Wednesday, February 10, 2010

They Might Be Giants - Flood (1990)

Flood is the third studio album by They Might Be Giants. Being their most popular record and many fans' first exposure to the group, the album has occasionally been performed in its entirety at live shows. At some of these performances, the group essentially 'opens' for itself, taking the stage as "Sapphire Bullets: the only TMBG cover band that matters. "With all the success Flood enjoyed, some fans and critics were disarmed by its polished production and slightly sillier lyrics. The group returned to a more organic sound and darker territory on its 1992 follow-up, Apollo 18. The picture on the cover of the album features a man rowing a boat made out of washbasins strung together in a body of water. The photo was taken by Margaret Bourke-White and was part of a series of photographs taken after theOhio River Flood of 1937.

Tracklist:

1. Theme From Flood
2. Birdhouse In Your Soul
3. Lucky Ball & Chain
4. Istanbul (Not Constantinopole)
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 & Men
17. Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love
18. They Might Be Giants
19. Road Movie To Berlin

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