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S-E-X-X-Y (Kendal Mintcake Remix)

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song nameS-E-X-X-Y - Kendal Mintcake Remix
artistThey Might Be Giants
albumtheymightbegiants.com, TMBG Clock Radio, Podcast 9A
year2003
first playedMar. 14, 1996 (205 known performances)
run time2:27
sung byJohn Flansburgh

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  • Note from Flans: "This evening (2/18/03) we are posting on http://www.theymightbegiants.com, which has been newly renovated and refreshed for your surfing pleasure, a highly uncopyright-cleared remix that was made by the fine folks at Kendal Mintcake. They have applied some twenty-first century notions of copyright to our track S-E-X-X-Y. Get it while you can because the cease-and-desist orders are just minutes away. This is just a fun little blast of sound. Hope you dig it. We take no responsibility, and this conversation never happened."
  • Samples in this songs are:
    • 0:00 - 0:08, Asia, "The Smile Has Left Your Eyes"
    • 0:30 - 0:31, Sly & the Family Stone "Loose Booty" (at the very least, this is from the same source as a sample in "Shadrach" by the Beastie Boys, which my quick research says is "Loose Booty")
    • 0:33 and throughout the song, The La's, "There She Goes" guitar, underneath verses
    • 0:48 - 0:50, Vanilla Ice, "Ice, Ice, Baby" and Herbie Hancock, "Rockit" mixed together
    • 0:50 - 0:52, Elvis Costello, "Everyday I Write The Book" the opening two seconds from the song.
    • 0:53 - 0:58, The Beatles, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (guitar licks)
    • 0:59 - 1:05, Asia, "Only Time Will Tell"
    • 1:06 - 1:20, Ministry, "Thieves" (which has samples from Full Metal Jacket)
    • 1:14 - 1:20, Soul Coughing, "Bus to Beelzebub" (which itself was borrowing from "Powerhouse" by Raymond Scott, which had earlier been borrowed from on "Rhythm Section Want Ad")
    • 1:21 - 1:23, Vanilla Ice, "Ice, Ice, Baby"
    • 1:26 - 1:27, Asia, "Only Time Will Tell"
    • 1:41 - 1:43, David Bowie, "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars"
    • 1:43 - 1:44, The Beatles, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
    • 2:05 - 2:07, XTC, "History of Rock 'n' Roll"
    • 2:07 - 2:15, Herbie Hancock, "Rockit"
    • 2:09 - 2:16, Soul Coughing, "Bus to Beelzebub" (augmented, stretched)
    • the general groove sounds kind of like Cypress Hill

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S-E-X-X-Y (Kendal Mintcake Remix) is currently ranked #471 out of 805. (26 wikians have given it an average rating of 8.15)
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