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This was the first CD i ever bought, and i loved it. That was a few years ago, since then my tastes in music have changed quite a bit and i have sold this CD. But i always rememver this as being a great Cd, and TMBG being the only band of their kind!
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I really liked 'Apollo 18' and 'Flood', so I began searching for another album I had heard about called 'John Henry'. Every music store I visited was asking like thirty-something dollars for it. Being a college student, I didn't have that much cash just lying around. So, I was browsing through my fave alternative music hole-in-the-wall today, and WOW I came across 'John Henry' for only (drum roll) EIGHT BUCKS!! I have to say, it was definitely worth the wait. I love it!
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This is easily my favorite TMBG, "Apollo 18" following close behind. However, I'd give Apollo 18 5 stars and this one only 4 because this one contains more filler. But I still like it more. My enjoyment is 5 stars, but the song quality is only 4. It's amazingly hard to understand.
Anyway, what good shtuff do we have here? We have the utterly awesome album openers "Subliminal" and "Snail Shell," we have the rockers "Destination Moon" and "I Should Be Allowed To Think," and the interesting tunes like "The End Of The Tour," "A Self Called Nowhere," and "AKA Driver."
Only "O Do Not Forsake Me" and "Dirt Bike" come off to me as utterly unlistenable. It's a very good album.
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They Might Be Giants, long one of my favorite bands, has been around a mighty long time and recently has seemed to be creatively struggling. They had fallen "out of love" with their NY New Wave roots, with the simple two-man combo, with electronic music in general. But they had felt the pressure to release more to appease their hungry fans. From that thrust we gained Apollo 18 -- a fine album, but by no means a partner of the first three. Finally willing to see outside the lines, TMBG breaks their stylistic barriers and in doing so regains their love for music and creativity. JOHN HENRY is the result! By far their best effort since Lincoln, if not their best album ever. John Henry is followed by a weaker album, which comes off almost as a synthesis of the John Henry sound and their earlier sound. While Apollo 18 and Factory Showroom may be more like a excellent cover band imitating TMBG (this sort of self-emulation plagues all bands that set trends), JOHN HENRY is an innovative, brilliant piece. I just saw TMBG in concert (touring for a live album, basically -- pretty weak, guys -- called Severe Tire Damage) and can say they were much more awesome as a duo. The FLOOD tour was mind-blowing, hilarious, awesome. Hopefully their next step will be something new: TMBG is best when they are creative, not weary and out-of-ideas.
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As I was reading the reviews I was stunned, nay HORRIFIED that someone would put a labal upon this album like "not compelling" this single statement nearly gave me my 2nd heart attack (the first was reading that particular statement the FIRST time)I could not imagin woh would NOT like this album, a friend of mine who literaly only listens to techo fell in love with the ablbum before the first lyrics were even uttered. His first words about the album were "where did you say you bought that?" very unfourtunatly I was forced to say "I don't know, it was a gift."
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