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Contrecoup
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| song name | Contrecoup |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | The Else |
| year | 2007 |
| first played | May 3, 2007 (24 known performances) |
| run time | 3:11 |
| sung by | John Linnell |
Trivia/Info
- This song was first recorded in 2005 when John Linnell was challenged by the radio show The Next Big Thing to create a song using the almost-forgotten words contrecoup, craniosophic, and limerent. The Else's version contains a new bridge written for the song's inclusion on the album and a couple other changes.
- The song starts out with a tempo around 115 BPM and ends at around 152 BPM. (Check yourself at http://convertalot.com/bpm.html). Compare with "Damn Good Times," "Gazing Out Toward" and "Mrs. Train," other varying tempo songs.
- Phrenology is the 19th-century pseudoscientific belief that one's personality could be determined by the study of the location of bumps in the skull.
Song Themes
Accidents, Body Parts, French, Forgetting, Remembering, Heads, Language, Lies, Deception, Love, Medical, Skulls
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