Tupperware Music: A Field Guide

[@zeropr0ductions631]

it was david byrne who said the quote about tupperware :)

[@CactusMalpractice]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!! Do you remember where he said it because this drove me crazy for a week

[@norbicsek]

I was gonna write a comment along the lines of "source for that TMBG quote: IT REVEALED ITSELF TO ME IN A DREAM", because I also kept searching for it after the top 10 to no avail - but this actually settles it.

[@zeropr0ductions631]

@@CactusMalpractice just look up david byrne interview! its the one where hes in the costume that makes his head look small and everything keeps changing (tbf i dont think he says the word tupperware specifically but he says smth along those lines)

[@F_I_J_I_W_A_T_E_R]

@@zeropr0ductions631 "I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house, love is kind of big."

[@honeycomblord9384]

​@@zeropr0ductions631That whole interview is like 60 Minutes on acid

[@anothersettlementneedsyour9628]

✨VIEVER SUGGESTIONS✨ Plexi - Forest Ranger Mescaline Babies - Skeleton Kids The Renegades - Cadillac Static - X - I’m With Stupid - I think the biggest hit of this genre, along with the music video definitelly fits at least 2 definitions Ministry x Butthole Surfers - Jesus Built My Hot Rod - again, a well known, gateway tupperware song Buster Bennett - Crazy Woman Blues , after listening to this song, all his other songs become tupperwared because they’re seemingly about the same person TUPPERWARE MUSIC IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGE Plastic People Of The Universe - has that sweet plastic sound, named after a Frank Zappa song and as someone who speaks their language, trust me the lyrics are weird af

[@Betamaster64]

I wonder if Weird Al's "Weasel Stomping Day" is inspired by Ween's "Squelch the Weasel" from 1990. There are all sorts of Weasel antics going on in those early Ween tracks!

[@SemrixCRJB]

I have a similar but way more niche microgenre that I call “Gnome Songs”. Which are songs about cryptids & creatures that don’t really do anything in the song. Examples would of course be Bowie & Pink Floyd’s Gnome Songs and Black Sabbath’s The Wizard who is delightfully described as “doing his magic” and just generally “walking by” For tupperware music I’d like to suggest Danger Doom’s Vats of Urine which is about exactly what it sounds like “everyone’s talking about pistols, gats is boring, got a new topic to flip you, vats of urine”

[@eightcoins4401]

Im pretty sure The Wizard was about their dealer. lso Laughuing Gnome (Bowie's debut single) would fit the Gnomes that dodnt do anything songs.

[@kennymccartman2826]

Do you know any other Gnome songs?

[@JT-nk3sh]

8th wonder by lemon demon and the babushka demo on the deluxe version of spirit phone fit this pretty well ulvers 3rd album may also fit this but not exactly since its about wanting to be a wolf so idk

[@selbi182]

Albuquerque by Weird Al is the ultimate Tupperware Song for me, I love it.

[@Miauwen_]

fr!!

[@computerfighter2000]

HI TAB

[@Miauwen_]

@@computerfighter2000 HI HI

[@SlyHikari03]

That song is the definition of tupperware music.

[@1secondarysmile]

@@computerfighter2000HI HUSKY IT ME GIR FROM TWEETER

[@YoMothar]

Surprised no one brought up PUSA, king missile, or cardiacs some of my fav tupperware type bands!

[@jockohomosexual]

The first two are on the playlist! And I absolutely would have reccomended insect hooves on lassie if it was on spotify lmao

[@stellastellub]

king missile is so underrated

[@glumburger]

And now I know. Turns out I listen to a lot of tupperware. Also holy shit, the wheel finally blessed you! :0

[@JacksContent]

HONEY WAKE UP!! CACTUS MALPRACTICE UPLOADED

[@luckylilotter]

Jonathan Coulton's got a bunch of fun tupperware songs, my favorites being Ikea, Re: Your Brains, and Skullcrusher Mountain

[@nikguimont8546]

Ones I suggest is the dead Kennedys winnebago warrior a song about a guy who owns a Winnebago and how he’s a douche The b52s rock lobster a song about a lobster Mustache by sparks a song about different types of mustaches And a modern I’ll pick is powerball by snooper a song about the lottery

[@jerydeath]

hell yeah Snooper is awesome

[@Miauwen_]

I would agree there are a lot of sparks songs that could be labelled as tupperware music

[@Miauwen_]

i'd like to think most of devo's discography classifies as tupperware music especially the never before aspect!! smart patrol/mr dna immediately comes to mind

[@b3lg1an_st3w]

Hai tab

[@Miauwen_]

@@b3lg1an_st3w HAI

[@internomadmusic]

new cactus malpractice lore just dropped

[@claykline2830]

was immediately thinking of snakefinger and penguin Cafe orchestra , good vid

[@tmamone83]

Hey, that "Dating a Fly" song is kind of a banger!

[@GrubStLodger]

I love this sort of music, and now I have a name for it. Thanks.

[@bagman444]

Holy shit I'm so glad you put my rec in the video, honestly the one you chose was the last one that I thought you would include but now that I hear your definition it fit much better than I thought

[@Waluigifan95]

There’s a Top Ten of They Might Be Giants, and mention of Aesop Rock. All we need is to cover Green Day’s Father Of All on WAEM?, and this channel will have hit my favorite artist hat trick. X3 Dear god, it finally happened…you’ve almost hit Results May Vary so many times I legitimately thought the wheel was weighted as a joke. This also happened the same week a channel that posts least to most played Spotify songs for rock artists happened to do a Limp Bizkit video… I’ll see you on the other side of this milestone Garrett. Someone better gimme somethin’ to break!

[@dougyuck]

saw dispepsi and clicked immediately

[@JacksContent]

Hmmm, I've never heard of them. I'll check them out! Love the pfp btw 😅

[@honeycomblord9384]

Do you know how many time zones are in the Soviet Union?

[@smokinjapanesebabe]

Negativland the best

[@stellastellub]

christianity is stupid! communism is good!

[@dougyuck]

@@honeycomblord9384 We have four in this country, right?

[@b.m.s.821]

Apparently the power electronics artist Prurient has a couple of songs about the reproductive cycle of seaweed

[@br1qbat]

Now THAT is What I Call Tupperware Music, Vol. 1

[@DebbieGarciaa]

If I may suggest some more songs: a) Psapp- Dad's Breakdown (a spoken word song about the time one of the musician's dad decided to have a mental breakdown) b) Momus- Michelin Man (a song about having a kink for the Michelin mascot-- Momus probably has A LOT of music that falls under the Tupperware music category) c) Móveis Coloniais de Acaju- E agora, Gregório? (a kafka-esque song about a man who woke up to find out he had turned into a chicken sandwich.)

[@norbicsek]

"Celebration of the mundane or the never before" is such a good definition. Thanks for including my suggestion; I love Aesop Rock so much, and Skelethon is basically full of tupperware stuff. A moment on that album that never fails to tickle me is how the song 1000 O'Clock opens with the line "I wear shoes to bed". Also: I love the way you pronounced my name, hahahahaha! In Hungarian the "cs" is actually pronounced like the "ch" in "cheese".

[@alexs-mind]

One thing to note is that Tupperware music seems to be very heavily inspired by the lyrics and subject matter, and not too much into the sound of music. So arguably Tupperware music could SOUND like any genre, as long as it had lyrics that fit the criteria. So, sadly, instrumental music likely won’t be Tupperware :( But alas, we got songs like Dunkin Hills Coffee Jingle by Dethklok, or Melonella by Cocteau Twins. :D lol I’m also sure there is something by P-Model or Susumu Hirasawa that would fit there too as i have seen his lyrical themes be based on literal computers and data lol, but it’s been a while and idk Japanese 😭

[@goatness]

Oh my crap this hits home so hard. People have asked me why I write the songs I do and I say "I'd never heard a song about a boy and his pet maggot, and I could wait around for someone else to do it or I could just write it myself." Thank you for this. Seriously.

[@nightshadetq2453]

the mountain goats - the ultimate Jedi who wastes all the other Jedi and eats their bones? I feel like there’s probably a couple mountain goats songs that fit but it definitely creates the first question and is truly highly specific

[@coffdrop77]

The best ever death metal band in Denton for sure

[@KitCabaret]

I had this video recommended to me out of the blue, I'd never seen this channel before but I've just spent the last full week binge watching all of your reviews and enjoying every second of it. You have such an infectious positive energy, it's such a joy to watch and learn from you!

[@CactusMalpractice]

Thank you Kit that means a lot!

[@b3lg1an_st3w]

oh man !! i always love talking about tupperware music but its always so hard to explain. now i can send this video to people !!! love your videos dude :3

[@clawed279]

Would stuff like Peaches by The Presidents of the United States of America or Frog on the Floor by 100 gecs count? They're definitely celebrations of the mundane, but they lack something in specificity

[@CactusMalpractice]

I think both work! While being specific is something that can elevate a track it doesn't necessarily disqualify any contender's!

[@coffdrop77]

I got my tooth removed definitely works here too both in a literal and metaphorical sense

[@jackdearman5880]

Awww yea Negativland in the thumbnail let's gooooooo

[@BungleGrindClown]

So basically “Tupperware music” is just a name for the best music ever

[@JayRealityV1]

Great work on this incredibly insightful analysis! :) Also, very glad we're finally getting the "Results May Vary" review this year! :D

[@Hal9000ize]

Lotta Tupperware music on The Beach Boys stuff

[@jockohomosexual]

thanks for the shoutout on my old tupperware music playlist!!! incredible extension on that, massive props

[@CactusMalpractice]

It really hit the mark!

[@jockohomosexual]

@@CactusMalpractice hell yeaah. if you want some of my finds i found after making that playlist, you should totally check out Cori&Her's Theme For Forgotten Mascot, Joanna Wang's My Belly Really Aches, and Dismemberment Plan's Doing The Standing Still. great video and playlist! def putting it in my rotation :3

[@kennymccartman2826]

amazing username

[@blackdenim23]

“Vans song” by the Suicide Machines. It’s not about automobiles.

[@biygas]

so basically *holds up spork* music

[@CactusMalpractice]

NOW YOU ARE GETTING IT!

[@jockohomosexual]

no thats sporkcore get it right

[@RobbieLugos]

Oh my god, it finally landed on Limp Bizkit! I like Results May Vary!

[@rossknowles5608]

im glad we cleared that up

[@dethronedemperor]

Xysma-The Tram is about how rad it is to drive a tram

[@kronosalexisramenfilms]

Hell yeah!!! Thank you so much for choosing my suggestion. I love your channel, dude!

[@Daisy-pz7lx]

Im gonna suggest dada by alice cooper due to it being a great song and being about alice cooper's dad in therapy convinced he has a daughter who doesn't exist

[@MusikJunkiefromK]

I love your channel

[@AcidicFuzzAnimations]

What is the name of the song you sing at the end? It's been stuck in my head for weeks!😅 Edit: Also I would like to mention Bear Ghost, Mr. Bungle, Oingo Boingo, Tom Cardy, Devo, and Jack Stauber as some of my favorite tupperware artists that weren't mentioned in this video! (not 100% if Will Wood/WWATT and Man Man are considered tupperware but I think they're close enough to be here)

[@CactusMalpractice]

www.patreon.com/posts/xanthopsia-hot-95815141?Link& it's a song that was made for an earlier draft of this video I made a few but this was the only one I thought was good enough for at least the Patreon

[@AcidicFuzzAnimations]

Thanks!@@CactusMalpractice

[@flynn6904]

the fred durst prophecy has been fulfilled, i thought i'd never see the day...

[@toomuchmustard3067]

Depending on how far we'd be willing to stretch the definition, would Brian Eno's Music for Airports count as Tupperware music? There aren't the lyrics needed for each song to be classically "about" something, but the album as a whole has a concept unique enough to count in my eyes.

[@weirdalofficialvevo]

waiting patiently for the limp bizkit episode🙏🙏🙏

[@sternj4314]

With the new definition would Primus be a Tupperware band? They feel like they have made songs on both sides of the definition

[@UntitledNameGangIsTouringAmmos]

"Put your viking helmets on Spread that mayonnaise on your lawn" -Weird AL

[@Mtv-get-off-thee-air]

I see the dead milkmen I click

[@The_The_The_The_The_The]

I would sorta consider what I make Tupperware music. I hate putting myself out here like this but I think you’d find what I make interesting. I purposefully make bad music using GarageBand, and whatever idea comes to mind, I just make it because it’s fun and funny. I’ve talked about that call of duty BO2 zombies map tranzit. That was my first ever song. a song about a “Butterfly Bacon recipe” (whatever the hell that is), and an immature song about if the listener poops enough. Once again I really hate putting myself out here like this but I really do think you’d get something out of it if you try what I make, I would love to hear your genuine thoughts. I go by Mr. Jo, I would recommend my album Roofus if you do look into it!

[@jerydeath]

Cool video! This ain't even a Tupperware suggestion, but you should totally check out Lil Ugly Mane's album "Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern". It's crazy surreal and unlike anything I've ever heard. Also, Animal Collective's "Strawberry Jam".

[@CalTheHogNosedBat]

Ddiamondds by Battles I think would fall into this, it's about stealing a diamond that I think had interesting properties

[@meatbeefindustries862]

I haven't watched the video yet, but I hope Stump's "Tupperware Stripper" gets mentioned!

[@CactusMalpractice]

That's in the playlist!

[@akindremark]

gonna start tagging all my stuff as tupperware music now, thanks!

[@porcelainghoul]

I can think of at least one other song about spinal meningitis- one of the Squidbillies themes had the lyrics "Somehow I got spinal meningitis, injecting all that hairspray in my spine. Its a super cheap way to party, if you aim to kill some braincells and some time". One of the first songs I thought of that could probably be considered a Tupperware song is "Rats" by Rasputina. Its about how the Bolivians asked the Pope to declare capybaras to be "fish" so that they could eat them on Fridays. There's a lot of Rasputina songs that could probably qualify as Tupperware songs, but I think Rats is probably the most Tupperwarey song of all of them.

[@thomasulrich3107]

I'm not sure I wanna plant this seed, because is a rabbit hole and a half, and I believe one can spend their entire life on this. But, if you get into brazilian funk, you will find the most unhinged shit imaginable translating those lyrics, although the songs are not very quirky most of the times

[@the_loveheart_galaxy]

No Wesley Willis in that playlist?

[@coffdrop77]

Nobody else has songs about wupping Batman’s ass

[@pigguy]

Now that I know what Tupperware music is, Pizza Man by Old Skull fits this to a t. It's a punk band of kids screaming about wanting the delivery man to give them pizza. And how Domino's thin crust tastes like shit. Love your stuff man.

[@ThierryRocksTV]

I see Chocolate & Cheese in the thumbnail, I'm hooked!

[@ZaKKsQuaTcH1]

It's Tupper time

[@stellastellub]

negativland !!! :))) also if we’re talking plastic music, matmos made an album just out of sounds made from plastic objects.

[@bboinggbboingg]

Does this mean Backfat’s album is Tupperware music professor

[@JM99_Official]

My favorite Tupperware album is “sick tears” by Needlepeen (KZbin gets mad when I say the actual name)

[@jongabso9498]

Robert Pollard is king volume dealer of Tupperware songwriting (and i'd argue is up in front in quality as well)

[@MrMusicbyMartin]

Check out the music of Position Normal from here in the UK. Also/ Ivor Cutler’s songs make an art form of the mundane. There’s also a Venetian Snares song called “Donuts” which samples a woman talking about ‘the donut, on the glass plate’ and sometimes ‘only the glass plate’. Since you showed XTC I ought to mention Pink Thing, in which the inner serenades his penis. (I think Tupperware music will often transgress one of other of society’s mores). My favourite Tupperware song would have to be Fish Heads - which I think shows, Tupperware music is often baffling, and at the very least, loaded with mystery.

[@kevintrjohnson]

There probably needs to be a ruling on whether to include or separate early punk from tupperware; to me at least, The Ramones (and for that matter, The Dictators) songs about kitsch (Chainsaw, I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement, I Wanna be Sedated, Now I wanna Sniff Some Glue, Rockaway Beach) has a slightly different aesthetic, but it's similar enough in many respects that I'm not against it being included. Weasel Stomping Day feels like a tribute to Frank Zappa (if not in musical style, then just in the grotesque imagery of Zappa's Weasels Ripped My Flesh album). I still think you should look at Amy Arena's self-titled album (the one where she's nude on the cover with an American flag illustration censoring her), whether just as tupperware or for the worst album series (though I don't think it's all that bad and in fact listened to it again today and enjoyed it--it's hilariously, artlessly blunt, vacillates randomly between industrial rock and the oversexed riot grrl punk of Exile in Guyville era Liz Phair, and is filled with more gross-out humor (or "humor," depending on your own sense of humor) than any four South Park episodes and might be a bit homophobic or TERF (it's from the mid-1990s). Oldie but goodie, Spike Jones' Never Hit Your Grandma with a Shovel from the 1930s or 1940s. It's nowhere near as shocking as a Zappa or Tom Lehrer track, but I still get a kick out of a barbershop quartet singing about the virtues of pasting your dear old sweet old grandma with a rock instead of a shovel. Heavy Trash--Gatorade. No hints as to what that one's about, just listen to it. The Vandals--Anarchy Burger Big Black--Power of the Independent Trucker or Bad Penny Straight Outta Junior High--It's a Brand New Day (aka the Valtrex song, with lyrics like "I can go skiing now, the lesions are gone!") MC Lars--Space Game and Speck--Conventional Lover (two songs about nerd culture) The Dictators--Two Tub Man or Master Race Rock Cream--SWLABR (aka She Walks Like a Bearded Rainbow) The Red Krayola--Transparent Radiation (subtitled Red Signs Outside, Which I Contain) Relative Ash--5:30 (from one of the best nu-metal albums ever, in my opinion) It feels sacrilegious, but fuck it: Black Sabbath--Sweet Leaf, a love song to Mary Jane.

[@kevintrjohnson]

Also from Strait Outta Junior High: Office Depose and Hey Crackhead.

[@TMBGTransformer]

as a huge TMBG fan of many many many years, it is unsurprising that tupperware music is "normal music" to me hahaha, perhaps even to my detriment as i assumed the Talking Heads song "Popsicle" was literally about popsicles for over a decade, totally missing the innuendo bc why wouldn't this song be about enjoying a popsicle on a hot summer day? totally normal thing to write a song about :) turns out i have taken a lot of songs too literally/missed innuendos bc of similar reasons........... anyways for a tupperware song suggestion: "Jean-Luc Picard" by Sexy Finger Champs....I have yet to hear another song with the same subject matter......

[@LBAW]

Is Tupperware Music limited to just lyrics? Could this also apply to composition and production? Or maybe those parameters are so often experimented with it’s not anything significant.

[@thealaskanbullworm1442]

literally any primus song could be here

[@nestrobpl]

good example I can think of is Two Wuv by Tally hall, a song about wanting to date the Olsen twins

[@JayRealityV1]

By extension, I think the songs from Joe Hawley's solo album count as well.

[@Dotdotdot51516]

you should listen to Renaldo And The Loaf

[@HipToTheJavabean]

i SAW OING O BOINGIO ON LTHEHH THE THUMBNAIl

[@sling-b]

now i know what my favourite genre is called

[@Tacoz3AM]

DUDE THE WORST NEWS HAPPENED! ANGELIC 2 THE CORE IS NOT ON STREAMING SERVICES!1!1!11!!!1!

[@CactusMalpractice]

WHOA!!!!!!

[@jbeezie2049]

So it should be nightlight music?

[@rhettwilkerson1828]

PLEASE DO UNCLE MEAT BY FRANK ZAPPA

[@ok5988]

Meltdown by Nick Land is a good tupperware song

[@vingaxoc6543]

You gotta add “poisoning pigeons in the park” by Tom Lehrer

[@NPGLAMB]

Is Gary Wilson Tupperware ?

[@ms.horrible9510]

i think in the past these would've been called "novelty songs", but the label feels very reductive considering the musicianship and songwriting on display in a lot, i think "tupperware music" is a nicer and more encompassing name for what these kind of songs are

[@wahbwahbwahb]

GLOOP NOX AND THE STICK PEOPLE is definitely Tupperware music.

[@cerrabloodsportz]

Would TV show theme songs be another example of songs that wouldn't count as Tupperware Music because they don't elicit the first question?

[@CactusMalpractice]

I wouldn't think so 👀 same with actual advertising songs and not spoofs. I was contemplating adding them but that would mean the whole waffle house album would fit and it just didn't seem right

[@vivienhingyi9243]

Is "What does the Fox Say?" a tupperware song? I'm curious

[@CactusMalpractice]

Oh 100%

[@DukeofItaly]

Similar to sporkcore!

[@skeletor1779]

Surprised Frank Zappa isn't brought up here

[@vap0]

honey, grab the good Tupperware, BECAUSE WE EATIN GOOD TONITE.

[@kurtrizzo]

Oh man, I have a brazilian tupperware song for you. It's called Uma Barata Chamada Kafka (A Cockroach called Kafka) by a band called Inimigos do Rei (King's Enemies) and it's about a dude who meets a cockroach, offers her a piece of his pudding and tells her to come stay with him (in a pun who only makes sense in portuguese, vem Kafka comigo). I guess it fit into the category of never done before and it's a weird topic.

[@the_loveheart_galaxy]

Ok but does Garbage Truck by Sex Bob-Omb count as Tupperware music?

[@snailqueen9291]

yes absolutely

[@jbeezie2049]

One good Tupperware song is System of a Down’s Chic N’Stu

[@dc9662]

She ain't green, that's just how she's oxidized.

[@dc9662]

Also, much wuv.

[@CalTheHogNosedBat]

this has nothing to do with the burp-seal or how to keep music fresh for months in the back of my refridgerator

[@Mtv-get-off-thee-air]

Dude holy shit I’m a Tupperware lyric writer

[@CHILLERNICKELLS]

so does this mean nickelodeon girls is a tub ware song?

[@swarler]

yeah

[@snailqueen9291]

so like geek rock but cooler

[@rEdf196]

Play Dat Tupperware Shit Now Boy

[@honeybee1256]

In that case, a lot of Lemon Demons or just Neil Cicerega’s music would be perfect examples

[@nightshadetq2453]

with song concepts like “Guy trapped in a song which is a time loop existential nightmare” and “arcade cabinet full of organs” I’d certainly agree

[@computerfighter2000]

Oingo Boingo

[@dmf13]

The Presidents of the United States of America and sparks comes to mind

[@crabriella_7208]

You NEED to listen to Cheekface

[@CactusMalpractice]

Oh I do! My favorites of theirs is "listen to your heart, No" and "Best Life" 😎

[@alexs-mind]

I know Limp Bizkit is probably next, but I wanted to put this on your radar if you haven’t heard it, as a potential contender for a worst album ever made video. Have you ever heard of “zero tolerance for silence” by Pat Metheny? Tbh, I don’t find the second half that bad (but I mean I listen to noise music and buckethead so lol), but for some reason, the first track that is 18 minutes is absolutely unlistenable and like annoying to hear. I can’t explain it. I understand why Pat did this album, but Something about that first track feels relentlessly annoying, and if anything, I wondered if you felt the same lol

[@jennydeaf9O9]

sediment.