- Ensemble Dark Horse: While not as frequently picked as Melt or Security, Up is another frequent pick for the choice of Gabriel's best album by fans who disagree with the consensus ranking of So.
- Genius Bonus: The portions early in "Growing Up" about a series of dots and the significance of each group references
the Pythagorean concept of the tetractys, said to represent the three dimensions of the physical universe. - Memetic Mutation: i/o, Gabriel's follow-up to this album, has become the new Chinese Democracy among fans, with many making all sorts of jokes about how long it'll be before the album finally comes out.
- Nightmare Fuel:
- "Darkness". HOLY SHIT. Starts with a simple, blippy rhythm intro and then out of NOWHERE comes this distorted, screeching howl, and the lyrics throughout don’t help anything. The entire song sounds like a twisted, bleak, industrial lullaby.
- The music video for "The Barry Williams Show" gets pretty creepy when the audience in a Jerry Springer-esque show suddenly begin to bleed until the entire stage is literally flooded with their collected blood. To top it off, the actor portraying Barry Williams (Christopher McDonald) is left stranded on a raft in the middle of it all until falling in at the end.
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