Rating the Tracks: They Might Be Giants: Flood
Submitted by Wezzo on Thu, 04/20/2006 - 02:52
Tags:
- Rating the tracks series c/o Rushmore
- Scoring system c/o AfterHours
- Tracks
- Theme from Flood =
7 / 10
- Birdhouse In Your Soul =
10 / 10
- Lucky Ball & Chain =
9.5 / 10
- Istanbul (Not Constantinople) =
9.5 / 10
- Dead =
10 / 10
- Your Racist Friend =
10 / 10
- Particle Man =
9 / 10
- Twisting =
10 / 10
- We Want A Rock =
8.5 / 10
- Someone Keeps Moving My Chair =
10 / 10
- Hearing Aid =
8 / 10
- Minimum Wage =
5 / 10
- Letterbox =
10 / 10
- Whistling In The Dark =
8.5 / 10
- Hot Cha =
5 / 10
- Women and Men =
8 / 10
- Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love =
8.5 / 10
- They Might Be Giants =
8.5 / 10
- Road Movie to Berlin =
8 / 10
- 87/100
- Other
- Track Continuity/Pacing: 10/10
- Ingenuity: 20/20
- Depth: 28/30
- Artistic Conviction: 36/40
- 94/100
- Overall: 91/100
Thoughts:
: The most popular TMBG album, certainly; but not their best (though it's still very good). Birdhouse In Your Soul, Dead, Letterbox, and Someone Keeps Moving My Chair stand out amid an album otherwise comprised of consistently good - but not great - tracks. Particularly the last six tracks are comparatively weak. But as an album, it's still very enjoyable and some of the lyrics found here are very sharp; and Birdhouse remains their finest achievment yet.
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