The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek

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The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek
The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek cover
Studio album by Relient K
Released Flag of United States August 28, 2001
Recorded Yellow Studios
Genre Christian rock
Christian pop
Pop punk
Length 55:01
Label Gotee Records
Producer(s) Mark Lee Townsend
Professional reviews
Relient K chronology
The Creepy EP
(2001)		 The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek
(2001)		 Employee of the Month EP
(2002)


Alternative cover
The Gold Edition of the album, with the special gold slip cover
The Gold Edition of the album, with the special gold slip cover

The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek is the second full-length album released by the Christian rock band Relient K. It was released on August 28, 2001, and peaked at #158 on the Billboard 200. On June 26, 2006, the album was certified Gold by the RIAA for sales in excess of 500,000 units in the United States. The cover of the original release is similar to that of the 1999 Ramones release Hey Ho! Let's Go: The Anthology.

The album continues the band's liberal use of pop culture references.[1] Song themes range from pop culture to Christian themes (growth in faith - "Pressing On", backsliding - "What Have You Been Doing Lately?", worship - "Those Words Are Not Enough", "For The Moments I Feel Faint", and "Less Is More")[1] and social themes such as racism and persecution ("Failure To Excommunicate"), judgementalism ("Down In Flames"), and making excuses or blaming others for one's own faults ("Maybe Its Maybeline").[1]

Gotee Records released a "Gold Edition" of this album on October 31, 2006 along with the release of a "Gold Edition" of Two Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do on the same day. The Gold Edition of this album has remixed and remastered sound so that it is on par with that of Mmhmm, and it has a music video for the song "Pressing On". The team that remixed it is the same team that worked on Mmhmm.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Matt Thiessen; except "Those Words Are Not Enough", written by Matt Hoopes. Track times shown are for original release and vary slightly on the gold re-release.

  1. "Kick-Off" – 0:39
  2. "Pressing On" – 3:29
  3. "Sadie Hawkins Dance" – 2:57
  4. "Down In Flames" – 4:07
  5. "Maybe It's Maybeline" – 3:14
  6. "Breakdown" – 3:45
  7. "Those Words Are Not Enough" – 4:39
  8. "For The Moments I Feel Faint" – 3:47
  9. "Lion Wilson" – 0:35
  10. "I'm Lion-O" – 2:55
  11. "What Have You Been Doing Lately?" – 3:23
  12. "May The Horse Be With You" – 2:17
  13. "My Way Or The Highway...." – 3:47
  14. "Breakfast At Timpani's" – 0:22
  15. "The Rest Is Up To You" – 4:04
  16. "Failure To Excommunicate" – 3:35
  17. "Less Is More" – 7:17 (7:01 on gold release)

[edit] Credits

[edit] Additional personnel

  • Madalena Burle Marx – cello
  • Ann Smith – viola
  • Heather Walker – violin
  • Cory Smith – violin
  • Crystal Brezovsky – french horn
  • Kevan Peden – additional vocals
  • Scott Cannon – additional vocals
  • Kyle Hudson – additional vocals
  • Rob Roy Fingerhead – slide guitar

[edit] References to popular culture

  • The last line of "Pressing On" is from the Mary Tyler Moore Show theme.[1]
  • "Maybe It's Maybeline" (deliberately misspelled much like the band's name) refers to the popular Maybelline line of beauty products and its tag line.[1]
  • The title of "Lion Wilson" is a play on Brian Wilson. "Lion Wilson" is the first of many Relient K songs to draw heavily from the style of Wilson and his band The Beach Boys, both of which Relient K lead singer Matthew Thiessen often references as major influences on his music.
  • "May the Horse Be with You" makes references to Mister Ed and Star Wars.
  • "Breakfast at Timpani's" is a play on Breakfast at Tiffany's.
  • "I'm Lion-O" refers to the main character of the popular 1980s cartoon, ThunderCats.

[edit] Notes and trivia

  • The hidden track after "Less Is More" is entitled "Skittles and Combos", a love song for these two snacks.
  • "Skittles and Combos" isn't on the gold re-release. A different hidden track is at the end of "Less is More" called "The Ballad of Tim Eddings".
  • The only original Relient K song that Matt Thiessen did not write, "Those Words Are Not Enough", is on this album. Matt Hoopes wrote the song.
  • Both verses of the song "Failure to Excommunicate" are sung by drummer Dave Douglas, with Matt Thiessen joining in on the second verse.
  • The album contains re-recorded versions af songs from their 1998 demo All Work and No Play. These sonds include the Thundercats themed "I'm Lion-O" and "For the Moments I Feel Faint", which is a slower, acoustic recording of the song "C.U.R.B.".
  • The music video for this album is "Pressing On", but the original song chosen for a video was actually "Sadie Hawkins Dance".[citation needed] In the end, they went with "Pressing On", as they didn't have the budget to do what they wanted for "Sadie Hawkins Dance". Matt Thiessen once said this on the band's forum. It is rumored that one plan for the "Sadie Hawkins Dance" video actually included Gary Coleman.[citation needed]
  • The song "Sadie Hawkins Dance" once appeared in an episode of the show Smallville.
  • A tentative track listing for this album originally included the song "Operation", which was eventually used as an exclusive song for The Creepy EP instead.
  • The song "I'm Lion-O" has similar chords in the beginning as the song "For The Band" on the Employee of the Month EP.
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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e Powell, Mark Allan (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music, First printing, Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 750-751. ISBN 1-56563-679-1. 
Relient K
Matt Thiessen – Matt Hoopes – Dave Douglas – John Warne – Jon Schneck
Former: Todd Frescone - Stephen Cushman - Jared Byers - Brian Pittman
Discography
Albums: Relient K – The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek – Two Lefts Don't Make a Right...but Three Do – Mmhmm – Five Score and Seven Years Ago
EPs: 2000 A.D.D. – The Creepy EP – Employee of the Month EP – The Vinyl Countdown – Apathetic EP
Other: All Work and No Play (Demo) – Open Mic Karaoke: Relient K, Vol. 1 (Karaoke CD) – Deck the Halls, Bruise Your Hand (Christmas CD)
Selected singles: "My Girlfriend" – "Pressing On" – "Sadie Hawkins Dance" – "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything" – "Chap Stick, Chapped Lips, and Things Like Chemistry" – "Be My Escape" – "Who I Am Hates Who I've Been" – "High of 75" – "Must Have Done Something Right" – "Forgiven"
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