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''Apollo 18'' (not to be confused with the 2011 sci-fi horror movie [[Film/Apollo18 of the same name]]) is the fourth studio album by ''Music/TheyMightBeGiants'', produced by the band (but almost produced by Music/ElvisCostello) and released in 1992 by Creator/ElektraRecords. It managed to make the Billboard Top 200 list at #99, and stayed on the list for about six weeks.
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''Apollo 18'' (not to be confused with the 2011 sci-fi horror movie [[Film/Apollo18 of the same name]]) is the fourth studio album by ''Music/TheyMightBeGiants'', produced by the band (but almost produced by Music/ElvisCostello) and released in 1992 by Creator/ElektraRecords. It managed to make the Billboard Top 200 list at #99, and stayed on the list for about six weeks.
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* LastNoteNightmare: The final minute of "See the Constellation" has the song unravel as it fades down, with various elements from earlier in the tune (fuzztone guitar, accordion, the Ramones sample) popping in and out, and a completely different instrumental bed (taken from an abandoned song called "I Miss Side Two") fading up in the final few moments.
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* ShoutOut: The opening line of "See the Constellation" ("I lay my head on the railroad track") is a slightly reworded quote of the opening line of Music/WarrenZevon's "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" ("I lay my head on the railroad tracks").
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* ShoutOut: The opening line of "See the Constellation" ("I lay my head on the railroad track") is a slightly reworded quote of the opening line of Music/WarrenZevon's "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" ("I lay my head on the railroad tracks").tracks"), though Flansburgh has also cited a [[https://twitter.com/DontLetsPod/status/1370164142838067209/ photo of fellow Elektra Records artist Sara Hickman]] from the booklet of her 1988 album ''Equal Scary People'' as an inspiration.
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* DownLADrain: The video for "The Statue Got Me High" was filmed on the L.A. River, specifically at the Sepulveda Dam.
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* UnconventionalLearningExperience: "Mammal" is a straightforward educational song that predates any of their childrens' albums by a decade.
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* UnconventionalLearningExperience: "Mammal" is a straightforward educational song that predates any of their childrens' albums by a decade.
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* EvolvingMusic: "I Palindrome I" began life as a Flansburgh song ("I palindrome I, born on the 5th of July") for which he recorded some Dial-a-Song demos, but then he decided to abandon what he'd been working on and gave the title to Linnell, who then wrote an entirely new song around it.
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* BoDiddleyBeat: "Hypnotist of Ladies" uses the Bo Diddley Beat in the verses.
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* ShoutOut: The opening line of "See the Constellation" ("I lay my head on the railroad track") is a slightly reworded quote of the opening line of Music/WarrenZevon's "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" ("I lay my head on the railroad tracks").
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* EvilTwin: "My Evil Twin", though in usual TMBG UnreliableNarrator fashion, it's not clear if the singer really has a twin or is singing about one of his split personalities.
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* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Implied in "If I Wasn't Shy"; among the things the narrator would do if he were more assertive is burn "all the uniforms", "all the 'Ask Me' buttons", "all the intercoms", and "all the time-clock cards".
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* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Generally a 1 to low 4, though "See The Constellation" is a low 5.
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My coat contained a furnace where there used to be a guy''
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My coat contained a furnace where there used to be a guy''guy''
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* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Generally a 1 to low 4, though "See The Constellation" is a low 5.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Someday, Mother will die and I'll get the money\\
Mom leans down and says "My sentiments exactly"]]
Mom leans down and says "My sentiments exactly"]]
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!!Here In The Hall of Tropes, You Look Through the Keyhole
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* {{Sampling}}: A sample of [[Music/TheRamones Dee Dee Ramone]] doing a countoff is sprinkled throughout "See the Constellation".
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* {{Sampling}}: A sample of [[Music/TheRamones Dee Dee Ramone]] doing a countoff at the beginning of the Ramones' [[Music/LeaveHome "Commando"]] is sprinkled throughout "See the Constellation".
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* IncrediblyLongNote: "See the Constellation" ends with the Johns singing the last note of the line "Do you hear what I see in the sky?" for roughly fifteen seconds.
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* EducationalSong: "Mammal" is a song about the common features of mammals.
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* ExorcistHead: In the last verse of "Turn Around", the train engineer "quickly swiveled his head around" in response to his passengers' horsing around, revealing [[WhiteMaskOfDoom a face like "a paper-white mask of evil"]].
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* ExorcistHead: In the last verse of "Turn Around", the train engineer "quickly swiveled his head around" in response to his passengers' horsing around, horsing-around, revealing [[WhiteMaskOfDoom a face like "a paper-white mask of evil"]].
-->''See the spring of the grandfather clock unwinding\\
See the hands of my offspring making windmills\\
Dad palindrome dad, I palindrome I''
See the hands of my offspring making windmills\\
Dad palindrome dad, I palindrome I''
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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness:
--> "He had the same obsequious manner." Enough said.
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* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness:
--> "He hadSesquipedalianLoquaciousness: The narrator of "Turn Around" describes the mysterious undead caller from the first verse as having " the same obsequious manner." Enough said.manner / that was the reason I had him killed".
--> "He had
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--> "He had the same obsequious manner." Enough said.
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''Apollo 18'' (not to be confused with the 2011 sci-fi horror movie [[Film/Apollo18 of the same name]]) is the fourth studio album by ''Music/TheyMightBeGiants'', produced by Music/ElvisCostello and released in 1992 by Creator/ElektraRecords. It managed to make the Billboard Top 200 list at #99, and stayed on the list for about six weeks.
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''Apollo 18'' (not to be confused with the 2011 sci-fi horror movie [[Film/Apollo18 of the same name]]) is the fourth studio album by ''Music/TheyMightBeGiants'', produced by Music/ElvisCostello the band (but almost produced by Music/ElvisCostello) and released in 1992 by Creator/ElektraRecords. It managed to make the Billboard Top 200 list at #99, and stayed on the list for about six weeks.
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* ExorcistHead: The engineer in the last verse of "Turn Around" "quickly swiveled his head around".
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* ExorcistHead: The engineer in In the last verse of "Turn Around" Around", the train engineer "quickly swiveled his head around".around" in response to his passengers' horsing around, revealing [[WhiteMaskOfDoom a face like "a paper-white mask of evil"]].
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* MinisculeRocking: The "Fingertips" suite takes this to new heights. Most of the tracks are barely long enough for a single line, and only "I Walk Along Darkened Corridors" is longer than half a minute.
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* MinisculeRocking: The "Fingertips" suite takes this to new heights. Most of the tracks are [[SingleStanzaSong barely long enough for a single line, one or two lines]], and only "I Walk Along Darkened Corridors" is longer than half a minute.
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* MotorMouth: The second-to-last verse of "Dinner Bell" has Linnell spouting off fifty-nine words in the span of eleven seconds as he tries to decide what food he'd rather eat instead of waiting for the titular bell.
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* BreakUpSong: "Narrow Your Eyes"
-->''Now we'll toast the sad, cold fact\\
Our love's never coming back\\
And [[DrowningMySorrows we'll race to the bottom of a glass]]\\
Narrow your eyes''
* BuriedAlive: Happens to the narrator in the second verse of "Turn Around"
-->''And then the ghost of my dance instructor\\
Pushed me down into an open grave\\
And as dirt rained down, she played a xylophone\\
And sang me this song''
* ExorcistHead: The engineer in the last verse of "Turn Around" "quickly swiveled his head around".
-->''Now we'll toast the sad, cold fact\\
Our love's never coming back\\
And [[DrowningMySorrows we'll race to the bottom of a glass]]\\
Narrow your eyes''
* BuriedAlive: Happens to the narrator in the second verse of "Turn Around"
-->''And then the ghost of my dance instructor\\
Pushed me down into an open grave\\
And as dirt rained down, she played a xylophone\\
And sang me this song''
* ExorcistHead: The engineer in the last verse of "Turn Around" "quickly swiveled his head around".
* GenreRoulette: The songs that make up "Fingertips" often switch between [[MoodWhiplash wildly different moods]] and musical genres.
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* MinisculeRocking: The "Fingertips" suite takes this to new heights. Most of the tracks are barely long enough for a single line, and only "I Walk Along Darkened Corridors" is longer than half a minute.
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* MinisculeRocking: The "Fingertips" suite takes this to new heights. Most of the tracks are barely long enough for a single line, and only "I Walk Along Darkened Corridors" is longer than half a minute.minute.
* SpontaneousHumanCombustion: The mysterious statue from "The Statue Got Me High" causes the narrator to burst into flames.
-->''The statue made me fry, the statue made me fry\\
My coat contained a furnace where there used to be a guy''
* SpontaneousHumanCombustion: The mysterious statue from "The Statue Got Me High" causes the narrator to burst into flames.
-->''The statue made me fry, the statue made me fry\\
My coat contained a furnace where there used to be a guy''
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''Apollo 18'' (not to be confused with the 2011 sci-fi horror movie [[Film/Apollo18 of the same name]]) is the fourth studio album by ''Music/TheyMightBeGiants'', produced by Music/ElvisCostello and released in 1992 by Creator/ElektraRecords.
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''Apollo 18'' (not to be confused with the 2011 sci-fi horror movie [[Film/Apollo18 of the same name]]) is the fourth studio album by ''Music/TheyMightBeGiants'', produced by Music/ElvisCostello and released in 1992 by Creator/ElektraRecords.
Creator/ElektraRecords. It managed to make the Billboard Top 200 list at #99, and stayed on the list for about six weeks.
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# "She's Actual Size"
# "My Evil Twin"
# "Mammal"
# "The Statue Got Me High"
# "Spider"
# "The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)"
# "Dinner Bell"
# "Narrow Your Eyes"
# "Hall of Heads"
# "Which Describes How You're Feeling"
# "See The Constellation"
# "If I Wasn't Shy"
# "Turn Around"
# "Hypnotist Of Ladies"
# "Everything Is Catching on Fire"
# "Fingertips (Banjo)"
# "I Hear The Wind Blow"
# "Hey Now Everybody"
# "Who's That Standing Out the Window?"
# "I Found A New Friend Underneath My Pillow"
# "Come On and Wreck My Car"
# "Aren't You The Guy Who Hit Me In The Eye?"
# "Please Pass the Milk"
# "Leave Me Alone"
# "Who's Knocking on the Wall?"
# "All Alone, All By Myself"
# "What's That Blue Thing Doing Here?"
# "Something Grabbed Ahold Of My Hand"
# "I Don't Understand You"
# "Mysterious Whisper"
# "The Day That Love Came to Play"
# "I'm Having a Heart Attack"
# "Fingertips (Whispered)"
# "I Walk Along Darkened Corridors"
# "Space Suit"
# "My Evil Twin"
# "Mammal"
# "The Statue Got Me High"
# "Spider"
# "The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)"
# "Dinner Bell"
# "Narrow Your Eyes"
# "Hall of Heads"
# "Which Describes How You're Feeling"
# "See The Constellation"
# "If I Wasn't Shy"
# "Turn Around"
# "Hypnotist Of Ladies"
# "Everything Is Catching on Fire"
# "Fingertips (Banjo)"
# "I Hear The Wind Blow"
# "Hey Now Everybody"
# "Who's That Standing Out the Window?"
# "I Found A New Friend Underneath My Pillow"
# "Come On and Wreck My Car"
# "Aren't You The Guy Who Hit Me In The Eye?"
# "Please Pass the Milk"
# "Leave Me Alone"
# "Who's Knocking on the Wall?"
# "All Alone, All By Myself"
# "What's That Blue Thing Doing Here?"
# "Something Grabbed Ahold Of My Hand"
# "I Don't Understand You"
# "Mysterious Whisper"
# "The Day That Love Came to Play"
# "I'm Having a Heart Attack"
# "Fingertips (Whispered)"
# "I Walk Along Darkened Corridors"
# "Space Suit"
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# "She's Actual Size"
Size" (2:05)
# "My EvilTwin"
Twin" (2:37)
#"Mammal"
"Mammal" (2:14)
# "The Statue Got MeHigh"
High" (3:06)
#"Spider"
"Spider" (0:50)
# "The Guitar (The Lion SleepsTonight)"
Tonight)" (3:46)
# "DinnerBell"
Bell" (2:11)
# "Narrow YourEyes"
Eyes" (2:46)
# "Hall ofHeads"
Heads" (2:53)
# "Which Describes How You'reFeeling"
Feeling" (1:13)
# "See TheConstellation"
Constellation" (3:27)
# "If I Wasn'tShy"
Shy" (1:43)
# "TurnAround"
Around" (2:53)
# "Hypnotist OfLadies"
Ladies" (1:42)
# "Everything Is Catching onFire"
Fire" (0:12)
# "Fingertips(Banjo)"
(Banjo)" (0:06)
# "I Hear The WindBlow"
Blow" (0:10)
# "Hey NowEverybody"
Everybody" (0:05)
# "Who's That Standing Out theWindow?"
Window?" (0:06)
# "I Found A New Friend Underneath MyPillow"
Pillow" (0:07)
# "Come On and Wreck MyCar"
Car" (0:12)
# "Aren't You The Guy Who Hit Me In TheEye?"
Eye?" (0:06)
# "Please Pass theMilk"
Milk" (0:08)
# "Leave MeAlone"
Alone" (0:05)
# "Who's Knocking on theWall?"
Wall?" (0:04)
# "All Alone, All ByMyself"
Myself" (0:05)
# "What's That Blue Thing DoingHere?"
Here?" (0:08)
# "Something Grabbed Ahold Of MyHand"
Hand" (0:12)
# "I Don't UnderstandYou"
You" (0:27)
# "I Heard A Sound" (0:04)
# "MysteriousWhisper"
Whisper" (0:28)
# "The Day That Love Came toPlay"
Play" (0:08)
# "I'm Having a HeartAttack"
Attack" (0:23)
# "Fingertips(Whispered)"
(Whispered)" (0:10)
# "I Walk Along DarkenedCorridors"
Corridors" (1:01)
# "SpaceSuit"Suit" (1:36)
!!Here In The Hall of Tropes, You Look Through the Keyhole
* ActionGirl: The woman described in "She's Actual Size" is apparently a force to be reckoned with.
-->''Big men often tremble\\
As they step aside\\
I thought I was big once\\
She changed my mind''
* FunWithPalindromes: As the name suggests, the song "I Palindrome I" features a lot of symbolism involving palindromes, including:
** Letter palindromes (With Flansburgh singing "Egad, a base tone denotes a bad age" during the final verse)
** Numeric palindromes (The song is two minutes and twenty-two seconds long)
** The bridge is a musical palindrome called a "retrograde canon" or "crab canon", and the lyrics are a word palindrome ("'Son, I am able' she said, 'though you scare me.'", etc.)
** References to "conceptual palindromes" such as springs, windmills, and the {{ouroboros}} ("And I am a snake-head eating the head on the opposite side")
* GenerationXerox: "I Palindrome I" is about a guy waiting for his aging mother to die so he'll inherit her fortune, and the song is loaded with enough cyclical imagery to end with the implication that he'll get the same treatment from his kids.
* LyricalDissonance: "Turn Around" is a jaunty jazz-inspired song about zombies, ghosts, and monsters.
* MinisculeRocking: The "Fingertips" suite takes this to new heights. Most of the tracks are barely long enough for a single line, and only "I Walk Along Darkened Corridors" is longer than half a minute.
# "My Evil
#
# "The Statue Got Me
#
# "The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps
# "Dinner
# "Narrow Your
# "Hall of
# "Which Describes How You're
# "See The
# "If I Wasn't
# "Turn
# "Hypnotist Of
# "Everything Is Catching on
# "Fingertips
# "I Hear The Wind
# "Hey Now
# "Who's That Standing Out the
# "I Found A New Friend Underneath My
# "Come On and Wreck My
# "Aren't You The Guy Who Hit Me In The
# "Please Pass the
# "Leave Me
# "Who's Knocking on the
# "All Alone, All By
# "What's That Blue Thing Doing
# "Something Grabbed Ahold Of My
# "I Don't Understand
# "I Heard A Sound" (0:04)
# "Mysterious
# "The Day That Love Came to
# "I'm Having a Heart
# "Fingertips
# "I Walk Along Darkened
# "Space
!!Here In The Hall of Tropes, You Look Through the Keyhole
* ActionGirl: The woman described in "She's Actual Size" is apparently a force to be reckoned with.
-->''Big men often tremble\\
As they step aside\\
I thought I was big once\\
She changed my mind''
* FunWithPalindromes: As the name suggests, the song "I Palindrome I" features a lot of symbolism involving palindromes, including:
** Letter palindromes (With Flansburgh singing "Egad, a base tone denotes a bad age" during the final verse)
** Numeric palindromes (The song is two minutes and twenty-two seconds long)
** The bridge is a musical palindrome called a "retrograde canon" or "crab canon", and the lyrics are a word palindrome ("'Son, I am able' she said, 'though you scare me.'", etc.)
** References to "conceptual palindromes" such as springs, windmills, and the {{ouroboros}} ("And I am a snake-head eating the head on the opposite side")
* GenerationXerox: "I Palindrome I" is about a guy waiting for his aging mother to die so he'll inherit her fortune, and the song is loaded with enough cyclical imagery to end with the implication that he'll get the same treatment from his kids.
* LyricalDissonance: "Turn Around" is a jaunty jazz-inspired song about zombies, ghosts, and monsters.
* MinisculeRocking: The "Fingertips" suite takes this to new heights. Most of the tracks are barely long enough for a single line, and only "I Walk Along Darkened Corridors" is longer than half a minute.
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->''Dig my grave, dig my grave\\
Every time I look in your eyes\\
I see St. Peter wave''
-->--'''Dig My Grave'''
''Apollo 18'' (not to be confused with the 2011 sci-fi horror movie [[Film/Apollo18 of the same name]]) is the fourth studio album by ''Music/TheyMightBeGiants'', produced by Music/ElvisCostello and released in 1992 by Creator/ElektraRecords.
The album's most notable track is "Fingertips", a series of 21 mini-songs averaging 13 seconds in length. It was intended to "complement the shuffle mode of modern CD players".
!!Tracklist
# "Dig My Grave" (1:08)
# "I Palindrome I" (2:22)
# "She's Actual Size"
# "My Evil Twin"
# "Mammal"
# "The Statue Got Me High"
# "Spider"
# "The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)"
# "Dinner Bell"
# "Narrow Your Eyes"
# "Hall of Heads"
# "Which Describes How You're Feeling"
# "See The Constellation"
# "If I Wasn't Shy"
# "Turn Around"
# "Hypnotist Of Ladies"
# "Everything Is Catching on Fire"
# "Fingertips (Banjo)"
# "I Hear The Wind Blow"
# "Hey Now Everybody"
# "Who's That Standing Out the Window?"
# "I Found A New Friend Underneath My Pillow"
# "Come On and Wreck My Car"
# "Aren't You The Guy Who Hit Me In The Eye?"
# "Please Pass the Milk"
# "Leave Me Alone"
# "Who's Knocking on the Wall?"
# "All Alone, All By Myself"
# "What's That Blue Thing Doing Here?"
# "Something Grabbed Ahold Of My Hand"
# "I Don't Understand You"
# "Mysterious Whisper"
# "The Day That Love Came to Play"
# "I'm Having a Heart Attack"
# "Fingertips (Whispered)"
# "I Walk Along Darkened Corridors"
# "Space Suit"
[[caption-width-right:350:some caption text]]
->''Dig my grave, dig my grave\\
Every time I look in your eyes\\
I see St. Peter wave''
-->--'''Dig My Grave'''
''Apollo 18'' (not to be confused with the 2011 sci-fi horror movie [[Film/Apollo18 of the same name]]) is the fourth studio album by ''Music/TheyMightBeGiants'', produced by Music/ElvisCostello and released in 1992 by Creator/ElektraRecords.
The album's most notable track is "Fingertips", a series of 21 mini-songs averaging 13 seconds in length. It was intended to "complement the shuffle mode of modern CD players".
!!Tracklist
# "Dig My Grave" (1:08)
# "I Palindrome I" (2:22)
# "She's Actual Size"
# "My Evil Twin"
# "Mammal"
# "The Statue Got Me High"
# "Spider"
# "The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)"
# "Dinner Bell"
# "Narrow Your Eyes"
# "Hall of Heads"
# "Which Describes How You're Feeling"
# "See The Constellation"
# "If I Wasn't Shy"
# "Turn Around"
# "Hypnotist Of Ladies"
# "Everything Is Catching on Fire"
# "Fingertips (Banjo)"
# "I Hear The Wind Blow"
# "Hey Now Everybody"
# "Who's That Standing Out the Window?"
# "I Found A New Friend Underneath My Pillow"
# "Come On and Wreck My Car"
# "Aren't You The Guy Who Hit Me In The Eye?"
# "Please Pass the Milk"
# "Leave Me Alone"
# "Who's Knocking on the Wall?"
# "All Alone, All By Myself"
# "What's That Blue Thing Doing Here?"
# "Something Grabbed Ahold Of My Hand"
# "I Don't Understand You"
# "Mysterious Whisper"
# "The Day That Love Came to Play"
# "I'm Having a Heart Attack"
# "Fingertips (Whispered)"
# "I Walk Along Darkened Corridors"
# "Space Suit"
