The first They Might Be Giants album I owned was "Flood," which contained the hits "Istanbul" and "Birdhouse In Your Soul." The follow-up album was titled "Apollo 18," and it had this "song" near the end of it.
I put "song" in quotation marks because I'm not really sure if it is a song or not. It is actually 21 little songs or snippets of songs that are smushed together. Is it a song, or is it 21 different little songs?
Of those 21 "songs," some are, of course, better than others. My favorites include:
"What's That Blue Thing Doing Here?"
"Please Pass the Milk, Please"
"I'm Having a Heart Attack"
"I Found a New Friend Underneath My Pillow"
and "Aren't You the Guy Who Hit Me In the Eye."
Apparently, the idea was to have 21 choruses of songs, so that the whole thing kind of sounded like a K-Tel commercial. You see, this is why I like They Might Be Giants so much. All of life should be like a K-Tel commercial!
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Also, They Might Be Giants recommended that listeners play the album "Apollo 18" in shuffle mode, so that the 21 song snippets from "Fingertips" would be interspersed randomly among all the other songs from the album. And, I've got to admit, it is a bit jarring and fun to finish listening to some long song (like "Paradise By the Dashboard Light") only to have it followed by nine seconds of "What's That Blue Thing Doing Here?"
They Might Be Giants are a creative crew, and this song is pretty much at the height of their creativity.
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