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They Might Be Giants
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.8326
They Might Be Giants Album Rankings
1
Then: The Earlier Years comprises They Might Be Giants’ first three releases, along with many B-Sides. This review will take on each release by itself.
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2
I was tempted to overrate this album, just to show ’em. In 1994, people who were in love with TMBG’s "vintage" stuff, that is, They Might Be Giants, Lincoln, and Apollo 18, were shocked.
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3
They Might Be Giants' eponymous debut album is a wild fusion of new wave pop and arty post-punk experiments borrowed from the New York underground.
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4
Cutting away some of the artier aspects of their debut, They Might Be Giants craft another wildly eclectic and geekily fun collection of alt-pop withLincoln.
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5
The world of absurdist wit has always numbered musicians among its residents, but no band has gentrified the neighborhood like They Might Be Giants.
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6
On their major-label debut,Flood, They Might Be Giants exchange quirky artiness for unabashed geekiness and a more varied and polished musical attack.
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7
The whole album is as musically stirring and creative as anything TMBG have ever done, and that’s saying a lot.
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8
Several of They Might Be Giants finest songs were buried on B-sides, which makes the rarities compilationMiscellaneous Tsuch a welcome addition to their catalog.
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9
Each song on The Spine is characteristically intelligent, observant, and poppy as all hell
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10
Mink Car will please just about all but the most picky of They Might Be Giants fans.
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11
A User's Guide to They Might Be Giants is the band's fifth retrospective, following Miscellaneous T (1991), Then: The Earlier Years (1997), Best of the Early Years (1999), and Dial-a-Song: 20 Years of
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12
For their twelfth full-length -- and first "rock" album in three years -- They Might Be Giants recruited the Dust Brothers as co-producers, a combination nearly as intriguing as the fact that the duo
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13
On this stopgap EP, the long-running duo proves one more time that it can turn out solid pop-rock melodies rather than just go for laughs.
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17
Back to Skull was released four weeks before John Henry, They Might Be Giants' true full-band debut. Surprising, then, that the tracks on this EP so closely resemble TMBG from years past.
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18
For being the record that introduced fans of They Might Be Giants to the full-band sound/style/lineup, Why Does the Sun Shine? is curiously slight.
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20
I Palindrome I is the second CD maxi-single released to promote They Might Be Giants' 1992 album, Apollo 18. One of their shorter EPs, I Palindrome I features just four tracks.
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21
This 1990 EP features the title track, which helped establish They Might Be Giants, if only temporarily, as legitimate pop stars in the U.S. and the U.K.
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24
Hot on the heels of their Mink Car album and their success with the Malcolm in the Middle theme comes They Might Be Giants' Holidayland EP, which collects the holiday-themed songs that John Linell an
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27
Despite the title, Dial-a-Song is not a collection of highlights from They Might Be Giants' famed Dial-a-Song service (call a toll-free number, get a new song from They Might Be Giants every day), al
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29
Live trims off the fat from Severe Tire Damage and delivers a fine pulp of sweaty, full-band TMBG goodness.
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31
The disco strings and slap bass hits of "S-E-X-X-Y" make the song an unexpected stylistic shift for They Might Be Giants.
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