Song List

1. Minimum Wage 2. Meet James Ensor 3. Particle Man 4. Don't Let's Start 5. She's An Angel 6. Cyclops Rock 7. Istanbul (Not Constantinople) 8. Purple Toupee 9. James K. Polk 10. Birdhouse In Your Soul 11. Ana Ng 12. Guitar, The 13. Bangs 14. Statue Got Me High, The 15. New York City 16. Doctor Worm 17. Boss Of Me 18. Your Racist Friend 19. Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas) 20. They'll Need A Crane 21. I Palindrome I 22. Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head 23. John Lee Supertaster 24. Older 25. We're The Replacements 26. Dr. Evil 27. No! 28. Clap Your Hands 29. Spider

Album Notes They Might Be Giants: John Flansburgh (vocals, guitar, keyboards); John Linnell (vocals, accordion, saxophone, keyboards).

Producers: Paul Fox; They Might Be Giants; Bill Krauss; Clive Langer.

Recording information: 1986 - 2002.

Anyone who appreciates melodic hooks, humor, originality, and inventiveness, but doesn't know They Might Be Giants, should pick up A USER'S GUIDE. Whereas 2002's two-disc, 52-song box DIAL-A-SONG offers a broad overview of the Brooklyn band's catalogue, A USER'S GUIDE is their first true "greatest hits" release, condensing the Giants' prolific output to 29 of their most insanely catchy, beautifully crafted tracks.

Given the consistency of head Giants John Flansburgh and John Linnell's songwriting, many great tunes have necessarily been left off the compilation. Still, the absolute essentials are here, including the surrealist love anthem "Birdhouse in Your Soul," the spastic power-pop of "Don't Let's Start," the angular wit of "The Statue Got Me High," and "Boss of Me" (the theme to TV's MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE), along with other wondrous tracks. Accordions wheeze, horns blare, keyboards pound, and Flansburgh and Linnell unravel verses full of clever wordplay and absurdist (yet oddly resonant) philosophy, making A USER'S GUIDE a gleeful pop jubilee.