My Murdered Remains
2018 studio album by They Might Be Giants
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Released | December 10, 2018 (2018-12-10) | |||
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Genre | Alternative rock | |||
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Label | Idlewild | |||
Producer | They Might Be Giants, Patrick Dillett | |||
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My Murdered Remains is the 21st album by American alternative rock band They Might Be Giants, released on December 10, 2018, for digital download and pre-order. The standard disc consists entirely of songs from the band's 2018 Dial-A-Song project, and a 16-track bonus disc is included, entitled More Murdered Remains. The album was released simultaneously with The Escape Team.[1]
The physical album was released in the spring of 2019.[2][better source needed]
Track listing
All tracks are written by They Might Be Giants, except where noted.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "The Communists Have the Music" | 2:27 |
2. | "I've Been Seeing Things" | 3:21 |
3. | "Gudetama's Busy Days" | 2:35 |
4. | "Dog" | 2:05 |
5. | "Ampersand" | 2:22 |
6. | "Applause Applause Applause" | 2:07 |
7. | "The Neck Rolls Aren't Working" | 2:58 |
8. | "Selectionist" | 3:03 |
9. | "I Haven't Been Right Yet" | 2:35 |
10. | "Unctuous Robot" | 1:48 |
11. | "The Bullies" | 2:03 |
12. | "Tractor" | 2:31 |
13. | "Rowboat Mayor" | 2:49 |
14. | "Tick Tick Tick" | 2:35 |
15. | "Last Wave (alt. version)" | 3:58 |
16. | "Best Regrets" | 3:35 |
Total length: | 42:51 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "This Is Only Going to Go One Way" | 2:41 | |
2. | "Prepare" | 2:56 | |
3. | "No Cops" (feat. Corn Mo) | 1:22 | |
4. | "Starry Eyes" | Will Birch, John Wicks | 3:27 |
5. | "The Velvet Ape" | 3:01 | |
6. | "Tesla (2 4 6 8 Remix)" | 2:04 | |
7. | "Whole Lot of Glean" | 2:15 | |
8. | "I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar" | Jonathan Richman | 2:18 |
9. | "Rock Club" | 2:34 | |
10. | "Thankful for Your Service" | 2:12 | |
11. | "The Summer Breeze" | 2:06 | |
12. | "Another Weirdo" | 1:51 | |
13. | "Door to Door Minotaur" | 1:40 | |
14. | "The Greatest (full-length mix)" | 2:31 | |
15. | "Christmas in the Big House" | 1:54 | |
16. | "The Power of Dial-A-Song" | 1:04 | |
Total length: | 35:56 |
Personnel
Credits adapted from CD liner notes.[3]
They Might Be Giants
- John Flansburgh – vocals, guitars, programming, etc.
- John Linnell – vocals, keyboards, woodwinds, etc.
- Dan Miller – guitars
- Danny Weinkauf – bass guitar
- Marty Beller – drums
Additional musicians
- Robin Goldwasser – vocal (3)
- Corn Mo – vocal (bonus disc, track 3)
Technical
- They Might Be Giants – producers
- Patrick Dillett – producer, mixing
- James York – engineer
- Daniel Avila – engineer
- UE Nastasi – mastering
- Paul Sahr – design
References
- ^ @tmbg (December 10, 2018). "Epic News: two brand new album releases from They Might Be Giants are out today! MY MURDERED REMAINS and THE ESCAPE TEAM are here" (Tweet). Retrieved December 20, 2018 – via Twitter.
- ^ "My Murdered Remains LP + Download". Retrieved December 19, 2018.
- ^ My Murdered Remains (CD liner notes). Palisades, New York: Idlewild Recordings. 2018. IDLE 149.
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- John Flansburgh
- John Linnell
- Dan Miller
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- Marty Beller
- Hal Cragin
- Brian Doherty
- Jonathan Feinberg
- Dan Hickey
- Kurt Hoffman
- Graham Maby
- Tony Maimone
- Eric Schermerhorn
Rock albums |
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Children's albums |
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- Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas) (1993)
- Back to Skull (1994)
- Working Undercover for the Man (2000)
- They Might Be Giants In... Holidayland (2001)
- Bed, Bed, Bed (2003)
- Indestructible Object (2004)
- The Spine Surfs Alone (2004)
- "Don't Let's Start"
- "(She Was A) Hotel Detective"
- "Ana Ng"
- "They'll Need a Crane"
- "Purple Toupee"
- "Birdhouse in Your Soul"
- "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)"
- "The Statue Got Me High"
- "I Palindrome I"
- "The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)"
- "O Tannenbaum"
- "Snail Shell"
- "S-E-X-X-Y"
- "Doctor Worm"
- "Boss of Me"
- "Man, It's So Loud in Here"
- "Experimental Film"
- "I'm Impressed"
- "Can't Keep Johnny Down"
- "You're on Fire"
- "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head"
- "Particle Man"
- "James K. Polk"
- Live!! New York City 10/14/94 (1994)
- Severe Tire Damage (1998)
- Live (1999)
- The Spine Hits the Road (2004)
- Almanac (2004)
- Venue Songs (2004)
- First Album Live! (2014)
- Flood Live in Australia (2015)
- Live in Brooklyn (2016)
- Don't Let's Start (1989)
- Miscellaneous T (1991)
- Then: The Earlier Years (1997)
- Best of the Early Years (1999)
- They Got Lost (2002)
- Dial-A-Song: 20 Years of They Might Be Giants (2002)
- A User's Guide to They Might Be Giants (2005)
- Venue Songs DVD/CD (2005)
- Album Raises New and Troubling Questions (2011)
- Idlewild (2014)
- Direct from Brooklyn (1999)
- Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) (2003)
- Here Come the ABCs (2005)
- Venue Songs DVD/CD (2005)
- Here Come the 123s (2008)
- Here Comes Science (2009)