And! And!

[mmcirvin]

TMBG have their own MP3 store now. It works on the honor system (that is to say, no DRM). I'll probably get "The Spine" on CD, but some of that other stuff is attractive.

The new album has "Museum of Idiots" on it!

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[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

And Thunderbird! Although it's kind of more bland than the bootleg/earlier versions.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

Oh good, I'm not the only person that thought this.

It's not bad, though-- And, of course, you can reverse it and get a new version of "On Earth My Nina."

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

First impressions of the album:

1. Now it's Linnell's turn to do the songs about substance abuse.
2. Flansburgh really rocks out on this one, doesn't he? (See also the title track on "The Spine Surfs Alone.")
3. "Bastard Wants To Hit Me" was probably funnier live.
4. It has "Museum of Idiots" on it! I've wanted a good recording of this ever since I heard a really heinously poor one on dialasong.com. It's both a lovely and a thoroughly bizarre song, and will probably infuriate those people who keep trying to figure out whether TMBG is a novelty joke act or not.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

5. This album does more mining of older musical styles than "Mink Car" did; there's a couple of quasi-rockabilly songs, one piece of late-Beatle psychedelia, some late-70s/early-80s prog rock ("Prevenge"; "Broke In Two"), one Mitch-Miller-ish song that's kind of like the jokey stuff on "Flood". I wonder if it's going to provoke the kind of controversy that spun around Usenet when "John Henry" came out; it's a slight stylistic departure from what they've been doing since the mid-90s, though by now TMBG fans ought to be used to stylistic departures. The two songs from "The Spine" that were pre-released on "Indestructible Object" were more "Mink Car"-ish, as is "Experimental Film".