They Might Be Giants - Apollo 18

Label:

Elektra, Elektra

Catalog#:

61257-2, 9 61257-2

Format:

CD, Album

Country:

Released:

24 Mar 1992

Genre:

Rock

Style:

Alternative Rock, Pop Rock

Tracklist

1	Dig My Grave	1:08	X
	Cello - Garo Yellin Mixed By - Alan Winstanley Mixed By [Assisted] - Brian Pollack , Bruce Calder Violin - Mark Feldman
2	I Palindrome I	2:22	X
	Mixed By - Alan Winstanley Mixed By [Assisted] - Brian Pollack , Bruce Calder
3	She's Actual Size	2:05	X
	Drums - Jim Thomas Mixed By - Alan Winstanley Mixed By [Assisted] - Brian Pollack , Bruce Calder
4	My Evil Twin	2:37	X
	Mixed By - Alan Winstanley Mixed By [Assisted] - Brian Pollack , Bruce Calder
5	Mammal	2:14	X
	Mixed By - Alan Winstanley Mixed By [Assisted] - Brian Pollack , Bruce Calder
6	The Statue Got Me High	3:06	X
	Mixed By - Alan Winstanley Mixed By [Assisted] - Brian Pollack , Bruce Calder
7	Spider	0:50	X
	Mixed By - Alan Winstanley Mixed By [Assisted] - Brian Pollack , Bruce Calder
8	The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)	3:49	X
	Backing Vocals - Laura Cantrell Mixed By - Alan Winstanley Mixed By [Assisted] - Brian Pollack , Bruce Calder Trumpet - Frank London Written-By - Weiss* , Peretti* , Creatore*
9	Dinner Bell	2:11	X
	Mixed By - Alan Winstanley Mixed By [Assisted] - Brian Pollack , Bruce Calder
10	Narrow Your Eyes	2:46	X
	Mixed By - Alan Winstanley Mixed By [Assisted] - Brian Pollack , Bruce Calder
11	Hall Of Heads	2:53	X
	Backing Vocals - Julie Cohen (2) Mixed By - Alan Winstanley Mixed By [Assisted] - Brian Pollack , Bruce Calder Violin - Mark Feldman
12	Which Describes How You're Feeling	1:13	X
	Mixed By - Alan Winstanley Mixed By [Assisted] - Brian Pollack , Bruce Calder
13	See The Constellation	3:27	X
	Mixed By - Alan Winstanley Mixed By [Assisted] - Brian Pollack , Bruce Calder
14	If I Wasn't Shy	1:43	X
	Mixed By - Alan Winstanley Mixed By [Assisted] - Brian Pollack , Bruce Calder
15	Turn Around	2:53	X
	Mixed By - Alan Winstanley Mixed By [Assisted] - Brian Pollack , Bruce Calder
16	Hypnotist Of Ladies	1:42	X
	Mixed By - Alan Winstanley Mixed By [Assisted] - Brian Pollack , Bruce Calder
17	Catching On Fire	0:12	X
	Mixed By - Patrick Dillett , Paul Angelli Mixed By [Assisted] - Ue Nastasi
18	Fingertips	0:06	X
	Banjo, Vocals - Peter Stampfel Mixed By - Patrick Dillett , Paul Angelli Mixed By [Assisted] - Ue Nastasi
19	I Hear The Wind Blow	0:10
	Mixed By - Patrick Dillett , Paul Angelli Mixed By [Assisted] - Ue Nastasi Vocals - Nicholas Hill
20	Hey Now Everybody	0:05	X
	Mixed By - Patrick Dillett , Paul Angelli Mixed By [Assisted] - Ue Nastasi Vocals - Elma Mayer
21	Who Is That Standing By My Window?	0:06
	Mixed By - Patrick Dillett , Paul Angelli Mixed By [Assisted] - Ue Nastasi
22	I Found A New Friend	0:07	X
	Mixed By - Patrick Dillett , Paul Angelli Mixed By [Assisted] - Ue Nastasi Vocals - Brian Dewan
23	Wreck My Car	0:11
	Mixed By - Patrick Dillett , Paul Angelli Mixed By [Assisted] - Ue Nastasi
24	Aren't You The Guy?	0:06	X
	Mixed By - Patrick Dillett , Paul Angelli Mixed By [Assisted] - Ue Nastasi
25	Please Pass The Milk	0:08	X
	Mixed By - Patrick Dillett , Paul Angelli Mixed By [Assisted] - Ue Nastasi Vocals - Elma Mayer
26	Leave Me Alone	0:05	X
	Mixed By - Patrick Dillett , Paul Angelli Mixed By [Assisted] - Ue Nastasi
27	Who's Knocking On The Wall?	0:04
	Mixed By - Patrick Dillett , Paul Angelli Mixed By [Assisted] - Ue Nastasi Vocals - Brian Dewan
28	All Alone By Myself	0:05
	Mixed By - Patrick Dillett , Paul Angelli Mixed By [Assisted] - Ue Nastasi
29	What's That Blue Thing Doing Here?	0:08
	Mixed By - Patrick Dillett , Paul Angelli Mixed By [Assisted] - Ue Nastasi
30	Something Grabbed A Hold Of My Hand	0:11
	Mixed By - Patrick Dillett , Paul Angelli Mixed By [Assisted] - Ue Nastasi Vocals - Amy Allison
31	I Don't Understand You	0:27
	Mixed By - Patrick Dillett , Paul Angelli Mixed By [Assisted] - Ue Nastasi
32	I Heard A Sound	0:04	X
	Mixed By - Patrick Dillett , Paul Angelli Mixed By [Assisted] - Ue Nastasi
33	Mysterious Whisper	0:28
	Mixed By - Patrick Dillett , Paul Angelli Mixed By [Assisted] - Ue Nastasi
34	The Day That Love Came To Play	0:08
	Mixed By - Patrick Dillett , Paul Angelli Mixed By [Assisted] - Ue Nastasi
35	I'm Having A Heart Attack	0:22
	Mixed By - Patrick Dillett , Paul Angelli Mixed By [Assisted] - Ue Nastasi
36	Fingertips (Reprise)	0:10
	Banjo, Vocals - Peter Stampfel Mixed By - Patrick Dillett , Paul Angelli Mixed By [Assisted] - Ue Nastasi
37	I Walk Along Darkened Corridors	1:01
	Mixed By - Patrick Dillett , Paul Angelli Mixed By [Assisted] - Ue Nastasi
38	Space Suit	1:36	X
	Mixed By - Alan Winstanley Mixed By [Assisted] - Brian Pollack , Bruce Calder

Credits

Artwork By [Art Assistance] - Marjorie Galen, Kurt Hoffman, Barbara Lipp, Bo Orloff, Beth Passaro, Vivian Walsh
Artwork By [Design] - Rolf Conant
Artwork By [Respirator With Aspirin Sculpture] - Fred Tomaselli
Engineer [2nd] - Edward Douglas IV*
Mastered By - Bob Ludwig
Photography [Microphone] - J. Otto Seibold
Photography [Running Man And Rubber Gloves] - Ralph Morse
Photography [Space Capsule] - Don Uhrbock
Producer, Written-By - They Might Be Giants
Recorded By - Paul Angelli
Technician [Technical Support] - Chris Cush , Jim Thomas , Joshua Fried , Mark Boyer*

Notes

"Fingertips" is broken up into 20 tracks (18-37). All track titles are unofficial titles that consist of lyrics sung on each track.

"The indexing of this disc is designed to complement the Shuffle Mode of modern CD players."

Recorded in New York City at the Magic Shop.
Mixed at Right Track, NYC, except Fingertips mixed at East Hill
Mastered at Masterdisk, NYC

Garo [Yellin] and Jim [Thomas] courtesy of Bar/None Records.

Ralph Morse and Don Uhrbock photos courtesy of LIFE (© Time Warner Inc.)
Other space photographs courtesy of NASA

All songs [...] © 1992 They Might Be Giants Music ASCAP, administered by WB Music Corp. except "The Guitar" [...] © 1992 They Might Be Giants Music/Abilene Music Inc. ASCAP, admin. by Abilene Music Inc. and WB Music Corp. "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" used by permission of Abilene Music Inc.

℗ & © 1992 Elektra Entertainment a division of Warner Communications, Inc., for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.

UPC: 0 7559-61257-2 7
Hub codes: "2 61257-2 SRC+01", "M2S10"

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Review by Catfish Jul 04, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)

Following up on murderbot's comment, in spite of best intentions some of the Fingertips tracks actually leak into the previous and/or next track, somewhat spoiling the random effect. Still, a good album to shuffle in the 5 cd changer.

Rated 5/5

Review by murderbot Oct 25, 2005 (edited over 4 years ago)

The reason for the umpteen mini-tracks at the end of the album ("Fingertips") was that the concept of the album was that it would be the first CD designed to be played on shuffle. Every audiophile complains about people playing CDs on shuffle & "ruining the flow of an album", so they came up with an album whose 'flow' was meant to be randomly determined. As a result, these "Fingertips" bits are broken up and dispersed between the other tracks on the LP version.

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