The Man From '84

The Man From '84 is the seventh album by Every Ape and His Brother, and features the seventh singular character in line at the imaginary red carpet meeting where "every ape and his brother is going to be there!" was proposed in late 2021, and officially initiated on June 14th 2022.

History
This album was designated in late 2021, as a way to have an album dedicated to parodies of 80s and 90s classics. This is inspired by the strong following of 80s music prevalent in central Florida in the 2020s, where retirees won't let the 80s die. Two songs were added in 2021, with room for more to be added as inspiration allowed. On March 16th of 2023, this was followed by "Whitmer Damned Michigan," a scathing criticism of the Whitmer administration done to the tune of "God Blessed Texas" by the band Little Texas.

Story
A mysterious "man" pops out of someone's TV set one day, amidst white noise static. He appears to be from a different era. He is allegedly the embodiment of every evil spirit that wants to enslave body, mind, and soul of an individual to some faceless state entity. The album cover shows this villain popping out of a television screen, his face covered in one word: "OBEY!" He appears to be trying to grab the viewer into his clutches, to force you to "get with the program."

Theme
While the album keeps to this theme of condemning statism, much like its predecessor The Sent-In Clowns did, and the " '84" is very much a reference to Orwell's 1984, it also references the popular Apple ad about a similar theme. It furthermore emphasizes that the parodies in this album intend to focus on 80s rock classics, which are accused of brainwashing the masses into a stasis of 1980s values, and of being unable to move on.

Crossovers
While in its infancy, this album does manage to discuss various theories about Hell, and compare them with Bible verses on the same topic. It also contains the song "Satan Elmo's Fire (Muppets From Hell)," which is a brutal parody of Sesame Street that borrows ideas from The Banana Splits Movie and Willy's Wonderland. Other lines in that song reference similar themes in previous Every Ape songs, namely "Lower!!!" and "They'll Claw You Open," off the album Morbid! The Horrendous Hobo!!! from 2006.