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Why is the world in love again? Why are we marching hand in hand?

This almost tempts me to offer something, although I have no instruments or anything. Flood was the first music CD I owned, and still one of the very few of that number I have.

The band has been heard saying that Flood, after 19 years, holds the record for the album that took the longest to go platinum.
posted to MeFi Music Talk by JHarris at 7:12 AM on October 13, 2014

(Holy crap, I just discovered that I can still quote many of the songs on Flood verbatim, directly from memory.)
posted to MeFi Music Talk by JHarris at 11:08 AM on October 13, 2014

It's like it's my birthday.
posted to MeFi Music Talk by JHarris at 12:28 PM on October 16, 2014

It's not todaaay. It's not my birthday, so why must you lash out at me?
When the word comes down,
never more will be around.
Thought I wish
we were there,
I was less than we could bear,
And I'm not the only dust my mother raised.

Oh, I'm not the only dust my mother raised.

(I admit I went to the TMBG Wiki to pin down the lyrics, but I promise the song was going through my head repeatedly while typing them out.)
posted to MeFi Music Talk by JHarris at 3:01 PM on October 16, 2014

You guys are delighting in saying words that get songs stuck in my head, aren't you. Well, I can do that too!!

In my prison cell I think these words...

Thirty-two footsteps leading to the room where the paint doesn't want to dry...

I remember the year I went to camp...

Turn around, turn around, there's a thing there that can be found...

Make a hole with a gun… [more]
posted to MeFi Music Talk by JHarris at 6:54 PM on October 16, 2014

(I'm goin' down to Cowtown, the cow's a friend to me....)
posted to MeFi Music Talk by JHarris at 6:55 PM on October 16, 2014

...in Buenos Aires....
posted to MeFi Music Talk by JHarris at 7:00 PM on October 16, 2014

spacewaitress, the world can always use more versions of Particle Man.
posted to MeFi Music Talk by JHarris at 3:43 PM on October 18, 2014

IMPORTANT BREAKING AWESOME:

Today, the band has posted the entire album to YouTube.
posted to MeFi Music Talk by JHarris at 1:19 PM on October 20, 2014

It is! And extra points for finding meaning in one of the more inscrutable songs on the album.
posted to MeFi Music Talk by JHarris at 6:23 PM on December 29, 2014

Good work!
posted to MeFi Music Talk by JHarris at 10:09 PM on January 5, 2015

Hot Cha, where are you?
Everybody's eyes are closed!
I can't see why I miss you so,
so Hot Cha, where are you?

First time Hot Cha went away,
a floating island was his home.
Then the phone rang off the hook
and Hot Cha had to come back home.

Hot Cha, where are you?
Everybody's eyes are closed!
I can't see why I miss you so,… [more]
posted to MeFi Music Talk by JHarris at 8:56 PM on January 8, 2015

Very nice and unexpected! Which is the only way to make a Flood remix, I'd think.
posted to MeFi Music Talk by JHarris at 2:25 PM on January 9, 2015

I love that one!
posted to MeFi Music Talk by JHarris at 4:41 PM on January 10, 2015

Anxiously awaiting Particle Man and Someone Keeps Moving My Chair.
posted to MeFi Music Talk by JHarris at 3:07 PM on January 11, 2015

Mr Horrible, Mr. Horrible
Telephone call for Mr. Horrible!
But before he can talk to the Ugliness Men
there's some horrible business left for him to attend to.
Something unpleasant has spilled on his brain,
as he sponges it off they say:
"Is this Horrible? Is this Horrible?
It's the Ugliness Men Mr. Horrible!
We're were just trying to bug you
we though that our… [more]
posted to MeFi Music Talk by JHarris at 3:14 PM on January 11, 2015

There are worse things that could happen than more than one person covering Particle Man.
posted to MeFi Music Talk by JHarris at 11:13 AM on January 14, 2015