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Please Buy My Album (A Song / Medley)

2009-11-04 · song · Hank · 4:00 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Projects · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: self promotion, song or performance

Hank asks viewers to buy his new album This Machine Pwns n00bs, sings a medley of snippets from its 17 tracks, thanks John for liking his work and announces a signed guitar pick with every pre-order.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Sung pitch: please buy my album; 17 tracks; a medley of all of them

  • ★★★ Hank asks viewers to buy his album, saying he really worked on it a lot, that it is done, and that it has 17 tracks, which he will sing as a medley. (playful) — 00:00:00

00:00:22 — SharkEyeJones's poster art; medley of snippets of the album's songs (DFTBA, Hogwarts, anglerfish, mules, squirrel, protons, demolition derby, founding fathers, Edward Cullen, crime shows, Jesus, vegetables, Nerdfighteria Island)

  • ★ Hank says he will also show SharkEyeJones's art, which is on the back of the album poster. — 00:00:22
  • ★★ Hank sings a medley of the album's tracks, including songs about Hogwarts, the anglerfish, a homicidal squirrel, the demolition derby, the founding fathers' fathers, his colitis and Edward Cullen. (playful) — 00:00:22

00:03:19 — Thanks to John; signed guitar pick with every pre-order; other DFTBA.com albums; thanks and sign-off

  • ★★ Hank tells John he has always been proud of him and his creative work, and that it means a lot that John gets what Hank is doing and likes it. — 00:03:19 · John Green
  • ★★★ As a thank-you, every pre-order of This Machine Pwns n00bs will include a signed guitar pick. — 00:03:19
  • ★★★ Hank tells viewers who want a signed pick to buy the album now. — 00:03:19
  • ★★ Hank points DFTBA.com visitors to his first album So Jokes, his live album, and new albums by Molly Lewis and Dr. Noise, both only $6. — 00:03:19 · DFTBA Records
  • ★★ Hank thanks everyone supporting YouTube musicians and says he thinks all Nerdfighters will enjoy the album. (hedged) — 00:03:19 · YouTube, Nerdfighteria

Humor (significant)

  • If fatherhood is the most important job, Hank asks in song, why are great men's own fathers forgotten? — 00:01:29

    “why don't I know who the fathers of the founding fathers are?”

  • A song verse about Hank's bowel trouble opens in clinical language. — 00:01:29

    “I have a complicated relationship with the distal portion of my large intestine”

  • In the medley Hank introduces the topic of one of his songs. — 00:02:18

    “This is a song For all the vegetables that look like penises”

  • A Christmas song notes everyone thinks of Jesus at Christmas but nobody puts him on their gift list. — 00:02:18

    “So Jesus gets nothing for Christmas”

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Mentioned

Central: This Machine Pwns n00bs (album)

Also: People: Bill Martin · Molly Lewis

Projects: DFTBA Records

Works: A Song About an Anglerfish · Demolition Derby (song) · I Know · I'm Not Edward Cullen · I'm So Bad at This · It All Makes Sense at the End · Mules Are So Half-Ass · Protons and Neutrons · So Jokes · Squirrel Attack! · The Fathers of the Founding Fathers · This Isn't Hogwarts · Ulcerative Colitis (song)

Organizations: YouTube

Only in the description or credits: SharkeyeJones

Also centred on This Machine Pwns n00bs (album): Balloon Boy: A Short Song · This Machine Pwns n00bs! · The TOUR DE HANK!!! · Question Tuesday: The Free Money Edition · Crazy Man is Crazy (with SEATTLE INFO!!) · This Machine Pwns n00bs Video LP

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