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John Henry (CD)

By: They Might Be Giants (Artist)

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DISC 1 for John Henry (CD) Album By They Might Be Giants (Artist)
1   Subliminal
2   Snail Shell
3   Sleeping In The Flowers
4   Unrelated Thing
5   AKA Driver
6   I Should Be Allowed To Think
7   Extra Savoir-Faire
8   Why Must I Be Sad?
9   Spy
10   O, Do Not Forsake Me
11   No One Knows My Plan
12   Dirt Bike
13   Destination Moon
14   Self Called Nowhere, A
15   Meet James Ensor
16   Thermostat
17   Window
18   Out Of Jail
19   Stomp Box
20   End Of The Tour, The
 

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Review

Spin (10/94, pp.112-113) - Recommended - "...the good news is that the Johns can still churn out skewed pop niblets just fine..."
Entertainment Weekly (9/16/94, p.120) - "...Recording with a full band helps--the rhythms are looser, the arrangements more muscular--but the lyrics still tend toward undergraduate smarminess..." - Rating: B
Alternative Press (11/94, p.101) - "...Lurching between faux-vaudeville to clear-cut pop, loopy Latino to bona-fide `60s soul, JOHN HENRY reamins as eclectic as anything the Giants have built in the past..."
Musician (11/94, p.92) - "...shows the the Linnell/Flansburgh knack for effortless lyrical slyness continues..."
NME (Magazine) (9/17/94, p.50) - 7 - Very Good - "...they've always had a quite disgusting amount of pop songwriting talent, ideas, humour and daft ambition, and on JOHN HENRY it actually comes out..."

Title Note

They Might Be Giants: John Flansburgh (vocals, guitar); John Linnell (vocals, horns, keyboards).

Additional personnel: Jay Sherman Godfrey, Robert Quine (guitar); Steven Bernstein, Frank London (trumpet); Kevin Osborne (trombone); Kurt Hoffman (horns); Tony Maimone, Graham Maby (bass); Brian Doherty (drums).

Hudson Shad: Wilbur Pauley, Peter Becker, Hugo Munday, Mark Bleeke, William Douglas Vannice (vocals).

Recorded at Bearsville Sound Studios, Bearsville, New York and Skyline Studios, New York, New York.

For their fifth full album of new material, the duo of John Linnel and John Flansburgh (who are They Might Be Giants) expand their lineup into a full-fledged band. They'd been touring as such for a year or two prior to the making of this album and the first peek came with a couple of tracks on the previous year's WHY DOES THE SUN SHINE? EP.

The songs still have their trademark absurdist wordplay. But where two minutes used to suffice, they now comfortably stretch out some numbers to twice that length. The crack rhythm section of drummer Brian Doherty and bassist Tony Maimone can anchor, groove and swing. Horns punch out of the arrangements, adding a luster of celebration to the proceedings. With the opening measures of "No One Knows My Plan," one would be hard-pressed to name the ensemble. But once the singing enters and the song's narrative takes shape, it could be none other than these masters of cerebral fun. Their obvious delight throughout is truly infectious.

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