Description The self-titled debut from alternative music's favorite dork-rockers launched a career based on absurd lyrics planted in wildly diverse musical garden. Songs like "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head" and the New-Wavish tributary "Youth Culture Killed My Dog," are sung with an Andy Kaufman-like senThe self-titled debut from alternative music's favorite dork-rockers launched a career based on absurd lyrics planted in wildly diverse musical garden. Songs like "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head" and the New-Wavish tributary "Youth Culture Killed My Dog," are sung with an Andy Kaufman-like sensibility that leaves one questioning their sincerity. In contrast, the tune "Don't Let's Start" is relatively sweet and earnest. Musically, TMBG stray from the country honker "Number Three" to the glam-rocker "(She Was a) Hotel Detective," adapting accordion, fuzz-boxed guitar, and electric piano to suit their purposes. Perhaps the most subversive mockery of all is how TMBG write extremely catchy melodies that "serious" musicians would love to claim as their own. "His shoes are laced with irony" goes a line from "Hide Away Folk Family." That pretty much ties it up. --Beth Massa (Review copyright Amazon.co.uk)... (more)(less)
1. Everything Right Is Wrong Again 2. Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head 3. Number Three 4. Don't Let's Start 5. Footsteps 6. Toddler Hiway 7. Rabid Child 8. Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes 9. She Was A Hotel Detective 10. She's An Angel 11. Youth Culture Killed 12. My Dog 13. Boat Of Car 14. Absolutely Bill's Mood Chess Piece Face 15. I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die 16. Alienation's For The Rich 17. Day 18. Rhythm Section Want Ad
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