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FREE FIRST ALBUM LIVE! DOWNLOAD
They Might Be Giants has a gift for you! The entire first album recorded live on the 2013 tour!
Idlewild Recordings is happy and proud to announce a new and FREE download project.
A GIFT!
As a gift for our loyal audience, and in an effort to introduce more people in the world to They Might Be Giants, we are posting this free download of TMBG performing their seminal first album live in its entirety.
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These performances were culled from shows on They Might Be Giants’ 2013 world tour. John Flansburgh and John Linnell are joined by their stellar band — Dan Miller on the guitar, Danny Weinkauf on bass, and Marty Beller on the drums. There is also a guest appearance by the Avatars of They.
They Might Be Giants’ first album, or “pink album,” was a turning point for both the band and for the burgeoning world of indie rock. Performing in downtown NYC clubs, the band had become a fixture on the East Village scene where performance art and music flowed together in a vivid late night club scene. In those earlier years, the band was making recordings for their Dial-A-Song service and their demos were actively passed around town. While the album’s release in late 1986 was met with raves from critics (including the rare “A” rating from the Village Voice’s Robert Christgau), with no major label push or immediate radio interest, it seemed destined to settle comfortably into the Miscellaneous T section within a number of months. All that would change quickly when the band collaborated with video director Adam Bernstein, on a series of original clips that would get serious play on MTV….
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