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{{quote|''"I got bored when I didn't have a band, so I started a band, man. We're gonna start it with a positive jam."''|'''Craig Finn'''}}

{{quote|''Your songs are known for their kind of narrative arc, they're stories, you have characters who recur, you're telling these stories about Minnesotans...You realize that you've become a kind of younger, hipper [[A Prairie Home Companion|Garrison Keillor]], don't you?"|'''Peter Sagal''', ''[[Wait Wait Don't Tell Me ~~(Radio)~~|Wait Wait Don't Tell Me]]'' }}

{{quote|''Your songs are known for their kind of narrative arc, they're stories, you have characters who recur, you're telling these stories about Minnesotans...You realize that you've become a kind of younger, hipper [[A Prairie Home Companion|Garrison Keillor]], don't you?"|'''Peter Sagal''', ''[[Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!|Wait Wait Don't Tell Me]]'' }}

A highly-acclaimed 21st-century bar-rock band, known for the complex and intertextual lyrical mythology woven throughout their albums, following the adventures of an (occasionally) apostate streetrat, a quasi-Rastafari delinquent, and a ne'er-do-well pimp, through the eyes of various narrators, mostly extreme hedonists, and built over old-school epic riffs.

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{{quote| "I guess I heard about original sin, I heard the dude blamed the chick, I heard the chick blamed the snake. I heard they were naked when they got busted, and I heard things ain't been the same since."}}

* [[Rockstar Song]]: "Rock Problems."

* [[Shout Out]]: Lots. Referencing poets, books, old and current bands, and lines and characters from their own songs and others', often in the same song, is standard.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Lots. Referencing poets, books, old and current bands, and lines and characters from their own songs and others', often in the same song, is standard.

* [[The Song Before the Storm]] - "Joke About Jamaica" is a soft, nostalgic ballad just before the climactic "Slapped Actress."

* [[Title Drop]]: "And I got bored when I didn't have a band/So I started a band, man/We're gonna start it with a positive jam/Hold Steady"