YMMV / Mouth Albums

• Awesome Music: Despite the intent to be the opposite, many songs from the albums are just plain amazing to listen to. See here.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • "Sexual Lion King" from Mouth Silence. It wouldn't be so bad if it was just a Marvin Gaye/Elton John mashup, but it tends to cross this for some people by inserting sound clips from The Lion King (1994), a majority of them being from Mufasa's death scenes, including the first twelve seconds. Then proceeds to actually work.
    YouTube commenter: Only Mr Cicierega can destroy your childhood and make you enjoy it at the same time. God dammit Neil.
    Another commenter: Dad, you gotta get it up.
  • "Love Psych" from the same album is a masterpiece of horrific Lyrical Dissonance, mashing up the goofy "Love Shack" by The B-52s and the terrifying soundtrack to Psycho. It should not be anywhere near as uncomfortable, dissonant, legitimately frightening, yet utterly hysterical as it is.
  • "Imma Let It Be" from Mouth Sounds crosses "Let It Be" with "Imma Be". The resulting clash of two completely different tones is simultaneously hilarious and horribly, horribly tasteless.
• Fridge Brilliance:
  • Not only is the "Full House" reprise in "Alanis" an effective Brick Joke, but it's also a reference to how "You Oughta Know" is a Take That! to Dave Coulier.
  • "Orgonon Gurlz" from Mouth Silence has Katy Perry in only the left speaker until about two minutes into the song - right when Perry sings "Snoop Doggy Dog on the stereo."
  • "The Starting Line" works on three different levels: It's one of the lyrics in the song itself, the song is comprised of the first verse of multiple songs (More specifically, first verses that start before the song's instrumental), and it's the first track on the Mouth Moods album.
  • It would make sense why Marilyn Manson would be a part of a song named "Ribs," considering he has a pretty infamous urban legend tied to him ^note (There was a rumor that he "surgically removed a pair of ribs so he could suck his own dick," while obviously not true he does find it pretty amusing).
• Funny Moments: Has its own page.
• Genius Bonus:
  • The Simpsons fans will surely recognize where Neil got the name for "Annoyed Grunt" from, considering Homer Simpson's famous catchphrase appears in the song.
  • The name of "Transmission" seems like a simple reference to the song's concept, a Numbers Station formed using audio from David Bowie's "Space Oddity". However, the title takes an additional meaning for Bowie fans thanks to the fact that Bowie's later song "TVC 15", about a girl who gets trapped in a luxury television, features the repeated phrase "transition, transmission" during the pre-chorus.
  • The very final line of 500 MB before it cuts offhandedly mentions that the computer, which has been hyped up the entire time as being able to store 500 MB as if it were a major accomplishment, comes with a CD ROM built in. The average CD ROM can store up to 900 MB.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • "The End" puts a brooding, angsty Linkin Park song against an upbeat synth riff from the Doobie Brothers. It's funny because it's such an unexpected combo. It gets even funnier when Linkin Park's One More Light is released later in 2017, and turns out to be an upbeat pop album...only for the bounciness and charm of the mashup to become much harsher after Chester Bennington's suicide in July of the same year.
  • An overall happier example is in "Piss" with the line "You're never gonna get knocked up again," given that Neil himself is happily married and a father of his own.
• Ho Yay: As a comment on "Wow Wow" states, "I don't remember Wild Wild West being this homoerotic." Doubles as Foe Yay Shipping since Loveless is the main antagonist of the film.
  Who dat is? Loveless, bad for your health
  Lookin' damn good, though, if I can say it myself
  Told me Loveless is a good man, I don't feel that
  He got his behind looking damn good, though
• Memetic Molester: Ray Parker, Jr. is turned into this in "Bustin."
  If you're all alone, let me sleep in your bed...
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Mouth. ^note The song itself is included in Mouth Sounds under the title "The Sharpest Tool"
  • Goodbye is just a heavily distorted track with a looming bass effect and only gets a slight percussion sound halfway into the song.
  • Transmission is a vaguely creepy song, especially since it's about Numbers Stations.
  • The hidden Easter eggs and secrets in Mouth Silence get so deep and so precise, that it stops being funny and just becomes terrifying.
  • "Love Psych" fuses The B-52s's "Love Shack" with the "Psycho" Strings. It is both hilarious and really, really creepy.
  • "Shady Interlude"
    ''My name is..."

    What?

    Who?
  • "Aammoorree" from Mouth Dreams. What starts off as a distorted, drunken-sounding version of "That's Amore" turns horrific as things start to go further and further off the rails...
    You've had too much wine...
• Special Effect Failure: In Mouth Dreams' "Johnny," Neil could not find a legitimate high-quality instrumental of Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt," so he had to manually scrub the vocals out of the song himself, likely using Deezer's AI audio separation tool "Spleeter". At points of the song, you can just about hear Cash's muffled voice underneath Rick Astley's singing. This was likely the Doylist reason Neil put the booing sound effects in the song, to try and cover up the artifacts. ^note The Watsonian reason being that the audience is angry that they just got rickrolled.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Crossing over with Heartwarming, "T.I.M.E." is a surprisingly emotional combination of Time from the Inception original score and Y.M.C.A. by Village People. While it might sound strange, the song itself is honestly rather genuinely touching and heartfelt, showing that, behind Y.M.C.A.'s cheery instrumentals, the song is essentially about a formerly homeless man helping a presently homeless man back on his feet by directing him to the nearest Y.M.C.A.
  • Going back to "Johnny," it is currently being considered something of a Spiritual Successor to "T.I.M.E.," and can be interpreted as Rick Astley performing a more heartfelt and emotional version of his song ^note Set to Johnny Cash's version of "Hurt", but due to its reputation it's met with jeers and boos. But Rick pushes on, and the somberness of the lyrics going from an upbeat promise of love to a determined but desperate oath of commitment turns the crowd in favor of this version and even respectfully applaud.

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