Perineum Millenium (the in-between years) - Tim Minchin

[MsCunningLinguistic]

Is it weird that this is one of my favorite poems? O.o

[mattdot666]

I wish there was video footage of him playing this

[OisirM]

This... is... amazing. It's here that you truly see that Tim Minchin is not only a musical genius, but an incredibly intelligent man... far more than most people can aspire to be.

[Bright1592]

Did he just mention Freud's psycho-sexual phases? My new hero.

[Kpvker]

I love the whole song in a sort of a Tim Minchin way but from 2:29 it actually sound like chart hit.

[SsorchaSFOX]

genius..just genius :)

[lajollacat]

0 dislikes. Love it.

[treyella]

and he thinks he lacks depth.

silly tim :P

this is very deep and very good



[burkem13]

does anyone else think this is brilliant? It's awfully deep.

[DifferentGirl3]

I can't stop listening to this at the moment.

Probably says a lot about me........

[ben123wright123]

This is amazing. And it's full of T.S. Eliot's poetry. Prufrock mainly but there's a wee bit of The Hollow Men to end it.

I love it. It's probably the most intelligent comedy song i've ever heard.

[ScoochNWilly]

I'm glad no one that has come across this has disliked it

[ManGod3310]

oh god ..... it is just so powerful

[KitsuneMiru]

X3 the cats referance made me giggle. XD

[Gesmehod]

It's hard to tell how parodic this song really is. Classic Tim Minchin, messing with my head.

[onthewalkoffame]

I got MEGA goosebumps at this. As well as bellyache from laughing.

[8DX]

hahahaha . ;

[adraim69]

I was already eternally grateful to tim for being such a brilliant artist, and now he goes and turns me on to TS Eliot? What a guy!

[dunny201]

Why's this not on youtube!

[hadikchik]

@dunny201 um, it is....

[dunny201]

@hadikchik Ha sorry, I meant iTunes...

[luvveyduvvey]

"Sluts like my wife, and you'd like her too" ;) mas, and lol

[LuvNudge]

some of the lyrics are derived from T.S Eliot's "The Lovesong Of Alfred J. Prufrock" :) i love that poem Tim is great!!! xx

[Meloderyn]

Bloody genius!

[mrman00125]

rude and pubic, rubiks, cubic

[hewerrocks]

His enunciation and vocabulary is amazing! Gotta love him. You rock Tim.

[BlackAshes]

I just love it.

[BigFischLittleFisch]

A lot of it is a rewriting of 'the Love Song of J.Alfed Prufrock', which looks at a man wasting his life, moving through meaningless experiences. Look it up, Tim's done an amazing job using bits of it here =)

[revilo314]

@BigFischLittleFisch

Toooootally, but also there is wasteland in there I think.

[Chrissy62]

More brilliance from Tim. The ultimate man, funny, sexy and has a wickedly sharp mind and wit. And he can also articulate and communicate as well.... Dreamy sigh.....

Just perfect........... :-D

[NozinAroun81]

Hey guys, check out my FaceBook group, Tim Minchin: New Messiah? Especially if your Australian and particularly if you're from Perth.

[siddharthaananda]

epic!

[TheSamBrunt]

This is how the world ends, not with a fullstop but with a colon...

i really dont get this...

someone explain please

[QQEcon1337]

A colon indicates that there is a list, or more to come after it.

So when he says it doesn't end with a fullstop, but a colon.

He means that there is more to come after the world ends, or something along the lines of that.

[Arachapooch]

This is also a poke at Freudian psycology, where it is said an infant goes through various phases of life: a genital, perrenial, oral, and anal phase. A colon is part of the anus, and one of the last phases of life, soooo... yeah

[subgay]

@Arachapooch How do you have the main idea right and have the rest completely wrong? Yes, part of this song is a poke at Freud's model of psychosexual development but the colon is part of the large intestine and the anus is just the exterior opening to the rectum (also part of the large intestine) also Freud's model of psychosexual development starts at birth and the last phase starts at puberty with the order being 1. oral 2. anal 3. phallic 4. latency and lastly 5. genital.

[magpye1983]

also, as he was tlking about body parts, testes and perineum and anus, the colon is another name for a part of the intestine.

so as a lot of his songs do, it has double meaning.

[bidders2]

its funny..... thats all you need to know :P

[bobwaites]

Tim Minchin is incredible, and this is one of my new favorites of his.

[pl7751]

lmao!

[revilo314]

This is a deep song.

Deep.

[AmyFreakshow]

This sounds similar to his Donnie Darko song.

[xanderdune]

It really doesn't. It has a similar vocal rhythm in parts, because it's not really a song, more a beat poem. Donnie Darko used the backing from the Gary Jules version of Mad World, which doesn't sound like this.

[fishnbunny]

love it, This is the way the world ends, not with a fullstop but with colon : hehe

[Smok0]

Only you can answer that question.

[PureZOOKS]

@Smok0 and his head began to whither, the drawstrings around his hoodie draw tighter and he crawled on the floor, he turned into a ball and simply rolled away.

[reznor12]

@PureZOOKS thars bill bailey right?

[PureZOOKS]

@reznor12 that's the fella. ;)

[revilo314]

It's a spoof of T S elliot's The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock and with some references to The Wasteland as well.

[xanderdune]

Also the hollow men, there's mention of Dante Algheri's The Divine Comedy, there's all sorts in there... This is genius =)

[RandomnessUK]

@AhaSeriously It's meant to be a tongue-in-cheek nod to Beatnik Poetry and experimental Jazz nonsense

[ViewtoForever]

@AhaSeriously The perineum is the area...or whatever the hell you'd call it...between the crotch and the ass - between, as Tim is connecting, the anal and genital stage that Freud wrote about....More specific questions work great. :D

[petkol]

@AhaSeriously The test of parenting.

[GingerBitsXXXX]

@AhaSeriously

Foolish uneducated one. Try becoming familiar with the works of poet T.S. Eliot. In particular, 'The Hollow Men', 'Rhapsody on a windy night' , 'Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock' and 'Cats' (the musical). Then perhaps one day you will return and listen to this pure genius once again and fully appreciate the humour and perfection of this song.

[pennydreadful666]

I hated Freud (as a person more than his body of work) when we studied him in Psychology - 'golden Siggy' - *growls* - so this is highly enjoyable in that respect, as well as the way it goes a bit Rage Against The Machine towards the end :D

[TornLoveNotes]

I've been looking for this EVERYWHERE since my sister broke my CD.

THANK YOU.

X

[QuixoticTendencies]

If you haven't gotten another copy yet, here's a link to a place you can download the whole cd.

megaupload . com/?d=f5u421hn

(take out the spaces of course)

[hippie00chick]

i ♥ tim = ] absolute genius . . .

[ylleksehguh]

wow i love how discordious this is! =D

[emiiliiee369]

what you should do is post it on video response on lots of videos then other people will find it and will get to experience the amazement of it :)

xoxo

[Smok0]

No I shouldn't. Spam is bad.

[emiiliiee369]

no no no thats not what i meant :)

i meant you can post responses on videos, all you do is click 'post a video response' (underneith the video) and post this one??

do get what i mean, sorry i'm not very good at explaining things lol :)

xoxo

[Smok0]

I know what you mean. Responses are for when you're responding to something, which isn't what I'd be doing.

I know it probably wouldn't bother anyone, but I just can't bring myself to do it.

[emiiliiee369]

lol okayy :)

welll at least you got what i meant :)

xoxo

[AttemptingReason]

I can see why it took so long for me to find this one (and why it only has 964 views). I think the intricacies of Freudian psychology are a little too obscure to form the basis of a popular song. I am just eating up anything by Tim Minchin right now, though, so I'm glad I found it.

[emiiliiee369]

aha this is of upmost amazement :)

not front bum nor back bum lol :)

xoxo

[kissk1sz]

ilove it :)

tim is amaze

x

[HappyGoLuckyBaby1]

its sooo clever how he manages to tie Sigmund Freud's pyschosexual stages with the Perineum Millenium he had previously mentioned! i love his songs and poems cause they are so we thought out

[booshbitchdcjm]

wow :)

this is great, he should have done this life on his tour.