1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/minkcar_600.png]] |
2 | [[caption-width-right:350:And the silver chauffeur says that it's all in your head\ |
3 | When you're 24-karat dead]] |
4 | |
5 | ->''Bangs\ |
6 | Above your eyes your hair hangs\ |
7 | Blow my mind, your royal flyness\ |
8 | I dig your bangs'' |
9 | -->-- '''Bangs''' |
10 | |
11 | ''Mink Car'' is Music/TheyMightBeGiants eight studio album, released in September 2001 by Restless Records. The songs on the album were recorded between 1999 and 2001, and many of them were previewed on [=eMusic=] via TMBG Unlimited, or originally released on ''Music/LongTallWeekend''. |
12 | |
13 | !!Tracklist |
14 | #Bangs (3:09) |
15 | #Cyclops Rock (2:38) |
16 | #Man, It's So Loud in Here (3:59) |
17 | #Mr. Xcitement (3:36) |
18 | #Another First Kiss (3:06) |
19 | #I've Got a Fang (2:32) |
20 | #Hovering Sombrero (2:13) |
21 | #Yeh Yeh (2:40) |
22 | #Hopeless Bleak Despair (3:08) |
23 | #Drink! (1:49) |
24 | #My Man (2:57) |
25 | #Older (1:58) |
26 | #Mink Car (2:09) |
27 | #Wicked Little Critta (2:11) |
28 | #Finished With Lies (3:18) |
29 | #She Thinks She's Edith Head (2:37) |
30 | #Working Undercover For the Man (2:19) |
31 | |
32 | ---- |
33 | !!You're Never Only Just a Trope, You Know: |
34 | * BreadAndCircuses: "Man It's So Loud In Here" suggests a rather brutal version of this, which uses blaring techno music and garish disco aesthetics to drown out coherent thought and disorient the masses. |
35 | * BreakUpSong: "Cyclops Rock" |
36 | -->I taught you how to cyclops rock\ |
37 | And then you go and turn around and break my heart\ |
38 | And waste my cyclops time\ |
39 | Mess up my cyclops mind |
40 | * CoverVersion: "Yeh Yeh", first recorded as an instrumental in 1963 by Latin musician Mongo Santamaria, but their version was based on the 1965 WithLyrics version that was a hit for Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames. |
41 | * DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "Older" |
42 | -->Time is marching on\ |
43 | And time... is still marching on. |
44 | * ExplodingCalendar: Referenced in "Hovering Sombrero" |
45 | -->Time is flying like an arrow\ |
46 | And the clock hands go so fast, they make the wind blow\ |
47 | And it makes the pages of the calendar go\ |
48 | Flying out the window, one by one |
49 | * HollywoodNewEngland: "Wicked Little Critta", sung in a heavy Boston accent, and full of regional slang and [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] to Boston sports legends like Bobby Orr and John Havlicek. |
50 | * TheInfiltration: "Working Undercover for the Man", narrated by a law enforcement officer who poses as a rock singer as part of some kind of sting operation aimed at fans (presumably busting them for drug possession). |
51 | * InTheStyleOf: "Mink Car" is an obvious homage to the jazzy music of Music/BurtBacharach. |
52 | * LyricalDissonance: |
53 | ** "My Man" is a peppy synth-driven song about coming to terms with paraplegia. |
54 | ** "Mink Car" is a mellow pop-rock tune about being run over and (possibly) killed by a garish-looking car. |
55 | * NowThatsUsingYourTeeth: "I've Got a Fang" opens with a line about this, inspired by John Linnell's childhood memories of watching ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangface}}''. |
56 | -->Glistening white triangular tooth\ |
57 | Open up a can of tomato juice |
58 | * OdeToIntoxication: "Drink!" |
59 | -->Let's drink, drink, this town is so great\ |
60 | Drink, drink, 'cause it's never too late\ |
61 | To drink, drink, to no big surprise\ |
62 | But what words rhyme with "buried alive"? |
63 | * ShoutOut: The lines about [[Franchise/ChildsPlay Chucky]] in "Cyclops Rock". In the early demo versions, instead of "I'm sick like Chucky was sick", the line was "I'm sick like [[UsefulNotes/RichardNixon Nixon]] was sick." |
64 | * SillyLoveSongs: "Another First Kiss" is a relatively straight love song about an older couple who've been through a lot. |
65 | * SpecialGuest: |
66 | ** The bridge from "Cyclops Rock" is performed by Cerys Matthews of the Welsh band Catatonia. |
67 | ** Former Music/SoulCoughing frontman Mike Doughty does the vocals on "Mr. Xcitement" |
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