What Bothers The Spaceman?
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| song name | What Bothers the Spaceman? |
| artist | Mono Puff |
| releases | Unsupervised, TMBG Clock Radio |
| year | 1996 |
| first played | June 26, 1996 (4 known performances) |
| run time | 2:49 |
| sung by | John Flansburgh |
Trivia/Info
- Flansburgh says, "This song is not based on any personal experience with baseball great Bill 'Spaceman' Lee, who I quite accidentally met at a TV show right after writing this song. Lee, back in the seventies had a couple of great, controversial seasons with the very conservative Boston Red Sox. When Lee made a couple of appearances on local rock radio stations at the time, he lived up to his name with a very odd 'lost philosopher'-style that made a lasting impression on me."
- When writing the song, Flansburgh was unaware that musician Warren Zevon had written a song about Bill Lee for his 1980 album Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School. Flansburgh mentioned this and his interaction with Lee in a 1996 interview:
It's not even the first song about Bill Lee, which I was distressed to find out. In fact, I was backstage at the Conan O'Brien show and Bill Lee was there. It was too weird. And then the music booker for the show asked me, "Have you heard that Warren Zevon song?" I guess Warren Zevon wrote a song about him. I hope it's not the exact same song.
Song Themes
Heads, Occupations, People (Real), Questions, Space, Titles And Honorifics, Trees And Other Plants
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