Long Tall Weekend

In 2015, Flansburgh and Linnell spoke to Spin about their albums to that point. Here’s what they said about this album:

Long Tall Weekend was one of the very first downloadable albums. Did you have any idea at the time what the Internet’s impact on music was going to be?

Flansburgh:

There was so much dot-com mania. RealAudio was a thing that was happening. The mp3 was still in its earliest stages, there was Liquid Audio, there was RealAudio, and all these other formats and they all sounded better than mp3s. I was very surprised that mp3 became the package. But you know, in the grand tradition of the eight-track and the cassette, it was like fidelity meant nothing. Convenience meant everything. But it was something that we were just free to do. It was kind of a rarities record but it made a big splash just because of the format of it, which was a preamble for us knowing that just putting something out in a different way can garner so much more attention than what [the music’s] doing.