Editing Long Tall Weekend

{{Infobox album
| name         = Long Tall Weekend
| type         = studio
| artist       = [[They Might Be Giants]]
| cover        = TheyMightBeGiants-LongTallWeekend.jpg
| alt          = 
| released     = July 19, 1999
| recorded     = 1991 ("The Edison Museum"), 1994–1999
| venue        = 
| studio       = *Studio 4 (Philadelphia)
*Kempo (New York City)
*River Sound (New York City)
*Coyote (Brooklyn)
*Studio G (Brooklyn)
*Hello (Brooklyn)
*Collyer Brothers (Brooklyn)
| genre        = [[Alternative rock]]
| length       = 34:31
| label        = [[eMusic]]
| producer     = [[Pat Dillett]], They Might Be Giants
| prev_title   = [[Live (They Might Be Giants album)|Live]]
| prev_year    = 1999
| next_title   = [[Best of the Early Years (They Might Be Giants album)|Best of the Early Years]]
| next_year    = 1999
| misc         = {{Extra album cover
 | header  = Alternate cover
 | type    = studio
 | cover   = File:They Might Be Giants - Long Tall Weekend album cover (vinyl release).png
 | border  =
 | alt     =
 | caption = Cover of the 2023 vinyl release
}}
}}
'''''Long Tall Weekend''''' is the seventh studio album by American [[alternative rock]] duo [[They Might Be Giants]], released in 1999. It was released exclusively online through the digital music service [[eMusic]]. The album was the band's first since their departure from the major label [[Elektra Records|Elektra]].<ref name="geek">{{cite interview|first=John|last=Flansburgh|title=Interview: They Might Be Giants Part Two|publisher=Geek.com|date=2007-08-13|url=http://www.geek.com/gadgets/interview-they-might-be-giants-part-two-1374525/|accessdate=2013-08-03|archive-date=2015-12-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151224102539/http://www.geek.com/gadgets/interview-they-might-be-giants-part-two-1374525/|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''Long Tall Weekend'' was also the first full-length album released exclusively on the Internet by an established major label band.<ref name="gigantic">''[[Gigantic (A Tale Of Two Johns)]]''. Dir. AJ Schnack. 2002. Plexifilm, 2003.</ref> Although the album's primary release was digital, CDs of the album were issued promotionally.<ref name="westnet">{{cite interview|first=John|last=Linnell|title=John Linnell, They Might Be Giants|date=1999|work=Consumable Online|interviewer=Daniel Aloi|url=http://www.westnet.com/consumable/1999/08.23/inttmbg.html|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130809081254/http://www.westnet.com/consumable/1999/08.23/inttmbg.html|archivedate=2013-08-09}}</ref> Following the success of the album's release through eMusic, TMBG went on to issue a digital series of rarities collections — TMBG Unlimited — through their website.<ref>{{cite interview|first=John|last=Linnell|title=Interview: John Linnell of They Might Be Giants|date=2001-02-28|publisher=Live Daily|interviewer=Don Zulaica}}</ref>

==Song origins==
Many of the songs that appear on ''Long Tall Weekend'' existed as demos and selections from the band's Dial-A-Song service. "Drinkin'" was originally written six years prior to the release of the album. "Maybe I Know" had been in TMBG setlists since the 1980s. Many songs were intended for release in different forms on later albums.<ref name="westnet" /> "She Thinks She's Edith Head" and "Older" resurfaced on ''[[Mink Car]]'' in 2001. The next year, "Rat Patrol", "Token Back to Brooklyn", "Reprehensible", "Certain People I Could Name" and "They Got Lost" appeared on the rarities compilation album ''[[They Got Lost]]'', and "The Edison Museum" appeared on ''[[No!]]''. "The Edison Museum" was originally written and recorded in 1991 and featured on the ''Edisongs'' compilation that year. The recorded version appearing on ''Long Tall Weekend'' is largely the same as the ''Edisongs'' version, though the mixing varies.

Some songs, such as "They Got Lost" and "Lullabye to Nightmares" had also existed in different forms prior to the release of ''Long Tall Weekend''. The former was a live track with a much faster tempo from the band's live compilation ''[[Severe Tire Damage (album)|Severe Tire Damage]]'' (1998).<ref name="info club" />

"They Got Lost" and "Certain People I Could Name" were both originally slated for inclusion on ''[[Factory Showroom]]'' (1996).<ref name="info club">Flansburgh, John and John Linnell. "New studio tracks from TMBG!". TMBG Info Club. 1999.</ref>

==Reception==
{{Album ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3|5}} [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r525605|pure_url=yes}} link]
| rev2      = ''[[The A.V. Club]]''
| rev2Score = (mixed) [http://music.avclub.com/they-might-be-giants-long-tall-weekend-1798192103 link]
| rev3      = ''[[CMJ]]''
| rev3Score = (favorable) [https://books.google.com/books?id=XioEAAAAMBAJ&dq=they+might+be+giants+long+tall+weekend+reviews&pg=PA52 link]
| rev4      = [[Pitchfork Media]]
| rev4Score = (7.6/10) [http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/7997-long-tall-weekend link]
| rev5      = [[Robert Christgau]]
| rev5Score = A− [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=they+might+be+giants link]
| rev6      = ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]''
| rev6Score = (favorable) [https://books.google.com/books?id=bGjsvmNt8UgC&dq=they+might+be+giants+long+tall+weekend+reviews&pg=PA202 link]
}}
Following the digital release of ''Long Tall Weekend'', They Might Be Giants became the most downloaded band of 1999.<ref name="cmj">{{cite journal |title=They Might Be Giants Top Downloaded Band in '99 |journal=[[CMJ#CMJ_New_Music_Report|CMJ New Music Report]] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=86qdz9zBkJYC&pg=PA5 |access-date=2013-08-03|date=2000-01-31 |page=5 |issn=0890-0795}}</ref> John Flansburgh speculates that the feat was based not only on the content of the album, but also on the band's early willingness to embrace digital formats, having been urged to do so by the [[Restless Records]] label.<ref name="geek" />

==Track listing==
{{Track list
|all_writing = [[They Might Be Giants]], except where noted
|title1 = Drinkin{{'-}} 
|length1 = 1:36
|title2 = (She Thinks She's) Edith Head 
|length2 = 2:33
|title3 = [[Maybe I Know]] 
|length3 = 2:07
|writer3 = [[Jeff Barry]], [[Ellie Greenwich]]
|title4 = Rat Patrol 
|length4 = 2:07
|title5 = Token Back to Brooklyn 
|length5 = 1:04
|title6 = Older 
|length6 = 1:57
|title7 = Operators Are Standing By 
|length7 = 1:24
|title8 = Dark and Metric 
|length8 = 1:44
|title9 = Reprehensible 
|length9 = 3:20
|title10 = Certain People I Could Name 
|length10 = 3:33
|title11 = Counterfeit Faker 
|length11 = 2:15
|title12 = They Got Lost 
|length12 = 4:42
|title13 = Lullabye to Nightmares 
|length13 = 2:31
|title14 = On Earth My Nina 
|length14 = 1:27
|title15 = The Edison Museum
|writer15 = [[Brian Dewan]], They Might Be Giants 
|length15 = 2:00
}}

==Personnel==
Credits adapted from 1999 PDF liner notes.<ref name="liner">{{cite AV media notes |title=Long Tall Weekend|author=They Might Be Giants |year=1999 |type=PDF liner notes |publisher=GoodNoise}}</ref>

'''They Might Be Giants'''
*[[John Linnell]]&nbsp;– [[bass saxophone]] (1), piano (2), organ (3–4, 7), harmony vocal (3), vocal (4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14), keyboards (6, 8, 10, 12, 15), [[clarinet]] (9), horns (9), bass guitar (11), [[banjo]] (11), [[fiddle]] (11), [[baritone saxophone]] (13)

*[[John Flansburgh]]&nbsp;– [[baritone guitar]] (1), vocal (2–5, 7, 9, 11, 13), acoustic guitar (2, 11), electric guitar (4, 6, 10, 12)

'''Additional musicians'''
*[[Graham Maby]]&nbsp;– bass guitar (1, 3–4, 7–10, 12)
*[[Brian Doherty (drummer)|Brian Doherty]]&nbsp;– drums (1, 3–4, 7–10, 12–13)
*[[Dan Miller (guitarist)|Dan Miller]]&nbsp;– electric guitars (2, 6)
*[[Danny Weinkauf]]&nbsp;– bass guitar (2, 6)
*Dan Hickey&nbsp;– drums (2, 6)
*[[Eric Schermerhorn]]&nbsp;– electric guitar (4, 12), acoustic guitar solo (11)
*[[Yuval Gabay]]&nbsp;– drums (5)
*Jay Sherman-Godfrey&nbsp;– [[slide guitar]] (8), [[cello]] (11)
*Kurt Hoffman&nbsp;– [[tenor saxophone]] (13)
*Frank London&nbsp;– [[trumpet]] (13)
*[[Tony Maimone]]&nbsp;– guitar (13) 
*Nick Hill&nbsp;– vocal (15)

'''Technical'''
*[[Patrick Dillett]]&nbsp;– producer
*[[They Might Be Giants]]&nbsp;– producers
*Annette Berry&nbsp;– design
*Michael Kupperman&nbsp;– illustrations

==References==
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==External links==
* [[tmbw:Long Tall Weekend|''Long Tall Weekend'' page]] at This Might Be A Wiki
* [http://www.emusic.com/album/10595/10595399.html ''Long Tall Weekend'' page] at [[eMusic]], available for download with paid subscription

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