I'm playing it in my car at the moment .... a couple of tracks I flick past but otherwise excellent. :ph43r:

Here is the tracklisting, with links to the lyrics:

1. Experimental Film
2. Spine
3. Memo to Human Resources
4. Wearing A Raincoat
5. Prevenge
6. Thunderbird
7. Some Crazy Bastard Wants To Hit Me
8. World Later On
9. Museum of Idiots
10. It's Kickin' In
11. Spines
12. Au Contraire
13. Damn Good Times
14. Broke In Two
15. Stalk Of Wheat
16. I Can't Hide

You can listen to Experimental Film and Au Contraire HERE if you have Realplayer installed.

Album front cover:

:D

Very good album, I particularly like Memo to Human Resources, Prevenge, Some Crazy Bastard Wants to Hit Me, and Au Contraire. Most of them are really good, but I find Damn Good Times and Broke In Two a bit irritating and I usually skip them.

(I think I'd rate it 5/5 :D)

It is going to own.

I think Museum of idiots is totally brilliant. Next best are Au Contraire and Stalk of wheat. Prevenge is good ... I tend to skip Spine, Some Crazy Bastard and Its Kickin In.

I pre-ordered it off of Amazon. I can't wait for it to get here, since I have heard lots of good things about it. :D

:D

If you order from the TMBG Site you can get an extra 7 song EP for $3. The spine itself sells for $14 there also

Have you listened to 'memo to human resources' ? I think it's the best (2nd prevenge). i dunno if this forum is for interpretation theories, but i think it's about a guy who gatecrashed a party where there was a murder. he doesnt know if he did it because of the stuff he took. I'll be in the back (of the cop car)

you're meant to be this forum's offical interpreter :D

I listened to thirty second sound clips of each song and Museum of Idiots is my favorite.

I agree :D

personally mine is Experimental film I also love the spine and spines I don't like broke in two though
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oh and can you just order the spine surfs alone?

~Occidere~

i only just noticed the name of Stalk of Wheat . i always thought ti said Weed before :D

Yes you can. It's $10 at the TMBG Yahoo Store.

Yes it's a CDR. No I haven't gotten the actual cover for it yet. It comes with a <rumor says Flans drawn but I've not heard it confirmed> paper cover with instructions on how to get the real one when it's made. But all in all it's worth what I paid.

The way I see it I'm paying for the music not the packaging.

Plus there is a Linnell made Flash video on the CD which I liked better than the Homestar Runner one for experimental film. (*Possibly because I like "I'm all you can think about" better than "Experimental Film")

The Spine - it's a brilliant album.

Museum of Idiots is the best track on it (the arrangement is incredible, even by TMBG standards!), but I also love Experimental Film, Memo to etc. and Broke in Two.

In fact, the only track I skip is Wearing A Raincoat, which irritates me more than a Giants' track has ever done before.

:rocks:

I actually think quite the opposite. Can't stand museum of idiots, but don't mind wearing a raincoat. The only song i truly despise is I can't hide from my mind. I don't get it, i don't like it... i don't listen too it. Au contraire can be a bit annoying after some time as well. Damn Good times and Experimental Film and It's Kickin In are my favorites

On the song "They Might Be Giants" there is a line that says "They might be frying up a stalk of wheat..." so were They referring to their own song by doing Stalk of Wheat? What does anyone think? I don't know what a stalk of wheat is, what it looks like or how one would fry it up.

:wacko:

Quite correct Abby. They were referring to themselves in it.

They were not only referring to themselves, but referring to themselves referring to themselves, because of the name of the first song.

:blink: I was thinking about this one the other day, the unique flexibility of thought that goes into these silly things. Take the idea of a stalk of wheat - a wheat plant, ear, root and all, and - fry it?? And then say that they may be that if they are or aren't giants?
If they write 600 songs a year, as I have heard, how do they stop the ideas coming for long enough to sleep? :unsure:

Evidently they don't :rolleyes:

:music: I hear the melody the harmony the pounding rhythm
The ideas, notes and words
Every state a different composition
Keeping me awake
Late at night
Can't get them out of my mind :music:

Reminds me of frying baby corns for a stir-fry. ^_^

Or beansprouts.

I love The Spine, it became my favourite TMBG album to listen to as an album rather than a collection of songs (if that makes sense....?)

The only track I sometimes skip is Broke In Two. At the moment I think my favourite track is It's Kickin' In, followed closely by Bastard Wants To Hit Me.

Now, It's kickin' in is one of the few I often flick past. But I daresay after a while it might grow on me. Took forever for me to like End of The Tour ....

WOW! I loved the End of the Tour 1st time I ever heard it.
I don't much like Kickin' In or Broke in Two, though Broke In Two does grow on you. ^_^

Broke in Two does grow on you... I really like it now.

Don't like Kickin' In so much... I listen to it occasionally and laugh because I think of the video with the chicken :rofl:

I didn't much care for it's kickin in until i saw them play it live...like so many of their other songs. when i hear it with that added energy, i can hear it that way when i listen to it later.

my favorite song on the spine though, is museum of idiots. wow. so great. experimental film is hilarious and wearing a raincoat is awesome and au contraire is just so fun. i think i need to see them all live though.

Prevenge And Wearing A Raincote are my favorites

the spine is a BOOOOO kind of album


its nothing compared to apollo18 or john henry or flood

NOTHING

This is (out of the 5 I own) my favorite TMBG album tied with Apollo 18. I think it's marvelous. It's not as consistent as Apollo 18 but The Spine has some better songs than it. I can't live without eather one!