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Interpretations:Snowball In Hell

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The perfect anti-work song. Considering Flans is a workholic this has always seemed odd, but remember that for Flans hell is not other people, merely working for other people. This theme has been returned to in minimum wage, whist Memo to Human Resources is the current employee hell song that Flans sings. But compare that song to this. Snowball has the melody that Memo lacks, and the wonderful sample that Bill Krauss provided Flans with. Officially my brother's favourite Giants song (and he is not a fan) this is one of the highlights of Lincoln. (mr Tuck)


He's alwasy been the odd-out. Basicly..

Not much to interpret really. It's about work. A constant theme of theirs, take "Minimum Wage" for example. Great music!

I believe this song is about a man who is stuck in a job he doesn't like, but he has to stay in it or face poverty for his family. This is represented in the lines "Avalanche or roadblock" which mean he has no good decision.

The singer is equating the white-collar worker to the blue-collar worker. 
Avalanche or roadblock
I was a snowball in hell...
...A jailor trapped in his cell

The snow is obviously the posher, white-collar office worker. The "avalanche" that pulled him into this working "hell" is also a roadblock to a career or money. The clean "snow" of his social status has been abased to the foothills of the mountain (hell), as the holier-than-thou jailer is himself imprisoned. 

Money I owe, money-iy-ay

This line harkens to "Minimum Wage," furthering the white-/blue-collar comparison through the vowel change. "Money I owe" is the officer worker's cry, and "money-iy-ay" is similar to the cowboy's "yipee-iy-ay" -- TheBlunderbuss 17:16, 14 Aug 2005 (EDT)

Tmbg has always been against office work and such, so mabie their saying that being in a office for them is like being a snowball in hell- out of place.

I basically agree with most interpretations of this song except I do not agree that flans is calling himself a snowball as a metaphor for his being white collar, rather I think it indicates his sence that he is screwed, after all, a snowball in hell has no chance. Also I think that this song also has an underlining theme of regret over arrogance, as if the singer is now feeling regretfull that he thought he was above this (Jailor in his cell line) It also expresses confusion over how he should interpret this situation (side effect or drug trip) where a side effect is an undesired result of taking a drug and a drug trip is a desired result, and with many drugs, this is a subjective thing, one persons horrible side effect is another persons glorious drug trip. --Sarcasmagasm 20:05, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

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