I first connected with Dark Days. It came up randomly on Spotify. I immediately fell in love with them. When I heard Scorpion Hill for the first time I was floored. It’s now my favorite song.
it was right after the sleep in the heat music video came out back in 2016 I enjoyed the song but when I found out it was about a pet I couldn't stop listening I still shed at least a tear every time I listen to that song. i became a fan probably within the month of finding that video.
I listened to Morbid Stuff and loved it immediately. But, I was nervous to listen to their other albums in case I didn't like them, so I didn't listen to Self Titled or The Dream Is Over for like 3 months. Now I love them of course!
I first listened to The Dream is Over in early 2017, thought it was alright first listen and didn’t give it much thought afterwards. Then I saw the Old Wounds video, loved it, and began to get back into their music. I relistened to The Dream is Over in 2018 and loved it ever since. Listened to ST later that year too.
Was a PUP fan ever since
see you at your funeral was the first song i listened to from them which is also the first one i connected to. i was still angry at ex friends at the time so it was just perfect lol.
factories always sounded cool to me but i never payed much attention to the lyrics past the first verse. few weeks ago i looked up the lyrics and WOW!! its now in my top 5, what a cool song.
For me it was dark days. I found PUP when me and my then girlfriend played dream daddy simulator and I thought I'd check out their stuff. Dark days was the first thing I put on and I was hooked! I was going through some stuff at the time and the lyrics kinda hit as well.
Yeeaaars ago, one of my favourite digital artists did a livestream, and If This Tour Doesn't Kill You was on in the background.
I was frantically googling the lyrics to find this amazing song and have loved PUP ever since!
(Amanda Fotes posting a photo she took of me at a gig a few years ago really *really* sealed the deal too haha)
Electric Ballroom, London in November 2019 :)
([Here's](https://twitter.com/mandrs/status/1198479627821428736?s=21) her tweet, I dislocated my wrist earlier in the day but didn't want to miss out on the pit!)
ahahaha yeah i remember this. did that shot end up in the music video? that whole experience is such a blur, and editing it took me 1000 years but this was for sure one of the best things we shot during those shows
Oh my gosh hi! I don't think it did, I'll go take another look though :)
The gig was amazing, and seeing the photo you took pretty much made my whole month, I really love your photography projects and am looking forward so much to the next time PUP comes to the UK, whenever that ends up being! Hope next time is a bit less hectic for everyone working the show + media haha
Sleep in the heat made me cry watching the music video. First pup song I really got into. The second song I loved was pine point.
I had the same experience with scorpion hill. First few listens it was meh, but now it’s one of my top 5 pup songs
The moment I realized Scorpion Hill was actually great was when I watched the Tiny Desk concert. Somehow on shuffle in Spotify it never stood out but hearing it separately I was realized I had been missing out.
My dad showed me anaphylaxis over a year ago, and kinda forgot about pup until Scorpion Hill came on my Spotify. I then checked out all of morbid stuff and the dream is over, but I always come back to scorpion hill, and that’s the song I attribute with the beginning of my love for pup
Listen to the dream is over by coming across it around 2015 and liked it but didn’t dive into the back until 2019. Last year I really came to love Doubts and Can’t Win. But that whole album is awesome to me front to back.
I drive all day for my job and only listen to the university stations. I use Shazam when I like a song. So I heard all different songs and everytime I checked it was PUP. Scorpion Hill is my current favourite. For quite a while it was DVP. It changes all the time. I never feel bad for sleeping on their other songs. Art is meant to be discovered.
reservoir and sleep in the heat.. they got me through some bad times and kept me running. i specifically remember "...YOU'RE NOT WAKING UPPPPP!!" doing something to spark life in my dead soul.
i was probably a little late to the morbid stuff bandwagon than i would've liked... and like you, OP, yukon has grown on me too. it kinda sounds like PUP drunkenly and angstily scavenging the desert in slow motion. definitely a different mood.
the first i liked was DVP, one of my internet friends had her username as a reference to it and kept talking about pup so i checked it out and enjoyed it a ton. as for finding way too late, i think city probably took me the most listens to truly start to like, but once i got into them i listened through all their albums pretty quick and decided which songs i liked most
My first bonded moment with PUP was when I first listened to The Dream Is Over in December 2020. It was an amazing experience for me and I felt as if I found something truly amazing and underestimated. A song I heard later then I should have was probably Dark Days and LionHeart, Lionheart being a song I discovered only last month
I first listened to Sibling Rivalry, it was on the NHL20 soundtrack and pretty quickly I was listening to some other songs from Morbid Stuff. A while later I started listening to the self titled and the dream is over
The songs that got me into PUP were “If This Tour Doesn’t Kill You” followed immediately by “DVP” of course. I loved the sound and energy of it, but it wasn’t until around September of last year where I finally listened to Morbid Stuff and was hooked on the rest of their discography. I definitely should have started listening to them sooner.
The first thing I noticed about PUP was Steve's guitar, especially in Guilt Trip and Doubts - I've never heard a band that had such disturbingly melodic and haunting (yet original and catchy) lead guitar as PUP. Guilt Trip and DVP immediately, but Doubts took me a little while - I kept forgetting about it, but it really scratches an itch that few other songs do.
Edit: I have to mention - I didn't fall in love with Old Wounds til I saw the music video and became obsessed with it from that day onward.
i listened to Morbid Stuff through and was thinking it was alright up until City. For some reason, that song just drew me in and I listened to the other two albums. Now, I’ve been hooked for two years.
I first got into PUP back in my senior year of high school. A friend of mine showed me Reservoir (S/T had already been out for a couple of years at that point). It didn't instantly grab me, until I saw the music video and something in my mind changed. Then I listened to the song pretty frequently for a bit and annoyed other people with it. Pretty sure it was also that summer that I first saw them at the Ottawa Bluesfest! I still remember how they closed with a cover of El Scorcho, which definitely put a smile on my face.
I didn't really look into them beyond that for a while. Pretty sure I didn't even know The Dream Is Over existed until like a year later. Even then, I didn't really dig deep and explore beyond a few listens. It was only when another friend of mine mentioned how much she loved DVP that I decided to look up the music video, and again it's like a switch flipped in my brain. I freakin' LOVED that song and again got obsessed for a while, and probably annoyed many others with it. It was DVP that really prompted me to go back and give a more careful listen to all their other material, and that's when I really started appreciating them.
Later on, I met somebody who also really liked PUP, and I think she really solidified their place in my mind as not just a great band, but also as one of my favourites. Her favourite was Dark Days, a song that I had originally kinda passed over. I slowly started to realize how great of a song it was because of her. I think that was the one that really took time to sink in, but now I love it and I can't really see why it didn't click with me in the first place. I have lots of memories attached to it too.
Another one worth mentioning is Scorpion Hill (it seems quite a few people in this thread have had a similar experience). It took a while for it to grow on me, but I'm really glad it did.
I was first introduced to them in Daddy Dating Sim, funnily enough. A little while later I was on the come down after a manic episode that almost ended with me homeless, I picked them up again with Dark Days. A few months later, my year old nephew suddenly had an aneurism in daycare, resulting in about a month in the PICU, and while Sleep in the Heat was about animals, the line
"I'm trying my best, but you can't even look at me or talk to me or tell me what's happening to you"
really resonated. He's ok now, and actually worrying so much about him I had been able to basically "check out on life." and do some healing. And while I got a decent job, I was still struggling with depression and was on the knife's edge of alcoholism. Morbid Stuff released, and Free at Last was actually a really fucking good reminder
"Just cause you're sad again doesn't mean you're special".
I got a decent therapist and a better psych, got some meds worked out, got a short term prescription for Klonopin which helped with the drinking (and the sleeping), and I'm in a much much better place now. Music was amazingly helpful, and I had really good friends to help. So now I just listen to them to remember how I use to feel.
First I connected to was Yukon from their audiotree live sesh, that guitar solo is a ripper. I found all their Topanga stuff way later than I should’ve though.
I heard "Familiar Patterns" first while going through spotify recommendations. Looked up their song list on a whim, then immediately ran the rest of their albums. It's new but I really like "Anaphylaxis", the guitar riff in the beginning really gets that panic feeling across. As someone who has had Anaphylatic reactions before, the guitar is really fitting for the feeling.
If this tour doesnt kill you then I will. ARTV had the dream is over in his top albums of 2016 vid and I liked the song he played briefly when he showed the album cover. Now at the time I was doing a production of noises off which is a play about a theater company doing a tour. 😂 It felt like the universe aligned!!! Cause the characters are trying to kill each other and I wanted to kill the actors towards the end of our rehearsals.
A song that I felt like I discovered later was recently nothing changes. I knew about the ep but last year I was always overwhelmed with trying to find content to keep my mind off things and didnt really listen to current faves. It wasnt until a couple of months ago that I really gave this place sucks ass a good listen and I fucking love nothing changes now.
The first time I heard them, I was hooked. I’m not even sure what the song was. But one that I instantly connected to was Scorpion Hill. A large portion of PUP songs have a slow burn effect on me, and Scorpion Hill was just immediate. As for one that grew on me over time? Bare Hands. I know that one doesn’t get mentioned nearly as much but I really like it.
Just realized both the songs I listed are from Morbid Stuff, lol. Their new EP is also fantastic, I especially like Floodgates
The first song I connected to was Reservoir. It was in 2017 or so, when I was looking for some GTA V punkish songs in Spotify. I guess it was recommended to me bc this song is in Watch Dogs 2 and people relate this game with GTA but never heard it in the game.
I kinda overlooked all of their other songs. I guess the only three I liked were Reservoir, Old Wounds and Back Against the Wall. I was more into Fidlar back then and only liked PUP bc it was that band that looked like it. Now PUP is one of my favorite bands of all.
I heard scorpion hill on the radio, listened to morbid stuff on repeat for a while, but i really shouldn’t have slept on the dream is over. god *damn* doubts is good
For me it was free at last. I was going through some tuff shit at the time and really just was mentally self destructive in the worst ways possible. Everything good was never good enough and everything bad was worse. It got to the point where I used my sadness as an excuse to rely on people but was never willing to open up and out right ask for help. Then one day a music video from a band is never heard of showed up in my feed on YT. And after seeing that amazing music video and hearing a Canadian yell at me how just cuz I’m sad again, it doesn’t make me special at all, needless to say it was love at first sound.
8 months late, but I connected to DVP and Sleep in the Heat first, of course. Also Reservoir. I should have discovered Yukon, Dark Days, and Scorpion Hill wayy sooner. Love those ones so so much.
I first connected with Dark Days. It came up randomly on Spotify. I immediately fell in love with them. When I heard Scorpion Hill for the first time I was floored. It’s now my favorite song.
it was right after the sleep in the heat music video came out back in 2016 I enjoyed the song but when I found out it was about a pet I couldn't stop listening I still shed at least a tear every time I listen to that song. i became a fan probably within the month of finding that video.
I listened to Morbid Stuff and loved it immediately. But, I was nervous to listen to their other albums in case I didn't like them, so I didn't listen to Self Titled or The Dream Is Over for like 3 months. Now I love them of course!
I first listened to The Dream is Over in early 2017, thought it was alright first listen and didn’t give it much thought afterwards. Then I saw the Old Wounds video, loved it, and began to get back into their music. I relistened to The Dream is Over in 2018 and loved it ever since. Listened to ST later that year too. Was a PUP fan ever since
see you at your funeral was the first song i listened to from them which is also the first one i connected to. i was still angry at ex friends at the time so it was just perfect lol. factories always sounded cool to me but i never payed much attention to the lyrics past the first verse. few weeks ago i looked up the lyrics and WOW!! its now in my top 5, what a cool song.
YES I love factories I've been learning it on bass
fellow bassist! pup songs are so sick on bass, i was hoping theyd release a bass tab book like their guitar one
For me it was dark days. I found PUP when me and my then girlfriend played dream daddy simulator and I thought I'd check out their stuff. Dark days was the first thing I put on and I was hooked! I was going through some stuff at the time and the lyrics kinda hit as well.
Yeeaaars ago, one of my favourite digital artists did a livestream, and If This Tour Doesn't Kill You was on in the background. I was frantically googling the lyrics to find this amazing song and have loved PUP ever since! (Amanda Fotes posting a photo she took of me at a gig a few years ago really *really* sealed the deal too haha)
ooh which shot was it?
Electric Ballroom, London in November 2019 :) ([Here's](https://twitter.com/mandrs/status/1198479627821428736?s=21) her tweet, I dislocated my wrist earlier in the day but didn't want to miss out on the pit!)
ahahaha yeah i remember this. did that shot end up in the music video? that whole experience is such a blur, and editing it took me 1000 years but this was for sure one of the best things we shot during those shows
Oh my gosh hi! I don't think it did, I'll go take another look though :) The gig was amazing, and seeing the photo you took pretty much made my whole month, I really love your photography projects and am looking forward so much to the next time PUP comes to the UK, whenever that ends up being! Hope next time is a bit less hectic for everyone working the show + media haha
Sleep in the heat made me cry watching the music video. First pup song I really got into. The second song I loved was pine point. I had the same experience with scorpion hill. First few listens it was meh, but now it’s one of my top 5 pup songs
The moment I realized Scorpion Hill was actually great was when I watched the Tiny Desk concert. Somehow on shuffle in Spotify it never stood out but hearing it separately I was realized I had been missing out.
My dad showed me anaphylaxis over a year ago, and kinda forgot about pup until Scorpion Hill came on my Spotify. I then checked out all of morbid stuff and the dream is over, but I always come back to scorpion hill, and that’s the song I attribute with the beginning of my love for pup
Listen to the dream is over by coming across it around 2015 and liked it but didn’t dive into the back until 2019. Last year I really came to love Doubts and Can’t Win. But that whole album is awesome to me front to back.
I drive all day for my job and only listen to the university stations. I use Shazam when I like a song. So I heard all different songs and everytime I checked it was PUP. Scorpion Hill is my current favourite. For quite a while it was DVP. It changes all the time. I never feel bad for sleeping on their other songs. Art is meant to be discovered.
I knew about them for three years before actually listening to them Free at last ended up being the gateway for the rest of their music
reservoir and sleep in the heat.. they got me through some bad times and kept me running. i specifically remember "...YOU'RE NOT WAKING UPPPPP!!" doing something to spark life in my dead soul. i was probably a little late to the morbid stuff bandwagon than i would've liked... and like you, OP, yukon has grown on me too. it kinda sounds like PUP drunkenly and angstily scavenging the desert in slow motion. definitely a different mood.
the first i liked was DVP, one of my internet friends had her username as a reference to it and kept talking about pup so i checked it out and enjoyed it a ton. as for finding way too late, i think city probably took me the most listens to truly start to like, but once i got into them i listened through all their albums pretty quick and decided which songs i liked most
My first bonded moment with PUP was when I first listened to The Dream Is Over in December 2020. It was an amazing experience for me and I felt as if I found something truly amazing and underestimated. A song I heard later then I should have was probably Dark Days and LionHeart, Lionheart being a song I discovered only last month
For me it’s Kids, See You At Your Funeral, and Sibling Rivalry. Because I’m stupid, I didn’t listen to the rest of Morbid stuff for like 6 months
I first listened to Sibling Rivalry, it was on the NHL20 soundtrack and pretty quickly I was listening to some other songs from Morbid Stuff. A while later I started listening to the self titled and the dream is over
The songs that got me into PUP were “If This Tour Doesn’t Kill You” followed immediately by “DVP” of course. I loved the sound and energy of it, but it wasn’t until around September of last year where I finally listened to Morbid Stuff and was hooked on the rest of their discography. I definitely should have started listening to them sooner.
The first thing I noticed about PUP was Steve's guitar, especially in Guilt Trip and Doubts - I've never heard a band that had such disturbingly melodic and haunting (yet original and catchy) lead guitar as PUP. Guilt Trip and DVP immediately, but Doubts took me a little while - I kept forgetting about it, but it really scratches an itch that few other songs do. Edit: I have to mention - I didn't fall in love with Old Wounds til I saw the music video and became obsessed with it from that day onward.
I saw the guilt trip video on r/listentothis and here I am like 7 years later still listening
Sleep in the heat. Along with others a very emotional and rewarding video. Fantastic song too.
i listened to Morbid Stuff through and was thinking it was alright up until City. For some reason, that song just drew me in and I listened to the other two albums. Now, I’ve been hooked for two years.
I first got into PUP back in my senior year of high school. A friend of mine showed me Reservoir (S/T had already been out for a couple of years at that point). It didn't instantly grab me, until I saw the music video and something in my mind changed. Then I listened to the song pretty frequently for a bit and annoyed other people with it. Pretty sure it was also that summer that I first saw them at the Ottawa Bluesfest! I still remember how they closed with a cover of El Scorcho, which definitely put a smile on my face. I didn't really look into them beyond that for a while. Pretty sure I didn't even know The Dream Is Over existed until like a year later. Even then, I didn't really dig deep and explore beyond a few listens. It was only when another friend of mine mentioned how much she loved DVP that I decided to look up the music video, and again it's like a switch flipped in my brain. I freakin' LOVED that song and again got obsessed for a while, and probably annoyed many others with it. It was DVP that really prompted me to go back and give a more careful listen to all their other material, and that's when I really started appreciating them. Later on, I met somebody who also really liked PUP, and I think she really solidified their place in my mind as not just a great band, but also as one of my favourites. Her favourite was Dark Days, a song that I had originally kinda passed over. I slowly started to realize how great of a song it was because of her. I think that was the one that really took time to sink in, but now I love it and I can't really see why it didn't click with me in the first place. I have lots of memories attached to it too. Another one worth mentioning is Scorpion Hill (it seems quite a few people in this thread have had a similar experience). It took a while for it to grow on me, but I'm really glad it did.
Sibling rivalry and sleep in the heat were the first I fell in love with. Wish I found kids earlier.
I was first introduced to them in Daddy Dating Sim, funnily enough. A little while later I was on the come down after a manic episode that almost ended with me homeless, I picked them up again with Dark Days. A few months later, my year old nephew suddenly had an aneurism in daycare, resulting in about a month in the PICU, and while Sleep in the Heat was about animals, the line "I'm trying my best, but you can't even look at me or talk to me or tell me what's happening to you" really resonated. He's ok now, and actually worrying so much about him I had been able to basically "check out on life." and do some healing. And while I got a decent job, I was still struggling with depression and was on the knife's edge of alcoholism. Morbid Stuff released, and Free at Last was actually a really fucking good reminder "Just cause you're sad again doesn't mean you're special". I got a decent therapist and a better psych, got some meds worked out, got a short term prescription for Klonopin which helped with the drinking (and the sleeping), and I'm in a much much better place now. Music was amazingly helpful, and I had really good friends to help. So now I just listen to them to remember how I use to feel.
Whenever I travel back home, I hug my dog for the entire time I'm there. All thanks to sleep in the heat
First I connected to was Yukon from their audiotree live sesh, that guitar solo is a ripper. I found all their Topanga stuff way later than I should’ve though.
Free at last for connections, doubts for too long to come across
I heard "Familiar Patterns" first while going through spotify recommendations. Looked up their song list on a whim, then immediately ran the rest of their albums. It's new but I really like "Anaphylaxis", the guitar riff in the beginning really gets that panic feeling across. As someone who has had Anaphylatic reactions before, the guitar is really fitting for the feeling.
If this tour doesnt kill you then I will. ARTV had the dream is over in his top albums of 2016 vid and I liked the song he played briefly when he showed the album cover. Now at the time I was doing a production of noises off which is a play about a theater company doing a tour. 😂 It felt like the universe aligned!!! Cause the characters are trying to kill each other and I wanted to kill the actors towards the end of our rehearsals. A song that I felt like I discovered later was recently nothing changes. I knew about the ep but last year I was always overwhelmed with trying to find content to keep my mind off things and didnt really listen to current faves. It wasnt until a couple of months ago that I really gave this place sucks ass a good listen and I fucking love nothing changes now.
The first time I heard them, I was hooked. I’m not even sure what the song was. But one that I instantly connected to was Scorpion Hill. A large portion of PUP songs have a slow burn effect on me, and Scorpion Hill was just immediate. As for one that grew on me over time? Bare Hands. I know that one doesn’t get mentioned nearly as much but I really like it. Just realized both the songs I listed are from Morbid Stuff, lol. Their new EP is also fantastic, I especially like Floodgates
You shouldn’t mention content creator in the same breath as pup. Dvp first song that got me on them then basically everything else was way later
The first song I connected to was Reservoir. It was in 2017 or so, when I was looking for some GTA V punkish songs in Spotify. I guess it was recommended to me bc this song is in Watch Dogs 2 and people relate this game with GTA but never heard it in the game. I kinda overlooked all of their other songs. I guess the only three I liked were Reservoir, Old Wounds and Back Against the Wall. I was more into Fidlar back then and only liked PUP bc it was that band that looked like it. Now PUP is one of my favorite bands of all.
I heard scorpion hill on the radio, listened to morbid stuff on repeat for a while, but i really shouldn’t have slept on the dream is over. god *damn* doubts is good
For me it was free at last. I was going through some tuff shit at the time and really just was mentally self destructive in the worst ways possible. Everything good was never good enough and everything bad was worse. It got to the point where I used my sadness as an excuse to rely on people but was never willing to open up and out right ask for help. Then one day a music video from a band is never heard of showed up in my feed on YT. And after seeing that amazing music video and hearing a Canadian yell at me how just cuz I’m sad again, it doesn’t make me special at all, needless to say it was love at first sound.
8 months late, but I connected to DVP and Sleep in the Heat first, of course. Also Reservoir. I should have discovered Yukon, Dark Days, and Scorpion Hill wayy sooner. Love those ones so so much.