Long Tall Weekend is a downloadable album released by They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants

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 in 1999. It was released exclusively on-line through eMusic

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 (see 1999 in music

1999 in music

-Events:*January 7**After eight years of marriage, Rod Stewart and supermodel wife Rachel Hunter announce their separation.**Paul McCartney attends the first of his stepdaughter Heather's first housewares collection in Georgia....

). 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

Factory Showroom

Factory Showroom is the sixth studio album by the band They Might Be Giants. It was released in 1996 through Elektra Records....

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.

Song notes

• "Older" and "(She Thinks She's) Edith Head" were later re-recorded for They Might Be Giants' next album, Mink Car
  Mink Car
  Mink Car is the eighth studio album by They Might Be Giants, released in 2001 on Restless Records, on the same morning as the September 11 attacks....
  
  (2001)
• "Edison Museum" was re-released on No!
  No!
  No! is the ninth studio album by the alternative rock band They Might Be Giants, released in 2002 on Rounder Kids. It is their first album of children's music....
  
  (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
  They Got Lost
  They Got Lost is a rarities compilation album by the group They Might Be Giants. It was issued in 2002 in the USA and 2005 in the UK...
  
  (2002)
• "Token Back To Brooklyn" also previously appeared as a hidden track on the CD version of Factory Showroom
  Factory Showroom
  Factory Showroom is the sixth studio album by the band They Might Be Giants. It was released in 1996 through Elektra Records....
  
  (1996)
• A live version of "They Got Lost" had been previously released on Severe Tire Damage
  Severe Tire Damage (album)
  Severe Tire Damage is a primarily live album by They Might Be Giants, released in 1998 . It also features a few studio tracks, including a new single ....
  
  (1998)
• "On Earth My Nina" is a backwards version of the song "Thunderbird", which wouldn't get an official release until The Spine
  The Spine
  The Spine is the tenth full-length studio album by They Might Be Giants. The album was released on July 5, 2004 in the UK, and July 13 in the U.S.....
  
  (2004). However, it isn't the actual song reversed; it is John Linnell singing what he heard when he reversed the song.

Track listing

1. "Drinkin'" – 1:36
2. "(She Thinks She's) Edith Head" – 2:33
3. "Maybe I Know" – 2:07
4. "Rat Patrol" – 2:07
5. "Token Back to Brooklyn" - 1:04
6. "Older" - 1:57
7. "Operators are Standing By" – 1:24
8. "Dark And Metric" – 1:44
9. "Reprehensible" – 3:20
10. "Certain People I Could Name" – 3:33
11. "Counterfeit Faker" – 2:15
12. "They Got Lost" – 4:42
13. "Lullaby To Nightmares" – 2:31
14. "On Earth My Nina" – 1:27
15. "The Edison Museum
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    " – 2:00

External links

• Long Tall Weekend page at This Might Be A Wiki
• Long Tall Weekend page at eMusic
  EMusic
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  , available for download with paid subscription