YMMV / Jellyfish

• Audience-Alienating Premise: For it's time, at least. The band had the misfortune of existing during the Grunge era, meaning they were making whimsical, intricately produced music at a time when the Rock music scene was largely taking a more serious, back-to-basics approach. This greatly hindered their chances of success and all but guaranteed a short lifespan for the band.
  • Roger Manning's follow-up band Imperial Drag failed to take off for similar reasons, in addition to the lack of Andy Sturmer.
• Even Better Sequel: While Bellybutton is already considered a really good album, the band's follow-up Spilt Milk is considered one of the greatest Power Pop albums ever made due to its lush production and whimsical melodies.
• Evil Is Hammy: Andy Sturmer is certainly having fun singing as Bowser in "Ignorance Is Bliss".
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The band had a pretty sizable following in Japan, even before Andy Sturmer's work with Puffy AmiYumi.
  • In a 1993 interview, Andy mentioned that they were also fairly popular in England and in Sweden, attributing it in part due to singles being a more popular music format in those countries than the United States..
• Hilarious in Hindsight: "Ignorance Is Bliss" wouldn't seem too out of place on a Starbomb album.
• Ho Yay: "Joining A Fan Club" from Spilt Milk has the line "He looks so dreamy, I'm in love from afar". For obvious reasons, the Puffy AmiYumi cover doesn't invoke this trope.
• Moment of Awesome: During a concert the band was performing in Frankfurt, the band kept getting hassled by a particularly obnoxious American member of the audience who kept shouting things at the band between songs until near the end of the show (timestamped here), when Andy Sturmer puts the guy in his place.
  Andy: Look, dude. I know you're an American and everything, but shut the fuck up.
• Narm Charm: The music video for Beatnik Beatch.
• Periphery Demographic: The band is very well liked by even non-Power Pop fans due to their lush production and the sheer ambition present in their songwriting.
• Refrain from Assuming: "Joining A Fan Club" isn't called "Picking Up A Fallen Star".
• Signature Song: "New Mistake"
  • Bellybutton: "The King Is Half-Undressed" and "Baby's Coming Back"
  • Spilt Milk: "Joining a Fan Club" and "The Ghost at Number One"
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: The entirety of Spilt Milk is full of so much lush production, dream-like and whimsical melodies, and beautiful harmonies to make even the most cynical and jaded listeners have a smile on their face.
• Too Good to Last: The band, as a whole. They only released two, commercially ignored, but highly acclaimed and influential Power Pop albums and then broke up. Under better circumstances, they'd probably have had more success.
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: Other than being the only song made for the project, the song "Ignorance Is Bliss'' from ''White Knuckle Scorin''' stands out because of the amount of work the band put into making it sound as good as possible.

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