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User's Guide To

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Anyone who appreciates melodic hooks, humor, originality, and inventiveness, but doesn't know They Might Be Giants, should pick up A User's Guide. Whereas 2002's two-disc, 52-song box Dial-A-Song offers a broad overview of the Brooklyn band's catalogue, A User's Guide is their first true "greatest hits" release, condensing the Giants' prolific output to 29 of their most insanely catchy, beautifully crafted tracks.
Given the consistency of head Giants John Flansburgh and John Linnell's songwriting, many great tunes have necessarily been left off the compilation. Still, the absolute essentials are here, including the surrealist love anthem "Birdhouse in Your Soul", the spastic power-pop of "Don't Let's Start", the angular wit of "The Statue Got Me High", and "Boss of Me" (the theme to TV's Malcolm In The Middle), along with other wondrous tracks. Accordions wheeze, horns blare, keyboards pound, and Flansburgh and Linnell unravel verses full of clever wordplay and absurdist (yet oddly resonant) philosophy, making A User's Guide a gleeful pop jubilee.