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Violin, John Lee Supertaster, and Clap Your Hands: My Final Thoughts for No!

Some last words and songs to share about They Might Be Giants’ first kids record and what it meant to me as a very young parent.

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Chase Roper
Sep 25, 2026
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Before setting out to write about all of the songs from the No! album, I posed the question to my readers (and maybe to myself) on whether or not I should go song-by-song on the kids’ albums or not. There was definitely thoughts, feelings, and memories surrounding this album but I did I have an essay’s worth of writing for each track?

“Sure!” I thought as I dove in.

Alas, I feel that I am grasping at straws here. Trying to force something that just isn’t meant to be. Not from me anyway.

Instead, we’re going to cover the remaining favorites from myself and my kids in this one epic post so that we can start listening and talking about The Spine.

Let’s begin.

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