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John Henry (Music)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })John Henry is the fifth studio album by They Might Be Giants, released in 1994 by Elektra Records.Susan Drew, the label rep who signed them to Elektra, suggested that they hire a full backing band, and the Johns also felt that they'd gone as far as they could with the duo/backing tapes arrangement, so they recruited Tony Maimone of Pere Ubu on bass guitar, Kurt Hoffman of The Ordinaires on keyboard and reeds, and Brian Doherty on drums (replacing Jonathan Feinberg, who had played with them on tour). After recording polished demos of almost all the songs ("Stomp Box" was the only one not demoed), they tracked the whole album at the Bearsville Studios in Upstate New York with producer Paul Fox (who'd previously worked with XTC, 10,000 Maniacs and The Sugarcubes).After some tracks were bootlegged, then later featured on the They Might Be Giants podcast, the John Henry Demos were released by the band as a full album in 2018.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Tracklist Subliminal (2:45) Snail Shell (3:20) Sleeping in the Flowers (4:30) Unrelated Thing (2:30) AKA Driver (3:14) I Should Be Allowed to Think (3:09) Extra Savoir-Faire (2:48) Why Must I Be Sad? (4:08) Spy (3:06) O, Do Not Forsake Me (2:30) No One Knows My Plan (2:37) Dirt Bike (3:05) Destination Moon (2:27) A Self Called Nowhere (3:22) Meet James Ensor (1:33) Thermostat (3:11) Window (1:00) Out Of Jail (2:38) Stomp Box (1:55) The End of the Tour (3:18) | |
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Madness Mantra | |
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Madness Mantra: "Subliminal" ends with the Johns repeating the line "Stare into the subliminal for as long as you can" over and over... and then playing it again backwards for a bit. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: John Linnell described the narrator of "I Should Be Allowed to Think" as such. He thinks he's a persecuted genius, but the truth is no one hears what he has to say because he's just not that interesting and no one is listening. | |
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Villain Song | |
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Villain Song: "No One Knows My Plan" is about a man in prison for some unspecified crime (but presumably a violent one, given the references to "shouting" and "shrieks of pain") plotting his escape. | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: Their first album backed by a full band, which allowed them to augment their usual Genre Roulette with more fully-realized arrangements. | |
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Hollywood New England | |
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Hollywood New England: Linnell sings "A Self Called Nowhere" in an exaggerated Boston accent. | |
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"I Am Great!" Song | |
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"Extra Savoir-Faire" is a little more subdued and reflective than you'd expect an "I Am Great!" Song to be. | |
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Really 700 Years Old | |
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Really 700 Years Old: "O, Do Not Foresake Me" is sung by a character who claims to be 1,000 years old. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: As their first album with a live backing band instead of preprogrammed instrumentals, they only thought it fitting to name it for a tale of man outpacing machine. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: "Sleeping in the Flowers" was the longest song they'd released up to that point, and is still among the longest they've issued on a studio project. Still, it's only four-and-a-half minutes long. | |
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Celebrity Song | |
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Celebrity Song: "Meet James Ensor" is a tribute to "Belgium's famous painter". | |
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Rhyming with Itself | |
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Rhyming with Itself: "Spy" rhymes "ground" with "ground", and "me" with "me". | |
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Shaped Like Itself | |
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Shaped Like Itself: In "A Self Called Nowhere" | |
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Overly Long Gag | |
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Overly-Long Gag: The outro for "Spy" is a long string of guitar chords and comically-discordant brass notes. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: "I Should Be Allowed to Think" opens with a quote from Allen Ginsberg's "Howl": "I saw the best minds of my generation / Destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical" "Why Must I Be Sad?" references several songs by Alice Cooper. "No One Knows My Plan" references "the allegory of the people in the cave by the Greek guy", referring to the allegory of the cave from Plato's The Republic. The title line of "Snail Shell" is a nod to Sly and the Family Stone's "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)". "Pour the poison in my ear" from "Stomp Box" alludes to Hamlet. | |
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Writing Around Trademarks | |
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Writing Around Trademarks: Though they say it plenty of times in the song, "NyQuil Driver" is officially known as "AKA Driver" and is the only song on the album without printed lyrics. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: "No One Knows My Plan" is a bouncy salsa-inspired number about a violent criminal plotting a prison break. The similarly bright "Destination Moon" is about a mental patient who thinks he's an astronaut. "Extra Savoir-Faire" is a little more subdued and reflective than you'd expect an "I Am Great!" Song to be. | |
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WPUN | |
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WPUN: "The End of the Tour" mentions a radio station called WLSD. There actually is a WLSD radio in Virginia (oddly, a gospel music station). | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: From "Destination Moon": | |
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Sanity Slippage Song | |
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Sanity Slippage Song: "Subliminal" is about a man who starts seeing subliminal messages everywhere he goes after getting hit by a car. | |
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Basso Profundo: Hudson Shad bass singer Wilbur Pauley does the very low-pitched lead vocal on "O, Do Not Forsake Me". | |
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Drives Like Crazy | |
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Drives Like Crazy: "AKA Driver" is narrated by a man who's "a full-day's drive away" from his destination and drives fast and recklessly to make it in time. | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Department of Redundancy Department: "Meet James Ensor" features the lyrics "He lived with his mother and the torments of Christ", which is followed in the next verse by "He lived with his mother and repeated himself". | |
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Buffy Speak | |
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"No One Knows My Plan" references "the allegory of the people in the cave by the Greek guy", referring to the allegory of the cave from Plato's The Republic. | |
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