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Au Contraire

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song nameAu Contraire
artistThey Might Be Giants
albumThe Spine, Au Contraire (Single), TMBG Clock Radio
year2004
first playedOct. 18, 2002 (51 known performances)
run time2:26
sung byJohn Linnell

[edit] Trivia/Info

  • The clapping at the end of the album version sounds truncated because it continues onto Damn Good Times.
  • Danny Weinkauf does not play bass on this song. Instead, it's John Linnell playing some nice keybass, which becomes apparent toward the very end of the song. (If you'll notice, Danny's name is absent from the credits of Indestructible Object.)
  • There are three slightly different mixes of this track appearing on the EP, album and pre-release promos of the album. The EP version contains a flute solo, the promo version has a guitar solo, and the version on commercial pressings of "The Spine" features both the guitar solo as well as part of the flute as a fill-in before the final verse. Two bootlegged versions also exist - one splices the two solos end to end, and another runs both solos simultaneously.

[edit] Song Themes

Clothes, Denial, French, Games, Language, No, People (Real), Presidents, Problems With Liner Notes, Questions, References To Other Songs Or Musicians, Religion, Supernatural, Shapes, Songs With Handclaps, Weather

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