Jar Full Of People

My entry for the November Challenge. It is not new, but it has been waiting for this challenge to finally have an appropriate home.

Lyrics:

You can find everyone
in a jar on the hill
if you look for the jar
full of people

• play
• pause
• min volume
• max volume

posted by grumpybear69 (9 comments total)

Brilliant. Should be appropriated as the theme to the TV Series "JAR HILL" which I just envisioned (as animated by Gary Larson). I'm sure you could commission They Might Be Giants to perform it, but why bother; this is perfect. Short and sweet, silly and surreal. Thanks for making this.
posted by not_on_display at 6:54 PM on November 22, 2016 [1 favorite]

I love this so much, it needs a nutso video to go with it and then to go viral.
posted by greenish at 3:22 AM on November 23, 2016 [2 favorites]

Happy major key and then, pow...the visual. This manages to be charming and eerie at the same time. I especially like how well the backing vocal fits in.
posted by rangefinder 1.4 at 10:27 PM on November 23, 2016 [1 favorite]

I am looping this and just sort of cackling and struggling to breath in my chair right now. I sort of want to make a 12 second music video for it but I don't even know where to start.

This manages to be charming and eerie at the same time. I especially like how well the backing vocal fits in.

It's like a musical version of a Perry Bible Fellowship cartoon.
posted by cortex at 10:57 AM on November 29, 2016 [2 favorites]

Is this not the new theme to the TV shoe "Under the Dome"?
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 5:49 AM on December 1, 2016 [1 favorite]

How did I not know about this jar.
posted by chococat at 8:23 PM on February 9, 2017 [1 favorite]

This is the most Napalm Death thing I have heard in a long time. I heard it on the MeFiMusic podcast where greenish characterised it as "not quite the full minute" and literally laughed out loud with glee when I realised the silence at the end wasn't a dramatic break, but the end of the song.

Great stuff! Going back to listen to it again now.
posted by comealongpole at 6:12 PM on March 27, 2017 [2 favorites]

Random, remarkable and repurposed as my new ringtone!
posted by I'm always feeling, Blue at 10:42 PM on April 26, 2021

The warmth and the brevity both make it
posted by I'm always feeling, Blue at 10:45 PM on April 26, 2021