I laugh every time I hear this song

I have heard this song twice, and it's friggin' hilarious. It makes no sense. And what the hell is with the super deep voice every so often? Who put Whitey in the White House? You did baby. Knock it off Crash Test Dummies, you weird loons!

mezmerizing

strangely haunting music and chorus overlaid with restrained vocals -- in call and answer, a liturgy of sorts. I am compelled to listen and re-listen to "Keep a Lid on Things," not so much for its immedialte pleasure (although it is a very seductive work), but rather, because it remains oddly present in my mind. I keep returning to the pauses between call and response... between one line and the next: a poignancy unmatched by earlier works by CTD. In the final line, an ironic twist, the song becomes political and the meaning is transformed (again): "who put the whitey in the white house?/you did baby..." This song is multivalent -- open to numerious and sundry meanings -- the projections from the listener's mind. After listening to this song for 6 months, I continue to find it refreshingly unique... fascinating... pregnant...

Wierd

I'm a NY Rocker and this song appeals to even me! It's a sick song