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Customer Review
If it wasn't for disappointment... you know the rest.
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...
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June 14, 2002
(Albany, NY) | Helpful Votes: 24 | Rating: 5
Listen carefully...there's more here than you think.
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...
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November 20, 1998
| Helpful Votes: 13 | Rating: 5
Easily TMBG's best
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.
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May 6, 1999
| Helpful Votes: 6 | Rating: 5
