Back to Skull

Back to Skull
EP by They Might Be Giants
Released	August 16, 1994
Recorded	1993
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	15:57
Label	Elektra
Producer	They Might Be Giants, Pat Dillett, Paul Fox
They Might Be Giants chronology
O Tannenbaum (1993) Back to Skull (1994) John Henry (1994)
They Might Be Giants EP chronology
O Tannenbaum (1993) Back to Skull (1994) S-E-X-X-Y (1996)

Back to Skull is an EP released by American alternative rock group They Might Be Giants in 1994. The EP was issued contemporaneously with the band's 1994 album John Henry, which featured similar artwork.^[1] Artwork for the EP was done by Mike Mills.^[2]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by They Might Be Giants. 

Notes

• "She Was A Hotel Detective" is a completely different song from "(She Was A) Hotel Detective" from the debut album, despite the nearly identical titles.
• "Ondine" was omitted from the European release of the EP.^[3]
• "Snail Dust" is a remix of "Snail Shell" by The Dust Brothers,^[2] with whom the band would later collaborate on their 2007 album, The Else.^[4]

Personnel

They Might Be Giants

• John Linnell - lead vocals, accordion, keyboards, saxophone
• John Flansburgh - lead vocals, guitar
• Brian Doherty - drums
• Tony Maimone - bass
• Graham Maby - bass

Production

• They Might Be Giants - producer
• Pat Dillet - producer, engineer, mixing (tracks 2-4)
• Paul Fox - producer (tracks 1 and 5)
• Ed Thacker - engineer, mixing (track 2)
• The Dust Brothers - engineers, mixing (track 5)

References

External links

• Back to Skull on This Might Be A Wiki