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They Might Be Giants

MUSIC

Oddball pop band formed 1982, named after They Might Be Giants (1971).

Official Website:
http://www.tmbg.com/

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
John Flansburgh
Musician
6-May-1960   They Might Be Giants
John Linnell
Musician
12-Jun-1959   They Might Be Giants

DISCOGRAPHY

They Might Be Giants (1986, Bar/None)
1 Everything Right Is Wrong Again
2 Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head
3 Number Three
4 Don't Let's Start
5 Hide Away Folk Family
6 32 Footsteps
7 Toddler Hiway
8 Rabid Child
9 Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes
10 (She Was A) Hotel Detective
11 She's An Angel
12 Youth Culture Killed My Dog
13 Boat Of Car
14 Absolutely Bill's Mood
15 Chess Piece Face
16 I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die
17 Alienation's For The Rich
18 The Day
19 Rhythm Section Want Ad

Lincoln (1988, Bar/None)
1 Ana Ng
2 Cowtown
3 Lie Still, Little Bottle
4 Purple Toupee
5 Cage & Aquarium
6 Where Your Eyes Don't Go
7 Piece of Dirt
8 Mr. Me
9 Pencil Rain
10 World's Address
11 I've Got a Match
12 Santa's Beard
13 You'll Miss Me
14 They'll Need a Crane
15 Shoehorn With Teeth
16 Stand on Your Own Head
17 Snowball in Hell
18 Kiss Me, Son of God

Flood (1990, Elektra)
1 Theme From Flood
2 Birdhouse in Your Soul
3 Lucky Ball & Chain
4 Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (The Four Lads cover)
5 Dead
6 Your Racist Friend
7 Particle Man
8 Twisting
9 We Want A Rock
10 Someone Keeps Moving My Chair
11 Hearing Aid
12 Minimum Wage
13 Letterbox
14 Whistling In The Dark
15 Hot Cha
16 Women & Men
17 Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love
18 They Might Be Giants
19 Road Movie To Berlin

Miscellaneous T (1991, Bar/None)
1 Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal
2 Lady is a Tramp
3 Birds Fly
4 The World's Address (Joshua Fried remix)
5 Nightgown of the Sullen Moon
6 I'll Sink Manhattan
7 It's Not My Birthday
8 Hello, Radio
9 Mr. Klaw
10 Kiss Me, Son of God (Alternate version)
11 The Biggest One
12 For Science
13 untitled
14 (She Was a) Hotel Detective (Single mix)
15 The Famous Polka
16 When It Rains It Snows
17 We're the Replacements
18 Don't Let's Start (Single mix)

Rarities collection.

Apollo 18 (1992, Elektra)
1 Dig My Grave
2 I Palindrome I
3 She's Actual Size
4 My Evil Twin
5 Mammal
6 The Statue Got Me High
7 Spider
8 The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) (compare Solomon Linda's Mbube)
9 Dinner Bell
10 Narrow Your Eyes
11 Hall of Heads
12 Which Describes How You're Feeling
13 See the Constellation
14 If I Wasn't Shy
15 Turn Around
16 Hypnotist of Ladies
17 Fingertips
17a  (Everything is Catching on Fire)
17b  (Fingertips)
17c  (I Hear The Wind Blow)
17d  (Hey Now Everybody Now)
17e  (Who's That Standing Out The Window)
17f  (I Found A New Friend Underneath My Pillow)
17g  (C'mon And Wreck My Car)
17h  (Aren't You The Guy Who Hit Me In The Eye)
17i  (Please Pass The Milk Please)
17j  (Leave Me Alone)
17k  (Who's Knocking On The Walls)
17l  (All Alone All Alone All By Myself)
17m  (What's That Blue Thing Doing Here?)
17n  (Something Grabbed Ahold Of My Hand)
17o  (I Don't Understand You)
17p  (I Heard A Sound)
17q  (Mysterious Whisper)
17r  (The Day That Love Came To Play)
17s  (I'm Havin' A Heart Attack)
17t  (Fingertips)
17u  (I Walk Along Darkened Corridors)
18 Space Suit

John Henry (1994, Elektra)
1 Subliminal
2 Snail Shell
3 Sleeping in the Flowers
4 Unrelated Thing
5 AKA Driver
6 I Should Be Allowed To Think
7 Extra Savoir-Faire
8 Why Must I Be Sad?
9 Spy
10 O, Do Not Forsake Me
11 No One Knows My Plan
12 Dirt Bike
13 Destination Moon
14 A Self Called Nowhere
15 Meet James Ensor
16 Thermostat
17 Window
18 Out of Jail
19 Stomp Box
20 End of the Tour

First album with a live band.

Factory Showroom (1996, Elektra)
1 S-E-X-X-Y
2 Till My Head Falls Off
3 How Can I Sing Like a Girl?
4 Exquisite Dead Guy
5 Metal Detector
6 New York City (cub cover)
7 Your Own Worst Enemy
8 XTC vs. Adam Ant
9 Spiraling Shape
10 James K. Polk
11 Pet Name
12 I Can Hear You
13 The Bells are Ringing

Includes the hidden track "Token Back To Brooklyn", heard by rewinding from the beginning of the album.

Then: The Earlier Years (1997, Restless)
Disc 1 - They Might Be Giants
1 Everything Right Is Wrong Again
2 Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head
3 Number Three
4 Don't Let's Start
5 Hide Away Folk Family
6 32 Footsteps
7 Toddler Hiway
8 Rabid Child
9 Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes
10 (She Was A) Hotel Detective
11 She's An Angel
12 Youth Culture Killed My Dog
13 Boat Of Car
14 Absolutely Bill's Mood
15 Chess Piece Face
16 I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die
17 Alienation's For The Rich
18 The Day
19 Rhythm Section Want Ad
20 We're The Replacements
21 When It Rains It Snows
22 The Famous Polka
23 (untitled)
24 For Science
25 The Biggest One
26 Kiss Me, Son Of God
27 Mr. Klaw
28 Critic Intro
29 Now That I Have Everything
30 Mainstream U.S.A.
31 Fake Out In Buenos Aires
32 Greek #3
33 Hope That I Get Old Before I Die
34 I'm Def
35 Don't Let's Start
36 '85 Radio Special Thank You
Disc 2 - Lincoln
1 Ana Ng
2 Cowtown
3 Lie Still, Little Bottle
4 Purple Toupee
5 Cage & Aquarium
6 Where Your Eyes Don't Go
7 Piece of Dirt
8 Mr. Me
9 Pencil Rain
10 World's Address
11 I've Got a Match
12 Santa's Beard
13 You'll Miss Me
14 They'll Need a Crane
15 Shoehorn With Teeth
16 Stand on Your Own Head
17 Snowball in Hell
18 Kiss Me, Son of God
19 Hello Radio
20 It's Not My Birthday
21 I'll Sink Manhattan
22 Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon
23 The World's Address (Joshua Fried remix)
24 Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had A Deal
25 Lady Is A Tramp
26 Birds Fly
27 Kitten Intro
28 Weep Day
29 The Big Big Whoredom
30 I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You
31 Become A Robot
32 Which Describes How You're Feeling
33 Swing Is A Word
34 Doris Cunningham
35 Counterfeit Fake
36 Particle Man

Collects the band's first two albums, the rarities collection Miscellaneous T, and a score of other songs.

Severe Tire Damage (1998, Restless)
1 Doctor Worm
2 Severe Tire Damage Theme
3 They Got Lost
4 Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas)
5 Birdhouse in Your Soul
6 She's An Angel
7 XTC vs. Adam Ant
8 Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
9 Ana Ng
10 First Kiss
11 Spider
12 Particle Man
13 She's Actual Size
14 S-E-X-X-Y
15 Meet James Ensor
16 Till My Head Falls Off
17 About Me
18 Planet Of The Apes
19 Return From The Planet Of The Apes
20 Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes
21 Escape From The Planet Of The Apes
22 Battle For The Planet Of The Apes
23 Beneath The Planet Of The Apes
24 This Ape's For You

Live album.

Mink Car (2001, Restless)
1 Bangs
2 Cyclops Rock
3 Man, It's So Loud In Here
4 Mr. Xcitement
5 Another First Kiss
6 I've Got A Fang
7 Hovering Sombrero
8 Yeh Yeh (Mongo Santamaria cover)
9 Hopeless Bleak Despair
10 Drink!
11 My Man
12 Older
13 Mink Car
14 Wicked Little Critta
15 Finished With Lies
16 She Thinks She's Edith Head
17 Working Undercover For The Man

No! (2002, Idlewild/Rounder)
1 Fibber Island
2 Four Of Two
3 Robot Parade (Kid Version)
4 No!
5 Where Do They Make Balloons?
6 In The Middle, In The Middle, In The Middle
7 Violin
8 John Lee Supertaster
9 The Edison Museum
10 The House At The Top Of The Tree
11 Clap Your Hands
12 I Am Not Your Broom
13 Wake Up Call
14 I Am A Grocery Bag
15 Lazyhead And Sleepybones
16 Bed, Bed, Bed
17 Sleepwalkers

Children's album.

The Spine (2004, Idlewild/Rounder)
1 Experimental Film
2 Spine
3 Memo to Human Resources
4 Wearing a Raincoat
5 Prevenge
6 Thunderbird
7 Bastard Wants to Hit Me
8 The World Before Later On
9 Museum of Idiots
10 It's Kickin' In
11 Spines
12 Au Contraire
13 Damn Good Times
14 Broke in Two
15 Stalk of Wheat
16 I Can't Hide From My Mind

Here Come The ABCs: Original Songs About The Alphabet (2005, Disney)
1 Here Come the ABCs
2 Alphabet of Nations
3 E Eats Everything
4 Flying V
5 Q U
6 Go for G!
7 Pictures of Pandas Painting
8 D & W
9 Fake-Believe
10 Can You Find It?
11 The Vowel Family
12 Letter/Not a Letter
13 Alphabet Lost and Found
14 I C U
15 Letter Shapes
16 Who Put the Alphabet in Alphabetical Order?
17 Rolling O
18 L M N O
19 C Is for Conifers
20 Fake-Believe (Type B)
21 D Is for Drums
22 Z Y X
23 Goodnight My Friends
24 Clap Your Hands
25 Here in Higglytown (Theme to Playhouse Disney's Higglytown Heroes)

Children's record.

A User's Guide to They Might Be Giants (2005, Rhino)
1 Minimum Wage
2 Meet James Ensor
3 Particle Man
4 Don't Let's Start
5 She's An Angel
6 Cyclops Rock
7 Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
8 Purple Toupee
9 James K. Polk
10 Birdhouse In Your Soul
11 Ana Ng
12 Guitar
13 Bangs
14 Statue Got Me High
15 New York City
16 Doctor Worm
17 Boss of Me
18 Your Racist Friend
19 Why Does the Sun Shine?
20 They'll Need A Crane
21 I Palindrome I
22 Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head
23 John Lee Supertaster
24 Older
25 We're the Replacements
26 Dr. Evil
27 No!
28 Clap Your Hands
29 Spider



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