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Reprehensible

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Illustration from the Long Tall Weekend liner notes
song nameReprehensible
artistThey Might Be Giants
releasesLong Tall Weekend, Boss Of Me (Single) [UK / Australian Release], Music From Malcolm In The Middle (Leaked Soundtrack), They Got Lost, TMBG Clock Radio
year1999
first playedMar. 21, 1996 (10 known performances)
run time3:17
sung byJohn Flansburgh

Trivia/Info

  • From tmbg.com: "A cool song that fell between the cracks. This song features the sound of the Mellotron (actually from a sampler) that was a primitive version of sampling created in the 60s. The "horn section" is actually created by playing a chord on an electronic keyboard, but instead of a piano or organ sound you get the sound of a saxophone, or in this case, the sound of a very old-fashioned, melodramatic, vibrato-laded sax with a tone more from the 40s than from the 60s when it was recorded."
  • From the Summer 1999 Info Club newsletter: "A swanky ballad with wall to wall horns about the most reprehensible fellow one could imagine. Features a Linnell Clarinet solo."
  • The recording of this song on Long Tall Weekend was first present on the leaked cassette known as the The Complete Factory Showroom Sessions in 1996.
  • Appears in the Malcolm In The Middle episodes "Red Dress," "Malcolm Babysits," and "Francis Escapes."

Song Themes

Age, Criminal Activities, Evil, Forgetting, Remembering, History, Loneliness, Me, Mind Control, Hypnotism, Oxymorons, Paradoxes, And Contradictory Statements, Plans, Recursion, Religion, Swapped Vocals

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