They Might Be Giants - The Spine
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Artist: They Might Be GiantsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-07-13
Music Label: Zoe Records
Soundtracks:
- Experimental Film
- Spine
- Memo to Human Resources
- Wearing a Raincoat
- Prevenge
- Thunderbird
- Bastard Wants to Hit Me
- The World Before Later On
- Museum of Idiots
- It's Kickin' In
- Spines
- Au Contraire
- Damn Good Times
- Broke in Two
- Stalk of Wheat
- I Can't Hide from My Mind
Music reviews of The Spine
Music Review: A spine that grows on you
Rating: 5 Stars
I have been a longtime fan of TMBG, since the "Flood" days, and I've seen the Johns in concert more than any other band. A curmudgeonly older fan, as another reviewer put it. After I bought "The Spine," I listened to it a couple of times, and put it back on the shelf. I just didn't care for it. I did the same thing with "Mink Car." Then, after a year or so, I picked it up again, and discovered that I really loved it - just like I did with "Mink Car." As with all of TMBG's albums, the songs are distinctively and uniquely TMBG's, but manage to be fresh and new at the same time. If you like TMBG, buy this album. If you're new to the band, you might start with "Flood" to see what all the fuss is about. Or just buy this - if you like good music with some quirkiness and intelligence, you will like this.
Description of The Spine
With their unique blend of catchy melodies and inscrutable lyrics, They Might Be Giants have lived a twenty-year frenzy of creative output, selling over three million albums and winning a Grammy in the process. The Spine is TMBG's new release, and has been heralded as their most rocking album ever.If ever they gave out Grammys for mule-minded consistency, then Sting would have a lot more awards in his villa. But coming in a close second would be They Might Be Giants. Keyboard player John Linnell and guitarist John Flansburgh have a sense of focus that would put even the Ramones to shame. From the Brooklyn duo's first demo tape in 1985 up to its frenzied latest, The Spine, the same ingredients remain at the fore: effortlessly catchy choruses, songs that smear the line between novelty and being novel (new ones include ""Memo to Human Resources" and "Museum of Idiots"), and musical backing that sounds like a cross between a polka party and someone throwing silverware down the stairs. It's a quirky approach that's not going to easily win over any new converts but the will certainly drive the dedicated legion of old ones to smile with familiar-yet-fresh material like "Experimental Film" and "Au Contraire." --Aidin Vaziri
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