Music For Dead People

This article was part of an April 1, 2012 April Fools' Day joke!

	Music For Dead People Studio album by They Might Be Giants
	First released	April 1, 2012	Tracks	14	Last album	Join Us
	Label	Idlewild <11661-9128>	Length	49:47:47	Next album	Nanobots

Music For Dead People is They Might Be Giants' latest musical pursuit, released in 2012 on Idlewild.

Purchase

Seller	Format	Price	Link
TMBG Merch Store	LP	$100.99

Description

Music For Dead People combines elements of TMBG's past, present, and future in music-making. Marking the triumphant return of the accordion, the instrumentation is as wide as the 205.666" LP—the only physical format on which the album was released. Featuring banjo, autoharp, hyperbass flute, contrabass saxophone, and weasels, all played by a slew of skeletons re-incarnated in John Flansburgh's secret ocean laboratory, which is located 30 miles below West Xylophone, and Cecil Portesque, it is the only album ever to exist. During recording, specially designed necro-fiber-aural microphones were used to pick up the dead air.

History

John Linnell's knitting blog

Production began on March 21, 0 CE. The first news of the album came from John Linnell's blog. The band had decided to take a new direction:

Having touched the child, adult, and angsty teen demographics with a sweeping gusto, They Might Be Giants are branching out into the final, untapped listening audience: dead people. It is a noble effort, since the band is still alive (with the exception of Marty Beller), and ever since the largely unsuccessful Squirrel Songs album put out by Flansburgh in '91, the group has been reluctant to release material with unusual intentions. Listening to the album, I find it can only be summed up in 5 words: All you need is love. —Carl Sagan

The band had given news of two singles, "Ain't But One Table" and "Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell" via twitter months before the album was released. When Pat Dillett's studio was destroyed by rabid monkeys who had escaped from an Alaskan wildlife reserve and trained themselves to form an aeroplane in order to transport themselves to New York, the band feared their work on the album, which at that point was still intended to have been directed at living audience, was destroyed as well. And they were right. With everything gone, the band began again on a completely new album. Dissatisfied with poor sales to those with a pulse, they outsourced to the last demographic left: dead people.

Sales

Music For Dead People is available for free download from iTunes, eMusic, and every other online music store. It is also available from tmbg.com. Unfortunately, since only dead people can hear it, due to the necro-fiber-aural technology, the living are unable to enjoy its sombre tunes. This has considerably hurt sales.

Track listing

#	Title	Length	Lyrics	Guitar Tab
1	Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell	5:50	N/A	N/A
2	Down In The Ground (I Wanted To Be Cremated)	10:10	N/A	N/A
3	Fanfare For The Lawn Chairs	2:31	N/A	N/A
4	Dicks	4:10	N/A	N/A
5	Ain't But One Table	00:20	N/A	N/A
6	I'm Your Undertaker Now	2:46	N/A	N/A
7	Oscar Wilde	2 days	N/A	N/A
8	Old Kentucky	6:10	N/A	N/A
9	Dan Miller Gloves	1:03:14	N/A	N/A
10	The Statue Made Me Pie	2:22	N/A	N/A
11	I'm Taking The Cats With Me	3:25	N/A	N/A
12	Oh No A Hotdog	1:23	N/A	N/A
13	???	4:32	N/A	N/A
14	Omnia Quae Recta Erant Nefas Sunt	00:54	N/A	N/A

Trivia

• Necro-fiber-aural technology had previously only been used to contact the dead so that they could ask the band pressing questions.
• Ron Paul claims that this is his favorite album.