Free Tunes
They Might Be Giants' official website tmbg.com has a service where every once in a while, a new, rare, or live song can be downloaded from tmbg.com/freeTunes.html if you know the super-secret password that you can find out by signing up here.
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[hide]Current Free Tunes
The current song showcased on the tmbg.com Free MP3 page is Got Getting Up So Down (Extended)."
The current free MP3 showcased on theymightbegiants.com is Call Connected Thru The NSA.
Previous Free Tunes
Here are all of the songs known to be featured on the Free Tunes page, with the newest and current MP3s at the top:
- Got Getting Up So Down (Extended) (download)
- Kendra McCormick (download)
- (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future (download)
- Miniature Sidewalk Whirlwind (download)
- Valentine (download)
- Yeah, The Deranged Millionaire (download)
- I Enjoy Being A Boy (download)
- Turtle Songs Of North America (download)
- Pictures Of Pandas Painting (download)
- Particle Man (Live At XM Studio) (download)
- E Eats Everything (Live At Amoeba Records) (download) and Flying V (Live At Amoeba Records) (download)
- Anaheim (download) and Clap Your Hands (Live Almanac) (download)
- Love Is Eternity (download)
- Celebrate Brooklyn (download) and Trees (Dallas) (download)
- Columbia, MO (download)
- Doctor Worm and The Famous Polka live played consecutively in New York City on October 1, 2004 (download)
- The Egg (download)
- On The Drag (download)
- Vancouver (soundcheck version) (download)
- Experimental Film live in DC (download)
- Houston (download)
- John Lee Supertaster live at Blue Note
- Twisting live at Blue Note (download)
- Bastard Wants To Hit Me live at Blue Note (download)
- The Blue Note (the Columbia soundcheck) (download)
- The Bloodmobile (download)
- The Spine Surfs Alone (Part 1) (demo)
- Dirt Bike (Other Thing) (download)
- Mr. Me (Other Thing) (download)
- Rest Awhile
- Words Are Like
- Down To The Bottom Of The Sea
- Become A Robot (Live In 1985)
- Robot Parade (Banjo)
- I Love To Sing
- Wearing A Raincoat (Demo)
- Taste The Fame (listed as "Taste The Mix") (download)
- Renew My Subscription (Demo) (download)
- Idlewild (download)
- Pop-A-Shot (listed as "I Pop a Shot") (download)
- Canada Haunts Me (download)
- Anqui (listed as "Aqui") (download)
- Tiny Doctors (download)
- To The Bubblecraft
- When Tornadoes Take Over The World
And possibly many more earlier...
Theymightbegiants.com Free MP3s
These songs were available on the free MP3s page on theymightbegiants.com between 2002 and 2003:
- Mas Fun
- Damn Good Times (Demo)
- Rest Awhile
- Man, It's So Loud In Here (Hot 2002 Remix)
- Concrete And Clay
- Feast Of Lights
- Ant (Dial-A-Song)
- Your Mom's Alright
- S-E-X-X-Y (Kendal Mintcake Remix)
- Rockfish
In 2006, Theymightbegiants.com began posting free MP3s once again:
Early Dial-A-Song Online
From the creation of the original tmbg.com in 1997 up until 2000, TMBG ran a little Dial-A-Song page that was updated every few months with some new (and old) music. Exact chronological order is unknown, but here's the best info we have, with the most recent on top:
Quicktime era (the pre-Flash days of www.dialasong.com):
- Smoking Gun Theme
- Dark And Metric
- Unforgotten
- Operators
- Four of Two
- Finished with Lies
- She Was A Hotel Detective
- On the Drag
- Rest Awhile
- Certain People I Could Name
- The Edison Museum
- The main page also included the short intro song You're Watching.
- unknown chronology:
WAV era (at the old www.tmbg.com/dial/ page):
- Rat Patrol (Dial-A-Song) (download)
- The Summer Breeze
- Your Own Worst Enemy
- Wreck It Apart
- So Long, Mockingbird
- Swing Is A Word
- Subway Token To Brooklyn (download)
- Greek #3
- The Bells Are Ringing (Dial-A-Song)
- Feel Good Sublet
- unknown chronology:
- When Tornadoes Take Over The World
- The Edison Museum
- What Bothers The Spaceman? (Mono Puff)
- Nixon's the One (Mono Puff)
- Tryptophan (Mono Puff)
- Maine (John Linnell)