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They Might Be Giants

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Flood



Because they're such hip, zany absurdists, They Might Be Giants open their first major-label album with a wacky fanfare. "It's a brand new record for 1990!" goes the twenty-nine-second "Theme From Flood," sung as if it were a rejected Sixties-TV theme song. Yes, it's zany, but the joke backfires: In fact, Flood defines the self-satisfied smugness and proudly disposable pop culture of the Eighties. It's an album that, with its smirking Letterman-like coyness, would be more at home in a time capsule than on a stereo system.

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the freshness of their Dorks on Parade shtick has worn off, the Giants – New York singer-songwriters John Flansburgh and John Linnell – need to prove themselves an all-out novelty act or trenchant musical parodists. Judging from Flood, they are unwilling to make either commitment or are simply incapable of doing so. The nineteen ditties crammed onto the album – sophomoric throwaways ("Particle Man" and "Whistling in the Dark"), ersatz jazz ("Hot Cha") and country ("Lucky Ball & Chain") and an overdose of their standard-issue oompah pop – aren't as ingratiating as the Giants think they are. The duo's vocals remain gratingly nasal. The parodies, such as they are, are little more than strings of pop-culture non sequiturs ("My story's infinite/Like the Longines Symphonette"), and attempts at direct satirical blows are constantly undermined – a cutesy trumpet solo, for instance, ruins the otherwise well-intended "Your Racist Friend."

To be fair, Flood is the best-sounding Giants record so far, thanks to meatier production (some of it by Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, who have worked with Elvis Costello, among others) and instrumentation that expands the low-rent accordion-and-drum-machine arrangements of their earlier albums and EPs on Bar/None. Ultimately, however, this is music with one sole purpose: to attract attention to its own cleverness. Most of these songs aren't about anything but being clever. Too glib for their own good, too absorbed in their own facileness to bother with anything other than campy emotions, They Might Be Giants might just try being a little more genuine. (RS 572)


DAVID BROWNE



CD Track List

Track List 1  Track List 2  Track List 3  Track List 4  Track List 5  Track List 6 

Flood
1. Theme From Flood
2. Birdhouse In Your Soul
3. Lucky Ball And Chain
4. Istanbul (not Constantinople)
5. Dead
6. Your Racist Friend
7. Particle Man
8. Twisting
9. We Want A Rock
10. Someone Keeps Moving My Chair
11. Hearing Aid
12. Minimum Wage
13. Letterbox
14. Whistling In The Dark
15. Hot Cha
16. Women And Men
17. Sapphire Bullets Of Love
18. They Might Be Giants
19. Road Movie To Berlin

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  Artist   Title   Format   Condition  
Price 
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  THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS   Flood
Free Shipping To The U.s. For Orders Over $40 From The Super Cheap Section. Any Questions, Pleas...
  CD   NM $3.00      UNCLE SAXON
USA 
  They Might Be Giants   Flood CD   EX $3.99 - $5.99      Musical Ener
USA 
  They Might Be Giants   Flood
Elektra 50907, 7559609072
  CD   EX $3.99      Musical Ener
USA 
  They Might Be Giants   Flood
Elektra 609072
  CD   EX $3.99      Musical Ener
USA 
  They Might Be Giants   Flood
Elektra 60907, 7559609072
  CD   EX $4.99      Musical Ener
USA 
  They Might Be Giants   Flood
Elektra E2 60907
  CD   $5.99      Musical Ener
USA 
  They Might Be Giants   Flood
Mo Or Cash Plus 3.50 Postage And Confirmation email Nero6724@aol.com With Quesions Usa, Electra
  CD   NR MT $4.00      mark nero
USA   
  THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS   Flood
Used Cd 19 Songs 1. Theme From Flood 2. Birdhouse In Your Soul 3. Lucky Ball And Chain 4. I...
  CD   NEW $5.00      Horizons
USA 
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS - Flood (cd German)   THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS   Flood (cd German)
19 Track (9609072) German, Elektra, 1990
  CD   EX/VG+ $7.90      Vinyl Tap
UK 
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS - Flood 19 Tracks   THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS   Flood 19 Tracks CD   LIKE NEW $8.80 - $11.00      Music Obsess
USA 
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS - Flood 19 Tracks   THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS   Flood 19 Tracks
Full Length Cd, They Might Be Giants: Flood 19 Tracks, Elektra 60907/commercial Issue/foldout I...
  CD   LIKE NEW $8.80      Music Obsess
USA 
Flood 19 Tracks - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS   THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS   Flood 19 Tracks
Full Length Cd, They Might Be Giants: Flood 19 Tracks, Elektra 60907/commercial Issue/columbia ...
  CD   $11.00      Music Obsess
USA 
  THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS   Flood
  CD   $8.55      Action
UK 
  They Might Be Giants   Flood
  CD   $9.99      Alternativem
USA 
  THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS   Flood
1990 Release
  CD   USED - VERY GOOD $9.99      Dreamelodic
USA   
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS - Flood   THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS   Flood
19 Track Album,7559-60907-2 De, Elektra
  CD   EX/EX UNLESS STATED $10.56      Roxcalibur
UK   
  THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS   Flood
7559609072 Special Order
  CD   MINT/MINT $10.54      Netdiscs
UK 
  They Might Be Giants   Flood
  CD   NM/NM $10.84      CMS Music
UK   
  THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS   Flood
Hit 1990 Album Includes "birdhouse In Your Soul" And "istanbul (not Constantinople...
  CD   $12.10      Red Eye
Austral 
Flood - THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS   THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS   Flood
They Might Be Giants: Flood, Elektra, Usa, 90, Co, Posterbooklet, Cd </fon
  CD   $12.79      cdvinyl
Germany   
  they might be giants   Flood CD   $14.08      CDExpress
Netherl 
  they might be giants   Flood
224588 cd/ New Copy/ Holland Barcode: 0075596090728 Title: Flood Special Order
  CD   $14.08      CDExpress
Netherl 
  they might be giants   Flood
Elektra 60907 cd Rare! Cond: Mint- Title: Flood 075596090728 Rock Special Order
  CD   $14.08      CDExpress
Netherl 
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS - Flood Album   THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS   Flood
Holland, Wea, 7559609072, 1990 Special Order
  CD   NEW $14.79      CD Euroxpres
USA 
  THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS   Flood CD   M-/M- $17.35 - $20.81      Encore
UK 
  THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS   Flood
Us 19 Track Original Cd P/s (9609072) Us, 9609072
  CD   M-/M- $17.35      Encore
UK 
  THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS   Flood
German 19 Track Original Cd P/s (9609072) German, 9609072
  CD   M-/M- $20.81      Encore
UK 
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS - Flood Record   THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS   Flood
Nld, Wea, 7559609072, 1990
  CD   NEW / NEW $19.31      CD-Maxi-Sing
Netherl   

LP

  Artist   Title   Format   Condition  
Price 
   Seller Location
They Might Be Giants - Flood LP   They Might Be Giants   Flood
Gatefold Cover, Lp Shows Light Wear And Plays With Light Problems Germany, Elektra, 960 907-1, 19
  LP   EX- , VG++ $15.24      karmamusic
Greece   
  THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS   Flood
Gatefold Sleeve Small Damage flood
  LP   $42.70      Black Rhythm
Netherl 
They Might Be Giants - Flood CD   They Might Be Giants   Flood
60907-1 13-w-68 United States, Elektra Records, 60907 1, 1990
  LP   VG $125.00      Shuga Record
USA 

Cassette

  Artist   Title   Format   Condition  
Price 
   Seller Location
  They Might Be Giants   Flood
German Cassette On The Elektra Records Label In Near Mint Condition. Front And Back Slicks Contai...
  Cassette   NEAR MINT $11.60      Crypt Record
Austral   
  THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS   Flood
German 19 Track Original Cassette P/s (9609074) German, 9609074
  Cassette   M-/M- $12.13      Encore
UK 

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