Don't Let's Start (album)

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Don't Let's Start
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Released1989
Recorded1986–1989
Genre Alternative rock
Length36:52
Label Rough Trade, One Little Indian
Producer Bill Krauss, They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants chronology
Lincoln
(1988)
Don't Let's Start
(1989)
Flood
(1990)

Don't Let's Start is a 1989 b-side and remix compilation album by the alternative rock band They Might Be Giants. It was only available in the UK and West Germany, and can be seen as the predecessor to Miscellaneous T , 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 EPs released such as Don't Let's Start and (She Was A) Hotel Detective

Contents

All of the songs, with the exception of "(She Was A) Hotel Detective (Single Mix)", are included in Then: The Earlier Years , a compilation of the band's early material. Then also includes They Might Be Giants , and 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

Track listing

All songs by They Might Be Giants unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Don't Let's Start [single mix]" – 2:35
  2. "Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal" – 3:48
  3. "Lady is a Tramp" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 1:20
  4. "Birds Fly" – 1:25
  5. "The World's Address [Joshua Fried remix]" – 5:42
  6. "Nightgown of the Sullen Moon" – 1:59
  7. "I'll Sink Manhattan" – 2:32
  8. "It's Not My Birthday" – 1:52
  9. "Mr. Klaw" – 1:19
  10. "Kiss Me, Son of God [alternate version]" – 1:49
  11. "The Biggest One" – 1:22
  12. "For Science" – 1:19
  13. "Untitled" – 2:33
  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

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