Mouth Moods

Mouth Moods is the third mashup album by American musician and comedian Neil Cicierega released in 2017. Like his previous mashup albums Mouth Sounds and Mouth Silence, its source material is primarily Top 40 hits from the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In addition to the return of samples from Smash Mouth "All Star", which were more carefully hidden in Mouth Silence, the song "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies appears as a recurring element of the album.[2]

Mouth Moods
Mixtape by Neil Cicierega
Released	January 23, 2017[1]
Genre	Mashup[1] remix
Length	56:53
Neil Cicierega chronology
Spirit Phone (as Lemon Demon) (2016) Mouth Moods (2017)

Reception

Mouth Moods was praised for being "just as compelling" as its predecessors,[3][4] as well as for its usage of various songs in pop culture history, as well as its "enhanced orchestral scope" over the previous two albums.[2]

The album includes the innuendo-filled track "Bustin", based on the Ray Parker Jr. song "Ghostbusters", which became a viral hit.[5][6][7] The publication OC Weekly stated that it was "[a]bsolutely brilliant how an entirely new track can be created from the original elements while still containing its fun vibe."[8]

Track listing

No.	Title	Featured works	Length
1.	"The Starting Line"	Nine Days "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)" Barenaked Ladies' "One Week" Smash Mouth "All Star" The Smashing Pumpkins' "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" Foo Fighters's "Best of You" Montell Jordan "This Is How We Do It" Talking Heads "And She Was" James Brown "I Got You (I Feel Good)" Prince "Kiss" MC Hammer "U Can't Touch This" Cake "The Distance" Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs' "Wooly Bully" Talking Heads "Road to Nowhere" Carl Douglas' "Kung Fu Fighting" OutKast' "Hey Ya!" C+C Music Factory "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)"	2:54
2.	"Floor Corn"	Drowning Pool's "Bodies" Hot Butter's "Popcorn"	2:29
3.	"AC/VC"	Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles" AC/DC's "Back in Black" (live 1991)	2:58
4.	"300MB"	The Proclaimers' "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" Found audio from recording of a shopping channel[9] [10]	2:11
5.	"Revolution #5"	The Beatles' "Revolution 9" Lou Bega's "Mambo No. 5" Smash Mouth's "All Star" Clip of Usher saying "Happy Easter Xbox"	0:28
6.	"Dear Dinosaur"	The Beatles' "Dear Prudence" Was (Not Was)'s "Walk the Dinosaur" Opening narration from the film Super Mario Bros.	3:39
7.	"Annoyed Grunt"	Theme from Home Improvement Disturbed's "Down with the Sickness" Annie Lennox's "No More I Love You's" Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight" Mungo Jerry's "In the Summertime" M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" Korn's "Freak on a Leash" Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life" Rammstein's "Du hast" Green Day's "Basket Case" Van Halen's "Runnin' with the Devil" Misc samples from Larry King Live, The Simpsons, Austin Powers, Mario Paint, and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls	3:31
8.	"Bustin"	Ray Parker Jr.'s "Ghostbusters" Gorillaz' "Feel Good Inc."	3:47
9.	"Blockbuster"	Found audio from a Blockbuster Video advertisement	0:14
10.	"Busta"	Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" TLC's "No Scrubs"	1:07
11.	"Tiger"	INXS' "Need You Tonight" Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" Misc tiger related samples including samples from Mario Paint and Tony the Tiger's "They're grrrrreat!"	3:03
12.	"The End"	The Doobie Brothers' "What a Fool Believes" Linkin Park's "In the End"	3:32
13.	"Shady Interlude"	Eminem's "My Name Is"	0:57
14.	"T.I.M.E."	Hans Zimmer's "Time" (from Inception) Village People's "Y.M.C.A." Smash Mouth "All Star"	4:37
15.	"Smooth"	"O Canada" Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" Barenaked Ladies' "One Week" Santana's "Smooth"	4:17
16.	"Stand by Meme"	Ben E. King's "Stand By Me" Barenaked Ladies' "One Week"	2:24
17.	"Wallspin"	Oasis' "Wonderwall" Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)" Barenaked Ladies' "One Week" (Carried over from the last track)	3:15
18.	"Wow Wow"	Smash Mouth's "All Star" Steve Miller Band's "The Joker" Kid Rock's "Cowboy" Will Smith's "Wild Wild West"	3:29
19.	"Mouth Pressure"	Queen's "Under Pressure" Smash Mouth's "All Star"	3:43
20.	"Shit"	Seal's "Kiss from a Rose" C+C Music Factory's "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" Electric Light Orchestra's "Don't Bring Me Down" Limp Bizkit's "My Way" The Offspring's "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)" Spice Girls' "Wannabe" Black Eyed Peas' "Where Is the Love?" Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" Raffi's "Bananaphone" Paul Simon's "You Can Call Me Al" Disturbed's "Down with the Sickness" Lit's "My Own Worst Enemy" Santana's "Smooth" Kid Rock's "Cowboy" Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life" "CANYON.MID" (Passport Designs MIDI rendition of George Stone's "Trip Through the Grand Canyon")	4:08
Total length:			56:53

Outtakes

On February 23, 2017, Cicierega released five outtakes from Mouth Moods through YouTube.[11][12][13]

On September 18, 2017, Cicierega posted "Who" and "Party Rangers": additional outtakes.[14][15]

No.	Title	Featured works	Length
1.	"God Says Relax"	Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax" The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows"	3:06
2.	"Avril"	Avril Lavigne's "Complicated" Ty Parr's "National Aerobic Champion Theme" XTC's "Complicated Game"	4:13
3.	"Roxanne.mid"	The Police's "Roxanne" MIDI rendition of "Roxanne"[16]	3:16
4.	"Man Piano"	Billy Joel's "Piano Man" Green Day's "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" The Full House ending theme rendition of "Everywhere You Look" Smash Mouth's "All Star"	3:14
5.	"Don't"	Insane Clown Posse and Twiztid's "Homies" Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'"	4:16
6.	"Who"	The Who's "Who Are You" Men At Work's "Who Can It Be Now?" Blur's "Song 2" Baha Men's "Who Let The Dogs Out?" Theme from Who's the Boss? "Who's that Pokémon?" from the Pokémon animated series Selena Gomez & the Scene's "Who Says" Janet Jackson's "Nasty" Barry Mann's "Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)" The Cars' "Drive" theme from Doctor Who	3:24
7.	"Party Rangers"	Miley Cyrus's "Party in the U.S.A." Ron Wasserman's "Go Go Power Rangers"	3:10
Total length:			18:05

References

1. Romano, Aja (March 7, 2017). "This '90s kid turned his love of a decade into the internet's best mashup albums". Vox. Archived from the original on November 3, 2019. Retrieved April 4, 2019.
2. Rife, Katie (January 26, 2017). "Neil Cicierega is here to reclaim the internet with his new album Mouth Moods". A.V. Club. Archived from the original on February 20, 2017. Retrieved February 20, 2017.
3. CLELAND, JAKE (January 31, 2017). "Vivid Memories Turn to Fantasies: On 'Mouth Moods'". JAKE CLELAND. Archived from the original on September 22, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
4. Feldman, Brian. "There Is a New Neil Cicierega Mixtape, Mouth Moods, and It Rules". Intelligencer. Archived from the original on July 12, 2019. Retrieved July 12, 2019.
5. Pescovitz, David (March 15, 2016). "Bust some ghosts with this insane remix of Ray Parker Jr.'s 1984 'Ghostbusters' theme song". Boing Boing. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
6. "This GHOSTBUSTERS Theme Song Remix Raises Innuendo to an Art Form". Nerdist.com. March 16, 2016. Archived from the original on June 16, 2018. Retrieved July 19, 2017.
7. Heins, Scott (September 25, 2015). "Flashback Friday: Ray Parker Jr's "Ghostbusters" Is Reborn As The Brilliant "Bustin"". Okayplayer. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
8. Kelsen, David (July 19, 2016). "The Ghostbuster Theme Song: A History". OC Weekly. Archived from the original on December 16, 2018. Retrieved December 13, 2018.
9. @neilcic (January 27, 2017). "youtube.com/watch?v=4OzBCwDWNqs" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
10. Vintage 1992 HSN 486 SX 25 Computer Commercial, retrieved August 15, 2020
11. Cicierega, Neil. ""Wanna hear some Mouth Moods outtakes???"". Twitter. Archived from the original on March 15, 2017. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
12. "Neil Cicierega - Avril - NeilCicieregaMusic on YouTube". Archived from the original on November 12, 2019. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
13. "Neil Cicierega - God Says Relax - NeilCicieregaMusic on YouTube". Archived from the original on December 1, 2019. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
14. Cicierega, Neil. ""Mouth Moods outtake: Who"". Twitter. Archived from the original on September 20, 2017. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
15. Cicierega, Neil. ""Another!! 'Party Rangers'"". Twitter. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
16. "The Police MIDI files - Download for free - MIDIWORLD.COM". MIDIWORLD.COM. Archived from the original on February 26, 2017. Retrieved February 26, 2017.

External links

• Official website