All 22 Pop Nods albums are available to listen to or download via the bandcamp website.
Here I Am (Here in My Head)
The Very Best of The Pop Nods. An introduction and a retrospective – at the same time. 50 Pop Nods favorites. Features tracks from all of the Pop Nods albums with the exception of “Explicit”, which was excluded due to related explicit language concerns.
Is This The Way It's Turning Out?
The very first Pop Nods album. Features the tracks Smile Collector, I Don’t Remember Anything, Detergent and Cream, Old Cause Cause, I Can’t Wait…, Flageness Rone High, I’m in the Right Mood Now, Some People Are Evil, and more.
An Elf Would Steal No Fluff
The follow up to Is This The Way It’s Turning Out. Arguably more fluff than you can shake an elf at! Includes the tracks – It’s Not Like it Might Be (it’s Like it is), Goaty Frud, I’ve Got Lemon Wafers!, Meatfish, Octopus on My Head, Snookels and Bunnyfish, Green Bobo, Buttered Gnome Suite, and many more. 30 tracks in all.
Reality is Full of Bees
Quite possibly the third Pop Nods album. Includes the tracks – Getting Close at Last, Fantastic Other, (It All Boils Down to) Mind Control, Here I Am (Here in My Head), There Is Nothing Happening, Count Your Blessings (With a Cherry on Top), and Ghouly, Ghouly/I Don’t Know What I Know (Sometimes).
Out Of My Mind (With All The Trimmings)
The ambitious follow up to whatever album came before it. Includes the mind-wrenching tracks I Want To Sell Myself Online, Inflatable Walrus, Strawberry Formal, The Hand That Kristin Gave Me, Thermometer Blues, Finger in My Ear (Gooey, Gooey), Big Invisible Octopus, Never Any Other Clover, I Stepped Into a Glowing Everything, Maybe It’s Time To Set It All Aside, and more.
Funny Bunny
A rich and diverse selection of developed Toots snagged from Goodness Knows Best Raw Now Volume 12 – Almost Funny. Includes the tracks Boiling Water in a Pan, Jelly Babies on Parade, Make-Me-Happy-Girl, Moaning Lone Goose, and more.
The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Another stimulating collection of embellished GKB Raw Now offerings. Includes the tracks Man Made Monkey Machine, You’re What You’re Knowing, St. Blues John Wort, Nothing’s Going To Stop Us Forever, Toilet Chair (it’s a Chair and it’s a Toilet), and Way Too Many Flamingos.
Beginning to Matter
A comparatively paired down and less polished outing. Includes standout tracks Angels Are Real (And Rich People Eat Them), I Don’t Know What I Don’t Know (Nobody Knows This Better Than Me), She’s Got Tendrils (She Used To Have Nine), Alone Feeling Lonely, Too Cute For Poochin’, Mental Mickey and the Mastodon, Everything is Always a Surprise, and Favorite Ocean.
Under the Seal
Recorded almost entirely during the month of April, 2013. Features enhanced tracks snagged from Goodness Knows Best Raw Now Volume 23, Honey Cat Junction (recorded the previous month). Features the tracks – Before the End of Time, Feeling Blown Out (Like a Candle), Jeweled Presley Beatle Skin, The Lemon Lady Squeezes My Mind, Wondering (Right Now) Poor Parakeet, and many more.
Crawling Through a Beam of Light
Quite possibly the least fun of all the Pop Nods offerings, Includes the tracks – Here at Last, Please Don’t Blame Me For Trying, God Told Me To Tell You, Ignorance and Hate, Sooner or Later Everything Died, and more.
Covered With Fur
A collection of Feline-themed sound treats. Songs for Prudence and Nelson and other fur clad life forms. Too precious? Probably, but this is of little concern to The Pop Nods. A celebration of specific cats and cats in general. Out of limbo and ready for you. Features the tracks My Sweet Companions, Sweet Soul Conniption, They Follow Me Around, Treat Time For Prudence and Nelson, Sweet Furry Delight, Mr. Monkey Magical, and more.
"Explicit"
No longer in limbo due to the complexities surrounding that deemed naughty or inappropriate. Warning – If, for any reason, the word fuck upsets you – you might prefer to listen to something else. Features the tracks – Fuck (Relax), Don’t Be a Stupid Fucker, Motherfuck it, For God’s Sake Don’t Fuck With the Christians, and more.
Candy Apple People
Developed tracks from Goodness Know Best Volume 20 – Almost Halfway to There. Includes the tracks – A World That’s Based in Lies, Some Things Are Harder Than Others, Encapsulated in Space and Time, Maybe in a Hundred Thousand Years, Let’s have a Little More, and more.
The Worm Made Flesh
Developed improvised Goodness Knows Best tracks from Dragonfly Fish Melon Cat (GKB Volume 15 May, 2012). Includes the tracks The Future is an Enema, Paper Mache Day, Return to You, Old Wise Chew and Phalange Gribblers, Loosen and See, Wake up and Try, and more.
Along For the Ride
Spontaneous improvised album. A relatively pared down affair. Features the tracks Only a Miracle Away, It Gets So Lonely, It’s Not Very Interesting, Maybe There’s a Reason, I Don’t Do it The Same Way, and more.
About Time
Spontaneous improvised album. Another relatively pared down collection. Features the tracks Almost Getting it Back On, There Wasn’t Anymore Time, And it’s Not Real, We Need a Little Time, Whoever We Are, We Are Here, and more.
Just For the Asking
Spontaneous improvised album. The lead vocal and two backing tracks were recorded on November 5, 2013. Additional vocal parts were added in August/September 2022. Includes the tracks Standing in the Middle of Nowhere, Hello Annie and Kathryn, Do it a while Back, (Don’t) Beat Yourself to the Punch, I’ll Try Not to (Do What I Do), and more.
No Longer Here
Spontaneous, improvised album about existence (and stuff) that was written in less than an hour. All of the lead vocals and lap drum percussion on this album were recorded during a 35-minute voice recorder improv “session” on March 13, 2019. The bulk of the backing vocals were recorded in April, 2019. Includes the tracks This is (and Then it’s Something Else), Easier and Harder, Why Are There So Many Whys?, I can’t Get it Out of My Brain, Drifting Away, and more. No Longer Here is the final Pop Nods album.
Add / Vent
A collection of 20 otherwise unreleased Pop Nods recordings. Features tracks cut from various albums, demos, abandoned and forgotten tracks, etc. Includes It’s Not a Crocodile (But it’s Something Similar), Butter Nut Scumpy, Invisible Mary, Reconstituted Real, Vegetarian Penis Song, Inner Groove, and more.
Add / Vent II
A second collection of 20 otherwise unreleased Pop Nods recordings. Features tracks cut from various albums, demos, abandoned and forgotten tracks, etc. Includes Ickabilly Boo Boo, Crawlberry Sesame, Baby Sub in a Sonar, Pot a Titty Tum Tum, Ding-a-long Christmas, and more.
Add / Vent II
A third collection of otherwise unreleased Pop Nods recordings. Features tracks cut from various albums, demos, abandoned and forgotten tracks, etc. Includes Almost Halfway to There, Help Peel Me Back Some, Squatting on a Pom Pom, Pretending Leads Back to Believing, Almost an Argument, and more.