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Phoning It In: “Answer”

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They Might Be Giants have resurrected their ingenious Dial-A-Song concept by streaming a new song each week of 2015 at www.dialasong.com. MAGNET’s Matthew Fritch reviews them all.

You can’t always get what you want—this has been especially true during the underwhelming last couple of weeks of Dial-A-Song. It is also the theme put forth in the lyrics of “Answer,” which is, in fact, exactly what I want: They Might Be Giants being dark, funny, absurd and paranoid in a catchy guitar-pop song with punched-up vocal harmonies on the chorus.

Sated by this entry and lulled into a contented state of being, let me attempt to bolster my street cred with you people. I interviewed John Linnell for this very site in 2009, on the occasion of TMBG releasing Science Is Real, an educational children’s album of songs about science. The best song on that album is called “Meet The Elements,” which is transcendent enough of its milieu that it is sometimes played out of earshot of my six-year-old.

File-A-Song: 8/10