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* TitleByNumber: "The Colored FBI Guy" is also known as "1401" (on the band's set-lists and on the UK edition of ''Widowermaker!'') - 1401 was apparently the address number of a home the band lived in together.

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* TitleByNumber: "The Colored FBI Guy" is also known as "1401" (on the band's set-lists and on the UK edition of ''Widowermaker!'') - 1401 was apparently the address number of a home the band once lived in together.



** "Moving To Florida", though it seems to just be written from the point of view of a TalkativeLoon:

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** "Moving To Florida", though it Florida" seems to just be written from the point of view of a TalkativeLoon:
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* AnswerSong: "Pepper" is one to Music/{{Beck}}'s "Loser," which the band thought was a rip-off of their sound.

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* AnswerSong: "Pepper" is one to Music/{{Beck}}'s Music/{{Beck|Musician}}'s "Loser," which the band thought was a rip-off of their sound.
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** The rarity "All Day" is effectively Music/DanielJohnston singing the lyrics to his own song "Running Water" over an improv piece by the band.
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** They've also covered The Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer In The City" for the benefit album ''M.O.M., Vol. 3: Music for Our Mother Ocean'', Music/The13thFloorElevators' "Earthquake" for a Roky Erickson tribute album, Music/TheGuessWho's "American Woman", and the ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'' theme for ''Saturday Morning Cartoons' Greatest Hits''.

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** They've also covered The Lovin' Spoonful's Music/TheLovinSpoonful's "Summer In The City" for the benefit album ''M.O.M., Vol. 3: Music for Our Mother Ocean'', Music/The13thFloorElevators' "Earthquake" for a Roky Erickson tribute album, Music/TheGuessWho's "American Woman", and the ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'' theme for ''Saturday Morning Cartoons' Greatest Hits''.
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** They've also covered The Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer In The City" for the benefit album ''M.O.M., Vol. 3: Music for Our Mother Ocean'', Music/The13thFloorElevators' "Earthquake" for a Roky Erickson tribute album, The Guess Who's "American Woman", and the ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'' theme for ''Saturday Morning Cartoons' Greatest Hits''.

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** They've also covered The Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer In The City" for the benefit album ''M.O.M., Vol. 3: Music for Our Mother Ocean'', Music/The13thFloorElevators' "Earthquake" for a Roky Erickson tribute album, The Guess Who's Music/TheGuessWho's "American Woman", and the ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'' theme for ''Saturday Morning Cartoons' Greatest Hits''.
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* LongTitle: They come up with some... ''interesting'' titles in this vein. A good example: "I Saw An X-Ray Of A Girl Passing Gas".
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* HarshVocals: Possibly parodied by "Mark Says Alright", which uses the growls of a pitbull as "vocals".

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* HarshVocals: Possibly parodied by "Mark Says Alright", which uses the growls of a pitbull as "vocals". Probably also parodied in "The O-Men" (which WordOfGod says is a HeavyMetal spoof) where the verses consist of Gibby growling nonsense syllables like the [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Tasmanian Devil]].

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* EarAche: The cover for ''Electriclarryland'' depicts a pencil being shoved in someone's ear point-first, complete with blood splatter. Apparently it was potentially squicky enough that the "clean" version of the album substitutes a closeup of a groundhog (which is one of the pictures inside the booklet of the explicit version).

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* EarAche: The cover for ''Electriclarryland'' depicts a pencil being shoved in someone's ear point-first, complete with blood splatter.point-first - it's drawn in a cartoony style, but there's some blood. Apparently it was potentially squicky enough that the "clean" version of the album substitutes a closeup of a groundhog (which is one of the pictures inside the booklet of the explicit version).



* HiddenTrack: ''The Weird Revolution'' has a 30-second clip of Gibby Haynes speaking with a distortion effect hidden after the last track "They Came In". This is taken from an alternate version of the song "The Last Astronaut".
* NewSoundAlbum: ''The Weird Revolution'' had a more electronic sound and added more RapRock elements (as did the more experimental MissingEpisode album ''After the Astronaut'', which had different versions of many of the same songs). This new direction was hinted at by some of their late-90's soundtrack work: "Whatever (I Had a Dream)" from ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'' was a moody trip-hop song, while "Tiny Rubber Band" from the live-action ''Film/{{Spawn|1997}}'' film featured contributions from Music/{{Moby}}. A less direct precursor was The Jackofficers, an [[HouseMusic Acid House]]-influenced electronic side project of Gibby Haynes and Jeff Pinkus, who put out their only album ''Digital Dump'' in 1990.

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* HiddenTrack: ''The Weird Revolution'' has a 30-second clip of Gibby Haynes speaking with a distortion effect hidden after the last track "They Came In". This is taken from an alternate version of the song "The Last Astronaut".Astronaut" - the CD edition of the album has it hidden after a long gap of silence, but some digital versions give the piece its own track and call it "The Last Astronaut (Reprise)".
* NewSoundAlbum: ''The Weird Revolution'' had a more electronic sound and added more RapRock elements (as did the more experimental MissingEpisode album ''After the Astronaut'', which had different versions of many of the same songs). This new direction was hinted at by some of their late-90's soundtrack work: "Whatever (I Had a Dream)" from ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'' was a moody trip-hop song, while "Tiny Rubber Band" from the live-action ''Film/{{Spawn|1997}}'' film featured contributions from also had a trip hop feel and was a collaboration with Music/{{Moby}}. A less direct precursor was The Jackofficers, an [[HouseMusic Acid House]]-influenced experimental electronic side project of Gibby Haynes and Jeff Pinkus, who put out their only album ''Digital Dump'' in 1990.



* TheCameo: Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' Flea shows up as a bartender in the "Who Was in My Room Last Night" video.

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* TheCameo: Music/RedHotChiliPeppers' Flea shows up as a bartender in the "Who Was in My Room Last Night" video.Night".
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** Similarly, "Mexico" has the line "eco suda la chinga", translating roughly to "echo sweats the fuck".

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