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* BreadAndCircuses: "Man It's So Loud In Here" suggests a rather brutal version of this, which uses blaring techno music and garish disco aesthetics to drown out coherent thought and disorient the masses.
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* CoverVersion: "Yeh Yeh", first recorded as an instrumental in 1963 by Latin musician Mongo Santamaria, but their version was based on the 1965 vocal version that was a hit for Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames.
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* CoverVersion: "Yeh Yeh", first recorded as an instrumental in 1963 by Latin musician Mongo Santamaria, but their version was based on the 1965 vocal WithLyrics version that was a hit for Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames.
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* ShoutOut: The lines about [[Franchise/ChildsPlay Chucky]] in "Cyclops Rock". In the early demo versions, instead of "I'm sick like Chucky was sick", the line was "I'm sick like [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Nixon]] was sick."
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* InTheStyleOf: "Mink Car" is an obvious homage to the jazzy music of Burt Bacharach.
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* InTheStyleOf: "Mink Car" is an obvious homage to the jazzy music of Burt Bacharach.Music/BurtBacharach.
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* HollywoodNewEngland: "Wicked Little Critta", sung in a heavy Boston accent, and full of regional slang and [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] to Boston sports legends like Bobby Orr and John Havlicek.
* TheInfiltration: "Working Undercover for the Man", narrated by a law enforcement officer who poses as a rock singer as part of some kind of sting operation aimed at fans (presumably busting them for drug possession).
* InTheStyleOf: "Mink Car" is an obvious homage to the jazzy music of Burt Bacharach.
* TheInfiltration: "Working Undercover for the Man", narrated by a law enforcement officer who poses as a rock singer as part of some kind of sting operation aimed at fans (presumably busting them for drug possession).
* InTheStyleOf: "Mink Car" is an obvious homage to the jazzy music of Burt Bacharach.
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* NowThatsUsingYourTeeth: "I've Got a Fang" opens with a line about this, inspired by John Linnell's childhood memories of watching ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangface}}''.
-->Glistening white triangular tooth\\
Open up a can of tomato juice
-->Glistening white triangular tooth\\
Open up a can of tomato juice
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* LyricalDissoance:LyricalDissonance:
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** "My Man" is a peppy synth-driven song about coming to terms with paraplegia.
** "Mink Car" is a mellow pop-rock tune about being run over and (possibly) killed by a garish-looking car.
** "My Man" is a peppy synth-driven song about coming to terms with paraplegia.
** "Mink Car" is a mellow pop-rock tune about being run over and (possibly) killed by a garish-looking car.
* SillyLoveSongs: "Another First Kiss" is a relatively straight love song about an older couple who've been through a lot.
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** The bridge from "Cyclops Rock" is peformed by Cerys Matthews of the Welsh band Catatonia.
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** The bridge from "Cyclops Rock" is peformed performed by Cerys Matthews of the Welsh band Catatonia.
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* ExploldingCalendar: Referenced in "Hovering Sombrero"
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* ExploldingCalendar: ExplodingCalendar: Referenced in "Hovering Sombrero"
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* ExploldingCalendar: Referenced in "Hovering Sombrero"
-->Time is flying like an arrow\\
And the clock hands go so fast, they make the wind blow\\
And it makes the pages of the calendar go\\
Flying out the window, one by one
-->Time is flying like an arrow\\
And the clock hands go so fast, they make the wind blow\\
And it makes the pages of the calendar go\\
Flying out the window, one by one
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* SpecialGuest:
** The bridge from "Cyclops Rock" is peformed by Cerys Matthews of the Welsh band Catatonia.
** Former Music/SoulCoughing frontman Mike Doughty does the vocals on "Mr. Xcitement"
** The bridge from "Cyclops Rock" is peformed by Cerys Matthews of the Welsh band Catatonia.
** Former Music/SoulCoughing frontman Mike Doughty does the vocals on "Mr. Xcitement"
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!!Tracklist
#Bangs (3:09)
#Cyclops Rock (2:38)
#Man, It's So Loud in Here (3:59)
#Mr. Xcitement (3:36)
#Another First Kiss (3:06)
#I've Got a Fang (2:32)
#Hovering Sombrero (2:13)
#Yeh Yeh (2:40)
#Hopeless Bleak Despair (3:08)
#Drink! (1:49)
#My Man (2:57)
#Older (1:58)
#Mink Car (2:09)
#Wicked Little Critta (2:11)
#Finished With Lies (3:18)
#She Thinks She's Edith Head (2:37)
#Working Undercover For the Man (2:19)
#Bangs (3:09)
#Cyclops Rock (2:38)
#Man, It's So Loud in Here (3:59)
#Mr. Xcitement (3:36)
#Another First Kiss (3:06)
#I've Got a Fang (2:32)
#Hovering Sombrero (2:13)
#Yeh Yeh (2:40)
#Hopeless Bleak Despair (3:08)
#Drink! (1:49)
#My Man (2:57)
#Older (1:58)
#Mink Car (2:09)
#Wicked Little Critta (2:11)
#Finished With Lies (3:18)
#She Thinks She's Edith Head (2:37)
#Working Undercover For the Man (2:19)
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Mess up my cyclops mind
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Mess up my cyclops mindmind
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Older"
-->Time is marching on\\
And time... is still marching on.
* OdeToIntoxication: "Drink!"
-->Let's drink, drink, this town is so great\\
Drink, drink, 'cause it's never too late\\
To drink, drink, to no big surprise\\
But what words rhyme with "buried alive"?
* YankTheDogsChain: In "Hopeless Bleak Despair", the narrator finally gets rid of the eponymous despair... when he dies, the despair goes to heaven, and he goes to hell.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Older"
-->Time is marching on\\
And time... is still marching on.
* OdeToIntoxication: "Drink!"
-->Let's drink, drink, this town is so great\\
Drink, drink, 'cause it's never too late\\
To drink, drink, to no big surprise\\
But what words rhyme with "buried alive"?
* YankTheDogsChain: In "Hopeless Bleak Despair", the narrator finally gets rid of the eponymous despair... when he dies, the despair goes to heaven, and he goes to hell.
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[[caption-width-right:350:And the silver chauffeur says that it's all in your head\\
When you're 24-karat dead]]
->''Bangs\\
Above your eyes your hair hangs\\
Blow my mind, your royal flyness\\
I dig your bangs''
-->--'''Bangs'''
''Mink Car'' is Music/TheyMightBeGiants eight studio album, released in September 2001 by Restless Records. The songs on the album were recorded between 1999 and 2001, and many of them were previewed on [=eMusic=] via TMBG Unlimited, or originally released on ''Music/LongTallWeekend''.
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* BreakUpSong: "Cyclops Rock"
-->I taught you how to cyclops rock\\
And then you go and turn around and break my heart\\
And waste my cyclops time\\
Mess up my cyclops mind
[[caption-width-right:350:And the silver chauffeur says that it's all in your head\\
When you're 24-karat dead]]
->''Bangs\\
Above your eyes your hair hangs\\
Blow my mind, your royal flyness\\
I dig your bangs''
-->--'''Bangs'''
''Mink Car'' is Music/TheyMightBeGiants eight studio album, released in September 2001 by Restless Records. The songs on the album were recorded between 1999 and 2001, and many of them were previewed on [=eMusic=] via TMBG Unlimited, or originally released on ''Music/LongTallWeekend''.
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* BreakUpSong: "Cyclops Rock"
-->I taught you how to cyclops rock\\
And then you go and turn around and break my heart\\
And waste my cyclops time\\
Mess up my cyclops mind
