History Music / MouthAlbums

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 sample pack of 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.

** "Cannibals" in ''Mouth Dreams'' basically has the listener ask, "Neil can't possibly mash up an entire song for four and half minutes using production logo jingles and the THX Deep Note as the main instrumental source can he?" '''''He does.'''''

** "Cannibals" in ''Mouth Dreams'' basically has the listener ask, "Neil can't possibly mash up an entire song for four and half minutes using only the THX Deep Note as the main instrumental source, occasionally peppering in various jingles from the 80s and 90s can he?" '''''He does.'''''

** The promotional video for ''Mouth Dreams'' prominently featured a ''Green Day'' song; one of the last songs encourages the listener to ''wake up''; and [[MeaningfulReleaseDate the album released on September 30th, 2020]], the last day of the month. [[spoiler:A secret message to [[Music/AmericanIdiot Wake Me Up, When September Ends]].]]

--> '''Ray Parker Jr.:''' Freaky ghost baby! / Freaky ghost man! / Freaky man baby!
* BrickJoke:

* DoubleMeaningTitle: "The Starting Line" from ''Mouth Moods'' consists entirely of lyrics that are [[JustForPun the starting line]] of their respective tracks, including, of course, "The Distance" by {{Music/Cake}}, which starts with the line "''Reluctantly crouched at the starting line...''" And on top of all of that, it's also the first track of the album.

** "Cannibals" in ''Mouth Dreams'' basically has the listener ask, "Neil can't possibly mash up an entire song for four and half minutes using only the THX Deep Note as the main instrumental source, can he?" '''''He does.'''''
** "The Outsiders" from ''Mouth Dreams'' lists the characters of the [[Literature/TheOutsiders titular story]] from the movie trailer, [[spoiler: along with [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking Dad, Inspector Gadget, Kid Cuisine, and other non-Outsider members,]] all in the voice of renowned trailer VA Creator/DonLaFontaine]].

* BleepDammit: Parodied in ''Mouth Dreams'', where Neil randomly censors the word "hell" in "Fredhammer" but keeps swears uncensored in the rest of the album, even sentence mixing "Feel Good Inc." to ''un''censor "ass cracks" and making Johnny Cash say "shit" (a word he previously censored in his CoverVersion of Music/NineInchNails' [[Music/TheDownwardSpiral "Hurt"]], replacing "crown of shit" with [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} "crown of thorns"]]) in "Just a Baby."

''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 ''Film/{{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.

* AndTheRest: The cover art of ''Mouth Sounds'' lists most of the musicians Neil sampled for the album, then ends with "...AND MORE."

* FadingIntoTheNextSong: The albums use a variation of this, where each song seamlessly transitions into the next, either musically or through subject matter. Some good examples come from ''Silence'': "Furries" ends with the phrase "dressing up as their favorite four-legged Series/{{friends}}," leading into, naturally, "Friends." "Best" ends with [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries "I wanna be the very best,"]] leading into "Pokémon." "Pokémon" ends with a snippet of dramatic score from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'', leading into "Sexual Lion King."

* HypocriticalHumor: In "Superkiller," David Byrne accuses the listener, "You start a conversation you can't even finish!" [[{{Beat}} then awkwardly goes silent for the next bar.]][[note]]The line that was cut, in a funny bit of meta commentary, is "You're talking a lot, but you're not saying anything."[[/note]] Also, in the first verse, he mentions multiple times that his bed is on fire, but in the bridge he declares "I hate people when their bed's on fire!"
* ImmediateSelfContradiction: Also in "Superkiller," David Byrne declares, "When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed. / Say something once, why say it again? / Say something once, why say it again?"

* HypocriticalHumor: In "Superkiller," David Byrne accuses the listener, "You start a conversation you can't even finish!" [[{{Beat}} then awkwardly goes silent for the next bar.]] Also, in the first verse, he mentions multiple times that his bed is on fire, but in the bridge he declares "I hate people when their bed's on fire!"

** "Eye of the Tiger" into a song about a number of literal 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 depict the tragedy of a homeless man on his last legs; "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.

''...Bees.\\

** For the big list of featured artists on the ''Mouth Sounds'' cover, [[AndZoidberg Neil doesn't mention]] [[spoiler:Smash Mouth]]--burying them under a generic [[AndTheRest "...AND MORE"]]--despite them being the most-sampled artist on the album. Yet the big list ''does'' credit musicians who only indirectly appeared on the album: specifically Edwin Birdsong[[note]]because he was sampled in Daft Punk's "Harder Faster Better Stronger"[[/note]]and Dámaso Pérez Prado [[note]]because he was sampled in Lou Bega's "Mambo Number Five"[[/note]].

** Downplayed with "Spongerock." It starts with vocals from the ''[=SpongeBob=] [=SquarePants=]'' opening theme set to the ''stomp-stomp-clap'' rhythm section of Queen's "We Will Rock You," then swaps to Freddie Mercury singing over the ukulele from ''Spongebob'''s end credits theme--but the ''stomp-stomp-clap'' rhythm from the first half persists, and the ''Spongebob'' vocals return as the chorus a few more times.

** The promotional video for ''Mouth Dreams'' prominently featured a ''Green Day'' song; one of the last songs encourages the listener to ''wake up''; and [[MeaningfulReleaseDate the album released on September 30, 2020]], the last day of the month. [[spoiler:A secret message to [[Music/AmericanIdiot Wake Me Up, When September Ends]].]]

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 sample pack of 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 Dreams'' also bookends the entire album series, unless Neil makes another followup. The ''Mouth'' albums begin and end with classical music mashups: "Promenade (Satellite Pictures at an Exhibition)" on ''Mouth Sounds'', and "Brithoven" and "Ain't" on ''Mouth Dreams''.

* FadingIntoTheNextSong: The albums use a variation of this, where each song seamlessly transitions into the next, either musically or through subject matter. Some good examples come from ''Silence'': "Furries" ends with the phrase "dressing up as their favorite four-legged Series/{{friends}}," leading into, naturally, "Friends." "Best" ends with [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries "I wanna be the very best,"]] leading into "Pokémon." "Pokémon" ends with a snippet of dramatic score from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'', leading into "Sexual Lion King".

* HypocriticalHumor: In "Superkiller", David Byrne accuses the listener, "You start a conversation you can't even finish!" [[{{Beat}} then awkwardly goes silent for the next bar.]] Also, in the first verse, he mentions multiple times that his bed is on fire, but in the bridge he declares "I hate people when their bed's on fire!"

* 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.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[Music/SmashMouth "All Star,"]] [[Music/{{Santana}} "Smooth,"]] the ''Series/FullHouse'' theme, [[Music/BarenakedLadies "One Week"]]...at this point, almost no song is sacred from being used in a lot of his mashups.

* RuleOfThree: On ''Mouth Moods'', "All Star" is one of the songs used on "The Starting Line", but only in the same context as every other vocal sample in that track, by repeating its starting line. After that theme is over, there are two isolated "SOME"s to fake out the listener (the end of "The Starting Line" and the beginning of "Wow Wow") before the song gets its proper mashup treatment in "Mouth Pressure".

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Invoked with "300 MB," which remixes an early '90s infomercial about a hard drive with 300 megabytes of storage capacity, making it out to be world-changing and epic. For reference, ''Mouth Moods'' itself in FLAC format is 431 MB.

* UrbanLegends: Invoked in "Ribs"—a mashup including Chili's "Baby Back ''Ribs''" and [[Music/MarilynManson Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People"]], subtly referencing [[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/getting-waisted/ an enduring one about Manson]]. It also hasn't gone unnoticed that this song is preceded by "Get Happy" and followed by "My Mouth"...

* AndZoidberg: The cover art of ''Mouth Sounds'' lists 26 of the musicians Neil sampled for the album. There were only ''27'' musicians sampled for the album. The one who got their credit replaced with a generic [[AndTheRest "...AND MORE"]]? [[spoiler:Smash Mouth, of course.]]

* BleepDammit: Parodied in ''Mouth Dreams'', where Neil randomly censors the word "hell" in "Fredhammer" but keeps swears uncensored in the rest of the album, even sentence mixing "Feel Good Inc." to ''un''censor "ass cracks" and making Johnny Cash say "shit" (a word he previously censored in his CoverVersion of Music/NineInchNails' [[Music/TheDownwardSpiral "Hurt,"]] replacing "crown of shit" with [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} "crown of thorns"]]) in "Just a Baby."

** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with "Closerflies" off of ''Mouth Dreams,'' which uses the instrumental from [[Music/NineInchNails "Closer,"]] the vocals of which Neil mashed with "Love Rollercoaster" by the Ohio Players on "Rollercloser" in ''Mouth Silence''. [[spoiler:But then the [[Music/OwlCity "Fireflies"]] vocals come in...]]

->''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.''
-->'''Creator/NeilCicierega''', describing his thoughts on creating ''Mouth Sounds''

** "No Credit Card" from ''Mouth Sounds'' takes this UpToEleven; the first two-and-a-half minutes are almost entirely composed of variations on [[Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews "Don't need no credit card to ride this train,"]] which then simply cuts it down to "Ri-ri-ri-ri-ri-ri-ri-ri..." with a background of "Feel the power of love" for the next two minutes.

* SequelEscalation: ''Mouth Moods'' to ''Sounds'' and ''Silence'', as many of the songs on ''Moods'' are sequels or inverses of songs on the preceding albums taken UpToEleven. A particular example is "Annoyed Grunt" which is simultaneously a sequel to "D'oh" from ''Sounds'' and "Friends" from ''Silence''.

* TelephoneSong: "Numbers" takes samples from a bunch of other songs about telephones (most prominently Music/MilliVanilli's "Baby Don't Forget My Number," Music/CarlyRaeJepsen's "Call Me Maybe" and the ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' theme), as well as ads for gimmicky 1-900 numbers, and mashes them all together.

* LyricalDissonance: Embraced to absurd degrees in his mashup songs, either with silly sounding instrumentals with serious lyrics ("Rollercloser," "Crocodile Chop," "Floor Corn" and "The End"), or serious sounding instrumentals with silly lyrics ("Love Psych," "T.I.M.E."). [[UpToEleven Or both]] ("Mullet with Butterfly Wings," "Spongerock").

* ConceptAlbum: "Mouth Dreams" focuses almost entirely around songs that involve or at least mention sleep, and even has an intro ("[[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 you've just crossed over into]]... [[TitleDrop Mouth Dreams]]") and an "extro" (which begs the listener to [[Music/SystemOfADown wake up]]).

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 sample pack of 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://www.neilcic.com/mouthsounds/ Mouth Sounds]]''''' - The first album in the series, released in 2014. As the name implies, it primarily focuses on Music/SmashMouth's "All Star".

* AndTheRest: The cover art of ''Mouth Sounds'' lists most of the musicians Neil sampled for the album, then ends with "...AND MORE".

** The title of "Smooth", and tradition from previous albums, would lead one to believe that it involves Santana's "Smooth"... but then it starts with "O Canada" and transitions into a mashup of "One Week" with "''Smooth'' Criminal". And then, right when the listener is resigned to the joke... [[SubvertedTrope Santana's "Smooth" kicks in!]]

* BleepDammit: Parodied in ''Mouth Dreams'', where Neil randomly censors the word "hell" in "Fredhammer" but keeps swears uncensored in the rest of the album, even sentence mixing "Feel Good, Inc." to ''un''censor "ass cracks" and making Johnny Cash say "shit" (a word he previously censored in his CoverVersion of Music/NineInchNails' [[Music/TheDownwardSpiral "Hurt"]], replacing "crown of shit" with [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} "crown of thorns"]]) in "Just a Baby".
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: In "Superkiller", the [[Music/TalkingHeads psycho killer]] now '''''HATES PEOPLE WHEN THEIR''''' ''bed's on fire...'' despite mentioning several times how [[HypocriticalHumor his own bed is on fire]].

** ''Mouth Dreams'' also bookends the entire album series, unless Neil makes another followup. The ''Mouth'' albums begin and end with classical music mashups: "Satellite Pictures at an Exhibition" on ''Mouth Sounds'', and "Brithoven" and "Ain't" on ''Mouth Dreams''.

--> '''Ray Parker Jr.''': Freaky ghost baby! / Freaky ghost man! / Freaky man baby!

** Track 6 on ''Mouth Sounds'', "Full Mouth", is a mashup between "[[Music/SmashMouth All Star]]" and the ''Series/FullHouse'' theme. Once you think it's over, the next track "Alanis" starts up with the vocals from Music/AlanisMorissette's "You Oughta Know"[[spoiler: ...only for the ''Full House'' music to kick back in.]] ''Then'', once you've completely finished with that album and are 45 minutes into ''Mouth Silence'', "Wndrwll" starts out as a chopped up remix of {{Music/Oasis}}' [[Music/WhatsTheStoryMorningGlory "Wonderwall"]], [[spoiler: and then 2 minutes into it, when you least expect it, the ''Full House'' music comes back one more time.]] Can also count as a CallForward if you're listening to them in "canonical" order.
** On the album ''Mouth Moods'', Neil uses a short sample of the song "One Week" in the opening song, "The Starting Line". Later in the album, Neil pairs "One Week" with "Smooth Criminal" on the track, "Smooth". Then, for the sole purpose of tormenting the listener, Neil pairs "One Week" with "Stand By Me" on the very next track.
** ''Mouth Sounds'' contained the track "D'oh", which is a mashup of multiple songs and sound clips, including [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Simpson's]] titular CatchPhrase. ''Mouth Moods'' then followed it up with a similar track titled "Annoyed Grunt," which is how said CatchPhrase is written in the script for the ''Simpsons'' episodes.
** Similarly, ''Mouth Silence'' ends with a track titled [[ToiletHumor "Piss"]]. ''Mouth Moods'' then ended with a track titled "Shit."
** ''Mouth Sounds'' contained a track titled "Vivid Memories Turn to Fantasies," a remix of Creator/WillSmith's ''Film/MenInBlack'' theme, with Will occasionally declaring [[InherentlyFunnyWords "Bees!"]]. ''Mouth Moods'' eventually followed that up with "Wow Wow", a remix of Creator/WillSmith's ''Film/WildWildWest'' theme, including one more declaration of "Bees!"
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with "Closerflies" off of ''Mouth Dreams,'' which uses the instrumental from [[Music/NineInchNails "Closer,"]] the vocals of which Neil mashed with "Love Rollercoaster" by the Ohio Players on "Rollercloser" in ''Mouth Silence''. [[spoiler: But then the [[Music/OwlCity "Fireflies"]] vocals come in...]]

** "No Credit Card" from ''Mouth Sounds'' takes this UpToEleven; the first two-and-a-half minutes are almost entirely composed of variations on [[Music/HueyLewisAndTheNews "Don't need no credit card to ride this train"]], which then simply cuts it down to "Ri-ri-ri-ri-ri-ri-ri-ri..." with a background of "Feel the power of love" for the next two minutes.

** Then there's "Smooth", where the lyrics for One Week ends before the Smooth Criminal instrumentals do and so it just starts repeating certain phrases of the lyrics for the remainder of the song like "Chickity China the Chinese chicken" and "Harrison Ford" for the hell of it.

* CallBack: ''Sounds'' and ''Moods'' both have interludes featuring "Mambo No. 5"; ''Sounds'' has "Bega Interlude," which is a brief MIDI version of the song, while ''Moods'' has "Revolution #5", which mashes it up with [[Music/TheWhiteAlbum "Revolution #9"]].
* 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).

** He turns the ''Ghostbusters'' theme into a celebration of [[UnusualEuphemism "bustin'"]] on a "freaky ghost bed".
** "The Eye of the Tiger" into a song about a number of literal tigers.
** Cicierega juxtaposes a news segment about furries to make "Foxy Lady" about Music/JimiHendrix being a furry lusting after a literal fox lady.

** "Just a Baby" (based on Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues") is now about a baby who's "stuck in baby prison" for acting out various kinds of TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior... such as shooting a train (but that train was just a car), "always drinking coffee", and smoking. Also, he likes vehicles, and his mother killed a man.

** For the big list of featured artists on the ''Mouth Sounds'' cover, [[AndZoidberg Neil doesn't mention]] [[spoiler:Smash Mouth]]--burying them under a generic [[AndTheRest "...AND MORE"]]--despite them being the most-sampled artist on the album. Yet the big list ''does'' credit musicians who only indirectly appeared on the album: specifically Edwin Birdsong[[note]]because he was sampled in Daft Punk's "Harder Faster Better Stronger"[[/note]] and Dámaso Pérez Prado [[note]]because he was sampled in Lou Bega's "Mambo Number Five"[[/note]].

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The song titles from ''Mouth Sounds'' were often much less simple and concise than his later works, such as the first track being called "Promenade (Satellite Pictures At An Exhibition)" and another being called "Vivid Memories Turn To Fantasies". Song titles in later albums are usually four syllables at most and are a combination of the song or artist's names, such as "Aerolong", "Superkiller" and "Spongerock". In a broader sense, the mashups themselves are more predictable, with there usually just being one joke for the entire song, usually involving "All Star" or "Smooth". Later albums have a greater variety of artists and more jokes within a single song.

* FadingIntoTheNextSong: The albums use a variation of this, where each song seamlessly transitions into the next, either musically or through subject matter. Some good examples come from ''Silence'': "Furries" ends with the phrase "dressing up as their favorite four-legged Series/{{friends}}", leading into, naturally, "Friends". "Best" ends with [[Anime/PokemonTheSeries "I wanna be the very best,"]] leading into "Pokémon". "Pokémon" ends with a snippet of dramatic score from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'', leading into "Sexual Lion King".

** "Mullet with Butterfly Wings" starts with the vocals from Smashing Pumpkins' "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" mashed with the instruments from Loverboy's "Working for the Weekend". Halfway through, the two songs swap places: the vocals from "Working for the Weekend" paired with a slightly modified version of the instrumentals from "Bullet with Butterfly Wings". Then they swap back for the very end.
** Downplayed with "Spongerock". It starts with vocals from the ''Spongebob Squarepants'' opening theme set to the ''stomp-stomp-clap'' rhythm section of Queen's "We Will Rock You", then swaps to Freddie Mercury singing over the ukulele from ''Spongebob'''s end credits theme--but the ''stomp-stomp-clap'' rhythm from the first half persists, and the ''Spongebob'' vocals return as the chorus a few more times.

* ImmediateSelfContradiction: Also in "Superkiller", David Byrne declares, "When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed. / Say something once, why say it again? / Say something once, why say it again?"
* InstantlyProvenWrong: In "Nightmovin'", the singer insists "Can't wake up in sweat, cuz it ain't over yet!" just before the song ends.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[Music/SmashMouth "All Star"]], [[Music/{{Santana}} "Smooth"]], the ''Series/FullHouse'' theme, [[Music/BarenakedLadies "One Week"]]...at this point, almost no song is sacred from being used in a lot of his mashups.

* ListSong: Taken to its logical conclusion with "Space Monkey Mafia", a mash-up of Music/{{REM}}'s [[Music/{{Document}} "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"]] and Music/BillyJoel's [[Music/StormFrontAlbum "We Didn't Start the Fire"]].
* LongestSongGoesLast: ''Mouth Sounds'' closes with the 6:29 "Smooth Flow".
* LyricalDissonance: Embraced to absurd degrees in his mashup songs, either with silly sounding instrumentals with serious lyrics ("Rollercloser", "Crocodile Chop", "Floor Corn", and "The End"), or serious sounding instrumentals with silly lyrics ("Love Psych", "T.I.M.E."). [[UpToEleven Or both]] ("Mullet with Butterfly Wings", "Spongerock").
* MinisculeRocking: Several of his mashups are much shorter than their source songs, on the basis of mashup dissonance ("Born to Cat", "Busta") or executing one exact joke from the lyrics ("Friends", "Nightmovin'") before slamming the listener in the face with the next track in line.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: "300MB" primarily samples an infomercial [[LargeHam dramatically playing up]] the [[SeriousBusiness incredible power]] of a [[TechnologyMarchesOn 300MB hard drive]], mixed in with an energetic tweak of "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)", giving it this effect. [[invoked]]

* 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.

* SiameseTwinSongs: ''Dreams'' has "Fredhammer" and "Limp Wicket," which both sample Limp Biskit's "Nookie" and play back-to-back as a single song.

* TelephoneSong: "Numbers" takes samples from a bunch of other songs about telephones (most prominently Music/MilliVanilli's "Baby Don't Forget My Number", Music/CarlyRaeJepsen's "Call Me Maybe" and the ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' theme), as well as ads for gimmicky 1-900 numbers, and mashes them all together.

** ''Sounds'' starts with "Promenade (Satellite Pictures at an Exhibition)" followed by "Modest Mouth", a remix of "Float On". The original artists of those songs are Music/ModestMussorgsky and Music/ModestMouse.

** ''Mouth Silence'' ends with a track titled "Piss", and ''Mouth Moods'' ends with one titled "Shit". Looking for a pattern, fans retroactively decided the final track from ''Mouth Sounds'', "Smooth Flow", must be a euphemism for ToiletHumor as well.

** The song "Get Happy" is immediately followed by "Ribs", which prominently features vocals by Marilyn Manson, and is itself followed by "My Mouth". [[spoiler:In other words, Marilyn Manson's ribs are the only thing between his mouth and getting happy--a cheeky reference to [[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/getting-waisted/ an urban legend about Manson]].]]
** "Fredhammer" / "Limp Wicket" includes music and lyrics from Limp Bizkit's "Nookie" (with the lyrics edited to mention cookies a lot)--and combines them with Meco's ''Star Wars'' themed "Ewok Celebration", which prominently mentions Chewbacca. [[spoiler:The logical rhyme would be "I did it all for the Wookiee", but Neil teases the audience by not using the word "Wookiee" even once.]]

** "10,000 Spoons" takes Alanis Morissette's "Ironic" and sentence-mixes its lyrics into oblivion, replacing the ends of multiple lines with "...on your wedding day", etc. It also chops off the second halves of a few lines, creating non-sequiturs like "It's like 10,000 spoons...".

** Each of the albums have a different image reflected in Neil's glasses, usually relating to a track on the album: ''Sounds'' has WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} ([[Music/SmashMouth obviously]]), ''Silence'' has the Hampster Dance (referencing its appearance in "Piss"), ''Moods'' has Film/AustinPowers (another Creator/MikeMyers character, and a reference to his appearance in "Annoyed Grunt"), and ''Dreams'' has [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Wicket]] (referencing [[Music/LimpBizkit "Limp Wicket"]]).

* TelephoneSong: "Numbers" takes samples from a bunch of other songs about telephones (most prominently Music/CarlyRaeJepsen's "Call Me Maybe" and the ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' theme), as well as ads for gimmicky 1-900 numbers, and mashes them all together.

** "Fredhammer" / "Limp Wicket" includes music and lyrics from Limp Bizket's "Nookie" (with the lyrics edited to mention cookies a lot)--and combines them with Meco's ''Star Wars'' themed "Ewok Celebration", which prominently mentions Chewbacca. [[spoiler:The logical rhyme would be "I did it all for the Wookiee", but Neil teases the audience by not using the word "Wookiee" even once.]]

** ''Mouth Dreams'' also bookends the entire album series, unless Neil makes another followup. The ''Mouth'' albums begin and end with classical music mashups: "Satellite Pictures at an Exhibition" on ''Mouth Sounds'', and "Brithoven" and "Ain't" on ''Mouth Dreams".

** ''Mouth Silence'' ends with a track titled "Piss", and ''Mouth Moods'' ends with one titled "Shit". Looking for a pattern, fans retroactively decided the final track from ''Mouth Sounds", "Smooth Flow", must be a euphemism for ToiletHumor as well.

** The song "Get Happy" is immediately followed by "Ribs", which prominently features vocals by Marilyn Manson, and is itself followed by "My Mouth". [[spoiler:In other words, Marilyn Manson's ribs are the only thing between his mouth and getting happy--a cheeky reference to [[[[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/getting-waisted/ an urban legend about Manson]].]]

* ImmediateSelfContradiction: In "[[Music/RickJames Super]][[Music/TalkingHeads killer]]" from ''Mouth Dreams'', Music/DavidByrne asks "Say something once, why say it again?"... twice in a row. This is right after he says "You start a conversation you can't even finish!" and [[{{Beat}} says nothing for the next bar]].

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Invoked with "300 MB," which remixes an early '90s infomercial about a hard drive with 300 megabytes of storage capacity, making it out to be world-changing and epic. For reference, ''Mouth Moods'' in FLAC format is 431 MB.

** Both "Men in Black" and "Wild Wild West" have been edited to give Creator/WillSmith a weird obsession with bees, his "Wild Wild West" remix in particular changing from a rap song of boastful masculinity to one of blatant homoeroticism (''"Who that is?! [[BigBad Loveless]], bad for ya health! [[invoked]] [[HoYay Lookin' damn good though, if I could say it myself!]] Told me Loveless is a good man, but I don't feel that, [[FoeRomanceSubtext he got his behind lookin' damn good though!]]"'').

** "Just a Baby" takes Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" is now about a baby who is specifically in "baby prison" for acting out various kinds of TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior... including not only shooting a train (but that train was just a car) but "always drinking coffee" and smoking. Also, he likes vehicles and his mother killed a man.

* OrangeBlueContrast: Used strongly on the album cover of ''Mouth Moods''.

* DuelMeaningTitle: "The Starting Line" from ''Mouth Moods'' consists entirely of lyrics that are [[JustForPun the starting line]] of their respective tracks, including, of course, "The Distance" by {{Music/Cake}}, which starts with the line "''Reluctantly crouched at the starting line...''" And on top of all of that, it's also the first track of the album.