Severe Tire Damage (album)
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Severe Tire Damage is a primarily live album by American alternative rock band They Might Be Giants, released in 1998. It also features a few studio tracks, including a new single ("Doctor Worm").
The live cuts, some recorded at soundchecks without any audience, feature at least one track from every album since their debut, which include older works that have been reworked since the duo adopted a full backing band. Songs like "She's an Angel", from their debut album, They Might Be Giants, and "Birdhouse in Your Soul", from their major label debut, Flood, have been changed from the larger band. Conversely, the song "Meet James Ensor" originally appeared on their first full-band album, John Henry (1994) and surfaces here in a bare-bones rendition, with only vocals and an accordion.
A condensed version of this album was released as Live, which featured 10 of the 24 tracks of Severe Tire Damage.
Song notes
- Tracks 1, 2, and 17 were recorded in a studio rather than onstage; track 15 was recorded in a hotel room.[5]
- Tracks 18–24 are hidden songs that were improvised in concert, based on the Planet of the Apes movie series.
- "First Kiss" was later reworked and put on the 2001 album Mink Car as "Another First Kiss", with the same basic melody and similar lyrics but a substantially different style and tempo.
- "About Me" stops at 0:41 and is followed by 2 minutes of silence, to "bury" the Planet of the Apes tracks.
- Similarly, "They Got Lost" was later recorded in the studio at a slower tempo, and was released on Long Tall Weekend as well as later being the title track on the rarities compilation album They Got Lost.
- On Track 3, "They Get Lost", the band is introduced incorrectly as "They Must Be Giants", which is a tongue-in-cheek reference to an untitled, partial recording that appears as track 13 on both Don't Let's Start and its re-release Miscellaneous T. It was inadvertently left on the Dial-A-Song answering machine, in which a confused listener named Gloria talks to an unknown third party about the mystery of "There May Be Giants" and "There Must Be Giants", as she mistakenly refers to the band. It would later be referenced when Bryant Gumbel referred to them as "They Must Be Giants" when they performed "Your Racist Friend" on Today to promote the release of Flood.
Song origins
- Studio version of track 4 originally appeared on the Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas) EP (1993)
- Studio versions of tracks 5, 8 and 12 originally appeared on Flood (1990)
- Studio version of track 6 originally appeared on They Might Be Giants (1986)
- Studio versions of tracks 7, 14 and 16 originally appeared on Factory Showroom (1996)
- Studio version of track 9 originally appeared on Lincoln (1988)
- Studio versions of tracks 11 and 13 originally appeared on Apollo 18 (1992)
- Studio version of track 15 originally appeared on John Henry (1994)
Track listing
All songs by They Might Be Giants unless otherwise noted. Tracks 18–24 are hidden tracks.
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- ^ The actual "About Me" stops at 0:41 and is followed by 2:20 of silence.
Charts
| Chart (1998) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums (ARIA)[6] | 108 |
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Prato, Greg. "They Might Be Giants - Severe Tire Damage". AllMusic. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City, New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 808. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Christgau, Robert (February 23, 1999). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved December 2, 2018.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bird, Stephanie. "John Linnell of they might be Giants interviewed by Stephanie Bird in August, 1998". Archived from the original on March 13, 2010. Retrieved November 4, 2023.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."They Might Be Giants ARIA Chart history (albums) 1988 to 2024". ARIA. Retrieved July 28, 2024 – via Imgur.com. N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart.
External links
- Severe Tire Damage at This Might Be A Wiki
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