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From left to right: Sam Black and Matt Morley Everything Else is an unsigned American rock duo from Coon Rapids, Minnesota that formed in early 2010, consisting of Matt Morley and Sam Black. They are heavily inspired by rock groups of the 60's and 70's like The Beatles, Frank Zappa and Pink Floyd. It often sounds like more than two people because they sometimes record instruments at different times, as in "What Can't Be Seen". The lyrics of their songs cover a wide variety of topics, from love and hate to race relations and religion to pure nonsense. Their self-titled first album was released on November 1st, 2011, and their second album was released just under 9 months later on July 24th, 2012. Discography:- "Everything Else" (2011)
- "Some Classical Guys" (2012)
Associated Tropes:- Alliterative Name: Matt Morley
- Alliterative Title: "Everything Else"
- Album Title Drop: Averted in Everything Else, despite the fact that it's also the name of the song.
- All Drummers Are Animals: Matt. "Untitled", "Fool" and "Everything Else" are good examples of this.
- Anti-Love Song: "Fool" exemplified by "Ms. Langenfeld's a fake, she ruined all the fun..."
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: "Zoey", although she is 8 times taller at 400 feet.
- Big Rock Ending: "Harassing the Conman" and "Everything Else" both feature an ending like this, in fact "Everything Else" features four of them.
- Big Word Shout: "Religion Song (Put Away The Gun)"- WHY?!
- Book Ends: "If You Loved Her" and "Fool" begin and end of the same Piano or Keyboard part respectfully, "Everything Else" slowly builds adding instruments on to the bass line and ends taking them out one by one until just the bass is left.
- Bratty Teenage Daughter: "Modern Day Girl"
- Call-and-Response Song: "The Expedition Of The Hitmaker" and "Cruel And Usual"
- Call Back: The reprise section of "Everything Else"
- Careful With That Axe: "Religion Song (Put Away the Gun)" features an example in which Matt screams "Why?" after a quiet spoken bit.
- Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Referenced verbatim in "The Candidate's Song".
"Here's a picture of my opponent in black and white/Color-coded for your convenience so you know he's not right. - Cover Version: Their covers of The Who's "Go To The Mirror, Boy," Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues," and The Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black."
- Covers Always Lie: Their second album features songs about the apocalypse, government overthrow, and wrongful imprisonment. And this
 ◊ is the album cover. - Darker and Edgier: Through the first album.
- Day in the Life: "Harassing The Conman" tells the story of a day at Valley Fair in which a friend of the band has a run in with the law.
- Echoing Acoustics: Most of the first album.
- Epic Instrumental Opener: "Harassing the Conman", "The Enemies", "Religion Song (Put Away the Gun)", and "Everything Else" all feature lengthy openers.
- Epic Rocking: "Religion Song (Put Away the Gun)" and "Everything Else" both of which are over seven minutes.
- Excited Show Title!: "Cangas del Narcea!"
- Fade Out: "What Can't Be Seen", "American Dream Blues", "Little Fish" and "Zoey".
- Follow Your Heart: "If You Loved Her"
"She will move on, don't be afraid, failure is better than not trying at all." - Four More Measures: "Everything Else" a multitude of times.
- Genre Roulette: Several genres show up in their discography, with more to come on future albums.
- Grand Finale: The end of "Everything Else"
- Harsh Vocals: The part of the manager (performed by Matt) in "The Expedition Of The Hitmaker".
- I Am Great Song: "The Candidate's Song"
"Hello there, America! I'm your candidate. Here is my commercial, so you know that I'm great." - I Am Song: "The Candidate's Song" as noted above.
- Instrumentals: "Cangas del Narcea!"
- In The Style Of: The beginning section (which is supposed to suck) of "The Expedition Of The Hitmaker" is a parody of 80's pop.
- Kangaroo Court: Ed Cooper is the victim of one in "Cruel And Usual".
- Last Note Nightmare: The gunshot on "Religion Song (Put Away the Gun)" and the ending of "Untitled", which has an ending more suited for an orchestral epic than an Anti-Love Song.
- As well as the otherwise upbeat "Modern Day Girl" and "Cangas del Narcea!"
- And although "Cruel And Usual" is already dark, it ends with a strange, creepy, hard to describe section that has nothing to do with anything.
- Lead Bassist: "The Enemies", "Everything Else" and "Normal" have a bass lead.
- Let's Duet: "Everything Else"
- Long Title: "Religion Song (Put Away The Gun)" and "The Expedition Of The Hitmaker".
- Lyrical Cold Open: "Normal"
- Lyrical Dissonance: A large example in "The Enemies"
"And we murder each other..." - Match Cut: "The Candidate's Song" slide whistle into the horn section of "What If?".
- Medley: "It's True/The Moon's Garden/Babel", "Occupations/American Dream Blues", "Eye In The Sky/Cruel And Usual".
- Metal Scream: "What Can't Be Seen" right after the solo.
- Miniscule Rocking: The band's shortest song is "It's True" which is just 38 seconds long.
- Miscarriage of Justice: "Cruel And Usual"
"But it's not fair!" "And we don't care!" - Most Annoying Sound:invoked "Modern Day Girl", "That voice of hers makes me wish that she was mute".
- Muggles: Parodied in "Normal".
- Non Appearing Title: "Untitled", "Everything Else", "Babel", "American Dream Blues", "Modern Day Girl", "The Pain You've Caused Me", "Cangas del Narcea", "The Candidate's Song" and "The Expedition Of The Hitmaker".
- Non Indicative Title: "Untitled" for obvious reasons.
- Not Christian Rock: "Religion Song (Put Away the Gun)"
- Old Shame: The band once did a self-admited atrocious cover of "I Am The Walrus" by The Beatles, that they have since gotten rid of every known copy of.
- One Woman Song: "Robin" and "Zoey"
- Parody: One section of "The Expedition Of The Hitmaker" is a parody of 80's pop, and "Modern Day Girl" is a parody of a modern day girl.
- Protest Song: "Occupations", "American Dream Blues" and "Normal".
- Precision F-Strike: "Occupations"
"You group of men are the reporters, responsible for feeding us shit." - Real Life Writes the Plot: Word Of God states that the line most of the lines of "Modern Day Girl" including "The peace sign's on her shirt just because she thinks it looks cute," are true statements and events.
- Record Producer: Both members of the band, Matt and Sam, handle production duties.
- Refrain from Assuming: "Everything Else" features what would be a Title Only Chorus, if "Stereotypical" were the name of the song.
- Religion Rant Song: "Religion Song (Put Away the Gun)"
- Reprise Medley: "Everything Else" features a section that reprises every song on the album.
- Rockstar Song: "The Expedition Of The Hitmaker" is a subversion as it is about a fictional pop star named Jack who hates the music that he is made to make and wants to become a rockstar instead.
- Scatting: The end of "What Can't Be Seen" which features a scat version of the melody.
- Self-Backing Vocalist: Most of the voices heard on "What Can't Be Seen" are just Matt's recorded at different times.
- Self-Titled Album: "Everything Else"
- Sequel Song: "Fool", is a sequel to "If You Loved Her", which turns "If You Loved Her" into a very different song lyrically.
- Shout Out: "The Expedition Of The Hitmaker"
- Siamese Twin Songs: "Eye In The Sky" and "Cruel And Usual", "Occupations" and "American Dream Blues", and the Siamese Triplet Songs "It's True", "The Moon's Garden" and "Babel".
- Something Blues: "American Dream Blues"
- Song Style Shift: "Religion Song (Put Away the Gun)" starts with a gentle string section, then goes to a church song, then to a rock song, then to spoken word, then back to the church song.
- This trope is essentially the plot of "The Expedition Of The Hitmaker".
- Spoken Word In Music: "Religion Song (Put Away the Gun)" right before the Careful With That Axe bit mentioned above.
- Studio Chatter: "Harassing The Conman", "The Enemies" and "Fool" have exerts of it here and there.
- Stylistic Suck: The beginning section of "The Expedition Of The Hitmaker".
- Subliminal Seduction: "What Can't Be Seen" has the first few verses slower and backwards during the solo and "Cangas del Narcea!" features the song title being said backwards in what is otherwise an instrumental.
- Surprisingly Gentle Song: "If You Loved Her" which follows the Last Note Nightmare of "Religion Song (Put Away The Gun)"
- Take a Third Option: "The Candidate's Song" does this with the election, implying that all candidates are basically the same.
- Take That: "The Pain You've Caused Me" toward a particularly idiotic classmate, and "Modern Day Girl" which is much more general toward modern teens.
- The Something Song: "The Candidate's Song"
- This Loser Is You: "Modern Day Girl"
"The mainstream's in charge of everything she'll ever do/And if you ask me she seems a bit too much like you." - Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: "Zoey" and the narrator of the song.
- Title Only Chorus: "Harassing the Conman"
- "Cruel and Usual" subverts this, as the chorus is "Cruel, but not unusual."
- Triumphant Reprise: "Everything Else" as noted above.
- Uncommon Time: Part of "The Expedition Of The Hitmaker" is in 5/4.
- Valley Girl: "Modern Day Girl"
- Vocal Tag Team: Some songs Matt sings, sometimes Sam sings, sometimes they both sing.
- Wham Line: In "Religion Song (Put Away The Gun)", the middle section sounds like a bigoted rant, claiming "There's no such thing as a Black Man/Asian/Woman/Christian/etc.", but it is all turned around by the line "Because we're all the same."
- What If?: "What If?", of course.
- Word Salad Lyrics: "What Can't Be Seen" features "See the daughter, see the son and you're not the only one," and even Lampshades it by saying "You don't know what I mean."
- Write What You Know: Quite a few of Everything Else's songs are about high school, as they are high school students.
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