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Originally Posted by Engine
Yeah, I shouldn't have said "not nearly" - I definitely like Lincoln the most but Flood and the s/t are the other two good ones. Maybe Flood's better than s/t overall but the best songs on s/t are perhaps better than anything that came later. On topic: I know all three by heart too. Don't let's start.
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Well, I don't get around how you get around.
I sort of agree about s/t. It's little uneven—I'm not a fan "Hotel Detective" for example—but at its best it's fantastic. My favorite tracks are probably "She's an Angel", "Absolutely Bill's Mood" and "I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die".
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Originally Posted by bob.
wow.....it's so nice to see so much They Might Be Giants love  ....like both Janszoon and Engine....Flood was a very important record for me when i was young....and i agree that Lincoln is their masterpiece (maybe not masterpiece....but my go to album)....i have been known to make entire rooms of people shut the f uck up just so we can hear "i don't want the world, i just want your half" |
Lincoln is a very close second for me, it's just that I love every song on
Flood while there's one song on
Lincoln that I don't really like ("Santa's Beard"). That said,
Lincoln has some of my absolute favorite TMBG songs—"Ana Ng", "Purple Toupee", "Where Your Eyes Don't Go", "They'll Need a Crane", etc.—and it easily has the best lyrics of any TMBG album. Actually, now that I think of it, TMBG are generally pretty underrated in terms of lyrics. They have a pretty poetic way of expressing the simple and mundane, the opening lines from "Ana Ng" for example:
Make a hole with a gun perpendicular
To the name of this town in a desktop globe
Exit wound in a foreign nation
Showing the home of the one this was written for
My apartment looks upside down from there
Water spirals the wrong way out the sink
And her voice is a backwards record
It's like a whirlpool and it never ends
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Originally Posted by Forward To Death
Their later stuff is pretty awful though. That Malcolm In the Middle song sounds like it was done by blink 182 or some ****. They Might Be Blink-182?
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Yeah, s/t,
Lincoln and
Flood are great (as are most of the B-sides on
Miscellaneous T), and
Apollo 18, John Henry and
Factory Showroom are pretty solid, but after that everything I've heard has been pretty meh. I feel like becoming a full band turned them into lazy songwriters.