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

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

Tracklist · 62 Tracks · 2m

The Power of TMBG Dial‐a‐Song (jingle #1)

Now That I Have Everything

Getting Sentimental Over You

How Much Cake Can You Eat?

Swing Is a Word (Six Feet Down)

Cupid

Counterfeit Fake

I Find It Hard to Believe

I Need Some Lovin’

Confusing the Mind

Don’t I Have the Right to Be Loved?

Hi Honey, I’m Home

Tropical Island (aka A Wonderful Song)

We Just Go Nuts at Christmastime

Mrs. Cinderella

Mainstream U.S.A.

Brainwashin’ Our Fighting Boys

Concrete and Clay

Instrumental

Next Plane to London

Get Away

Bread Hair

1:16

We Love All the People

Hiya

1:30

The Writing’s on the Wall

There’s a New Song Every Hour (jingle #2)

The King of Wingo

Operators Are Standing By

Maine

I Might Be Giants, Too

O Do Not Forsake Me

Meet James Ensor

Ondine

Don’t Make Me Kill You Again (Ondine excerpt)

Spy

Subliminal

Not Too Clear, Not Too Long (jingle #3)

A Self Called Nowhere

Destination Moon

I Should Be Allowed to Think

Sleeping in the Flowers

Don’t Know Why It Takes That Long (jingle #4)

I Palindrome I

Turn Around

Where Your Eyes Don’t Go

Why Does the Sun Shine?

Free Bird’s Rebirth (I Blame You)

See the Constellation

Purple Toupee

Shoehorn With Teeth

Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal

I’ll Sink Manhattan

Your Racist Friend

Welcome to the Jungle

We Want a Rock

Ana Ng

My Evil Twin

Birdhouse in Your Soul

Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

The Pencil Rain

Ant

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 Departs

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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