They Might Be Giants - We Now Know Who (2005)

1. The Ballad of Timothy McSweeney
2. Kids Are Different Now
3. Headless
4. Cut the Strings
5. Save Your Life
6. Maybe I Know
7. Robert Lowell                                         
8. Operators Are Standing By
9. Be Nice and Gentle                               
10. Dark and Metric                                   
11. Chaos by Design                                 
12. Lullaby to Nightmares                                     
13. Don't Cry                                 
14. Be Patient                               
15. Something You'd Like to See      
16. Koenigstein                                             
17. Drinkin'                                     
18. Monster                                   
19. Too Cool Girls                                       
20. Sunshine                                 
21. Art Mover
22. Slow
23. Theme From McSweeney's Issue 6 - Thank Yous

This was an idea for an album I had two years ago. Luckily I still saved the track listing for it. It's basically a sequel to the They Got Lost compilation album that came out three years before it and combines tracks from various projects from 1999 to 2001 that didn't get included at first. 

They Might Be Giants - Then: The Earlier Years (1997)

1. Critic Intro
2. Now That I Have Everything
3. Mainstream U.S.A.
4. Fake Out in Buenos Aires
5. Greek Number Three
6. I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die (Demo)
7. I’m Def
8. Don’t Let’s Start (Demo)
9. Hell Hotel
10. ‘85 Radio Special Thank You
11. Kitten Intro
12. Weep Day
13. The Big Big Whoredom
14. I’m Gettin’ Sentimental Over You
15. Become a Robot
16. Swing is a Word
17. Which Describes How You’re Feeling (Demo)
18. Doris Cunningham
19. Counterfeit Fake
20. Schoolchildren Singing “Particle Man”

This is a single album version of They Might Be Giants’ compilation album Then: The Earlier Years. It was pretty easy to make since I just had to cut out all the material previously released on their first two albums and their first compilation album Miscellaneous T. I had this version of the album on my computer for years before remembering that it’s technically a single album version of a double album release. 

Five of the songs were previously released on the 1985 demo tape and two of the five previously appeared on The Statue Got Me High EP. Because of this I’m also including the song Hell Hotel from the demo tape which was the only track to never be re-released. 

They Might Be Giants - Superfueled Freaksicle (1996)

 

1. James K. Polk (Original Version) (1990) 
2. Stormy Pinkness (1990) 
3. Ant (1990) 
4. One More Parade (1990) 
5. Welcome to the Jungle (1992) 
6. I Blame You (1992)
7. Moving to the Sun (1992)
8. Cabbagetown (1992)
9. Siftin' (1992)
10. Why Does the Sun Shine? (1993)
11. Jessica (1993)
12. Whirlpool (1993) 
13. Spy (Original Version) (1993)
14. O Tannenbaum (1993)
15. Christmas Cards (1993)
16. Ondine (1994)
17. She Was a Hotel Detective (1994)
18. Mrs. Train (1994) 
19. 25 O'Clock (1995)
20. Sensurround (Soundtrack Version) (1995)
21. Unforgotten (1996)
22. We've Got a World That Swings (1996)

This is the sequel to the band's first compilation album Miscellaneous T which came out in 1991. It compiled B-sides from the band's first two albums but it's really an American version of a European release called Don't Let's Start which came out two years earlier and features one fewer track. It was released because 1991 had been a slow year for the band who still wanted to release something. This album picks up where that one left off with B-sides from the band's major label era starting with Flood in 1990 to Factory Showroom in 1996. The album was supposed to have been released around this time but never did as the group focused their efforts on Then: The Earlier Years instead comprising of more of their earlier material. 

The band planned on releasing it as a double disc with B-sides on one disc and remixes on the other. There was a fan-made version of this that existed in 1999, but the first disc included three remix tracks as well as some other tracks which I opted to exclude. It's also a single disc.