History Music / MouthAlbums

He got his behind looking damn good, though''

* CanadaEh: The beginning of "Smooth" -- a mashup of [[Music/MichaelJackson "Smooth Criminal,"]] [[Music/BarenakedLadies "One Week"]] and [[Music/{{Santana}} "Smooth"]] -- is a faded recording of "O Canada," seemingly for no reason other than that's where Music/BarenakedLadies are from (signifying their incoming arrival, perhaps).

* GeniusBonus: 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.

* QuoteMine: All over the place with how the remixes are edited, but one of the funniest examples is in "Space Monkey Mafia," where the intro of [[Music/{{REM}} "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"]] is changed from "Lenny Bruce is not afraid" to "Music/BillyJoel is not afraid"... by using a text-to-speech voice. This is the ''only time'' text-to-speech has been used on any of the four albums.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Subtly done in "Pokémon." While the song ostensibly concludes with a montage of different newscasters saying the word "Pokémon" over and over, but listen closely and you'll notice that one of them actually says "Franchise/{{Digimon}}" at one point.

* InstantlyProvenWrong: In the album version of "Nightmovin'," the [[Music/AvengedSevenfold M. Shadows]] insists "Can't wake up in sweat / cuz it ain't over yet!" just before the song abruptly ends.

* InstantlyProvenWrong: In "Nightmovin'," the singer insists "Can't wake up in sweat, cuz it ain't over yet!" just before the song ends.

** "Eye of the Tiger" into a song about a number of literal tigers... and also about the [[GreenAesop conservation of said tigers.]]

** In some cases, the covers actually change the meaning of the song by ''removing'' the LyricalDissonance and giving more spotlight to the lyrics. "Tears in Chocolate Rain" takes away the cheesy instrumental of "Chocolate Rain" to highlight its lyrics about institutional racism; "T.I.M.E." puts "Y.M.C.A." over the epic score of ''Film/{{Inception}}'' to show how its lyrics are a genuine RousingSpeech that tell a (presumably gay) homeless man on his last legs that there's still hope for him and that [[YouAreNotAlone he's not alone]]; "Johnny" puts [[JustForFun/{{Rickroll}} "Never Gonna Give You Up"]] over Johnny Cash's solemn "Hurt" to show that it's a genuine love song buried under the synthesized '80s sheen and memes.

->''"When I decided to mash up Music/SmashMouth with Music/JohnLennon, of course I was thinking, "This is super blasphemous, this is designed to make people angry." But then by accident, some people think that it actually sounds good. A lot of people tell me that they really like it, when I was expecting that it would make them mad."''

The ''Mouth Albums'' are a series of {{remix album}}s by Creator/NeilCicierega, better known as the lead of Music/LemonDemon. The albums consist of popular songs from UsefulNotes/TheSixties to UsefulNotes/TheNewTens mixed together in surprising, blasphemous, and usually awesome ways. The project started when Cicierega found a repository of song stems from the ''VideoGame/RockBand'' series and began to mess around with them in his spare time, which resulted in the track [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRv5LwX4jzI "No Credit Card,"]] a heavily remixed version of Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews' "The Power of Love." After positive feedback from posting this on his Soundcloud, he began to work on what eventually became ''Mouth Sounds'', starting a long line of mashups.

** '''''[[http://neilcic.com/mouthmisc/ Mouth Misc]]''''' - Not an album ''per se'', but a collection of outtakes from the first three albums, initially published exclusively to [=YouTube=]. [[https://twitter.com/neilcic/status/1128817095955947526?lang=en Neil made the mp3s public]] after copyright claims got some of those videos taken down.

''Mouth Sounds'' and ''Mouth Silence'' received significant online attention upon their release, and as a result several mashups from the albums have become well-known [[MemeticMutation Internet memes]], with ''Mouth Moods''[='=] "Bustin" (a remix of the ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' theme) arguably being the most famous. The albums are available to download for free on Cicierega's website, and to stream on his Soundcloud. He has also released music videos for some of the series' songs, as well as outtakes from ''Mouth Moods'', on his [=YouTube=] channel.