Mutha Is Half a Word Blind Woman" and "Smell the Sardines", bits she performed on TV later in her career. She also parodies the hit "Winchester Cathedral" in which she explains that a man working at a funeral parlor discovered a cork in a man's butt, taking the cork out only to hear the butt singing the song. The title of the book "Mutha Is Half a Word: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (Black Performance and Cultural Criticism)" is a reference to this album as it stands as a stereotype of modern black female humor. Mutha Is Half a
Thermal and a Quarter Thermal and a Quarter Thermal and a Quarter (TAAQ) is a rock band from Bangalore, India, that describes its music as "Bangalore rock", rooted in a classic rock idiom while Indian in "subtle, inescapable ways". Founded in 1996, TAAQ had released seven studio albums by its 20th anniversary in 2016. In 2001, when Deep Purple played in Bangalore, TAAQ opened the show. The band also opened for Guns N' Roses in 2012. The three members of TAAQ are Bruce Lee Mani (guitar and vocals), Rajeev Rajagopal (drums) and Leslie Charles (bass). By 2016, the albums released by the band included