Chase Roper begins his deep dive into the first They Might Be Giants children's album, No! Something his kids' mom couldn't refuse to let him play because now it was for his KIDS to listen to.
a couple years ago i asked my dad to get me a they might be giants cd and he got a bunch of them because he didn't know which ones to get. this was the first one that arrived - therefore i consider it the first tmbg cd i ever got.
I honestly think of No! as their best album of the aughts, with Venue Songs and the ABCs tied for 2nd, while their standard studio albums really started to slide in my opinion. (This is a different issue but besides Mink Car I really can't distinguish any of their proper 21st century studio albums from each other.) I look forward to upgrading said perceptions as your project continues and encourages me to listen again, but each of those three albums are deeply, enjoyably replayable. I suspect with No! that part of that is sentimental attachment to it being our happy frequent road trip soundtrack when our kids were young. Other than steering away from darker themes (though they are lurking there between the lines) the guys did not really compromise their musical tendencies. Beginning to end, I love these songs, and I'll be happy to play them again mentally and actually this summer and autumn as you explore the disc here.
Honestly agreed! I’ll get into more as I approach each album but the music I listened to was pretty controlled or at least heavily discouraged if it wasn’t what my ex wife wanted to hear. Same with spending money so there was a TMBG dark period in my life aside from streaming the songs I already loved.
It seemed like everything coming out was so similar but I also wasn’t getting to spend time with them back then.
a couple years ago i asked my dad to get me a they might be giants cd and he got a bunch of them because he didn't know which ones to get. this was the first one that arrived - therefore i consider it the first tmbg cd i ever got.
I think it’s an incredible first album to get. There are actually songs from this album that live on a few my regularly rotating playlists.
I honestly think of No! as their best album of the aughts, with Venue Songs and the ABCs tied for 2nd, while their standard studio albums really started to slide in my opinion. (This is a different issue but besides Mink Car I really can't distinguish any of their proper 21st century studio albums from each other.) I look forward to upgrading said perceptions as your project continues and encourages me to listen again, but each of those three albums are deeply, enjoyably replayable. I suspect with No! that part of that is sentimental attachment to it being our happy frequent road trip soundtrack when our kids were young. Other than steering away from darker themes (though they are lurking there between the lines) the guys did not really compromise their musical tendencies. Beginning to end, I love these songs, and I'll be happy to play them again mentally and actually this summer and autumn as you explore the disc here.
Honestly agreed! I’ll get into more as I approach each album but the music I listened to was pretty controlled or at least heavily discouraged if it wasn’t what my ex wife wanted to hear. Same with spending money so there was a TMBG dark period in my life aside from streaming the songs I already loved.
It seemed like everything coming out was so similar but I also wasn’t getting to spend time with them back then.