Apollo 18 Tracklist
Apollo 18 is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants.
It was released in 1992 through Elektra Records and was named after aborted Apollo 18 mission which was scheduled to have followed Apollo 17.
Apollo 18 reached #99 on the US Billboard 200 and spawned three singles, “The Statue Got Me High”, “The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)” and “I Palindrome I”.
The album was also associated with International Space Year, for which They Might Be Giants were declared the official “musical ambassadors” by NASA.
“Apollo 18” Q&A
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What has the band said about this album?
In 2015, Flansburgh and Linnell spoke to Spin about their albums to that point. Here’s what they said about this album:
There isn’t as much genre-to-genre whiplash on that record, which is a personal favorite.
Linnell:
Yeah, it’s interesting because in some ways it was a little less adolescent but it also had “Fingertips” and “Spider.” So we were still obviously mining through the weird little stink bomb element.
It’s really weird that “Narrow Your Eyes” wasn’t pushed as a single.
Linnell:
It’s another “what if.” There are a lot of songs like that. Maybe if we got a producer for that album, it could have gone that way.
Flansburgh:
When will we get our shit together? [Laughs.] I don’t know. It could have been that people’s perceptions of what we’re good for got set pretty early. While we were making the album, grunge happened. It didn’t really change us; it certainly could have changed us more. It certainly made a lot of things more acceptable: “Don’t like this stuff? Who cares about you?”
