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Fingertips: Twenty-one Little Voices in My Head

From “Who’s that standing out the window?” to “I’m having a heart attack,” here’s my life, haunted by Fingertips.

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May 24, 2025
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Illustration of a giant squid wrapped around a whale mid-battle, with a small lunar lander floating nearby. Black background with bold white text that reads “They Might Be Giants” and “Apollo 18.”
The iconic Apollo 18 cover: a surreal deep-sea/lunar mashup of whale vs. squid, courtesy of They Might Be Giants' era of bold experimentalism. An album so strange, it comes with a warning label for your shuffle button.

The second-to-last song on Apollo 18 in some ways is also twenty-one more songs. Some call it a suite, a collection of half-digested hook…

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