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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