Line #79 Music/ItCrawledIntoMyHandHonest


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: ''When the mode of music changes, the walls of the city shake'']]
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4	''It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest'' is Music/TheFugs' fifth album, released in 1968. It marked a transition from cheap recording techniques to a proper studio quality and professional session musicians. As a result this NewSoundAlbum has become a genuine fan favorite. Creator/MattGroening even called it his favorite Fugs album, placing it on nr. 53 of his list of "100 Favorite Things".
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6	'''Tracklist'''
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8	[[AC:Side One]]
9	# "Crystal Liaison" (3:17)
10	# "Ramses II Is Dead, My Love" (2:55)
11	# "Burial Waltz" (2:31)
12	# "Wide, Wide River" (2:58)
13	# "Life Is Strange" (2:40)
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15	[[AC:Side Two]]
16	# "Johnny Pissoff Meets The Red Angel" (4:45)
17	# "Marijuana" (1:43)
18	# "Leprechaun" (0:15)
19	# "When The Mode Of The Music Changes" (3:59)
20	# "Whimpers From The Jello" (0:24)
21	# "Divine Toe, Pt. 1" (0:42)
22	# "We're Both Dead Now, Alice" (0:18)
23	# "Life Is Funny" (0:17)
24	# "Grope Need, Pt. 1/Tuli, Visited By The Ghost Of Plotinus"/More Grope Need" (0:43)
25	# "Robinson Crusoe" (0:21)
26	# "Claude Pelieu and J.J. Lebel Discuss the Early Verlaine Bread Crust Fragments" (4:41)
27	# "National Haiku Contest" (0:28)
28	# "Divine Toe, Pt.2" (0:52)
29	# "Irene" (1:14)
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31	'''Personnel'''
32	* Ed Sanders: vocals
33	* Tuli Kupferberg: vocals
34	* Ken Weaver: vocals, drums
35	* Ken Pine: vocals, guitar
36	* Bill Wolf: bass
37	* Charles Larkey: bass
38	* Danny Kootch: guitar, violin
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40	!! ''It Troped Into My Hand, Honest''
41	* AlliterativeTitle: "'''W'''ide, '''W'''ide River".
42	* AncientEgypt: "Ramses II Is Dead, My Love" is about the funeral procession down the Nile. At the time the tombs of Ramses' son had recently been discovered by archeologists.
43	* AvantGardeMusic: The TitleTrack and "Claude Pelieu and J.J. Lebel Discuss the Early Verlaine Bread".
44	* CountryMusic: "Johnny Pissoff" is performed in CountryMusic style.
45	* DeepSouth: "Johnny Pissoff", a song about a pissed off redneck who hates black people, leftists, Communists and the Vietcong.
46	* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: "Wide, Wide River"
47	--> ''I've been floating in this river of shit''
48	--> ''Over twenty years and I'm gettin' tired of it''
49	--> ''But I've got to keep swimming in this river of shit, 'cause I don't want to die''
50	* EverybodyMustGetStoned: "Marihuana", where the legalization of the drug is advocated. The Gregorian chant in the background transforms it into a religious experience.
51	* FadingIntoTheNextSong: "Whimpers From The Jello", "Divine Toe, Pt. 1", "We're Both Dead Now, Alice", "Life Is Funny", "Grope Need, Pt.1/ Tuli, Visited By the Ghost of Plotinus/More Grope Need" and "Robinson Crusoe" are a {{Medley}} in essence.
52	* GenreRoulette: The band tries out many different musical genres: CountryMusic, GospelMusic, Gregorian chant, Broadway music...
53	* GospelChoirsAreJustBetter: "Wide, Wide River" is guided by a gospel choir.
54	* GriefSong:
55	** "Ramses II Is Dead, My Love"
56	--> ''Ramses the II is dead my love''
57	--> ''He's left from Memphis to Heaven''
58	--> ''Ptah has taken him on his solar barge''
59	--> ''And walked him to Nat's celestial shores''
60	--> ''Heaven is waiting for Ramses II''
61	--> '' He's gone to Ptah's great side.''
62	** "Burial Waltz"
63	--> ''Do not surround me with wreathes of flowers''
64	--> ''Nor place upon my body the signs of a fetish''
65	--> ''Nor crescent, cross, phallus or sun''
66	--> ''But bury me in an apple orchard''
67	--> ''That I might touch your lips again''
68	* {{Haiku}}: "National Haiku Contest", about TeenPregnancy.
69	--> ''Do not tell me, I am the source of your knock up''
70	--> ''The mud elephant wading through the sea leaves no tracks.''
71	* HornyVikings: One band member is dressed up as a Viking, complete with helmet, on the cover.
72	* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: "It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest".
73	* IntercourseWithYou:
74	** "Crystal Liaison"
75	--> ''In the stroboscopic talisman in your pants''
76	--> ''I am your bun blade''
77	--> ''I am your BUN BLADE''
78	** "Grope Need" and "More Grope Need", naturally.
79	* ListSong: "Marijuana" lists all kinds of synonyms for marijuana.
80	* {{Medley}}: Much of Side Two is a medley, FadingIntoTheNextSong.
81	* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: "Wide, Wide River"
82	--> ''Who was it that set up this system?''
83	--> ''This supposedly democratic system?''
84	--> ''Where we're always voting for the lesser of two evils''
85	--> ''Was UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington the lesser of two evils?''
86	--> ''Sometimes I wonder. Some politicians say we've got to stop violence in this country''
87	--> ''While he's spending 15,000 dollars a second snuffing [[NWordPrivileges gooks]].''
88	* MundaneMadeAwesome: "Wide, Wide River" ("...of shit") is accompanied by a beautiful choir. Talk about contrast!
89	* NewSoundAlbum: This was the first album where the production qualities of the band had significantly improved compared to their earlier albums.
90	* OdeToIntoxication: "Marijuana" is a plea for legalization.
91	* OminousLatinChanting: "Marijuana" sang in the style of a Gregorian chant, listing all the names for marihuana.
92	* OneWomanSong: "Irene"
93	* OneWordTitle: "Marijuana" and "Leprechaun".
94	* {{Pacifism}}: "Irene" makes a stance for peace.
95	* ThePowerOfRock: "When The Mode Of Music Changes"
96	--> ''When the mode of music changes, the walls of the city shake''
97	--> ''(...) Beware a man who is not moved by sound''
98	--> ''He'll drag you to the ground, drag you to the ground''
99	* ProtestSong: "When The Mode Of The Music Changes"
100	--> ''You can have the men who make the laws, give me the music makers''
101	* PsychedelicRock: Several songs on this album are quite trippy, including "Crystal Liaison".
102	* RecordProducer: Richard Alderson
103	* RedScare: "Johnny Pissoff"
104	--> ''Hey, mister, tell all the commies and draft card burners my name is Johnny Pissoff''
105	--> ''Ain't no pink fag legislator gonna tell me I can't have guns''
106	--> ''I'd never kill the president, but I kill him in my dreams''
107	* ShoutOut:
108	** "Life Is Strange" quotes from ''Theatre/{{Faust}}''
109	--> ''Life is strange and death is easy''
110	--> ''I was young, but now I'm ugly.''
111	** "Robinson Crusoe" depicts ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'' feeling sexually frustrated while being on his island.
112	** "Kupferberg Visited By The Ghost Of Plotinus" references Ancient Roman poet Plotinus.
113	* SiameseTwinSongs: "Divine Toe, Pt. 1" and "Divine Toe, Pt.2".
114	* SpokenWordInMusic: "Wide, Wide River" has a spoken word part near the end.
115	* TeenPregnancy: "National Haiku Contest"
116	--> ''Do not tell me, I am the source of your knock up''
117	--> ''The mud elephant wading through the sea leaves no tracks.''
118	* TimeMarchesOn:
119	** "Wide, Wide River" alludes to UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar.
120	** "When The Mode Of Music Changes" references UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson.
121	--> ''Come dance with me in Johnson's land''.
122	** "Johnny Pissoff"
123	--> ''I can't wait to get my hands on Sirhan Sirhan'' [[note]] The assassin of UsefulNotes/RobertFKennedy. [[/note]]
124	* UnusualEuphemism: "Grope Need"
125	--> ''Slipping my horny candy cane into your existential hole.''
126	* WarIsHell: "Wide Wide River"
127	--> ''Sometimes I wonder. Some politicians say we've got to stop violence in this country''
128	--> ''While he's spending 15,000 dollars a second snuffing gooks.''
129	* WordSaladLyrics:
130	** "Crystal Liaison"
131	--> ''In the stroboscopic fun bun of your brain''
132	--> ''I am your eunuch''
133	** Much of the medley on Side Two is also incomprehensible.

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