Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me
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| “Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me” | |||||
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| Song by Pearl Jam | |||||
| Album | Vitalogy | ||||
| Released | November 22, 1994 (Vinyl) December 6, 1994 (CD and Cassette) |
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| Recorded | September 1994–October 1994 at Bad Animals Studio, Seattle, Washington | ||||
| Genre | Experimental music | ||||
| Length | 7:44 | ||||
| Label | Epic | ||||
| Writer | Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Jack Irons, Mike McCready, Eddie Vedder | ||||
| Producer | Brendan O'Brien, Pearl Jam | ||||
| Vitalogy track listing | |||||
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"Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me" (also known as "Stupid Mop") is the final track from Pearl Jam's 1994 album Vitalogy. It is the longest track on Vitalogy, clocking in at seven and a half minutes.
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[edit] Origin and recording
The song was recorded after drummer Dave Abbruzzese was fired from the band. The song was recorded with his replacement Jack Irons. It is Irons' only performance on the album. Stone Gossard and Mike McCready do not play on the track at all.
Eddie Vedder on the song:
I had taped something off the tv when I was maybe 17 or something and I think it was people who had mental problems who were being let out of the hospitals early because the states were taking away funding for mental hospitals so they were setting these folks out without the necessary care but it was still very intriguing the way their mind worked and what they would say and we experimented and tried to incorporate it into what to date is our most emotional and moving song.[1]
[edit] Composition
"Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me" is essentially just a lot of distorted feedback, some drumming, and mixed, distorted and looped recordings of real patients from a psychiatric hospital.[1] The song is filled with odd sayings and rants, with the final remarks being another person asking, "Do you ever think that you actually would kill yourself?" The person replies with, "Well, if I have thought about it real, uhh, real deep...yes, I believe I would."
[edit] Reception
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic referred to the song as a "chilling sonic collage."[2] Music critic David Browne of Entertainment Weekly called the song "the album's most disturbing cut," and added that it is "seven grueling minutes of guitars and drums lurching behind a string of electronically distorted children's voices."[3] Al Weisel of Rolling Stone called the song a "seven-minute hommage to the Beatles' 'Revolution 9'." He added, "Consisting of tape loops of distressed voices over banshee guitar howls, the song begs the question, 'Is anyone still listening out there?'"[4]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Vedder, Eddie. "Pearl Jam's First Online Chat at Lycos". Lycos.com. May 15, 2000.
- ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Vitalogy review. All Music Guide. Retrieved on April 29, 2007
- ^ Browne, David. "Change in the Vedder". Entertainment Weekly. December 9, 1994.
- ^ Weisel, Al. Vitalogy review. Rolling Stone. December 15, 1994. Retrieved on March 1, 2008.
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