![]() ![]() Notable tracks that use this include the opening track “ Goodbye,” and finale “ Piss.” Despite this, All Star is referenced in various ways. While Mouth Sounds has the reoccurring element of Smash Mouth’s “All Star,” it is replaced with the song “Semi-Charmed Life” by Third Eye Blind in the “prequel” album, Mouth Silence. Neil has stated that Mouth Sounds was created to make people laugh, and also to offend the fans of the tracks that he used. “ No Credit Card” only uses Huey Lewis and the News’ “The Power of Love,” while the track “ D’oh” uses at least six distinct sources. ![]() Not all tracks follow this format though. Most of the songs on the albums involve fitting the vocals of one track to the backing of another, and a good example from Mouth Sounds is “ Bills Like Jean Spirit.” The track consists of the lyrics to Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” over the backing track for Michael Jackson’s “Billy Jean.” The albums grew out of Neil’s discovery that the Rock Band series of video games includes separate stems for every instrument in the game, allowing him to pull individual parts out of the songs. These have been referred to as the Mouth Trilogy due to their titles and recurring use of the song “All Star” by Smash Mouth. The first and second albums, titled “Mouth Sounds” and “Mouth Silence,” were both released in 2014, while the third, “Mouth Moods,” released earlier in 2017. Recently, Neil has been gaining notoriety for something else he has been producing mashup albums under his own name that consist of almost entirely appropriated sound clips. Neil Cicierga is a comedian, artist, and musician, known for his web series Harry Potter Puppet Pals, his musical works under the name Lemon Demon, and a creating a style of flash animation known as “ Animutation.” ![]()
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