They Got Lost is a rarities compilation album

Compilation album

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 by the group They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants

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. It was issued in 2002 (see 2002 in music

2002 in music

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) in the USA and 2005 in the UK

United Kingdom

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. It was available through online order several years before it went into general release.

Five tracks were previously released on the 1999 eMusic

EMusic

eMusic is an online music and audiobook store that operates by subscription. It is headquartered in New York City with an office in London and owned by Dimensional Associates. As of September 2008 eMusic has over 400,000 subscribers....

 compilation album Long Tall Weekend

Long Tall Weekend

Long Tall Weekend is a downloadable album released by They Might Be Giants in 1999. It was released exclusively on-line through eMusic . It was the first major full-length album released exclusively on the Internet by an established major label band. Many of these songs were outtakes from the...

, while four others are culled from the Working Undercover for the Man

Working Undercover for the Man

Working Undercover for the Man is an EP by They Might Be Giants, released as an MP3-only album through eMusic. However, 10,000 physical copies were pressed...

EP. Several tracks were previously featured on the band's Dial-A-Song service and its associated website, as well as the band's TMBG Unlimited mp3

MP3

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 subscription service. Others were produced for various side projects, such as ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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's Nightline in Primetime

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TV mini-series Brave New World ("All Alone", a sea shanty

Sea shanty

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-like song about a bacterium transported to the Moon

Moon

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 by Surveyor 3

Surveyor 3

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); a special edition of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern

Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern

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 ("Theme from McSweeney's"); and the radio show This American Life

This American Life

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 ("I'm Sick (of This American Life)"). The title song previously appeared on the live album 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 ....

(with a more uptempo rock arrangement) and Long Tall Weekend.

Curiously, this collection marks the third official release of the brief "Token Back to Brooklyn," first issued as a hidden track

Hidden track

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 on the 1996 album 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....

and reissued on Long Tall Weekend.

Track listing

All songs by They Might Be Giants unless otherwise noted.

1. "Rest Awhile" – 1:40
2. "Truth in Your Words" – 1:10
3. "On the Drag" – 2:18
4. "All Alone" – 1:33
5. "Down to the Bottom of the Sea" – 0:53
6. "I'm Sick (Of This American Life)" – 1:27
7. "Words Are Like (demo)" – 1:38
8. "I Am a Human Head" – 2:51
9. "Oranges" – 1:09
10. "Empty Bottle Blues" – 1:38
11. "They Got Lost" – 4:36
12. "Reprehensible" – 3:13
13. "Rat Patrol" – 2:01
14. "The Army's Tired Now" – 1:11
15. "Certain People I Could Name" – 3:23
16. "Theme to McSweeney's" – 2:30
17. "Dollar for Dollar" – 0:24
18. "Mosh Momken Abandon" (Riad al-Sunbat,Ma'mun al-Shinawi) – 2:53
19. "Token Back to Brooklyn" – 0:52
20. "Disappointing Show" – 2:31
21. "Oranges Testimonial" – 1:12

They Might Be Giants Vs. McSweeney's

1. "Theme From McSweeney's Issue 6" - 2:32
2. "The Ballad of Timothy McSweeney" - 1:03
3. "MOR" - 0:17
4. "Dollar for Dollar" - 0:24
5. "Oprah" - 0:16
6. "Garden of Eden" - 0:35
7. "West Virginia" - 3:32
8. "Koenigstein" - 3:30
9. "It's Getting Late" - 0:16
10. "Daphne" - 1:37
11. "She Thinks She's Edith Head" - 2:37
12. "Mr. and Mrs. Nuclear" - 0:34
13. "Bangs" - 3:28
14. "Modern Love Waltz" - 3:30
15. "Faster Better Now" - 0:34
16. "Be Patient" - 1:23
17. "God's Sister Jessica" - 0:22
18. "Grassroots Internet Revolution" - 0:06
19. "Billy by the Bay" - 2:28
20. "Swimming Hole" - 2:55
21. "Mosh Momken Abandan" - 2:53
22. "Even My T-Shirt" - 0:47
23. "The Army's Tired Now" - 1:12
24. "Drinkin'" - 0:44
25. "Gazing Out Toward" - 0:49
26. "Frog and Banjo" - 2:44
27. "Robert Lowell" - 3:16
28. "Lincoln, Washington, and That Jefferson Guy" - 0:21
29. "Down to the Bottom of the Sea" - 0:56
30. "Art Mover" - 0:59
31. "People Died Today" - 0:34
32. "Truth in Your Words" - 1:10
33. "C-Town" - 1:41
34. "Roslyn's Dog" - 8:15
35. "Softly" - 0:20
36. "Slow" - 0:53
37. "Budnitz" - 0:52
38. "Candy Stripers" - 0:39
39. "Girls in Their Tuning" - 0:29
40. "The Life of Doug" - 0:26
41. "R U Together" - 1:05
42. "Mona Lisa" - 1:04
43. "To the Text" - 2:03
44. "Theme From McSweeney's Issue 6: Thank Yous" - 2:33

External links

• They Got Lost at This Might Be A Wiki