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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is the fourth book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy "trilogy of six books" written by Douglas Adams.Its title is the message left by the dolphins when they departed Planet Earth just before it was demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, as described in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
The song's name comes from the name of the fourth book in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, though the song's lyrics touches more on the subject of the deaths of celebrities. [3]
A fourth song, "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", was premiered on BBC Radio 1 a week prior to the album's release. [66] A limited-edition box set of the album was also released, featuring an album-length holographic film shot by Steven Sebring. This inclusion led the band to bill Eat the Elephant as the "world's first hologram album". [67]
The phrase was spoofed for the 1997 NOFX album So Long, and Thanks for All the Shoes. [citation needed] The phrase was also spoofed for the All Time Low track "So Long, and Thanks for All the Booze", from the appropriately-titled album Don't Panic. [citation needed]
So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes is the seventh studio album by the American punk rock band NOFX. It was released through Epitaph Records October 21, 1997, in the United States, and November 4, 1997, in Europe.
In the novel So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Arthur Dent and Fenchurch attempt to get to know each other in a grim public house near Taunton railway station, their conversation is somewhat thwarted by a woman selling raffle tickets "for Anjie who's retiring". The numbers on both the front and back of the cloakroom ticket prove highly ...
The song's sound has been described as "atmospheric", [15] [6] "cinematic", [6] and "ethereal".[15] [8] The first half of the song is as a piano ballad with contemplative vocals by Keenan, with a slow and steady beat, while the latter half was described as evolving into something grander without losing its sense of melancholy, giving the song a sombre sounding intro, and a more hopeful ...
"So long, and thanks for all the fish!" ... ---Lyrics to an advertising jingle of American snack crackers Goldfish. More selected quotes. July 2007