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[[caption-width-right:350: ''When the mode of music changes, the walls of the city shake'']]
'''It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest''' is Music/TheFugs' fifth album, released in 1968. It marked a transition from cheap recording techniques to a proper studio quality and professional session musicians. As a result this NewSoundAlbum has become a genuine fan favorite. Creator/MattGroening even called it his favorite Fugs album, placing it on nr. 53 of his list of "100 Favorite Things".
'''Tracklist'''
[[AC:Side One]]
# "Crystal Liaison" (3:17)
# "Ramses II Is Dead, My Love" (2:55)
# "Burial Waltz" (2:31)
# "Wide, Wide River" (2:58)
# "Life Is Strange" (2:40)
[[AC:Side Two]]
# "Johnny Pissoff Meets The Red Angel" (4:45)
# "Marijuana" (1:43)
# "Leprechaun" (0:15)
# "When The Mode Of The Music Changes" (3:59)
# "Whimpers From The Jello" (0:24)
# "Divine Toe, Pt. 1" (0:42)
# "We're Both Dead Now, Alice" (0:18)
# "Life Is Funny" (0:17)
# "Grope Need, Pt. 1/Tuli, Visited By The Ghost Of Plotinus"/More Grope Need" (0:43)
# "Robinson Crusoe" (0:21)
# "Claude Pelieu and J.J. Lebel Discuss the Early Verlaine Bread Crust Fragments" (4:41)
# "National Haiku Contest" (0:28)
# "Divine Toe, Pt.2" (0:52)
# "Irene" (1:14)
'''Personnel'''
* Ed Sanders: vocals
* Tuli Kupferberg: vocals
* Ken Weaver: vocals, drums
* Ken Pine: vocals, guitar
* Bill Wolf: bass
* Charles Larkey: bass
* Danny Kootch: guitar, violin
!! ''It Troped Into My Hand, Honest''
* AlliterativeTitle: "'''W'''ide, '''W'''ide River".
* AncientEgypt: "Ramses II Is Dead, My Love" is about the funeral procession down the Nile. At the time the tombs of Ramses' son had recently been discovered by archeologists.
* AvantGardeMusic: The TitleTrack and "Claude Pelieu and J.J. Lebel Discuss the Early Verlaine Bread".
* CountryMusic: "Johnny Pissoff" is performed in CountryMusic style.
* DeepSouth: "Johnny Pissoff", a song about a pissed off redneck who hates black people, leftists, Communists and the Vietcong.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: "Wide, Wide River"
--> ''I've been floating in this river of shit''
--> ''Over twenty years and I'm gettin' tired of it''
--> ''But I've got to keep swimming in this river of shit, 'cause I don't want to die''
* EverybodyMustGetStoned: "Marihuana", where the legalization of the drug is advocated. The Gregorian chant in the background transforms it into a religious experience.
* FadingIntoTheNextSong: "Whimpers From The Jello", "Divine Toe, Pt. 1", "We're Both Dead Now, Alice", "Life Is Funny", "Grope Need, Pt.1/ Tuli, Visited By the Ghost of Plotinus/More Grope Need" and "Robinson Crusoe" are a {{Medley}} in essence.
* GayPanic: "Johnny Pissoff" is a homophobic, racist redneck.
* GospelChoirsAreJustBetter: "Wide, Wide River" is guided by a gospel choir.
* GriefSong:
** "Ramses II Is Dead, My Love"
--> ''Ramses the II is dead my love''
--> ''He's left from Memphis to Heaven''
--> ''Ptah has taken him on his solar barge''
--> ''And walked him to Nat's celestial shores''
--> ''Heaven is waiting for Ramses II''
--> '' He's gone to Ptah's great side.''
** "Burial Waltz"
--> ''Do not surround me with wreathes of flowers''
--> ''Nor place upon my body the signs of a fetish''
--> ''Nor crescent, cross, phallus or sun''
--> ''But bury me in an apple orchard''
--> ''That I might touch your lips again''
* {{Haiku}}: "National Haiku Contest", about TeenPregnancy.
--> ''Do not tell me, I am the source of your knock up''
--> ''The mud elephant wading through the sea leaves no tracks.''
* HornyVikings: One band member is dressed up as a Viking, complete with helmet, on the cover.
* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: "It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest".
* IntercourseWithYou:
** "Crystal Liaison"
--> ''In the stroboscopic talisman in your pants''
--> ''I am your bun blade''
--> ''I am your BUN BLADE''
** "Grope Need" and "More Grope Need", naturally.
* ListSong: "Marijuana" lists all kinds of synonyms for marihuana.
* LongTitle: "Claude Pelieu and J.J. Lebel Discuss the Early Verlaine Bread Crust Fragments"
* {{Medley}}: Much of Side Two is a medley, FadingIntoTheNextSong.
* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: "Wide, Wide River"
--> ''Who was it that set up this system?''
--> ''This supposedly democratic system?''
--> ''Where we're always voting for the lesser of two evils''
--> ''Was George Washington the lesser of two evils?''
--> ''Sometimes I wonder. Some politicians say we've got to stop violence in this country''
--> ''While he's spending 15,000 dollars a second snuffing gooks.''
* MundaneMadeAwesome: "River Of Shit" is sang accompanied by a beautiful choir. Talk about contrast!
* NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: The band tries out many different musical genres: CountryMusic, GospelMusic, Gregorian chant, Broadway music,...
* NewSoundAlbum: This was the first album where the production qualities of the band had significantly improved compared to their earlier albums.
* OdeToIntoxication: "Marijuana" is a plea for legalization.
* OminousLatinChanting: "Marijuana" sang in the style of a Gregorian chant, listing all the names for marihuana.
* OneWomanSong: "Irene"
* OneWordTitle: "Marijuana" and "Leprechaun".
* {{Pacifism}}: "Irene" makes a stance for peace.
* ThePowerOfRock: "When The Mode Of Music Changes"
--> ''When the mode of music changes, the walls of the city shake''
--> ''(...) Beware a man who is not moved by sound''
--> ''He'll drag you to the ground, drag you to the ground''
* ProtestSong: "When The Mode Of The Music Changes"
--> ''You can have the men who make the laws, give me the music makers''
* PsychedelicRock: Several songs on this album are quite trippy, including "Crystal Liaison".
* RecordProducer: Richard Alderson
* RedScare: "Johnny Pissoff"
--> ''Hey, mister, tell all the commies and draft card burners my name is Johnny Pissoff''
--> ''Ain't no pink fag legislator gonna tell me I can't have guns''
--> ''I'd never kill the president, but I kill him in my dreams''
* RefrainFromAssuming: "Wide, Wide River" is not called "River Of Shit".
* ShoutOut:
** "Life Is Strange" quotes from ''Literature/{{Faust}}''
--> ''Life is strange and death is easy''
--> ''I was young, but now I'm ugly.''
** "Robinson Crusoe" depicts ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'' feeling sexually frustrated while being on his island.
** "Kupferberg Visited By The Ghost Of Plotinus" references Ancient Roman poet Plotinus.
* SiameseTwinSongs: "Divine Toe, Pt. 1" and "Divine Toe, Pt.2".
* SpokenWordInMusic: "Wide, Wide River" has a spoken word part near the end.
* TeenPregnancy: "National Haiku Contest"
--> ''Do not tell me, I am the source of your knock up''
--> ''The mud elephant wading through the sea leaves no tracks.''
* TimeMarchesOn:
** "Wide, Wide River" alludes to the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar.
** "When The Mode Of Music Changes" references UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson.
--> ''Come dance with me in Johnson's land''.
** "Johnny Pissoff"
--> ''I can't wait to get my hands on Sirhan Sirhan'' [[note]] The assassin of UsefulNotes/RobertKennedy. [[/note]]
* UnusualEuphemism: "Grope Need"
--> ''Slipping my horny candy cane into your existential hole.''
* WarIsHell: "Wide Wide River"
--> ''Sometimes I wonder. Some politicians say we've got to stop violence in this country''
--> ''While he's spending 15,000 dollars a second snuffing gooks.''
* WordSaladLyrics:
** "Crystal Liaison"
--> ''In the stroboscopic fun bun of your brain''
--> ''I am your eunuch''
** Much of the medley on Side Two is also incomprehensible.
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[[caption-width-right:350: ''When the mode of music changes, the walls of the city shake'']]
'''It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest''' is Music/TheFugs' fifth album, released in 1968. It marked a transition from cheap recording techniques to a proper studio quality and professional session musicians. As a result this NewSoundAlbum has become a genuine fan favorite. Creator/MattGroening even called it his favorite Fugs album, placing it on nr. 53 of his list of "100 Favorite Things".
'''Tracklist'''
[[AC:Side One]]
# "Crystal Liaison" (3:17)
# "Ramses II Is Dead, My Love" (2:55)
# "Burial Waltz" (2:31)
# "Wide, Wide River" (2:58)
# "Life Is Strange" (2:40)
[[AC:Side Two]]
# "Johnny Pissoff Meets The Red Angel" (4:45)
# "Marijuana" (1:43)
# "Leprechaun" (0:15)
# "When The Mode Of The Music Changes" (3:59)
# "Whimpers From The Jello" (0:24)
# "Divine Toe, Pt. 1" (0:42)
# "We're Both Dead Now, Alice" (0:18)
# "Life Is Funny" (0:17)
# "Grope Need, Pt. 1/Tuli, Visited By The Ghost Of Plotinus"/More Grope Need" (0:43)
# "Robinson Crusoe" (0:21)
# "Claude Pelieu and J.J. Lebel Discuss the Early Verlaine Bread Crust Fragments" (4:41)
# "National Haiku Contest" (0:28)
# "Divine Toe, Pt.2" (0:52)
# "Irene" (1:14)
'''Personnel'''
* Ed Sanders: vocals
* Tuli Kupferberg: vocals
* Ken Weaver: vocals, drums
* Ken Pine: vocals, guitar
* Bill Wolf: bass
* Charles Larkey: bass
* Danny Kootch: guitar, violin
!! ''It Troped Into My Hand, Honest''
* AlliterativeTitle: "'''W'''ide, '''W'''ide River".
* AncientEgypt: "Ramses II Is Dead, My Love" is about the funeral procession down the Nile. At the time the tombs of Ramses' son had recently been discovered by archeologists.
* AvantGardeMusic: The TitleTrack and "Claude Pelieu and J.J. Lebel Discuss the Early Verlaine Bread".
* CountryMusic: "Johnny Pissoff" is performed in CountryMusic style.
* DeepSouth: "Johnny Pissoff", a song about a pissed off redneck who hates black people, leftists, Communists and the Vietcong.
* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: "Wide, Wide River"
--> ''I've been floating in this river of shit''
--> ''Over twenty years and I'm gettin' tired of it''
--> ''But I've got to keep swimming in this river of shit, 'cause I don't want to die''
* EverybodyMustGetStoned: "Marihuana", where the legalization of the drug is advocated. The Gregorian chant in the background transforms it into a religious experience.
* FadingIntoTheNextSong: "Whimpers From The Jello", "Divine Toe, Pt. 1", "We're Both Dead Now, Alice", "Life Is Funny", "Grope Need, Pt.1/ Tuli, Visited By the Ghost of Plotinus/More Grope Need" and "Robinson Crusoe" are a {{Medley}} in essence.
* GayPanic: "Johnny Pissoff" is a homophobic, racist redneck.
* GospelChoirsAreJustBetter: "Wide, Wide River" is guided by a gospel choir.
* GriefSong:
** "Ramses II Is Dead, My Love"
--> ''Ramses the II is dead my love''
--> ''He's left from Memphis to Heaven''
--> ''Ptah has taken him on his solar barge''
--> ''And walked him to Nat's celestial shores''
--> ''Heaven is waiting for Ramses II''
--> '' He's gone to Ptah's great side.''
** "Burial Waltz"
--> ''Do not surround me with wreathes of flowers''
--> ''Nor place upon my body the signs of a fetish''
--> ''Nor crescent, cross, phallus or sun''
--> ''But bury me in an apple orchard''
--> ''That I might touch your lips again''
* {{Haiku}}: "National Haiku Contest", about TeenPregnancy.
--> ''Do not tell me, I am the source of your knock up''
--> ''The mud elephant wading through the sea leaves no tracks.''
* HornyVikings: One band member is dressed up as a Viking, complete with helmet, on the cover.
* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle: "It Crawled Into My Hand, Honest".
* IntercourseWithYou:
** "Crystal Liaison"
--> ''In the stroboscopic talisman in your pants''
--> ''I am your bun blade''
--> ''I am your BUN BLADE''
** "Grope Need" and "More Grope Need", naturally.
* ListSong: "Marijuana" lists all kinds of synonyms for marihuana.
* LongTitle: "Claude Pelieu and J.J. Lebel Discuss the Early Verlaine Bread Crust Fragments"
* {{Medley}}: Much of Side Two is a medley, FadingIntoTheNextSong.
* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: "Wide, Wide River"
--> ''Who was it that set up this system?''
--> ''This supposedly democratic system?''
--> ''Where we're always voting for the lesser of two evils''
--> ''Was George Washington the lesser of two evils?''
--> ''Sometimes I wonder. Some politicians say we've got to stop violence in this country''
--> ''While he's spending 15,000 dollars a second snuffing gooks.''
* MundaneMadeAwesome: "River Of Shit" is sang accompanied by a beautiful choir. Talk about contrast!
* NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: The band tries out many different musical genres: CountryMusic, GospelMusic, Gregorian chant, Broadway music,...
* NewSoundAlbum: This was the first album where the production qualities of the band had significantly improved compared to their earlier albums.
* OdeToIntoxication: "Marijuana" is a plea for legalization.
* OminousLatinChanting: "Marijuana" sang in the style of a Gregorian chant, listing all the names for marihuana.
* OneWomanSong: "Irene"
* OneWordTitle: "Marijuana" and "Leprechaun".
* {{Pacifism}}: "Irene" makes a stance for peace.
* ThePowerOfRock: "When The Mode Of Music Changes"
--> ''When the mode of music changes, the walls of the city shake''
--> ''(...) Beware a man who is not moved by sound''
--> ''He'll drag you to the ground, drag you to the ground''
* ProtestSong: "When The Mode Of The Music Changes"
--> ''You can have the men who make the laws, give me the music makers''
* PsychedelicRock: Several songs on this album are quite trippy, including "Crystal Liaison".
* RecordProducer: Richard Alderson
* RedScare: "Johnny Pissoff"
--> ''Hey, mister, tell all the commies and draft card burners my name is Johnny Pissoff''
--> ''Ain't no pink fag legislator gonna tell me I can't have guns''
--> ''I'd never kill the president, but I kill him in my dreams''
* RefrainFromAssuming: "Wide, Wide River" is not called "River Of Shit".
* ShoutOut:
** "Life Is Strange" quotes from ''Literature/{{Faust}}''
--> ''Life is strange and death is easy''
--> ''I was young, but now I'm ugly.''
** "Robinson Crusoe" depicts ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'' feeling sexually frustrated while being on his island.
** "Kupferberg Visited By The Ghost Of Plotinus" references Ancient Roman poet Plotinus.
* SiameseTwinSongs: "Divine Toe, Pt. 1" and "Divine Toe, Pt.2".
* SpokenWordInMusic: "Wide, Wide River" has a spoken word part near the end.
* TeenPregnancy: "National Haiku Contest"
--> ''Do not tell me, I am the source of your knock up''
--> ''The mud elephant wading through the sea leaves no tracks.''
* TimeMarchesOn:
** "Wide, Wide River" alludes to the UsefulNotes/VietnamWar.
** "When The Mode Of Music Changes" references UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson.
--> ''Come dance with me in Johnson's land''.
** "Johnny Pissoff"
--> ''I can't wait to get my hands on Sirhan Sirhan'' [[note]] The assassin of UsefulNotes/RobertKennedy. [[/note]]
* UnusualEuphemism: "Grope Need"
--> ''Slipping my horny candy cane into your existential hole.''
* WarIsHell: "Wide Wide River"
--> ''Sometimes I wonder. Some politicians say we've got to stop violence in this country''
--> ''While he's spending 15,000 dollars a second snuffing gooks.''
* WordSaladLyrics:
** "Crystal Liaison"
--> ''In the stroboscopic fun bun of your brain''
--> ''I am your eunuch''
** Much of the medley on Side Two is also incomprehensible.
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