A User’s Guide to They Might Be Giants

Tracklist

• 1
  Minimum Wage
  0:46
  3.5 ★
• 2
  Meet James Ensor
  1:33
  4.1 ★
• 3
  Particle Man
  1:58
  4.2 ★
• 4
  Don’t Let’s Start
  2:36
  3.8 ★
• 5
  She’s an Angel
  2:36
  3.5 ★
• 6
  Cyclops Rock
  2:42
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
  2:35
  4.5 ★
• 8
  Purple Toupee
  2:38
  3.8 ★
• 9
  James K. Polk
  3:05
  4.5 ★
• 10
  Birdhouse in Your Soul
  3:19
  4.6 ★
• 11
  Ana Ng
  3:21
  4.3 ★
• 12
  The Guitar
  3:51
  3.5 ★
• 13
  Bangs
  3:14
  3.5 ★
• 14
  The Statue Got Me High
  3:06
  3.6 ★
• 15
  New York City
  3:04
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Doctor Worm
  3:02
  3.5 ★
• 17
  Boss of Me
  2:59
  3.4 ★
• 18
  Your Racist Friend
  2:55
  3.7 ★
• 19
  Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)
  2:54
  4.2 ★
• 20
  They’ll Need a Crane
  2:31
  4.5 ★
• 21
  I Palindrome I
  2:21
  3.8 ★
• 22
  Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head
  2:10
  3.6 ★
• 23
  John Lee Supertaster
  2:00
  4.0 ★
• 24
  Older
  1:54
  4.2 ★
• 25
  We’re the Replacements
  1:50
  3.5 ★
• 26
  Dr. Evil
  1:51
  4.0 ★
• 27
  No!
  1:29
  3.5 ★
• 28
  Clap Your Hands
  1:22
  4.2 ★
• 29
  Spider
  0:51
  3.2 ★

More by They Might Be Giants

Flood

Flood 1990

Lincoln

Lincoln 1988

I Like Fun

I Like Fun 2018

Phone Power

Phone Power 2016

Why?

Why? 2015

Glean

Glean 2015

Release credits

• Al Houghton
  engineer [4-5, 8, 11, 20, 22]
• Alan Bezozi
  snare drum [3], tambourine [3]
• Alan Winstanley
  mix [12, 14, 21, 29], producer [7, 10, 18]
• Albert Caiati
  mix [23, 27-28], recording [23, 27-28]
• Alex Noyes
  engineer [4-5, 22]
• Amanda Bowers
  design
• Barbara Glauber
  art direction, design
• Bill Inglot
  re
• Bill Krauss
  engineer [4-5, 22], producer [4-5, 8, 11, 20, 22]
• Bob Clearmountain
  mix [17]
• Brian Doherty
  glockenspiel [19], membranophone [9]
• Brian Pollack
  assistant [12, 14, 21, 29]
• Bruce Calder
  assistant [12, 14, 21, 29]
• Charlie Sepulveda
  trumpet [7, 18]
• Clive Langer
  producer [7, 10, 18]
• Cosmo Heidtman
  engineer [23, 27-28]
• Dan Hersch
  re
• Dan Hickey
  drums (drum set) [17, 24]
• Dan Levine
  trombone [17, 23]
• Dan Miller
  electric guitar [24], guitar [17, 24]
• Danny Weinkauf
  bass [17, 24]
• Ed Thacker
  mix [2], recording [2]
• Edward Douglas
  engineer [12, 14, 21, 29]
• Eric Schermerhorn
  electric guitar [9]
• Frank London
  guest [12], trumpet [10, 12]
• Gary Stewart
  producer
• Graham Maby
  bass [19], electric bass guitar [9]
• Jason Spittle
  engineer [23, 27-28]
• Jeffrey Lai
  design
• Jim O'Connor
  trumpet [17, 23]
• John Flansburgh
  acoustic guitar [9], electric bass guitar [4, 22], electric guitar [4-5, 10-11, 19, 24], guitar [17, 24], lead vocals [19, 22], vocal [17, 24]
• John Linnell
  accordion [5, 9, 11, 19, 22], autoharp [11], background vocals [10-11], bass synthesizer [5], keyboard [4, 10, 17, 22, 24], lead vocals [4-5, 8, 10-11, 20], vocal [9, 17, 19, 24]
• Julian Koster
  musical saw [9]
• Laura Cantrell
  guest [12]
• Lisa Klapp
  spoken vocals [11]
• Mark Boyer
  executive [4-5, 22]
• Mark Feldman
  violin [7, 10]
• Mark Leviton
  producer
• Matthew Hill
  executive [4-5, 22]
• Patrick Dillett
  engineer [28], mix [19, 28], producer [9, 17, 24, 28]
• Paul Angelli
  additional [1, 3], engineer [7], recording [12, 14, 21, 29]
• Paul Fox
  producer [2]
• Robin Goldwasser
  vocal [26]
• Roger Moutenot
  engineer [7], mix [1, 3, 7, 10], other instruments [1], recording [1, 3, 10]
• Stan Wright
  engineer [23, 27-28]
• Steve Woolard
  liner notes
• They Might Be Giants
  performer [4-5, 22], producer [1-3, 12, 14, 17, 21, 23-24, 27-29]
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Issues

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  A User’s Guide to They Might Be Giants

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  3 May 2005