Snowball In Hell (Rough Mix)

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song name Snowball in Hell
artist They Might Be Giants
releases Unreleased, Roughs From 2nd LP
year 1988
run time 2:31
sung by John Flansburgh, John Linnell sings back-up


Trivia/Info

  • This rough mix differs significantly from the final album version of the song. It shares the same vocal, accordion, melodica and acoustic guitar tracks, but all the remaining instrumentation is different:
    • The drum track is primarily played with a Yamaha RX-11 drum machine, rather than the Alesis HR-16 used in the final version. The verses feature an alternate drum pattern and there are additional drums in the song's intro and outro, including a one-bar count-off at the start. A very prominent live tambourine plays through most of the song, which was replaced with fake tambourines in the final version.
    • Additional samples of speech from the How to Master Time Organization cassette appear in the song's intro, bridge and outro. These extra samples were also present in the song's original demo version and in early live performances in 1987 and 1988.
    • The song's bridge omits the accordion and instead features menacing synth strings. The snare drum in the bridge also has substantially more reverb.
    • A clean electric guitar doubles the acoustic guitar's strumming throughout the verses and chorus. This entire part was removed from the final version, leaving only the acoustic guitar.
    • The high glockenspiel-like keyboard in the chorus and the repeating piano note in the verses are absent.
    • The bass has a softer, more synthetic tone reminiscent of the bass parts on the band's debut album, rather than the slap bass used in the final version. The bass also plays a different melody in the verses, using long sustained notes instead of the more rhythmic final bassline.

Song Themes

Aversion To Work, Bad English, Coffee, Drugs, Food, Jail And Imprisonment, Money, Nonsense Words, Numbers, Oblique Cliches Or Idiom, Occupations, Oxymorons, Paradoxes, And Contradictory Statements, Problems With Liner Notes, Puns, Questions, Religion, Supernatural, Songs With Samples, Time, Trade Names

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