They Might Be Giants - The Else
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Artist: They Might Be GiantsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-07-10
Music Label: Idlewild/Zoe Records
Soundtracks:
- I'm Impressed
- Take Out the Trash
- Upside Down Frown
- Climbing the Walls
- Careful What You Pack
- The Cap'M
- With the Dark
- The Shadow Government
- Bee of the Bird of the Month
- Withered Hope
- Countrecoup
- Feign Amnesia
- The Mesopotamians
Music reviews of The Else
Music Review: Alternative music on another level.
Rating: 5 Stars
They Might be Giants' album, The Else, is an album that won't disappoint. This CD offers 13 tracks that are unique and different as far as beats and lyrics. Like all albums, you will find a love for some songs more than others. However, the great thing about this album is that everyone will have different favorites. My favorites from this album would be "Careful What You Pack" because of its subtle calming beginning and the way the lyrics are catchy, but not to the point where it stuck in your head for so long it gets very annoying. I also love the song "Shadow of Government" because of the way it is more about a real world conflict between having government and not having government versus a song that talks about love, like many mainstream songs do mean. This album comes with songs that mean very different things. For example, "Withered Hope" talks about a very unrealistic, confusing, and funny love triangle. The band reminds me greatly of another band called Of Montreal, who also has music that is somewhat similar to this album. This album isn't for everyone of course. Some people may consider this album's music stupid, but if you are a fan of alternative bands, you will probably really enjoy this album as well. This is definitely not a waste of money.
Description of The Else
Japanese pressing of this full-length comes with three additional bonus tracks, 'Brain Problem Situation', 'We Live In A Dump', & 'I'm Your Boyfriend Now'. 3D. 2008.Twenty years after their debut album introduced a well-read duo with a peculiar wit and a gift for contagious melodies, They Might Be Giants--a.k.a. John Linnell and John Flansburgh--still come across as exhilarating and spanking fresh as the theme song to Comedy Central's Daily Show. (Oh yeah, that's them, too.) Fresh off the Giants' second children's record (2005's Here Come the ABCs), the New York twosome began a production alliance with L.A.'s Dust Brothers that resulted in The Else, another collection that ranks with any in their memorable discography. From the fast-tempo opener "I'm Impressed" through the '60s pop edge of "The Mesopotamians," endearing hooks reel you in just far enough for the humorous, often oddball lyrics to bury you. But several times the implications in the lyrics are all too real, such as the love undertones of "Contrecoup" and "Take Out the Trash," an uncannily catchy dump-your-boyfriend song that suggests "Once you get him out, tell him not to come back again." Contradictions like these never bother to disrupt the sequencing, but rather drive home what we already know about They Might Be Giants: they already are. --Scott Holter
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