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• F♯ A♯ ∞, which is an album ruminating about the apocalypse.
  • The first track of the album, "The Dead Flag Blues" has the following monologue spoken in a sombre monotone, which, whether it is a Dying Dream, drug-induced hallucination, or an actual Apocalyptic Log, is oppressingly dire:
  The car is on fire, and there’s no driver at the wheel
  And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides
  And a dark wind blows

  The government is corrupt
  And we’re on so many drugs
  With the radio on and the curtains drawn

  We’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
  And the machine is bleeding to death [...]

  The buildings tumbled in on themselves
  Mothers clutching babies
  Picked through the rubble
  And pulled out their hair

  The skyline was beautiful on fire
  All twisted metal stretching upwards
  Everything washed in a thin orange haze...
  • That drone underneath said monologue is creepy in and of itself.
  • The second song, "East Hastings", was used extensively in the movie 28 Days Later, whose director claimed that he had the song in mind when making it.
• Lift Your Skinny Fists is the band's brightest album as a whole, but the track "Static" deserves to be here. To hear a guy babbling on about seeing the face of God and dying over a beautiful, somber violin solo creates a Soundtrack Dissonance that is quite disturbing. And then there's the second half of the track, "World Police and Friendly Fire/The Buildings They Are Sleeping Now", whose eeriness can't be easily described in words.
• Any time the guitarists start playing with screwdrivers, this trope is sure to ensue