Artist	Song
They Might Be Giants	Bangs (McSweeney's Version)
They Might Be Giants	Cyclops Rock (What We Did This Summer EP Version)
They Might Be Giants	It's So Loud In Here (Live Rock Version, TMBG Unlimited)
They Might Be Giants	Mr. Xcitement
They Might Be Giants	First Kiss (Severe Tire Damage Version)
They Might Be Giants	I've Got A Fang (Live, TMBG's Other Thing)
They Might Be Giants	Hovering Sombrero
They Might Be Giants	Yeh Yeh
They Might Be Giants	Hopeless Bleak Despair
They Might Be Giants	Drink!
They Might Be Giants	My Man
They Might Be Giants	Older (Long Tall Weekend Version)
They Might Be Giants	Mink Car
They Might Be Giants	Wicked Little Critta
They Might Be Giants	Finished With Lies (Live, Bowery Ballroom, NYC, 10-21-99)
They Might Be Giants	She Thinks She's Edith Head (Double Vocal Mix)
They Might Be Giants	Working Undercover For The Man

Comment:

"Mink Car" didn't work for a lot of people, myself included. First off, I'd heard a lot of the songs before...in superior versions. Another part of it was that the wide array of producers just didn't make for a cohesive album. (Might have made for a couple of nice EPs, but not an entire album.) The other reason probably had to do with it having the worst release date in U.S. history (9-11-01). After hearing TMBG's much more cohesive recent release "The Spine," I thought I'd throw together an "alternate version" of "Mink Car," just to see what would happen. The results were interesting. This version has much more of a rock vibe to it, and subsequently feels much more like a TMBG album. With the inclusion of the live tracks, it almost feels like a sequel to "Severe Tire Damage." (I would have used all studio versions, if they'd been available.) As a result, I had to crossfade some of the tracks in EZ CD Creator (tracks 3--->4, for instance), but the effect worked perfectly. One interesting discovery I made while doing this was that the songs that had been the most tampered with in the studio bookended the album ("Bangs," "Cyclops Rock," "Man, It's So Loud In Here," "I've Got A Fang," "Older," "Finished With Lies"), while the songs in the middle of the album were all pretty minimalistic when it comes to production. Anyhow, this version works pretty well, as far as I'm concerned. Versions are the regular album versions, unless otherwise noted. I've always greatly preferred the early version of "Bangs" in particular over the album version. Oh, and this version of "Edith Head" is a fan made mix that melds the "Long Tall Weekend" version (high octave vocal) with the "Mink Car" version (low octave vocal). The cover is an actual unused idea for the cover of the official album.

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