyone else says lol

[@Thlormby]

mikerwave

[@rigged9398]

Im pissed at life so im here

[@cleopreta1854]

First Song by Pat The Bunny?

[@diefakebuddyarmstrong9076]

Im not saying I understand the song but it’s definitely not gibberish idk what you all are listening

[@thegatekeeperm8183]

Listening to this the morning after the 2016 Election. Goodnight, America. It's been a good run.

[@cjperez1186]

The Gatekeeper M8 god how overactive are you people

[@lukassisu9919]

Two years later, world hasn't ended, we're still winning. Sun hasn't set on the Land of the Free yet.

[@tracecorley48]

DeviledEgginator My nigga is listening to AJJ today too

[@scottysneakers77]

Wake up homie the best president in us history is president

[@catherineladyboy5022]

@@scottysneakers77 we've been in a government shutdown for over 2 weeks, government workers aren't getting a paycheck, and the price of food is going to skyrocket due to the lack of subsidies

[@UGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH]

a beautiful album but fuck, it kind of seems like he lost it. I dig metaphor in music but....

[@nativewolf90]

+Trevor Manzine it's just lyrics, don't have to mean anything

[@ezrablock3218]

+Trevor Manzine I know that this type of song isn't for everyone, but to me, this song is much stronger because it has so much metaphor. It evokes a vaguely nostalgic sense in me, but still has the morbidity to remind me of how dangerous my own childhood could be. I'm happy that the band has evolved, and I prefer whole songs full of metaphors, than some of the ones where they had mostly literal and a few metaphors. Its your opinion and I don't expect you to gain a better appreciation for the song from my comment, but I think it's important to note that what is meaningless to one person, is evocative to another.

[@dogboy347]

Sean has a lot of dark lyrics, which I personally enjoy.

[@LoydAvenheart]

I like it.

[@basilmccurry123]

he's changed for sure, but I feel like this song has alot in common with his older shit

[@Buffpeach]

I came here because of a fanfiction and I'm glad I came

[@ruqisuwu]

what fanfiction

[@themichealjordanofbirdwatc9409]

@@ruqisuwu mcree x ross from friends

[@ruqisuwu]

@@themichealjordanofbirdwatc9409 thx

[@bacardi119]

I GOT ADD. LOL!!

[@yunghoodie7534]

Kevin..

[@qwassred2539]

If you didnt know, he has his own music career. His name is "Virtual Bird" ( theres one of his recent songs kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHTZgYyog7CAiZo )

[@Shplonk]

Came here from Kevin Costner on vr chat

[@bryson4100]

Charles Manson kids type beat