Fiji Mermaid

Fiji Mermaid was a Bluegrass-Neo Folk-Horrorgrind-Stoner Rock-Surf-Jazz Fusion-No Wave band formed in the early stages of the gigaverse's history in The Normal World. They are known for their most notable album Dark Side of the Moon II, which comes pre packaged on every music device ever created. The two most consistent members, Drew Oaks and Jacob Olson formed the band and had stuck with it till its very end, until parting their ways to follow solo careers and other ambitions.

Beginnings
Drew Oaks and Jacob Olson met in accounting school in year 1. Coincidentally, it was also their first year in school. Eventually they found instruments, invented ways to play them (since it was so early in history no one knew how to play them), and formed a group. In the early stages of the band, before a formal name was introduced, many names were thought up, including: Mac Sabbath, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Iudex Gundyr, and Metallica 2. Eventually they settled on Death Grips but MC Ride sued them so they were like fuck it we're Fiji Mermaid.

Oaks ended up being on guitar and Olson was playing everything else. Upon discovery of the new instrument, Gordon PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP joined the band, promptly playing it. This spawned their first album ''Big 24oz. Faygo Cola'', which has been said to be said to be their worst. It was so bad, that Gordon PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP died upon playing the first note. The entire album is that one note that Gordon played, as well as the reaction of everyone to his death. However, Fiji Mermaid still made mad money off this album, enough to seal them a record deal as well as their very own recording studio.

The Early Albums
Soon after sealing the deal with major record producer and recently convicted criminal, Yoda, Fiji Mermaid invited drummer Bill Bruford and vocalist MC Ride to the band. Nobody listened to ''Big 24oz. Faygo Cola'' (They only bought it because they thought it was Faygo), so they didn't have to go on any tours, which meant that the band could go on to make another album.

On the Corner of Dawns Return
The band would start off by presenting poems they had written in their dreams that night, and that became the basis for the album going forward. The rehearsal after the band agreed to do this resulted in much confusion because nobody actually knew how to take the poems back into the normal world. The band just threw some improvisations together and made On the Corner of Dawns Return. The album was actually a commercial hit, impressing Yoda mmm yess

The band would go on tour and at their first concert, Yoda was retarded and put the song from ''Big 24oz. Faygo Cola'' at the top of the set list, and MC Ride, having not heard the song nor learning of Gordon PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP's demise, went out on stage to play the song. Upon playing the first note, MC Ride died rip MC Ride. Everyone in the crowd screamed and the concert was forced to cancel. This recording was used on ''Big 24oz. Faygo Cola - Live''. Ever since that day Fiji Mermaid vowed to never do another concert.

Rune of the Elder God Denesis
After the sudden death of band member MC Ride, Bill Bruford decided it was too depressing to remain in the band and figured he would need to join a happier band, so he left to join Yes. Oaks and Olson enlisted Jeff Mangum and the lady who sang in "The Great Gig in the Sky" to do yelping noises on the next album. RotEGD was meant to be a concept album about fake mythology and the concept of sexuality and existence itself. It is one of the longest album ever created, and Fiji Mermaid achieved this by just slowing down most of the album by 1600 times.

Live at The Fillmore
Fiji Mermaid decided to record a live album but didn't want to do it in front of people, so they forced everyone to leave The Fillmore and recorded the album at the venue. Fiji Mermaid didn't have a lot of material that could actually be played live, so the band improvised two 28 minute long tracks, the first being a psych-jazz rendition of themes from Rune of the Elder God Denesis titled "Mega Mad", and the second being a high intensity avant garde/musique concrete/plunderphonic barrage of noise titled "Masterpiece No.1". Halfway through the session, Richard Wakeman walked into The Filmore and Jeff Mangum and Drew Oaks nearly beat the shit out of him for coming into the building, but when he revealed that he liked what would later become "Masterpiece No.1" after he heard it from outside, he offered the group to make use of his Mellotron Mk∞ for the track. This is how the group created the sounds exhibited during the piece, along with the Theremin, Jeff Mangum's voice, and the fart button they already had. Anthony Fantano gave the album a 10/10 and this album is widely regarded to be Fiji Mermaid's best work on /mu/.

Dark Side of the Moon II
Jeff Mangum went on to do a stupid project about like anne frank or melk or some shit idk but that lady from great gig in the sky stayed for the next album. Two, unknown at the time, artists joined the band for the next album, Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis. Fiji Mermaid set out to create a masterpiece for they decided it was finally time for them to actually write some good shit. Going forward they would take heavy inspiration from Craters of the Sac by Ween, No Love Deep Web by Death Grips, and Nevermind by Nirvana.

The album opens up with an insane instrumental piece, "Savage Beast", which features sounds from Hell. The song segues into the next track, "Save the Children" which is a cover of all songs titled save the children, which segues again into "Bruh Moment", another instrumental featuring Bruh Sound Effect #2. The next track stands in stark contrast with "Save the Children" with its message of instead killing children, hence the name "KILL THE CHILDREN". About halfway through the song there is a reprise of Savage Beast and its just more sounds from hell. The next track "Great Gig in the Sky 2" features vocals from the lady from great gig in the sky

The hidden unnamed and unlisted sixth track, inspired by Sly and the Family Stone's song "There's a Riot Goin' On", and it features the sound of you turning over the record

The next song, "Cash money hell yeah i get a lot of money", is all about makin that moolah aw yea. After that comes "Vibetown USA", which Pitchfork listed as "The vibiest song of all time". The next song, and only radio played single on the album, is "We All Hate Purple Spongebob", which was an instant classic and is most people in the gigaverse's favorite song. The song resonated with everyone with its lyrics about hating purple spongebob. The next song "ow head hurtie ow" is about brain damage. The final track on the album is "Gec 2 Ü" by 100 gecs.

Within an hour of its release, Dark Side of the Moon 2 was sold out gigaverse wide. Just nobody could enough of this absolute jam!!! It was so good some nobody band called george floyd or some shit made a prequel to the album but only The Normal World cares about that one.

Track list:

Side one Side two
 * 1) "Savage Beast" - 1:13
 * 2) "Save the Children (cover)" - 2:43
 * 3) "Bruh Moment" - 3:36
 * 4) "KILL THE CHILDREN (containing "Savage Beast (Reprise)") -6:53
 * 5) "Great Gig in the Sky 2" - 4:36
 * 1) "Cash money hell yeah i get a lot of money" - 6:23
 * 2) "Vibetown USA" - 7:49
 * 3) "We All Hate Purple Spongebob" - 3:26
 * 4) "ow head hurtie ow" - 3:49
 * 5) "Gec 2 Ü"- 2:03