Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits
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| Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits | |
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| Album by Strong Bad | |
| Released | November 17, 2003 |
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| Recorded | Pairadeez Productions |
| Mixed by Russ-T at Ruby Red Studios | |
| Mastered by Rodney Mills at Rodney Mills Masterhouse | |
| Vinyl mastered by Adam Gonsalves at Telegraph Mastering | |
| Genre | Compilation |
| Length | 40:06 |
| Record label | Harmless Junk, Inc./Cheap as Free |
| Fangamer (vinyl) | |
| Producers | The Brothers Chaps |
| Players | The Brothers Chaps |
| Missy Palmer | |
| Y-O-U | |
| J. Christopher Arrison | |
| Alternate cover | |
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| Fangamer vinyl release | |
- This article is about the music album. For the toon, see Strong Bad Sings. For the toon advertising the vinyl release, see Strong Bad Sings on Vinyl!.
Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits (also called Strong Bad Sings) is a compilation album including twenty songs by Strong Bad and other various characters and artists from the Homestar Runner body of work, as well as a "Secret Song" sung by Homestar Runner himself. The title of the album is based on the toon Strong Bad Sings, a commercial for a fake Strong Bad album, and many of the songs named in the toon can be heard in full. The CD is sold for $15, and includes a color booklet and Limozeen sticker.
On September 11, 2019, the album was uploaded for streaming and download onto music streaming platforms.
On February 23, 2021, the album was released by Fangamer as a vinyl record, priced at $25, alongside a felt slipmat. This dual release was accompanied by a promotional video. The vinyl record was repressed on April 5, 2022, and the price was increased to $29; it is currently priced at $22. This release also included a variant color distributed by Ship to Shore PhonoCo. for $30.
Contents |
Track Listing
Notes
- "Secret Song" is not listed on the track listings for any release — it is a hidden song, playing at 6 minutes and 20 seconds into track 20 (preceded by over two minutes of silence after "Everybody to the Limit" ends).
- Differences in the music streaming versions:
- The album name is abbreviated to Strong Bad Sings.
- Track 17 is truncated to "The Theme from Dangeresque II".
- Every song is solely credited to Strong Bad, as a result of "weird limits on compilations and various artists albums".
- Differences in the vinyl release:
- Track 20 is specified as "(Live from West Rekjavik)".
- No artist information is provided for any track, either on the packaging or on store listings.
Product Details
CD
| Part | Description |
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| CD | It looks like a home-burned CD-R of the Videlectrix Media brand (which parodies the appearance of many CD-Rs), with a capacity of "70 jg". The title looks like it was hand-written with a permanent marker. On the underside of the CD, the word "Homestar" is laser-etched into the outer part of the middle. |
| Cover | The front of the CD jacket has a blue ballpoint pen illustration of Strong Bad with blaring amps for feet, lightning bolts for arms, and two electric guitars sticking out of his head like gigantic horns. |
| Inside Cover | Trogdor is burninating a modern-day city and fending off a jet, helicopter, tank, and some infantrymen. A defeated pig-man, possibly the Kerrek, is also shown. There is also a pouch-like slit to hold the booklet and sticker. |
| Sticker | A rectangular sticker with the Limozeen logo in white on a black background. |
| Booklet | The front has a color version of the illustration from the jacket. The next two pages feature three promotional posters:
Strong Bad
The Kinda Long-Haired Band
LIMOZEEN
The last two pages contain the drawings behind the credits and acknowledgments appear to be "prototype" drawings of some of the characters, including Teen Girl Squad and Eh! Steve!. A fat Strong Sad, a The S is for Sucks prototype and a Stinkoman without any blue hair can also be seen. A character that looks a bit like Homeschool Winner can be seen on the far right side. There are also a few pictures from Exaggerations. The back of the booklet contains a photo of Dangeresque-like sunglasses under a spotlight. |
| Under the CD | Illustration of Dangeresque's "cool glasses". |
| Back of Case | A hand-written track listing and copyright notice:
The Cheap as Free logo is present. |
| UPC | 8 80485 41002 6 |
| EAN | 0 880485 410026 |
Store Descriptions
20 tracks! 8 page booklet! Limozeen sticker! What more do they want?? Some stuff you may have heard, some stuff you haven't!! Recorded from May-August 2003 with the help of the boys in Y‑O‑U. Go check them out at www.pleaserock.com.
Flash Store (Yahoo page):
This CD features extended versions of your favorite Strong Bad hits such as "TROGDOR," "The System is Down" and "The Cheat is Not Dead" PLUS a few of Strong Bad's own personal favorites by heavy metal icons Limozeen and Taranchula. Strong Bad even let Marzipan contribute her own brand of hippie folk rock and Coach Z makes an appearance breakin' it down old school. Each CD cover is adorned with Strong Bad's own original artwork and a free Limozeen sticker is included with the liner notes. You might expect to pay $193.75 for this rare collection, but it's all yours for one easy installment of $12, plus shipping and handling.
The Strong Bad Sings CD* features extended versions of your favorite Strong Bad hits such as "TROGDOR," "The System is Down" and "The Cheat is Not Dead" plus many, many more. Also includes songs by Limozeen, Taranchula, Marzipan and other characters. Total of 20 tracks in all. PLUS, pop it into your computer for an exclusive video of the Coach Z song "These Peoples Try to Fade Me"
*Produced by the brothers chaps and the guys of The Yacht Rock Revue (formerly Y-O-U)
The Strong Bad Sings CD features extended versions of your favorite Strong Bad hits such as20 tracks in all. Comes with color booklet and LIMOZEEN sticker to put on your crappy practice amp!
- "TROGDOR"
- "The System is Down"
- "The Cheat is Not Dead"
- "Because, it's Midnite" by Limozeen
- "Moving Very Slowly" by Taranchula
- And a some lot more!
Vinyl
Tracks 1-11 are on side A, with 12-20 on side B.
| Part | Description |
|---|---|
| Front cover | An illustration of Strong Bad standing in a sci-fi landscape. He is muscular and has three arms - a typical boxing-glove hand holding a stylized microphone with an eyeball at the top, a cybernetic arm holding aloft a laser sword, and a monstrous green arm holding an electric guitar with an eyeball on the head. His mouth is full of sharp teeth and bat-like wings are coming out of his back. He is wearing zebra-striped tights and a space helmet. |
| Spine | The star from either the H*R logo or Homestar's shirt, the title "STRONG BAD SINGS (AND OTHER TYPE HITS)", the label code "FG40", and a Fangamer logo. |
| Back cover | The version of Strong Bad from the cover, seen in reverse onstage overlooking a sea of skull-like faces. Beneath this is a track list broken up by sides, and below that is the copyright information. |
| Vinyl record | Fangamer: Red with black splatter. Ship to Shore: Green with black splatter. |
| Side A label | A stylized illustration of a monstrous Strong Bad in profile, with "Side A" printed beneath. |
| Side B label | A much simpler illustration of the reverse, drawn by Strong Bad, on lined paper with "SIDE B" written roughly beneath. A sticky note on the drawing reads:
hey art guy, |
| Record sleeve front | Illustration of a warrior-style Strong Bad, different from the version seen on the cover, with a mohawk and wearing armor. He is holding aloft a sword in his cybernetic right arm, and yelling into a microphone held in his left hand. He is facing a large dragon with guitar-like features, like tuning pegs and frets, all over its body. |
| Record sleeve back | Typed list of credits. In the margins, several doodles from Strong Bad suggest squinting your eyes to see the shapes that the text make up. |
| Dead wax inscription | Side A: AW CRAP! I FORGOT TO...Side B: ...HIDE A BACKWARDS MESSAGE! |
| Liner notes |
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Store Descriptions
For years, he's thrilled and captivated himself with his music. And now, it's your turntable.
Now available at Fangamer on one intimidating red-and-black vinyl record, zero CDs, zero cassettes, or zero 8-track tapes, you might expect to pay almost $20 for this remastered-for-vinyl collection, featuring beautiful art by Lee Petty and all-new liner notes from Strong Bad himself. But it's all yours for just one easy installment of $29.
Ship to Shore PhonoCo.:
For years, he's thrilled and captivated himself with his music. And now, it's your turntable.
Now available at Ship to Shore on one intimidating green-and-black exclusive vinyl variant, zero CDs, zero cassettes, or zero 8-track tapes, you might expect to pay almost $40 for this remastered-for-vinyl collection, featuring beautiful art by Lee Petty and all-new liner notes from Strong Bad himself. But it's all yours for just one easy installment of $30.
Easter Eggs
- The CD contains the music video for "These Peoples Try to Fade Me" directed by The Cheat. While video should auto-start in a Windows-based computer, it will not auto-start on a Mac OS-based computer. However, it can be viewed on either system, regardless of whether it starts itself automatically. The name of the CD when it is in the drive is "SUPER_SECRETS".
Fun Facts
Trivia
- In a 2018 panel, Matt Chapman listed this CD as his favorite accomplishment.
Inside References
- The album title uses "type" as a suffix.
- Descriptions mentioning the number of records, CDs, cassettes or 8-track tapes — as well as an expected cost of $193.75 — are references to the marketing patter from the toon Strong Bad Sings.
- "What more do they want??" was previously asked in Malloween Commercial.
- The notes for the vinyl release resemble The Paper.
- "Melodic pretendency" uses a form of the nonsense word "pretendous".
- Strong Bad's "fleshtangle mouth" is mentioned.
- A rare album designated as a "UK Import" was previously seen in Record Store Day.
- The notes refer to the songs as "train-droppers".
- Strong Bad rhetorically asks how he makes Number One Jams with boxing gloves on.
Real-World References
- Special guests "Firehorse" may be a reference to the late '80s metal band FireHouse or '80s-'90s alternative band fIREHOSE.
- Wild's Pizza and Iron Rock Tavern are real companies.
- The "backwards message" mentioned in the inscription makes reference to backmasking, a recording technique where backwards audio is recorded onto a track meant to be played forward. Urban legends held that rock musicians would use backmasking to hide subliminal Satanic messages.
- Audio-Technica designs and manufactures audio equipment such as turntables.
Fast Forward
- The cover design and the illustrations behind the credits have been featured on the Sketchbook, a bonus feature included with strongbad_email.exe Disc Three.
- The Strong Bad Email rock opera also shows Strong Bad with two guitars sticking out of his head.
- The Taranchula album art (seen in the booklet) also appears in montage.
External Links
- Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits CD at the Homestar Runner Store
- Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits streaming on Songwhip
- Strong Bad Sings (and Other Type Hits) vinyl on Fangamer
- Album entry on Wikipedia
- Album entry on Discogs
- Artwork for the vinyl packaging on Lee Petty's ArtStation
