History Music / FuckedUp

Fucked Up have five full-length studio alums:

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: All over the map. Their instrumental songs come in around 2 (mild and down-tempo, but with some dissonance), while others hit around 8 with their frenetic pace, screamed/growled vocals, and harsh lyrics. Other songs fall inbetween, as the relative balance of angry vocals, poppy riffs, and dissonant sound layering varies wildly.

** "Dose your dreams" and variants of the phrase show up as lyrics in a number of the songs in the album of the same day, connecting to the album's themes of escapism as a way to deal with depression.

* DistinctDoubleAlbum: Disc 1 of ''Dose Your Dreams'' has a pretty consistent, NewWave-influenced sound, while Disc 2 swings widely across different genres before ending up back at something similar to Fucked Up's previous, more punk sound by the end.

* SongStyleShift: "Living in a Simluation" is 50% soft, melodic classical music with indistinct female vocals, and 50% extremely aggressive punk rock. It shifts abruptly from one to the other halfway through.

--> Chemistry of common life

is modified for emphasis at the end of the song to

* AliceAllusion: The music video for "Year of the Hare" is a disorienting video about a guy stuck in time loops, that features frequent references to white rabbits. There's even an EasterEgg that [[ShoutOut links]] to a Youtube clip of the White Rabbit's first appearance in ''Disney/AliceInWonderland''.

* NonAppearingTitle: Most songs don't have the title the lyrics; exceptions such as "Sun Glass", "Royal Swan", "Crooked Head", "Glass Boys", "The Chemistry of Common Life" are easier to count than examples. "Echo Boom" is an example but a strange one; it's the first song on ''Glass Boys'' and it receives a TitleDrop in the last song of the album.

* GenreShift: "Living in a Simluation" is 50% soft, melodic classical music with indistinct female vocals, and 50% extremely aggressive punk rock. It shifts abruptly from one to the other halfway through.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Dose Your Dreams''. Previous albums incorporated other musical influences but still maintained a consistent complex hardcore sound, but ''Dose Your Dreams'' deviates from this sound on majority of songs, incorporating a wider range of genres (notably New Wave) and de-emphasizing Abraham's distinctive voice, while increasing the electronic aspects.

* SopranoAndGravel: Pink Eyes' voice is a guttural growl, which is often contrasted with a higher, usually (but not always) female, more conventional singing voice. Used most extensively in ''David Comes to Life'', which has a number of songs such as "Queen of Hearts" or "The Recursive Girl" that are essentially male-female duets.

* ArcWords: Chemistry, in ''The Chemistry of Common Life''.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: In "Lights Go up" off of the ''David Comes to Life'', David says "Ours wasn't a love for an audience", drawing attention to the fact that his whole relationship was the subject of a series of songs, often performed live. The song is full of metaphors about concerts and performance.
* ConceptAlbum: Pretty much every album follows a theme: ''The Chemistry of Common Life'' is about how to live without God, ''Glass Boys'' is about how GrowingUpSucks and adult failure to live up to childhood dreams. Then there's their Zodiac series of singles, basically an album released over 10 years. Of all their albums,''David Comes to Life'' is the most clear-cut example.

* RockOpera: ''David Comes to Life'' tells the story of David, a lonely soul. The album chronicles David falling in love with Veronica, their relationship and its problems. Ultimately, David and Veronica break up but David emerges wiser.

Fucked Up have four studio alums:

* NonAppearingTitle: Most songs; exceptions such as "Sun Glass", "Royal Swan", "Crooked Head", "Glass Boys", "The Chemistry of Common Life" are easier to count than examples. "Echo Boom" is an example but a strange one; it's the first song on ''Glass Boys'' and it receives a TitleDrop in the last song of the album.

* SopranoAndGravel: Pink Eyes' voice is a guttural growl, which is often contrasted with a higher, usually (but not always) female, more conventional singing voice. Used most extensively in ''David Comes to Life''.

Fucked Up is a Canadian HardcorePunk band consisting of 10,000 Marbles (Mike Haliechuk, guitar), Pink Eyes (Damien Abraham, vocals), Concentration Camp/Gulag (Josh Zucker, rhythm guitar, vocals), Mustard Gas (Sandy Miranda, bass guitar), Mr. Jo (Jonah Falco, drums) and Young Governor (Chris Colohan, guitar). They generally avert ThreeChordsAndTheTruth, as their music features a complex sound produced by many layers of guitar and the occasional synth and their lyrics often involve confusing symbolism, all driven by a strong punk energy.

* LicensedGame: A strange example: the video for "Year of the Hare" is interactive. In order to see all of the video and "solve the puzzle", you have to figure out keyboard commands to change the scenes in the correct order.
* NonAppearingTitle: Most songs; exceptions "Sun Glass", "Royal Swan", "Crooked Head", "Glass Boys", "The Chemistry of Common Life" are easier to count than examples. "Echo Boom" is an example but a strange one; it's the first song on ''Glass Boys'' and it receives a TitleDrop in the last song of the album.

* ReligionRantSong: All of ''The Chemistry of Common Life'' to some extent, but particularly "Son the Father" and "Days of Last" off that album. Generally an even mixture of Types 1 and 2; the sentiment is that life is terrible, so either God doesn't care about use or GodIsEvil. Thus, belief in God is stupid and pointless.