They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants Album: “Mink Car [Japan Bonus Tracks]”

Album Information :

Title:

Mink Car [Japan Bonus Tracks]

Release Date:2002-06-04

Type:Unknown

Genre:Rock, Comedy, Indie Rock

Label:Restless

Explicit Lyrics:Yes

UPC:4988112413337

Track Listing :
1	Bangs
2	Cyclops Rock
3	Man, It's So Loud in Here
4	Mr. Xcitement They Might Be Giants and Mike Doughty
5	Another First Kiss
6	I've Got a Fang
7	Hovering Sombrero
8	Yeh Yeh
9	Hopeless Bleak Despair
10	Drink! Video
11	My Man
12	Older Video
13	Mink Car
14	Wicked Little Critta
15	Finished With Lies
16	(She Thinks She's) Edith Head
17	Working Undercover for the Man
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19
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21

Review - :

Perhaps it's no surprise that following 1996's {^Factory Showroom}, {$They Might Be Giants} began a prolonged recording absence, releasing only the Internet-only album {^Long Tall Weekend} in 1999. {^Factory Showroom} suggested that the band had backed themselves into a corner, as the humor of their early records had waned and even the band's trademark hooks were confined to a few tracks. {^Mink Car}, however, symbolizes a radical shift in direction -- backward -- into some of the same stylistic territory covered on their landmark 1990 album, {^Flood}. Nowhere is this shift more evident than in the choice of {^Flood} producers {$Clive Langer} and {$Alan Winstanley} on several cuts, particularly the {^Flood} sound-alike {&"Bangs."} {^Mink Car} is far from a retread, however, as the band takes lessons that they've learned since 1990 -- like that they sound really, really good when they play with a full band -- and incorporates them into that classic sound. That means that {^Mink Car} is in many ways the beginning of a new part of {$They Might Be Giants}' career. Much like on {^Factory Showroom}, the band does recycle a few cuts, including {&"Older"} and {&"She Thinks She's Edith Head"} from {^Long Tall Weekend} and the non-LP single {&"Working Undercover for the Man"} for the disc. But of the cuts, there's a healthy mixture of old-school {$TMBG} humor in strange, short songs like {&"I've Got a Fang"} and {&"Wicked Little Critta,"} and fairly straightforward {\pop/rock} like {&"Another First Kiss."} That track and the mock-{\Euro-disco}-based first single, {&"Man, It's So Loud in Here,"} both sport the trademark radio-ready production of {$Fountains of Wayne}'s {$Adam Schlesinger}, who pops up in one of many cameo spots on the album. Former {$Soul Coughing} vocalist {$M. Doughty} also stops by to sing on a track, and {$Catatonia} frontwoman {$Cerys Matthews} screams one frightening verse in the stomping {&"Cyclops Rock."} All this may sound like a mess, but the band seems to have realized that they're often loved because their sound is all over the place, not in spite of it, and in response to that revelation they've released one of their strongest batches of songs. [{^Mink Car} was also released as a Japanese import featuring four bonus tracks, including {&"Boss of Me,"} the theme song of the TV show {#Malcom in the Middle}.] ~ Jason Damas, All Music Guide


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