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

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song name S-E-X-X-Y (Kendal Mintcake Remix)
artist They Might Be Giants
releases theymightbegiants.com, TMBG Clock Radio, Podcast 9A
year 2003
run time 2:27
sung by John Flansburgh


Trivia/Info

  • Officially titled "S-E-X-X-Y Total Remix".
  • John Flansburgh:
This evening (2/18/03) we are posting on 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.
  • The samples in this song are:
    • 0:00 - 0:08, Asia, "The Smile Has Left Your Eyes"
    • 0:30 - 0:31, Sly & the Family Stone "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 the movie Full Metal Jacket)
    • 1:14 - 1:20, Soul Coughing, "Bus to Beelzebub" (which itself was borrowing from "Powerhouse" by Raymond Scott, which John Linnell paid tribute to in "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)

Song Themes

Artificial Body Parts, Food, Gender Issues, Heads, Intelligence, Espionage, Letters Of The Alphabet, Medical, Music, Plans, Precious Metal, Remixes, Sex, Songs With Samples

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