Beast Of Horns
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Live album by They Might Be Giants | |||||
| First released | October 10, 2024 Release details / collectors: Show | Hide |
Tracks | 13 | |||
| Label | Idlewild Recordings | Length | 39:00 | |||
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Beast of Horns is a live album compiling They Might Be Giants performances recorded at live shows in 2022 and 2023 spotlighting songs that feature the Tricerachops Horns, who began touring with TMBG full-time in 2022. The album was first released as a download to members of the 2024 Instant Fan Club on July 17, 2024, with a public physical and download release in October 2024.
Purchase
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| CD (w/ autograph) | $21.99 |
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Description
Emails with downloads of the album came with this intro:
Recorded live over the past couple of years, this album documents the expanded 8-piece band finding John Linnell, John Flansburgh, Danny Weinkauf, Dan Miller, and Marty Beller joined by the majestic horns of Stan Harrison, Mark Pender, and Dan Levine.
The album's artwork was designed by Rolf Conant and Elizabeth Connor and uses a 1764 woodcut illustration of the Beast of Gévaudan by an unknown French artist[1] for the front cover. The back cover uses Sea monsters off Norway[2], while the inner sleeve artwork uses Monstrous sea creatures[3], which were both illustrated circa. 1555 by Swedish writer and cartographer Olaus Magnus.
Most shows in 2022 and 2023 were part of the Flood anniversary tour, in which the band performed every song on the Flood album. Beast of Horns entirely ignores that aspect of the tour and doesn't feature a single song from Flood.
Similar to certain projects like The Escape Team and My Murdered Remains, the album is not available on streaming, except for a four-song sampler.
New England-based record store chain Newbury Comics bundled an autographed postcard with CD purchases of the album, which includes a QR code to download a recording of "Metal Detector" performed on October 25, 2015.[4]
Track listing
Dates below are unconfirmed and based on comparing audio with audience recordings of 2022-23 shows.
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| 1 | When Will You Die Fox Theater, Oakland, CA: 2023-04-16 |
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| 2 | Museum Of Idiots | 3:20 |
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| 3 | Brontosaurus | 3:09 |
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| 4 | The Darlings Of Lumberland | 3:49 |
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| 5 | Synopsis For Latecomers | 2:40 |
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| 6 | Let Me Tell You About My Operation | 4:03 |
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| 7 | Doctor Worm Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, CA: 2023-04-14 |
3:05 |
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| 8 | Underwater Woman | 2:40 |
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| 9 | Mr. Me Rams Head Live!, Baltimore, MD: 2022-12-18 |
2:00 |
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| 10 | Authenticity Trip College Street Music Hall, New Haven, CT: 2022-12-31 |
2:23 |
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| 11 | Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had A Deal | 3:04 |
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| 12 | I'll Sink Manhattan Old National Centre, Indianapolis, IN: 2023-03-26 |
2:39 |
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| 13 | Turn Around Cain's Ballroom, Tulsa, OK: 2023-05-18 |
3:06 |
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Sampler
A four-song sampler was released to streaming services on October 25, 2024.
| # | Title | Length | Lyrics | Guitar Tab |
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| 1 | When Will You Die? | 3:00 | N/A
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| 2 | The Darlings Of Lumberland | 3:49 |
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| 3 | Doctor Worm | 3:05 |
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| 4 | I'll Sink Manhattan | 2:39 |
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