Line #30 Music/LongTallWeekend


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/longtallweekend_350_3.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"You're older than you've ever been\
3	And now you're even older..."'']]
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5	->''"She thinks she's Edith Head\
6	Or Helen Gurley Brown\
7	Or some other cultural figure\
8	We don't know a lot about."''
9	-->--"'''(She Thinks She's) Edith Head'''"
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11	''Long Tall Weekend'' is the seventh studio album by Music/TheyMightBeGiants. It was the first full-length, online-only album ever released by a major artist, originally released on [=eMusic=] in July of 1999. It featured a number of songs played at live shows over the years, as well as several songs written during the ''Music/JohnHenry'' and ''Music/FactoryShowroom'' periods (with several actually being [[CutSong Cut Songs]] from the ''Factory Showroom'' sessions). Some songs were re-recorded for ''Mink Car'', while others were later included on the rarities album ''They Got Lost''.
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13	!!Tracklist:
14	# Drinkin' (1:32)
15	# (She Thinks She's) Edith Head (2:32)
16	# Maybe I Know (2:04)
17	# Rat Patrol (2:04)
18	# Token Back to Brooklyn (1:01)
19	# Older (1:56)
20	# Operators Are Standing By (1:24)
21	# Dark and Metric (1:40)
22	# Reprehensible (3:17)
23	# Certain People I Could Name (3:30)
24	# Counterfeit Faker (2:12)
25	# They Got Lost (4:38)
26	# Lullabye to Nightmares (2:28)
27	# On Earth My Nina (1:24)
28	# The Edison Museum (1:59)
29
30	!!And Tropes Are Still Marching On:
31	* AlternateAlbumCover: The album cover was changed for a more detailed redrawn version for the album's 2023 vinyl release. The walls are blue instead of orange, the face on the album cover is red instead of yellow, and the tickets are yellow instead of blue.
32	* CoverVersion: "Maybe I Know", first recorded by Music/LesleyGore in 1964.
33	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: From "Older"
34	-->''Time is marching on\
35	And time... is still marching on''
36	* DressedToOppress: One verse of "Certain People I Could Name" features a news report about a female "genocidal overlord" who wears [[ShouldersOfDoom epaulets]].
37	* EpicRocking: It may only clock in at a modest 4:38, but "They Got Lost" is the longest song the band has ever released on a studio album.
38	* IgnoredEpiphany: The narrator of "Reprehensible" reflects on the awful things he's done in his life (and all the previous ones) every night as he tries to go to sleep, but forgets them every time he wakes up.
39	* InTheStyleOf:
40	** "Rat Patrol" sounds a bit like Music/GunsNRoses.
41	** "Counterfeit Faker" is sort of faux-{{Bluegrass}}.
42	* LudicrousGibs: "Certain People I Could Name" opens with the narrator watching a samurai movie featuring the aftermath of a gruesome battle.
43	-->''The few surviving samurai survey the battlefield\
44	Count the arms, the legs and heads, and then divide by five''
45	* LyricalDissonance: Even for a band who lives on this trope, "Reprehensible" is quite striking. A VillainSong about a villain who gets to keep doing horrible things for millennia via {{Reincarnation}}, set to a chipper retro-style tune that could fit unobtrusively into ''Film/BroadwayMelodyOf1936''.
46	* NoSenseOfDirection: "They Got Lost" is based on an incident where Linnell and Flansburgh were late to a radio show appearance because they got lost on their way to the station.
47	-->''John said to John\
48	"I think we make a left at the light\
49	There should be a big 'B'\
50	assuming this map is right"\
51	John looked over and he said\
52	"Hey, no it's not\
53	It's a crumpled up wrapper\
54	From the fast food that we got"''
55	* SingerNamedrop: "They Got Lost" is about the band getting lost on their way to a radio interview, and drops in the band name and the names of the individual members.

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