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Studio album by They Might Be Giants | |||||
| First released | September 25, 1988 Release details / collectors: Show | Hide |
Tracks | 18 | Previous album | They Might Be Giants | |
| Label | Bar/None / Restless | Length | 39:32 | Next album | Flood | |
Lincoln is They Might Be Giants' second studio album, released in 1988 on Bar/None through Restless.
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For the band's sophomore effort, TMBG worked once again with producer Bill Krauss. This was the last album he produced for the band, which subsequently turned to Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley for the production of Flood. All the bass parts on the album are synthetic or sampled. In addition, all but one track with drum-samples used an Alesis HR16 drum machine.
The cover of Lincoln (named after the Johns' hometown, Lincoln, Massachusetts) features pictures of Flansburgh's maternal grandfather, Brigadier General Ralph Hospital (right) and Linnell's paternal great-grandfather, Lewis T. Linnell (left), in a shrine built by Brian Dewan and photographed by Jamie Kitman's wife, Carol.
The album debuted on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart (now known as "The Billboard 200") the week of December 24, 1988 and spent 19 weeks on the chart, peaking at number 89. In addition, it produced three singles: Ana Ng, Purple Toupee, and They'll Need A Crane. Ana Ng, which was the first single by the band to land on Billboard Chart, spent 9 weeks on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks Chart, peaking at number 11 in late 1988.
The success of the album led to it being re-released alongside The Pink Album on the Restless compilation album Then: The Earlier Years (in their entireties.) It also paved the way for the band to make the jump from the independent label Bar/None to the major label Elektra.
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| 1 | Ana Ng | 3:23 |
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| 2 | Cowtown | 2:21 |
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| 3 | Lie Still, Little Bottle | 2:06 |
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| 4 | Purple Toupee | 2:40 |
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| 5 | Cage & Aquarium | 1:10 |
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| 6 | Where Your Eyes Don't Go | 3:06 |
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| 7 | Piece Of Dirt | 2:00 |
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| 8 | Mr. Me | 1:52 |
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| 9 | Pencil Rain | 2:42 |
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| 10 | The World's Address | 2:24 |
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| 11 | I've Got A Match | 2:36 |
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| 12 | Santa's Beard | 1:55 |
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| 13 | You'll Miss Me | 1:53 |
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| 14 | They'll Need A Crane | 2:33 |
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| 15 | Shoehorn With Teeth | 1:13 |
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| 16 | Stand On Your Own Head | 1:16 |
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| 17 | Snowball In Hell | 2:31 |
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| 18 | Kiss Me, Son Of God | 1:54 |
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CD, with diagrams of accordions and a case drawn by John Linnell; some copies are printed in black rather than red