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Lemon Demon

2025-04-25T15:46:51Z

Fry90000:

[[File:logo.gif|thumb|The “Grinched Font” logo.]]'''Lemon Demon''' is [[Neil Cicierega]]’s second major musical project, after he moved on from [[Trapezoid]]/[[Deporitaz]]. Stylistically, Lemon Demon has differed from Deporitaz in that Lemon Demon has mostly vocal tracks, while Deporitaz had mostly (but not exclusively, in its later days) instrumentals. Also, Deporitaz tracks were primarily arranged using synthesis and sound fonts; while these are still common in Lemon Demon, it makes more use of real recorded instruments such as guitar, accordion and keytar.

==Lemon Demon Live==

In live performances, Lemon Demon consists of [[Neil Cicierega]] on vocals and keyboard, [[Alora Lanzillotta]] on bass guitar, [[Charles “Chooch” Sergio]] on guitar, and [[Greg Lanzillotta]] on drums. Lemon Demon’s previous drummer was [[Tony Wry]], who moved to Detroit, in turn leaving the band around 2008; [[Youmacon]] ‘09 was Lemon Demon’s first show with Greg. Lemon Demon’s live shows range from solo performances during [[Lemonic Demonade]] to larger concerts such as [[Awesomefest]] or [[Youmacon]]. Lemon Demon occasionally performed on Neil’s sporadic internet radio show, [[Hooray Radio]].

==Discography==

'''Albums'''
* [[Clown Circus]] (2003)
* [[Live From The Haunted Candle Shop]] (2003)
* [[Hip To The Javabean]] (2004)
* [[Damn Skippy]] (2005)
* [[Dinosaurchestra]] (2006)
* [[View-Monster]] (2008)
* [[Spirit Phone]] (2016)

'''EPs'''
* [[Live (Only Not)]] (2011)
* [[I Am Become Christmas]] (2012)
* [[Nature Tapes]] (2014)
* [[Something Glowing EP]] (2020)
* [[Acrobat Unstable Record]] (2022)
'''Singles'''
* [[Don’t Be Like the Sun]] (2003)
* [[Lemon Demon (song)]] (2003)
* [[Somnolence]] (2003)
* [[Hyakugojyuuichi 2003]] (2003)
* [[Fire Motif]] (2003)
* [[The Saga of You, Confused Destroyer of Planets]] (2003)
* [[Mold en Mono]] (2003)
* [[Boat]] (2003)
* [[Destructo!]] (2003)
* [[Dance Like an Idiot]] (2003)
* [[Relativity]] (2004)
* [[I’ve Got Some Falling to Do]] (2004)
* [[Dead Sea Monkeys]] (2005)
* [[Subtle Oddities]] (2005)
* [[Pumpkin Pie]] (2005)
* [[Kitten Is Angry]] (2005)
* [[Word Disassociation]] (2005)
* [[Fine]] (2006)
* [[Action Movie Hero Boy]] (2006)
* [[Lawnmower]] (2006)
* [[Vow of Silence]] (2006)
* [[This Hyper World]] (2006)
* [[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]] (2006)
* [[Stick Stickly]] (2006)
* [[White Bread Boyfriend]] (2006)
* [[Every Time You Stifle a Sneeze]] (2006)
* [[Amnesia Was Her Name]] (2008)
* [[Knife Fight]] (2008)
* [[Everyday French]] (2008)
* [[Ben Bernanke]] (2008)
* [[Super Hey Ya (OutKast Remix)]] (2008)
* [[123456 Pokemon]] (2008)
* [[Toy Food]] (2008)
* [[While My Keytar Gently Weeps]] (2008)
* [[BRODYQUEST]] (2010)
* [[Goosebumps]] (2011
* [[Really Cool Wig]] (2011)
* [[Money Dollar Bills]] (2012)
* [[A Mask of My Own Face]] (2012)
* [[My Trains]] (2013)
* [[Two Trucks]] (2013)
* [[Everybody Loves Raymond]] (2013)
* [[Jaws]] (2013)
* [[Kubrick and the Beast]] (2015)
* [[One Weird Tip/Funkytown]] (2023)
* [[Touch-Tone Telephone]] (2023)
* [[The Oldest Man on Myspace]] (2023)

'''Misc'''
* [[Almanac 2009]] (2009)

==External Links==
* [http://www.lemondemon.com/ Official Website]
* [https://needlejuicerecords.com/ Purchase Lemon Demon Physical Media]

Lemon Demon

2025-04-25T15:44:32Z

Fry90000: everytime I see one of these singles list they are always wrong so i did something about it

[[File:logo.gif|thumb|The “Grinched Font” logo.]]'''Lemon Demon''' is [[Neil Cicierega]]’s second major musical project, after he moved on from [[Trapezoid]]/[[Deporitaz]]. Stylistically, Lemon Demon has differed from Deporitaz in that Lemon Demon has mostly vocal tracks, while Deporitaz had mostly (but not exclusively, in its later days) instrumentals. Also, Deporitaz tracks were primarily arranged using synthesis and sound fonts; while these are still common in Lemon Demon, it makes more use of real recorded instruments such as guitar, accordion and keytar.

==Lemon Demon Live==

In live performances, Lemon Demon consists of [[Neil Cicierega]] on vocals and keyboard, [[Alora Lanzillotta]] on bass guitar, [[Charles “Chooch” Sergio]] on guitar, and [[Greg Lanzillotta]] on drums. Lemon Demon’s previous drummer was [[Tony Wry]], who moved to Detroit, in turn leaving the band around 2008; [[Youmacon]] ‘09 was Lemon Demon’s first show with Greg. Lemon Demon’s live shows range from solo performances during [[Lemonic Demonade]] to larger concerts such as [[Awesomefest]] or [[Youmacon]]. Lemon Demon occasionally performed on Neil’s sporadic internet radio show, [[Hooray Radio]].

==Discography==

'''Albums'''
* [[Clown Circus]] (2003)
* [[Live From The Haunted Candle Shop]] (2003)
* [[Hip To The Javabean]] (2004)
* [[Damn Skippy]] (2005)
* [[Dinosaurchestra]] (2006)
* [[View-Monster]] (2008)
* [[Spirit Phone]] (2016)

'''EPs'''
* [[Live (Only Not)]] (2011)
* [[I Am Become Christmas]] (2012)
* [[Nature Tapes]] (2014)
* [[Something Glowing EP]] (2020)
* [[Acrobat Unstable Record]] (2022)
'''Singles'''
* [[Don’t Be Like the Sun]] (2003
* [[Lemon Demon (song)]] (2003)
* [[Somnolence]] (2003)
* [[Hyakugojyuuichi 2003]] (2003)
* [[Fire Motif]] (2003)
* [[The Saga of You, Confused Destroyer of Planets]] (2003)
* [[Mold en Mono]] (2003)
* [[Boat]] (2003)
* [[Destructo!]] (2003)
* [[Dance Like an Idiot]] (2003)
* [[Relativity]] (2004)
* [[I’ve Got Some Falling to Do]] (2004)
* [[Dead Sea Monkeys]] (2005)
* [[Subtle Oddities]] (2005)
* [[Pumpkin Pie]] (2005)
* [[Kitten Is Angry]] (2005)
* [[Word Disassociation]] (2005)
* [[Fine]] (2006)
* [[Action Movie Hero Boy]] (2006)
* [[Lawnmower]] (2006)
* [[Vow of Silence]] (2006)
* [[This Hyper World]] (2006)
* [[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]] (2006)
* [[Stick Stickly]] (2006)
* [[White Bread Boyfriend]] (2006)
* [[Every Time You Stifle a Sneeze]] (2006)
* [[Amnesia Was Her Name]] (2008)
* [[Knife Fight]] (2008)
* [[Everyday French]] (2008)
* [[Ben Bernanke]] (2008)
* [[Super Hey Ya (OutKast Remix)]] (2008)
* [[123456 Pokemon]] (2008)
* [[Toy Food]] (2008)
* [[While My Keytar Gently Weeps]] (2008)
* [[BRODYQUEST]] (2010)
* [[Goosebumps]] (2011
* [[Really Cool Wig]] (2011)
* [[Money Dollar Bills]] (2012)
* [[A Mask of My Own Face]] (2012)
* [[My Trains]] (2013)
* [[Two Trucks]] (2013)
* [[Everybody Loves Raymond]] (2013)
* [[Jaws]] (2013)
* [[Kubrick and the Beast]] (2015)
* [[One Weird Tip/Funkytown]] (2023)
* [[Touch-Tone Telephone]] (2023)
* [[The Oldest Man on Myspace]] (2023)

'''Misc'''
* [[Almanac 2009]] (2009)

==External Links==
* [http://www.lemondemon.com/ Official Website]
* [https://needlejuicerecords.com/ Purchase Lemon Demon Physical Media]

Lemon Demon

2025-04-22T18:50:40Z

Fry90000: what idiot did this

Damn Skippy

2025-03-28T19:08:44Z

Fry90000:

{{Infobox album
|title = Damn Skippy
|artist = Lemon Demon
|albumart = Damn Skippy.png
|disc_Category = Album
|year = March 21, 2005
|recorded = 2004–2005
|length = 1:00:57, 1:22:24 (with bonus tracks)
|label = Self-released (2005), [[Needlejuice Records]] (2023)
|producers = [[Neil Cicierega]]
|reviews = 
|externalLinks = [https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/album/damn-skippy Needlejuice Remaster] [http://www.lemondemon.com/Lemon%20Demon%20-%20First%20four%20albums/Damn%20Skippy%20(2005)/ MP3] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/CD%20Bonus%20Content/%5b2005%5d%20Damn%20Skippy/ Bonus content from original CD] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/%5b2005%5d%20Lemon%20Demon%20-%20Damn%20Skippy%20%5bCDR%5d/ Lossless rip of original CD] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/%5b2005%5d%20Lemon%20Demon%20-%20Damn%20Skippy%20%5bMispress%20CDR%5d/ Lossless rip of original (mispress) CD] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqmpmtJxWdU YouTube] [https://youtu.be/uiIFMemtDkI Remastered YouTube]
|addtlInfo = 
|lastAlbum = [[Hip to the Javabean]] (2004)
|thisAlbum = '''Damn Skippy''' (2005)
|nextAlbum = [[Dinosaurchestra]] (2006)
}}

[[File:Damnskippynjr.jpg|thumb|2023 [[Needlejuice Records]] reissue cover art.]]

'''Damn Skippy''' is [[Lemon Demon]]’s fourth album. It was originally released on March 21st, 2005, as homemade, burned-on-demand CD-Rs sold through the old Lemon Demon website<ref>https://trapezzoid.livejournal.com/2005/03/21/</ref>, in the same manner [[Hip to the Javabean]] was the year prior. Eight bonus tracks, an audio commentary track, and an HTML file were included as bonuses on the disc.<ref>https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/CD%20Bonus%20Content/%5b2005%5d%20Damn%20Skippy/</ref>This content is maintained in all CD represses of the album.

In 2006, the album received a CD repress with glass replicated discs manufactured by now-defunct company Americ Disc Inc.<ref>https://www.discogs.com/master/1455122-Lemon-Demon-Damn-Skippy</ref>

In April 2009, [[Neil]] offered this album for free download on [http://www.lemondemon.com/ Lemondemon.com], alongside [[Clown Circus]], [[Live from the Haunted Candle Shop]], and [[Hip to the Javabean]].<ref>http://www.lemondemon.com/Lemon%20Demon%20-%20First%20four%20albums/</ref>

On January 21st, 2023, [[Needlejuice Records]] reissued the album, alongside [[Hip to the Javabean]] on Bandcamp in celebration of the 20th anniversary of [[Lemon Demon]].<ref>https://twitter.com/needlejuicerec/status/1616893029909921793?lang=en</ref> <ref name=":0">https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/album/damn-skippy</ref>This version of the album was remastered by Angel Marcloid<ref>https://angelhairaudio.com/full-portfolio-project-list</ref>and added ten previously unreleased tracks, six remastered instrumentals, one remastered vocal track and a hidden track to the bonus track list. The album's original audio commentary track was also remastered for this release by Alex Argo.<ref name=":0" /> Pre-orders for physical represses of the album on vinyl, CD, and cassette went up in February<ref>https://twitter.com/needlejuicerec/status/1628051649032757250</ref>, with the CDs and cassettes shipping in June<ref>https://twitter.com/needlejuicerec/status/1669136477182205953</ref>, and vinyls shipped in September.<ref>https://needlejuicerecords.com/products/damn-skippy-ode-to-crayola-lp</ref>

==Track Listing==
'''Side A'''
#[[Dead Sea Monkeys]]
#[[Sky Is Not Blue]]
#[[Pumpkin Pie]]
#[[When Robots Attack]]
#[[Geeks in Love]]
#[[New Way Out]]
'''Side B'''
#<li value="7">[[What Will Happen Will Happen]]</li>
#[[Kitten Is Angry]]
#[[The Ceiling]]
#[[Subtle Oddities]]
#[[Gonna Dig Up Alec Guinness]]
#[[Flamingo Legs]]
'''Side C'''
#<li value="13">[[Ode to Crayola]]</li>
#[[Rainwater]]
#[[Smell Like a Cookie All Day]]
#[[Dizziful Bliss]]
#[[Word Disassociation]]
#[[Eventuality]]

===Bonus tracks===
#[[Bicycle Race]]
#[[Fuzzy]]
#[[March of the Living Figments]]
#[[Mothers All Over the World]]
#[[Mr. Porta-Potty Man]]
#[[Musical Chairs|Musical Chairs (Alternate version)]]
#[[Pirate in a Box]]
#[[Subtle Oddities (Cheesy synth mix)]]

===Bonus tracks (Needlejuice Records re-release)===
(CD version contains all of these tracks on a separate Bonus Disc.)

(Vinyl and cassette versions of the album only contain bonus tracks 1-8.)
#[[Scatterbrained]]
#[[Musical Chairs|Musical Chairs (Alternate Version)]]
#[[March of the Living Figments]]
#[[Elvis Porn]]
#[[Lollipops]]
#[[Bicycle Race]]
#[[Fuzzy]]
#[[Bottom Line]]
#[[Sky Blue Up]]
#[[I Want to Wake Up]]
#[[Stampy]]
#[[Zero Gravity]]
#[[Subtle Oddities (Cheesy Synth Mix)]]
#[[Mothers All Over the World]]
#[[Pirate in a Box]]
#[[Mr. Porta-Potty Man]]
#[[How to Poop]]
#[[The Song You Hear When You Die]]
#When Robots Attack (Instrumental)
#Geeks in Love (Instrumental)
#Kitten is Angry (Instrumental)
#Subtle Oddities (Instrumental)
#Dizziful Bliss (Instrumental)
#Word Disassociation (Instrumental)
#Word Disassociation (Vocals)
#[[neil.soul]]
#[[Damn Skippy: Commentary|Damn Skippy Commentary]]

===Bonus Content===
*[[Damn Skippy: Commentary|Commentary]] (Counted as a bonus track in the [[Needlejuice Records]] reissue.)
[[File:Specialthanksdamnskippy.png|thumb|'''<big>SPECIAL THANKS:</big> Dad, Mom, Ben, Emmy, Leah, Alora, Sarah, Chloe, Chelsea, Aaron Ackerson, Andrew Kepple, Richard, Logan Whitehurst, The Incredible Moses Leroy, Queen, John Cameron Mitchell, Stephen Trask, Sir Alec Guinness, Alec Baldwin, Leonard Nimoy, Edward Binney, Harold Smith, Robert Prince, and Raffi.''']]
*[https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/CD%20Bonus%20Content/%5b2005%5d%20Damn%20Skippy/DamnSkippy.html HTML file] (Navigation portal for the album containing song MP3s, bonus tracks, lyrics, exclusive artwork, and a Special Thanks section.)

==Physical Releases==

===LPs===
All four variants originally went up for pre-order on the [[Needlejuice Records]] website, but Pumpkin Cookie was later removed. In November, it was revealed to be a Newbury Comics exclusive variant, and made available on their webstore.<gallery>
File:OdetoCrayola1k.png|"Ode to Crayola"
File:Damn vinyl.png|"Damn"
File:Demonic.png|"Demonic"
File:Pumpkin-and-Cookie1k 900x.png|"Pumpkin Cookie"
</gallery>
===CDs===
==== Original Artwork ====
There are no notable differences between the artwork of the homemade 2005 CD-Rs and the 2006 repress.
<gallery>
File:Damn Skippy.png|Front Cover
File:Damn Skippy back.png|Back Cover
File:Damn Skippy inside.png|Inside Art
File:Damnskippysourcediscart.jpg|Disc Art
File:Damnskippydisc.jpg|Front scan of original CD-R
File:Damnskippycdrback.jpg|Back scan of original CD-R
File:Damnskippyrepressback.jpg|Back of 2006 CD
</gallery>
==== [[Needlejuice Records]] 2023 repress ====
<gallery>
File:Njrskippycdfront.jpg|Front Cover
File:Njrskippycdback.jpg|Back Cover
File:Njrskippyinsideart.jpg|Inside Art
File:Njrskippytrayart.jpg|Tray Art
File:Njrskippydisc1.jpg|Disc 1 scan
File:Njrskippydisc2.jpg|Bonus Disc scan
</gallery>
===Cassette===
<gallery>
File:Damnskippytapeartfront.jpg|J-Card Front Cover
File:Damnskippyjcardback.jpg|J-Card Back Cover
File:Skippyjcardinside.jpg|J-Card Inside Art
File:Skippyjcardfoldout.jpg|J-Card Foldout Art
File:Skippytapefront.jpg|Tape Side A
File:Skippytapeback.jpg|Tape Side B
</gallery>

== Damn Skippy HDMI Images ==
<gallery>
File:MP3-Creature.gif|The creature of the "MP3s" section of the Damn Skippy HTML.
File:Lyrics-Demon.gif|The demon of the "Lyrics" section of the Damn Skippy HTML.
File:Bonus-Creature-CutiePatootie.gif|The creature of the "Bonus Tracks" section of the Damn Skippy HTML.
File:SkippyMonster1.png|One of the Damn Skippy monsters.
File:SkippyMonster2.png|One of the Damn Skippy monsters.
File:Commentary.jpg|The demon of the "Commentary" section of the Damn Skippy HTML.
File:DamnSkippySpiral.png|A gear-like spiral on the cover of Damn Skippy and in the Damn Skippy HTML.
File:DamnSkippySpiralButItsaGif.gif|Ditto, but a gif.
File:DeadSeaMonkeys.gif|Dead Sea Monkeys
File:SkyIsNotBlueHTML.gif|Sky Is Not Blue
File:PumpkinPieHTML.gif|Pumpkin Pie
File:WhenRobotsAttackHTML.gif|When Robots Attack
File:GeeksInLoveHTML.gif|Geeks In Love
File:NewWayOutHTML.gif|New Way Out
File:WhatWillHappenWillHappenHTML.gif|What Will Happen Will Happen
File:KittenIsAngryHTML.gif|Kitten Is Angry
File:TheCeilingHTML.gif|The Ceiling
File:SubtleOdditiesHTML.gif|Subtle Oddities
File:GuinessHTML.gif|Gonna Dig Up Alec Guiness
File:FlamingoLegs.gif|Flamingo Legs
File:OdeToCrayolaHTML.gif|Ode To Crayola
File:RainwaterHTML.gif|Rainwater
File:SmellLikeACookie.gif|Smell Like A Cookie All Day
File:DizzifulBlissHTML.gif|Dizziful Bliss
File:WordDissassociation.gif|Word Dissassociation
File:EventualityHTML.gif|Eventuality
File:Main.jpg|The main title screen of the Damn Skippy HTML.
</gallery>

== Trivia ==

* This is the first [[Lemon Demon]] album to include an audio commentary track and HTML.
* On the back cover of the 2023 [[Needlejuice Records]] version of the CD, [[Dizziful Bliss]] is misspelled "Dizziful Blss".
* In the 2023 remastered stream, [[Gonna Dig Up Alec Guinness]] is misspelt as "Gonna Dig Up '''Alex''' Guineness".
<references />

Musical Chairs

2025-03-28T18:59:40Z

Fry90000:

{{Infobox_song
|title = Musical Chairs
|artist = Lemon Demon
|albumart = HTTJ.png
|writer = Neil Cicierega
|singer = [[Neil Cicierega]]
|album = [[Hip to the Javabean]]
|duration = 2:04
|genre = Rock
|language = English
|externalLinks = [https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/track/musical-chairs Needlejuice Remaster] [http://www.lemondemon.com/Lemon%20Demon%20-%20First%20four%20albums/Hip%20to%20the%20Javabean%20(2004)/03%20-%20Musical%20Chairs.mp3 Original lemon demon website download] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/Lemaoke/Hip%20To%20The%20Javabean%20Stems/Musical%20Chairs%20(Instrumental).mp3 Instrumental]
|tempo = 104
}}

'''Musical Chairs''' is the third track on [[Hip to the Javabean]]

{{Infobox song|title=Musical Chairs (alternate version)|appears on=Damn Skippy|artist=Neil Cicierega|duration=2:54|genre=Alternative|sung by=Neil Cicierega|language=English|image=Damn Skippy.png}}

==Lyrics==
<nowiki>You walk around in circles
I walk around in squares
Another round of musical chairs
And maybe no one really cares
About the way we walk
The record stores are out of stock
And all we want is bloody rock and roll
And clearly this is not the way to go

I saw it in the mirror
The ghost of Chairman Mao
He had three money symbols on his brow
And he will show the children how
To wear their cowboy boots
Bowler hats and prison suits
And watch while Neil Armstrong shoots the moon
But he's never gonna get there by balloon
(Ooh.)

I thought you weren't allowed here
I thought they crossed your name
And that would be your only claim to fame
Well, it's a big fat crying shame
The way you lost your touch
The soapbox weighed a bit too much
And all this talking feels like such a waste
And now you've crossed the boundaries of good taste
Your only option now's to be replaced</nowiki>

== Musical Chairs (alternate version) ==
As a bonus track on [[Damn Skippy]], an alternate version of Musical Chairs with different instruments and a lack of the last verse were included, this was kept in the 2023 remaster of Damn Skippy as the second bonus track on the album.
[[Category:Songs with instrumentals]]

Lemon Demon

2025-03-21T15:49:16Z

Fry90000: /* See Also */

Sexy DVD

2025-03-21T15:32:36Z

Fry90000: added the infobox

'''Sexy DVD''' is a song from the Lemon Demon EP [[Nature Tapes]], being retroactively added to the EP in 2019 alongside [[Goosebumps]], being a hidden track.

{{Infobox song|album=Nature Tapes|duration=1:29|artist=Lemon Demon|albumart=SexyDVD.jpg|title=Sexy DVD}}

The song is about a character who finds their DVD (of the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie in the music video) sexy & attractive. A music video for Sexy DVD was made in 2010 and released on Neil's channel, showing different angles of the box art of the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie DVD.

== Lyrics ==
''You are my only one, you are so smooth, let me touch you babe…''

''I need to take you out tonight right now, let me love you babe…''

''I wanna put you in, I wanna make you spin''

''Cause you a sexy DVD''

''You a sexy DVD''

''I wanna watch you play, every night and day''

''Cause you a sexy DVD''

''Sexy DVD''

''Cause you a sexy DVD''

''Sexy DVD''

''Cause you a sexy DVD''

''Sexy DVD''

''Cause you a sexy DVD''

''Sexy DVD''
[[Category:Song]]
[[Category:Songs written by Neil Cicierega]]

Neil Cicierega

2025-03-17T19:38:12Z

Fry90000:

{{Infobox person
|name = Neil Cicierega
|photo = Neil xoxo.png
|relation = 
|birth_date = August 23, 1986
|hometown = Boston, Massachusetts
|death_date = 
|death_place = 
|residence = Somerville, Massachusetts
|otherNames = [[Lemon Demon]], [[Trapezoid]], [[Deporitaz]]
|addtlInfo = 
}}

'''Neil Stephen Cicierega''' (born August 23, 1986) is an American comedian, actor, filmmaker, singer, YouTuber, musician, songwriter, puppeteer, artist, and animator. He is best known as the creator of a genre of Flash animation he termed "[[Animutation]]", the ''Harry Potter'' puppet parody series ''[[Potter Puppet Pals]]'', and several music albums under the name [[Lemon Demon]]. He also released a series of mashup albums under his own name that have since gained a cult following.

==Early life==
Neil Stephen Cicierega was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 23, 1986. His father was a programmer, which meant he was surrounded by computers while growing up. He has a brother and two sisters. His sister, [[Emmy Cicierega]], went on to become a storyboard artist for animated series such as ''[[Gravity Falls]]'', ''The Owl House'', and the reboot of ''DuckTales''. At a young age, Cicierega started using a simplistic game developing program named Klik & Play. Beginning in the fourth grade, his parents homeschooled him and his siblings. He continued making amateur games, and even began creating digital music to feature in them; he soon shared his music online through MP3.com under the name Trapezoid, which was later renamed to the anagram "Deporitaz" at the behest of another band already named Trapezoid. He also began composing MIDI music fragments that were referenced in his later works.

==Career==
===Animutation===
Cicierega was first known for a series of dadaist or surrealist Flash animations he termed "[[Animutation]]". Animutations feature arbitrary, nonsensical scenes and pop culture imagery and are typically set to novelty or foreign music, often from the Japanese version of ''Pokémon''.

===''Potter Puppet Pals''===
Cicierega's ''Potter Puppet Pals'' is a comedy series which parodies the book series ''Harry Potter''. It originated as a pair of Flash animations on [[Newgrounds]] in 2003, and later resurfaced in the form of a series of live action puppet shows released onto YouTube and PotterPuppetPals.com, starting in 2006. The central characters of the ''Harry Potter'' series are portrayed simply by puppets. The most successful ''Potter Puppet Pals'' video, ''[[The Mysterious Ticking Noise]]'', currently has over 198 million views ({{as of|2021|December|df=US|lc=y}}). Cicierega has done puppetry live at ''Harry Potter''-themed events.

===Lemon Demon (2003–present)===
Since 2003, Cicierega has released 10 full-length albums under his musical project Lemon Demon. In 2005, he and animator Shawn Vulliez released a Flash animated music video "[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]]" on [https://newgrounds.com Newgrounds]. The song was later included in the 2006 album ''[[Dinosaurchestra]]''. An updated recording of the song was released to the Rock Band Network in 2010.

In April 2009, Cicierega released his first four albums as free downloads on his site "neilcic.com", however they are now currently hosted on "lemondemon.com".

In January 2016, Cicierega announced ''[[Spirit Phone]]'', a full-length Lemon Demon album released on February 29, 2016. On July 10, 2018, it was announced that copies of the album on CD, cassette tape and vinyl would be sold through [[Needlejuice Records]], who would later distribute remastered versions of Lemon Demon's Christmas EP ''[[I Am Become Christmas]]'', as well as ''[[Nature Tapes]]'', ''[[View-Monster]],'' ''[[Dinosaurchestra]], [[Damn Skippy]], and [[Hip to the Javabean]].''

===The ''Mouth'' mashup albums (2014–present)===
Cicierega has also created mashup music under his own name. He released two mashup albums, ''[[Mouth Sounds]]'' and ''[[Mouth Silence]]'', as free downloads in 2014, and a third, ''[[Mouth Moods]]'', in 2017. A fourth album, ''[[Mouth Dreams]]'', was released on September 30, 2020. All four albums are linked by their usage of Smash Mouth's "All Star", which is repeated frequently throughout ''Sounds'' and ''Moods'', and appears through Easter Eggs and references in ''Silence''. In ''Mouth Dreams'' "All Star" only makes one appearance in the track "Mouth Dreams (Extro)", where a heavily distorted edit of the lyrics can be heard.

Additionally to the 4 Mouth Mashup Albums he has released a compilation of Mashup outtakes titled [[Mouth Misc]]. He has also released a Mashup EP Titled [[Mouth Craft]] which was unveiled during a virtual live show held in Minecraft called Wild Wild Fest 2020, but currently has no official Release.

===Windows 95 Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks (2012–2015)===
In October 2012, Cicierega created the darkly satirical "[[Windows 95 Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks]]" blog, located at windows95tips.com. In the blog's telling, Windows 95 is a brooding, evil presence bent on dominating humanity. Most of the posts are faked error messages, with disturbing messages like "Windows needs a lock of your hair to continue," but presented in the exact graphical style of Windows 95. The blog has received favorable press attention.

===Video games===
On February 26, 2015, Cicierega announced his first point-and-click adventure game, ''[[Icon Architect 1.0]]'', with themes similar to his "Windows 95 Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks" blog. On February 5, 2018, he released his first video game, ''[[Monster Breeder]]''.

===Other works===
In February 2019, Cicierega created Endless Jeopardy, a Twitter account that automatically posts a bot-generated ''Jeopardy!'' prompt every hour and awards points to the most-liked responses within 15 minutes. In March 2019, he created "Bot Pops" (@BotPops), a Twitter account that writes setups for jokes on popsicle sticks, then finishes them with a punchline from the replies. In April 2019 he created "4:3" (@FullscreenDream), a Twitter account that randomly makes GIFs from old commercials and CGI shorts.

Cicierega was commissioned to make three songs for the TV series ''[[Gravity Falls]]'': a theme song, a musical number for Bill Cipher titled "It's Gonna Get Weird", and the song "Goat and a Pig" (a parody of Natalie Cole's "This Will Be"). Both of Cicierega's theme songs and "It's Gonna Get Weird" were unused, but "Goat and Pig" appeared during the credits sequence of season 2 episode "The Love God". One of the two unused openings appeared as a bonus track on the 2016 Lemon Demon album ''[[Spirit Phone]]'', titled "[[Gravitron]]".

==Personal life==
On August 8, 2015, Cicierega married illustrator and comic artist Ming Doyle, with whom he lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. Their first child, a daughter named Darcy, was born in March 2018.

==Discography==
===as Deporitaz===
*''[[Outsmart]]'' (2000)
*''[[Microwave This CD]]'' (2001)
*''[[Dimes]]'' (2002)
*''[[Circa 2000]]'' (2007)

===Trapezoid===
*''OC ReMix: Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge "Monkey Brain Soup for the Soul"'' (2002)
*The Count Censored (<2007)

===Lemon Demon===
*''[[Clown Circus]]'' (2003)
*''[[Live From The Haunted Candle Shop]]'' (2003)
*''[[Hip to the Javabean]]'' (2004)
*''[[Damn Skippy]]'' (2005)
*''[[Dinosaurchestra]]'' (2006)
*''[[View-Monster]]'' (2008)
*''[[Almanac 2009]]'' (2009)
*''[[Live (Only Not)]]'' (2011)
*''[[I Am Become Christmas]]'' (2012)
*''[[Nature Tapes]]'' (2014)
*''[[Spirit Phone]]'' (2016)

===Neil Cicierega===
*''[[Mouth Sounds]]'' (2014)
*''[[Mouth Silence]]'' (2014)
*''[[Mouth Moods]]'' (2017)
*''[[Not For Resale: A Video Game Store Documentary]]'' OST (2020)
*''[[Mouth Dreams]]'' (2020)
*[[Mouth Craft]] (2020)

==External links==
*[http://www.neilcic.com/ Official Website]
*[https://www.youtube.com/user/NeilCicieregaMusic Official YouTube channel]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130907213559/http://eviltrailmix.com/index2.html Old archived EvilTrailMix website]
*[https://archive.org/details/Mouth_Sounds_Neil_Cicierega Mouth Sounds], [https://archive.org/details/Mouth_Silence_Neil_Cicierega Mouth Silence], [https://archive.org/details/Mouth_Moods_Neil_Cicierega Mouth Moods], [[iarchive:mouth-dreams-neil-cicierega-flac|Mouth Dreams]] and [https://archive.org/details/mouth-craft-concert-full/Mouth+Craft/ Mouth Craft] each on [[Internet Archive]]
[[Category:People]]

Damn Skippy

2025-03-12T18:56:57Z

Fry90000:

{{Infobox album
|title = Damn Skippy
|artist = Lemon Demon
|albumart = Damn Skippy.png
|disc_Category = Album
|year = March 21, 2005
|recorded = 2004–2005
|length = 1:00:57, 1:22:24 (with bonus tracks)
|label = Self-released (2005), [[Needlejuice Records]] (2023)
|producers = [[Neil Cicierega]]
|reviews = 
|externalLinks = [https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/album/damn-skippy Needlejuice Remaster] [http://www.lemondemon.com/Lemon%20Demon%20-%20First%20four%20albums/Damn%20Skippy%20(2005)/ MP3] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/CD%20Bonus%20Content/%5b2005%5d%20Damn%20Skippy/ Bonus content from original CD] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/%5b2005%5d%20Lemon%20Demon%20-%20Damn%20Skippy%20%5bCDR%5d/ Lossless rip of original CD] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/%5b2005%5d%20Lemon%20Demon%20-%20Damn%20Skippy%20%5bMispress%20CDR%5d/ Lossless rip of original (mispress) CD] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqmpmtJxWdU YouTube] [https://youtu.be/uiIFMemtDkI Remastered YouTube]
|addtlInfo = 
|lastAlbum = [[Hip to the Javabean]] (2004)
|thisAlbum = '''Damn Skippy''' (2005)
|nextAlbum = [[Dinosaurchestra]] (2006)
}}

[[File:Damnskippynjr.jpg|thumb|2023 [[Needlejuice Records]] reissue cover art.]]

'''Damn Skippy''' is [[Lemon Demon]]’s fourth album. It was originally released on March 21st, 2005, as homemade, burned-on-demand CD-Rs sold through the old Lemon Demon website<ref>https://trapezzoid.livejournal.com/2005/03/21/</ref>, in the same manner [[Hip to the Javabean]] was the year prior. Eight bonus tracks, an audio commentary track, and an HTML file were included as bonuses on the disc.<ref>https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/CD%20Bonus%20Content/%5b2005%5d%20Damn%20Skippy/</ref>This content is maintained in all CD represses of the album.

In 2006, the album received a CD repress with glass replicated discs manufactured by now-defunct company Americ Disc Inc.<ref>https://www.discogs.com/master/1455122-Lemon-Demon-Damn-Skippy</ref>

In April 2009, [[Neil]] offered this album for free download on [http://www.lemondemon.com/ Lemondemon.com], alongside [[Clown Circus]], [[Live from the Haunted Candle Shop]], and [[Hip to the Javabean]].<ref>http://www.lemondemon.com/Lemon%20Demon%20-%20First%20four%20albums/</ref>

On January 21st, 2023, [[Needlejuice Records]] reissued the album, alongside [[Hip to the Javabean]] on Bandcamp in celebration of the 20th anniversary of [[Lemon Demon]].<ref>https://twitter.com/needlejuicerec/status/1616893029909921793?lang=en</ref> <ref name=":0">https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/album/damn-skippy</ref>This version of the album was remastered by Angel Marcloid<ref>https://angelhairaudio.com/full-portfolio-project-list</ref>and added ten previously unreleased tracks, six remastered instrumentals, one remastered vocal track and a hidden track to the bonus track list. The album's original audio commentary track was also remastered for this release by Alex Argo.<ref name=":0" /> Pre-orders for physical represses of the album on vinyl, CD, and cassette went up in February<ref>https://twitter.com/needlejuicerec/status/1628051649032757250</ref>, with the CDs and cassettes shipping in June<ref>https://twitter.com/needlejuicerec/status/1669136477182205953</ref>, and vinyls shipped in September.<ref>https://needlejuicerecords.com/products/damn-skippy-ode-to-crayola-lp</ref>

==Track Listing==
'''Side A'''
#[[Dead Sea Monkeys]]
#[[Sky Is Not Blue]]
#[[Pumpkin Pie]]
#[[When Robots Attack]]
#[[Geeks in Love]]
#[[New Way Out]]
'''Side B'''
#<li value="7">[[What Will Happen Will Happen]]</li>
#[[Kitten Is Angry]]
#[[The Ceiling]]
#[[Subtle Oddities]]
#[[Gonna Dig Up Alec Guinness]]
#[[Flamingo Legs]]
'''Side C'''
#<li value="13">[[Ode to Crayola]]</li>
#[[Rainwater]]
#[[Smell Like a Cookie All Day]]
#[[Dizziful Bliss]]
#[[Word Disassociation]]
#[[Eventuality]]

===Bonus tracks===
#[[Bicycle Race]]
#[[Fuzzy]]
#[[March of the Living Figments]]
#[[Mothers All Over the World]]
#[[Mr. Porta-Potty Man]]
#[[Musical Chairs (Alternate version)]]
#[[Pirate in a Box]]
#[[Subtle Oddities (Cheesy synth mix)]]

===Bonus tracks (Needlejuice Records re-release)===
(CD version contains all of these tracks on a separate Bonus Disc.)

(Vinyl and cassette versions of the album only contain bonus tracks 1-8.)
#[[Scatterbrained]]
#[[Musical Chairs (Alternate Version)]]
#[[March of the Living Figments]]
#[[Elvis Porn]]
#[[Lollipops]]
#[[Bicycle Race]]
#[[Fuzzy]]
#[[Bottom Line]]
#[[Sky Blue Up]]
#[[I Want to Wake Up]]
#[[Stampy]]
#[[Zero Gravity]]
#[[Subtle Oddities (Cheesy Synth Mix)]]
#[[Mothers All Over the World]]
#[[Pirate in a Box]]
#[[Mr. Porta-Potty Man]]
#[[How to Poop]]
#[[The Song You Hear When You Die]]
#When Robots Attack (Instrumental)
#Geeks in Love (Instrumental)
#Kitten is Angry (Instrumental)
#Subtle Oddities (Instrumental)
#Dizziful Bliss (Instrumental)
#Word Disassociation (Instrumental)
#Word Disassociation (Vocals)
#[[neil.soul]]
#[[Damn Skippy: Commentary|Damn Skippy Commentary]]

===Bonus Content===
*[[Damn Skippy: Commentary|Commentary]] (Counted as a bonus track in the [[Needlejuice Records]] reissue.)
[[File:Specialthanksdamnskippy.png|thumb|'''<big>SPECIAL THANKS:</big> Dad, Mom, Ben, Emmy, Leah, Alora, Sarah, Chloe, Chelsea, Aaron Ackerson, Andrew Kepple, Richard, Logan Whitehurst, The Incredible Moses Leroy, Queen, John Cameron Mitchell, Stephen Trask, Sir Alec Guinness, Alec Baldwin, Leonard Nimoy, Edward Binney, Harold Smith, Robert Prince, and Raffi.''']]
*[https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/CD%20Bonus%20Content/%5b2005%5d%20Damn%20Skippy/DamnSkippy.html HTML file] (Navigation portal for the album containing song MP3s, bonus tracks, lyrics, exclusive artwork, and a Special Thanks section.)

==Physical Releases==

===LPs===
All four variants originally went up for pre-order on the [[Needlejuice Records]] website, but Pumpkin Cookie was later removed. In November, it was revealed to be a Newbury Comics exclusive variant, and made available on their webstore.<gallery>
File:OdetoCrayola1k.png|"Ode to Crayola"
File:Damn vinyl.png|"Damn"
File:Demonic.png|"Demonic"
File:Pumpkin-and-Cookie1k 900x.png|"Pumpkin Cookie"
</gallery>
===CDs===
==== Original Artwork ====
There are no notable differences between the artwork of the homemade 2005 CD-Rs and the 2006 repress.
<gallery>
File:Damn Skippy.png|Front Cover
File:Damn Skippy back.png|Back Cover
File:Damn Skippy inside.png|Inside Art
File:Damnskippysourcediscart.jpg|Disc Art
File:Damnskippydisc.jpg|Front scan of original CD-R
File:Damnskippycdrback.jpg|Back scan of original CD-R
File:Damnskippyrepressback.jpg|Back of 2006 CD
</gallery>
==== [[Needlejuice Records]] 2023 repress ====
<gallery>
File:Njrskippycdfront.jpg|Front Cover
File:Njrskippycdback.jpg|Back Cover
File:Njrskippyinsideart.jpg|Inside Art
File:Njrskippytrayart.jpg|Tray Art
File:Njrskippydisc1.jpg|Disc 1 scan
File:Njrskippydisc2.jpg|Bonus Disc scan
</gallery>
===Cassette===
<gallery>
File:Damnskippytapeartfront.jpg|J-Card Front Cover
File:Damnskippyjcardback.jpg|J-Card Back Cover
File:Skippyjcardinside.jpg|J-Card Inside Art
File:Skippyjcardfoldout.jpg|J-Card Foldout Art
File:Skippytapefront.jpg|Tape Side A
File:Skippytapeback.jpg|Tape Side B
</gallery>

== Damn Skippy HDMI Images ==
<gallery>
File:MP3-Creature.gif|The creature of the "MP3s" section of the Damn Skippy HTML.
File:Lyrics-Demon.gif|The demon of the "Lyrics" section of the Damn Skippy HTML.
File:Bonus-Creature-CutiePatootie.gif|The creature of the "Bonus Tracks" section of the Damn Skippy HTML.
File:SkippyMonster1.png|One of the Damn Skippy monsters.
File:SkippyMonster2.png|One of the Damn Skippy monsters.
File:Commentary.jpg|The demon of the "Commentary" section of the Damn Skippy HTML.
File:DamnSkippySpiral.png|A gear-like spiral on the cover of Damn Skippy and in the Damn Skippy HTML.
File:DamnSkippySpiralButItsaGif.gif|Ditto, but a gif.
File:DeadSeaMonkeys.gif|Dead Sea Monkeys
File:SkyIsNotBlueHTML.gif|Sky Is Not Blue
File:PumpkinPieHTML.gif|Pumpkin Pie
File:WhenRobotsAttackHTML.gif|When Robots Attack
File:GeeksInLoveHTML.gif|Geeks In Love
File:NewWayOutHTML.gif|New Way Out
File:WhatWillHappenWillHappenHTML.gif|What Will Happen Will Happen
File:KittenIsAngryHTML.gif|Kitten Is Angry
File:TheCeilingHTML.gif|The Ceiling
File:SubtleOdditiesHTML.gif|Subtle Oddities
File:GuinessHTML.gif|Gonna Dig Up Alec Guiness
File:FlamingoLegs.gif|Flamingo Legs
File:OdeToCrayolaHTML.gif|Ode To Crayola
File:RainwaterHTML.gif|Rainwater
File:SmellLikeACookie.gif|Smell Like A Cookie All Day
File:DizzifulBlissHTML.gif|Dizziful Bliss
File:WordDissassociation.gif|Word Dissassociation
File:EventualityHTML.gif|Eventuality
File:Main.jpg|The main title screen of the Damn Skippy HTML.
</gallery>

== Trivia ==

* This is the first [[Lemon Demon]] album to include an audio commentary track and HTML.
* On the back cover of the 2023 [[Needlejuice Records]] version of the CD, [[Dizziful Bliss]] is misspelled "Dizziful Blss".
* In the 2023 remastered stream, [[Gonna Dig Up Alec Guinness]] is misspelt as "Gonna Dig Up '''Alex''' Guineness".
<references />

Spirit Phone: Commentary

2025-03-05T20:01:23Z

Fry90000: added catagories

{{Infobox_song
|title = Spirit Phone: Commentary
|artist = Lemon Demon
|year = 2018
|albumart = Spirit Phone.jpg
|writer = Neil Cicierega
|singer = [[Neil Cicierega]]
|album = [[Spirit Phone]]
|duration = 1:00:17
|genre = Commentary
|language = English
}}
This page is a transcript of the commentary included in the download of or bonus disc enhanced content of [[Spirit Phone]]. The runtime for the commentary for this album is 1 hour and 17 seconds.

===Intro===
Hey buddies! Uh, [[Neil Cicierega]] here, I am [[Lemon Demon]], the musician who made Spirit Phone, this album. This is a commentary track for an album, which is weird. It's hard to talk and listen at the same time so, after a few failed attempts I ended up uh, writing a lot of notes. So, sometimes if I sound like I know what I'm saying, it's because I'm reading from a script. And other times, uh, I will sound, uh, like, you know, what's the word-- bad.

So, Spirit Phone began as soon as my last album [[View-Monster]] came out which was 2008. And it came out 2016. I still put out music in the intervening years but they were just short EPs and sample-based mashup albums, this was a long-in-the-works return to a full-length original music album. And there were multiple times when I thought I had this thing in the bag, and I was telling people "Yeah, it's gonna come out this year!" "It's gonna come out next year!" "It's almost done!" And you know, all these tracks were almost, quote-on-quote 90% done no matter how much I messed with them. But eventually, I figured it out.

===[[Lifetime Achievement Award]]===
So, to rewind a bit, this album starts off with some white noise, some soft white noise, spooky sounds, and then the music begins. The white noise returns throughout the album a few times, what does it mean? It's a ghost. That's what it means.

This track is called Lifetime Acheivement Award. I picked that title late in production, I didn't feel like any of the lines from the actual chorus of the song worked as a title, uh, some early versions I think were named "Experiments in the Revival" which is a reference to ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments_in_the_Revival_of_Organisms Experiments in the Revival of Organisms],'' a 1940's Soviet medical film where they supposedly kept a severed dog's head alive with science. I've never actually watched this clip 'cause it just sounds really disturbing, although it's possibly fake, but I'm glad I didn't go with that title because, it's maybe too freaky a reference right out of the gate. Nonetheless, I got this whole song about creepy scientists reviving dead musicians, reviving them straight into new contracts like performing animals.

This song idea goes back to 2012, when there was that whole, I guess scandal about the hologram version of 2pac. Remember that? I barely remember that. But, anyway, the early 2010's is where this song was born. And the references to Michael Jackson's death and to Katy Perry sort of dated, but not too badly, 'cause Katy Perry's still doing her thing and Michael Jackson's still dead!

The chorus uses, in addition to me screaming, a computer... voice? It's actually, not a- not a real one, but it's an emulated Atari speech synthesis, uh, program, and those things are so bad at pronouncing things I had to break up the words into individual syllables just so it wouldn't be "cem-ah-ter-y" instead of cemetery.

Uh, an earlier version of this song was a totally different recording that I, I just worked on it too long and it just started to sound bad to me so I scrapped almost everything and I recreated it from scratch. And I listened to it recently and, this always happens, but I was like "oh, this is kinda better in some ways" and that's just, egh, really aggravating. But that version was missing a few important chunks I think and starting over made it easier to kinda insert, uh, a few extra bars here and there to spread out the lyrics a little bit, and this, uh, pretty cool keyboard solo wasn't in that version, so it was worth it, I think. But of course all my friends who I would send early versions of this song to, uh, when they heard the, the new version they did not like it as much. That always seems to happen. In fact, it happened, uh, publicly 'cause I put out an early version of Reaganomics, later on this album, and people got used to listening to that version, and then I changed a bunch of stuff, and a lot of people did not like it as much. Now, one solution to this is for me not to take 8 years to make an album, and uh, don't feel guilty about not putting out enough content and end up releasing songs early and in an unfinished state so people can just know that I'm not dead, and I'm actually working on music, but now I'm not even talking about this song, so let me, let me stop myself right there. Actually, the only note that I missed is, uh, earlier, when I said, uh, "you're unnatural, babe," which is a pun on "you're ''a'' natural" / "you're ''un''natural." Originally, that was just "you're unstoppable, babe." So, I got a bad pun in there, that's one thing I improved over the original, cool.

Most of my songs there's just one tempo that's locked in, but, uh, for this I tried to add little moments where it slows down or give a drum fill a little room to breathe, and that helps it make it feel like a more alive song. So, this part is, it's my voice going through a really deep synthesizer-vocoder effect, and I am paraphrasing the disclaimer that shows up at the beginning of the, uh, the video for Thriller, where Michael Jackson, I guess, um, had a crisis of conscience and uh, just had to make sure that everyone knows that, err, he's not a practitioner of magic or whatever, so, uh, I just took that phrase 'cause it's pretty well worded, and I kinda turned it into a pledge of allegiance type call-and-response thing with some robots. And for some reason with the robot voice, the word 'record' sounded not robotic, I had to say rec''o''rd, rec''ooooo''rd.

===[[Touch-Tone Telephone]]===
Making this little acapella intro involved, like, four or five different vocal tracks, and, some of them are doing you know, like, the main chords-- ba-ba-ba-ba-ba, and then there's one track that's doing all the, uh, in-between notes, and that one sounds really funny on it's own, it's just me going bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah. I've got a fake string quartet going in this song, that uh, to my ears sounds pretty good. I've always found that strings are one of the hardest instruments to make sound realistic with just a computer, but I found a pretty good sound library that is sadly discontinued now.

So, this song is about a dedicated caller into a radio show who has it all. figured. out. and he just needs to explain it to someone, and even just knowing how he’s going to sound to other people is giving him all this anxiety and it’s coming out before he can even say what he wants so say. In fact, it never comes out. So, this song is just a big rant of preemptive defensiveness and saying you’re going to do something without ever doing it. And I, I name-drop Robert Stack and Leonard Nimoy who, uh, hosted, respectively ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsolved_Mysteries Unsolved Mysteries]'', and ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of..._(TV_series) In Search of...]'' which were both shows that uh, dealt with bizzarre and often paranormal stories and tales, uh, and I actually loved to read about UFOs and Paranormal stuff even though I'm not a real believer, when I was a kid it was a fun thing to, to uh, to stretch my imagination with I guess.

Uh, on my patreon I posted an early, early ancestor of this song called [[Ivanushka]] which was uh, based on uh, the movie Jack Frost which was a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000 Mystery Science Theater episode], and that song had a lot of different sounding parts, but one of them was the uh, basically the chorus of this song, only I was singing about Father Mushroom and Ivanushka. And that happens all the time in my process. I will find melodies in songs- unfinished songs from years and years ago, and since they’re mine and I’ve never done anything with them, I’m free to basically plagiarize myself. And a lot of the time these melodies will just kinda stay in my head for years and that’s how they’ll end up getting reused. I’ll be going through old files and then I’ll realize, "Oh I actually did record this melody a long time ago and I totally forgot,” but the flip-side of that is discovering something like that can be a little depressing cause it reminds me, “Oh man I… take so long to finish music.”

Writing this little rap here was great because I got to use a lot of little um… just like phrases and stems that I had written in a big text file I always wanted to use. Like the word UFOlogy, [in time with the lyrics] or name dropping Ancient Aliens. I actually just paused and checked my old lyrics.txt file and, yeah, I totally wrote: species of big cat, I am Robert Stack, UFOlogy, Demonology, all like in this little paragraph. So I guess that’s where this song came from. And the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargasso_Sea Super Sargasso Sea] that I mention was a sort of thought experiment by Charles Fort, who was a very interesting early cataloger of (catalogist? of) the paranormal or seemingly impossible stories. Look him up!

This song always makes me think of, once when I was a kid, me and my dad were just messing around with a touch-tone telephone and trying to play music on it, and I think we were trying to play Shave & a Haircut and we must have played the first 3 notes and then hung up, and those first 3 notes just happened to be 911 because a cop showed up at our door a little while later saying like, “Hey… we got a call and someone just hung up.” So I imagine my dad probably tried to explain what happened and the cop must have been just like, “Uh… ok… please don’t do that.” As this album was starting to come together and I was starting to get excited and see it as not just a collection of songs but it’s an experience, man, I started extending the outros for songs and making these kind-of swirling, synthesizer, soundscapes, and I had to shorten this one because it was just... too much. But I’ve always really liked the effect of a song kinda decompressing and getting you ready for the next track and not knowing exactly where the cut-off point is.

===[[Cabinet Man]]===
So this is Cabinet Man, an upbeat song about a supernatural serial killer. This is supposed to be the kind of ludicrous story that would show up in an old horror anthology, like Creepshow, with lots of creative gore and vivid lights.

I don’t really remember what inspired me to write this kind of story…? There is the urban legend of Polybius, a weird 80s arcade game that made people sick, and lose their minds, and die- but, the body horror element where a guy somehow medically transplants all his systems into a video game cabinet… not sure what I was doing when I came up with that one.

There is real guitar in this, but the underlying rhythm guitar is fake because I tried playing it myself and I got really bad hand cramps trying to keep up that rhythm. There’s also backup vocals that are filtered through a plug-in called Bitspeek, which makes vocals sound like a speak-and-spell. I also used it on [[Melt Everyone]], from [[Mouth Sounds]], on Rob Thomas’s voice from the song Smooth. I’ve also got a lot of really fast high-hat hits here, which I definitely did not play IRL.

A lot of these songs use little synth instruments that have a random element to them. They’ll play, you know, a note an octave up or an octave down in a total random fashion and that is built into the plug-in. That's not how I’m playing it. Which is good, it adds some variety to the sound, but... the draw-back is every single time I play the song it sounds a little bit different. And that’s true any time I export the song as well. If I ever needed to go back and, you know, remix or re-construct the song from the original files it would end up having a lot of little variations from the original.

One of the bonus tracks on Spirit Phone is like a more chill version of this song from 2009. It doesn’t have any lyrics, it was long before I thought of putting body parts in a video game cabinet. I remember some early lyrics being about a seesaw…? I guess my content has changed a bit over the years.

I reversed the drums in this part which is something I forgot you could do. I’m glad I did it.

And of course you can’t be a monster arcade cabinet without immediately having to reckon with becoming obsolete in the face of home consoles and portable consoles. This guy is pretty much doomed to just be thrown away or end up living in some enthusiast’s collection… maybe be in like a… movie theater lobby.

When I played this song live years ago I made a backup video- or like a backing projected video that was clips from an 80s anthology movie about an evil arcade game called the Bishop of Battle I think…? It’s from a movie called Nightmares with Emilio Estevez. It had a lot of cool visuals; lots of 80s, 3D, wire frame stuff coming out of a screen and shooting lasers.

This is another song where none of the actual words in the lyrics grabbed me as title material, so I guess I just came up with Cabinet Man cause it sounds kinda spooky. Also there’s two other tracks with "man" in the title, and I guess that’s just a subtle way of… unifying... not really. What am I talking about?

Ooh, this part sounds pretty cool right? This was pretty high on my vocal register, I just kinda had to yell it and overlay multiple tracks to make it sound okay. It sounds okay.

===[[No Eyed Girl]]===
After I came up with the order for the songs on the album I ended up having to go in and alter the intros and outros of the songs to make them fit together in a cool way. So like, this song was done and it came in with the little soft strum guitar, and I ended up isolating a synth from later in the song and putting it right in the beginning with some nice echos to make it a more smooth transition into this song. And also to make sure that there’s- you know, there’s occasionally more than… 5 seconds when I’m not singing in the album?

So this song- I had this melody, which was always meant to sound very doo-wop inspired and kinda sad, but when I realized I don’t have the vocal chops of old doo-wop singers I somehow got the idea to just cheat with vocoder effects. So, I have my actual voice on the lead vocals plus like 4 or 5 backup vocals put through vocoders. And, you know, these are plug-in vocoders not actual physical devices that I own. So, there’s those tracks plus all these synthesizer tracks that are pushing the melodies through onto those vocals, and if I took those synths out there could be a version of this song with all natural voices but it would sound… awful because I wasn’t very concerned with hitting notes- the synths were doing that work.

The lyrics are another hypothetical sci-fi short story. Just an intro-dimensional love story with really bad repercussions; the sort of thing that people were worried the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider Super Hadron Collider] would unleash on the world. This all blossomed from the title, just a dumb pun on Brown Eyed Girl. You know, just like the weirdness of eye color in love songs, cause eyes are like the window to the soul that we fall in love with, put them on a pedestal, but they’re really just another body part at the end of the day. I don’t know. I like eyes and all, but they’re just the window to… the eyes.

Earlier on I had more realistic drums on this version of the song but for some reason they just weren’t sounding right, and I don’t know why I decided to add kind of these 90’s sampled new jack swing big drums, but I think it worked. Recording really quiet parts with vocals is tough because I have never had any kind of isolated sound booths… I’ve never even tried, really... sometimes I’ll throw a blanket over my computer, so recording something like that was kinda tough. I’d have to get pretty close to the mic, and cut off any room noise at the end of a word, stuff like that.

And this breakdown section was kind of an interesting thing to produce, because- I guess I just started with just the synths playing kind of like, you know, solid tones with no real volume variation. Then I sat down with a microphone and basically just recorded myself humming into the microphone to add some intonation to the synths. So for like the bass I wouldn’t be worrying about the note I would just be going, buuUUUUm, woOOOOAAAAooow, and then, you know, once I put it all together I had the right notes at the right volumes and it all sounded pretty cool.

I guess this one has a happy ending, sorta, like as a romance.

My favorite vocal track happens during this part, and it’s when it’s like half faded out, but it’s the- this part, the woah-woah-woah harmony. That’s me acknowledging that adding a ton of reverb smooths things out. And to transition into When He Died, which is more of an explicitly horror-themed song, I recorded these janky synths to an actual cassette tape and I played them back through this vintage RadioShack battery-operated cassette player. And if you pick it up and you shake it, it sounds very warble-y and very spooky. I highly recommend listening to all music in this way.

===[[When He Died]]===
So this is another kind of “Doo-wop with a weird twist” type of song. It uses that classic 4-chord 50s progression, I believe it’s called. But it switches between Lydian and Diatonic scales for the first two and the last two chords of that progression, and what that means is that there’s literally like one note that is off from what you’d expect from this kind of song. You can’t hear it on my vocals but it’s in some of the backup instruments and the guitar solo that comes later.

Everyone always compares this glockenspiel part to the theme from Rugrats and I disagree, it’s clearly supposed to evoke Take Me There by Blackstreet.<ref>Take Me There by Blackstreet is a song that contains interpolations of the Rugrats theme.</ref> Totally different song.

You can hear some flourishes from this janky little toy wooden harp that’s like, tuned beyond saving. You can hear it in its full glory whenever Snape appears in the [[Potter Puppet Pals]] Halloween Special that I made some years back. I definitely have a habit of finding and collecting weird little instruments like that and forgetting to use them or just not finding a place to use them, so I’m glad when I can use a messed up harp in a song *chuckles*.

KEY CHANGE CHORUS! That’s a cheap but effective trick in songwriting. I really like the pitched up la-la-las in the right channel, they sound like cartoon cats.

Does anyone remember like statues that cried blood…? That was a thing…? I think I probably saw it in an episode of Sightings... maybe on the Sci-Fi channel.<ref> When He Died is actually the second Lemon Demon song to mention statues crying blood, the first being [[Subtle Oddities]].</ref>

When I was working on this song They Might Be Giants came out with a song called [https://youtu.be/kSQ8tZ35t4U?si=7XeI61fWrZ8v45bY When Will You Die], and I was briefly worried that they would be too similar, but thankfully they’re very different. But I do highly recommend that song, for the record. It’s a good one.

And that harp is now replaced by a harmonica! Because that’s another instrument I just had laying around and didn’t really know how to play it correctly, so, just wanted to get it in there… justify owning a… harmonica.

So, the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BavE2cFUT54 OKeh Laughing Record] was a 1920s novelty record that was just some people laughing together. The idea was that laughing is infectious, so this record should sell like hotcakes! And it did, it was a huge hit. But when I listened to it I thought it was the scariest thing I’ve ever heard, and it’s public domain, so I got to scratch my sampling itch on this album. By the way, if you have the vinyl version of this album, I definitely recommend after the 3rd side is done playing… just let it keep playing… and there should be a little surprise there, in the center of the disc.

And, by the way, people seem to have trouble interpreting this song, but it’s really- it’s just a litany of creepy, mysterious things being discovered about someone who’s died. You hear about stuff like this every now and then, but I like that this one guy really outdid everyone, and he made sure to leave a real mystery behind. So that’s the concept of the song, just a guy who’s death raised far, far, far more questions than it could ever answer.

Ah, I really hit that note there. I’m pretty happy with my vocals on this track. I feel like the melody of this song is pretty up and down, probably one of the harder ones to do. That being said there’s a lot of little notes that I would love to go in and do better, or they just sound off now. But I guess that means I’m improving? That I can hear those imperfections. I know when I was younger, I couldn’t. I didn’t think I was good, but I just couldn’t tell I was specifically really bad. And if you listen closely, there’s like a little heartbeat kick drum here…

===[[Sweet Bod]]===
So this is Sweet Bod. It’s weird subject matter, even for me. I had to run this song by my loved ones, and I got a lot of “Uh… I don’t know man…” responses. But it’s inspired by the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellified_man Mellified Man], a legend that spans multiple cultures, (but it probably never happened) in where an old guy would willingly eat nothing but honey until he died so that he could be buried in a coffin of yet more honey and after 100 years… he would just kinda turn into a confection with incredible healing properties. It’s sort of like being an organ donor. It’s a nice thought, anyway. But my idea was, how do you pitch that to someone? Like, “Hey uh… so I have this theory… do you like honey?” Somehow this lyrical concept got paired with a jam that I was working on, and something about setting it to music just made it take on an unintentionally perverse tone? So instead of scrapping the song I thought, well what if the singer just tries to clarify: it’s not a sex thing… but good god that only makes it worse. I guess that’s probably why it’s only a legend and it never actually really happened- it just skeeved people out too much. But in the end I liked having a funk song that required too much explanation and defensiveness, cause I think singing about someone else’s body is weird and commodifing, as it is. So it was a natural fit, I thought.

One of the bonus tracks is a demo for this song, and it’s just an earlier version of the song with the same lyrics but a harder synth sound. It was just too fast and hard to listen to. I like the big synth breakdown in the middle of it, but that just didn’t translate to the new funk direction so… it’s pretty different. And to go back further, before it had any music, the lyrics were originally tied into the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood Boston Molasses Flood] of 1919 which actually killed a bunch of people- and the premise would have been about how on the 100 year anniversary of that, these jars of sweet liquid cure-all would start turning up, being sold on the streets of Boston, but real people died in that tragedy… and I felt like the one weird legend was enough for a song.

And the guitar solo here is the only guest spot on the album, and it’s Dave Kitsburg, a really gifted player, who’s uh- he’s done live shows with me. And, I’ve got that same Bitspeek plug-in running on the guitar and a few of the other synths on this song. My overall direction was to try and make it sound like there was this real, vintage funk song kind of buried under modern and unique sounds.

Some of the backup vocals are pitched up a bit to sound like I have both male and female singers, but nope! It’s just me :).

And YES! I finally got to use the word “panacea” in a song. And those high-pitched cowbells which I’ve always loved… I love that kinda shit like those little uh, those little tiny tom drums… that stuff’s good. And there’s some uh like chopping up of the song here that I added pretty much at the last minute like in the mixing-mastering stage. Swₑᵉt bod.

===[[Eighth Wonder]]===
So this is Eighth Wonder. This is the oldest track on the album. It was originally released in 2009, but it’s held up pretty well and it fits the Spirit Phone theme and it never got an official release so… into the album it went. And, I didn’t really change much about it. I added a little bit of flanger to this intro and, y’know, tweaked the EQ and the mixing and all that stuff, but it's pretty much the same track I released back in 2009. There was actually this like… extended fiddle solo outro that I chopped off- at least for the music video, which is where most people heard it. So, that part’s kinda discontinued, I guess.

But most of the lyrics come from quotes from this old ghost story (or poltergeist maybe? or just a talking animal). It was reported by a young girl and her family on the Isle of Man in I think the 1930s, so look up [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gef Gef the Mongoose]. G-E-F. This story stuck out to me because he is so childish, and quotable, and talkative for a ghost. He’s cracking jokes, and he’s insulting people, and making outlandish claims… but he’s totally hidden and nobody can really see him. They catch glimpses of a mongoose sometimes, but they don’t really see this talking character. And if you read some of the original reporting on him he has such a memorable presence without ever coming out into the open, he’s just a voice in the wall. I fell in love with this story because- well like with a lot of paranormal stories and ghost stories the people involved swear up and down pretty convincingly that it really happened, but what makes it different is- it’s the kind of story a little kid would tell, not understanding that it’s not a believable lie. But, it’s told in a believable way so it has the effect of not just challenging what you think the rules of the universe are but... challenging that there are any rules. So, letting yourself get drawn into the story is in a way creepier than a story that is more quote-unquote “plausible.”

I got some real bass in this song, which I don’t often do.

I remember recording this in the basement of my family’s house, and it was probably one of the last songs I made there before I moved to the city. And I shot the music video in my family’s yard, in the woods that I grew up near, and this old shack that’s on our property line… so this song has a real “end of an era” feel to me. I think I made this song around the same time as Redesign Your Logo, and they’re both the start of a lot of samples and sounds that I continue to use up until today, really. The drum sounds, the strings, the imitation analog synths… as well as trying a little bit harder on my vocals. So, it’s like I tapped into something pretty good with this song- it just ended up sounding a lot better than anything else I was doing at the time. And I’m realizing now, if I hadn’t made this song, or if it had just turned out totally differently… there are a lot of things I wouldn’t have even tried in music for the next few years because it was just a confidence booster to have accidentally made a song that sounds like a real song. So that’s Eighth Wonder.

This ending was a new composition for the album, it took a lot of effort not to make it it’s own track. I went overboard with splitting my last album, View-Monster, into like 32 different tracks including all the transitions so… I really had to keep myself in check this time, no superfluous concept tracks or anything. And, I wrote this little melody just to modulate the last song’s ending chord into something that matches the next song’s intro chord- but it actually ended up being one of my favorite moments on the album. It sounds kinda like a… creepy, soft lullaby with a vacuum cleaner going in the other room.

===[[Ancient Aliens]]===
This intro part is me playing the organ patch on an old Casio keyboard that I found at a thrift store and singing along. I added like one extra vocal track but the first vocal and the organ are performed together in one recording. Which isn't that interesting, but it’s something that I don’t usually do- I don’t usually sing and play an instrument at the same time.

I think recording just by myself, at home, without no need to book studio time is totally a double-edge sword because on one hand I end up dragging out the process of making a song for way, way too long and I haven’t honed the skills of just getting in there and recording what you need to do and getting out- but on the other hand it’s a lot more flexible and creative ideas don’t have to stop just because I’m in the middle of recording. I can always just stop singing and get back to work on the instruments or add more tracks and develop a harmony or something that would be impossible or just a big headache if you were booking studio time- or working with someone else and having to respect their schedule.

This song is a good example of one that went through a lot of revisions and rethinkings and… originally it was a really relentless constant drum beat kinda song. And I did stuff, like I added this “No stars…” part that’s an extra two beats that weren’t there originally. And I stripped it down mostly to just kick and snare in the drums and I tried to add more stop-and-go variation in this song- and you’ll notice that’s a recurring theme with the edits that I ended up making to these songs. And even still, one of the main criticisms I get for this album is that it just has too much energy that lasts for way too long. Which, ok, just- y’know, just don’t listen to it all at once I guess.

Man I- I can’t believe I did these falsetto notes here. It sounds ok though.

So, this song is from the point of view of a caveman who’s meeting an alien and he just knows that it’s wrong and he can’t deal with it…? And I guess the alien is stranded or in need of help in some way and the caveman just refuses to help because he gets a primal reaction from meeting someone not of the Earth. Of course in reality cave-people were probably freaked out all the time by totally natural things too.

I like the random square notes that are playing in this part. Almost all the synths in my songs these days are from a plugin called Synth One, which is very popular and free. And it’s just a good all-around synth; it can do a little bit of everything. And I’m happy to say that, finally, I pretty much know what all of the knobs do. I can make my own custom patches or emulate synths I’ve heard in other songs… and when I was younger that stuff was just black magic to me and I had no idea how any of it did… and it looked suspiciously like math so I didn’t really try.

One thing I miss is my parents had this really old, early 80s monophonic synthesizer and I used to plug it in and mess with it and have no idea what I was doing but… there’s something really satisfying about physically turning a knob and seeing a light blink faster or slower and hearing the sound transform. But it would drive me nuts trying to record like that because- I always wanna tweak everything at every stage of production and having to decide how somethings gonna sound, and then record it, and then be stuck with that, is not my idea of a good time.

Case in point- I got another one of these swirly, synth-y outros going here and… the synthesizer here required a lot of finagling, and going back and forth and making it softer or adding more of a gliding portamento between the notes… and there’s 3 different synthesizers playing right now and they all needed that kinda flexibility to get this sound.

===[[Soft Fuzzy Man]]===
This song is called Soft Fuzzy Man, and that’s something that me and my wife now call our cat.

Originally the opening line was, “Hello Sally, hello Suzy, let me float your way and introduce me,” which was probably too awkward and torture to rhyme even for me.

An early, early version of this song also had the “Don’t worry, Bill Murray,” rhyme couplet that I used on [[123456 Pokemon]] I think in like 2008…? I think that was just temporary lyrics that I ended up recycling, but yeah that means that the melody and bassline for this are even older than 2008. Might have been like [[Dinosaurchestra]] era- like 2006 or something.

This is me playing guitar badly but I’m using that Bitspeek plug-in again. It’s very unique sounding, it’s kinda like a kazoo.

This song is about a cloud man, or a ghost, or maybe just a metaphor for someone who thinks that being a total mystery makes him attractive. And… I do the thing that I usually do and I figure out an underlying metaphor and that’s good enough and now I can move on and just have fun with the literal side of the lyrics. So, there’s something about male unrelatability in there, but mostly it’s just a cloud man song.

The drums in this song are just like a bunch of really compressed claps and cowbells that are being wildly tuned up and down.

I always feel like the bridge is a good place to attempt to humanize a weird character that I’m singing about, like, yeah jokes, jokes, jokes but no I’m serious, ok back to jokes.

I think rhyming the word nervous with surface is… within the acceptable range of rhymes.

In an early version of this song I had the line change each time so I’d say, “What you girls really need’s a nebulous man,” or “A fragmental man,” and I kinda miss those lines cause fragmental is a good word.

“Makes you see spots” is a line change, I had something about seeping through the vents before…? Either way, he’s some kind of poisonous gas, maybe.

I think I specified that he’s hitting on a whole group of women at once to try and undercut the creepiness of this noxious, pervasive character. That’s still the point but at least he’s outnumbered.

The final thing I did is this little vocal thing here. Reminds me of Cornelius.

===[[As Your Father I Expressly Forbid It]]===
As Your Father I Expressly Forbid It. I liked doing such a simple bass and guitar riff- there’s still some good chord changes in this song but they’re all lumped together in one part of the verse. Then it comes back to that riff for the chorus, just louder. It’s actually so simple I’m curious if this [mimics the riff] thing has been done before. If anyone has found a prior use please let me know.

This is yet another unpleasant character but uh- I liked doing this cartoon-ish, strict dad cause it let me yell most of the lyrics instead of sing, cause all I really wanted to do was say things like “DON’T TALK ABOUT THE INTERNET,” in an unhinged manner.

So this title is in the present tense, and I went back and forth a couple times thinking like, “Uh… am I using the word expressly correctly? Does it matter?” It just feels like something that you’ve heard a dad say in a movie at some point, but I don’t think it is. It made me think of King Triton from The Little Mermaid, and I’ll talk about him in a second.

I just wanna say that… I really like my dad, and we get along very well and he was never ever like the dad in this song- this nightmare dad is just a character. And I also, I think, would try very hard not to be this dad. The lack of trust and friendship on display here is very sad. He does apologize for yelling, but he is just yelling for the whole song and then he threatens to yell some more. I think this dad only has this one move. Or maybe he doesn’t even really yell at his kid and this song is just like an internal monologue and he has to lock himself in his bedroom and just scream it out with his guitar. That’s a better idea.

So, this breakdown was originally going to be me quoting King Triton's various scoldings of Ariel and I guess it was too weird, so I turned those lines into a bass solo so they’re still there, in a way. He’s a human. You’re a mermaid.

I did this song live and I used a backing video that was just a really cheap slideshow of any pop culture dad I could think of, so it was like, Archie Bunker, and Nigel Thornberry, and Goofy, and Jack Torrance, and Major Dad, Papa Smurf… and I made sure to get my own dad in there too.

But yeah, this is the ultimate anthem for dads and they should play it for father-daughter dances at weddings instead of that fucking John Mayer song.

===[[I Earn My Life]]===
This effect is called a ring modulator, and I’m applying it to the synth that runs through the song here. There’s this sort of gritty sign wave playing randomized notes throughout the song and whenever the guitar is strummed it fades out for a second. That’s called side-chain compression, folks.

This is I Earn My Life, by the way. It’s a rare song that had lyrics that were written before the music, and I mean that’s not rare but for me it is. And, it was always supposed to come right after As Your Father- I think this song was born in the lyrics text file for that song, and it was always going to be a more intimate take on the same overkill dad. It’s all the mantras he repeats to himself to remind himself why he’s such an asshole. He doesn’t know how not to be afraid so he channels it into unpleasant behavior and decides it’s a virtue. So there’s a sympathetic guy here, but he’s buried under some really difficult layers. These songs are not inspired by anyone that I really know, they’re just imagining someone who’s ruled by emotions that everyone gets to some degree but which seem to be amplified, sometimes, by parenthood.

And then you just got your classic death stuff here, and it’s funny because characters in songs should not be worried about death. I should. You should. But fictional characters… need to lighten up a little bit.

Cool thing about this song is there’s only like 2 words that rhyme with life, and everyone knows that, so they’re willing to cut me some slack if I rhyme it with like survive.

This flute solo is actually like a grade-school recorder, and I recorded it in little bits and I spliced them all together. So, if you had a mental image of me like- totally jamming away on a flute- that’s a false image, sorry. What you want to imagine is me sitting in a chair with a wooden recorder hitting R on my keyboard, playing two notes, hitting space bar, rewinding a couple seconds, listening to it, hitting CTRL+Z cause it didn’t sound good, recording it again, then moving onto the next two notes. What I do is very glamorous. Extremely rock & roll.

Despite this being the most serious track on the album I guess, still- musically it’s like a total grab-bag. I got like 8-bit percussion and… organs, and horns, and all sorts of craziness. This could totally be another song about crayons if I wanted to but- why can’t we throw a party in honor of the crushing weight of responsibility?

Making this music involves a lot of me sitting on my butt, not interacting with other people, and I overcompensate for that (and I’m ok with this) by making every song dance-able, on some level.

===[[Reaganomics]]===
This song is called Reaganomics. This is Ronald Reagan speaking. I took one of his famous quotes and I edited it to be more nonsensical. Although, it was pretty nonsensical to start with.

This is a trick that I should really do more often where it’s- you have a different part at the beginning that comes back later as the bridge. I always feel a sense of intent when that happens.

So this song is mostly in 6/4 time, which is not the weirdest time signature, but for some reason it’s not very common. The vast majority of pop music is in 4/4…? And, whenever someone wants to be different, or difficult, they usually pick a weird odd number to time signature. The problem with doing that is, the inevitable “This sounds like Rush,” comment.<ref>In the Damn Skippy commentary, Neil mentions how someone told him his song Subtle Oddities sounds like Rush because of it's odd time signature. Guess he's still stuck up about that.</ref> But, 6/4 feels natural to me: it’s 4 beats, then 2 beats, and repeat. And speaking of being difficult, this song has backup vocals that are singing different lines over the main vocals, so if you want to sing along you really have to pick one or the other. And then the chorus is back to 4/4 time.

This is definitely one of those songs where I was thinking of an interesting sounding word, Reaganomics, and I had checked to see if any other songs had been written with that as a title, and I saw that it was up for grabs and I just went for it. There’s a band by that name who do 80s covers, but I figured that was different enough. But actually, I was wrong! There was another song, at least one other song, called [https://youtu.be/jgcbXn-qomg?si=IkKb5ym3BGlpse2_ Reaganomics and it’s from the year 1985 by D.R.I.], a thrash metal band, and it’s 42 seconds long. I just listened to it- the lyrics are like, “Reaganomics killing me, Reaganomics killing you.” I have to hand it to those boys, their song is more to-the-point than mine.

I consider Reagan a pretty bad president, though I wasn’t conscious then. This was written before Trump, and I was fascinated that an actor became president, and that he was canonized and that everyone just takes it for granted now. Of course he did serve as a governor… and it doesn’t seem as crazy now but… I was looking at all these old pictures of Reagan dressed all slickly in his suits, and I felt that amping up the superficial charm to sell people on something that doesn’t really make sense works all too well in a pop song. You just have to say “baby” a lot, and make endless promises cause the song ends in 3 minutes. And it was astounding to me to realize how stepping into the role of a snake oil salesman bent on deceiving the listener- how easy that made it to write a passable pop song. And now anytime I hear a song when some guy is reaching out his hand and asking you to trust him in his heart I just wonder… What scam he’s running? You know like that song Magic Carpet Ride, I’m thinking Steppenwolf doesn’t really have a magic carpet… You know, I’m thinking Kokomo is not a real place, so what are the Beach Boys trying to pull? Is it a tax thing?

===[[Man-Made Object]]===
You can hear a bit of that white noise here. I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s still a ghost.

There’s a lot of 80s influence on this album, but I put this and Reaganomics together because they share a certain power suit- megalomania quality. And I liked that I managed to make this sound like music from a deteriorating corporate training tape. It’s like… kind of optimistic but in a cold, survival of the fittest kind of way.

This melody and chord progression were something that I used to just play on the piano all the time. There are tunes that develop from just humming a melody or... placing notes manually with the mouse cursor, and there are songs that I play on the piano that won’t get recorded at all- for years they just kind of live within that piano realm. I really hit the top of my vocal range for this song, but I had no choice. Sometimes music just sounds right and transposing it down or up to fit my vocal range messes with it- suddenly I’ve just got notes that are too low and they don’t sound good. And, I’ve already got the melody planned out, and I’m not gonna change the notes just because I can barely hit them. So I just kinda forge ahead and if I can’t hit the note I can try again tomorrow. And very gradually, over the years, I have actually been able to extend my upper range a little bit. It doesn’t always sound great, but I can do it.

This song makes me think of if Bruce Wayne’s parents never died, and he didn’t care about crime, but he still had all that dark energy in him. He’d just- spend all night staring out the window envisioning skyscrapers he could be building.

I’m glad I put some special synths from my childhood here. You can hear some MS-DOS style ad-lib instruments mixed in.

This would be a good song to put on while you're playing Sim Tower, I think. Or if you’re playing Sim Ant, you can play the next track.

A lot of my songs are inspired by Wikipedia articles; I’ll just go down a Wikipedia hole and find something that makes me want to write a song about it. And this one was a page called, “[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_visionary_tall_buildings_and_structures List of visionary tall buildings and structures],” and it’s just a list arranged by height of hypothetical- or planned- or designed but possibly unbuildable mega-structures. A lot of them are these like- insane insanely huge pyramids that like a million people could live in, and they’re all way, way, way taller than the actual tallest building that exists. So, those always make me think about how incredible or incredibly dangerous it would be if one of them actually existed.

And the phrase man-made object is a qualifier that I sometimes have to put in when I’m wondering, “What’s the oldest thing- what’s the biggest thing,” when really the question I’m asking is, “What’s the biggest thing that we have done, as a species.” And for something to hold that kind of record, someone needs to have envisioned it that way.

This is just my voice and the bell digitally stretched out.

===[[Spiral of Ants]]===
And, actually, I just realized that I used a really similar sounding bell at the end of the last track as the intro of this one. That was unintentional. One of the last things I added to this track was these old stock thunder sound effects. I guess they punctuate the secondary metaphor of this song of weather and hurricanes. But mostly I just- I liked how they sounded.

The chord progression for this song comes from a- like an instrumental track that I made years ago that also had the chords for No Eyed Girl kind of as part of the same song, and they ended up getting split into two different tracks years later [http://lemondemon.com/noeyedant.mp3 [listen]]. And… I think I posted that a while ago, on Twitter, if you’re trying to find it.

I think the high tinkly piano is probably inspired by the original Sesame Street theme. I always liked how that sounded. You can’t play the top of the piano and take yourself seriously. That’s the baby part of the piano.

So, ant mills, or ant death spirals, are this phenomenon where ants get into a feedback loop with each other's pheromones and they start walking around in a circle- or a spiral- endlessly. Until they all die of exhaustion. I knew this would be a potent metaphor and all I had to do was carefully write around it without giving up that I don’t know what I’m doing. I can tell you some things about bugs and if you like music and have an imagination, hopefully, it will become a meaningful song on delivery. Or, if you’re like me, you just listen to songs without consciously parsing the lyrics, sort of in one ear and out the other, and the vocals are just another instrument. That’s how I listen to music, I go years without knowing what a song is actually about. And I’d have a much easier time writing songs if everyone was like that, but some of you are those maniacs who instantly focus in on understanding the lyrics and you know right away if it’s a good song or just a good sounding song. And I live in fear of you people. Please, just let me sing about bugs. Bugs that don’t matter… that’s all I wanna do. I mean it’s very satisfying to successfully make a song that feels a little more substantial through the use of words and, you know, emotionally evocative… singing. It just takes way longer to do that…

Anyways, this is the last track on Spirit Phone, the proper album.

===Bonus Tracks===

There’s a bunch of bonus tracks that uh- I don’t have a ton to talk about them…? So I’m just gonna summarize them real quickly- starting now. *clears throat*

===[[Crisis Actors]]===
Crisis Actors is about the shitty, shitty theory that Alex Jones-types put forth that victims of certain politically inconvenient tragedies are just paid actors and the whole thing’s a sham to push public opinion or- whatever. This track was almost a proper track on Spirit Phone but I was running out of room. It also quotes the cool banner that lands on the t-rex at the end of Jurassic Park.

===[[Redesign Your Logo]]===
Redesign Your Logo is an older song full of meaningless six syllable phrases evoking bunk marketing jargon. There was a [https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell-021109-1.pdf pdf file] floating around describing the total moon logic that was justifying Pepsi's logo redesign. It may have been a hoax document but either way, some firm got paid a ton of money for that awful logo. You know the one.

===[[Pizza Heroes]]===
Pizza Heroes. My sister [[Emmy]] was kicking around this idea for a cartoon about a pizza delivery team who, uh, could travel extremely fast to anywhere in the world, so I wrote this about that hypothetical cartoon.

===[[You're at the Party]]===
You’re at the Party is a track that I never quite finished to my liking. It’s about a sick person who’s trying to sleep while a noisy party happens next door, and it gradually overtakes him and invades his nightmares- or are they nightmares…? I don’t know, it’s ambiguous.

===[[Angry People]]===
Angry People is this intense techno song about how, I guess, hate sex leads to evil babies…? and everyone’s angry and trying to lead normal lives without ever not being angry and they turn into wolves and tigers and stuff.

===[[Geocities]] & [[Angelfire]]===
Geocities and Angelfire are two instrumental songs. They’re just… fun. Geocities has an edited sample at the end of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voder Voder], an early spea- [stutters and messes up] speech synthesis machine that kinda worked like a reverse stenography keyboard.

===[[Gravitron]]===
Gravitron is a demo I wrote as an ultimately unused theme song for the show [[Gravity Falls]] back when it’s creator, Alex Hirsch, was preparing his pitch. I wasn’t sure what the vibe of the show was going to be exactly so I wrote a couple themes covering the spectrum. This is the one I wrote inspired by the creepy, weird, vintage inspiration material that he had collected. The other theme I wrote had lyrics, but it’s not a bonus track on this album but…

===[[Moon's Request]]===
Moon’s Request is a remix of one line that I sung from that song, and I remember making this remix to try and break my writer’s block while coming up with themes for this show.

===[[Sweet Bod (Demo)]]===
The Sweet Bod demo, I talked about that already...

===[[Cat Hacks]]===
Cat Hacks is a crazy sounding instrumental. It was supposed to have lyrics, sort of…? Just a list of hacks for your cat such as: tape a marker to your cat (DIY GPS tracker), stack multiple cats for that extra vertical cat value, make a sincere attempt for once in your life at empathizing with other people… and your cat.

===[[Cabinet Man (Demo)]]===
Cabinet Man demo, I talked a little bit about that already…

===[[Kubrick and the Beast]]===
Kubrick and the Beast was supposed to be the opening track for Spirit Phone at one point, but the album’s tone ended up going in another direction… and I had to break it to myself gently.

===Outro===
And that’s, ultimately, what this album was about. I think it’s got a certain tone- despite using multiple genres. But these songs were written separately over multiple years spanning a lot of changes in my life, and with that in mind, of course there’s no singular theme that ties them all together, but I did luck out and they all kinda fit within three or four categories, I guess. And they gel in a way that, hopefully, kinda justifies it being such a long album. And if you’re listening to this I guess you liked it enough to listen to me talk about it for this long, and I’m extremely lucky and grateful that there are people like you who listened to this album and… actually felt something. Even after putting out music for 2/3s of my life… that’s still a really magical feeling so thank you, thank you, thank you.

==Trivia==

<references />
[[Category:Commentary]]

Sexy DVD

2025-03-05T20:00:25Z

Fry90000: added catagories

'''Sexy DVD''' is a song from the Lemon Demon EP [[Nature Tapes]], being retroactively added to the EP in 2019 alongside [[Goosebumps]], being a hidden track.
[[File:SexyDVD.jpg|thumb|The singles cover of Sexy DVD]]
The song is about a character who finds their DVD (of the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie in the music video) sexy & attractive. A music video for Sexy DVD was made in 2010 and released on Neil's channel, showing different angles of the box art of the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie DVD. The song is only 1:29 in length.

== Lyrics ==
''You are my only one, you are so smooth, let me touch you babe…''

''I need to take you out tonight right now, let me love you babe…''

''I wanna put you in, I wanna make you spin''

''Cause you a sexy DVD''

''You a sexy DVD''

''I wanna watch you play, every night and day''

''Cause you a sexy DVD''

''Sexy DVD''

''Cause you a sexy DVD''

''Sexy DVD''

''Cause you a sexy DVD''

''Sexy DVD''

''Cause you a sexy DVD''

''Sexy DVD''
[[Category:Song]]
[[Category:Songs written by Neil Cicierega]]

Kubrick and the Beast

2025-03-04T21:36:20Z

Fry90000:

{{Infobox_song
|title = Kubrick and the Beast
|artist = Lemon Demon
|year = 2016
|albumart = kubrick.png
|writer = Neil Cicierega
|singer = [[Neil Cicierega]]
|album = [[Spirit Phone]]
|duration = 2:44
|tempo = 90
|genre = Pop
|language = English
|externalLinks = [https://youtu.be/FWoOA4VIX2I?si=zqTvTcI7lI79FGkW Youtube] [https://open.spotify.com/track/62bBoMilgUYwgdgJpOtnHG Spotify] [https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/track/kubrick-and-the-beast Needlejuice Bandcamp]
}}
'''Kubrick and the Beast''' is the thirteenth bonus track from Lemon Demon's seventh album, [[Spirit Phone]]. It was originally intended to be the first track on the album as an instrumental opener (paralleling [[View-Monster]]), but was later removed the main track list sometime during the album's development and released as a separate single on June 30th, 2015. It was then added onto the bonus tracks for the album when it released. Neil stated in the [[Spirit Phone: Commentary|Spirit Phone Commentary]]:

<blockquote>"Kubrick and the Beast was supposed to be the opening track for Spirit Phone at one point, but the album’s tone ended up going in another direction… and I had to break it to myself gently."</blockquote>Fittingly, the song was originally meant to start the album, but instead now ends the album.

Bottom Line

2025-03-04T21:35:20Z

Fry90000: trivia baby

{{Infobox_song
|title = Bottom Line
|artist = Lemon Demon
|year = 2006-09-07
|recorded = 2005
|albumart = Damn Skippy.png
|writer = Neil Cicierega
|singer =
|album = [[Damn Skippy]] (2023 Reissue)
|duration = 4:43
|tempo = 
|genre = Electronic
|language =
|externalLinks = [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/Misc/Lemon%20Demon%20-%20Bottom%20Line.mp3 MP3]
[https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/track/bottom-line Remaster]
|addtlInfo = 
}}'''Bottom Line''' is an instrumental song by Lemon Demon that was recorded around the time of Damn Skippy. Lyrics were supposedly written but never recorded. This track was later remastered and included on [[Needlejuice Records]]' reissue of [[Damn Skippy]] in 2023.

== Trivia ==

* Sounds of what seem to be Neil or a baby singing can be heard, mostly during the 3:16-3:39 mark
* This is the last song on the 2023 physical editions of [[Damn Skippy]] (not the CD)

Sexy DVD

2025-03-04T21:16:00Z

Fry90000: Created page with "'''Sexy DVD''' is a song from the Lemon Demon EP Nature Tapes, being retroactively added to the EP in 2019 alongside Goosebumps, being a hidden track. The singles cover of Sexy DVD The song is about a character who finds their DVD (of the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie in the music video) sexy & attractive. A music video for Sexy DVD was made in 2010 and released on Neil's channel, showing different angles of the box art of the 1993 Super..."

File:SexyDVD.jpg

2025-03-04T21:15:14Z

Fry90000:

Sexy DVD

Hip to the Javabean

2025-03-04T20:59:39Z

Fry90000: /* Trivia */ yeah

{{Infobox album
|title = Hip to the Javabean
|artist = Lemon Demon
|albumart = HTTJ.png
|disc_Category = Album
|year = March 23, 2004
|recorded = 2003-2004
|length = 57:39, 1:19:42 (with bonus tracks)
|label = Self-released (2004), [[Needlejuice Records]] (2023)
|producers = [[Neil Cicierega]]
|reviews = 
|externalLinks = [https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/album/hip-to-the-javabean Needlejuice Remaster] [http://www.lemondemon.com/Lemon%20Demon%20-%20First%20four%20albums/Hip%20to%20the%20Javabean%20(2004)/ MP3] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/%5b2004%5d%20Lemon%20Demon%20-%20Hip%20To%20The%20Javabean%20%5bCDR%5d/ Lossless rip of original CD] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/CD%20Bonus%20Content/%5b2004%5d%20Hip%20To%20The%20Javabean/ Bonus content from original CD]

|addtlInfo = 
|lastAlbum = [[Live from the Haunted Candle Shop]] (2003)
|thisAlbum = '''Hip to the Javabean''' (2004)
|nextAlbum = [[Damn Skippy]] (2005)
}}

'''Hip to the Javabean''' is the third [[Lemon Demon]] album. It was originally released on March 23rd, 2004, as homemade, burned-on-demand CD-Rs sold through the old Lemon Demon website<ref>https://trapezzoid.livejournal.com/18552.html</ref>. Included on the disc as bonuses were a ReadMe file, 8 bonus tracks (a first for a [[Lemon Demon]] album), and the entirety of [[Clown Circus]] and [[Live from the Haunted Candle Shop]].<ref>https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/CD%20Bonus%20Content/%5b2004%5d%20Hip%20To%20The%20Javabean/</ref> Earlier copies of this homemade run feature a different disc label design than later copies.<ref name=":0">https://www.discogs.com/master/1455120-Lemon-Demon-Hip-To-The-Javabean</ref>

In 2006, the album received a CD repress with replicated discs manufactured by now-defunct company Americ Disc Inc. This version maintains the same bonus content as the original run.<ref name=":0" />

In April 2009, [[Neil]] offered the album for free download on Lemondemon.com, alongside [[Clown Circus]], [[Live from the Haunted Candle Shop]], and [[Damn Skippy]].<ref>http://www.lemondemon.com/Lemon%20Demon%20-%20First%20four%20albums/</ref>

On January 21st, 2023, [[Needlejuice Records]] reissued the album (not including any bonus tracks) on Bandcamp to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Lemon Demon. This version of the album was remastered by Angel Marcloid.<ref>https://twitter.com/needlejuicerec/status/1616893029909921793?lang=en</ref><ref>https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/album/hip-to-the-javabean</ref> Physical reissues of the album are planned.<ref>https://needlejuicerecords.com/pages/faq</ref>

==Track listing==
#[[What’s in the Toaster?]]
#[[Sunbeam Light Show Flower Seed]]
#[[Musical Chairs]]
#[[Atomic Copper Claw]]
#[[Your Evil Shadow Has a Cup of Tea]]
#[[Telekinesis]]
#[[Matches and Nails]]
#[[Relativity]]
#[[Fancy Pants Manifesto]]
#[[Go to Hollywood]]
#[[I Know Your Name (Lemon Demon)|I Know Your Name]]
#[[Consumer Whore]]
#[[Between You and Me]]
#[[I’ve Got Some Falling to Do]]
#[[Sick Puppy]]

===Bonus Tracks===
#[[Almond]]
#[[Bad Idea]]
#[[Behold the FUTURE]]
#[[Not Applicable]]
#[[Roman Robot Statues]]
#[[Run, Harry, Run!]]
#[[Take a Picture]]
#[[There’s a Robot in My Head]]

===Also contains===
*[[Clown Circus]]
*[[Live from the Haunted Candle Shop]]

== Trivia ==

* While this is the first [[Lemon Demon]] album to not be released on Mp3.com, two songs from the album ([[Relativity]] and [[I’ve Got Some Falling to Do]]) were originally released prior as singles on Mp3.com.
* This was the first Lemon Demon album to include bonus tracks, which would become a staple to future Lemon Demon albums.
* This was also the first Lemon Demon album to include track transitions, which would also become a staple to future Lemon Demon albums.
<references />

Dinosaurchestra

2025-02-14T16:11:59Z

Fry90000: /* Trivia */ ew

{{Infobox album
|title = Dinosaurchestra
|artist = Lemon Demon
|albumart = dinosaurchestra.jpg
|disc_Category = Album
|year = July 20, 2006
|recorded = 2005-2006
|length = 1:06:10, 1:46:44 (with bonus and hidden tracks)
|label = Self-released (2006), [[Needlejuice Records]] (2022)
|producers = [[Neil Cicierega]]
|reviews = 
|externalLinks = [https://lemondemon.bandcamp.com/album/dinosaurchestra Purchase original version digitally] [https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/album/dinosaurchestra Purchase remastered version digitally and physically (Needlejuice Records Bandcamp)] [https://needlejuicerecords.com/search?q=dinosaurchestra&options%5Bprefix%5D=last Purchase remastered version physically (Needlejuice Records website)] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/Dinosaurchestra/ Miscellaneous audio files] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/CD%20Bonus%20Content/%5b2006%5d%20Dinosaurchestra/ Bonus content from original CD]
|addtlInfo = 
|lastAlbum = [[Damn Skippy]] (2005)
|thisAlbum = '''Dinosaurchestra''' (2006)
|nextAlbum = [[View-Monster]] (2008)
}}

'''Dinosaurchestra''' is [[Lemon Demon]]’s fifth album. It is the first to include a text commentary, a secret track, and a booklet. It is also the longest Lemon Demon album to date with almost two hours of music.

Dinosaurchestra is particularly notable for the fact that many of its songs were already in the possession of fans before its release. This is because seven of the main tracks and ten of the bonus tracks were already up for download before the album was released, and six main tracks and one bonus track were later leaked, leaving only six main tracks and five bonus tracks, as well as the hidden track. The tracks already in possession of fans comprises exactly two thirds of the music on the album.

==Track listing==
'''Side A'''
#[[Dinosaurchestra Part One]]
#[[Action Movie Hero Boy]]
#[[Fine]]
#[[Lawnmower]]
#[[Stuck]]
#[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]]
'''Side B'''
#<li value="7">[[Vow of Silence]]</li>
#[[Neverending Hum]]
#[[Dinosaurchestra Part Two]]
#[[Your Imaginary Friend]]
#[[Archaeopteryx]]
#[[Eyewishes]]
#[[Bystanding]]
#[[Indie Cindy & the Lo-Fi Lullabies]]
'''Side C'''
#<li value="15">[[Nothing Worth Loving Isn’t Askew]]
#[[This Hyper World]]
#[[Deep in the Ocean]]
#[[Dinosaurchestra Part Three]]
#[[The Too Much Song]]

===Bonus tracks (original CD)===
#[[White Bread Boyfriend]]
#[[Funniest]]
#[[Birthday (Alligators and Pretzel Makers)]]
#[[Chip’s Challenge Chip01 Midi Remix]]
#[[It Can Get Lonely in My Mansion]]
#[[Samuel and Rosella]]
#[[Bill Watterson (Demo)|Bill Watterson]]
#[[Space Mission Alpha]]
#[[Being Alone on Valentine’s Day]]
#[[Stick Stickly]]
#[[Abraham Lincoln’s Head]]
#[[The Next Dimension]]
#[[Princess Unicorn Bunny Kitten Angel]]
#[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (Aaron Ackerson remix)]]
#[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (SaTIst remix)]]
#[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (R-Forrest remix)]]

=== Bonus tracks (Needlejuice Records re-release) ===

# [[Birthday (Alligators and Pretzel Makers)]]
# [[White Bread Boyfriend]]
# [[Stick Stickly]]
# [[Being Alone on Valentine's Day]]
# [[It Can Get Lonely in My Mansion]]
# [[Princess Unicorn Bunny Kitten Angel]]
# [[The Next Dimension]]
# [[Samuel and Rosella]]
# [[Abraham Lincoln's Head]]
# [[Space Mission Alpha]]
# [[Funniest]]
# [[Chip's Challenge Chip01 MIDI Remix]]
# [[Bill Watterson|Bill Watterson (Demo)]]
# [[Indie Cindy and the Lo-Fi Lullabies|Indie Cindy and the Lo-Fi Lullabies (Demo)]]
# [[Every Time You Stifle a Sneeze]]
# [[Snakes on a Plane]]
# [[The Oldest Man on MySpace]]
# [[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (Aaron Ackerson remix)]]
# [[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (R-Forrest remix)]]
#[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (SaTIst remix)]]
#[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (Instrumental)]]
#[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (Vocals)]]
#[[Fine|Fine (Instrumental)]]
#[[This Hyper World|This Hyper World (Instrumental)]]

===Hidden track===
#[[Turkeys]]
== Trivia ==

* The dinosaur on the main cover of the album is named "Goodsie".
* Dinosaurchestra is the longest Lemon Demon release, at nearly 2 hours of music, though the album with the most songs is [[View-Monster]].
* A poorly drawn image of a dinosaur jamming out with the sun saying the band's name was the original cover, likely a placeholder.
* Another alternative shows Neil next to a closet door with a keytar.
* To accompany the release of the 2022 remaster of Dinosaurchestra, a 7" vinyl EP called [[Acrobat Unstable Record]] was released and contained 6 bonus tracks not on the Dinosaurchestra vinyl.
* In 2023, a wax cylinder containing the track "The Oldest Man On MySpace" was released by Needlejuice Records.

== Physical Releases ==
<gallery>
File:Dinosaurchestra Goodsie Vinyl.png|The "Goodsie" vinyl variant of Dinosaurchestra.
File:DinosaurBlues.png|The "Dinosaur Blues" vinyl variant of Dinosaurchestra.
File:DinoVinyl-Magic8Ball.png|The "Magic 8-Ball" vinyl variant of Dinosaurchestra.
File:DinoVinyl-DinosaurEggs.png|The "Dinosaur Eggs" vinyl variant of Dinosaurchestra.
File:Dino-CD-mockup.png|The Needlejuice double CD mockup of Dinosaurchestra.
File:Dino-cassette-tape.png|The Needlejuice cassette tape mockup of Dinosaurchestra.
File:Dino-minidisc-mockup.png|The Needlejuice Dinosaurchestra MiniDisc mockup.
File:OldestMan-cylinder-mockup.png|The Needlejuice "The Oldest Man on MySpace" wax cylinder mockup.
</gallery>
[[File:DinoAltCover1.jpg|thumb|An alternate cover of Dinosaurchestra.]]
[[File:DinosaurchestraAltCover.webp|thumb|An alternate cover of Dinosaurchestra, likely a placeholder.]]

==Dinogate==
Dinogate was the period after the release of [[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]], but before the release of Dinosaurchestra. (Between December 2005 and July 2006.) During this time, the relatively immense popularity of Showdown created many new Illemonati, who congregated at the then-newly-formed Lemon Demon forum.

During Dinogate, many unreleased Dinosaurchestra tracks were leaked via secret URLs on EvilTrailMix. Neil put them online to share amongst friends, but took them down and forbade their redistribution once their existence was noted on the forum.

The name of this period was coined by forum member Dave12D3 after the period had passed.

===Leaked Tracks===
*[[Neverending Hum]]
*[[Your Imaginary Friend]]
*[[Archaeopteryx]]
*[[Eyewishes]]
*[[Indie Cindy & the Lo-Fi Lullabies (Demo)]]
*[[Deep in the Ocean]]
*[[Princess Unicorn Bunny Kitten Angel]]

Damn Skippy

2025-02-11T20:43:54Z

Fry90000: /* Damn Skippy HDMI Images */ yeah

{{Infobox album
|title = Damn Skippy
|artist = Lemon Demon
|albumart = Damn Skippy.png
|disc_Category = Album
|year = March 21, 2005
|recorded = 2004–2005
|length = 1:00:57, 1:22:24 (with bonus tracks)
|label = Self-released (2005), [[Needlejuice Records]] (2023)
|producers = [[Neil Cicierega]]
|reviews = 
|externalLinks = [https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/album/damn-skippy Needlejuice Remaster] [http://www.lemondemon.com/Lemon%20Demon%20-%20First%20four%20albums/Damn%20Skippy%20(2005)/ MP3] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/CD%20Bonus%20Content/%5b2005%5d%20Damn%20Skippy/ Bonus content from original CD] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/%5b2005%5d%20Lemon%20Demon%20-%20Damn%20Skippy%20%5bCDR%5d/ Lossless rip of original CD] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/%5b2005%5d%20Lemon%20Demon%20-%20Damn%20Skippy%20%5bMispress%20CDR%5d/ Lossless rip of original (mispress) CD] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqmpmtJxWdU YouTube] [https://youtu.be/uiIFMemtDkI Remastered YouTube]
|addtlInfo = 
|lastAlbum = [[Hip to the Javabean]] (2004)
|thisAlbum = '''Damn Skippy''' (2005)
|nextAlbum = [[Dinosaurchestra]] (2006)
}}

[[File:Damnskippynjr.jpg|thumb|2023 [[Needlejuice Records]] reissue cover art.]]

'''Damn Skippy''' is [[Lemon Demon]]’s fourth album. It was originally released on March 21st, 2005, as homemade, burned-on-demand CD-Rs sold through the old Lemon Demon website<ref>https://trapezzoid.livejournal.com/2005/03/21/</ref>, in the same manner [[Hip to the Javabean]] was the year prior. Eight bonus tracks, an audio commentary track, and an HTML file were included as bonuses on the disc.<ref>https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/CD%20Bonus%20Content/%5b2005%5d%20Damn%20Skippy/</ref>This content is maintained in all CD represses of the album.

In 2006, the album received a CD repress with glass replicated discs manufactured by now-defunct company Americ Disc Inc.<ref>https://www.discogs.com/master/1455122-Lemon-Demon-Damn-Skippy</ref>

In April 2009, [[Neil]] offered this album for free download on [http://www.lemondemon.com/ Lemondemon.com], alongside [[Clown Circus]], [[Live from the Haunted Candle Shop]], and [[Hip to the Javabean]].<ref>http://www.lemondemon.com/Lemon%20Demon%20-%20First%20four%20albums/</ref>

On January 21st, 2023, [[Needlejuice Records]] reissued the album, alongside [[Hip to the Javabean]] on Bandcamp in celebration of the 20th anniversary of [[Lemon Demon]].<ref>https://twitter.com/needlejuicerec/status/1616893029909921793?lang=en</ref> <ref name=":0">https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/album/damn-skippy</ref>This version of the album was remastered by Angel Marcloid<ref>https://angelhairaudio.com/full-portfolio-project-list</ref>and added ten previously unreleased tracks, six remastered instrumentals, one remastered vocal track and a hidden track to the bonus track list. The album's original audio commentary track was also remastered for this release by Alex Argo.<ref name=":0" /> Pre-orders for physical represses of the album on vinyl, CD, and cassette went up in February<ref>https://twitter.com/needlejuicerec/status/1628051649032757250</ref>, with the CDs and cassettes shipping in June<ref>https://twitter.com/needlejuicerec/status/1669136477182205953</ref>, and vinyls expected to ship in September.<ref>https://needlejuicerecords.com/products/damn-skippy-ode-to-crayola-lp</ref>

==Track Listing==
'''Side A'''
#[[Dead Sea Monkeys]]
#[[Sky Is Not Blue]]
#[[Pumpkin Pie]]
#[[When Robots Attack]]
#[[Geeks in Love]]
#[[New Way Out]]
'''Side B'''
#<li value="7">[[What Will Happen Will Happen]]</li>
#[[Kitten Is Angry]]
#[[The Ceiling]]
#[[Subtle Oddities]]
#[[Gonna Dig Up Alec Guinness]]
#[[Flamingo Legs]]
'''Side C'''
#<li value="13">[[Ode to Crayola]]</li>
#[[Rainwater]]
#[[Smell Like a Cookie All Day]]
#[[Dizziful Bliss]]
#[[Word Disassociation]]
#[[Eventuality]]

===Bonus tracks===
#[[Bicycle Race]]
#[[Fuzzy]]
#[[March of the Living Figments]]
#[[Mothers All Over the World]]
#[[Mr. Porta-Potty Man]]
#[[Musical Chairs (Alternate version)]]
#[[Pirate in a Box]]
#[[Subtle Oddities (Cheesy synth mix)]]

===Bonus tracks (Needlejuice Records re-release)===
(CD version contains all of these tracks on a separate Bonus Disc.)

(Vinyl and cassette versions of the album only contain bonus tracks 1-8.)
#[[Scatterbrained]]
#[[Musical Chairs (Alternate Version)]]
#[[March of the Living Figments]]
#[[Elvis Porn]]
#[[Lollipops]]
#[[Bicycle Race]]
#[[Fuzzy]]
#[[Bottom Line]]
#[[Sky Blue Up]]
#[[I Want to Wake Up]]
#[[Stampy]]
#[[Zero Gravity]]
#[[Subtle Oddities (Cheesy Synth Mix)]]
#[[Mothers All Over the World]]
#[[Pirate in a Box]]
#[[Mr. Porta-Potty Man]]
#[[How to Poop]]
#[[The Song You Hear When You Die]]
#When Robots Attack (Instrumental)
#Geeks in Love (Instrumental)
#Kitten is Angry (Instrumental)
#Subtle Oddities (Instrumental)
#Dizziful Bliss (Instrumental)
#Word Disassociation (Instrumental)
#Word Disassociation (Vocals)
#[[neil.soul]]
#[[Damn Skippy: Commentary|Damn Skippy Commentary]]

===Bonus Content===
*[[Damn Skippy: Commentary|Commentary]] (Counted as a bonus track in the [[Needlejuice Records]] reissue.)
[[File:Specialthanksdamnskippy.png|thumb|'''<big>SPECIAL THANKS:</big> Dad, Mom, Ben, Emmy, Leah, Alora, Sarah, Chloe, Chelsea, Aaron Ackerson, Andrew Kepple, Richard, Logan Whitehurst, The Incredible Moses Leroy, Queen, John Cameron Mitchell, Stephen Trask, Sir Alec Guinness, Alec Baldwin, Leonard Nimoy, Edward Binney, Harold Smith, Robert Prince, and Raffi.''']]
*[https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/CD%20Bonus%20Content/%5b2005%5d%20Damn%20Skippy/DamnSkippy.html HTML file] (Navigation portal for the album containing song MP3s, bonus tracks, lyrics, exclusive artwork, and a Special Thanks section.)

==Physical Releases==

===LPs===
All four variants originally went up for pre-order on the [[Needlejuice Records]] website, but Pumpkin Cookie was later removed. In November, it was revealed to be a Newbury Comics exclusive variant, and made available on their webstore.<gallery>
File:OdetoCrayola1k.png|"Ode to Crayola"
File:Damn vinyl.png|"Damn"
File:Demonic.png|"Demonic"
File:Pumpkin-and-Cookie1k 900x.png|"Pumpkin Cookie"
</gallery>
===CDs===
==== Original Artwork ====
There are no notable differences between the artwork of the homemade 2005 CD-Rs and the 2006 repress.
<gallery>
File:Damn Skippy.png|Front Cover
File:Damn Skippy back.png|Back Cover
File:Damn Skippy inside.png|Inside Art
File:Damnskippysourcediscart.jpg|Disc Art
File:Damnskippydisc.jpg|Front scan of original CD-R
File:Damnskippycdrback.jpg|Back scan of original CD-R
File:Damnskippyrepressback.jpg|Back of 2006 CD
</gallery>
==== [[Needlejuice Records]] 2023 repress ====
<gallery>
File:Njrskippycdfront.jpg|Front Cover
File:Njrskippycdback.jpg|Back Cover
File:Njrskippyinsideart.jpg|Inside Art
File:Njrskippytrayart.jpg|Tray Art
File:Njrskippydisc1.jpg|Disc 1 scan
File:Njrskippydisc2.jpg|Bonus Disc scan
</gallery>
===Cassette===
<gallery>
File:Damnskippytapeartfront.jpg|J-Card Front Cover
File:Damnskippyjcardback.jpg|J-Card Back Cover
File:Skippyjcardinside.jpg|J-Card Inside Art
File:Skippyjcardfoldout.jpg|J-Card Foldout Art
File:Skippytapefront.jpg|Tape Side A
File:Skippytapeback.jpg|Tape Side B
</gallery>

== Damn Skippy HDMI Images ==
<gallery>
File:MP3-Creature.gif|The creature of the "MP3s" section of the Damn Skippy HTML.
File:Lyrics-Demon.gif|The demon of the "Lyrics" section of the Damn Skippy HTML.
File:Bonus-Creature-CutiePatootie.gif|The creature of the "Bonus Tracks" section of the Damn Skippy HTML.
File:SkippyMonster1.png|One of the Damn Skippy monsters.
File:SkippyMonster2.png|One of the Damn Skippy monsters.
File:Commentary.jpg|The demon of the "Commentary" section of the Damn Skippy HTML.
File:DamnSkippySpiral.png|A gear-like spiral on the cover of Damn Skippy and in the Damn Skippy HTML.
File:DamnSkippySpiralButItsaGif.gif|Ditto, but a gif.
File:DeadSeaMonkeys.gif|Dead Sea Monkeys
File:SkyIsNotBlueHTML.gif|Sky Is Not Blue
File:PumpkinPieHTML.gif|Pumpkin Pie
File:WhenRobotsAttackHTML.gif|When Robots Attack
File:GeeksInLoveHTML.gif|Geeks In Love
File:NewWayOutHTML.gif|New Way Out
File:WhatWillHappenWillHappenHTML.gif|What Will Happen Will Happen
File:KittenIsAngryHTML.gif|Kitten Is Angry
File:TheCeilingHTML.gif|The Ceiling
File:SubtleOdditiesHTML.gif|Subtle Oddities
File:GuinessHTML.gif|Gonna Dig Up Alec Guiness
File:FlamingoLegs.gif|Flamingo Legs
File:OdeToCrayolaHTML.gif|Ode To Crayola
File:RainwaterHTML.gif|Rainwater
File:SmellLikeACookie.gif|Smell Like A Cookie All Day
File:DizzifulBlissHTML.gif|Dizziful Bliss
File:WordDissassociation.gif|Word Dissassociation
File:EventualityHTML.gif|Eventuality
File:Main.jpg|The main title screen of the Damn Skippy HTML.
</gallery>

== Trivia ==

* This is the first [[Lemon Demon]] album to include an audio commentary track and HTML.
* On the back cover of the 2023 [[Needlejuice Records]] version of the CD, [[Dizziful Bliss]] is misspelled "Dizziful Blss".
<references />

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Fry90000:

Dinosaurchestra

2025-02-10T19:02:20Z

Fry90000: /* Trivia */ added a thing or two

{{Infobox album
|title = Dinosaurchestra
|artist = Lemon Demon
|albumart = dinosaurchestra.jpg
|disc_Category = Album
|year = July 20, 2006
|recorded = 2005-2006
|length = 1:06:10, 1:46:44 (with bonus and hidden tracks)
|label = Self-released (2006), [[Needlejuice Records]] (2022)
|producers = [[Neil Cicierega]]
|reviews = 
|externalLinks = [https://lemondemon.bandcamp.com/album/dinosaurchestra Purchase original version digitally] [https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/album/dinosaurchestra Purchase remastered version digitally and physically (Needlejuice Records Bandcamp)] [https://needlejuicerecords.com/search?q=dinosaurchestra&options%5Bprefix%5D=last Purchase remastered version physically (Needlejuice Records website)] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/Dinosaurchestra/ Miscellaneous audio files] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/CD%20Bonus%20Content/%5b2006%5d%20Dinosaurchestra/ Bonus content from original CD]
|addtlInfo = 
|lastAlbum = [[Damn Skippy]] (2005)
|thisAlbum = '''Dinosaurchestra''' (2006)
|nextAlbum = [[View-Monster]] (2008)
}}

'''Dinosaurchestra''' is [[Lemon Demon]]’s fifth album. It is the first to include a text commentary, a secret track, and a booklet. It is also the longest Lemon Demon album to date with almost two hours of music.

Dinosaurchestra is particularly notable for the fact that many of its songs were already in the possession of fans before its release. This is because seven of the main tracks and ten of the bonus tracks were already up for download before the album was released, and six main tracks and one bonus track were later leaked, leaving only six main tracks and five bonus tracks, as well as the hidden track. The tracks already in possession of fans comprises exactly two thirds of the music on the album.

==Track listing==
'''Side A'''
#[[Dinosaurchestra Part One]]
#[[Action Movie Hero Boy]]
#[[Fine]]
#[[Lawnmower]]
#[[Stuck]]
#[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]]
'''Side B'''
#<li value="7">[[Vow of Silence]]</li>
#[[Neverending Hum]]
#[[Dinosaurchestra Part Two]]
#[[Your Imaginary Friend]]
#[[Archaeopteryx]]
#[[Eyewishes]]
#[[Bystanding]]
#[[Indie Cindy & the Lo-Fi Lullabies]]
'''Side C'''
#<li value="15">[[Nothing Worth Loving Isn’t Askew]]
#[[This Hyper World]]
#[[Deep in the Ocean]]
#[[Dinosaurchestra Part Three]]
#[[The Too Much Song]]

===Bonus tracks (original CD)===
#[[White Bread Boyfriend]]
#[[Funniest]]
#[[Birthday (Alligators and Pretzel Makers)]]
#[[Chip’s Challenge Chip01 Midi Remix]]
#[[It Can Get Lonely in My Mansion]]
#[[Samuel and Rosella]]
#[[Bill Watterson (Demo)|Bill Watterson]]
#[[Space Mission Alpha]]
#[[Being Alone on Valentine’s Day]]
#[[Stick Stickly]]
#[[Abraham Lincoln’s Head]]
#[[The Next Dimension]]
#[[Princess Unicorn Bunny Kitten Angel]]
#[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (Aaron Ackerson remix)]]
#[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (SaTIst remix)]]
#[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (R-Forrest remix)]]

=== Bonus tracks (Needlejuice Records re-release) ===

# [[Birthday (Alligators and Pretzel Makers)]]
# [[White Bread Boyfriend]]
# [[Stick Stickly]]
# [[Being Alone on Valentine's Day]]
# [[It Can Get Lonely in My Mansion]]
# [[Princess Unicorn Bunny Kitten Angel]]
# [[The Next Dimension]]
# [[Samuel and Rosella]]
# [[Abraham Lincoln's Head]]
# [[Space Mission Alpha]]
# [[Funniest]]
# [[Chip's Challenge Chip01 MIDI Remix]]
# [[Bill Watterson|Bill Watterson (Demo)]]
# [[Indie Cindy and the Lo-Fi Lullabies|Indie Cindy and the Lo-Fi Lullabies (Demo)]]
# [[Every Time You Stifle a Sneeze]]
# [[Snakes on a Plane]]
# [[The Oldest Man on MySpace]]
# [[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (Aaron Ackerson remix)]]
# [[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (R-Forrest remix)]]
#[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (SaTIst remix)]]
#[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (Instrumental)]]
#[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (Vocals)]]
#[[Fine|Fine (Instrumental)]]
#[[This Hyper World|This Hyper World (Instrumental)]]

===Hidden track===
#[[Turkeys]]
== Trivia ==

* The dinosaur on the main cover of the album is named "Goodsie".
* Dinosaurchestra is the longest Lemon Demon release, at nearly 2 hours of music, though the album with the most songs is [[View-Monster]].
* A poorly drawn image of a dinosaur jamming out with the sun saying the band's name was the original cover, likely a placeholder.
* Another alternative shows Neil next to a closet door with a keytar.
* To accompany the release of the 2022 remaster of Dinosaurchestra, a 7" vinyl EP called [[Acrobat Unstable Record]] was released and contained 6 bonus tracks not on the Dinosaurchestra vinyl.
* A wax cylinder containing the track "The Oldest Man On MySpace" was released by Needlejuice.

== Physical Releases ==
<gallery>
File:Dinosaurchestra Goodsie Vinyl.png|The "Goodsie" vinyl variant of Dinosaurchestra.
File:DinosaurBlues.png|The "Dinosaur Blues" vinyl variant of Dinosaurchestra.
File:DinoVinyl-Magic8Ball.png|The "Magic 8-Ball" vinyl variant of Dinosaurchestra.
File:DinoVinyl-DinosaurEggs.png|The "Dinosaur Eggs" vinyl variant of Dinosaurchestra.
File:Dino-CD-mockup.png|The Needlejuice double CD mockup of Dinosaurchestra.
File:Dino-cassette-tape.png|The Needlejuice cassette tape mockup of Dinosaurchestra.
File:Dino-minidisc-mockup.png|The Needlejuice Dinosaurchestra MiniDisc mockup.
File:OldestMan-cylinder-mockup.png|The Needlejuice "The Oldest Man on MySpace" wax cylinder mockup.
</gallery>
[[File:DinoAltCover1.jpg|thumb|An alternate cover of Dinosaurchestra.]]
[[File:DinosaurchestraAltCover.webp|thumb|An alternate cover of Dinosaurchestra, likely a placeholder.]]

==Dinogate==
Dinogate was the period after the release of [[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]], but before the release of Dinosaurchestra. (Between December 2005 and July 2006.) During this time, the relatively immense popularity of Showdown created many new Illemonati, who congregated at the then-newly-formed Lemon Demon forum.

During Dinogate, many unreleased Dinosaurchestra tracks were leaked via secret URLs on EvilTrailMix. Neil put them online to share amongst friends, but took them down and forbade their redistribution once their existence was noted on the forum.

The name of this period was coined by forum member Dave12D3 after the period had passed.

===Leaked Tracks===
*[[Neverending Hum]]
*[[Your Imaginary Friend]]
*[[Archaeopteryx]]
*[[Eyewishes]]
*[[Indie Cindy & the Lo-Fi Lullabies (Demo)]]
*[[Deep in the Ocean]]
*[[Princess Unicorn Bunny Kitten Angel]]

Dinosaurchestra

2025-02-07T19:02:41Z

Fry90000: added a few images

{{Infobox album
|title = Dinosaurchestra
|artist = Lemon Demon
|albumart = dinosaurchestra.jpg
|disc_Category = Album
|year = July 20, 2006
|recorded = 2005-2006
|length = 1:06:10, 1:46:44 (with bonus and hidden tracks)
|label = Self-released (2006), [[Needlejuice Records]] (2022)
|producers = [[Neil Cicierega]]
|reviews = 
|externalLinks = [https://lemondemon.bandcamp.com/album/dinosaurchestra Purchase original version digitally] [https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/album/dinosaurchestra Purchase remastered version digitally and physically (Needlejuice Records Bandcamp)] [https://needlejuicerecords.com/search?q=dinosaurchestra&options%5Bprefix%5D=last Purchase remastered version physically (Needlejuice Records website)] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/Dinosaurchestra/ Miscellaneous audio files] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/CD%20Bonus%20Content/%5b2006%5d%20Dinosaurchestra/ Bonus content from original CD]
|addtlInfo = 
|lastAlbum = [[Damn Skippy]] (2005)
|thisAlbum = '''Dinosaurchestra''' (2006)
|nextAlbum = [[View-Monster]] (2008)
}}

'''Dinosaurchestra''' is [[Lemon Demon]]’s fifth album. It is the first to include a text commentary, a secret track, and a booklet. It is also the longest Lemon Demon album to date with almost two hours of music.

Dinosaurchestra is particularly notable for the fact that many of its songs were already in the possession of fans before its release. This is because seven of the main tracks and ten of the bonus tracks were already up for download before the album was released, and six main tracks and one bonus track were later leaked, leaving only six main tracks and five bonus tracks, as well as the hidden track. The tracks already in possession of fans comprises exactly two thirds of the music on the album.

==Track listing==
'''Side A'''
#[[Dinosaurchestra Part One]]
#[[Action Movie Hero Boy]]
#[[Fine]]
#[[Lawnmower]]
#[[Stuck]]
#[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]]
'''Side B'''
#<li value="7">[[Vow of Silence]]</li>
#[[Neverending Hum]]
#[[Dinosaurchestra Part Two]]
#[[Your Imaginary Friend]]
#[[Archaeopteryx]]
#[[Eyewishes]]
#[[Bystanding]]
#[[Indie Cindy & the Lo-Fi Lullabies]]
'''Side C'''
#<li value="15">[[Nothing Worth Loving Isn’t Askew]]
#[[This Hyper World]]
#[[Deep in the Ocean]]
#[[Dinosaurchestra Part Three]]
#[[The Too Much Song]]

===Bonus tracks (original CD)===
#[[White Bread Boyfriend]]
#[[Funniest]]
#[[Birthday (Alligators and Pretzel Makers)]]
#[[Chip’s Challenge Chip01 Midi Remix]]
#[[It Can Get Lonely in My Mansion]]
#[[Samuel and Rosella]]
#[[Bill Watterson (Demo)|Bill Watterson]]
#[[Space Mission Alpha]]
#[[Being Alone on Valentine’s Day]]
#[[Stick Stickly]]
#[[Abraham Lincoln’s Head]]
#[[The Next Dimension]]
#[[Princess Unicorn Bunny Kitten Angel]]
#[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (Aaron Ackerson remix)]]
#[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (SaTIst remix)]]
#[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (R-Forrest remix)]]

=== Bonus tracks (Needlejuice Records re-release) ===

# [[Birthday (Alligators and Pretzel Makers)]]
# [[White Bread Boyfriend]]
# [[Stick Stickly]]
# [[Being Alone on Valentine's Day]]
# [[It Can Get Lonely in My Mansion]]
# [[Princess Unicorn Bunny Kitten Angel]]
# [[The Next Dimension]]
# [[Samuel and Rosella]]
# [[Abraham Lincoln's Head]]
# [[Space Mission Alpha]]
# [[Funniest]]
# [[Chip's Challenge Chip01 MIDI Remix]]
# [[Bill Watterson|Bill Watterson (Demo)]]
# [[Indie Cindy and the Lo-Fi Lullabies|Indie Cindy and the Lo-Fi Lullabies (Demo)]]
# [[Every Time You Stifle a Sneeze]]
# [[Snakes on a Plane]]
# [[The Oldest Man on MySpace]]
# [[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (Aaron Ackerson remix)]]
# [[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (R-Forrest remix)]]
#[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (SaTIst remix)]]
#[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (Instrumental)]]
#[[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (Vocals)]]
#[[Fine|Fine (Instrumental)]]
#[[This Hyper World|This Hyper World (Instrumental)]]

===Hidden track===
#[[Turkeys]]
== Trivia ==

* The dinosaur on the main cover of the album is named "Goodsie".
* Dinosaurchestra is the longest Lemon Demon release, at nearly 2 hours of music, though the album with the most songs is [[View-Monster]].
* A poorly drawn image of a dinosaur jamming out with the sun saying the band's name was the original cover, likely a placeholder.
* Another alternative shows Neil next to a closet door with a keytar.

== Physical Releases ==
<gallery>
File:Dinosaurchestra Goodsie Vinyl.png|The "Goodsie" vinyl variant of Dinosaurchestra.
File:DinosaurBlues.png|The "Dinosaur Blues" vinyl variant of Dinosaurchestra.
File:DinoVinyl-Magic8Ball.png|The "Magic 8-Ball" vinyl variant of Dinosaurchestra.
File:DinoVinyl-DinosaurEggs.png|The "Dinosaur Eggs" vinyl variant of Dinosaurchestra.
File:Dino-CD-mockup.png|The Needlejuice double CD mockup of Dinosaurchestra.
File:Dino-cassette-tape.png|The Needlejuice cassette tape mockup of Dinosaurchestra.
File:Dino-minidisc-mockup.png|The Needlejuice Dinosaurchestra MiniDisc mockup.
File:OldestMan-cylinder-mockup.png|The Needlejuice "The Oldest Man on MySpace" wax cylinder mockup.
</gallery>
[[File:DinoAltCover1.jpg|thumb|An alternate cover of Dinosaurchestra.]]
[[File:DinosaurchestraAltCover.webp|thumb|An alternate cover of Dinosaurchestra, likely a placeholder.]]

==Dinogate==
Dinogate was the period after the release of [[The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]], but before the release of Dinosaurchestra. (Between December 2005 and July 2006.) During this time, the relatively immense popularity of Showdown created many new Illemonati, who congregated at the then-newly-formed Lemon Demon forum.

During Dinogate, many unreleased Dinosaurchestra tracks were leaked via secret URLs on EvilTrailMix. Neil put them online to share amongst friends, but took them down and forbade their redistribution once their existence was noted on the forum.

The name of this period was coined by forum member Dave12D3 after the period had passed.

===Leaked Tracks===
*[[Neverending Hum]]
*[[Your Imaginary Friend]]
*[[Archaeopteryx]]
*[[Eyewishes]]
*[[Indie Cindy & the Lo-Fi Lullabies (Demo)]]
*[[Deep in the Ocean]]
*[[Princess Unicorn Bunny Kitten Angel]]

File:DinosaurchestraAltCover.webp

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Fry90000: Dinosaurchestra Alternate Cover

== Summary ==
Dinosaurchestra Alternate Cover

File:DinoAltCover1.jpg

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Fry90000: Dinosaurchestra Alternate Cover

== Summary ==
Dinosaurchestra Alternate Cover

View-Monster

2025-02-07T18:04:25Z

Fry90000: /* Trivia */ added a thing

{{Infobox album
|title = View-Monster
|artist = Lemon Demon
|albumart = viewmonster.jpg
|disc_Category = Album
|year = August 1, 2008
|recorded = 2006-2008
|length = 1:00:46 (With transitions), 1:44:44 (with bonus tracks and hidden track)
|label = Self-released (2008), [[Needlejuice Records]] (2020)
|producers = [[Neil Cicierega]]
|reviews = 
|externalLinks = [https://lemondemon.bandcamp.com/album/view-monster Purchase original version digitally] [https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/album/view-monster Purchase remastered version digitally and physically (Needlejuice Records Bandcamp)] [https://needlejuicerecords.com/product/viewmonster/ Purchase remastered version physically (Needlejuice Records website)] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/View-Monster/ Miscellaneous audio files] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/CD%20Rips/CD%20Bonus%20Content/%5b2008%5d%20View-Monster/ Bonus content from original CD]
|addtlInfo = 
|lastAlbum = [[Dinosaurchestra]] (2006)
|thisAlbum = '''View-Monster''' (2008)
|nextAlbum = [[Almanac 2009]] (2009)
}}

'''View-Monster''' is [[Lemon Demon]]’s sixth album, released on August 1st 2008. It would be the last major album until 2016's [[Spirit Phone]]. It is unique in the fact that it includes short, even-numbered transition tracks, fully making 32 tracks.

==Track listing==
'''Side A'''
#[[Kaleidoskull]]
#[[Untitled (view-monster)|Untitled [view-monster]]]
#[[Amnesia Was Her Name]]
#[[Untitled (hippocampus)|Untitled [hippocampus]]]
#[[The Man in Stripes and Glasses]]
#[[Untitled (spooky sounds vol 6)|Untitled [spooky sounds vol 6]]]
#[[Marketland]]
#[[Untitled (x-ray glasses)|Untitled [x-ray glasses]]]
#[[Gadzooks]]
#[[Untitled (prelude to a knife fight)|Untitled [prelude to a knife fight]]]
'''Side B'''
#<li value="11">[[Knife Fight]]</li>
#[[Untitled (autofocus)|Untitled [autofocus]]]
#[[The Only House That’s Not on Fire (Yet)]]
#[[Untitled (combs)|Untitled [combs]]]
#[[The Ocean]]
#[[Untitled (wet hair)|Untitled [wet hair]]]
#[[The Afternoon]]
#[[Untitled (afterafternoon)|Untitled [afterafternoon]]]
#[[Spring Heeled Jack]]
#[[Untitled (alternate history)|Untitled [alternate history]]]
#[[Being a Rock Star]]
'''Side C'''
#<li value="22">[[Untitled (like a balloon)|Untitled [like a balloon]]]</li>
#[[Ask For Nothing]]
#[[Untitled (disconnect)|Untitled [disconnect]]]
#[[The Satirist’s Love Song]]
#[[Untitled (therapy)|Untitled [therapy]]]
#[[The Machine]]
#[[Untitled (between the frames)|Untitled [between the frames]]]
#[[Bill Watterson]]
#[[Untitled (sleeping)|Untitled [sleeping]]]
#[[Something Glowing]]
#[[Untitled (finale)|Untitled [finale]]]

===Bonus tracks===
#[[320x200]]
#[[Ben Bernanke]]
#[[Drinky-Bird]]
#[[Everyday French]]
#[[Gadzooks (Original version)]]
#[[Hip Hop Cherry Pop]]
#[[Modify]]
#[[Nightmare Fuel]]
#[[Strangelet]]
#[[Sundial]]
#[[Super Hey Ya (OutKast Remix)]]
#[[Today’s Secret Word]]
#[[Treasure Map]]
#[[The Wiggles Hate Each Other in Real Life]]
#[[You Got a Toothache]]

===Bonus tracks (Needlejuice Records rerelease)===
#[[Sundial]]
#[[Ben Bernanke]]
#[[Modify]]
#[[Nightmare Fuel]]
#[[Hip Hop Cherry Pop]]
#[[123456 Pokemon]]
#[[Toy Food]]
#[[The Wiggles Hate Each Other in Real Life]]
#[[You Got a Toothache]]
#[[320x200]]
#[[Drinky-Bird]]
#[[Strangelet]]
#[[Today's Secret Word]]
#[[Gadzooks (Original)]]
#[[Everyday French]]
#[[While My Keytar Gently Weeps]]
#[[Treasure Map]]
#[[Super Hey Ya]]

===Hidden track===
#[[creepy]]

== Physical Releases ==
<gallery>
File:BetweenTheFramesVinyl.png|The "Between The Frames" picture disc vinyl variant of View-Monster.
File:ViewMonster-WetHair-Vinyl.png|The "Wet Hair" vinyl variant of View-Monster.
File:ViewMonster-XrayGlasses-Vinyl.png|The "X-Ray Glasses" vinyl variant of View-Monster.
File:Disconnect View Monster Vinyl.png|The "Disconnect" vinyl variant of View-Monster.
File:ViewMonster-Autofocus-Vinyl.png|The "Autofocus" vinyl variant of View-Monster.
File:ViewMonsterDoubleCD.png|The Needlejuice View-Monster double CD mockup.
File:ViewMonsterCassetteTape.png|The Needlejuice cassette tape mockup of View-Monster.
File:ViewMonster-MiniDisc-Mockup.png|The Needlejuice View-Monster MiniDisc mockup.
</gallery>

==Trivia==

*A number of Illemonati at one point petitioned the album to be named “Mumbergo”. 
*Much of the information about this album, including its title and track listing, were kept secret until its release. This was likely due to multiple songs on Dinosaurchestra being leaked prior to the album's release.
*The version of the album on streaming services does not include transition tracks.
*On the Lemon Demon Bandcamp page, the transition tracks are attached either to the end of the previous tracks, or occasionally the beginning of the following track.
*On the Needlejuice Records CD of the album, Super Hey Ya is unlisted and hidden in the pre-gap of disc 2 (meaning to hear it requires rewinding before track 1). Due to size limitations on the disc, the first few seconds of the song are cut off (This is not an issue for any other format). It is also unlisted (along with creepy) on the Needlejuice Bandcamp download.
**On the initial CD run of View-Monster done by Needlejuice in 2020, Treasure Map is followed by 30 tracks of silence, each 4 seconds in length, then a single track of the "laugh" from [[Untitled (spooky sounds vol 6)|Untitled [spooky sounds vol 6]]]. The rest of the CD, tracks 49 to 98, consist of creepy, split into 4 second chunks. After negative feedback, creepy was condensed back into a single track on subsequent pressings.
**This would've made this album with the most tracks, at 131, but since creepy was condensed into one track, it makes it have 82 tracks.
*On the 8-track release of the album, Spring Heeled Jack and Untitled [alternate history] were moved to play before The Ocean to fit the 8-track format. However, the label with the tracklist was not adjusted to reflect this.
*A 7" vinyl record was made to contain the song [[Something Glowing]] and 4 other bonus tracks not on Side D of the View-Monster, it was called [[Something Glowing EP]].

Everyday French

2025-02-07T17:54:02Z

Fry90000:

{{Infobox_song
|title = Everyday French
|artist = Lemon Demon
|year = July 17, 2007
|albumart = Viewmonster.jpg
|singer = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenan_Thompson Kenan Thompson], via a soundboard
|album = [[View-Monster]], [[Something Glowing EP]]
|duration = 4:29
|tempo = 125
|language = English, fake French
|externalLinks = [http://lemondemon.com/downloads/Everyday%20French.mp3 MP3] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/View-Monster/Lemon%20Demon%20-%20Everyday%20French%20%5bDemo%5d.mp3 Second Life demo]
}}
'''Everyday French''' is a bonus track, consisting of looped quotes from an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_That All That] soundboard, on the Nickelodeon website. Other samples include "Balinese Bongos" by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Baxter Les Baxter], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muppet_Show The Muppet Show] theme song, "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Park_(song) MacArthur Park]" by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harris Richard Harris], and "Blood in the Gutter" from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ren_%26_Stimpy_Show Ren & Stimpy] stock library.

==Lyrics==
(Est-ce que je peux faire la sieste dans ton nez?)
(Je n’ai pas pris la douche de mise depuis…)
(La guardienne d’enfants a explosé.)
(Embrasse moi sous l’arbre de bologna.)
Est-ce que je peux faire la sieste dans ton nez?
May I take a nap in your nose?
Je n’ai pas pris la douche de mise depuis…
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
La guardienne d’enfants a explosé.
Monkeys are tickling my tummy.
Embrasse moi sous l’arbre de bologna.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
Enlevez ce porc de votre soutien-gorge.
Take those pork chops out of your brassiere.
Arrétz de lecher mon kangorou.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
Les singes chatouille mont ventre.
Oh no, the babysitter exploded!
Laisse la moustache de la grandmère.
Let go of my grandmother’s moustache!
Est-ce que je peux faire la sieste dans ton nez?
Monkeys are tickling my tummy.
Je n’ai pas pris la douche de mise depuis…
Kiss me under the bologna tree.
La guardienne d’enfants a explosé.
May I take a nap in your nose?
Embrasse moi sous l’arbre de bologna.
Kiss me under the bologna tree.
Enlevez ce porc de votre soutien-gorge.
Hey! Stop licking my kangaroo!
Arrétz de lecher mon kangorou.
K-K-K-Kiss me under the bologna tree.
Les singes chatouille mont ventre.
Oh no, the babysitter exploded!
Laisse la moustache de la grandmère.
I have not showered in thirty-six (je) days.
Monkeys are tickling, monkeys are tickling
my tummy, tummy, tummy, my—
Monkeys are tickling, monkeys are tickling
my tummy, tummy, tummy, my—
Monkeys are tickling, monkeys are tickling
my tummy, tummy, tummy, my—
Monkeys are tickling, monkeys are tickling
my tummy, tummy, tummy, my—
Monkeys are tickling, monkeys are tickling (de mise…)
my tummy, tummy, tummy, my— (de mise…depuis)
Monkeys are tickling, monkeys are tickling (de mise…)
my tummy, tummy, tummy, my— (de mise…-sé…gorge…depuis)
Monkeys are tickling, monkeys are tickling (de mise…)
my tummy, tummy, tummy, my— (de mise…depuis)
Monkeys are tickling, monkeys are tickling (de mise…)
my tummy, tummy, tummy, my— (de mise…-sé…gorge…depuis)
Est-ce que je peux faire la sieste dans ton nez?
May I take a nap in your nose?
Je n’ai pas pris la douche de mise depuis…
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
La guardienne d’enfants a explosé.
Monkeys are tickling my tummy.
Embrasse moi sous l’arbre de bologna.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
Enlevez ce porc de votre soutien-gorge.
Take those pork chops out of your brassiere.
Arrétz de lecher mon kangorou.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
Les singes chatouille mont ventre.
Oh no, the babysitter exploded!
Laisse la moustache de la grandmère.
Let go of my grandmother’s moustache!
Est-ce que je peux faire la sieste dans ton nez?
Monkeys are tickling my tummy.
Je n’ai pas pris la douche de mise depuis…
Kiss me under the bologna tree.
La guardienne d’enfants a explosé.
May I take a nap in your nose?
Embrasse moi sous l’arbre de bologna.
Kiss me under the bologna tree.
Enlevez ce porc de votre soutien-gorge.
Hey! Stop licking my kangaroo!
Arrétz de lecher mon kangorou.
K-K-K-Kiss me under the bologna tree.
Les singes chatouille mont ventre.
Oh no, the babysitter exploded!
Laisse la moustache de la grandmère.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (de mise…-sé…gorge…depuis)
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (de mise…-sé…gorge…depuis)
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (de mise…-sé…gorge…depuis)
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (de mise…-sé…gorge…depuis)
Kiss me under the bologna tree.
Kiss me under the bologna tree.
Kiss me under the bologna tree.
Kiss me under the bologna tree. (de mise…-sé…gorge…depuis)
Monkeys are tickling my tummy.
Monkeys are tickling my tummy.
Monkeys are tickling my tummy.
Monkeys are tickling my tummy. (de mise…-sé…gorge…depuis)
Oh no, the babysitter exploded!
Oh no, the babysitter exploded!
Oh no, the babysitter exploded!
Oh no, the babysitter exploded! (de mise…-sé…gorge…depuis)
Take those pork chops out of your brassiere.
Take those pork chops out of your brassiere.
Take those pork chops out of your brassiere.
Take those pork chops out of your brassiere. (de mise…-sé…gorge…depuis)
Est-ce que je peux faire la sieste dans ton nez?
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (Je n’ai pas pris la douche de mise depuis…)
La guardienne d’enfants a explosé.
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (Embrasse moi sous l’arbre de bologna.)
Enlevez ce porc de votre soutien-gorge.
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (Arrétz de lecher mon kangorou.)
Les singes chatouille mont ventre.
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (Laisse la moustache de la grandmère.)
Est-ce que je peux faire la sieste dans ton nez?
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (Je n’ai pas pris la douche de mise depuis…)
La guardienne d’enfants a explosé.
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (Embrasse moi sous l’arbre de bologna.)
Enlevez ce porc de votre soutien-gorge.
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (Arrétz de lecher mon kangorou.)
Les singes chatouille mont ventre.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
(…depuis)

==Trivia==
* The soundboard [[Neil Cicierega|Neil]] used is available [https://web.archive.org/web/20110320020139/http://www.nick.com/games/at_pierre1.html at this link.]
* Most of the French lines are not matched up with their English translations.

Everyday French

2025-02-07T17:53:24Z

Fry90000: added a thing

{{Infobox_song
|title = Everyday French
|artist = Lemon Demon
|year = July 17, 2007
|albumart = Viewmonster.jpg
|singer = [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenan_Thompson Kenan Thompson], via a soundboard
|album = [[View-Monster]], [[Something Glowing]]
|duration = 4:29
|tempo = 125
|language = English, fake French
|externalLinks = [http://lemondemon.com/downloads/Everyday%20French.mp3 MP3] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/View-Monster/Lemon%20Demon%20-%20Everyday%20French%20%5bDemo%5d.mp3 Second Life demo]
}}
'''Everyday French''' is a bonus track, consisting of looped quotes from an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_That All That] soundboard, on the Nickelodeon website. Other samples include "Balinese Bongos" by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Baxter Les Baxter], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muppet_Show The Muppet Show] theme song, "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Park_(song) MacArthur Park]" by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harris Richard Harris], and "Blood in the Gutter" from the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ren_%26_Stimpy_Show Ren & Stimpy] stock library.

==Lyrics==
(Est-ce que je peux faire la sieste dans ton nez?)
(Je n’ai pas pris la douche de mise depuis…)
(La guardienne d’enfants a explosé.)
(Embrasse moi sous l’arbre de bologna.)
Est-ce que je peux faire la sieste dans ton nez?
May I take a nap in your nose?
Je n’ai pas pris la douche de mise depuis…
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
La guardienne d’enfants a explosé.
Monkeys are tickling my tummy.
Embrasse moi sous l’arbre de bologna.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
Enlevez ce porc de votre soutien-gorge.
Take those pork chops out of your brassiere.
Arrétz de lecher mon kangorou.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
Les singes chatouille mont ventre.
Oh no, the babysitter exploded!
Laisse la moustache de la grandmère.
Let go of my grandmother’s moustache!
Est-ce que je peux faire la sieste dans ton nez?
Monkeys are tickling my tummy.
Je n’ai pas pris la douche de mise depuis…
Kiss me under the bologna tree.
La guardienne d’enfants a explosé.
May I take a nap in your nose?
Embrasse moi sous l’arbre de bologna.
Kiss me under the bologna tree.
Enlevez ce porc de votre soutien-gorge.
Hey! Stop licking my kangaroo!
Arrétz de lecher mon kangorou.
K-K-K-Kiss me under the bologna tree.
Les singes chatouille mont ventre.
Oh no, the babysitter exploded!
Laisse la moustache de la grandmère.
I have not showered in thirty-six (je) days.
Monkeys are tickling, monkeys are tickling
my tummy, tummy, tummy, my—
Monkeys are tickling, monkeys are tickling
my tummy, tummy, tummy, my—
Monkeys are tickling, monkeys are tickling
my tummy, tummy, tummy, my—
Monkeys are tickling, monkeys are tickling
my tummy, tummy, tummy, my—
Monkeys are tickling, monkeys are tickling (de mise…)
my tummy, tummy, tummy, my— (de mise…depuis)
Monkeys are tickling, monkeys are tickling (de mise…)
my tummy, tummy, tummy, my— (de mise…-sé…gorge…depuis)
Monkeys are tickling, monkeys are tickling (de mise…)
my tummy, tummy, tummy, my— (de mise…depuis)
Monkeys are tickling, monkeys are tickling (de mise…)
my tummy, tummy, tummy, my— (de mise…-sé…gorge…depuis)
Est-ce que je peux faire la sieste dans ton nez?
May I take a nap in your nose?
Je n’ai pas pris la douche de mise depuis…
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
La guardienne d’enfants a explosé.
Monkeys are tickling my tummy.
Embrasse moi sous l’arbre de bologna.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
Enlevez ce porc de votre soutien-gorge.
Take those pork chops out of your brassiere.
Arrétz de lecher mon kangorou.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
Les singes chatouille mont ventre.
Oh no, the babysitter exploded!
Laisse la moustache de la grandmère.
Let go of my grandmother’s moustache!
Est-ce que je peux faire la sieste dans ton nez?
Monkeys are tickling my tummy.
Je n’ai pas pris la douche de mise depuis…
Kiss me under the bologna tree.
La guardienne d’enfants a explosé.
May I take a nap in your nose?
Embrasse moi sous l’arbre de bologna.
Kiss me under the bologna tree.
Enlevez ce porc de votre soutien-gorge.
Hey! Stop licking my kangaroo!
Arrétz de lecher mon kangorou.
K-K-K-Kiss me under the bologna tree.
Les singes chatouille mont ventre.
Oh no, the babysitter exploded!
Laisse la moustache de la grandmère.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (de mise…-sé…gorge…depuis)
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (de mise…-sé…gorge…depuis)
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (de mise…-sé…gorge…depuis)
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (de mise…-sé…gorge…depuis)
Kiss me under the bologna tree.
Kiss me under the bologna tree.
Kiss me under the bologna tree.
Kiss me under the bologna tree. (de mise…-sé…gorge…depuis)
Monkeys are tickling my tummy.
Monkeys are tickling my tummy.
Monkeys are tickling my tummy.
Monkeys are tickling my tummy. (de mise…-sé…gorge…depuis)
Oh no, the babysitter exploded!
Oh no, the babysitter exploded!
Oh no, the babysitter exploded!
Oh no, the babysitter exploded! (de mise…-sé…gorge…depuis)
Take those pork chops out of your brassiere.
Take those pork chops out of your brassiere.
Take those pork chops out of your brassiere.
Take those pork chops out of your brassiere. (de mise…-sé…gorge…depuis)
Est-ce que je peux faire la sieste dans ton nez?
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (Je n’ai pas pris la douche de mise depuis…)
La guardienne d’enfants a explosé.
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (Embrasse moi sous l’arbre de bologna.)
Enlevez ce porc de votre soutien-gorge.
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (Arrétz de lecher mon kangorou.)
Les singes chatouille mont ventre.
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (Laisse la moustache de la grandmère.)
Est-ce que je peux faire la sieste dans ton nez?
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (Je n’ai pas pris la douche de mise depuis…)
La guardienne d’enfants a explosé.
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (Embrasse moi sous l’arbre de bologna.)
Enlevez ce porc de votre soutien-gorge.
I have not showered in thirty-six days. (Arrétz de lecher mon kangorou.)
Les singes chatouille mont ventre.
I have not showered in thirty-six days.
(…depuis)

==Trivia==
* The soundboard [[Neil Cicierega|Neil]] used is available [https://web.archive.org/web/20110320020139/http://www.nick.com/games/at_pierre1.html at this link.]
* Most of the French lines are not matched up with their English translations.

Live from the Haunted Candle Shop

2025-02-07T17:51:51Z

Fry90000: added a trivia section

{{Infobox album
|title = Live from the Haunted Candle Shop
|artist = Lemon Demon
|albumart = LFTHCS.jpg
|disc_Category = Album
|year = July 23, 2003
|recorded = 2003
|length = 47:39
|label = Self-released
|producers = [[Neil Cicierega]]
|reviews = 
|externalLinks = [http://www.lemondemon.com/Lemon%20Demon%20-%20First%20four%20albums/Live%20from%20the%20Haunted%20Candle%20Shop%20(2003)/ MP3]
|addtlInfo = 
|lastAlbum = [[Clown Circus]] (2003)
|thisAlbum = '''Live from the Haunted Candle Shop''' (2003)
|nextAlbum = [[Hip to the Javabean]] (2004)
}}

'''Live from the Haunted Candle Shop''' is [[Lemon Demon]]’s second album. It was released through MP3.com and is no longer available, but its tracks can be found on the data track of [[Hip To The Javabean]] CDs.

In April 2009, [[Neil]] offered this album for download.

==Track listing==
#[[Hydroelectric Viking]]
#[[The Saga of You, Confused Destroyer of Planets]]
#[[Mr. Wolfgang]]
#[[Boat]]
#[[Destructo!]]
#[[Fiberglass Monkey]]
#[[Fly Straight or Drop the Oar and Wreck]]
#[[Oz Explodes]]
#[[Booja Jabooja]]
#[[Dance Like an Idiot]]
#[[Chu Chu Rocket]]
#[[Switzerland]]
#[[Party on the Moon]]
#[[Without My Tonsils]]
#[[Birdhouse In Your Soul]]
#[[Mold en Mono]]
#[[Movie Night]]

== Trivia ==

* Due to the shutdown of Mp3.com happening a few months after this album's release, this is a very unknown album to many Illemonati.
* There is an unreleased, somber rendition of Hydroelectric Viking, known as [[Hydroelectric Viking Funeral]], which would've been the last song on the album.
* Along with [[Clown Circus]], [[Hip to the Javabean]], and [[Damn Skippy]], this album was put up for free on the official Lemon Demon website.

Nature Tapes

2025-02-06T20:31:45Z

Fry90000: /* Physical Releases */ added a few images

{{Infobox album
|title = Nature Tapes
|artist = Lemon Demon
|albumart = Nature Tapes.jpeg
|disc_Category = Album
|year = March 24, 2014
|recorded = 2010-2014
|length = 28:35
|label = Self-released (2014), [[Needlejuice Records]] (2019)
|producers = [[Neil Cicierega]]
|externalLinks = [https://lemondemon.bandcamp.com/album/nature-tapes-ep Purchase Original Version]
[https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/album/nature-tapes Purchase Remastered Version Digitally and Physically (Needlejuice Bandcamp)]
|addtlInfo = 
|lastAlbum = [[I Am Become Christmas]] (2012)
|thisAlbum = '''Nature Tapes''' (2014)
|nextAlbum = [[Spirit Phone]] (2016)
}}

[[File:NTNJR.jpeg|thumb|The [[Needlejuice Records]] re-issue cover art]]

'''Nature Tapes''' is the second [[Lemon Demon]] EP. It is unique in that none of the tracks were made with the release of an EP in mind, all seperately released as singles at different points in time from 2010-2014.
Along with the [[Needlejuice]] re-release, [[Goosebumps]] and [[Sexy DVD]] were retroactively added to the main tracklist.

==Track Listing==
'''Side A'''
#[[Really Cool Wig]]
#[[Two Trucks]]
#[[A Mask of My Own Face]]
#[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]
'''Side B'''
#<li value="5">[[Goosebumps]]</li>
#[[Jaws]]
#[[My Trains]]
#[[BRODYQUEST]]

== Hidden Track ==
#[[Sexy DVD]]

==Trivia==
* The original unedited album cover comes from a promotional picture for a party Pinocchio nose.
* The original cover for Nature Tapes was taken from Neil’s old Tumblr layout.
* Vinyl copies that get placed in distribution for record stores have a Parental Advisory sticker placed over the end of the nose.

== Physical Releases ==
<gallery>
File:Nature-Tapes-Brodyquest-A-1000.png|The "BRODYQUEST" picture disc vinyl variant of Nature Tapes.
File:NatureTapes-MonsterBlood-Vinyl.png|The liquid-filled "Monster Blood" vinyl variant of Nature Tapes.
File:NatureTapes-Founding-Fathers-Vinyl.png|The "Founding Fathers" vinyl variant of Nature Tapes.
File:Nature-Tapes-Handsome-Mother-1000.png|The "Handsome Mother" vinyl variant of Nature Tapes.
File:Nature-Tapes-CD.png|alt=This mockup uses the 2014 cover, physical version use the remastered cover.|The Needlejuice CD mockup of Nature Tapes.
File:Nature-Tapes-Cassette-Mock-1000.png|The clear cassette tape mockup of Nature Tapes.
File:"We're totally straight"Trucks.png|3D printed models of Two Trucks.
File:GaySexTrucksBaby.png|Rainbow-colored (gay) 3D printed models of Two Trucks.
</gallery>

[[File:NTunedited.jpeg|left|thumb|The unedited Pinnochio nose product photo used on the front cover]]

File:GaySexTrucksBaby.png

2025-02-06T20:30:28Z

Fry90000: 3D Printed Two Trucks

== Summary ==
3D Printed Two Trucks

File:"We're totally straight"Trucks.png

2025-02-06T20:29:54Z

Fry90000: 3D Printed Two Trucks

== Summary ==
3D Printed Two Trucks

Acrobat Unstable Record

2025-02-06T20:13:51Z

Fry90000: added a "LPs" section

{{Infobox album
|title = Acrobat Unstable Record
|artist = Lemon Demon
|albumart = Acrobat.jpg
|disc_Category = EP
|year = 2022
|recorded = 2005–2006
|length = 26:33
|label = Needlejuice Records, Acrobat Unstable Records
|producers = 
|reviews = 
|externalLinks = 
|addtlInfo = 
|lastAlbum = '''Something Glowing EP'''
|thisAlbum = '''Acrobat Unstable Record'''
|nextAlbum = '''One Weird Tip/Funkytown'''
}}

'''Acrobat Unstable Record''' is the second [[Needlejuice Records|Needlejuice]]-devised bonus track 7". It is comprised entirely of bonus tracks from [[Dinosaurchestra]], and is intended as a supplementary product to the vinyl releases of that album, providing bonus tracks not available on Side D of the album.

== Track Listing ==

# [[Indie Cindy and the Lo-Fi Lullabies (demo)]]
# [[Funniest]]
# [[The Oldest Man on MySpace]]
# [[Space Mission Alpha]]
# [[Bill Watterson (demo)]]
# [[Every Time You Stifle a Sneeze]]

== LPs ==
<gallery>
File:AcrobatPinkYellow.png|The "Neon Pink/Neon Yellow" vinyl variant of Acrobat Unstable Record.
File:AcrobatUnstableBloodPiss.png|The "Blood Red/Piss Yellow" vinyl variant of Acrobat Unstable Record.
</gallery>

File:AcrobatUnstableBloodPiss.png

2025-02-06T20:12:25Z

Fry90000: The Acrobat Unstable Record Vinyl

== Summary ==
The Acrobat Unstable Record Vinyl

File:AcrobatPinkYellow.png

2025-02-06T20:11:48Z

Fry90000: The Acrobat Unstable Record Vinyl

== Summary ==
The Acrobat Unstable Record Vinyl

Something Glowing EP

2025-02-06T20:08:30Z

Fry90000: added a "LPs" section

{{Infobox album
|title = Something Glowing
|artist = Lemon Demon
|albumart = Glowing.jpg
|disc_Category = EP
|year = 2020
|recorded = 2006–2008
|length = 17:59
|label = Needlejuice Records
|producers = 
|reviews = 
|externalLinks = 
|addtlInfo = 
|lastAlbum = 
|thisAlbum = 
|nextAlbum = 
}}

'''Something Glowing''' is the first [[Needlejuice Records|Needlejuice]]-devised bonus track 7". It is comprised almost entirely of bonus tracks from [[View-Monster]], and is intended as a supplementary product to the vinyl releases of that album, providing bonus tracks not available on Side D of the album.

== Track Listing ==

# [[Something Glowing]] (also includes [[Untitled (sleeping)]] and [[Untitled (finale)]])
# [[320x200]]
# [[You Got a Toothache]]
# [[While My Keytar Gently Weeps]]
# [[Everyday French]]

== LPs ==
<gallery>
File:SomethingGlowingVinyl1.png|The "Neon Red" 7<nowiki>''</nowiki> vinyl variant of Something Glowing.
File:SomethingGlowingVinylGreen.png|The "Glow In The Dark" 7" vinyl variant of Something Glowing.
</gallery>

File:SomethingGlowingVinylGreen.png

2025-02-06T20:05:40Z

Fry90000: The Something Glowing Vinyl

== Summary ==
The Something Glowing Vinyl

File:SomethingGlowingVinyl1.png

2025-02-06T20:03:44Z

Fry90000: The Something Glowing Vinyl

== Summary ==
The Something Glowing Vinyl

Spirit Phone

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{{Infobox album
|title = Spirit Phone
|artist = Lemon Demon
|albumart = Spirit Phone.jpg
|disc_Category = Album
|year = February 29, 2016
|recorded = 2009–2016
|length = 59:17, 1:43:15 (with bonus tracks)
|label = Self-released (2016), [[Needlejuice Records]] (2018)
|producers = [[Neil Cicierega]]
|reviews =
|externalLinks = [https://lemondemon.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-phone Purchase original version digitally] [https://needlejuice.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-phone Purchase remastered version digitally and physically (Needlejuice Records Bandcamp)] [https://needlejuicerecords.com/product/spiritphone/ Purchase remastered version physically (Needlejuice Records website)] [https://mumbergo.net/files/Audio/Spirit%20Phone/ Miscellaneous audio files]
|addtlInfo = 
|lastAlbum = [[Nature Tapes]] (2014)
|thisAlbum = '''Spirit Phone''' (2016)
|nextAlbum =
}}

'''Spirit Phone''' is [[Lemon Demon]]’s seventh album, first released in digital format on February 29th, 2016. It was the first full-length Lemon Demon LP to be released in nearly eight years. The artwork was created by [[Ming Doyle]].

==Track listing==
'''Side A'''
#[[Lifetime Achievement Award]]
#[[Touch-Tone Telephone]]
#[[Cabinet Man]]
#[[No Eyed Girl]]
'''Side B'''
#<li value="5">[[When He Died]]</li>
#[[Sweet Bod]]
#[[Eighth Wonder]]
#[[Ancient Aliens]]
#[[Soft Fuzzy Man]]
'''Side C'''
#<li value="10">[[As Your Father I Expressly Forbid It]]
#[[I Earn My Life]]
#[[Reaganomics]]
#[[Man-Made Object]]
#[[Spiral of Ants]]

===Bonus tracks===
#[[Crisis Actors]]
#[[Redesign Your Logo]]
#[[Pizza Heroes]]
#[[You're at the Party]]
#[[Angry People]]
#[[Geocities]]
#[[Angelfire]]
#[[Gravitron]]
#[[Moon's Request]]
#[[Sweet Bod (Demo)]]
#[[Cat Hacks]]
#[[Cabinet Man (Demo)]]
#[[Kubrick and the Beast]]

==Cover Art Variations==
During the production of Spirit Phone, the cover art went through many renditions until [[Neil]] and [[Ming]] finally settled on the final version. Seen below are 5 of the different iterations it went through.
[[File:Spirititeration1.jpeg|250px|thumb|The first iteration of the cover]]
[[File:Spirititeration2.jpeg|thumb|The second iteration of the cover, much closer to the layout of the final version]]
[[File:Spirititeration3.jpeg|thumb|The third iteration of the cover, a redrawn version of the previous iteration]]
[[File:Spirititeration5.jpeg|thumb|The fourth iteration of the cover, much closer to the final version with a different coloring]]
[[File:Spiritreference.jpeg|thumb|The reference photo for the later iterations of the Spirit Phone cover]]

== Physical Releases ==
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File:SpiritPhone-WallsofArt-Vinyl.png|The "Walls Of Art" vinyl variant of Spirit Phone
File:SkullMansionSpiritPhoneVinyl.png|The "Skull Mansion" vinyl variant of Spirit Phone.
File:FuzzySpotsVinylSP.png|The "Fuzzy Spots" vinyl variant of Spirit Phone.
File:WhisperSmokeVinyl.png|The "Whisper Smoke" vinyl variant of Spirit Phone.
File:CadaverCandyvinyl.png|The "Cadaver Candy" vinyl variant of Spirit Phone.
File:NoMoonNoStarsvinyl.png|The all black "No Moon No Stars" vinyl variant of Spirit Phone.
File:SpiritPhone DoubleCD.png|The Needlejuice double CD mockup of Spirit Phone.
File:SP-RedbottomsCDtransparent (1).png|The red backs of the Spirit Phone CD.
File:SpiritPhone-Cassette.png|The Needlejuice cassette tape mockup of Spirit Phone.
File:MiniDiscSP.png|The Needlejuice Minidisc mockup of Spirit Phone.
File:TTTSPCylindermockup.png|The Needlejuice "Touch Tone Telephone" wax cylinder mockup.
</gallery>

==Trivia==
* As part of an April Fools joke, a limited edition 8-track tape was made available during the first week of April in 2019. Continuing the tradition, a limited edition "No Moon No Stars LP" was also released on April 1, 2021. It was all black, unlike [[Needlejuice]]'s typical colored vinyl, released in a limited run of 100.
* The tracklist went though many iterations during development. Some tracks considered for Spirit Phone were later released as singles and eventually compiled into the [[Nature Tapes]] EP in 2014 (namely [[Everybody Loves Raymond]]).

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