Will Wood
Favorite song: Dr. Sunshine is dead
Favorite album: Self-ish and The Normal Album
Fan since: 2021!
Who is Will Wood?
Will Wood is, and I quote, "The coolest guy ever" -Marthin Luther King.
Will Wood is an Indie musician that has made four albums and the soundrack(? of a podcast. He's a singer and keyboard player, but occasionally plays the guitar and ukelele too. I would personally describe his music as every genre you can think of but with a pinch of jazz. More intelligent people would call it Alternative rock/Jazz/avant-garde.
Quick history of Will Wood
Before forming Will Wood and the Tapeworms, Will was a member of the bands Strange Thick, JamFace, a Verbal Equinox and the Stereosexuals. The some members of these bands would eventually form Will Wood and the Tapeworms, before changing the name and making music under the name Will Wood.
He is currently in a hiatus, but he lately released "The new normal", an album with some edit versions of the normal album and the demos, so at least we aren't starving.
Albums
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Everything is a lot
Everything is a lot is the first Will Wood and the Tapeworms album, it was made in 2015, lasts 49 minutes and contains 13 songs. It's a highly chaotic album, going from Dark cabaret, Piano rock and Jazz rock. Though not having a connecting theme, the album has multiple songs about addictions, like the first step, and the consequences of this (6up 5oh Cop-Out, Jimmy Mushroom's Last Drink: Bedtime in Wayne, NJ, etc.)
Self-Ish
Self-ish was released in 2016. In only 33 minutes and 8 songs, Self-ish is an experimental album with multiple recurring themes and leitmotifs, mostly exploring a sense of identity or "self" from different views of a same picture: addiction, memory and mental illness. The themes of the album are introduced in the first song "self-", and concluded in the last song "-ish".
The normal album
Released in 2020 and in 45 minutes and 10 songs, the normal album is a much more polished album, maintaining the characteristic Dark cabaret of the band while adding a more pop sound. The album is, as imagined, an exploration of the concept of normality, what it means to be normal, and the hardships of normality for a person that simply can't fit in. From love to morality to mental illness and medication.
In case I make it
In case I make it, formerly titled In case I die, is Will Wood's fourth album. Released in 2022, ICIMI is will wood's longest album, during 1 hour and 12 minutes, distributed in 16 songs. Quoting Will “I'll be releasing my most self-aware, brutally honest, and personal work yet.”
And I think that summons it perfectly.
Camp here and there
Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. Rats made me crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. Rats made me crazy.Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. Rats made me crazy.
My top of all the songs
As the obssesed bastard I am, I'm going to top all WWATT songs, and you can't stop me.
1. Dr. Sunshine is Dead: Dr. sunshine is my favorite song ever. It sets an amazing vibe, it's a song I really connect to with all the identity topics, and it's so catchy it should be considered a legal weapon.
2. Love, me normally: I love the progress of the song, Will's voice, the piano, the lyrics. My man is literally me.
3. I/Me/Myself: We all knew it was coming. Queer teens are physically uncapable of disliking this song. What can I say, I've listened to it so much that every time I have a mental breakdown my brain's reaction is to play this song so I don't kill myself. It has worked so far.
4. The song with five names: FUCKING CINEMA.
5. BlackBox Warrior: The piano is nuts, the monologue is insane, and I'm 100% sure it is pronounced OK-ULTRA.
6. 2econd 2igh 2eer: This song makes me so happy, I'm on the verge of dancing everything I listen to it.
7. Chemical Overreaction: Good guitar, love to hear Will's poor spanish. 30/10.
8. Hand me my shovel, I'm going in: "Looking up I could say heaven sent me. Hand me my shovel, I'm going in!"
9. Venetian blind man: I have no idea what this song is about and I do not care.
Okay you could actually stop me, I'll finish this later
Everything is a Lot
Everything is a lot is the first Will Wood and the Tapeworms album, it was made in 2015, lasts 49 minutes and contains 13 songs. It's a highly chaotic album, going from Dark cabaret, Piano rock and Jazz rock. Though not having a connecting theme, the album has multiple songs about addictions, like the first step, and the consequences of this (6up 5oh Cop-Out, Jimmy Mushroom's Last Drink: Bedtime in Wayne, NJ, etc.)
★ 6up 5oh Cop-Out (Pro / Con)
★ Skeleton Appreciation Day in Vestal, NY (Bones)
★ Front Street
★ ¡Aikido! (Neurotic/Erotic)
★ White Knuckle Jerk (Where Do You Get Off?)
★ (Cover This Song) A Little Bit Mine
★ Thermodynamic Lawyer, Esq, G.F.D.
★ Red Moon
★ Lysergide Daydream
★ The First Step
★ Jimmy Mushrooms' Last Drink: Bedtime in Wayne, NJ
★ Chemical Overreaction / Compound Fracture
★ Everything is a Lot
Fun facts!
★ In 2020 Will and Jon Maisto would remaster the entire album.
★ The cover was drawn by Will himself.
★ In the 2020's remake of the album, the song everything is a lot is divided in everything is a lot and destroy to enjoy.
Self-Ish
Self-ish was released in 2016. In only 33 minutes and 8 songs, Self-ish is an experimental album with multiple recurring themes and leitmotifs, mostly exploring a sense of identity or "self" from different views of a same picture: addiction, memory and mental illness. The themes of the album are introduced in the first song "self-", and concluded in the last song "-ish".
★ Self-
★ 2012
★ Cotard's Solution (Anatta, Dukkha, Anicca)
★ Mr. Capgras Encounters a Secondhand Vanity
★ The Song with Five Names
★ Hand Me My Shovel, I'm Going In!
★ Dr. Sunshine Is Dead
★ -ish
Fun facts!
★ There's nothing fun about this album/jk
The normal album
Released in 2020 and in 45 minutes and 10 songs, the normal album is a much more polished album, maintaining the characteristic Dark cabaret of the band while adding a more pop sound. The album is, as imagined, an exploration of the concept of normality, what it means to be normal, and the hardships of normality for a person that simply can't fit in. From love to morality to mental illness and medication.
★ Suburbia Overture / (Vampire) Culture
★ 2econd 2ight 2eer (that was fun, goodbye.)
★ Laplace's Angel (Hurt People? Hurt People!)
★ I / Me / Myself
★ ...well, better than the alternative
★ Outliars and Hyppocrates: a fun fact about apples
★ BlackBoxWarrior - OKULTRA
★ Marsha, Thankk You for the Dialectics, but I Need You to Leave.
★ Love Me, Normally
★ Momento mori: the most important thing in the world
Fun facts!
★ The album was promoted with the single Mr. Fregoli and the Diathesis-Stress Supermodel, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Con (An Untitled Track)
★ In 2024 Will released an album called The New Normal, with edits and demos of the original album.
In case I make it
In case I make it, formerly titled In case I die, is Will Wood's fourth album. Released in 2022, ICIMI is will wood's longest album, during 1 hour and 12 minutes, distributed in 16 songs. Quoting Will “I'll be releasing my most self-aware, brutally honest, and personal work yet.”
★ Tomcat Disposables
★ Becoming the Lastnames
★ Cicada Days
★ Euthanasia
★ Falling Up
★ That's Enough, Let's Get You Home.
★ Half-Decade Hangover
★ Vampire Reference in a Minor Key
★ You Liked This (Okay, Computer!)
★ The Main Character
★ Against the Kitchen Floor
★ Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll
★ Big Fat Bitchie's Blueberry Pies
★ Willard!
★ White Noise
Fun facts!
★ The album was originally titled In Case I Die
★ In the early stages of the album's life, the original cover would be of a skeleton in a rat trap. this would be re-used for the live tour album, IN CASE I MAKE DIE: (Live).
Acampamela pues
TU CUERPO, MI TEMPLO NEEEEEEEENAAAAAAAAAA