Dr. Spock's Back-Up Band

Released: 1993
Label: Blue Knight Records
Tracks: 21

[edit] Description

From the bootleg's liner notes:

They might be giants, they might just be Dr. Spock's back-up band, but they definitely are one of the most gifted pop bands around.

Since almost twenty years the two eccentrics John Flansburgh and John Linnel are working at their common multiangeld conception oft the world. Since 1988 they set their results to music and they have blessed us with five albums so far.

When in 1990 'Birdhouse in your soul' entered the U.S. charts it came to them as a surprise. 'We just play funny music for odd people. We don't fit for the charts' said John Flansburgh. Anyway the duo from Boston is wowing the U.S. college circuit since.

The show on this record will give you an impression of what's happening when the two kings of snip are entering the stage, and you'll understand instantly why they are cult.

-Nickel Mong

[edit] Track Listing

1. The Extended Spider Intro
2. I Palindrome I
3. Twisting
4. Particle Man
5. The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)
6. The Statue Got Me High
7. She's Actual Size
8. The Famous Polka
9. Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes
10. Whistling in the Dark
11. 32 Footsteps
12. We Want A Rock
13. Birdhouse in Your Soul
14. Don't Let's Start
15. Dig My Grave
16. Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
17. Kiss Me, Son Of God
18. Your Racist Friend
19. Frankenstein
20. Lie Still, Little Bottle
21. Someone Keeps Moving My Chair

[edit] Trivia / Info

• The recording featured on this bootleg is the June 27, 1992 Chicago show.
• Some of the tracks on this bootleg would later be officially released (often as medleys) on TMBG Unlimited in the August compilation.
• The Intro track features an unidentified person announcing the band.
• The bootleg's title quotes a lyric from the self-referential song They Might Be Giants.

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