Customer Reviews
awesome - By: Ms. E. Slaughter, 19 Jan 2008 
I remember hearing this album being played alot when i was very little. it stuck with me because i do remember randomly spouting out
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS! BOOOY!
at random intervals throughout the years. its only been recently that i rekindled my love of this nutty band. (im 18 now) i have to say they are possibly my favourite band. i have pretty much alll their albums on my computer now, but whenever my media player happens to randomly hop onto a song from flood, it just makes me smile. it does have some of the greatest songs on i think. though theirs loads of TMBG songs from alll albums i love. but i think flood is just special to me.
If youre after an alternative/rock/pop type album, with a little more to it. go for this. it has very clever, if a little odd, lyrics, & very catchy tunes.
i hope TMBG carry on singing for many years yet, as different as alll their albums are, they retain the intelligents & catchyness throughout. there reallly is something for everyone.
This is Where the Party Ends? - By: C R Knighton, 15 Apr 2004 This is where the party begun for many TMBG fans. It is the definitive TMBG album. This album spurred me on to buy alll their other albums.
Ingenious. No two songs are alike, it is an album full of surprises. Most people I have lent this album to have then gone out to buy it for themselves. I see it as a must have for music fans, if only to broaden one's collection.
There are a lot of highlights to this album, most people who have heard it would cite 'Birdhouse in your Soul' as the best song, but in my opinion there are a lot on a par with this. Notably, 'Letterbox', 'Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love' & well, I could go on & name alll the songs, because they alll have qualities.
TMBG are musical innovators. This album proves that.
If you don't own this, buy it! - By: Douglas McNair, 04 Feb 2004 I found this album because I'd heard 'Birdhouse In Your Soul' on the radio & decided that I would like a copy of the song. I then listened to the rest of the album & wasn't disappointed. Istanbul (not Constantinople), Dead, Particle Man, They Might Be Giants, Road Movie To Berlin, the great songs just keep on coming. A word of advice. Don't listen when you're trying to work as you'll get caught up in the songs & never get anything done. But buy it!
Well! - By: , 14 Jan 2003 Since hearing this collection of mad, mad stuff a long time ago (courtesy of a friend with more money than I had at the time) I have constantly been uplifted when listening to the clever, catchy lyrics & droll commentaries on life & the world in general.
The fun I got from learning the lyrics of Rock, & trying to sing them in time to the music has occupied many happy, if exhausted hours driving home from work late at night. (Probably kept me awake too!)
Yes TMBG, not only do I love your music, but I probably owe you my life too!!!
If you are trembling on the verge of 'to buy or not to buy'
BUY - you won't regret it.
Then, when you have made that decision, buy Apollo Two too as it is also excellent.
Then stop until you are richer, & can afford disappointment!
Uhmmmmm...... - By: , 03 Jun 2002 They Might Be Giants are so unlike anything you will have ever heard it's hard to find words to sum them up. Yes, they're 'quirky', but the loathsome 'q' word is over-used & far too generic to do them justice. They are runner-up act of choice to Barenaked Ladies fans, currently enjoying renewed interest thanks to the (uncharacteristic) Blink182-esque hit Boss of Me. The music is self-mocking & subversive (just take the daft hidden politics of We Want A Rock); the duo dole out catchy choruses like there's no tommorrow. Best of alll, the two Johns have firmly turned their backs on the corporate fashion parade that is the 'popular' music industry. If you're going to get anything from songs like Minimum Wage, Someone Keeps Moving My Chair or ten year old UK hit Birdhouse In Your Soul, it's the distinct impression that they just don't give a damn.
