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The Power of They Might Be Giants Dial‐a‐Song
Rock · 1994 · 62 tracks · 2m

The Power of They Might Be Giants Dial‐a‐Song

They Might Be Giants

A legendary 62-track bootleg of home recordings, demos, and answering machine jingles. Raw, eccentric, and beautifully compressed by telephone line fidelity.

1994

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A frantic, whimsical, and slightly eerie collection of lo-fi pop experiments.

Tracklist · 62 Tracks · 2m
01
The Power of TMBG Dial‐a‐Song (jingle #1)
02
Now That I Have Everything
03
Getting Sentimental Over You
04
How Much Cake Can You Eat?
05
Swing Is a Word (Six Feet Down)
06
Cupid
07
Counterfeit Fake
08
I Find It Hard to Believe
09
I Need Some Lovin’
10
Confusing the Mind
11
Don’t I Have the Right to Be Loved?
12
Hi Honey, I’m Home
13
Tropical Island (aka A Wonderful Song)
14
We Just Go Nuts at Christmastime
15
Mrs. Cinderella
16
Mainstream U.S.A.
17
Brainwashin’ Our Fighting Boys
18
Concrete and Clay
19
Instrumental
20
Next Plane to London
21
Get Away
22
Bread Hair
1:16
23
We Love All the People
24
Hiya
1:30
25
The Writing’s on the Wall
26
There’s a New Song Every Hour (jingle #2)
27
The King of Wingo
28
Operators Are Standing By
29
Maine
30
I Might Be Giants, Too
31
O Do Not Forsake Me
32
Meet James Ensor
33
Ondine
34
Don’t Make Me Kill You Again (Ondine excerpt)
35
Spy
36
Subliminal
37
Not Too Clear, Not Too Long (jingle #3)
38
A Self Called Nowhere
39
Destination Moon
40
I Should Be Allowed to Think
41
Sleeping in the Flowers
42
Don’t Know Why It Takes That Long (jingle #4)
43
I Palindrome I
44
Turn Around
45
Where Your Eyes Don’t Go
46
Why Does the Sun Shine?
47
Free Bird’s Rebirth (I Blame You)
48
See the Constellation
49
Purple Toupee
50
Shoehorn With Teeth
51
Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal
52
I’ll Sink Manhattan
53
Your Racist Friend
54
Welcome to the Jungle
55
We Want a Rock
56
Ana Ng
57
My Evil Twin
58
Birdhouse in Your Soul
59
Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
60
The Pencil Rain
61
Ant
62
Particle Man
Moments Worth Listening For
The sudden, jarring transition from a compressed telephone jingle into the bouncy, instructional drum loop of Now That I Have Everything.
The haunting, skeletal beauty of O Do Not Forsake Me, stripped of all studio polish to reveal a raw, echoing vocal performance.
The crackly, low-fidelity telephone line static that introduces the early demo version of Birdhouse in Your Soul, making the familiar anthem feel like a secret transmission.
Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does The Power of They Might Be Giants Dial‐a‐Song sound next to the rest of They Might Be Giants's catalogue?

Lo Fi+2.8σ

The production is built around lo fi than this artist usually allows.

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