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If anyone would happen to have keyboard sheet music for this, that'd be greatly appreciated.

Is it just me or is the lead instrument in this song, (beside the guitar), a Hammond organ?

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[edit] Running Time

Hey, anybody know why the running time for this song is listed differently on this page and on Flood? I know it's only a one second difference, but I'd like to get it right for accuracy's sake. The track on my copy of Flood, which I downloaded from Wal-Mart has it at 3:20 with no gap between the tracks. I'm just looking to clarify this, so if anyone could wither explain a reason behind it, or confirm that it's a mistake/typo for me, I'd sure appreciate it. — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 18:51, 21 Nov 2005 (EST)

I just put my CD in my computer here and it says 3 minutes and 20 seconds.

I bought the CD album. Audacity tells me it's 3 minutes and 20.698776 seconds long. -- TheBlunderbuss 14:14, 30 Jun 2006 (MDT)

[edit] Myspace Artwork

Should we upload the myspace artwork for birdhouse? I've been uploading them for most of the other songs, but mainly because we don't have screenshots for those. Since we do have birdhouse screenshots from the video, is it worth adding this image? --Duke33 15:51, 13 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Popularity

I was really pleasantly surprised to see that this track was offered at a local bar's karaoke night. I quickly signed up, and the version they had was even pretty good. I guess Birdhouse has proliferated culture more than Ana Ng or Don't Let's Start (which I thought I might find instead). --Wetreplies 03:01, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Um... Why did the lyric on the lyrics page get edited to say 'Keep the nightlight on' instead of 'Leave the nightlight on'? Not only is it obvious that Linnell is singing 'leave', but it even says so in the Flood liner notes. --McBob 17:18, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

Well I happened to agree at that moment with the anonymous person who edited the lyric at the Recursion page. I listened through once and thought it was "keep." Liner notes aren't the deciding factor for a song's lyric page here. Are you sure it's "leave"?
I am, but I guess there's no way to tell for sure. It's even hard to tell how Linnell lip-syncs the word in the video. But I do know that's what sung during live performances. --McBob 00:01, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
After a couple more listens, I'm still on the side of "keep." Is there a third party who would like to add something?
I am going for 'keep'. jkl
My vote's for keep! --༺𝄞𝄆Ⓠⓤⓔⓛ⎈Ⓓⓞⓜⓜⓐⓖⓔ𝄇༻ 22:21, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

[edit] The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson on the DVD

I am really much too young to remember the early years of Jay Leno/the late years of Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show, but I must say that my favorite performance of any live song ever (I don't count Why Does The Sun Shine? anymore because the 'live' version is just the 'regular' version to me, but if I were to count it I would say they would be tied anyway) has to be when they performed Birdhouse In Your Soul on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Quite often I pop in my Gigantic DVD just to watch it. --ArAn 08:37, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Pitchfork 500

Here's the review of Birdhouse In Your Soul found in "The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide To The Greatest Songs From Punk To The Present". It can be found on pages 90,92

“Nowadays, synthesizers have renovated their image enough to be seen as instruments of cool, a sly nod to a fashionable retro-futurist past. Yet this redrafting of history washes away the subset of synth culture where the instrument was the musical symbol of nerdiness- Casio enthusiasts as demographic overlap with physics majors and Trekkies. “Birdhouse In Your Soul” portrays the forgotten world where synth players were more like Bill Gates than Brandon Flowers, basement experimentalists toying with MIDI patches and built-it-yourself Moogs. Sure, there’s a mathy guitar in there, but the rest of the song is a pure slice of early keyboardtech: a tone that approximates an organ like Pong approximated tennis; a stiff, metallic drum machine; and-yikes, is that supposed to be a trumpet during the bridge? Even the lyrics, focused as they are on Argonauts and the Longines Symphonette (a name for old Texas instruments calculators), are every bit as dweeby as the song’s creators, who are always at their best when they let their geek flag fly. Maybe “Birdhouse In Your Soul” is a high school yearbook photo the synthesizer would rather forget, but for the rest of us it’s a welcome reminder of the instruments awkward phase.”
-Rob Mitchum"

I had some spare time at work, so I typed it up.

Cool...thanks for the write-up Jade! --Duke33 19:16, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
Yeah, thanks for typing this out... but seriously, how terrible is Pitchfork? They can't even praise this song without insulting it. This is just an amazing song- period, and doesn't need these apologies for being recorded using "unfashionable" instruments. --Oddjob 22:21, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
No kidding...and they had to get the "nerd" / "geek" thing in there twice, no less. The whole article reeks of a back-handed compliment towards the band. --Duke33 17:24, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
It's funny how when I call someone a "dork"/"geek"/"nerd" I mean it as a compliment, but things like this (especially since we know the band doesn't appreciate being called such) come off as borderline offensive and derogatory. --MichelleMaBelle 18:39, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
I like they used "dweeby", I'm not sure if that ones been thrown around in a while. I need to read some more of that book, see if they're as complimentary to the other 499 songs.--Jade 01:26, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hallmark Greeting Card

I saw this Hallmark card, while shopping for my wife's birthday a couple of weeks ago. Out of all of the songs in the world to choose from, I must say I'm pretty impressed you can buy a card with "Birdhouse In Your Soul"! (Even if it costs 6 bucks) --Duke33 19:26, 9 November 2008 (UTC)

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