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Lemon Demon (Music)
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Lemon Demon is a one-man band created by internet personality Neil Cicierega, active from 2003 onward. To date, seven albums have been releasednote plus a "live" album and two EPs, the first four of which are now available for free.Most of his songs could be considered Mind Screw, though given he created Animutation, this isn't very surprising.The most widely recognizable Lemon Demon song is still 2005's "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny," which was accompanied by a Flash animation.Discography Clown Circus (2003) Live From The Haunted Candle Shop (2003) Hip To The Javabean (2004) Damn Skippy (2005) Dinosaurchestra (2006) View-Monster (2008) Live (Only Not) (2011) I Am Become Christmas (2012) Nature Tapes EP (2014) Spirit Phone (2016) Upcoming album (TBA) | |
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Urban Legends | |
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Urban Legends: Plenty of these on Spirit Phone. "Eighth Wonder" is a song based on the urban legend of Gef the Talking Mongoose. "Sweet Bod" about the recreation of the mellified man. According to Cicierega, the song "Cabinet Man" is inspired by the urban legend of Polybius. | |
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IAmAHumanitarian | |
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I Am a Humanitarian: The "Cabinet Man" only eats the occasional maintenance man. | |
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Nerds Are Sexy | |
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Nerds Are Sexy: "Geeks In Love" is about two geeks attracted to each other because of their shared nerdy attributes. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: Notably, Neil considered the content of the 2007 song "Birdfucker", which is about, well, a rather depraved guy with an "unusual" interest in birds, a bit too out of Lemon Demon's usual oeuvre in terms of lyrics and didn't want his younger fans to stumble upon it accidentally, and so he released it under the alternate pseudonym of "Grapes and Sunshine". The Nature Tapes EP has much more unsettling tracks compared to previous releases, and contains swearing in all but one track. Zig-Zagged with Spirit Phone. Some of the songs on the album sound much creepier, more of a The Man In Stripes And Glasses tone, while some of them are very upbeat with creepy lyrics. | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink | |
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I Need a Freaking Drink: In "You're at the Party," the protagonist decides to drink after the party starts to get to them: | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Lemon Demon's songs are loaded with this, but particular mention has to go to "Modify", where one person tries to scarify his neck...by hanging himself. He's heavily implied to have accidentally killed himself trying to do it, with the singer seemingly being more concerned about how "dope" the resulting scar would've been than the fact that he died. | |
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Red Right Hand | |
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Red Right Hand: "Atomic Copper Claw" is about a person who's trying to hide their atomic copper claw, but the narrator is fully aware of it and seeks to expose them. | |
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Alliterative Title | |
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Alliterative Title: "Ancient Aliens", "Touch-Tone Telephone", "Two Trucks", and many others. | |
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Easter Egg | |
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Easter Egg: The LP release of Spirit Phone contains one in the run-out groove right after "Spiral of Ants." It's a loop of the Laughing Record mentioned in "When He Died." Similarly, the run-out groove on the vinyl release of Nature Tapes contains the robotic voice from "BRODYQUEST" repeatedly saying "Adrien Brody." | |
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List Song | |
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List Song: "Word Disassociation" is simply a list of random, unrelated words (205, in all) with the occasional chorus. "Everybody Loves Raymond" is a list of American sitcoms. "Toy Food" is a list of various foods before it is explained in the chorus that "is toy." | |
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Rock-Star Song | |
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Rock-Star Song: Defied with "Being a Rock Star," which is a song about Neil not wanting to make a rock star song, seeing it as too much of a cliché and wanting to avoid sounding conceited. | |
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Twisted Christmas | |
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Twisted Christmas: The main theme of the aptly titled "I Am Become Christmas" EP. The songs touch on themes such as the apocalypse, seasonal depression and commercialization, all with a touch of Christmas. | |
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Overdrawn at the Blood Bank | |
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Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: The lead singer of "Knife Fight" promises to make his opponent "bleed copious amounts" after being insulted about the size of his knife. | |
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Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds | |
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Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: "The Saga of You, Confused Destroyer of Planets" is about an intergalactic traveller who accidentally and unknowingly destroys planets while drunk. | |
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Testosterone Poisoning | |
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Testosterone Poisoning: "Two Trucks" is a song about two trucks having sex, the sight of which is so magnificent that it makes the singer's muscles involuntarily flex, and makes grown men, including the founding fathers, cry. | |
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Barrier Maiden | |
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"When He Died," a sweet-sounding song about a man who dies in mysterious circumstances and is implied to have been some kind of Barrier Maiden whose death would usher in "an endless age of untold nightmares" for all of humanity. | |
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Uncommon Time | |
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Uncommon Time: Neil seems to be a fan of using odd time signatures in some of his songs: "Rainwater" is in 7/8 time, and so are the chorus of "Modify and most of Gravitron. "One Weird Tip" switches between 6/8 and 7/4 time before the instrumental part. "Subtle Oddities" takes this up to eleven, switching between 10/4, 6/4 and 7/4 time. | |
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Conspiracy Theorist | |
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The bonus track "Crisis Actors", an upbeat technopop song about people who turn to Conspiracy Theories to cope with personal tragedy, existential dread and the pressures of society. | |
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Musical Nod | |
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Musical Nod: When "Jaws" first mentions Brody, it plays a snippet from "BRODYQUEST." | |
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No Fair Cheating | |
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No Fair Cheating: The "Cabinet Man" says he won't hurt you unless you cheat in his game. | |
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Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book | |
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Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book: The guy in "When He Died" painted a picture of a scary clown when he was a child and on the back he wrote exactly when he was going to die. | |
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Inscrutable Aliens | |
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Inscrutable Aliens: In "Ancient Aliens", the caveman protagonist is overwhelmed with fear at the presence of the alien and can't comprehend its telepathic speech. | |
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Reincarnated as a Non-Humanoid | |
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Reincarnated as a Non-Humanoid: "Cabinet Man" is a really grizzly take on this, where the singer turns himself into an arcade cabinet by replacing one's inner circuitry with his own organs, thus becoming a sentient video game. | |
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Hanging Up on the Grim Reaper | |
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Hanging Up on the Grim Reaper: In "I've Got Some Falling To Do," a man who is falling to his death from an airplane gets a call from Death, and blows him off in favor of continuing to fall. | |
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Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: "Cryptosanta" is about a person who's accidentally shot with an experimental laser beam that causes him to transform (painfully) into Santa Claus. "Modify," which is half a spoof and half a defense on body... modification. "Sweet Bod," in which a honey-filled corpse is prepared for human consumption as a miracle cure. "Cabinet Man," where the singer's "electric desires" drive him to combine his human organs with a game cabinet's systems. In "You're at the Party," staying at the titular party too long causes some strange things to happen to the protagonist's body. | |
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Bow Chicka Wow Wow | |
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Bow Chicka Wow Wow: Part 3.4 of the interactive video "Haircut." "Do you slap her in the face, or do you Bow Chicka-Chicka Wow-Wow?" | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: All three parts of Dinosaurchestra begin and end with the sound of a clock ticking, before finally ringing in the third part. The end of "Spiral of Ants," closing track on Spirit Phone, loops seamlessly back into the start of the album in "Lifetime Achievement Award." Also, "Spiral of Ants" is about repetition while "Lifetime Achievement Award" is about resurrection, and the first word spoken on the album is "die" while the final word is "life." | |
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Cats Are Mean | |
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Cats Are Mean: The entire purpose of "Kitten Is Angry" is to illustrate this. However, the closing line indicates he loves her regardless. | |
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Metal Scream | |
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Metal Scream: Neil gives a chilling one at the end of "Everybody Loves Raymond." | |
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Central Theme | |
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Central Theme: "Touch-Tone Telephone" is about connections. The connections the narrator makes between various out-there theories, and the connections he desperately want to make with anyone, anyone at all, for validation, through the titual phone. | |
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Tears from a Stone | |
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Tears from a Stone: Statues which cry Tears of Blood are mentioned in both "Subtle Oddities" and in "When He Died." No explanation is given in either instance (it doesn't help that the blood in the latter is the blood of the man who died, and the statues are of his own children who apparently went missing). | |
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Gratuitous Panning | |
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Gratuitous Panning: Both "Geocities" and "Angelfire" from Spirit Phone have this effect applied to the synth melodies. | |
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Loony Fan | |
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Loony Fan: "Bill Watterson" is about someone who's deeply attracted to Watterson and believes that he is communicating with them via his strips. Eventually the song escalates from that to cutting his phone lines to wanting to eat his heart and wear his skin. "Gonna Dig Up Alec Guinness" is about someone who wants to dig up the eponymous actor and put him on display for Star Wars fans to view as an attraction. | |
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Sanity Slippage | |
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Sanity Slippage: The lyrics of "My Trains" starts out rather eccentric, yet somehow becomes even more manic as the song progresses, ultimately becoming absolutely batshit and leaving you terrified of the narrator's level of fanaticism for his model trains. | |
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Non-Appearing Title | |
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Non-Appearing Title: On Spirit Phone, "Cabinet Man." The title of "Ancient Aliens" isn't mentioned in the song itself, but actually gets name-dropped in an earlier song, "Touch-Tone Telephone." | |
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I Fell for Hours | |
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I Fell for Hours: "I've Got Some Falling to Do" is about a man who falls off a plane and opts to continue falling instead of accepting help or immediate death. The video for the song even provides the page image! | |
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I Am Not Leonard Nimoy | |
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I Am Not Leonard Nimoy: Parodied in "Jaws" by referring to Matt Hooper as Richard Dreyfuss, who played Hooper in the movie the song took inspiration from. | |
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Epic Instrumental Opener | |
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Epic Instrumental Opener: "BRODYQUEST" starts off as a progressive instrumental track, until the name of the character walking throughout the quest starts being chanted while he becomes the universe. "Elsewhere," the closing track of Clown Circus, has over three and a half minutes of instrumental before its single verse. "Sick Puppy" from Hip to the Javabean is even longer, being nearly 8 minutes of instrumental and ambiance before getting to the actual song, which is around 2 minutes long. | |
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Unflinching Walk | |
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Unflinching Walk: "Action Movie Hero Boy" is about some fool trying this in Real Life. It does not end well. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs | |
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: The chorus of "SAD" is composed of these: | |
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Jerkass Gods | |
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Jerkass Gods: Invoked in "Crisis Actors," which repeats "malevolent gods are better than none." It explains the ethos behind these conspiracy theorists, that it's more comforting to think "malevolent gods" orchestrate tragic events rather than face the reality that these events actually happened. | |
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Cowboy BeBop at His Computer | |
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Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Invoked and parodied with "Jaws," which gets multiple facts about the source material wrong while also mentioning it was "a movie that everyone saw." Among other things, he calls Hooper by his actor's name, Richard Dreyfuss, and also claims that the shark "sneaks in [the mayor's house] in the middle of the night and he eats that fucker in a single bite." | |
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God Is Evil | |
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The bonus song "Crisis Actors" shows a darker side, covering the extreme conspiracy theorists who believe that crisis actors — individuals paid to stage emergencies — are behind the world's tragedies. The lyrics also imply that the singer became a conspiracy theorist to cope with personal tragedy ("Your baby's alive! Your family's fine!") and existential fears ("Malevolent gods are better than none") | |
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Lonely at the Top | |
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Lonely at the Top: "It Can Get Lonely In My Mansion," about a man who builds all sorts of grandiose attractions in his house, only to discover than no-one really cares. | |
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Compensating for Something | |
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Compensating for Something: The lead singer in "Knife Fight" takes offense to his knife being called "way too small," countering that "my knife's super sharp, and that's what counts." | |
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Rhyming Title | |
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Rhyming Title: Subverted. The project's name consists of two words that look like they should rhyme based on their spelling, but they don't. | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
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Eldritch Abomination: "Ancient Aliens" features an alien who's perceived as an eldritch abomination by a primitive human whose understanding of the world is too weak for them to comprehend a being from outside of it. | |
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Accordion to Most Sailors | |
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Accordion to Most Sailors: "The Ocean" and "Treasure Map", both songs that concern sailing out to sea, make liberal use of the accordion. | |
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Friendly Tickle Torture | |
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Friendly Tickle Torture: In "Knife Fight," the singers ultimately abandon the titular fight and resort to a tickle fight instead. | |
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Abhorrent Admirer | |
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Abhorrent Admirer: The singer of "Soft Fuzzy Man" is a parody of "nice guys" who think they're entitled to women because they're different. In one verse he literally sings "I'm not like other guys," which is technically true, since he's a sentient cloud of Deadly Gas. | |
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Parental Sexuality Squick | |
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Parental Sexuality Squick: Played with in "Elvis Porn", which is about the singer's averse reaction to finding pornography of Elvis Presley in his grandmother's possession. | |
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Existential Horror | |
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Existential Horror: A Central Theme of Spirit Phone is that, perhaps, the scariest thing is living in a careless modern society. It's more subtle in the first half of the album, with the first song 'Lifetime Achievement Award' being about a literal attempt at resurrecting a dead celebrity rather than letting them rest peacefully. Pretty much every song on the latter part doesn't outright fit the previous Creepypasta theme, instead heavily invoking this more explicitly, especially "I Earn My Life" and "Spiral of Ants." It is a notable shift from the album's more occult and weird horror-themed songs, and seems to imply a message of "What if the real horror is the modern capitalist society we all live in?" It's especially emphasized by the bonus tracks "Crisis Actors" (which is about people who believe in conspiracy theories to ignore the horrors of society) and "Angry People" (which, albeit with a humorous bent, is about civil unrest). | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
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Didn't Think This Through: The guys in "Knife Fight" talk up the epic knife fight they're going to have... until they realize they'll both get hurt! They immediately agree to a much safer tickle fight instead. | |
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Dropped-in Speech Clip | |
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Dropped-in Speech Clip: "Reaganomics" samples Ronald Reagan's inauguration speech, specifically "In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem." After the initial sample, the quote is edited YouTube Poop style to say "Government is the solution to our problem." | |
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Ignored Epiphany | |
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Ignored Epiphany: The bridge of "Bill Watterson" has the singer, after stalking him for the entire song, realize that Watterson is a Reclusive Artist "not out of eccentricity, but rather for privacy... when you meet me". invoked | |
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The Discovery of Fire | |
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The Discovery of Fire: "Ancient Aliens" plays with this. An alien creates fire in front of a primitive human, but the human sees this as a terrifying, reality-breaking ability and doesn't seem to believe it’s replicable. | |
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I Am the Band | |
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I Am the Band: Aside from live performances, Neil is the sole member of the band. | |
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Shaped Like Itself | |
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Shaped Like Itself: In "Modify," Rooney gets "scrimshaw" carved onto his skull. Among other things, the art of scrimshaw includes carvings in bone. | |
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Big "OMG!" | |
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Big "OMG!": One happens towards the end of "Ben Bernanke." | |
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Haunted Technology | |
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Haunted Technology: The eponymous "Cabinet Man" is an arcade cabinet whose inner circuitry has been replaced by a human being's organs, becoming a sentient video game. | |
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Knife Fight | |
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Knife Fight: Trope Namer. | |
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Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday | |
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Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: "Aurora Borealis," a song about a man trying to ignore the imminent apocalypse because it's Christmas Eve. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: The otherwise humorous and Devo-inspired Spirit Phone ends with "Spiral of Ants," an unnerving song about being trapped by society. Even earlier in the album, right after the tongue-in-cheek "As Your Father I Expressly Forbid It" comes "I Earn My Life," an upbeat-sounding tune about a man running himself ragged working day to day, terrified of dying, leaving his family in debt. | |
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Enfant Terrible | |
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Enfant Terrible: "Angry People" has a baby that resents her parents for having her. It wouldn't be a problem but they secretly regret buying her a gun. | |
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Christmas Every Day | |
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Christmas Every Day: The experiments in CryptoSanta were trying to open other dimensions filled with presents in order to bring about Christmas every day. Though it's implied they'd be sold rather than given. | |
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First Contact | |
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First Contact: "Ancient Aliens" is about a prehistoric caveman's encounter with an extraterrestrial being whom he can't understand. | |
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Lunacy | |
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Lunacy: In "Man-Made Object," the singer is "an altogether different man" between night and day; at night, he gains the desire to build some kind of structure. It seeps into his dreams, and he eventually catches insomnia from looking at the moon. | |
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Ancient Astronauts | |
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Ancient Astronauts: "Ancient Aliens" is a Deconstruction of this trope. An alien crash-lands on prehistoric Earth, tries to ask a primitive human for help, and even creates fire while the human is watching. But instead of learning from the alien, the human fears them. To the human, who barely understands their own world, a being from another world who can fly, speak telepathically, and create fire from nothing is a terrifying Eldritch Abomination who cannot be comprehended. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
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Abusive Parents: Implied in "As Your Father I Expressly Forbid It": | |
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Sitcom | |
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"Everybody Loves Raymond" is a list of American sitcoms. | |
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Everyone Has Standards | |
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Everyone Has Standards: Implied with "Touch-Tone Telephone," which is a song from the point of view of a conspiracy theorist calling into their favorite radio host. Chances are the host would have to be pretty screwy to get this guy's attention, but it's implied that the narrator is manic enough to make the host try and avoid his calls. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: The song "eBaums World Dot Com," which consists primarily of insults directed at the eponymous site and its founder, Eric Bauman. Several of Neil's close friends have had Flash videos stolen by eBaum, so it comes as no surprise. Never Go On Reddit, a brief parody of "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)" by En Vogue. "Reganomics" mocks the political policies of Ronald Reagan, depicting him as a blowhard wannabe action hero offering empty promises to "save" the country. | |
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Super-Sargasso Sea | |
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The singer of "Touch-Tone Telephone" is one, and details his attempts to contact the host of a paranormal radio show. He mentions space Nazis, ancient aliens, and UFOlogy as part of his unified theory, and believes that he's being pursued for his beliefs ("pretty soon they'll discover me in the Super-Sargasso Sea"). | |
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Came Back Wrong | |
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Came Back Wrong: If the ragged breathing and the repeated chant of "oh no!" is anything to go by, this is what happens to the reanimated musician at the end of "Lifetime Achievement Award." | |
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Robot War | |
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Robot War: "When Robots Attack!" is about a robot war. It seems that the robots win. | |
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Last Note Nightmare | |
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Last Note Nightmare: The final lyric of "Bill Watterson" ("I only want to try your face on)" is slightly distorted to match the creepiness of the statement. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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"Ben Bernanke" has this vibe, among other things. | |
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Cannibalism Superpower | |
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Cannibalism Superpower: The guy singing "Bill Watterson" wants to eat Bill Watterson's heart and "absorb his powers". | |
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The '80s | |
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The '80s: Lemon Demon's music has the general feel of '80s synthpop. Several songs on Spirit Phone are either set during the decade or reference it extensively, such as "Cabinet Man" and "Reaganomics." | |
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Self-Referential Track Placement | |
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Self-Referential Track Placement: Subverted. "Eighth Wonder" is the seventh song on Spirit Phone. | |
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Bestiality Is Depraved | |
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Notably, Neil considered the content of the 2007 song "Birdfucker", which is about, well, a rather depraved guy with an "unusual" interest in birds, a bit too out of Lemon Demon's usual oeuvre in terms of lyrics and didn't want his younger fans to stumble upon it accidentally, and so he released it under the alternate pseudonym of "Grapes and Sunshine". | |
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Shout-Out | |
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He's pretty much the master of obscure and nerdy Shout Outs - after, all, he sang "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny." | |
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Train Song | |
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Train Song: "My Trains" is about a man so obsessed with his trains, he'll defend them by killing. | |
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Cover Version | |
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Cover Version: A couple on View-Monster, namely "Super Hey Ya" (which gives the original song even more Lyrical Dissonance) and "While My Keytar Gently Weeps" (a synth-laden, vocoded cover of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"). | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: Neil somehow manages to turn a list of American sitcoms into an insane techno song in "Everybody Loves Raymond." Especially when he screams the song title during the chorus. In "Lawnmower," he makes the process of mowing lawns seem almost exciting. | |
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Meaningless Meaningful Words | |
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Meaningless Meaningful Words: "Redesign Your Logo" consists of a lot of six-syllable nonsense corporate jargon to describe a brand. It's based on the infamous 2008 design document detailing the process behind Pepsi's logo redesign, which uses a very similar meaningless meaningful tone. "Sundial" is intentionally full of lyrics that sound meaningful but make no sense, ending with the line "Don't enjoy this private screening, this one doesn't have a meaning." Which, paradoxically, is the only line that does have a meaning. | |
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Terminally Dependent Society | |
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A large portion of the songs from Spirit Phone fall into this category, understandably so given the album's overall subject matter. Particularly notable examples include: "Cabinet Man," an upbeat song about a lonely individual who merged themselves with an arcade cabinet to experience love for the first time, only to be abandoned as time passes and home consoles become more popular, and then destroyed by a group of teens who break into the empty arcade. "When He Died," a sweet-sounding song about a man who dies in mysterious circumstances and is implied to have been some kind of Barrier Maiden whose death would usher in "an endless age of untold nightmares" for all of humanity. "Eighth Wonder," about Gef the Mongoose, has a fairly straightforward tone for most of the song - this changes toward the end in the form of Wham Line dissonance, when Gef begs Jim to let him go. This implies that he is either being held captive, or that Jim has become too attached to the ghostly mongoose, who knows he cannot stay. "Ancient Aliens," in which a prehistoric caveman has an encounter with an alien that has likely crash-landed on Earth, killing all of their companions. The alien attempts to reach out to the caveman for help, but the caveman can't understand what or how the alien is communicating. "I Earn My Life," and to a lesser extent, "As Your Father I Expressly Forbid It," both songs about the same father who is incredibly hostile to his child because their family is deep in debt, forcing the father to overwork and potentially contemplate suicide to get out of his burdens. A bit of the dissonance also leaks over into "Reaganomics," as in spite of the upbeat tempo and fun, goofy lyrics, it's implied that "As Your Father" and "I Earn My Life" both take place in the late 80s, meaning that their precarious financial situation, and by extension the father's suicidal idealization, is likely due in large part to Reagan's economic policies. The bonus track "Crisis Actors", an upbeat technopop song about people who turn to Conspiracy Theories to cope with personal tragedy, existential dread and the pressures of society. | |
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner | |
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: The penultimate verse of "Knife Fight" is just the two guys hurling these at each other. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: A large portion of the songs from Spirit Phone fall into this category, understandably so given the album's overall subject matter. Particularly notable examples include: "Cabinet Man," an upbeat song about a lonely individual who merged themselves with an arcade cabinet to experience love for the first time, only to be abandoned as time passes and home consoles become more popular, and then destroyed by a group of teens who break into the empty arcade. "When He Died," a sweet-sounding song about a man who dies in mysterious circumstances and is implied to have been some kind of Barrier Maiden whose death would usher in "an endless age of untold nightmares" for all of humanity. "Eighth Wonder," about Gef the Mongoose, has a fairly straightforward tone for most of the song - this changes toward the end in the form of Wham Line dissonance, when Gef begs Jim to let him go. This implies that he is either being held captive, or that Jim has become too attached to the ghostly mongoose, who knows he cannot stay. "Ancient Aliens," in which a prehistoric caveman has an encounter with an alien that has likely crash-landed on Earth, killing all of their companions. The alien attempts to reach out to the caveman for help, but the caveman can't understand what or how the alien is communicating. "I Earn My Life," and to a lesser extent, "As Your Father I Expressly Forbid It," both songs about the same father who is incredibly hostile to his child because their family is deep in debt, forcing the father to overwork and potentially contemplate suicide to get out of his burdens. A bit of the dissonance also leaks over into "Reaganomics," as in spite of the upbeat tempo and fun, goofy lyrics, it's implied that "As Your Father" and "I Earn My Life" both take place in the late 80s, meaning that their precarious financial situation, and by extension the father's suicidal idealization, is likely due in large part to Reagan's economic policies. The bonus track "Crisis Actors", an upbeat technopop song about people who turn to Conspiracy Theories to cope with personal tragedy, existential dread and the pressures of society. "Indie Cindy and the Lo-Fi Lullabies" is an upbeat song about a struggling musician who becomes so disillusioned with her goals of becoming a musician, she breaks up (with herself) and trashes her studio. "Bill Watterson" is an energetic song about a stalker who is completely infatuated with Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes fame. Not only do they sing about cutting his phone lines and standing on his lawn for days, they express a desire to kill him, eat his heart and wear his skin. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
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Despair Event Horizon: Crossed by the main character in "Indie Cindy & The Lo-Fi Lullabies." Following a dream of a failed concert, she breaks up (with herself) and tears down her studio. | |
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Drugs Are Bad | |
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What about "Bowling Alley"? Even the narrator claims it's like an acid trip. Not that he advocates drugs because Drugs Are Bad and stuff. | |
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Limited Animation | |
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Limited Animation: The first three minutes of BRODYQUEST, before Adrien Brody becomes a rock star and then becomes the universe. | |
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Word Salad Lyrics | |
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Word Salad Lyrics: "Word Disassociation" is this trope taken more-or-less as far as it can go. "New Way Out" also qualifies, with mentions of serpentine alarm clocks and Jimi Hendrix Junior. | |
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Whole-Plot Reference | |
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Whole-Plot Reference: "Jaws" is a wildly incorrect sung synopsis of the plot of Jaws. | |
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Snake Oil Salesman | |
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Snake Oil Salesman: The narrator of "Sweet Bod" is selling jars of honey from a "mellified man" for a hundred bucks each, claiming them to be a miracle cure. Neil directly mentions this in the Spirit Phone commentary, saying that filling this role makes for a passable pop song. | |
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Self-Backing Vocalist | |
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Self-Backing Vocalist: Since Neil is pretty much the only member of his band, most backup vocals heard in songs are just him. On the Spirit Phone commentary track, Neil states that, on "Sweet Bod," some of his backing vocals are even pitched up to make it sound like he has both male and female singers. | |
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Tin-Can Telephone | |
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Tin-Can Telephone: One is mentioned in "Your Imaginary Friend." Who exactly is on the other end, however, is up for debate. | |
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Space Whale Aesop | |
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Space Whale Aesop: From "Angry People": "Sooner or later, everybody must die/Die by the hand/Of their own evil baby." | |
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Accidental Suicide | |
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Accidental Suicide: Stan in "Modify" tries to "scarify his neck with a rope." It goes about as well as you'd expect. | |
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A Lady on Each Arm | |
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A Lady on Each Arm: The narrator in "Hip Hop Cherry Pop" claims that, after having the eponymous drink, he'll have at least three "sexy ladies" on each arm. | |
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Surreal Music Video | |
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Surreal Music Video: "Word Disassociation." The video is with pieces of paper with random words on them, put next to random places. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: A lot songs start out as fairly tame before turning utterly bizarre. | |
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Digging Yourself Deeper | |
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Digging Yourself Deeper: The joke of "Sweet Bod" is that the narrator tries to explain that he definitely doesn't intend anything sexual in creating a mellified man, and that it's purely a commercial project, but the fact that he thinks it necessary to specify this just makes it come off as definitely being sexual. | |
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Fading into the Next Song | |
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Fading into the Next Song: Neil loves this trope. Most of the songs on each of his albums either fade or immediately transition into each other. Exaggerated with View-Monster, where the transitions between each song are given individual entries on the track list. | |
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Never Found the Body | |
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Never Found the Body: The subject of "When He Died" left behind a mansion full of skulls but his own was never found. Downplayed in that the rest of his body was found, indicated by the lines about finding scorpions in his lungs and a message in his spine. | |
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Did You Just Romance Cthulhu? | |
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Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: "No-Eyed Girl" from Spirit Phone is about a man in love with some sort of Eldritch Abomination or Humanoid Abomination. It seems that he gets the "girl," possibly dooming the world in the process. | |
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Textless Album Cover | |
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Textless Album Cover: "Nature Tapes" | |
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