Reprehensible

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Illustration from the Long Tall Weekend liner notes

song name	Reprehensible
artist	They Might Be Giants
album	Long Tall Weekend, They Got Lost, Music From Malcolm In The Middle (Leaked Soundtrack), TMBG Clock Radio
year	1999
first played	Mar. 21, 1996 (10 known performances)
run time	3:17
sung by	John Flansburgh

From tmbg.com: "A cool song that fell between the cracks. This song features the sound of the Mellotron (actually from a sampler) that was a primitive version of sampling created in the 60s. The "horn section" is actually created by playing a chord on an electronic keyboard, but instead of a piano or organ sound you get the sound of a saxophone, or in this case, the sound of a very old-fashioned, melodramatic, vibrato-laded sax with a tone more from the 40s than from the 60s when it was recorded."
From the Summer 1999 Info Club newsletter: "A swanky ballad with wall to wall horns about the most reprehensible fellow one could imagine. Features a Linnell Clarinet solo."
The recording of this song on Long Tall Weekend was first present on the leaked cassette known as the The Complete Factory Showroom Sessions in 1996.
Appears in the Malcolm In The Middle episodes "Red Dress," "Malcolm Babysits," and "Francis Escapes."

Current Rating

Reprehensible is currently ranked #33 out of 806. (133 wikians have given it an average rating of 9.02)