POWER OF DIAL-A-SONG II: MORE POWER TO YOU

release year 1997
type bootleg compilation
listened to on 2025-05-23
favorite Cabbagetown
links tmbw

Welcome to the world of They Might Be Giants, with beautiful music around the clock.

I mean, it's more Power of Dial-A-Song, a bootleg that I didn't have much to say about. There is no image for this one, the one on the front page is a placeholder.

Somehow this compilation sounds even worse than the last one. Awesome. It feels dinkier — like this one's really for completion's sake, as opposed to the prior one, which has some stand-outs. It's cool that I get to listen to this, it's cool that it exists.

Feel Good Sublet is really strange, it's like it sings and plucks at the guitar in an alternating fashion. It was re-recorded on YouTube in 2023. I've Got A Match is actually the full studio version, it just sounds crushed because it's on a phone.

I like this version of Cabbagetown a lot, there's a higher fidelity version of this demo that rules. However for this reason Cabbagetown is my favorite on this, because I like it more than the version on the EP.

I don't know why the download I got lists Freebird as Free Bird's Rebirth (Girl Version). I would say it had something to do with How Do I Sing Like A Girl?, but it comes way before that, so.

Honestly most of this is just bizarre demos. I don't have much to say about that, aside from the fact that they are bizarre demos. She's Actual Size? What even is this. The first one, I mean, the second one is basically normal.

A lot of people have compared the band, They Might Be Giants, to Germany in the '30s. What do you think of that?

What?