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I'm your only friend / I'one thousand not your only friend / But I'm a lilliputian glowing friend / But really I'one thousand not actually your friend / But I am...

"Why is the world in love over again?
Why are we marching mitt-in-manus?
Why are the ocean levels rising up?
Information technology'due south a brand new record for 1990
They Might Be Giants' make new album: Flood!"

Flood is the tertiary studio album by They Might Be Giants, released in 1990 by Elektra Records, marker the band's major-label debut. It was their most commercially successful anthology, thank you to the cult hit singles "Birdhouse in Your Soul" and "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)". Information technology remains considered one of the band'south all-time, and many people pointed it as their gateway to the band.

Tracklist

  1. "Theme from Flood" (0:28)
  2. "Birdhouse in Your Soul" (3:20)
  3. "Lucky Brawl & Concatenation" (ii:46)
  4. "Istanbul (Non Constaninople)" (2:38)
  5. "Dead" (2:58)
  6. "Your Racist Friend" (2:54)
  7. "Particle Human" (1:59)
  8. "Twisting" (one:56)
  9. "We Want a Rock" (two:47) annotation Originally the concluding rails of side 1 on the LP
  10. "Someone Keeps Moving My Chair" (2:23)
  11. "Hearing Assistance" (three:26)
  12. "Minimum Wage" (0:47)
  13. "Letterbox" (1:25)
  14. "Whistling in the Dark" (iii:25)
  15. "Hot Cha" (1:34)
  16. "Women & Men" (1:46)
  17. "Sapphire Bullets of Pure Dearest" (ane:26)
  18. "They Might Be Giants" (2:46)
  19. "Road Movie to Berlin" (two:22)

Someone Keeps Troping My Chair:

  • Album Intro Runway: "Theme from Alluvion" combines this with Anthology Title Driblet.

    Information technology's a brand new record for 1990
    They Might Be Giants' brand new anthology "Alluvion"!

  • Cryptic Syntax: Dead opens "I returned a bag of groceries accidentally taken off the shelf before the expiration date" which makes information technology audio like the singer simply returned some groceries for a refund, only for the next line to immediately clarify that the singer specifically died and reincarnated equally the handbag.
  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Mr. Horrible of "Someone Keeps Moving My Chair" undergoes many humiliations, starting with — presumably — his nickname and as well including things being spilled on his brain and a "visiting friend" beingness killed. Even so, the only thing he thinks to complain well-nigh is the inconvenience in the vocal championship.
  • Exist Yourself: Subverted in "Whistling in the Dark", which is what the narrator says he is doing when he is being himself. However, "whistling in the nighttime" ofttimes means "speaking of something despite having little knowledge of it", which means that when the narrator is being himself, he has no idea what he is supposed to be doing. This could lead the listener to presume that the meaning of the song is that we oftentimes actually practise need other people telling united states of america what to exercise.
  • Berserk Button: "Someone Keeps Moving My Chair": Whatever you do, don't movement his chair!
  • Bluebird of Happiness: "Birdhouse in Your Soul", by John Linnell, includes the phrase "blue bird of friendliness".
  • Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: From "Theme from Flood":

    Why is the world in love again?
    Why are we marching manus in hand?
    Why are the sea levels rising up?

  • Break Up Song:
    • "Lucky Brawl & Chain" is of the "I blew information technology, simply it'south besides late" genre, with the singer drinking excessively and lamenting his foolishness over his fiancee walking out on him four years prior.
    • "Twisting" meanwhile is a third-person take on the "Don't want you back" variety; the song is from the point of view of a friend of the ex-girlfriend, who is telling her ex in no uncertain terms that the but way she wants to see her ex again is if they're suffering, "twisting... in the wind."
  • Butt-Monkey: Person Man from "Particle Human". Autonomously from all the other miseries he has to put upwardly with, Triangle Human being hates him and beats him up.

    Person Man, Person Man
    Hit on the head with a frying pan
    Lives his life in a garbage tin can
    Person Man
    Is he depressed, or is he a mess?
    Does he feel totally worthless?
    Who came up with Person Man?
    Degraded man, Person Man

  • Cover Version: "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)", a cover of the 1953 Four Lads song. (TMBG fabricated a point of not listening to the original again until after they recorded their own arrangement.)
  • Deliberately Monochrome: The anthology cover is in green and white except for the Flood logo, having been taken from a Cracking Depression-era photograph. The dorsum of the CD example and the liner notes background images are a golden-yellow and white.
  • Department of Redundancy Section: "Particle Man"

    Particle Man, Particle Homo
    Doing the things a particle tin

  • Drowning My Sorrows: In "Lucky Ball and Chain"

    At present I stone the barstool and I drink for two
    Just pondering this fourth dimension-bomb in my mind

  • Extra Eyes: From "Letterbox"

    If I had a pair of eyes on the back of my head for each time
    You forgot to take out all the things you forgot to talk about
    When yous took a bite out of my spine
    I would have a lot of optics on me by this time, wouldn't I?
    Wouldn't that simply be fine?

  • Extreme Doormat: Mr. Horrible in "Someone Keeps Moving My Chair", who keeps having bad things washed to him by the narrator and his Ugliness Men, nonetheless Horrible's only complaint is the song's title.
  • Guttural Growler: Linnell profoundly deepens his voice for "Whistling in the Dark".
  • Frying Pan of Doom: According to "Particle Man", Person Man gets "Striking on the head with a frying pan."
  • Hypocritical Humor: The video for "Birdhouse In Your Soul" features marching protesters holding signs that say STOP ROCK VIDEO.
  • In Vino Veritas: The impetus for the conflict in "Your Racist Friend":

    He allow the contents of the canteen practise the thinking

  • "I Want" Song: "We Want a Rock".
  • "Only Joking" Justification: The titular character in "Your Racist Friend" is implied to accept used this when he gives a backhanded amends for his beliefs.
  • Last Note Nightmare: The harsh guitar solo that closes out "Hearing Aid".
  • Limited Lyrics Song: "Minimum Wage" is merely the championship, a "hyah!" shout, and a whip cleft. The rest of the song is instrumental.
  • Lyrical Cold Open: "Theme from Flood", "Birdhouse in Your Soul", "Dead", "Particle Homo", "Whistling in the Dark" and "Women & Men".
  • Mind Screw: "Birdhouse in Your Soul"

    I'm your just friend, I'thousand not your merely friend
    But I'grand a little glowing friend
    But really, I'm not actually your friend, but I am

  • Miniscule Rocking: Many tracks are less than two or 3 minutes long. "Birdhouse In Your Soul," "Hearing Aid," and "Whistling in the Night" are the only songs longer than 3 minutes. "Theme From Flood" and "Minimum Wage" are less than a infinitesimal long, while "Particle Man" and "Twisting" are almost two minutes.
  • Motor Oral fissure: "Letterbox"
  • One-Man Song: "Particle Man".
  • One-Word Title: "Dead", "Twisting", "Letterbox".
  • Patter Song: The lyrics of "Letterbox" get by and so fast that it's difficult to discern them without a lyric canvass by your side.
  • The Power of Honey: "Birdhouse in Your Soul"

    Say I'thousand the only bee in your bonnet

  • Properly Paranoid: "Someone Keeps Moving My Chair".
  • Protest Song: "Your Racist Friend" was their first fairly straight example.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Vocal: "Your Racist Friend"

    This is where the party ends
    I can't sit hither listening to you and your racist friend

  • Rearrange the Song: As shown here, "Particle Man" has been subject field to all sorts of retooling by the band in live shows. They've shifted the instrumentation, done it every bit an Unplugged Version, did i version In the Fashion of... "Strawberry Fields Forever", and have added a breakdown department where Linnell performs part of a Embrace Version of an older vocal in a adequately straight style (with "The Sign" and "Hither You Come Once more" equally two of the more memorable ones). They've also released a version sung past an elementary school music class.
  • Reincarnation: "Dead", about a man dying and reincarnating as a grocery purse.
  • Refrain from Assuming: ... that Istanbul is even so chosen Constantinople.
  • Delinquent Bride: "Lucky Ball and Chain" is about a guy reminiscing about his relationship with his fiancee after she left him at the altar.
  • Sampling: The music of "Minimum Wage" is sampled from a Frank Sinatra cover of Petula Clark's "Downtown".
  • Serious Business: In "Someone Keeps Moving My Chair":

    You take to try on these pants and then the Ugliness Men
    Can determine if they're just as embarrassing as we think
    We have to be sure about this.

  • Shout-Out:
    • The Flood logo on the forepart cover is a nod to the logo of the International Brotherhood of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), the union that most film crews belong to, with the logo most always displayed prominently at the stop of closing credit rolls. The idea was to convey that this album was more "cinematic" in scope than earlier TMBG albums.
    • "Birdhouse In Your Soul" refers to the Greek Mythology tale Jason and the Argonauts.

      Though I respect that a lot
      I'd exist fired if that were my job
      After killing Jason off and endless screaming Argonauts

    • As dissimilar as the songs sound, "Nosotros Want a Stone" takes both its title and theme from Twisted Sister'due south "I Wanna Rock". Information technology also references "If I Were a Carpenter" by Tim Hardin and "I'g Gonna Burn Your Playhouse Downwards" by George Jones.
    • "Lucky Ball and Concatenation" references Darlene Honey'south "(Today I Met) The Male child I'chiliad Going to Ally."
    • "Sapphire Bullets of Pure Honey" takes its championship from a very short 1973 Mahavishnu Orchestra vocal. Lyrically, information technology sounds similar a shout out to Green Lantern; Hal Jordan's girlfriend, Carol Ferris, has a tendency to become Star Sapphire, whose powers are fueled by love, when she feels scorned by him, and, while John could be referring to the two bandmates, information technology could also be Hal'southward partner, John Stewart.

      John, I've been bad, and they're coming later on me
      Washed someone wrong, and I fear that it was me

    • "Your Racist Friend" is often assumed to exist 1 to "Racist Friend" by The Specials, merely Linnell admitted in an interview that they weren't aware of that vocal when they wrote theirs.
    • "Twisting" name-checks The dB'due south and The Young Fresh Fellows.
    • Information technology's possible that "Particle Man" ("doing the things a particle can") is a shout out to the iconic theme from Spider-Man (1967).
  • Singer Proper name Drib:
    • "Theme From Overflowing"

      Information technology's a make new record for 1990
      They Might Be Giants' make new anthology "Overflowing"!

    • "They Might Be Giants"

      Nosotros can't be silent
      'Crusade they might be giants
      And what're we gonna do, unless they are?

  • Finish and Go: "Road Moving picture To Berlin" has several sudden interruptions before they continue the song once more.
  • Truck Commuter's Gear Change: "Birdhouse In Your Soul" does this in the second bridge before reverting back to its original key for the following verse.
  • The Walrus Was Paul: "Particle Man" seems similar a very ambiguous song, and information technology isn't clear who the four "men" are supposed to correspond, if anyone. John Flansburgh described it equally "but a vocal near characters in the most obvious sense" and claims that the lyrics are not intended to invoke real people, though Linnell subsequently said that Triangle Man was based on a friend's observation that Robert Mitchum looked like an evil triangle when he took his shirt off in The Night of the Hunter.
  • Who Writes This Crap?!: "Particle Homo".

    Who came up with Person Homo?

  • With Friends Like These...: "Your Racist Friend".

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