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Oracular Spectacular (Music)
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Oracular Spectacular is the debut studio album by American psychedelic pop group MGMT, initially released in 2007 through RED Ink Records before seeing a wider release through Columbia Records three months later. It broke the band to the mainstream thanks to the success of the radio hits "Kids", "Time to Pretend" and "Electric Feel".Despite the album and singles' success, its entire sound is very different compared to their regular music. Even "Kids" and "Time to Pretend" had appeared earlier on their EP Time to Pretend (2005) in a different version. As a result, it became a Black Sheep Hit, and the band themselves have made clear that they won't be making songs like those again.Tracklist "Time to Pretend" (4:21) "Weekend Wars" (4:12) "The Youth" (3:48) "Electric Feel" (3:49) "Kids" (5:02) "4th Dimensional Transition" (3:58) "Pieces of What" (2:43) "Of Moons, Birds & Monsters" (4:46) "The Handshake" (3:39) "Future Reflections" (4:00)Personnel Andrew Vanwyngarden: vocals, lead and rhythm guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, drums, percussion Ben Goldwasser: vocals, keyboards, rhythm guitar, percussion, synthesizer, samples | |
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Protest Song | |
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Protest Song: "The Youth" is a song about protesting for the sake of protesting. The band explained that they wanted to say something meaningful to young people, but weren't sure what. | |
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Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll | |
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Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: Satirized in "Time To Pretend". Sex, drink, move to Paris, marry models, get the models pregnant, choke on your own vomit, die. Don't forget the cocaine and heroin. | |
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Face on the Cover | |
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Face on the Cover: The band members on a beach. | |
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Alliterative Title: "Weekend Wars". | |
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Rock-Star Song | |
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Rock Star Song: "Time To Pretend" is a dark take on the concept: | |
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Stock Sound Effects: A group of children can be heard at the start of "Kids". They collectively count the song off. | |
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Counting to Three | |
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Counting to Three: The crowd of children at the start of "Kids" count the song off. | |
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Growing Up Sucks | |
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Growing Up Sucks: "Kids" is about how, in the grand scheme of things, childhood is completely pointless and yet it's depressing how natural it is to transition out of it. All the while it is sung to a light and fun yet trippy electronic beat. | |
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Record Producer | |
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Record Producer: Dave Fridmann, known for his work with The Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev. | |
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Non-Appearing Title | |
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Non-Appearing Title: The word "kids" is not said once in the song of the same name. | |
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The Power of Love | |
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The Power of Love: "Electric Feel" | |
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Truck Driver's Gear Change | |
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Truck Driver's Gear Change: Inverted with "The Youth". | |
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Repurposed Pop Song | |
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Repurposed Pop Song: "Kids" and "Time To Pretend" appeared earlier on their EP "Time To Pretend", but in a different arrangement. | |
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Skinny Dipping | |
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Skinny Dipping: "Electric Feel" | |
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Loudness War | |
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Loudness War: They intentionally turned up the gain to get a "dirty" mix. | |
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Four More Measures | |
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Four More Measures: "Electric Feel" sure takes its time before it starts. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The music video for "Time To Pretend" directed by Ray Tintori pays homage to The Holy Mountain and Lord of the Flies. At the start of the music video for their single "Kids" a quote appears, attributed to Mark Twain. In reality this quote is from Friedrich Nietzsche. Seeing MGMT's attitude of not taking their communication with press and audience seriously this might be a deliberate joke on their behalf: | |
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Nightmare Face | |
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Nightmare Face: The music video of "Kids" features deformed rubber masks with grotesque protruding eyes and tongues. Then you notice that a small child is crying and reacting to these horror faces. | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: "Kids". | |
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Walking Shirtless Scene | |
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Walking Shirtless Scene: Andrew Vanwyngarden poses in his swimming short on the album cover. | |
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Drugs Are Bad | |
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Drugs Are Bad: "Time To Pretend" is quite clearly a sarcastic slamming of the "sex drugs and rock and roll" lifestyle. Most people think it's a ''celebration'' of said lifestyle. Nevermind the lines about choking on your vomit, missing a simple and ordinary lifestyle and the increasingly sad tone of the song as it progresses. | |
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Broken Record | |
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Broken Record: "The Handshake" | |
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Body Paint | |
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Body Paint: One half of Ben Goldwasser is painted blue on the album cover. | |
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Surreal Music Video | |
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Surreal Music Video: "Kids" and "Time To Pretend" are extremely strange. In "Kids" a toddler is being menaced by monsters, then the video changes into Deranged Animation to difficult to convey in words. The video for "Electric Feel" depicts the band members and various people, cartoon characters, The Rock-afire Explosion, and animal-people partying in the middle of a jungle. They take the moon from the sky, cut it open, and paint themselves in a neon ooze emitting from it. Then put it back in the sky. During the closing sequence, the members of MGMT get on motorbikes and drive into the moon which then explodes, causing a rain of neon colors to fall on the dancing people. | |
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Alternate Album Cover | |
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Alternate Album Cover: The original 2007 release on RED Ink records depicts a man in white and a winged man in black meeting each other in a CGI cosmic landscape. The 2008 wide release on Columbia Records features a different cover depicting the band on a beach at dusk. | |
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