They Might Be Giants
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 to Tin Pan Alley, while making allusion to pulp fiction and {%P...[more]
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"Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)" is the celebrated true story of They Might Be Giants, the Brooklyn-based musical duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell. The deluxe DVD edition chronicles the band's 20-year history -- jam- packed with over 4 1/2 hours of extras including classic music videos, rare performance footage, feature commentary track with They Might Be Giants, Sarah Vowell, and director AJ Scnhack, plus outtakes, deleted scenes, scores of bonus interviews and more! [ read more ]
DVD $22.99
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Then: The Earlier Years is a double-disc set containing all of They Might Be Giants' original, independent records -- the two albums They Might Be Giants and Lincoln, plus all of the B-sides and EP tracks that were compiled on Misc. T -- adding nearly 20 previously unreleased tracks. While the bonus tracks are of varying quality -- only "Now That I Have Anything" and demos of "Don't Let's Start," "Which Describes How You're Feeling," and "Hope That I Get Old Before I Die" are of i [ read more ]
CD $26.58
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Grammy winners They Might Be Giants are back with a whole new creative way to look at science! The Here Comes Science CD+DVD contains 19 songs and 19 accompanying videos featuring animation and puppetry for kids to enjoy and learn with. Contains fun songs like "Electric Car," "Photosynthesis" and "Solid Liquid Gas" among others! Kids will learn about science while having fun. And who knows? Maybe there's a thing or two you could learn yourself!
CD+DVD $17.99
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Brand-new EP from this duo! It's their first new work since the 2002 release of both the documentary "Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)" and their children's album, "No!" During their 20-year career, Brooklyn's art-rock pioneers, college rock kings, prolific musical stuntmen, and pop icons have inspired two generations of discerning music listeners. "Indestructible Object" contains four originals that emphasize the band's serious songwriting prowess, plus a beautiful cover of The Beach Boys' "Caroline, No." R [ read more ]
CD $7.99
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This is a 20" x 26" They Might Be Giants show poster for the March 6, 2008 show at Meridian. Hand-signed, numbered and designed by Clint Wilson.
Poster $21.99
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On their major-label debut, Flood, They Might Be Giants exchange quirky artiness for unabashed geekiness and a more varied and polished musical attack. Although the album contains two of the group's finest singles in "Birdhouse in Your Soul" and "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)," the overall record is uneven, since the group's hooks aren't quite as sharp as before and the humor is either too geeky or leavened with awkward social statements like "Your Racist Friend." Even with its faults, {^Floo [ read more ]
CD $17.08
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While They Might Be Giants' clever, playful melodies and lyrics make their music nearly ideal listening for kids anyway, their first children's album, No!, is one of their most dizzying and delightful in years. If Mink Car found They Might Be Giants reclaiming some of the sounds and ideas they pioneered on albums like Flood, then No! is both another step backward and forward, featuring some of their weirdest material since their left-of-center debut in 1986. Tweaked vocals, sound effect [ read more ]
CD $17.08
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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 with Lincoln. In general, the album displays greater musical ambition than its predecessor, especially since the duo have trimmed many of the weirder excesses of the debut. Without such arty trappings, their gift for irresistible pop hooks becomes all the more clear, with "Ana Ng," "Purple Toupee," the Latin shuffle of "The World's Address," [ read more ]
CD $15.18
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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 Be Giants [ read more ]
CD $24.99
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Their most rocking album ever. With their unique blend of catchy melodies and inscrutable lyrics, They Might Be Giants have lived a twenty-year frenzy of creative output, selling over three million albums and winning a Grammy in the process. "The Spine" is their new release, and as PopMatters' Patrick Schabe says, "The Spine sets itself apart from recent work by They Might Be Giants in ways that you'll just have to hear for yourself to understand. At the same time, it goes a long way in showing how the band [ read more ]
CD $17.99
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John and John tackle the letters of the alphabet in this fun, imaginative, and family-friendly song collection.
CD+DVD $17.99
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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. It runs through a head-spinning 19 songs in just over 45 minutes, running the gamut from the performance-art schtick of "Chess Piece Face" and "Youth Culture Killed My Dog" to the pure pop of "Don't Let's Start" and "Everything Right Is Wrong Again." While there are a lot of geeky jokes and barely developed ideas scattered throughout t [ read more ]
CD $15.18