They Might Be Giants

The Pink Album. The debut, the one with the cover that looks like the back of a cassette tape. "Don't Let's Start" is the calling card, but the whole record is a manifesto: nineteen tracks averaging two minutes apiece, drum machine and accordion and Flansburgh's overdriven Casio guitar, a sensibility fully formed on day one. "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head," "She's an Angel," "Number Three," "Youth Culture Killed My Dog" — Brooklyn art-school New York at its most charming.