Mouth Silence

Mixtape by Neil Cicierega

Released

July 19, 2014

Genre

Mashup, remix

Length

55:48

Neil Cicierega chronology

Mouth Sounds
(2014)

Mouth Silence
(2014)

Spirit Phone as Lemon Demon
(2016)

Mouth Silence is the second mashup album by American musician and comedian Neil Cicierega. Following the format of his previous release, Mouth Sounds, the album is composed of mashups and remixes of popular songs from the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Unlike Mouth Sounds, which used the song "All Star" by Smash Mouth as a recurring element, no tracks on the album audibly reference the song (although some contain Easter eggs of various "All Star" clips).^[1] Alternatively, the song "Semi-Charmed Life" by Third Eye Blind is a recurring element of the album. A third installment, Mouth Moods, was released in 2017.

Reception

Much like its predecessor, Mouth Sounds, critics remarked on the album's simultaneous appeal to and perversion of the listener's nostalgia, with Katie Rife of The A.V. Club describing it as "laugh out loud horrifying"^[2] and Ryan Manning of The Verge promising that listeners would "have a strong reaction, negative, positive, horrified, glorified".^[3] Sasha Geffen, writing for Impose Magazine, describes the effect as "total context collapse", calling it "paradoxically [...] comforting".^[4] As of January 2017, the mixtape has received over 400,000 plays on Soundcloud.^[5]

Track listing

No.	Title	Featured works	Length
1.	"Goodbye"	Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life" Yes' "I've Seen All Good People"	2:17
2.	"Rollercloser"	The Ohio Players' "Love Rollercoaster" Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" Kool and the Gang's "Jungle Boogie"	3:25
3.	"Furries"	Hanson's "MMMBop" The Jimi Hendrix Experience's "Foxy Lady", "Purple Haze" Ylvis' "What Does the Fox Say?"	2:20
4.	"Friends"	The Rembrandts' "I'll Be There For You" Disturbed's "Down with the Sickness"	0:10
5.	"Best"	Foo Fighters' "Best of You" Rockapella's "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?", Folgers jingle Zapp and Roger's "More Bounce to the Ounce" Tina Turner's "The Best" Joe Esposito's "You're the Best" One Direction's "Best Song Ever" TaleSpin theme Pokémon theme	3:53
6.	"Pokémon"	The Jackson 5's "I Want You Back"	3:17
7.	"Sexual Lion King"	Elton John's "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" "Circle of Life" from The Lion King	3:52
8.	"Crocodile Chop"	Elton John's "Crocodile Rock" System of a Down's "Chop Suey!"	3:42
9.	"Transmission"	David Bowie's "Space Oddity"	0:54
10.	"Love Psych"	The B-52's' "Love Shack" Bernard Herrmann's Psycho score	3:54
11.	"Orgonon Gurlz"	Kate Bush's "Cloudbusting" Katy Perry's "California Gurls"	4:19
12.	"Born to Cat"	Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" Bent Fabric's "Alley Cat"	0:43
13.	"What Is It"	Faith No More's "Epic" War's "Low Rider"	3:04
14.	"It's"	Michael Palin saying "It's..." Bon Jovi's "It's My Life" John Philip Sousa's "The Liberty Bell"	1:09
15.	"Close to the Sun"	The Carpenters' "(They Long to Be) Close to You" Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun"	1:24
16.	"Numbers"	Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" Cake's "Never There" Milli Vanilli's "Baby Don't Forget My Number" David Bowie's "Space Oddity" No Doubt's "Spiderwebs" Ray Parker, Jr.'s "Ghostbusters" Kraftwerk's "Numbers" Misc samples from premium-rate telephone number commercials and novelty answering machine greetings	5:07
17.	"Space Monkey Mafia"	Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"	3:48
18.	"Wndrwll"	Oasis' "Wonderwall" Jesse Frederick's "Everywhere You Look"	3:28
19.	"Piss"	Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life" Enigma's "Return to Innocence" Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping" Justin Timberlake's "Rock Your Body" Spin Doctors' "Two Princes" Hampton The Hampster's Hampster Dance Morse code that translates 'SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME', half of the first line of Smash Mouth's All Star.	4:58
Total length:			55:48

Outtakes

"Jocko Homo Mashup" ^[6]

Sampled from: Cher's "Do You Believe", Devo's "Jocko Homo", LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" and Baha Men's "Who Let The Dogs Out"

"Say It Ain't SoCal" ^[7]

Sampled from Weezer's "Beverly Hills" with "Say It Ain't So"

References

↑ Lachenal, Jessica (January 24, 2017). "Neil Cicierega Drops Ever-So-Deliciously Weird "Mouth Moods" Mashup Album". www.themarysue.com. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
↑ Katie Rife (July 22, 2014). "The sequel to "Mouth Sounds" is here, and it’s laugh out loud horrifying". The A.V. Club. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
↑ Ryan Manning (July 26, 2014). "Mouth Silence is the sound of your brain roasting". The Verge. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
↑ Sasha Geffen (September 10, 2014). "Mouth Singularity: Neil Cicierega's Context Collapse". Impose Magazine. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
↑ Neil Cicierega (2014). Mouth Silence (streamed) (audio). Retrieved January 24, 2017.
↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doj6cIK_A1k
↑ https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=epTeA3Uz194

External links

Official website

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