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* CatsAreMean: "A Cat Named Dionysus", about Merritt's childhood pet, plays it straight.
--->''He hated me, 'cause I loved him.''
--->''He hated me, 'cause I loved him.''
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** "Foxx & I", a tribute to former Ultravox frontman John Foxx.
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** The opening to "Epitaph for My Heart" references the 'do not remove cover' warning label found on most electrical appliances.
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** The opening to "Epitaph for My Heart" references the 'do not remove cover' warning label found on most electrical appliances. There's also a reference to the Brill Building later on.
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** ''The Charm of the Highway Strip'' consists of songs dealing mostly with travelling and transportation.
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** ''50 Song Memoir'' is an autobiographical account of Merritt's life up to his 50th birthday.
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** The opening to "Epitaph for My Heart" references the electric shock warning label found on most electrical appliances.
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** The opening to "Epitaph for My Heart" references the electric shock 'do not remove cover' warning label found on most electrical appliances.
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* TriangRelations: Love triangles are a common feature, but [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwvMUy_0-Sk I'd Go Anywhere With Hugh]] is a rare type two song.
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* TriangRelations: Love triangles are a common feature, but [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwvMUy_0-Sk com/watch?v=dMkzagAsgyU I'd Go Anywhere With Hugh]] is a rare type two song.
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* DrowningMySorrows: "Reno, Dakota"
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* DrowningMySorrows: "Reno, "Reno Dakota"
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* IAmTheBand: Stephin Merritt. Although there are other recurring members, such as Daniel Handler, the real life identity of [[ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents Lemony Snicket]]. Merritt's other band, The Gothic Archies, released an album of [[FilkSong songs about A Series Of Unfortunate Events]]. Drummer/vocalist/business manager Claudia Gonson is the non-Merritt musician who's had the most staying power.
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* IAmTheBand: Stephin Merritt. Although there are other recurring members, such as Daniel Handler, the real life identity of [[ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents [[Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents Lemony Snicket]]. Merritt's other band, The Gothic Archies, released an album of [[FilkSong songs about A Series Of Unfortunate Events]]. Drummer/vocalist/business manager Claudia Gonson is the non-Merritt musician who's had the most staying power.
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* TheEeyore: Stephen Meritt comes across this way with his baritone vocals and self-effacing demeanor.
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* TheEeyore: Stephen Meritt comes across this way with his baritone vocals and self-effacing demeanor.FlowersOfRomance: "I'm Sorry I Love You"
-->''A single rose in your garden dwells''\\
''Like any rose, it's not itself''\\
''It is my love in your garden grows''\\
''But let's pretend it's just a rose.''
-->''A single rose in your garden dwells''\\
''Like any rose, it's not itself''\\
''It is my love in your garden grows''\\
''But let's pretend it's just a rose.''
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-->'''Her:''' ''Are you out of love with me?\\
Are you longing to be free?\\
Do I drive you up a tree?''\\
'''Him:''' ''Yeah! Oh, yeah!''
Are you longing to be free?\\
Do I drive you up a tree?''\\
'''Him:''' ''Yeah! Oh, yeah!''
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* BreakUpSong: "I Thought You Were My Boyfriend"
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* ConceptAlbum: ''69 Love Songs'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin; all the songs on ''i'' start with "I."
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* ConceptAlbum: ConceptAlbum:
** ''69 Love Songs'' isExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin; all ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
** All the songs on ''i'' start with "I."
** ''69 Love Songs'' is
** All the songs on ''i'' start with "I."
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-->''So you, quote, "love", unquote, me?''
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* DrowningYourSorrows: "Reno, Dakota"
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* DrowningYourSorrows: DrowningMySorrows: "Reno, Dakota"
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* DrowningYourSorrows: "Reno, Dakota"
* EmoTeen: Discussed in "I Don't Want To Get Over You"
-->''I could make a career of being blue\\
I could dress in black and read Camus\\
Smoke clove cigarettes and drink vermouth like I was seventeen\\
That would be a scream...''
* EmpathicEnvironment: Taken UpToEleven in "I Don't Believe in the Sun"
-->''The moon to whom the poets croon has given up and died\\
Astronomy will have to be revised''
-->''I could make a career of being blue\\
I could dress in black and read Camus\\
Smoke clove cigarettes and drink vermouth like I was seventeen\\
That would be a scream...''
* EmpathicEnvironment: Taken UpToEleven in "I Don't Believe in the Sun"
-->''The moon to whom the poets croon has given up and died\\
Astronomy will have to be revised''
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* GenderBlenderName: "Mike" in "Papa Was A Rodeo" is a woman.
** Not necessarily — Stephin Merritt has a habit of having female singers sing from a male point of view ("Candy") and vice versa ("Sunset City") so the fact that Shirley Simms sings the final chorus has no bearing on the gender of the character in the song.
** Not necessarily — Stephin Merritt has a habit of having female singers sing from a male point of view ("Candy") and vice versa ("Sunset City") so the fact that Shirley Simms sings the final chorus has no bearing on the gender of the character in the song.
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* GenderBlenderName: According to WordOfGod, "Mike" in "Papa Was A Rodeo" is a woman.
** Not necessarily — Stephin Merritt has -->"Papa Was a habit of having female singers sing from a male point of view ("Candy") and vice versa ("Sunset City") so Rodeo," as should be explained in the fact that Shirley Simms sings the final chorus has no bearing on the gender of 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 the song. "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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* MinisculeRocking: Several songs on ''69 Love Songs'' hover around the 1-minute mark. "Roses" clocks in at 28 seconds.
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** "Acoustic Guitar":
-->''Acoustic guitar, if you think I play hard\\
Well, you could have belonged to Music/SteveEarle\\
Or Charo or Music/{{Gwar}}, I could sell you [[PainfulRhyme tomor]]-\\
-row, so bring me back my girl''
-->''Acoustic guitar, if you think I play hard\\
Well, you could have belonged to Music/SteveEarle\\
Or Charo or Music/{{Gwar}}, I could sell you [[PainfulRhyme tomor]]-\\
-row, so bring me back my girl''
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* TheEeyore: Stephen Meritt comes across this way with his baritone vocals and self-effacing demeanor.
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* LongTitle: "The Flowers She Sent and the Flowers She Said She Sent".
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All the tracks on ''i'' all begin with the letter "I".
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* SkeletalMusician: Referenced in "Xylophone Track": "I can play my ribcage like a xylophone."
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* ShoutOut: "Suddenly There Is A Tidal Wave" says, "We must have been the butt of all the jokes in the world/For trying to live like PippiLongstocking."
** "The Death Of Ferdinand De Saussure" shouts out not only the titular linguist, but justifies his death by saying "This is for [[{{Motown}} Holland/Dozier/Holland!]]"
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** "Suddenly There Is A Tidal Wave" says, "We must have been the butt of all the jokes in the world/For trying to live likePippiLongstocking.Literature/PippiLongstocking."
** "The Death Of Ferdinand De Saussure" shouts out not only the titular linguist, but justifies his death by saying "This is for[[{{Motown}} [[Creator/{{Motown}} Holland/Dozier/Holland!]]"
** "Suddenly There Is A Tidal Wave" says, "We must have been the butt of all the jokes in the world/For trying to live like
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* {{Gaygnst}}: In an interview, Merritt lamented that most of the gay men his age he knew had died of AIDS.
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* EvilTwin: "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin I Wish I Had an Evil Twin]]"
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* TitleOnlyChorus: "Three-Way" is a title only ''song''.
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** "The Death Of Ferdinand De Saussure" shouts out not only the titular linguist, but justifies his death by saying "This is for [[{{Motown}} Holland/Dozier/Holland!]]
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** "The Death Of Ferdinand De Saussure" shouts out not only the titular linguist, but justifies his death by saying "This is for [[{{Motown}} Holland/Dozier/Holland!]]Holland/Dozier/Holland!]]"
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** Not necessarily — Stephin Merritt has a habit of having female singers sing from a male point of view ("Candy") and vice versa ("Sunset City") so the fact that Shirley Simms sings the final chorus has no bearing on the gender of the character in the song.
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* GodIsLoveSong: "Kiss Me Like You Mean It," though it's somewhat of a subversion in having God return the affection physically.
* GratuitousFrench: Fully half of the rather short "Underwear" is this.
* GratuitousFrench: Fully half of the rather short "Underwear" is this.
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* LoveAtFirstSight: "Don't Look Away" gives this a creepy twist by being a melodramatic ode to someone Merritt's narrator merely held eye contact with for a few seconds in a crowd.
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* RoyalWe: PlayedForLaughs in "For We Are The King Of The Boudoir."
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* StalkingIsLove: "The Night You Can't Remember" is arguably a case of this.
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* LyricalDissonance: A staple of much of Merritt's songwriting. He's even said he does this on purpose so the songs can fit whatever what mood you're in, depending on whether you listen to the tune or the lyrics.
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* LyricalDissonance: A staple of much of Merritt's songwriting. He's even said he does this on purpose so the songs can fit whatever what mood you're in, depending on whether you listen to the tune or the lyrics.
* [[TheCoverChangesTheGender The Original Changes The Gender]]: Merritt frequently writes from both male, female, gay and straight perspectives, and with both male and female singers in the band happy to sing from either perspective... let's just say it never gets boring.
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* RichBitch: The narrator in "Zebra," big time.
--> ''We've got so many tchotchkes, we've practically emptied the Louvre''
--> ''In most of our palaces, there's hardly room to maneuver''
--> ''Now I shan't go to Bali today, I must stay home and Hoover up the gold dust...''
--> ''But that doesn't mean we're in love.''
--> ''We've got so many tchotchkes, we've practically emptied the Louvre''
--> ''In most of our palaces, there's hardly room to maneuver''
--> ''Now I shan't go to Bali today, I must stay home and Hoover up the gold dust...''
--> ''But that doesn't mean we're in love.''
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* WhamLine: Not uncommon in Merritt's songbook but perhaps the most dramatic case is "Yeah! Oh, Yeah!" which starts out as an AntiLoveSong but then dives straight into Wham Territory by the end.
--> ''What a dark and dreary life! [[spoiler: Are you reaching for a knife? Could you really kill your wife?]] Yeah, oh yeah!''
--> ''What a dark and dreary life! [[spoiler: Are you reaching for a knife? Could you really kill your wife?]] Yeah, oh yeah!''
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* CommonMeter: Most of "Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget" and "Two Kinds Of People" are in common meter.
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* LostLenore: The narrator's crush from "The One You Really Love" has a serious case of this.
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* LostLenore: TheLostLenore: The narrator's crush from "The One You Really Love" has a serious case of this.
