Trivia / Car Seat Headrest

• Screwed by the Lawyers: "Just What I Needed/Not Just What I Needed" included an interpolation of the first verse of The Cars' "Just What I Needed" in its outro, combining it with a snippet of Pavement's "Cut Your Hair". Cars frontman Ric Ocasek's publisher, Lido Music, initially approved the "Just What I Needed" quotation, but when they found out that Car Seat Headrest altered the lyrics, they revoked their license, as the firm has a policy of ensuring that published songs are never modified by other artists. Consequently, Matador Records recalled all unsold copies of Teens of Denial, and reissues of the album instead used a new version of the song, "Not What I Needed", that replaces the outro with a piece of Spoken Word in Music discussing Will Toledo's creative process. Toledo considered the fiasco fortunate in the long run, as he ended up preferring the new version of the song over the old one.
• Self-Remake: In 2018, the band re-recorded their 2011 album Twin Fantasy as Twin Fantasy (Face to Face), adjusting the material to reflect how things had changed for frontman Will Toledo in the intervening seven years. The album was bundled with a copy of the 2011 rendition, retroactively subtitled (Mirror to Mirror).

---