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Join Us is the fifteenth studio album by They Might Be Giants, released in July of 2011. Flansburgh was reported as saying he wanted the album to get in touch with the band's earlier "insane" sound from the late 1980s.The Johns recorded over 30 songs for this album, but only half of them made it onto the finished version. Some of the scrapped songs ended up on the rarities compilation Album Raises New And Troubling Questions, released in October later that year.It became their first album to make the top 40 on Billboard's album chart, peaking at #32. It's still their highest-charting album.TracklistCan't Keep Johnny Down (2:22)You Probably Get That A Lot (2:57)Old Pine Box (1:53)Canajoharie (3:39)Cloisonné (2:40)Let Your Hair Hang Down (2:31)Celebration (3:48)In Fact (2:20)When Will You Die (2:32)Protagonist (2:49)Judy Is Your Viet Nam (1:26)Never Knew Love (2:54)The Lady and the Tiger (2:55)Spoiler Alert (2:39)Dog Walker (2:32)2082 (1:55)Three Might Be Duende (2:25)You Don't Like Me (2:57) | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: The "your" in "the afterparty has been moved to your house" in "Celebration" seems to be directed at the listener. | |
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Small Name, Big Ego | |
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Small Name, Big Ego: The narrator of "Dog Walker" is a humble dog walker convinced he's a tough guy and an unappreciated genius. | |
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Flipping the Bird | |
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Flipping the Bird: Mentioned in "Can't Keep Johnny Down". | |
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Long List | |
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The trope itself is played with in "You Don't Like Me". The viewpoint character seems concerned with not being liked by someone else, based on having a Long List of everything they do like, possibly gathered from social media. | |
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Location Song | |
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Location Song: "Canajoharie", which is an actual town in upstate New York. According to the song, apparently a major moment in primordial physical evolution happened on the current townsite. | |
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Singer Namedrop | |
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Singer Namedrop: As sung by Linnell on "When Will You Die". | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: "When Will You Die" is this in song form, telling an unnamed Jerkass why everyone hates them and is looking forward to their demise. | |
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Eye Beams | |
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Eye Beams: The Lady in "The Lady and The Tiger" claims to have "laser vision" she plans to use to break out of the hall. | |
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Perspective Flip | |
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Perspective Flip: "The Lady and the Tiger" is a meta sequel to Frank Stockton's short story "The Lady, or the Tiger?", where the Lady and the Tiger are restlessly waiting in some sort of literary Limbo for an ending that will never come. | |
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And There Was Much Rejoicing | |
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And There Was Much Rejoicing: Promised in "When Will You Die" | |
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Slasher Smile | |
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Slasher Smile: In "Three Might Be Duende", Apocryphal Espadrille is described as having "a smile that would frighten the blind". | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: "Protagonist" is about a struggling screenwriter whose lover has just left him, with the backing vocals done in the style of stage directions as if he's imagining what his ex and her paramour are up to. | |
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Hook Hand | |
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Hook Hand: The time-traveller's future self has one in "2082" | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: "Celebration" mentions Banksy, Anonymous and Hieronymus Bosch. On a more obscure level, the spoken intro ("to play a record, select an album and put it on the turntable") is a collection of quotes from a bizarre video by conceptual artist Tom Sachs giving instructions on how a club DJ (played by a visibly pregnant woman) can simultaneously play music and sell and distribute marijuana via toy cars on a miniature racetrack. "Cloissoné" makes a passing reference to second-story Sleestaks before going back to address it. "Sleestak? What's a Sleestak?" The trope itself is played with in "You Don't Like Me". The viewpoint character seems concerned with not being liked by someone else, based on having a Long List of everything they do like, possibly gathered from social media. | |
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Two Lines, No Waiting | |
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Two Lines, No Waiting: "Spoiler Alert" is two songs in one about reckless driving, with Linnell singing about a writer distracted from driving by trying to come up with an ending to his latest book, and Flansburgh singing about a sleep-deprived trucker who thinks his truck can drive by itself. | |
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Torches and Pitchforks | |
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Torches and Pitchforks: Mentioned in "In Fact" | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: In "Canajoharie", the narrator randomly says "I'm not insane" at several points. | |
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No Ending | |
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No Ending: Much like the story the song is based on, "The Lady and The Tiger" ends without a resolution. | |
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My Future Self and Me | |
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My Future Self and Me: In "2082", a time-traveller discovers he's still alive countless centuries into the future, and eventually puts his future self out of his misery by smothering him with a pillow. | |
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