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* BassoProfundo: "Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old" and "Xylophone Track" are both sung in the lowest register Merritt can muster.
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* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: "How Fucking Romantic".
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* AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle: "How Fucking Romantic".Romantic", on purpose as a dig against love songs.
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# "Abigail, Bell of Kilronan" (2:00)
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# "Abigail, Bell Belle of Kilronan" (2:00)
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* AnimalMetaphor: Multiple tracks invoke animals as symbolism:
** "Boa Constrictor" equates the feeling of love to the experience of being asphyxiated by the titular species of snake.
** The narrator of "A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off" compares himself to such, using the frenzied state still-living decapitated chickens can enter as an analogue for constant infatuation.
** "Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long" takes imagery of pet dogs and ironically alludes to the StockAnimalName Fido's association with loyalty to rebuke an unfaithful lover.
** "Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits" refers to rabbits' association with sex and fertility, the viewpoint character imploring his loved one to "do it all day long".
** "Boa Constrictor" equates the feeling of love to the experience of being asphyxiated by the titular species of snake.
** The narrator of "A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off" compares himself to such, using the frenzied state still-living decapitated chickens can enter as an analogue for constant infatuation.
** "Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long" takes imagery of pet dogs and ironically alludes to the StockAnimalName Fido's association with loyalty to rebuke an unfaithful lover.
** "Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits" refers to rabbits' association with sex and fertility, the viewpoint character imploring his loved one to "do it all day long".
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** {{Synthpop}}: "I Can't Touch You Anymore", "Strange Eyes", "Fido, Your Leash is Too Long"
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** {{Synthpop}}: "Promises of Eternity", "I Can't Touch You Anymore", "Strange Eyes", "Fido, Your Leash is Too Long"Eyes"
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** Cabaret: "My Sentimental Melody", "Zebra".
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Up To Eleven is a defunct trope
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* EmpathicEnvironment: Taken UpToEleven in "I Don't Believe in the Sun"
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* EmpathicEnvironment: Taken UpToEleven up to eleven in "I Don't Believe in the Sun"
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: "Reno Dakota" was named after a real person, a filmmaker who ghosted Stephin after a blind date.
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-->"Papa Was a Rodeo," as should be explained in the box set book, is (in my mind) sung by a man, who resembles a Lee Hazelwood character, to a woman named Mike, as Nancy Sinatra's character was called in "Wild Angels." It is thus explicitly a Lee & Nancy [[ShoutOut tribute]], with an actual lyric reference, however roundabout, which is more than I usually do.
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-->"Papa Was a Rodeo," as should be explained in the box set book, is (in my mind) sung by a man, who resembles a Lee Hazelwood character, to a woman named Mike, as Nancy Sinatra's Music/NancySinatra's character was called in "Wild Angels." It is thus explicitly a Lee & Nancy [[ShoutOut tribute]], with an actual lyric reference, however roundabout, which is more than I usually do.
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Despite it's monster length and [[GenreRoulette overwhelming number of different musical styles present]], it was the album that brought the band into the mainstream for the first time. It received critical acclaim (placing in the top five of most major lists of the best albums of the year) and was a surprise commercial hit. The song "The Book of Love" was CoveredUp by {{Music/Peter Gabriel}} in 2010 and gave him ''his'' first hit in nearly ten years.
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Despite it's its monster length and [[GenreRoulette overwhelming number of different musical styles present]], it was the album that brought the band into the mainstream for the first time. It received critical acclaim (placing in the top five of most major lists of the best albums of the year) and was a surprise commercial hit. The song "The Book of Love" was CoveredUp by {{Music/Peter Gabriel}} in 2010 and gave him ''his'' first hit in nearly ten years.
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* GenreRoulette: And ''how''! The album explores more than it's fair share of genres, including:
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* GenreRoulette: And ''how''! The album explores more than it's its fair share of genres, including:
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* SexForServices: It appears the only reason the narrator's love intrest sleeps with him in "The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side" is because he has a car and she needs to get around the city.
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* SexForServices: It appears the only reason the narrator's love intrest interest sleeps with him in "The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side" is because he has a car and she needs to get around the city.
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** [[{{PsychedelicRock}} Psychedelia]]: "Sweet-Lovin' Man", "The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure", "Yeah! Oh, Yeah!", "I'm Sorry I Love You", "Epitaph for My Heart"
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** [[{{PsychedelicRock}} Psychedelia]]: "Sweet-Lovin' Man", "The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure", "Yeah! Oh, Yeah!", "I'm Sorry I Love You", "Epitaph for My Heart"
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** {{Punk Rock}}: "Punk Love"
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** {{Jazz}}: "Love is Like Jazz"
** {{Punk Rock}}: "PunkLove"Love", "Washington D.C."
** NoisePop: "When My Boy Walks Down the Street", "I'm Sorry I Love You", "Yeah! Oh, Yeah!"
** {{Punk Rock}}: "Punk
** NoisePop: "When My Boy Walks Down the Street", "I'm Sorry I Love You", "Yeah! Oh, Yeah!"
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** [[{{CountryMusic}} Country]]: "Bitter Tears", "Papa Was a Rodeo", "Acoustic Guitar", "Xylophone Track"
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** [[{{CountryMusic}} Country]]: "A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off", "Bitter Tears", "Papa Was a Rodeo", "Acoustic Guitar", "Xylophone Track"
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** {{Avant Garde Music}}: "I Shatter", "Experimental Music Love"
** {{BluesRock}}: "Underwear"
** {{FolkMusic}}: "Abigail, Belle Of Kilronan", "Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget"
** {{BluesRock}}: "Underwear"
** {{FolkMusic}}: "Abigail, Belle Of Kilronan", "Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget"
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** {{Avant Garde Music}}: [[AvantGardeMusic Experimental]]: "I Shatter", "Experimental Music Love"
**{{BluesRock}}: {{Blues Rock}}: "Underwear"
**{{FolkMusic}}: [[FolkMusic Folk]]: "Abigail, Belle Of Kilronan", "Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget"
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Mais l'amour, c'est l'amour''
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Mais l'amour, c'est l'amour''l'amour''[[note]] Death is death, but love is love, death is only death, but love is love [[/note]]
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* LetsDuet: Merritt duets on one song with each of his fellow vocalists (Claudia Gonson in "Yeah! Oh, Yeah!", Shirley Simms in "Papa Was a Rodeo", L.D. Beghtol in "The One You Really Love", and Dudley Klute in "Underwear").
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* LetsDuet: Merritt duets on one song with each of his fellow vocalists (Claudia Gonson in on "Yeah! Oh, Yeah!", Shirley Simms in on "Papa Was a Rodeo", L.D. Beghtol in on "The One You Really Love", and Dudley Klute in on "Underwear").
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* SillyLoveSongs: [[NeverTrustATitle Most notably averted, despite the album's title]]. The only ones that can truly be called straight love songs are "Sweet Lovin-Man" and "Acoustic Guitar".
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* SillyLoveSongs: [[NeverTrustATitle Most notably averted, despite the album's title]]. The only ones that can truly be called straight love songs are "Sweet Lovin-Man" and "Acoustic Guitar".
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* SpokenWordInMusic: The 'electric shock' speech at the beginning of "Epitaph for My Heart", which Merritt got off the security label of one of his electric keyboards:
--> ''Caution, to prevent electric shock\\
Do not remove cover\\
No user-serviceable parts inside\\
Refer servicing to qualified\\
service personnel''
--> ''Caution, to prevent electric shock\\
Do not remove cover\\
No user-serviceable parts inside\\
Refer servicing to qualified\\
service personnel''
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Drag another cliché howling from the vaults
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Drag another cliché howling from the vaultsvaults\\
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* BirdsOfAFeather: "Papa Was A Rodeo" has the singer spend the first two verses rattling off his issues with commitment and monogamy to discourage his one-night-stand from thinking this will be more than that. It then flashes to "55 years later/We've had the romance of a century..."
-->''What a coincidence, your papa was a rodeo too!''
-->''What a coincidence, your papa was a rodeo too!''
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* IWillWaitForYou: Defied in "Abigail, Belle of Kilronan" with the narrator explicitly begging his girlfriend not to wait for him to come home from the war.
-->''When I come home - if I come home - don't be alone''
-->''When I come home - if I come home - don't be alone''
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* RattlingOffLegal: "Epitaph For My Heart" quotes from the warning label on the back of Merritt's keyboard.
-->''"Caution, to prevent electric shock\\
Do not remove cover\\
No user-serviceable parts inside\\
Refer servicing to qualified service personnel"\\
Let this be the epitaph for my heart...''
-->''"Caution, to prevent electric shock\\
Do not remove cover\\
No user-serviceable parts inside\\
Refer servicing to qualified service personnel"\\
Let this be the epitaph for my heart...''
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* ShoutOut:
** "My Only Friend" is a tribute to Music/BillieHoliday.
** "Acoustic Guitar" name-drops Music/SteveEarle, Charo and Music/{{Gwar}} as examples of musicians who wouldn't play the titular instrument as gently as the singer does.
** "The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure" namedrops not only the titular linguist but also [[Creator/{{Motown}} Holland-Dozier-Holland]] as a counterpoint to de Saussure's claim that language can't describe love.
* SickeninglySweethearts: Played with in "How Fucking Romantic", where the singer's partner engages in this to hide that they're not nearly as in love as he is.
-->''What a tacky sunset, what a vulgar moon\\
Play another charming Rogers & Hart tune\\
How fucking romantic, must we really waltz?\\
Drag another cliché howling from the vaults
Love you, obviously, like you really care\\
Even though you treat me like a dancing bear''
** "My Only Friend" is a tribute to Music/BillieHoliday.
** "Acoustic Guitar" name-drops Music/SteveEarle, Charo and Music/{{Gwar}} as examples of musicians who wouldn't play the titular instrument as gently as the singer does.
** "The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure" namedrops not only the titular linguist but also [[Creator/{{Motown}} Holland-Dozier-Holland]] as a counterpoint to de Saussure's claim that language can't describe love.
* SickeninglySweethearts: Played with in "How Fucking Romantic", where the singer's partner engages in this to hide that they're not nearly as in love as he is.
-->''What a tacky sunset, what a vulgar moon\\
Play another charming Rogers & Hart tune\\
How fucking romantic, must we really waltz?\\
Drag another cliché howling from the vaults
Love you, obviously, like you really care\\
Even though you treat me like a dancing bear''
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* SpellingSong: "Washington, D.C."
-->''W! A-S-H! I-N-G! T-O-N, baby, DC!''
-->''W! A-S-H! I-N-G! T-O-N, baby, DC!''
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* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: "Two Kinds of People"
-->''a) my love and I, b) other.''
-->''a) my love and I, b) other.''
