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This page contains information about the website DialASong.com
For information about the Dial-A-Song phone service and a list of songs that have been or are featured on it, see Dial-A-Song.

The current site - starting August 2006

The website opens up displaying a large crowd of people holding up their cell phones to make a glowing galaxy of LCD screen lights. It then redirects to the main page after a few seconds. The main page has links to three secondary pages, all revolving around the They Might Be Giants Podcast. (All references to the dial-a-song service are gone.) The first of three pages has information regarding subscription to the podcast, the second also tells how to subscribe and also contains Their "second legal notice ever," saying that the songs and podcasts by They Might Be Giants are solely Their property and that fans should not exploit TMBG's generosity. The third page contains an archive of all of the podcasts to download (except for Podcast 5B, oddly), with the links hidden off far to the right side of the page in front of somebody reading a copy of Clarence Darrow's book, The Skeleton in the Closet.

On every page, there are a few seemingly random pictures used as backgrounds, including photographs of an old newspaper, a series of radio knobs, a drum set, and a coastal town. These photos are quite large, which might take a while for the page to load for dial-up users. When a mouse moves over certain pictures, their colors become inverted, and if clicked (which eludes some people, as it is not the most user-friendly interface), a window with the DialASong.com media player pops up.

(Note - originally, you were supposed to be able to download the songs by clicking on the word "TMBG", but it didn't work, and has since been removed altogether.)

Tracks on DialASong.com

1. Cast Your Pod To The Wind
2. Podcast Remix
3. Yeah, The Deranged Millionaire
4. Turtle Songs Of North America
5. E Eats Everything (Elegant Too Remix)
6. La Dolce

List of background pictures on DialASong.com

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Trivia

• The title at the very top of each page is "They MIght Be GIants," a (probably unintended) typo of the band's name.

Flash site - March 2000 to August 2006

From March 2000 to August 2006, DialASong.com was an online version of the Dial-A-Song service that let fans listen to unreleased or rare songs, demos, and other They Might Be Giants songs. Looking like part of a creepy carnival game, a random song was played when a "participant" clicked on the target, at which point the mustachioed man would crank his musicbox to reveal a telephone playing a song.

Tracks on DialASong.com

These songs are named in the way they appeared on the website.

1. A Chopping Block Testimonial
2. A Shooting Star is Not a Star
3. Alienation's For the Rich (Demo)
4. Another First Kiss
5. Ant
6. Bangs
7. Become a Robot
8. Best of Spin the Country Dial
9. Best of Spin the Dial
10. Blind (Demchuk)
11. Bottom of the Sea
12. Budnitz 1
13. Cabbagetown (Demo)
14. Chaos By Design (Colorwheel)
15. Clowntown
16. Concrete and Clay
17. Cut The Strings (Demchuk)
18. Cyclops Rock
19. Dan Hickey's Actual Drums
20. Dollar For Dollar
21. Drink!
22. Drinkin (Live Radio)
23. Even My T-Shirt
24. Finished With Lies
25. Getting All McGyver on it
26. Happy
27. Headless (Naykid Eyez)
28. Hi Honey, I'm Home
29. I Am the Biggest One
30. I'm Your Boyfriend Now (demo)
31. Indian Ocean
32. Indiana Wants Me
33. Its Getting Late
34. It's Not My Birthday
35. It's So Loud In Here
36. I've Got a Fang
37. Kid's Are Different Now! (Spool 409)
38. Kings Of The Cave
39. Lincoln, Washington and that Jefferson Guy
40. Lines Upon A Tranquil Brow
41. Maybe I Know (A Wax Cylinder Special)
42. Medley: 1999 - Cowtown (Live)
43. Medley: Where Your Eyes Don't Go - Why Does the Sun Shine?
44. Mink Car (Demo)
45. Mister Me (Demo)
46. Monsters of Mud
47. Museum of Idiots
48. "Mystery Track" (actually the Coke Radio Ad)
49. Oh Do Not Forsake Me (Demo)
50. Oranges and Graphic Design
51. Outboard Part of Man
52. Particle Man (Demo)
53. Ram On (Paul McCartney)
54. Rhythm Section Want Ad (Demo)
55. Robert Lowell
56. Rocket Ship (early version of Spiraling Shape)
57. Sally Boy
58. Save Your Life (Bog Standard)
59. Seven Eleven
60. Somebody's Body
61. Something You'd Like To See (Little Lisa Whitman)
62. Spy
63. The Armys Tired Now
64. The Big Big Whoredom
65. The Bloodboat
66. Theme From Unlimited
67. They Might Be Giants (Demo) *not positive on which version this is
68. They Might Be Giants (Rough Cut)
69. Tigerella
70. Tiny Doctors
71. To the Bubblecraft (With Elegant Too)
72. Too Cool Girls (With the Velcro Horns)
73. Truth In Words
74. Two Plus Three Equals One
75. We're All Alone
76. WMOB Radio
77. Words Are Like (The Crummer Family)
78. Your Mom's Allright (with Doughty)

Quicktime streams - December 1998 to March 2000

Information coming soon.

See also

• The history of Dialasong.com on the WayBack Machine
• Dial-A-Song - The phone-based version of Dial-A-Song that inspired this website
• Dial-A-Song Reference - Songs that mention Dial-A-Song
• Dial-A-Song - 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants - 2-disc "best of" compilation commemorating the band's 20th anniversary (does not feature any Dial-A-Song recordings)
• Other TMBG Websites