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| 1. Ana Ng | 3:23 | Not Available | ||
| 2. Cowtown | 2:21 | Not Available | ||
| 3. Lie Still, Little Bottle | 2:06 | Not Available | ||
| 4. Purple Toupee | 2:40 | Not Available | ||
| 5. Cage & Aquarium | 1:10 | Not Available | ||
| 6. Where Your Eyes Don't Go | 3:06 | Not Available | ||
| 7. Piece Of Dirt | 2:00 | Not Available | ||
| 8. Mr. Me | 1:52 | Not Available | ||
| 9. Pencil Rain | 2:42 | Not Available | ||
| 10. The World's Address | 2:24 | Not Available | ||
| 11. I've Got A Match | 2:36 | Not Available | ||
| 12. Santa's Beard | 1:55 | Not Available | ||
| 13. You'll Miss Me | 1:53 | Not Available | ||
| 14. They'll Need A Crane | 2:33 | Not Available | ||
| 15. Shoehorn With Teeth | 1:13 | Not Available | ||
| 16. Stand On Your Own Head | 1:16 | Not Available | ||
| 17. Snowball In Hell | 2:31 | Not Available | ||
| 18. Kiss Me, Son Of God | 1:52 | Not Available |
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24 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I bought this CD right as my TMBG obsession started getting into full swing. It must've been 1996 right after I got a CD player that I got Lincoln soon after the Big Blue Dog. Having much in common with the first song, it's another huge pile of inspired lunacy. What makes Lincoln so much better than the debut album is that the song are more polished and it basically sounds like more time was spent on the production. For trivia's sake, the first album was produced in a studio largely after midnight after it closed because the two Johns of TMBG knew a guy who worked there. It saved them a lot of money, but they had to work while on a lot of coffee, and at any given time one of the Johns or the producer Bill Krauss would usually be sleeping on the couch.
On Lincoln, Linnell and Flansburgh seem to have a lot more time on their hands to perfect things. This album actually made them the best-selling independent band ever since they resided on the Bar-None label. The album starts with its high-point, "Ana Ng." The premise is way out there: A man laments because he thinks that his true love resides on the exact opposite side of the earth from him and that she just missed her one day at the 1964 World's Fair. The point is made clear though. Everyone has their match, but some never find theirs. Everything that makes John Linnell my favorite songwriter comes together in the verse "They don't need me here and I know you're there / Where the world goes by like the humid air / And it sticks like a broken record / Everything sticks like a broken record." This is definitely one of my favorite songs ever.
"Ana Ng" is actually so great that it casts a shadow over the rest of the album even though the rest of the album is great. "Cowtown" follows as a sort of slap-happy pointless excursion with clarinets, a glockenspiel and a steam whistle. I could get into all of instruments on this album, almost all played just by the two Johns, but let's just say everything but the kitchen sink is on here. And here's another piece of dork trivia for you: In "Cowtown," the line "The yellow Roosevelt Avenue leaf overturned" makes no sense unless you split it up and hear that phonetically Flansburgh is saying "The yellow rose," "Roosevelt avenue," and "A new leaf overturned." This is just the beginning of hoops you have to jump through sometimes to make sense of the lyrics. Almost the entire song "Purple Toupee" seems to make no sense on the surface until you get into and realize that nearly every line is a reference to something that happened in the 60's. "I remember the book depository where they crowned the king of Cuba" = Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy from the bok depository, and all of the biggest events of JFK's political life involved Cuba, hence he's the king of it. This is the 60's as remembered by a child, mixing up names and events. I did a report on this song in high school and there's more to it than you'd want to read in a record review.
For the most part, the rest of the CD follows this kind of suits. There's lots of playful dorky lyrics and off-kilter, weird, catchy music. Of course there's the occasional witty love song ("I've Got A Match," "They'll Need A Crane," "Santa's Beard"). And then there's a weird trilogy of short interestingly arranged songs with weird imagery that begin with S - "Shoehorn With Teeth," "Stand On Your Own Head," and "Snowball In Hell." The disc finishes with "Kiss Me, Son of God," a delicate derailment of monarchies which features a nice strings arrangement with The Ordinaires. With Lincoln, They Might Be Giants set the bar by which all geek rock from then on should be measured.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
First, let me say that I think that this is one of the pinnacles of American recorded music. And I'm not just saying that because I, like John and John, am a Massachusetts-to-Brooklyn transplant. It's completely accessible, fun, eclectic, weird and intelligent. What gets me the most, though, is the darkness of the lyrics. That's right, the DARKNESS. It's interesting to read people's comments about how meaningless (although fun) TMBG's music is. Listen carefully. "Kiss Me Son of God" is an amazingly concise and effective skewering of religion. "Where Your Eyes Don't Go" is a dead-on depiction of paranoia. "Lie Still Little Bottle" is about drug dependency. And "They'll Need a Crane" is, I think, the saddest song that I have ever heard. The way that J&J bury the line "...and I don't love you anymore..." in the middle of the phonecallers' harangue to his girlfriend just tears my heart out. Moments like this pass almost unnoticed and that slyness is what distinguishes TMBG from other bands that use humor but lack the depth, yes, the DEPTH of this incredible band.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is, in my humble opinion, the best thing They Might Be Giants ever did -- and that's really saying something, because they've made several excellent albums. It's a typical TMBG disc in that it's funny, catchy, twisted, and like nothing else you've ever heard. "Ana Ng" is an absolute classic. "Purple Toupee" is probably the catchiest song I've ever heard, and would blow Mariah Carey right off the charts in a perfect world. John and John have the uncanny ability to make music that is completely insane, yet curiously accessible. If you want the perfect TMBG introduction, get "Lincoln." And then do yourself a favor: get the rest of them, too.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Very Satisfied
I was very pleased with "Lincoln", it was shipped on the same day I ordered it and delivered very promptly,exceptional since I ordered it a few days before Christmas. Read more
Published 16 months ago by wharper
Perfect TMBG...
Sure this was their new album when I came to know of them, but I picked this up a bit later on. It's very unassuming and of the same ilk as their debut, but it's a bit more diverse... Read more
Published on January 25, 2009 by Bill Wikstrom
Perhaps the best of their early releases
Many fans are in love with "Flood" because it contains multiple classics that show up in everyone's collections. Read more
Published on October 6, 2008 by Bryan Adkins
A Good CD, but I recommend the Double Album instead.
TMBG (or perhaps I should say their Record Company) released a Then and Now Double CD that has this album wholesale on it combination with their first album. Read more
Published on January 12, 2007 by B. Bennett
Contradictory Opinion - looking a little deeper
I have to disagree with many of the reviews here, far from being their best album, this so far is my least favorite of TMBG's work. Read more
Published on July 27, 2006 by Blackbird 71
People should get beat up for stating their beliefs.
This was the second album by They Might Be Giants. If you are familiar with TMBG, you know what to expect. Songs with catchy melodies and silly lyrics. Read more
Published on June 13, 2006 by Johnny Heering
Great
Hey this is a great album with a awsome selection of tunes, very catchy. Well as we all know Ana Ng is one of their best songs but Cowtown is an odd song that you'd expect from... Read more
Published on March 14, 2006 by Mr. Magoo
grew on me slowly
I told Monica when I brought it back, "it looks great, but I couldn't get into it." She excidedly told me about how she had done the same thing, back when it came out. Read more
Published on January 16, 2006 by rcb
I think it's thier best
This is my favorite album from TMBG. It's clever, irreverent, sometimes sad, but never seems to take itself too seriously. Read more
Published on October 7, 2005 by Tracy L. Scharbach
Fun n'Games
With a 20 year career that has spawned one of the most enjoyable back catalogs in pop music They Might be Giants crowning glory continues to be their sophomore effort-"Lincoln"in... Read more
Published on July 28, 2005 by Tezcatlipoca
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