"Message to Harry Manback" features calming new-age music and the background noises of seagulls while a profanity-laden message from an answering machine plays. The person who leaves the message is reportedly an uninvited Italian house guest of Keenan's; the guest consumed much of the available food supply and ran up the phone bill. Upon being evicted, the guest left a message for "Harry Manback", a pseudonym for Keenan's friend, and launched into a diatribe against him, forming the basis of the message. There was a follow up message that the guest left on the answering machine which became "Message to Harry Manback II", found on "Salival" which features strings instead of piano.