Track Listing 1. Theme From Flood 2. Birdhouse in Your Soul 3. Lucky Ball and Chain 4. Istanbul (Not Constantinople) 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 and Men 17. Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love 18. They Might Be Giants 19. Road Movie to Berlin
| Details | | Playing Time: | 43 min. | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | DAD |
Album Notes Producers: Alan Winstanley, They Might Be Giants, Clive Langer. It is fair to say that listening to this, their second album, in one hit is a little hard on the ear. Individually, the pathos and humour these chaps manage to put into every song is admirable--very much like a '90s version of Tom Lehrer, but without the satire. The jokes are ironic rather than obvious. Their commercial success is of course due to the songs' accessibility, the most commercial being the wonderful "Birdhouse In Your Soul," a deserved hit single. The story of a back-stabbing office ogre is chronicled in the shape of "Someone Keeps Moving My Chair." Some tracks are clearly private jokes and pass by the listener, although self-interpretation can come into play.
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