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Severe Tire Damage (album)

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Released
  
August 11, 1998

Severe Tire Damage (1998)
  
Live (1999)

Release date
  
11 August 1998

Genre
  
Alternative rock

Recorded
  
1994–1998

Artist
  
They Might Be Giants

Label
  
Restless Records

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They Might Be Giants albums, Alternative rock albums

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Severe Tire Damage is a primarily live album by They Might Be Giants, released in 1998. It also features a few studio tracks, including a new single ("Doctor Worm").

Contents

The live cuts, some recorded at soundchecks without any audience, feature at least one track from every album since their debut, which include a few old fan favorites that have been reworked since the duo adopted a full backing band. Songs like "She's an Angel", from their debut, They Might Be Giants and "Birdhouse in Your Soul", from their major label debut, Flood, are treated to multiple guitars and a horn section. Conversely, the song "Meet James Ensor" originally appeared on their first full band effort, John Henry (1994) and surfaces here in a bare-bones rendition, with only vocals and an accordion.

Besides the aforementioned lack of an audience on several tracks, some tracks have also undergone studio "retooling" - most notably, "Ana Ng," which appeared in its untampered form (with an uncropped intro and without a heavily distorted voice saying, "I don't want the world...") on the 1994 promo-only release "Live!! New York City." In truth, this 'live album' is not particularly representative of a live TMBG show, failing to show the on-stage improvisation, humor, and audience participation that are characteristic of a They Might Be Giants concert.

A condensed version of this album was released as Live, which featured 10 of the 24 tracks listed here.

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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.

    1. "Doctor Worm" – 3:01
    2. "Severe Tire Damage Theme" – 0:40
    3. "They Got Lost" – 3:42
    4. "Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)" – 2:17
    5. "Birdhouse in Your Soul" – 3:12
    6. "She's An Angel" – 3:20
    7. "XTC vs. Adam Ant" – 3:39
    8. "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" – 3:07
    9. "Ana Ng" – 3:00
    10. "First Kiss" – 1:36
    11. "Spider" – 0:53
    12. "Particle Man" – 2:09
    13. "She's Actual Size" – 2:18
    14. "S-E-X-X-Y" – 3:06
    15. "Meet James Ensor" – 1:30
    16. "Till My Head Falls Off" – 2:54
    17. "About Me" – 3:01 (actual track stops at 0:41 and is followed by 2:20 of silence)
    18. "Planet of the Apes" - 2:35
    19. "Return to the Planet of the Apes" – 2:46
    20. "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" – 1:40
    21. "Escape from the Planet of the Apes" – 1:08
    22. "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" – 1:57
    23. "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" – 2:00
    24. "This Ape's for You" – 1:13

    Songs

    1Doctor Worm3:03
    2Severe Tire Damage Theme0:42
    3They Got Lost3:44

    References

    Severe Tire Damage (album) Wikipedia
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