Awesome Music: Most of People Who Can Eat People and Knife Man count, especially if the song includes the word "people" in the title.
Crosses the Line Twice: Frequently and enthusiastically. They tend to tackle extremely loaded and personal topics such as alcoholism, suicide, homelessness, racism, and even Sean's dad abandoning him with a great deal of black comedy.
Cult Classic: People Who Can Eat People and Knife Man especially, but all of their studio albums could qualify.
They're one of the few bands in folk-punk that have managed to break free from the label and gain fans even among people who don't like the genre.
Their most famous songs, "People II: The Reckoning" and "Big Bird," were never released as singles or given music videos.
Even Better Sequel: People who Can Eat People is this to Candy Cigarettes and Cap Guns.
Knife Man to Can't Maintain.
Depending on who you ask, Christmas Island might be this to Knife Man.
I Am Not Shazam: The band is, at its simplest, two people, neither being named Andrew.
LGBT Fanbase: "Body Terror Song" became popular on trans TikTok, where users found it relatable to their feelings of dysphoria. While the song wasn't originally intended to be about gender dysphoria, this interpretation got Approval of God and the band put out a music video for it a year after the song was released that leaned into this interpretation.
The description of God in "Rejoice", who is something of an Eldritch Abomination with eyes that are "big X's" while he simultaneously burns witches and performs hexes.
The opening verse of "Bells & Whistles".
The frantic "Bad Bad Things," from the perspective of a serial killer, can be seriously unsettling if heard in the right mood.
"A Song Dedicated to the Memory of Stormy the Rabbit," a creepy, dirgelike waltz backed up by off-key horns. The strangeness of the lyrics just adds to the nightmarish atmosphere.
They managed to find a way to make kazoos unsettling- they're the odd buzzing noise in the background of "A Song Dedicated to the Memory of Stormy the Rabbit" and "Bad Bad Things."
Sean has said that he feels like some of the songs on Candy Cigarettes and Cap Guns were too judgmental, which is why the band doesn't play them live as much anymore. In particular he's mentioned being uncomfortable with the early track "Ladykiller."
In this interview he expresses a dislike of "Scenesters" for its generally mean-spirited tone.
Sean mentioned in an interview with Vice that he dislikes the verse in "Personal Space Invader" about cocaine users, stating that it's not his place to judge them.
"People that are on coke are not particularly fun to hang out with. But this is one of those finger-pointing things where I need to look in a mirror before I judge anyone else’s shit."
The band came to hate the name "Andrew Jackson Jihad" due to the fact that they felt uncomfortable using a Muslim term despite not being not being Muslims themselves, as well as being disgusted towards Andrew Jackson as a president and not wanting to memorialize him. In 2016 they officially changed their name to the long-used Fan Nickname AJJ.
A LOT. Most of Knife Man qualifies- in spite of the humor throughout, it's still an extremely sad album. Special mention goes to "Backpack," "Free Bird," "Big Bird," "No One," and "People II 2: Still Peoplin'."
In spite of their comic titles, "Love in the Time of Human Papillomavirus" and "Love Will Fuck Us Apart" definitely qualify.
From Christmas Island: "Do Re and Me" (about the Heaven's Gate suicides), "Angel of Death," "I Wanna Rock Out in My Dreams," and "Linda Ronstadt" (which is more of the Tears of Joy variety).
The Woobie: If you didn't feel this way about Sean before, you probably will after "Big Bird."
he expresses a dislike of "Scenesters" for its generally mean-spirited tone.