Dial-A-Song Tribute

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Current Project Status
Status: On Hold!
See Dial-A-Song Tribute for more info

On alt.music.tmbg, Asa Pillsbury came up with the suggestion to create a fan-made tribute to the unreleased songs of Dial-A-Song. TMBW.Net was organizing and hosting the tribute album tracks as they were submitted.

After several discussions with the band's management, they have asked us not to move forward with the DAS Fan Tribute. While we are very disappointed, we understand that this is the band's intellectual property, and we want to keep good relations between TMBG and TMBW.Net.

Thank you to everyone that contributed tracks and artwork. We will continue to host them here, in the hopes that we can find a time in the future in which the band will let us resume this project. If you have already started a track, you can feel free to upload it here.

Again, we're sorry about this. Believe us, we were just as excited as several of you, who were contributing tracks.

Song eligibility[edit]

The concept was to pick a TMBG song that was on Dial-A-Song, but had never later been officially re-recorded by the band.

Eligible songs should not have an official re-recorded release by the band. As an example, "Cabbagetown" (once a Dial-A-Song demo) is not eligible because of its later studio recording on the I Palindrome I EP. However, a song like "Somebody's Body," a Dial-A-Song track later re-released in higher fidelity on TMBG Unlimited (but not re-recorded) is acceptable.

Also, songs could not have been registered by John Flansburgh or John Linnell on BMI.

Songs that were to be covered[edit]

Covers that have been submitted[edit]

Song Artist Listen
"When Tornadoes Take Over The World" Bill Remmers Download
"The Power Of They Might Be Giants' Dial-A-Song" Bill Remmers Download
"Not Too Clear, Not Too Long" Bill Remmers Download
"Live Like Pigs" Bill Remmers Download
"You're Watching..." Through Self Deduction Download
"Tiny Doctors" Hey Erik Leafinson! Download
"Mrs. Cinderella" Lo-Fi Misery Download
"Outboard Part Of Man" Aaroneoustruths Download
"No Answer" Say It To My Face Download
"Somebody's Body" Through Self Deduction Download
"The King Of Wingo" Furious Skinny Download
Submission count: 12.

Songs available to choose from[edit]

This list contains all the songs we believe are eligible for the tribute album. These songs originated on Dial-A-Song and were not re-recorded for a studio release at a later point, unless they were changed drastically enough to be incomparable to the final version. Some songs such as "Mainstream U.S.A." and "Swing Is A Word" could not be included because they are registered on BMI under TMBG Music (see above on the page for BMI links).