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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 released The Else digitally via iTunes more than a month before it was issued on CD. Pairing the Dust Brothers' sonic invention with John Linnell and John Flansburgh's winning ways with words and melodies should be a dream collaboration; after all, the producers' work with Beck was just as witty and...
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Initial Pressings Includes "Cast Your Pod To The Wind" Bonus Disc.They Might Be Giants: Dan Solder Miller (guitar); John Flansburgh (guitars); John Linnell (keyboards); Danny Weinkauf (bass guitar); Marty Beller (drums).Additional personnel: Sharon Jones (vocals); Lyle Workman (guitar); Stan Harrison (saxophone); Jim O'Connor (trumpet); Dan Levine (trombone); Justin Meldal-Johnsen (acoustic bass); Mauro Refosco (percussion).Producers: They Might Be Giants; The Dust Brothers; Pat Dillett.Engineers...
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Combining a knack for infectious melodies with a quirky, bizarre sense of humor and a vaguely avant-garde aesthetic borrowed from the New York post-punk underground, They Might Be Giants became one of the most unlikely alternative success stories of the late '80s and early '90s. Musically, the duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell borrowed from everywhere, but their freewheeling eclecticism was enhanced by their arcane, geeky sense of humor. They would reference everything from British Invasion...
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THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS The Else (2007 Australian limited edition 2-disc set, comprised of 13-track CD album - the strongest record offered by TMBG since 'Apollo 18', and possibly their best ever full-length as a 5-piece band, produced by The Dust Brothers [production masterminds behind The Beastie Boys' 'Paul's Boutique' & Beck's 'Odelay!'], plus bonus 23-track CD containing previously unreleased recordings!).
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THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS The Else (2008 Japanese 13-track CD album, the strongest record offered by TMBG since 'Apollo 18', and possibly their best ever full-length as a 5-piece band, produced by The Dust Brothers [production masterminds behind The Beastie Boys' 'Paul's Boutique' & Beck's 'Odelay!'], scheduled to include bonus material, picture sleeve + obi strip, more details to follow...)
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Initial Pressings Includes "Cast Your Pod To The Wind" Bonus Disc.They Might Be Giants: Dan Solder Miller (guitar); John Flansburgh (guitars); John Linnell (keyboards); Danny Weinkauf (bass guitar); Marty Beller (drums).Additional personnel: Sharon Jones (vocals); Lyle Workman (guitar); Stan Harrison (saxophone); Jim O'Connor (trumpet); Dan Levine (trombone); Justin Meldal-Johnsen (acoustic bass); Mauro Refosco (percussion).Producers: They Might Be Giants; The Dust Brothers; Pat Dillett.Engineers...
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Since 1982, a few years before they released their 1987 debut, John Flansburgh and John Linnell have been They Might Be Giants, an independent band named after a 1971 George C. Scott movie who are, to echo their own description of their current collaborators The Dust Brothers, pop musicians unto themselves. Their work provides, in the prescient judgment of The SPIN Alternative Record Guide (1995) "a fabulous example of just how far the concept of punk can stretch." In subsequent years, They Might...
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CDs. They Might Be Giants: Else
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THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS - THE ELSE (LP)
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...
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CDs. They Might Be Giants: Else (+ Bonus Cd)
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Since 1982, a few years before they released their 1987 debut, John Flansburgh and John Linnell have been They Might Be Giants, an independent band named after a 1971 George C. Scott movie who are, to echo their own description of their current collaborators The Dust Brothers, pop musicians unto themselves. Their work provides, in the prescient judgment of The SPIN Alternative Record Guide (1995) "a fabulous example of just how far the concept of punk can stretch." In subsequent years, They Might...
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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 released The Else digitally via iTunes more than a month before it was issued on CD. Pairing the Dust Brothers ' sonic invention with John Linnell and John Flansburgh 's winning ways with words and melodies should be a dream collaboration; after all, the producers' work with Beck was just as witty...
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