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* PerformanceVideo: "They'll Need A Crane" pokes fun at this, featuring John and John playing as a group of senior citizans pantomime the keys and rhythm tracks.
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* PerformanceVideo: "They'll Need A Crane" pokes fun at this, featuring John and John playing as with a group of senior citizans pantomime citizens pantomiming the keys and rhythm tracks.
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* PerformanceVideo: "They'll Need A Crane" pokes fun at this, featuring John and John playing as a group of senior citizans pantomime the keys and rhythm tracks.
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doesn't do a good job conveying the coolness factor; besides it comes across as RL troping on a NRLEP trope
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* CoolOldGuy: The video for "They'll Need a Crane" has the Johns backed by a rock band made up of elderly men while they perform.
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** "Where Your Eyes Don't Go" name-checks Music/KurtisBlow.
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* NostalgiaFilter: "Purple Toupee" is a caricature of '60s nostalgia, which was in vogue at the time, by having the narrator misremember events from that decade.
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* TakeThat: "Purple Toupee" is a jab at '60s musical revivalism, featuring a speaker as obsessed with--and clueless about--the 1960s as Linnell saw the revivalists to be.
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* LooksLikeJesus: In "Kiss Me, Son of God":
-->''I look like Jesus, so they say\\
But Mr. Jesus is very far away''
-->''I look like Jesus, so they say\\
But Mr. Jesus is very far away''
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: At least one reviewer at the time the album came out took "Kiss Me, Son of God" as a possible satirical swipe at UsefulNotes/FidelCastro.
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* FreudianSlip: In "They'll Need A Crane", the narrator tells his girlfriend about a restaurant they should check out "where the other nightmare people like to go", only to backspace and say that he meant "nice people".
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* FreudianSlip: In "They'll Need A Crane", the narrator tells his girlfriend about a restaurant they should check out "where the other nightmare people like to go", only to backspace and say that he meant "nice people". Not helped by his nonchalantly saying "I don't love you anymore" right before (suggesting that he missed the point and thought she was upset by the "nightmare people" bit rather than "I don't love anymore").
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* RearrangeTheSong: "Kiss Me, Son of God" was first recorded for the "(She Was a) Hotel Detective" EP single in 1988, with the Johns [[{{Minimalism}} backed only by Linnell's accordion]]. For this album's re-recording, they recruited fellow New York band The Ordinaires to do a light string-and-brass laden backing that turns up the LyricalDissonance. For live performances, though, the Johns stick with the accordion arrangement in live shows.
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* RearrangeTheSong: "Kiss Me, Son of God" was first recorded for the "(She Was a) Hotel Detective" EP single in 1988, with the Johns [[{{Minimalism}} backed only by Linnell's accordion]]. For this album's re-recording, they recruited fellow New York band The Ordinaires to do a light string-and-brass laden backing that turns up the LyricalDissonance. For live performances, though, the Johns stick with the accordion arrangement in live shows.arrangement.
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* RearrangeTheSong: "Kiss Me, Son of God" was first recorded for the "(She Was a) Hotel Detective" EP single in 1988, with the Johns [[{{Minimalism}} backed only by Linnell's accordion]]. For this album's re-recording, they recruited fellow New York band The Ordinaires to do a light string-and-brass laden backing that turns up the LyricalDissonance. For live performances, though, the Johns stick with the accordion arrangement in live shows.
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** "You'll Miss Me" quotes "Raindrops" by Dee Clark.
