 Examples include "Frigid Forms Sell You Warmth" (""there's a product line attached to every form of suicide"") from 2000's "Frigid Forms Sell"; "A Quick Trip to the Clinic" (""died of pneumonia that I got on the walk to get my flu shot"") from 2001's "Anaesthetic"; "From Russia With Love" (""everybody loves a good Red Scare"") from 1999's "Changing Caring Humans"; and "Virtual Sex" (""it's not too personal to get personable with the personnel"") from 2005's "Ominosity".The title of the band's six-song EP "Satanic Versus"—including three tracks recorded by Steve Albini—is itself a play on Salman Rushdie's book "Satanic Verses".Milemarker also often employ a satirical or introspective slant toward social issues such as materialism ("Frigid Forms Sell You Warmth", "A Quick Trip to the Clinic", "Shrink To Fit"), technology ("Internet Relay Chat with the Central Intelligence Agency", "Server Error", "Ant Architect", "Virtual Sex"), and women's roles ("Food For Worms"), and have also referenced Orwellian ("New Lexicon") and apocalyptic ("Tundra", "Sun Out") themes.