Flood - They Might Be Giants

They Might be Giants have never been the most chart-friendly band. In their two-decade long career, only two of their singles have hit the UK top 40 - and one of those was a TV theme song ("Boss Of Me", from Malcolm In The Middle). The other, "Birdhouse In Your Soul", was drawn from this album, and heralded a brief period where the Giants were something of a mainstream success: in the US, the band's videos began to get regular rotation on MTV, and "Flood" went gold; while in the UK, "Birdhouse In Your Soul" hit number 6 in the charts and the Giants appeared on Top Of The Pops to promote it. For a few fleeting moments, They Might Be ...  Read the complete review

This is, for me, the band's finest work. 'Flood' introduces itself with a brief thirty-second proclamation enthusiastically welcoming us to this "brand new record for 1990", before launching straight into the band's deservedly best known song, the sublime 'Birdhouse In Your Soul'. 'Birdhouse In Your Soul' is one of my favourite songs of all time, a typically surreal song about a bird-shaped nightlight, and is three and a half minutes of purest pop perfection. The album is well produced, and has some superb songs, guaranteed to fix themselves in your brain for weeks after listening, such as their own version of ...  Read the complete review

They Might Be Giants are sort of second cousins to Sparks and the Barenaked Ladies, coming midway between the two, chronologically speaking. The 19 songs on this album cover many, many styles: Hollywood musical ("Theme from Flood"), country ("Lucky ball and Chain"), 60s pop ("Twisting"), ska ("Hearing aid"), 80s Romantic ("Sapphire bullets of pure love"), and just plain novelty (the cover of "Instanbul", "Minimum wage") - if you can single out anything from such a crackpot collection as being 'novelty'. For me, the best song here is the sinister "Someone keeps moving my ...  Read the complete review

Flood is cheerful pop band They Might Be Giant's 3rd album and it's the one that I'm most familiar with. I hadn't actually heard of the band until a couple of years ago when a friend of mine, gave me this album. The tuneful and happy sounding Americans have a unique way of playing, almost childish in nature it's extremely upbeat and should put a smile on your face, I have heard a few people say that they find songs like "Birdhouse in Your Soul" a little bit too chirpy and irritating, I'm usually the kind of person to get irritated by such things but find this extremely enjoyable. I think for me the best thing about They Might be Giants ...  Read the complete review

It's weird, well they are, but the way I came across this album is weird, but I won't go into that... Of course, everyone has heard the infamous song 'Birdhouse in your soul'. Whether it has remained in their memories forever is another point, but everyone has heard it. I love it, personally. Have you guys seen the video? This album is mental, and yes, it is in a good way. They review the topics of being a bag of groceries, accidentaly taken of the shelf before the expiration date, they cover the brilliant 'Istanbul, not Constantinople', you hear about them wanting to be the 'birdhouse in your soul', and make sure you listen out for ...  Read the complete review