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** Combine with a stealth TakeThat in "Dead-End Diner." The song begins "Obama's on the radio" and ends "Keep the change, honey"--ostensibly spoken by a diner patron but perhaps referring to the popular anti-Obama tea party slogan. (The band's politics are difficult to pin down, to be sure.)
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** Combine Combined with a stealth TakeThat in "Dead-End Diner." The song begins "Obama's on the radio" and ends "Keep the change, honey"--ostensibly spoken by a diner patron but perhaps referring to the popular anti-Obama tea party slogan. (The band's politics are difficult to pin down, to be sure.)
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** Combine with a stealth TakeThat in "Dead-End Diner." The song begins "Obama's on the radio" and ends "Keep the change, honey"--ostensibly spoken by a diner patron but perhaps referring to the popular anti-Obama tea party slogan. (The band's politics are difficult to pin down, to be sure.)
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* AmicableExes: "Waiting for You to Come Around," which is the last Gene Eugene composition the band performed.
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* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Their first three albums are grab bags of styles and sounds; this changes substantially with ''Gift Horse.''
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* AmoralAttorney: Satan disguises himself as one in "Hey You Little Devil."
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* AmoralAttorney: Satan disguises himself as one in the second verse of "Hey You Little Devil."
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* HornyDevil: "Hey, You Little Devil."
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* HornyDevil: The first verse of "Hey, You Little Devil."
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** Roe quotes Music/TheTurtles in "I Don't Love You."
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Mike Roe (choleric), Gene Eugene (melancholic), Derri Daugherty (phlegmatic), and Terry Taylor (sanguine).
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* OppositesAttract: The only thing the narrator of "Ditto" and his loved one have in common is that they want to be with each other.
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* AfterlifeExpress: "Ghost Train to Nowhere," though it never actually gets there, of course.
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* DeadAllAlong: "In the Distance."
* DeadPersonConversation: The narrator of "The Wall of Heaven" has one with his late wife every night.
* DeadPersonConversation: The narrator of "The Wall of Heaven" has one with his late wife every night.
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* RevengeBallad: "If You Loved Here, You'd Be Home by Now." Having lost his spouse to infidelity, the narrator erects an enormous billboard with the title on it over his house, knowing that she gets stuck in a traffic jam in that location every day.
* RichesToRags: "Diamonds to Coal," though the narrator ''requests'' it as a way of confronting his pride.
* RichesToRags: "Diamonds to Coal," though the narrator ''requests'' it as a way of confronting his pride.
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* UnfinishedBusiness: The wife of the narrator of "The Wall of Heaven" won't leave him alone until he converts to Christianity.
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* TheGamblingAddict: "Free Drinks and a Dream," to horrible effect. He sells his car, abandons his family, and is stuck in Vegas, presumably forever.
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-->The narrator of "The Wall of Heaven"'s alcoholism was so severe that it killed his wife.
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* GhostTrain: One that goes nowhere, right at the beginning of ''Gift Horse''.
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* AmoralAttorney: Satan disguises himself as one in "Hey You Little Devil."
* AntiLoveSong: "I Don't Love You."
* AntiLoveSong: "I Don't Love You."
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* HornyDevil: "Hey, You Little Devil."
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* SocialMediaIsBad: "The Net," although it was written way back in the chatroom era of 1998.
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* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: The narrator of "Mexico" "heard they throw some party there / With people in their underwear."
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* MorningRoutine: "Up in the Morning," appropriately enough.
-->I'll be out the door, but not before\\
I've kissed the wife and kids
-->I'll be out the door, but not before\\
I've kissed the wife and kids
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* Cloudcuckoolander: All of them, to one degree or another, but especially Mike Roe, and ''especially'' on his cover of "On the Good Ship Lollypop."
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* Cloudcuckoolander: CloudCuckooLander: All of them, to one degree or another, but especially Mike Roe, and ''especially'' on his cover of "On the Good Ship Lollypop."
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* Main/Cloudcuckoolander: All of them, to one degree or another, but especially Mike Roe, and ''especially'' on his cover of "On the Good Ship Lollypop."
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* Main/Cloudcuckoolander: All of them, to one degree or another, but especially Mike Roe, and ''especially'' on his cover of "On the Good Ship Lollypop."
-->'''Gene Eugene''': Sounds like a pervert!\\
'''Terry Taylor''': You sound like a pervert, Mike.\\
'''Mike Roe''' ''after a beat'': Takes one to know one.
-->'''Gene Eugene''': Sounds like a pervert!\\
'''Terry Taylor''': You sound like a pervert, Mike.\\
'''Mike Roe''' ''after a beat'': Takes one to know one.
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* AsTheGoodBookSays: Invoked in "Imagine That."
-->There's a book about us filled with hope and despair\\
Tells of crooks and crusaders, clowns and kings
-->There's a book about us filled with hope and despair\\
Tells of crooks and crusaders, clowns and kings
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* NonAppearingTitle: "The New Physics," "Bush League", and "Smokescreen." And "Dunce Cap," unless you count the studio chatter before the song begins.
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* NonAppearingTitle: "The New Physics," "Bush League", "Smokescreen," and "Smokescreen."The Last Testament of Angus Shane." And "Dunce Cap," unless you count the studio chatter StudioChatter before the song begins.
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** Charo, Jerry Vale, and Creator/RobertDeNiro in "Why Is the Devil Red?"
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* BigRedDevil: Subverted in "Why Is the Devil Red?" which rejects pop-cultural presentations of Satan for biblical ones.
-->But who's that looking like an angel of light?\\
Who's that dressed in a gown of white?\\
Who's that saying everything's all right?\\
Who's that grinning in the dead of night?
-->But who's that looking like an angel of light?\\
Who's that dressed in a gown of white?\\
Who's that saying everything's all right?\\
Who's that grinning in the dead of night?
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* FeelingTheirAge: "Old and Lonesome," naturally enough--a parody of Jimmy Reed's "Cold and Lonesome."
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* InnocenceLost: "Amber Waves Goodbye" is about ''America as a whole'' losing its innocence.
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* DoesntLikeGuns: Terry Taylor, if "Bullet Train" is to be believed.
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* CallBack: "Scenic Routes" incorporates a song title from the four members' other bands: Music/DanielAmos's "Endless Summer," Adam Again's "Eyes Wide Open," The Choir's "Wide-Eyed Wonder," and Music/The77s's "Nowhere Else."
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* CallBack: "Scenic Routes" incorporates a song title from the four members' other bands: Music/DanielAmos's "Endless Summer," Adam Again's "Eyes Wide Open," The Choir's "Wide-Eyed Wonder," and Music/The77s's Music/The77s' "Nowhere Else."
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* SingerNamedrop: From the second line of "Scenic Routes": "Lost dogs bark the Nicene Creed and dream of bones to eat."
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** But played straight in "Built for Glory - Made to Last," where the disabled homeless man teaches our narrator a valuable lesson about mortality.
