Song: Craigslist
Running Time: 4:53
Year: 2009
Album: Alpocalypse, Internet Leaks
Style Parody of: The Doors (The intro guitar and organ riffs are similar to "Soul Kitchen" and "When the Music's Over", while the verses sound like "Twentieth Century Fox" and "Hello, I Love You". And, there are discrete sections in the guitar solo similar to "When the Music's Over", "The End" and "Light My Fire".[4] And the "snotty barista" section is a softer parody of the Oedipus complex from "The End".)
Genre: Psychedelic rock
Guitar tuning: E standard
Lyrics: Lyrics
Video: Yes
Download/Listen: Amazon.com ($1.29), Shockhound.com ($1.29)
Forum: Forum Discussion Page
Alternate Versions: Craigslist (LSD Version), You're All a Bunch of Slaves (Instrumental)
Trivia[]
- Craigslist is a centralized network of online communities, featuring free online classified advertisements – with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, services, community, gigs, résumés, and discussion forums. Read more here.
- In this song, Al describes his various interactions with the site, including meeting a "blonde half-Asian with a bad case of gas" in the site's Missed Connections category.
- Al mentions many things that people try to get rid of on Craigslist, such as a 1965 Chevy Malibu, a slightly-used sombrero, a wheelbarrow, a stapler, and a trash can full of styrofoam peanuts.
- Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek was brought on board to recreate the music style for the song.
- When performing the song live, bassist Steve Jay will stand next to the keyboardist and play the bass part on one of the keyboards. This is a parody of the Doors' live shows, in which they played without a bassist (keyboardist Ray Manzarek would play all songs' bass lines on a Fender piano bass).
- This song is the second song about an online shopping site, the first being eBay.