Long Tall Weekend

Infobox Album |
Name = Long Tall Weekend
Type = Studio album
Artist = They Might Be Giants


Released = July 19, 1999
Recorded = 1996 – 1999
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 34:31
Label = eMusic
Producer = Pat Dillett, They Might Be Giants
Reviews = *Allmusic: Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:svc1z82a3yvj link]
Last album = "Live"
(1999)
This album = "Long Tall Weekend"
(1999)
Next album = "What We Did This Summer"
(1999)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = TMBG studio album
Type = Studio album
Last album = "Factory Showroom"
(1996)
This album = "Long Tall Weekend"
(1999)
Next album = "Mink Car"
(2001)

"Long Tall Weekend" is a downloadable album released by They Might Be Giants in 1999. It was released exclusively on-line through eMusic (see 1999 in music). It was the first major full-length album released exclusively on the Internet by an established major label band. [http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release341.html] Many of these songs were outtakes from the "Factory Showroom" sessions. There were some copies of an actual "Long Tall Weekend" CD released at certain concerts, as well as some released to certain stores for promotional use.

ong notes

*"(She Thinks She's) Edith Head" and "Older" were re-recorded for They Might Be Giant's next album, "Mink Car" (2001)
*"Edison Museum" was re-released on "No!" (2002)
*"Rat Patrol", "Token Back to Brooklyn", "Reprehensible", "Certain People I Could Name" and "They Got Lost" later appeared on the rarities compilation album "They Got Lost" (2002)
*"Token Back To Brooklyn" also previously appeared as a hidden track on the CD version of "Factory Showroom" (1996)
*A live version of "They Got Lost" had been previously released on "Severe Tire Damage" (1998)
*"On Earth My Nina" is a backwards version of the song "Thunderbird", which wouldn't get an official release until The Spine. However, it isn't the actual song reversed, it is John Linnell singing what he heard when he reversed the song.

Track listing

# "Drinking" – 1:36
# "(She Thinks She's) Edith Head" – 2:35
# "Maybe I Know" – 2:07
# "Rat Patrol" – 2:07
# "Token Back To Brooklyn" – 1:04
# "Older" – 1:59
# "Operators Are Standing By" – 1:28
# "Dark And Metric" – 1:44
# "Reprehensible" – 3:20
# "Certain People I Could Name" – 3:33
# "Counterfeit Faker" – 2:15
# "They Got Lost" – 4:42
# "Lullaby To Nightmares" – 2:31
# "On Earth My Nina" – 1:27
# "The Edison Museum" – 2:00

External links

* at This Might Be A Wiki
* [http://www.emusic.com/album/10595/10595399.html "Long Tall Weekend" page] at eMusic, available for download with paid subscription