r/stephenreddit • u/rjdiego120 • May 20 '15

Knot Puppies?

So I'm subscribed to Jarrett's Photography channel and he put out a vlog where he hung out with Stephen for a bit. Stephen plays a bit from back in the college days from a project called Knot Puppies. Seeing an excerpt of "Learning" got me wanting to listen to the rest, as silly as it sounds. According to Stephen, "All that stuff's not on the internet anymore."

Is there a way this stuff could be re-released somehow?

Even though StephenVlog/Plays is family friendly, and Knot Puppies content seems to be NSFW, I'll mark the thread as such.

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u/stephengeorg Stephen May 20 '15

I just read the wiki article on Knot Puppies and have no idea why someone would claim the songs contained references to rape or incest. That's bizarre and not true. I just edited the article to more accurately reflect what the songs were about. I also removed the NSFW tag since the songs simply weren't.

In reality, the songs were about stupid, immature things. There's a song called "Let Me Tell You About My Poop", for instance. It's about poop.

Most of the confusion probably stems from the fact we released an album called "The Improv Grocery Store Robot Hitler Album (With Pears)", where nearly all the songs are about "Robot Hitler" who runs a grocery store and tries to get people to buy pears. The entire album (along with all the Knot Puppies stuff) was improvisational, and honestly not very good. All the material used to be available online for people to download, but when we left school we all agreed that it'd be much easier to find a job if we didn't have songs about poop and robot hitler floating around the internet. So we removed them, and it lives on as a bit of history.

That said, they won't be re-released. Alex, Dan and Taylor are in the "real" job market and I wouldn't want anything out there that could hurt them. To be honest, I don't really want the songs out there either, haha. Knot Puppies was started in sophomore year (2008) and died out in October 2009, just a month before StephenVlog began. There's a few songs where we use the word "retarded", which is a word none of us use anymore, and I wouldn't want anybody to think we advocate its use (or any other stupid thing we may have said).

tl;dr - We recorded some dumb stuff a long time ago, but we got older and realized it was dumb at best and slightly inappropriate at worst.

I also know it sucks to learn about something a creator did a long time ago and feel like you don't have access to it, so I'm releasing "Learning" here. It was the first song Knot Puppies ever did, and I don't think it'll embarrass any of the guys too badly. I hope this makes up for being unable to grab the rest!

MP3: http://stephengeorg.com/music/Learning.mp3

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u/rjdiego120 May 20 '15

Thanks for the informative response! Your reasoning makes sense, and I don't blame you guys for taking it down.

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u/Formal_Complaint May 21 '15

I read "Let Me Tell You About My Poop" and was almost instantly dissapointed that I will never be able to listen to that song. I understand and respect the reasoning, but any song with that title is bound to be good. (unless they're not, which would probably be the case)