Trivia
The short track "College" with its line "You don't have to go to college" has often been mistaken as a political statement. "I just threw that line in there to make it funny and to be anti Beach Boys cause the song is so Beach Boys to begin with. You know it's like the anti...'Be True to Your School' mentality of the fifties," Dave Portner (aka Avey Tare) explained on the Collected Animals message board."The response to that song has been amazing. People at gigs scream for us to play it, and we get emails from kids asking for advice", Portner said in an Interview in 2005.
The song "Visiting Friends" was influenced by Kompakt’s Pop Ambient compilations and Wolfgang Voigt’s project Gas. It was meant to be "like a wall of hums, but with acoustic guitars."
Recalling the recordings of the album's single "Who Could Win a Rabbit," Portner wrote on the Collected Animals Board: "The first time we played back who could win a rabbit after we recorded the initial tracks we just cracked up and said 'holy shit, we made that????....' "
The song "Winter's Love" was featured in The Simpsons episode "A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again."
The song "Winter's Love" can be heard in a flash video by David Firth called "The Child That Smelt Funny."
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