Audio Cassette review:
They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants

Band: They Might Be Giants Title: They Might Be Giants Rating: Release Date: 01 July, 1993 Media: Audio Cassette Tracks: 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 - Eugene Chadbourne, They Might Be Giants 15: Chess Piece Face 16: I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die 17: Alienation's for the Rich 18: Day 19: Rhythm Section Want Ad

Editoral Review Songs like "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head" and the New-Wavish tributary "Youth Culture Killed My Dog," are sung with an Andy Kaufman-like sensibility that leaves one questioning their sincerity. The self-titled debut from alternative music's favorite dork-rockers launched a career based on absurd lyrics planted in wildly diverse musical garden. In contrast, the tune "Don't Let's Start" is relatively sweet and earnest. Musically, TMBG stray from the country honker "Number Three" to the glam-rocker "(She Was a) Hotel Detective," adapting accordion, fuzz-boxed guitar, and electric piano to suit their purposes. Perhaps the most subversive mockery of all is how TMBG write extremely catchy melodies that "serious" musicians would love to claim as their own. "His shoes are laced with irony" goes a line from "Hide Away Folk Family. " That pretty much ties it up. --Beth Massa .. You can see a complete list of all They Might Be Giants discography, or go back to the They Might Be Giants tabs