ALBUM: APOLLO 18
SONG(S): FINGERTIPS
DATE: MARCH 24, 1992
STATUS: NOT ACQUIRED
Technology drives innovation, and innovation drives technology. In the early 90's, we had these things called "Compact Discs" or CD's for short. They were like records only they were digital, not analog. These CD's were played in machines that could play an album from beginning to end as they had been forever, or they could play the songs in a random order by pressing a button labeled "shuffle".
As an exploration of the potential of this technology, They Might be Giants recorded 21 mini songs for their 1992 album "Apollo 18". When one pressed "shuffle" there was no predicting what order the songs would come, but by far the weirdest way to play them was beginning to end, something TMBG does regularly in concert.
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