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** The albums after ''Any Man In America'' are this, with songs that are more hopeful and optimistic, mostly due to Justin's recovery.
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* OneHitWonder: The band has just one American Top 40 single, "Hate Me". Follow-up single "Into the Ocean" stalled at #57 and that was the band's last appearance on the Billboard Hot 100.
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* CustodyBattle: The song "Any Man in America" is about a man lamenting that he lost custody of his daughter to his ex-wife and raging at the legal system for not caring about fathers.
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* ''Spinning the Truth Around (Part I)'' (2022)
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* SoloSideProject: Justin has sporadically performed solo, usually under the the moniker of "5591".[[note]]His patient number while admitted to a mental ward.[[/note]]
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* SoloSideProject: Justin has sporadically performed solo, usually under the the moniker of "5591".[[note]]His patient number while admitted to a mental ward.[[/note]]
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[[caption-width-right:320:Ryan Delahoussaye, Jeremy Furstenfeld, Matt Noveskey, Will Knaak and Justin Furstenfeld]]
->''"I'm an automatic steeple for depressed and lonely people\\
My heart while in its cage is used to give and not receive a thing\\
But the only funny thing is that I don't know how to give myself advice"''
-->-- "'''The Answer'''"
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->''"I'm an automatic steeple for depressed and lonely people\\
My heart while in its cage is used to give and not receive a thing\\
But the only funny thing is that I don't know how to give myself advice"''
-->-- "'''The Answer'''"
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** The final track on the clean version of ''Approaching Normal" is "Graceful Dancing", a much gentler song than the explicit version's "The End."
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* SoloSideProject: Justin has sporadically performed solo, usually under the the moniker of "5591".[[note]]His patient number while admitted to a mental ward.[[/note]]
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* TitleTrack: Played straight with every album since ‘’Any Man in America’’. Subverted with ‘’The Answers’’, where the opening is titled “The Answer.”
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* TitleTrack: Played straight with every album since ‘’Any ''Any Man in America’’. America''. Subverted with ‘’The Answers’’, ''The Answers'', where the opening track is titled “The Answer.”
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* BandOfRelatives: Type 1, with brothers Justin and Jeremy Furstenfeld being two of the band’s founding members.
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* MinisculeRocking: Aside from several short album intros, "3 Weeks, She Sleeps" off of ''History for Sale'' is the band's shortest song, at 1:48.
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* TitleTrack: Played straight with every album since ‘’Any Man in America’’. Subverted with ‘’The Answers’’, where the opening is titled “The Answer.”
* AWildRapperAppears: ''Any Man in America's'' title track features San Antonio rapper Ray C rapping the final verse.
* AWildRapperAppears: ''Any Man in America's'' title track features San Antonio rapper Ray C rapping the final verse.
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* EpicRocking: The penultimate track on ''Home'' is "Time Changes Everything" at 7:54, and the final track on ''I Hope You're Happy'' is "Further Dive (The House That Dylan Built)" at 9:08. Many other of the band's songs have crossed the six minute mark.
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* ''This Is What I Live For'' (2020
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* ''I Hope You're Happy'' (2018)
* ''This Is What I Live For'' (2020
* ''This Is What I Live For'' (2020
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* SelfHarm: "Razorblade" by Blue October is about a person who cuts themselves after being sexually abused by their [[CreepyUncle uncle]].
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* SelfHarm: "Razorblade" by Blue October is about a person who cuts themselves after being sexually abused by their [[CreepyUncle uncle]].
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* AbusiveParents: "Razorblade" is all about this.
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-->''"Uncle, you spared not your children\\
And while your praying hands are up\\
There's no forgiveness for you! You sick fuck!"''
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* MoodWhiplash: On the album ''History For Sale'', the horrifying tearjerker "Razorblade" about sexual abuse rolls directly into "Calling You", one of the fluffiest and most romantic songs the band's ever written.
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* LyricalColdOpen: The original ''History for Sale'' version of "Calling You".
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* ImColdSoCold In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZES3nJQYJok song]] ''Into the Ocean'' the narrator--a boy struggling with suicide after a loss--dreams of committing suicide by drowning. While drowning he laments "I'm cold as cold as cold can be..."
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* ''Home'' (2016)
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* ''History for Sale'' (2003), featuring the band's first mainstream hit, "Calling You." The song was also on the AmericanWedding soundtrack.
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* ''History for Sale'' (2003), featuring the band's first mainstream hit, "Calling You." The song was also on the AmericanWedding ''Film/AmericanWedding'' soundtrack.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Each album has at least one, or two, or three. Any Man In America has quite a few to say the least. "James," a song from Consent To Treatment, has AudienceParticipation with a phrase not in the original lyrics.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Each album has at least one, or two, or three. Any Man In America has quite a few to say the least. "James," a song from Consent To Treatment, has AudienceParticipation with a phrase not in the original lyrics.lyrics.
* WindowWatcher: "The End". For a band whose music discusses depression, guilt and death regularly, it is by far their most unnerving song.
* WindowWatcher: "The End". For a band whose music discusses depression, guilt and death regularly, it is by far their most unnerving song.
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* AbusiveParents: "Razorblade" is all about this.
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Blue October is an alternative American rock band from Houston, Texas. Its current members are Justin Furstenfeld (singer/guitarist), Jeremy Furstenfeld (drums/percussion), Ryan Delahoussaye (violin/viola/mandolin/piano), Matt Noveskey (bass) and Julian Mandrake (guitar).
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Blue October is an alternative American rock band from Houston, Texas. Its current members are Justin Furstenfeld (singer/guitarist), Jeremy Furstenfeld (drums/percussion), Ryan Delahoussaye (violin/viola/mandolin/piano), Matt Noveskey (bass) and Julian Mandrake C.B. Hudson (guitar).
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Musically, Blue October is a running autobiography of lead songwriter Justin Furstenfeld, who is very open about his bipolar disorder. Themes tend to run between lows and highs: from mental illness to love, and now a custody battle and divorce.
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Musically, Blue October is a running autobiography of lead songwriter Justin Furstenfeld, who is very open about his bipolar disorder. Themes tend to run between lows and highs: from mental illness to love, and now a custody battle and divorce.
divorce, and as of 2013, redemption of sorts with a new wife and second child.
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* ''Sway'' (2013), LighterAndSofter in comparison to the last several albums.
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