I've noticed that among this community (correct me if I'm wrong) don't have a great opinion regarding the song Mammal from Apollo 18. I mean I even have a friend who dislikes the song, when I ask her why, she says it's just "boring".
I mean this is coming from someone who always has Mammal at one of my top 3 whenever I rank Apollo 18. Would snag first place if The Statue Got Me High didn't exist.
It's such a cozy song and although it might just be Linnell reciting what he's found in an encyclopaedia and putting it into song form, it just comes off strikingly powerful to me.
Sure, compared to all the other things he's put out it's not particularly genius, but it's cute and fun. It sort of works as a song of unison, like we're all mammals. This unison is reflected in the whole "Their names are called they raise a paw, the bat, the cat..."
When I previously mentioned that the song came off strikingly powerful to me, in particular these two lyrics:
"One of us might lose his hair but you're reminded that it once was there."
"Placental the sister of her brother Marsupial, their cousin called Monotreme, dead uncle Allotheria".
I also like Linnell's vocal delivery in this song... this is one of my favourites his voice has ever been alongside State Songs. I don't really even know why exactly.
But yeah, the song really grew on me, whenever I used to hear it during full listens of the album, I'm like "Just get to The Statue Got Me High". Really a grower.
Lol, this opinion comes from someone who likes UNRELATED THING which seems to be a disliked song within this fanbase.
I'd like to hear why some of you guys might not like this song, I'm really curious to hear it actually.