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2* The fact that he credited [[Music/DaftPunk Edwin Birdsong]] on the cover of ''Mouth Sounds''.
3* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPhXKak_bHw "Wow Wow"]] pretty much tells you at the start on how chaotic it's going to be with the first lyric.
4-->"'''''[[Music/SmashMouth SOME]]--''''' [[BaitAndSwitch people call me]] [[Music/SteveMillerBand the]] [[Music/{{Jamiroquai}} Space Cowboy...]] [[Creator/WillSmith wicky]] [[Film/WildWildWest wicky...]]"
5* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFyCPicGbXM Tiger]]" will never let you think of ''[[Film/RockyIII Rocky III]]'' the same way again. Take Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger," put it to the beat of INXS's "Need You Tonight," and take the lyrics of the song from being about a metaphorical message of perseverance against hard odds... and change it to instead be about a literal tiger.
6* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MuuMgWSQEY "Shady Interlude"]] from ''Mouth Moods'' apparently features {{Music/Eminem}} [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning trying to figure out who he is]]. However as noted on the YMMV page, it can be NightmareFuel, depending on your mood.
7-->'''[=YouTube=] commenter:''' Why is Eminem trapped in limbo?\
8'''Another [=YouTube=] commenter:''' Will the real Slim Shady please emerge from the void?
9* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t-iFr9q1I8 Fly Away]], which starts out as a parody of lyric videos from the early days of Youtube... then quickly devolves into madness about Music/LennyKravitz wanting to travel to space while eating candy bars while turning into a dragonfly.
10-->'''Neil:''' Someone recently confirmed for me that Lenny Kravitz heard this and his reply was "What the hell"
11* "Piss" sentence-mixes "[[Music/{{Chumbawamba}} Tubthumping]]" with "[[Music/ThirdEyeBlind Semi-Charmed Life]]" (among other things) to make some silly lyrics.
12-->''I get knocked down, but I get up again\
13But I get knocked down again, but I get up again\
14You're never gonna get knocked-up again, you're never gonna get knocked down.\
15...\
16I said how do I get back there to the place where I fell asleep inside my nose.\
17...\
18He drinks piss, he drinks piss, he drinks piss, he drinks piss\
19He sings the songs that remind him of the songs that remind him of the piss beneath my toes.''
20* [[{{Series/Friends}} So no one told you]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEmyonfpsgI life was gonna be this way...]] '''[[BaitAndSwitch OOH WAH]] [[{{Music/Disturbed}} AH AH AH!]]'''
21* The ''sheer'' jarring nature of "Crocodile Chop," a mashup of "Chop Suey!" by Music/SystemOfADown and "Crocodile Rock" by Music/EltonJohn that [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Makes Just As Much Sense In Context]], is worth a spit-laugh - especially when Serj Tankian's scream of "DIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEE!" gets combined with John's ''"laaaaaaa, la-la-la-la laaaaaa..."''
22* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVcAyEMM4Cc Floor Corn]]," which is a mix of the famous electronic instrumental "Popcorn" and... "Bodies" by Music/DrowningPool. The best part? It works ''almost perfectly''.
23* Aside from the mangled movie titles in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQOf_WaaJfE Guide to Tom Hanks]]," there are also the taglines:
24-->[[Film/BachelorParty "Science has proven that sex is impossible... But the Bible begs to differ."]]\
25"It's a poison movie. My rooster died. What do I tell God? How do I explain this?"\
26[[Film/ALeagueOfTheirOwn "This summer, Tom Hanks and the Rocksnot Peaches proves that a tiny little woman lives inside of a baseball."]]\
27[[Film/YouveGotMail "Everyone you pass on the street is secretly in love with you!"]]\
28[[Film/TheGreenMile "Pod Hedgehog didn't believe in motorcycles. Until the day he met one."]]\
29[[Film/SavingMrBanks "Her book came to life, and ended his."]]
30* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_3ZoMt0VfQ "Full Mouth"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klQTj76Qo9k "Alanis"]] duo is truly a sight to behold. It starts with the ''Series/FullHouse'' theme, which would be then expectedly combined with the lyrics to [[Music/SmashMouth "All Star"]]... except it takes an ''[[OverlyLongGag entire minute]]'' of repeating music for the lyrics to finally kick in. Then, once the line "so much to do, so much to see" appears, it is then [[BrokenRecord repeated ad nauseam]], as it slowly drowns out everything else in the song. Then it abruptly stops. Cue Music/AlanisMorissette's "You Oughta Know" set to no music. After which, what happens? [[BrickJoke The Full House theme song starts all over again]]. And if that wasn't enough, right when the song ends, a [[Creator/{{Lorimar}} series]] [[Creator/WarnerBrothers of]] [[Creator/ColumbiaPictures highly]] [[Creator/CastleRockEntertainment recognizable]] [[Creator/{{Disney}} TV]] [[Creator/TouchstoneTelevision outro]] [[Creator/GracieFilms jingles]] [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios is]] [[Creator/KlaskyCsupo played.]]
31** And to make it even better, the very next mashup, "Imagine All Star People," utilizes [[Music/SmashMouth "All Star"]] [[BrickJoke yet again]], this time combining it with [[Music/JohnLennon "Imagine"]], of all songs.
32* "Wndrwll" fades from the incredibly chaotic "Space Monkey Mafia" into [[Music/{{Oasis}} "Wonderwall"]], which, throughout its entirety, has its lyrics mangled in ridiculous ways, including [[VoiceClipSong repetitions of random words]], reversal and pitch-shifting the entirety of the second verse, and harmonization of chorus vocals to themselves. And, to top it all off, right before the second chorus, the melody abruptly switches to ''Series/FullHouse'' theme [[RuleOfThree one more time]], [[BrickJoke just to complete the joke]].
33* [="AC/VC"=] opens with "[[Music/VanessaCarlton A Thousand Miles]]," only for it to quickly be joined by the lyrics of "Music/BackInBlack." And blows the mind to know that this ''works''.
34* "Bustin" takes the ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'' theme and sentence mixes it until it's more about sleep (and [[DoubleEntendre busting]]) than ghosts.
35-->''If you're all alone, let me sleep in your bed\
36'''OW!'''\
37([[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo]] snoring)\
38Lemme tell ya something, [[BaitAndSwitch sleepin']] makes me feel good\
39(Banjo snoring again)\
40I ain't 'fraid of no [--sleep--]\
41I ain't 'fraid of no '''BED'''\
42An invisible '''BED'''... [--uh----] F R E A K Y G H O S T '''BED'''''
43* "My Mouth" is described by many as the audio personification of insomnia, but as it goes on the sentence mixing produces some surreal lyrics.
44-->''[[ShapedLikeItself My face is my face]]''\
45''My mouth is laughing in my '''mouth'''''\
46''My mouth is trying to sleep''
47* "Sleepin'" takes "My Own Worst Enemy" by Lit, unpredictably extends the intro riff to {{troll}} the listener ''twice,'' and remixes the final verse to be about something... much more trivial than the singer's drunken bad behavior destroying their relationship.
48-->''It's no surprise to me I'm SLEEPIN' WITH MY CLOTHES ON''\
49'''Cause every now and then I SLEEP WITH MY CLOTHES ON''\
50''Can we forget about the CLOTHES I wore when I was SLEEPIN'?''\
51''I didn't mean to SLEEP WITH MY CLOTHES ON''
52* "The Outsiders." It's an audio-only parody of the trailer to the 1983 film adaptation of [[Literature/TheOutsiders the novel of the same name]], where Creator/DonLaFontaine lists off the names of the characters instead of the actors. Things start off normal, until the list starts getting... odd.
53-->''The Outsiders... Ponyboy. Dallas. Johnny. Cherry. Sodapop. Darrell. Two-Bit. Steve. Bob. Six-pack. Dad. [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial E.T.]] Bumble Bee Tuna. Clamshell. Film/{{Inspector Gadget|1999}}. Payless Shoes. Death. Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII. Kid Cuisine. [[Music/JohnnyCash Johnny]].''
54* The track "Aammoorree," which is Dean Martin's cover of the song "That's Amore"... if everyone had too much to drink before the recording and found the bells on-set incredible.
55-->''When the big pizza pie hits the moon like the eye, that's amoreeee...\
56When you've had too much wine, that's amoreeeeee...\
57Bells-- (digital ringing sounds)''
58* "Johnny," which is the instrumental of Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt" paired with the vocals of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" in one of multiple forms of MoodWhiplash on the album. What clenches it is when, [[FiveSecondForeshadowing just before the vocals start]], a large crowd begins to start booing and voicing their displeasure before fading for a bit... until the end of the song where the crowd [[HeelFaceTurn then starts applauding the performance]].
59** The lyrics of "Hurt" (I will let you down, I will make you hurt) are the exact opposite of the lyrics to "Never Gonna Give You Up."
60** The punchline comes when the last "hurt" of the lyrics (in "never gonna tell a lie and hurt you") is swapped with Johnny Cash's vocals, after which the applause sounds.
61* "Nightmovin'" ends abruptly right after the line "cuz' it ain't over yet."
62* "Where Is My Mom" slows down the lyrics from "[[Music/FountainsOfWayne Stacy's Mom]]" to fit with the instruments from "[[Music/ThePixies Where Is My Mind]]." The way Chris Collingwood says "p-p-p-oo-oo-ool" sounds completely pathetic as a result, and is milked for all its worth.
63-->''Stacy, can I come over after schoo-oo-ool?\
64We can hang around by the p-p-p-oo-oo-ool\
65Did your mom get back from the p-p-p-oo-oo-ool?\
66Is she there, or is she by the p-p-p-oo-oo-ool?''
67* Closerflies seems like a weirdly innocuous mashup between the instrumental to "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails, and the lyrics to "Fireflies" by Owl City... Until you really think about the implications of spending the night with ten million fireflies set to a song about hardcore sex. And then Neil emphasizes one specific word in what feels like an attempt to strangle the listener with laughter.[[labelnote:Explanation (Not Safe for Work)]]The setup of Closer combined with Fireflies implies that the jar the fireflies are kept in will be used similar to the infamous "Pony Cum Jar"[[/labelnote]]
68-->To ten million fireflies, I'm weird 'cause I hate goodbyes\
69I got misty eyes as they said farewell\
70But I'll know where several are, if my dreams get real bizarre\
71'Cause I saved a few and I keep them in a ''[[MemeticMutation jaaaaaaaar]]''
72* Many uploads of "Sleepin'" from Mouth Dreams go mute after a bit due to copyright problems, leading to a long stretch of silence after some build up. That's not the funny part [[note]] It's actually quite annoying[[/note]]. The funny part is that many listeners needed to be told this because it seemed ''exactly'' like something Neil would pull.
73* "Just a Baby" takes the instrumentals from Music/{{Hoobastank}}'s "The Reason" and combines it with the vocals from Music/JohnnyCash's "Folsom Prison Blues"... which are edited to turn it into a story about a baby rather than a grown man. The complete disconnect between the seriousness of Cash's singing and the absurdity of lyrics like "If I was a car, I bet I'd be a good car. And that's what tortures me" makes it hilarious. There's also a cameo from Music/JustinBieber in the backing vocals.
74-->''When I was just a baby,''\
75''My mother told me, "Son,''\
76''always be a baby;''\
77''don't ever be a gun."''
78* The "extro" to Mouth Dreams involves an intimidatingly low drone of the first verse to All Star... followed by a brief snippet from Chop Suey to signify the end of the Mouth Dreams.
79-->'''''WAKE UP (Wake up...)'''''
80* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBmoQSHfO2U Annoyed Grunt]] is a chaotic mess of a dozen or so different audio sources, including songs, soundbites, and wacky effects that barely even try to be coherent or palatable. This being the internet, it succeeds anyway. It's hard not to laugh at the excess, best described by one comment as an alien's attempt at a racist caricature of humanity.
81* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhnwt81YVqQ Ribs]] is definitely up there in being one of his most chaotic songs. It's remix of the Chili's Babyback Ribs jingle but also mashes in [[Music/TearsForFears "Everybody Wants to Rule The World"]] and [[Music/MarilynManson "The Beautiful People"]]. If that wasn't enough it throws in the curveball of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" if you already weren't suffering from musical whiplash.

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