Line #32 Music/TheSpine


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thespine_350.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:I've been dragging my feet across my back\
3	And I've been rubbing my head against my neck]]
4
5	->''The color of infinity\
6	Inside an empty glass\
7	I'm squinting my eye and turning off\
8	And on and on and off the light''
9	-->--'''Experimental Film'''
10
11	'''The Spine'' is the ninth studio album by Music/TheyMightBeGiants, released in July of 2004 alongside a companion EP, ''The Spine Surfs Alone''. It was their first adult album following their foray into children's music with ''No!'', and featured a number of songs that had previously been released on Dial-A-Song or as online demos, or which had exclusively been played live. Most famously, They Might Be Giants collaborated with Creator/TheBrothersChaps to do a music video for the opening song "Experimental Film" featuring characters from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''.
12
13	!!Tracklist
14	# Experimental Film (2:56)
15	# Spine (0:33)
16	# Memo to Human Resources (2:02)
17	# Wearing a Raincoat (3:10)
18	# Prevenge (2:44)
19	# Thunderbird (2:38)
20	# Bastard Wants to Hit Me (2:14)
21	# The World Before Later On (1:52)
22	# Museum of Idiots (3:02)
23	# It's Kickin' In (2:01)
24	# Spines (0:30)
25	# Au Contraire (2:26)
26	# Damn Good Times (2:38)
27	# Broke In Two (2:59)
28	# Stalk of Wheat (1:27)
29	# I Can't Hide From My Mind (2:47)
30
31	!!Gonna Make You Fall In Love With Tropes:
32	* AlcoholicParent: "Thunderbird" is about a struggling alcoholic whose daughter tries to get him to kick the habit.
33	* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: In the second verse of "It's Kickin' In", the narrator recalls going to a fancy restaurant and hearing "the disaffected waitress / in some fake foreign accent" speaking vaguely-French gibberish.
34	* BreakUpSong: "Broke In Two" is about a guy who admits his girlfriend wants to leave him because [[PoorCommunicationKills he's a terrible listener]].
35	-->''You said something before you left\
36	Something I was not to forget\
37	Then is when I maybe should have wrote it down\
38	But when I looked around to find a pen\
39	And then I tried to think of what you said\
40	We broke in two''
41	* CelebritySong: "Au Contraire" references Creator/DavidBowie, UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt, Creator/JodieFoster, Music/JohannSebastianBach, and UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi.
42	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Wearing a Raincoat"
43	-->'''Demanding constant attention\
44	Will only lead to attention\
45	And once they have your attention\
46	They use it to ask for attention''
47	* IWantMyJetpack: "The World Before Later On" is about a man lamenting the absence of such spectacular sci-fi items as personal jetpacks and a "tel-ray" in the actual twenty-first century.
48	* LeFilmArtistique: "Experimental Film" is about a guy excitedly telling his friends about an experimental film he's making.
49	* LoveMartyr: "Museum of Idiots" is about a man stuck in his dilapidated home town, still holding a torch for his childhood sweetheart.
50	-->''Chop me up into pieces\
51	If it pleases, if it pleases\
52	And when the chopping is through\
53	Every piece will say "I love you"''
54	* ShoutOut:
55	** "Damn Good Times" is a reference to "Damn Good" by David Lee Roth, who also gets name-dropped in the song.
56	** "Thunderbird" quotes "Fun, Fun, Fun" by Music/TheBeachBoys, changing the phrase "Daddy takes your T-Bird away" to "T-Bird takes her Dad away".
57	** Everyone saying "right on!" over and over at the end of "Au Contraire" is a reference to the background chatter in Music/MarvinGaye's [[Music/WhatsGoingOn "What's Going On"]].

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