They Might Be Giants - Lincoln Demos

[@NewWaveEnthusiast]

To hear the original, alternate lyrics and melodies to songs I know so deeply is a surreal experience. It's like someone's rearranged my brain to believe the versions I'm familiar with...simply never existed.

[@daisychannel2002]

LIE STILL LITTLE BOTTLE IS SO GOOD

[@FishVirus]

it’s odd how often I run into you in comment sections,, you must be stalking me in advance

[@daisychannel2002]

@@FishVirus we just like the same things I guess,,………….,,.,.

[@J.Trimboli]

Mr. Me's demo somehow takes a song so comfy and charming as Mr. Me and makes it even more comfy and charming

[@kiwi_3120]

some of these kinda sound like alternate universe lost media, its kinda neat

[@recordcollector0665]

I’m honestly hoping that TMBG digitizes the tape with the SB demo and releases it somehow. Maybe an IFC release.

[@LukeHennisch]

I’d really love to hear the Hey, Mr. DJ demo digitized if Flans still has the tape, I think I like it even more than the final version, which is already one of my favorite tmbg songs

[@recordcollector0665]

@@LukeHennisch There’s 2 of them, I assume you’re talking about the first one. In that case, I do agree, there’s just something so weirdly surreal yet satisfying about hearing Pink-era versions of their post-Pink songs

[@rustyvent]

I keep coming back for that Purple Toupee recording. I feel Purple Toupee speaks of a nostalgia for a time that never existed. Missing the time period but forgetting all the bad stuff that actually happened during it (purposefully or not). Combining that message with a version of the song that is horribly garbled by a phone line, with lyrics that are completely different than what I expect, it really creates a version of Purple Toupee that feels three steps removed and alien. Which ironically just enhances the message all the much more. I can't get enough of it.

[@Sloop_Goop]

i really, really like how Mr. Me sounds here

[@paulpennington-mv7rt]

This is intensely weird. Thank You for.🎉

[@thenerddirector]

Thank you for compiling all these demos together, I've never heard the demos for ana Ang or pencil rain before I didn't know what to expect, they're so cool

[@Qwertyuiopaz]

Nooo the Lincoln building got lost😢😢

[@droppers]

I wonder how many audiophiles get mad over this 40+ years after these recordings were made

[@bubble_moth]

i think about these everyday

[@lucymtork]

i think you should start making all your music sound more like the santa’s beard demo

[@jamesedwards7844]

See water spirals the wrong way out the sink after all!

[@annaliezldiego518]

The picture looks like something from an alternate universe

[@Vileplume87]

WHERE YPUR EYES DONT GO GOES HARD AF🔥🔥

[@jadsi]

The demo is actually better :o

[@milowallach4977]

This is so cool

[@odeon741]

Wonderful sound! I dont know if I prefer this or the cd official songs !!

[@orangegod74]

Is there a place I could get the mp3 for Lie Still Little Bottle??? It's so hip!!! Probably my favorite version of the song

[@orangegod74]

AHHH AND WORLDS ADDRESS!!!

[@LukeHennisch]

You can find both in here! drive.google.com/drive/folders/14ZFb0gtcnlskv9JdLng2rX7V-l_xu71O

[@JerichoScott]

No demos for Cage & Aquarium, Piece of Dirt, I've Got a Match, They'll Need a Crane, Stand On Your Head or Kiss Me, Son of God?

[@LukeHennisch]

Nope, at least no surfacing ones

[@PeterCameOut]

@@LukeHennisch I've Got a Match has a dial a song demo kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJzTk6BnpdNrraM

[@Joshua-Mason]

i keep checking over my shoulder for slenderman

[@VanHellsing12]

I didn't hear I've got a match. Was that a post addon on the Lincoln LP?

[@LukeHennisch]

There is just no currently surfacing demo of it. Same case for every other song not included here (Cage & Aquarium, Piece of Dirt, They’ll Need A Crane, Stand on Your Own Head, Kiss Me Son of God). I’m sure there is a demo of it somewhere that we’ve never heard.

[@diamondgirl7377]

there is an alternative version of kiss me son of god on Misc T but I'm not sure if it can be called a demo tbh @@LukeHennisch

[@tristonbrinker]

HELP ME!

[@tristonbrinker]

I hope you have Parappa the rapper

[@DiegoKeaneMusic]

the synth on cowtown… so weird to hear it like that, I kinda like it better than the oboe/clarinet they replaced it with

[@L0REN0R2Z0RR0]

Peter Jackson's AI team should try restoring the Santa's Beard demo :D It'll take em a year