Cassette
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They Might Be Giants have released many recordings on cassette tapes. Below is a list of these releases.
1983[edit]
- 1983 Demo Tape (Unknown)
- The only known copy of this tape that exists was used for Podcast 32A.
1984[edit]
- 1984 Promotional Demo Tape (Unknown)
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Cassette
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Back of the tape's card
- Self-released demo tape from 1984.
1985[edit]
- 1985 Promotional Demo Tapes (Unknown)
Demo Tape 1
Demo Tape 2
Demo Tape 3
Demo Tape 4
Demo Tape 5
Demo Tape 6
Demo Tape 10
- Multiple demo tapes released in 1985 to club owners, often with handwritten labels.
- 1985 Demo Tape (July 4)
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Cassette
- The band’s first album-length release.
- The material was recorded onto standard store-bought audio cassettes, with black-and-white photocopied inserts on different colored paper.
1986[edit]
- They Might Be Giants LP Sampler (Unknown)
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Cassette
- Handmade promotional cassette including three songs from the first album.
- They Might Be Giants (Unknown)
- US cassette promo.
1987[edit]
- 4 From They Might Be Giants (Unknown)
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- Australian 4-track sampler of the first album.
- They Might Be Giants (Unknown)
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- Initial US cassette release.
- Some copies have text on the back promoting three of the album’s songs.
- Don't Let's Start (November 7)
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Cassette
- Initial US cassette release.
1988[edit]
- Lincoln (Unknown)
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- Pre-release cassette.
- Roughs From 2nd LP (May)
Cassette
- An officially unreleased tape that contains rough mixes of six songs from Lincoln.
- (She Was A) Hotel Detective (May 5)
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- US cassette maxi-single.
- The track listing on the insert is missing Untitled, although the tape itself includes the track.
- Lincoln (September 25)
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- Initial US cassette release.
1989[edit]
- They'll Need A Crane (February 10)
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Cassette
- US cassette release.
1990[edit]
- 4/28/90 Cabaret Metro, Chicago (Unknown)
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Cassette
- Internal cassette of the April 28 show at Cabaret Metro in Chicago.
- Flood (Unknown)
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- US cassette promo.
- Birdhouse In Your Soul (January 2)
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- US cassette single.
- Flood (January 15)
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- Initial US cassette release.
- Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (June 5)
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- US cassette single.
1991[edit]
- Miscellaneous T (October 8)
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- US cassette release.
1992[edit]
- The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) (Unknown)
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- UK 4-track cassette promo.
- Apollo 18 (Unknown)
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Cassette
- US cassette promo.
- The Statue Got Me High (February 24)
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- US cassette single.
- Apollo 18 (March 24)
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- Initial US cassette release.
- I Palindrome I (May 5)
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- US cassette single.
1993[edit]
- 1985 Demo Tape (Unknown)
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Cassette
- Hello CD Of The Month Club re-release.
- 1993 Sampler (Unknown)
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Cassette
- Self-released sampler containing songs from the John Henry Demos sessions.
1994[edit]
- John Henry (Unknown)
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- US cassette promo.
- John Henry (Unknown)
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Cassette
- Alternate cassette promo.
- John Henry (September 13)
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- US cassette release.
1996[edit]
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Cassette
- Leaked internal cassette including most of Factory Showroom along with some Long Tall Weekend tracks and other demos.
- Factory Showroom (Unknown)
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- US cassette promo.
- S-E-X-X-Y (Unknown)
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- US cassette single.
- Unsupervised (June 11)
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- US cassette release.
- Factory Showroom (October 8)
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- US cassette release.
1997[edit]
- Then: The Earlier Years (Unknown)
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- Double promotional cassettes.
- It's Fun To Steal LP Sampler (June)
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Cassette
- Promotional demo tape for Mono Puff’s It's Fun To Steal, released almost a year before the album.
1999[edit]
- Best Of The Early Years (November 23)
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- Truncated version of Then: The Earlier Years.
- Only features eight tracks rather than the usual ten tracks found on CD.
- Live (November 23)
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- Truncated version of Then: The Earlier Years.
- Only features eight tracks rather than the usual ten tracks found on CD.
2001[edit]
- Boss Of Me (Single) (Unknown)
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- UK cassette single.
2021[edit]
- BOOK (November 12)
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- The first TMBG cassette release in twenty years.
2023[edit]
- Flood (March 3)
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- Cassette reissue.
