It’s Lemon Demon, oh, lemon out of hell! It’s Lemon Demon, oh, you cannot resist the lemonade! .
"I don't see the point in not believing in Things you can taste, like fear and cinnamon Sadly this hasn't gutten me Anything but dread and gluttony"— Lemon Demon, "Telekinesis"
Lemon Demon is a one-man band by internet personality
Neil Cicierega, active from 2003 onwards. To date, six albums are released
note not including his older musical efforts, the live album or the Christmas EP, the first four of which now available for free, and there are some other singles attributed to his music.
Most of his songs could be considered
Mind Screw, though given he created
Animutation, this shouldn't be surprising.
As a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000, he had three songs inspired by it: "
Idiot Control Now", "Smell Like A Cookie All Day", and "
Nightmare Fuel".
He is known largely for his song
The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny featuring many pop culture figures in a fight.
Discography
- Clown Circus (2003)
- Live From The Haunted Candle Shop (2003)
- Hip To The Javabean (2004)
- Damn Skippy (2005)
- Dinosaurchestra (2006)
- View-Monster (2008)
- Live (Only Not) (2011)
- ''I Am Become Christmas'' (2012)
- Upcoming album (TBA/2013)
Lemon Demon provides examples of:
- Ascended Meme: Is fond of "Brodyquest" and its continued popularity because in his words, it is "the stupidest song I've ever made" and he thinks it's funny. Helps that despite being a meme, it is still a very unknown meme.
- Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: A lot of his Lemon Demon songs start out as fairly tame before turning utterly bizarre.
- Bow Chicka Wow Wow: Part 3.4 of the interactive video "Haircut"
. "Do you slap her in the face, or do you Bow Chicka-Chicka Wow-Wow?" - Epic Instrumental Opener: BRODYQUEST starts off as a progressive instrumental track, until the name of the character walking throughout the whole thing starts begin chanted while he becomes the universe.
- Everything's Better with Monkeys: Inverted with "Fiberglass Monkey."
- Hey, It's That Guy!: Not really with his voice so much as his works. It can be pretty mind-blowing to learn that the guy who wrote The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny is the same person as the guy who does Potter Puppet Pals is the same person as the guy who invented Animutation is the same as the guy who does those funny videos on YouTube.
- I Am the Band: Aside from live performances, Neil is the sole member of the band.
- I Fell for Hours: "I've Got Some Falling to Do"
- Knife Fight: Trope Namer
- Limited Animation: The first three minutes of BRODYQUEST, before Adrien Brody becomes a rock star and then becomes the universe (possibly).
- Lonely at the Top: "It Can Get Lonely In My Mansion", about a man who builds all sorts of grandiose attractions in his house, only to discover than no-one really cares about them or him.
- Loony Fan: "Bill Watterson," "Gonna Dig Up Alec Guinness"
- Mind Screw: Oh yeah. "Telekinesis" is an especially good example.
- What about "Bowling Alley"? Even the narrator claims its like an acid trip.Not that he advocates drugs because Drugs Are Bad and stuff.
- At this point its pretty much every other song.
- Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: The Saga of You, Confused Destroyer of Planets
- Nerds Are Sexy: "Geeks In Love"
- Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: Referenced in "Knife Fight".
- Red Right Hand: "Atomic Copper Claw"
- Robot War: "When Robots Attack!"
- Rockstar Song: Defied with Being a Rock Star.
- Shout Out: As mentioned, several to Mystery Science Theater 3000.
- Surreal Music Video: Word Disassociation. The video is with pieces of paper with random words on them, put next to random places. God, I can't explain more.
- Take That: The song "Ebaums World Dot Com", which consists primarily of insults directed at the eponymous site and its founder, Eric Bauman. Several of Neil's close friends have had Flash videos stolen by Ebaum, so it comes as no surprise.
- Never Go On Reddit, a brief parody of "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)" by En Vogue.
- Toilet Humour: "Mr. Porta-Potty Man".
- Trope Namer: For the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny and Knife Fight tropes.
- Urban Legends: "Eighth Wonder," is a song based on the urban legend of Gef the Talking Mongoose.
- Word Salad Lyrics: "Word Disassociation" is this trope taken more-or-less as far as it can go.
- Yandere: "Ben Bernanke" has this vibe, among other things.
- Zombie Apocalypse: "Bad Idea"
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