The Mystery Rabbits is an alternative

Alternative metal

Alternative metal is a genre of alternative rock and heavy metal that gained popularity in the early 1990s. Most notably, alternative metal bands are characterized by heavy guitar riffs and experimental approaches to heavy music.-Origins:...

/funk/metal debut album by the pop group Sack Trick

Sack Trick

Sack Trick are an eccentric British music collective who have been compared to the humour of Monty Python and musical madness of Frank Zappa. The bassist Chris Paulo Dale is the center of the group, guiding the audience through a universe that is more rock circus than rock opera, with a partiality...

. Metal Hammer described it as "Like the funk rock record Frank Zappa and Monty Python never made". The subjects of the songs include tomato sandwiches, camels, ice cream and a "strange cigarette", interwoven with a rhyme called Little Pigs being sung in four different languages. Probably the best known song from the album is I Play Bass, a slap-bass rich confessional from Chris Dale, the band's frontman.

The album's title is likely to have been inspired by (Music From) The Elder by Kiss

KISS (band)

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, which the band covered on their third album, Sheep in Kiss Make Up

Sheep in KISS Make Up

Sheep in KISS Make Up is a 2005 KISS tribute album by Sack Trick. Described as "the most amazingly diverse KISS tribute album you will ever hear", it was released independently by the band after they decided to give up on record companies....

Track listing

1. "Perfect Today" – 3:52
   Chris Dale – Bass, Vocals; Alexander John Wallace Dickson – Guitar, Backing Vocals, Keyboards; Alessandro "Sponder" Elena – Drums
2. "No Tomatoes For Me, Thanks" – 0:50
   Alexander John Wallace Dickson – Vocals, Guitar; Seaweed – Keyboards; Chris Dale – Vocals, Bass; Alessandro "Sponder" Elena – Drums; Vision – The Delicatessen
3. "Maths Teacher's Words of Wisdom" – 3:09
   Dave Hobbs – Cello; Alessandro "Sponder" Elena – Drums, 1st Bavarian; Doogie White – Lead Vocals; Alexander John Wallace Dickson – 2nd Bavarian, Glockenspiel, Moothie, Guitar; Jack Endino – Rock Icon; Chris Dale – 3rd Bavarian, Bass; Big Blue Parrot (Courtesy of London Zoo) – Intro Vocals; Class 4b of Berenger Sauniere Primary – Chorus Vocals
4. "Klein Schwien" – 0:34
5. "Robin's Good News" – 1:29
   Starring Robin Guy as Himself; Alexander John Wallace Dickson – Samples, Loops, Keyboards, Vocals; Alessandro "Sponder" Elena – Backing Vocals; Chris Dale – Backing Vocals, Bass
6. "Hiring Camels" – 3:15
   Chris Dale – Bass, Keyboards, Vocals; Alessandro "Sponder" Elena – Guitar Solo, Drums; Alexander John Wallace Dickson – Backing Vocals, Guitar, Theramin
7. "Maialino" – 0:35
8. "I Play Bass" – 3:35
   Chris Dale – Bass, Vocals, Intro Guitar; Alessandro "Sponder" Elena – Drums, Outro Bass, Middle 8 Vocals; Pete Friesen – Guitar Solo; Alexander John Wallace Dickson – Theramin, Guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
9. "Lilla Grys" – 0:35
10. "Shoelaces" – 5:52
11. "The Turd That Just Wouldn't Flush" – 3:51
12. "Alcoholic Bulimia" – 2:35
13. "Puerquito" – 0:33
14. "Blue Ice Cream" – 5:30
15. "Mabel" (Bonus Track)

Songs

• "Perfect Today" is a funk
  Funk
  Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
  
   metal song that appears to be about hallucinating
  Hallucination
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   after smoking cannabis
  Cannabis
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• "No Tomatoes For Me, Thanks" is a song about, as the title (and chorus) suggests, not wanting tomatoes in your sandwiches.
• "Maths Teacher's Words of Wisdom" is about a boy being in awe of his maths teacher's seemingly senseless advice. The lyrics feature clever and amusing puns on several traditional sayings, such as, "Never put all your eggs in one basket" as "Never put both legs in one basket" and "Out of sight is out of mind" as "Out of sight is often behind". The chorus features an entire class of primary school children singing "Our Maths Teacher Speaks Words of Wisdom" in between Doogie White's vocals. The second half of the song is instrumental, and includes pieces being played on a mouth organ and a cello.
• "Robin's Good News" is based around an answer phone message that Robin Guy leaves for one of the band members after playing drums for Faith No More
  Faith No More
  Faith No More is an American rock band from San Francisco, California, formed originally as Faith No Man in 1981 by bassist Billy Gould, keyboardist Wade Worthington, vocalist Michael Morris and drummer Mike Bordin. A year later when Worthington was replaced by keyboardist Roddy Bottum, and Mike...
  
   on Top of the Pops
  Top of the Pops
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  . The message is sampled and looped, with added instruments.
• "Hiring Camels" is about not being able to go to Egypt, so instead suggesting various ways to make "Egypt come to us", including hiring a camel, growing your own palm trees, and building your own pyramid.
• "I Play Bass" is about Chris Dale, the band's frontman and bassist, playing bass. The song features several bass playing techniques. The main verse riff uses slapping and popping, the verse uses finger picking, and the bass solo features hammering and tapping. The distored outro is played on bass by Sponder, the band's drummer. This song was also re-recorded with additional lyrics for Chris Dale's side project I Play Rock.