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* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: Glover's snarling performance of "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" changes it from a relatively innocent song about a LoveTriangle between circus performers to one about a man using his popularity to take advantage of a teenage girl.
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* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: Glover's snarling performance of "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze" changes it from a relatively innocent song about a LoveTriangle between circus performers to one about a man using his popularity to take advantage of a teenage girl. Notably, the cover is also sort of a PerspectiveFlip - usually the lyrics are about a man lamenting that the title character stole his girlfriend away from him; Crispin rewrote them so that the narrator ''is'' the man on the flying trapeze, who seems to be [[VillainSong boasting about breaking the man's heart and manipulating the girl]].
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* CoverVersion: Of Music/NancySinatra's "These Boots Are Made For Walking" and of the old standard "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze."
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* CoverVersion: Of Music/NancySinatra's "These Boots Are Made For Walking" Walking", of UsefulNotes/CharlesManson's "Never Say Never To Always", and of the old standard "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze."
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: "Auto Manipulator". It's not even subtle about it.
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* CoverVersion: Of Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made For Walking" and of the old standard "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze."
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* CoverVersion: Of Nancy Sinatra's Music/NancySinatra's "These Boots Are Made For Walking" and of the old standard "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze."
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: "Auto Manipulator"Manipulator". It's not even subtle about it.
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* UntitledTitle: The last three tracks are given these.
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* OutsiderMusicOutsiderMusic: Arguably the most accessible album of the genre since ''[[Music/TinyTim God Bless Tiny Tim]]'', which is saying something.
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* GenreRoulette: From ambient folk to RapRock to CreepyCircusMusic to SpokenWordInMusic to...
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* MindScrew: The bizarre poetry, the never-explained CentralTheme, the music that ranges from creepy to inexplicable, ''the very fact that this album even exists...''
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Less a venture into pop superstardom and more a tangent of [[SharedUniverse a larger multimedia project]], five of the tracks are readings from Glover's two poetry books, ''Rat Catching'' and ''Oak Mot'', while one ("Clowny Clown Clown," which, inexplicably, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtOXxH6KVX4 got a music video]]) gives the earliest reference to the character of Rubin Farr, whom he'd appear as, Creator/AndyKaufman-style, on ''The Late Show with David Letterman'' while promoting the album and, two years later, in the movie ''Film/RubinAndEd''. The album's booklet contained a phone number for [[AudienceParticipation listeners who'd wish to call Glover and share their own theories about the titular "big problem."]] The line remained open for 19 years before being disconnected in 2007.
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Less a venture into pop superstardom and more a tangent of [[SharedUniverse a larger multimedia project]], five half of the tracks are readings from Glover's two poetry books, ''Rat Catching'' and ''Oak Mot'', while one ("Clowny Clown Clown," which, inexplicably, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtOXxH6KVX4 got a music video]]) gives the earliest reference to the character of Rubin Farr, whom he'd appear as, Creator/AndyKaufman-style, on ''The Late Show with David Letterman'' while promoting the album and, two years later, in the movie ''Film/RubinAndEd''. The album's booklet contained a phone number for [[AudienceParticipation listeners who'd wish to call Glover and share their own theories about the titular "big problem."]] The line remained open for 19 years before being disconnected in 2007.
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* ConceptAlbum: As stated on the album's back cover, all of the tracks are meant to point to an alleged "big problem," though it's never explained exactly what said problem is, only that the solution is "LET IT BE."
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* LeftHanging: The album never states what it's titular "big problem" is.
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* ACapella: "Never Say Never To Always."
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* MinusculeRocking: "Never Say Never To Always" is the shortest song on the album, clocking it at three seconds short of a minute.
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* SpecialGuest: Music/WeirdAlYankovic himself plays accordion on "Untitled Bonus Track 1."
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* SpecialGuest: Music/WeirdAlYankovic himself plays accordion on "Untitled Bonus Track 1.""
* WordSaladLyrics: "New Clean Song," "Getting Out Of Bed," and most of his poetry readings, the last of which is justified in that the poems themselves are made up of phrases reappropriated from old public domain books.
* WordSaladLyrics: "New Clean Song," "Getting Out Of Bed," and most of his poetry readings, the last of which is justified in that the poems themselves are made up of phrases reappropriated from old public domain books.
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'''The Big Problem ≠ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be'''[[note]]Pronounced: The Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution, The Solution Equals Let It Be.[[/note]] is [[MindScrew a very, very strange]] album from 1988 by [[CloudCuckoolander lovable weirdo]] Creator/CrispinGlover, to date [[OneBookAuthor the only one he's ever released]]. Barnes and Barnes (yes, the guys who did "Fish Heads") produced, recorded and played most of the instruments on the album.
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* SopranoAndGravel: Glover does a one-person version of this, alternating between his normal, waifish voice and snarling growls on some tracks.
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* CoverVersion: Of Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made For Walking."
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* CoverVersion: Of Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made For Walking.Walking" and of the old standard "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze."
* CreepyCircusMusic: "Clowny ClownClown"Clown," as well as an unnerving arrangement of "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze."
* CreepyCircusMusic: "Clowny Clown
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* SpecialGuest: Music/WeirdAlYankvoic himself plays accordion on "Untitled Bonus Track 1."
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'''The Big Problem ≠ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be'''[[note]]Pronounced: The Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution, The Solution Equals Let It Be.[[/note]] is [[MindScrew a very, very strange]] album from 1988 by [[CloudCuckoolander lovable weirdo]] Creator/CrispinGlover, to date the only one he's ever released. Barnes and Barnes (yes, the guys who did "Fish Heads") produced, recorded and played most of the instruments on the album.
Less a venture into pop superstardom and more a tangent of [[SharedUniverse a larger multimedia project]], five of the tracks are readings from Glover's two poetry books, ''Rat Catching'' and ''Oak Mot'', while one ("Clowny Clown Clown," which, inexplicably, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtOXxH6KVX4 got a music video]]) gives the earliest reference to the character of Rubin Farr, whom he'd appear as, Creator/AndyKaufman-style, on ''The Late Show with David Letterman'' while promoting the album and, two years later, in the movie ''Film/RubinAndEd''. The album's booklet contained a phone number for [[AudienceParticipation listeners who'd wish to call Glover and share their own theories about the titular "big problem."]] The line remained open for 19 years before being disconnected in 2007.
Less a venture into pop superstardom and more a tangent of [[SharedUniverse a larger multimedia project]], five of the tracks are readings from Glover's two poetry books, ''Rat Catching'' and ''Oak Mot'', while one ("Clowny Clown Clown," which, inexplicably, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtOXxH6KVX4 got a music video]]) gives the earliest reference to the character of Rubin Farr, whom he'd appear as, Creator/AndyKaufman-style, on ''The Late Show with David Letterman'' while promoting the album and, two years later, in the movie ''Film/RubinAndEd''. The album's booklet contained a phone number for [[AudienceParticipation listeners who'd wish to call Glover and share their own theories about the titular "big problem."]] The line remained open for 19 years before being disconnected in 2007.
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'''The Big Problem ≠ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be'''[[note]]Pronounced: The Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution, The Solution Equals Let It Be.[[/note]] is [[MindScrew a very, very strange]] album from 1988 by [[CloudCuckoolander lovable weirdo]] Creator/CrispinGlover, to date [[OneBookAuthor the only one he's ever released.released]]. Barnes and Barnes (yes, the guys who did "Fish Heads") produced, recorded and played most of the instruments on the album.
Less a venture into pop superstardom and more a tangent of [[SharedUniverse a larger multimedia project]], five of the tracks are readings from Glover's two poetry books, ''Rat Catching'' and ''Oak Mot'', while one ("Clowny Clown Clown," which, inexplicably, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtOXxH6KVX4 got a music video]]) gives the earliest reference to the character of Rubin Farr, whom he'd appear as, Creator/AndyKaufman-style, on ''The Late Show with David Letterman'' while promoting the album and, two years later, in the movie ''Film/RubinAndEd''. The album's booklet contained a phone number for [[AudienceParticipation listeners who'd wish to call Glover and share their own theories about the titular "big problem."]] The line remained open for 19 years before being disconnected in2007.2007.
!!Track listing
# "Overture"
# "Selected Readings from Rat Catching"
# "The New Clean Song"
# "Auto-Manipulator"
# "Clowny Clown Clown"
# "Getting Out of Bed"
# "These Boots Are Made for Walking"
# "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze"
# "Never Say 'Never' to Always"
# "Selected Readings from Oak Mot Part I"
# "Selected Readings from Oak Mot Part II"
# "Selected Readings from Oak Mot Part III"
# "Selected Readings from Oak Mot Part IV"
# "Untitled 1"
# "Untitled 2"
# "Untitled 3"
!!"I was walking on the ground, and / I didn't make a sound, and / I turned around and / I saw some tropes"
* CarefulWithThatAxe: The second half of "These Boots Are Made For Walking," which also become increasingly off-tempo and indecipherable at it goes on.
* CoverVersion: Of Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made For Walking."
* CreepyCircusMusic: "Clowny Clown Clown"
* ADateWithRosiePalms: "Auto Manipulator"
* HarshVocals
** His cover of "These Boots Are Made For Walking" is less sung as much as it is shrieked.
** The deep, tough voice he puts on for "Auto Manipulator."
* InTheStyleOf: "Auto Manipulator" parodies Music/RunDMC's then-popular brand of RapRock, specifically songs like "King of Rock."
* MoodWhiplash: The bridge from "Auto Manipulator" abruptly shifts from aggressive RapRock to soft cocktail lounge jazz, then back for the last chorus.
* NonIronicClown: The titular clown in "Clowny Clown Clown." There's no indication that he's anything but a normal clown and the narrator even befriends him, taking care of the clown when it's dying, though at the end, the narrator inexplicably states that he hates the clown for no reason than he finds it ugly.
* OutsiderMusic
* PissTakeRap: "Auto Manipulator."
* RapRock: Parodied with "Auto Manipulator."
* StylisticSuck
** Glover exchanges Nancy Sinatra's svelte, sexy singing on the original version of "These Boots Are Made For Walking" for half-whined, half-shrieked, off-tempo talk-singing.
** "[[PissTakeRap Auto Manipulator]]" also proves that Glover, while he's got tempo, is no a rapper.
* SpokenWordInMusic: Half of the albums sixteen tracks are Glover reading passages from two of his books of poetry, while many of the songs have him talk-singing (or, in the case of his cover of "These Boots Are Made For Walking," [[CarefulWithThatAxe incomprehensibly screeching]]). There's also the spoken-word intro to "Auto Manipulator."
* SmokingIsNotCool: "Clowny Clown Clown" ends with the narrator smoking a cigar, then coughing slightly, adding "See what a cigar'll do?"
* SpecialGuest: Music/WeirdAlYankvoic himself plays accordion on "Untitled Bonus Track 1."
Less a venture into pop superstardom and more a tangent of [[SharedUniverse a larger multimedia project]], five of the tracks are readings from Glover's two poetry books, ''Rat Catching'' and ''Oak Mot'', while one ("Clowny Clown Clown," which, inexplicably, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtOXxH6KVX4 got a music video]]) gives the earliest reference to the character of Rubin Farr, whom he'd appear as, Creator/AndyKaufman-style, on ''The Late Show with David Letterman'' while promoting the album and, two years later, in the movie ''Film/RubinAndEd''. The album's booklet contained a phone number for [[AudienceParticipation listeners who'd wish to call Glover and share their own theories about the titular "big problem."]] The line remained open for 19 years before being disconnected in
!!Track listing
# "Overture"
# "Selected Readings from Rat Catching"
# "The New Clean Song"
# "Auto-Manipulator"
# "Clowny Clown Clown"
# "Getting Out of Bed"
# "These Boots Are Made for Walking"
# "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze"
# "Never Say 'Never' to Always"
# "Selected Readings from Oak Mot Part I"
# "Selected Readings from Oak Mot Part II"
# "Selected Readings from Oak Mot Part III"
# "Selected Readings from Oak Mot Part IV"
# "Untitled 1"
# "Untitled 2"
# "Untitled 3"
!!"I was walking on the ground, and / I didn't make a sound, and / I turned around and / I saw some tropes"
* CarefulWithThatAxe: The second half of "These Boots Are Made For Walking," which also become increasingly off-tempo and indecipherable at it goes on.
* CoverVersion: Of Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made For Walking."
* CreepyCircusMusic: "Clowny Clown Clown"
* ADateWithRosiePalms: "Auto Manipulator"
* HarshVocals
** His cover of "These Boots Are Made For Walking" is less sung as much as it is shrieked.
** The deep, tough voice he puts on for "Auto Manipulator."
* InTheStyleOf: "Auto Manipulator" parodies Music/RunDMC's then-popular brand of RapRock, specifically songs like "King of Rock."
* MoodWhiplash: The bridge from "Auto Manipulator" abruptly shifts from aggressive RapRock to soft cocktail lounge jazz, then back for the last chorus.
* NonIronicClown: The titular clown in "Clowny Clown Clown." There's no indication that he's anything but a normal clown and the narrator even befriends him, taking care of the clown when it's dying, though at the end, the narrator inexplicably states that he hates the clown for no reason than he finds it ugly.
* OutsiderMusic
* PissTakeRap: "Auto Manipulator."
* RapRock: Parodied with "Auto Manipulator."
* StylisticSuck
** Glover exchanges Nancy Sinatra's svelte, sexy singing on the original version of "These Boots Are Made For Walking" for half-whined, half-shrieked, off-tempo talk-singing.
** "[[PissTakeRap Auto Manipulator]]" also proves that Glover, while he's got tempo, is no a rapper.
* SpokenWordInMusic: Half of the albums sixteen tracks are Glover reading passages from two of his books of poetry, while many of the songs have him talk-singing (or, in the case of his cover of "These Boots Are Made For Walking," [[CarefulWithThatAxe incomprehensibly screeching]]). There's also the spoken-word intro to "Auto Manipulator."
* SmokingIsNotCool: "Clowny Clown Clown" ends with the narrator smoking a cigar, then coughing slightly, adding "See what a cigar'll do?"
* SpecialGuest: Music/WeirdAlYankvoic himself plays accordion on "Untitled Bonus Track 1."
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-->“All words and music point to THE BIG PROBLEM. The solution lay within the title; LET IT BE. Crispin Hellion Glover wants to know what you think these nine things have in common. Call (213) 464-5053.”
->'''Inscription at the top of the album's back cover'''
'''The Big Problem ≠ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be'''[[note]]Pronounced: The Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution, The Solution Equals Let It Be.[[/note]] is [[MindScrew a very, very strange]] album from 1988 by [[CloudCuckolander lovable weirdo]] Creator/CrispinGlover, to date the only one he's ever released. Barnes and Barnes (yes, the guys who did "Fish Heads") produced, recorded and played most of the instruments on the album.
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'''The Big Problem ≠ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be'''[[note]]Pronounced: The Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution, The Solution Equals Let It Be.[[/note]] is [[MindScrew a very, very strange]] album from 1988 by [[CloudCuckolander lovable weirdo]] Creator/CrispinGlover, to date the only one he's ever released. Barnes and Barnes (yes, the guys who did "Fish Heads") produced, recorded and played most of the instruments on the album.
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'''The Big Problem ≠ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be'''[[note]]Pronounced: The Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution, The Solution Equals Let It Be.[[/note]] is [[MindScrew a very, very strange]] album from 1988 by
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-->“All words and music point to THE BIG PROBLEM. The solution lay within the title; LET IT BE. Crispin Hellion Glover wants to know what you think these nine things have in common. Call (213) 464-5053.”
->'''Inscription at the top of the album's back cover'''
'''The Big Problem ≠ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be'''[[note]]Pronounced: The Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution, The Solution Equals Let It Be.[[/note]] is [[MindScrew a very, very strange]] album from 1988 by [[CloudCuckolander lovable weirdo]] Creator/CrispinGlover, to date the only one he's ever released. Barnes and Barnes (yes, the guys who did "Fish Heads") produced, recorded and played most of the instruments on the album.
Less a venture into pop superstardom and more a tangent of [[SharedUniverse a larger multimedia project]], five of the tracks are readings from Glover's two poetry books, ''Rat Catching'' and ''Oak Mot'', while one ("Clowny Clown Clown," which, inexplicably, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtOXxH6KVX4 got a music video]]) gives the earliest reference to the character of Rubin Farr, whom he'd appear as, Creator/AndyKaufman-style, on ''The Late Show with David Letterman'' while promoting the album and, two years later, in the movie ''Film/RubinAndEd''. The album's booklet contained a phone number for [[AudienceParticipation listeners who'd wish to call Glover and share their own theories about the titular "big problem."]] The line remained open for 19 years before being disconnected in 2007.
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-->“All words and music point to THE BIG PROBLEM. The solution lay within the title; LET IT BE. Crispin Hellion Glover wants to know what you think these nine things have in common. Call (213) 464-5053.”
->'''Inscription at the top of the album's back cover'''
'''The Big Problem ≠ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be'''[[note]]Pronounced: The Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution, The Solution Equals Let It Be.[[/note]] is [[MindScrew a very, very strange]] album from 1988 by [[CloudCuckolander lovable weirdo]] Creator/CrispinGlover, to date the only one he's ever released. Barnes and Barnes (yes, the guys who did "Fish Heads") produced, recorded and played most of the instruments on the album.
Less a venture into pop superstardom and more a tangent of [[SharedUniverse a larger multimedia project]], five of the tracks are readings from Glover's two poetry books, ''Rat Catching'' and ''Oak Mot'', while one ("Clowny Clown Clown," which, inexplicably, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtOXxH6KVX4 got a music video]]) gives the earliest reference to the character of Rubin Farr, whom he'd appear as, Creator/AndyKaufman-style, on ''The Late Show with David Letterman'' while promoting the album and, two years later, in the movie ''Film/RubinAndEd''. The album's booklet contained a phone number for [[AudienceParticipation listeners who'd wish to call Glover and share their own theories about the titular "big problem."]] The line remained open for 19 years before being disconnected in 2007.
