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*Debuted on the ''Billboard'' 200 album chart the week of October 26, 1996; spent 2 weeks on the chart, peaking at number 89. | *Debuted on the ''Billboard'' 200 album chart the week of October 26, 1996; spent 2 weeks on the chart, peaking at number 89. | ||
*The typeface on the cover is "Giant" by [[Jonathan Hoefler]], created specifically for the album. | *The typeface on the cover is "Giant" by [[Jonathan Hoefler]], created specifically for the album. | ||
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=== Album Notes === | === Album Notes === | ||
Revision as of 11:01, 30 August 2006
File:Factoryshowroompromocover.jpg Factory Showroom Elektra Promo Cover Art |
File:Factoryshowroompromocd.jpg Factory Showroom Elektra Promo CD label |
Released: October 1996
Tracks: 14 (If hidden track counted)
Label: Elektra
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Contents
[hide]Track Listing
- Token Back To Brooklyn (1:02)
- S-E-X-X-Y (3:51)
- Till My Head Falls Off (2:53)
- How Can I Sing Like a Girl? (4:32)
- Exquisite Dead Guy (2:02)
- Metal Detector (3:50)
- New York City (3:02)
- Your Own Worst Enemy (1:45)
- XTC Vs. Adam Ant (3:37)
- Spiraling Shape (4:24)
- James K. Polk (3:04)
- Pet Name (4:04)
- I Can Hear You (1:57)
- The Bells Are Ringing (3:32)
Japan only bonus tracks:
- Unforgotten (3:06)
- Sensurround (2:57)
Hidden Token Back To Brooklyn - Rewind before track 1 to find. Won't work on some CD players, including most computers. It is also omitted from the non-US releases of the album, again due to a manufacturing problem at the EU pressing plant (all too similiar to the problems with Apollo 18).
Info
- TMBG's last album for Elektra.
- Debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart the week of October 26, 1996; spent 2 weeks on the chart, peaking at number 89.
- The typeface on the cover is "Giant" by Jonathan Hoefler, created specifically for the album.
- The working title for the album was rumoured to be, quite simply, "Crap".
Album Notes
They Might Be Giants:
- John Flansburgh (vocals, guitar)
- John Linnell (vocals, keyboard, horns)
- Eric Schermerhorn (guitar)
- Graham Maby (bass)
- Brian Doherty (drums)
Producers:
- Pat Dillett, They Might Be Giants
Press release: A Guided Tour of Factory Showroom
Greetings from John and John. Factory Showroom is our latest album, and our second with a full band. Encouraged by Elektra's liberal A&R staff to take the album in our own direction, we decided to forego our usual woodshedding process. Instead, many of these songs were finished during a weekly residency at the Mercury Lounge in New York this spring and short east coast and midwest tours. Having recorded most of John Henry with the full band live, we set out to intergrate our old, highly personal, electronic way of working with our new, more organic full band sound.
The Sessions
We recorded the album at both fancy and unfancy studios in New York City, including our apartment-shaped personal studios. With our new freedom, we had the opportunity to make recording in ways we only imagined-from full string and horn sections for the opening track to recording at the Edison Laboratory without electricity on a wax cylinder recorder from 1898 for the song "I Can Hear You". We gratefully acknowledge the production skills of our old friend Pat Dillett who helped us realize a lot of our ideas for the project. We met Pat when he worked as an engineer for the recording of Flood . To finally be able to create an entire album with him has been a pleasure.
Our drummer from the John Henry sessions, Brian Doherty, carries on with us, and has been joined by the awesome and notable bassist Graham Maby (Joe Jackson, Freedy Johnson) and lead guitarist Eric "Wah-Wah" Schermerhorn (Iggy Pop, David Bowie).
Thanks for checking out our latest album. Hope you like it. See you on the road.
