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Best of the Early Years (They Might Be Giants album)

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Released
  
November 29, 1999

Length
  
25:39

Release date
  
29 November 1999

Genre
  
Alternative rock

Recorded
  
1985–1991

Artist
  
They Might Be Giants

Label
  
BMG

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Producer
  
Bill Krauss, Matthew Hill, They Might Be Giants

Best of the Early Years (1999)
  
Working Undercover for the Man (2000)

Similar
  
They Might Be Giants albums, Alternative rock albums

Best of the Early Years is a compilation album released by They Might Be Giants on November 29, 1999. It is a truncated version of Then: The Earlier Years, including 10 of the seventy-two featured on Then. It was released at the same time as Live, which itself was a condensed version of TMBG's live album Severe Tire Damage.

Contents

Two versions of the CD were released with different track orders. The original version has since been discontinued. Cassette versions of the album featured tracks 1–8 of the original track listing.

Track listing

All songs by They Might Be Giants unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Don't Let's Start" – 2:36
  2. "Ana Ng" – 3:23
  3. "Youth Culture Killed My Dog" (John Flansburgh, John Linnell) –2:51
  4. "We're the Replacements" – 1:50
  5. "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head" (Flansburgh, Linnell) – 2:12
  6. "Purple Toupee" – 2:40
  7. "(She Was A) Hotel Detective" – 2:10
  8. "Everything Right Is Wrong Again" – 2:20
  9. "Cowtown" – 2:21
  10. "Hide Away Folk Family" – 3:21

Original track listing

  1. "Ana Ng" - 3:23
  2. "Purple Toupee" - 2:40
  3. "Youth Culture Killed My Dog" - 2:51
  4. "Don't Let's Start" - 2:36
  5. "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head" - 2:12
  6. "(She Was A) Hotel Detective" - 2:10
  7. "Everything Right Is Wrong Again" - 2:20
  8. "Cowtown" - 2:21
  9. "We're The Replacements" - 1:50
  10. "Hide Away Folk Family" - 3:21

Songs

1Don't Let's Start2:37
2Ana Ng3:23
3Youth Culture Killed My Dog2:53

References

Best of the Early Years (They Might Be Giants album) Wikipedia
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