Audio CD review:
They Might Be Giants - Why Does the Sun Shine?

They Might Be Giants - Why Does the Sun Shine?

Band: They Might Be Giants Title: Why Does the Sun Shine? Rating: Release Date: 14 September, 1993 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas) 2: Jessica 3: Whirlpool 4: Spy

Editoral Review It's backed up by well-intentioned but fairly pointless covers of the Allman Brothers' archetypal Southern-rock instrumental "Jessica" and the Meat Puppets' "Whirlpool" (arranged around twin saxes), and an original called "Spy" that the band claims is its "homage to secret agent themes and free improvisation," but has more to do with the onstage mayhem it provides, with John Linnell "conducting" the whole band in single-note blasts. Learned from a 1959 children's educational record, the title track of the four-song Why Does The Sun Shine? is a little science lesson that's (literally) textbook TMBG--half ridiculously geeky, half ridiculously tuneful, and a longtime favorite of their live sets in a much more rocked-up version. --Douglas Wolk .. You can see a complete list of all They Might Be Giants discography, or go back to the They Might Be Giants tabs