Don't Let's Start is a 1989 b-side and remix

Remix

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 compilation album

Compilation album

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 by the alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell. During TMBG's early years Flansburgh and Linnell were frequently accompanied by a drum machine. In the early 1990s, TMBG became a full band. Currently, the members of TMBG are...

. It was only available in the UK and West Germany, and can be seen as the predecessor to Miscellaneous T

Miscellaneous T

Miscellaneous T is a b-side and remix compilation album released by the alternative rock band They Might Be Giants in 1991. It is a US re-release of Don't Let's Start which was only released in the UK and West Germany. The differences include cover art, track order, and the song "Hello Radio",...

, which includes all of the tracks from this release and an additional track, "Hello Radio". The tracks on here mostly originate as b-sides from various EP

Extended play

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s released such as Don't Let's Start and (She Was A) Hotel Detective

(She Was A) Hotel Detective

-12" track listing:- Personnel :*John Flansburgh – vocals, guitar*John Linnell – vocals, bass saxophone, baritone saxiphone, synthesizers*Anne Moore – vocals*Peter Pairman Thomson – backup vocalsProduction*Al Houghton – engineer...

All of the songs, with the exception of "(She Was A) Hotel Detective (Single Mix)", are included in Then: The Earlier Years

Then: The Earlier Years

Then: The Earlier Years is a double album by the band They Might Be Giants. It was released in 1997 . Then contains the album Lincoln in its entirety, the albums They Might Be Giants and Miscellaneous T which are each missing one track, a few otherwise unreleased songs from their 1985 Demo Tape and...

, a compilation of the band's early material. Interestingly, Then also includes They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell. During TMBG's early years Flansburgh and Linnell were frequently accompanied by a drum machine. In the early 1990s, TMBG became a full band. Currently, the members of TMBG are...

, and for some reason includes "Don't Let's Start (Single Mix)" in place of the album version with the rest of the tracks from They Might Be Giants.

Song notes

• "untitled" is not actually a song, but a snippet of a recording inadvertently left on the Dial-A-Song  answering machine, in which a confused listener named Gloria talks to an unknown third party about the mystery of "There May Be Giants" and "There Must Be Giants", as she mistakenly refers to the band. It would later be referenced when Bryant Gumbel
  Bryant Gumbel
  Bryant Charles Gumbel is an American television journalist and sportscaster. He is best known for his 15 years as co-host of NBC's The Today Show. He is the younger brother of sportscaster Greg Gumbel.-Early life:...
  
   referred to them as "They Must Be Giants" when they performed "Your Racist Friend" on the Today Show to promote the release of Flood.
• "The Lady is a Tramp" is a cover of a song from the Rodgers and Hart
  Rodgers and Hart
  Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership of composer Richard Rodgers and the lyricist Lorenz Hart...
  
   musical Babes in Arms
  Babes in Arms
  Babes in Arms is a 1937 musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by Rodgers and Hart. It concerns a teen-age boy who puts on a show with his friends to avoid being sent to a work farm.- Production history:...
  
  .

Track listing

All songs by They Might Be Giants unless otherwise noted.

1. "Don't Let's Start
   Don't Let's Start
   "Don't Let's Start" is a song by alternative rock band They Might Be Giants, from their eponymous debut album They Might Be Giants. It was the first single released from the album, released as a maxi-single. The song is one of the band's most popular and well-known songs, despite failing to chart...
   
    [single mix]" – 2:34
2. "Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal" – 3:48
3. "The Lady is a Tramp" (Lorenz Hart
   Lorenz Hart
   Lorenz "Larry" Milton Hart was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart...
   
   , Richard Rodgers
   Richard Rodgers
   Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
   
   ) – 1:20
4. "Birds Fly" – 1:25
5. "The World's Address [Joshua Fried remix]" – 5:43
6. "Nightgown of the Sullen Moon" – 1:58
7. "I'll Sink Manhattan" – 2:36
8. "It's Not My Birthday" – 1:51
9. "Mr. Klaw" – 1:20
10. "Kiss Me, Son of God [alternate version]" – 1:48
11. "The Biggest One" – 1:22
12. "For Science" – 1:19
13. "untitled" – 2:31
14. "(She Was A) Hotel Detective [single mix]" – 2:20
15. "The Famous Polka" – 1:33
16. "When It Rains It Snows" – 1:33
17. "We're the Replacements" – 1:50

External links

• Don't Let's Start page at This Might Be A Wiki