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They Might Be Giants |
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You know you're getting something special when the very title of the album is an in-joke that requires substantial levels of geekiness to understand: the Apollo lunar program ended with the 17th mission, and so this is the hypothetical 18th mission. The nerdy freakiness continues with a song about palindromes featuring "fake backward singing," a tune about Pavlovian experiments and behavioral modification, and one of the most stunning displays of randomness available on record: Fingertips. The track listing below shows 19 songs, which is technically accurate, but doesn't reflect that Fingertips is actually 17 separate tracks, most of which are fewer than 30 seconds, and all of which are completely and jarringly different from each other. I love this album.