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THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS NEW ALBUM CLEMENCY: A BRIEF REVIEW

General overview: Is this a concept album or a few similar ideas put in the same album? I don't know. If you ignore a majority of the songs, it does seem to follow a general idea of an alcoholic man stealing the liberty bell and having to do time. And yes, the rumors are true, sometimes they will accidentally mail you sand instead of a CD. They'll apologize and send you another CD for free.

SONGS

No Way Wayne: song about having beef with a guy named Wayne, who is an asshole, apparently. "Wayne Wayne go away" they sing at one point.

Silver Mixing Bowl: Sung by John Flansburgh, this song Might Be about capitalism. It features back up vocals from an industrial mixing bowl

The Fumedor: Eek! In this song, you take the perspective of a cockroach dying from cockroach spray. It is a 6 minute long harrowing tale.

Please Mourn Me: You've died prematurely and left your wife behind. What do you fear more: her moving on or her forgetting about you?

Chartreuse Goose: I don't know what to make of this one. In an interview, Flansburgh said , "We got inspiration after staying in a cheap motel. Mold in the beds, the walls, maybe even the tap water and food. The tap water was black. So, They Might Be Giants first ever mold poisoning song!" While this is a nice story, John Linnell said that the idea for the song came from reading the back of a cereal box.

(She was a) Hamburger Lady: People seem to like this song more than Charteuse Goose and I have no idea why. A combination of "Hamburger Lady" and "(She was a) Hotel Detective" it has a strange feel to it, almost more nauseating than the original Hamburger Lady. This one should have stayed in the vault!

Marble Run: Remember that weird kid who ate marbles in preschool? That may have been famous musican John Linnell! In this song, John sings about the fun of eating marbles. This song was almost included in Why?

Confabulation: Did I remember that right? This song is about not remembering things right due to severe alcoholism. Maybe you stole the liberty bell.

Her Beautiful Clanging: In Philadelphia PA, a crazed man falls in love with the Liberty Bell and tries to steal it. He succeeds and they have a beautiful honeymoon.

The Metal Clanging: A song that segues from the prevous, our liberty bell stealing protagonist is now in jail. This is the shortest song on the album, being about 1:02. A harmonica plays sadly. Was it really worth it?

Inclement Trial: The final track, our old crusty hero is trying to win the trial by representing himself, the judge and jury parts sung by Flansburgh. Unfortunately, I don't know how the song ends because the CD skips too much to understand it because a couple grains of sand had scratched up the CD. This is apparently a common problem and I am yet to find a full version uploaded on the internet. In other news, apparently David Byrne was supposed to sing as the judge and jury but backed out because they insisted he play the harmonica.

AUSTRALIAN BONUS TRACK

Horses (cover): Did they just go through the "most disturbing songs" post and pick out songs to do? Why'd they even pick "Horses", it's mostly sound effects. Hearing Linnell slurp water is something I didn't want to hear.

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