They Might Be Giants (Album)

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They Might Be Giants Studio album by They Might Be Giants
First released	November 4, 1986 Full Release details / Collectors: Show / Hide	Tracks	19
Label	Bar/None / Restless	Length	38:29	Next album	Lincoln

They Might Be Giants is They Might Be Giants' first studio album, released in 1986 on the Bar/None and Restless labels.

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Back artwork

UK magazine ad for Elektra's re-release of the album

[edit] Description

They Might Be Giants is TMBG's self-titled debut album. Many fans refer to it as "The Pink Album" (similar to The Beatles' "The White Album"—also fan-named but officially self-titled) due to the pink background on the album cover. Bill Krauss, who was the band's soundman and who had produced TMBG's demo and promotional tapes, served as the producer for the album.

The Pink Album spawned two singles: Don't Let's Start and (She Was A) Hotel Detective, though neither of them charted on Billboard. Videos for the two singles were directed by Adam Bernstein along with a video for Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head.

The success of the album and their next album, Lincoln, led to them being re-released on the Restless compilation album Then: The Earlier Years (in their entireties.) However, the version of Don't Let's Start on that compilation is the single version, not the original from this album.

[edit] Track listing

#	Title	Length
1	Everything Right Is Wrong Again	2:20
2	Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head	2:12
3	Number Three	1:27
4	Don't Let's Start	2:36
5	Hide Away Folk Family	3:21
6	32 Footsteps	1:36
7	Toddler Hiway	0:25
8	Rabid Child	1:31
9	Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes	1:58
10	(She Was A) Hotel Detective	2:10
11	She's An Angel	2:37
12	Youth Culture Killed My Dog	2:51
13	Boat Of Car	1:15
14	Absolutely Bill's Mood	2:38
15	Chess Piece Face	1:21
16	I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die	1:58
17	Alienation's For The Rich	2:25
18	The Day	1:27
19	Rhythm Section Want Ad	2:21

[edit] Trivia

On the LP version of the album, the following side titles were used:
- Side 1: Johnny Call Home (718) 387-6962
- Side 2: 25 hours a day 6 days a week (718) 387-6962

Cover art by Rodney Alan Greenblat.
The first pressing of the CD (on the East Side Digital label) contained a typo on the back: "Nothing's Gonna Change By Clothes."
The Elektra Japanese pressing of the CD replaces Don't Let's Start with the single mix of the song, (She Was A) Hotel Detective with the single mix of that song, and has incorrect track times on the back.

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[edit] Vinyl

Side One label	Side Two label	Side One label (EKT80 release)	Side Two label (EKT80 release)
Side One image from lyric insert	Side Two image from lyric insert	Japanese cover, with obi strip	Insert front for Japanese release