(2020) They Might Be Giants - Live at the Music Hall of Williamsburg


Review:
For one brief shining moment on Saturday, November 29th, 2015, They Might Be Giants returned to their original format: a drum machine and synth bass tracked to a TEAC reel-to-reel tape recorder with a duo lineup of John L. on accordion and John F. on a Japanese telecaster (even taking care to bring back his original Fender Deluxe amp and minimal pedal complement). It was all Big 80s Systems at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn for that special set. Combining some early classics with recent numbers into a truly dynamic set of songs, these recordings are a unique glimpse of They Might Be Giants Version 1.0. To top things off, the second set that night reintroduced They Might Be Giants’ long-standing live lineup of the 21st century and ike John Henry of legend, they set out to prove that live humans will always eclipse the heartless, error-free efforts of machines. Who won? Only you can decide.





Tracklist:
01 Intro
02 Snowball In Hell
03 Don't Let's Start
04 The Famous Polka
05 I'll Sink Manhattan
06 Trouble Awful Devil Evil
07 Lie Still, Little Bottle
08 Ana Ng
09 Impossibly New
10 They'll Need A Crane
11 I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die
12 Cage & Aquarium
13 Daylight
14 Wearing A Raincoat
15 How Can I Sing Like A Girl
16 Youth Culture Killed My Dog
17 Birdhouse In Your Soul
18 Godzilla & Band Intro
19 The Mesopotamians
20 We Live In A Dump
21 Can't Keep Johnny Down
22 Answer
23 Number Three
24 Authenticity Trip
25 I Can Help The Next In Line
26 Damn Good Times
27 When Will You Die
28 Let Me Tell You About My Operation
29 Dead
30 I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar
31 Music Jail, Pt. 1 & 2
32 Twisting
33 James K. Polk
34 Robot Parade
35 The Guitar
36 Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
37 Meet James Ensor
38 Doctor Worm


Media Report:
Genre: indie-rock
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits