No!

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(84/100)^[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
Billboard	(favorable)^[3]
Blender	^[4]
Pitchfork Media	(7/10)^[5]
PopMatters	^[1]^[6] (Deluxe Edition)^[7]
Robert Christgau	^[8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[9]

No! is the first children's album by alternative rock band They Might Be Giants, released in 2002 on Rounder Records and Idlewild Recordings.

Retaining the eclecticism, humor and psychedelic sensibilities of their adult work, the lyrical stylings are decidedly different: the darker themes of death and depression have been replaced with songs extolling the virtues of imagination, robots and sleep. The album declares itself TMBG's first album "for the entire family",^[10] with the intention that songs appeal to both young and old audiences. The album contains a cover of Vic Mizzy's safety song "In the Middle, In the Middle, In the Middle" sung by Robin Goldwasser.

No! was released as an enhanced CD; while it plays normally in any CD audio player, it features a CD-ROM portion as well, providing the listener with interactive flash animations by the Chopping Block.

"The Edison Museum" was originally written in 1991 and featured on the Edisongs compilation that year. The recorded version appearing here is largely the same as the Edisongs version, but has been slightly modified. The modified version here previously appeared on Long Tall Weekend in 1999.^[11] "Robot Parade" appears in the closing credits of Them, Robot, the 503 episode of the Simpsons.

The largely positive reception the album received led to a collaboration with Walt Disney Records and the Disney Sound label. They released three albums through the mid-2000s, each with a theme: Here Come the ABCs (2005), Here Come the 123s (2008), and Here Comes Science (2009). The band's fifth children's music album, Why?, released in 2015, was intended as a more direct followup to No!

Track listing

All songs by They Might Be Giants unless otherwise noted.

"Fibber Island" – 2:10
"Four of Two" – 2:18
"Robot Parade" – 1:22
"No!" – 1:30
"Where Do They Make Balloons?" – 2:41 (Danny Weinkauf)
"In the Middle, In the Middle, In the Middle" – 1:16 (Vic Mizzy)
"Violin" – 2:26
"John Lee Supertaster" – 2:01
"The Edison Museum" – 2:02
"The House at the Top of the Tree" – 2:31
"Clap Your Hands" – 1:22
"I Am Not Your Broom" – 1:04
"Wake Up Call" – 1:10
"I Am a Grocery Bag" – 0:35
"Lazyhead and Sleepybones" – 3:28
"Bed Bed Bed" – 3:12
"Sleepwalkers" – 2:42

The Enhanced CD portion of the CD contains a hidden track about the Chopping Block, the designers of the enhanced CD and tmbg.com, one of the band's websites.

2012 digital "deluxe" version bonus tracks

"Alphabet of Nations (Bonus Extended Version)" – 2:20
"John Lee Supertaster (Live Almanac)" - 3:09
"Violin (Live Almanac)" - 2:55
"Clap Your Hands (Live Almanac - Censored)" - 1:58
"Robot Parade (Live Almanac)" - 2:53
"Doctor Worm (Live Almanac)" - 2:58
"Stalk Of Wheat (Live Almanac)" - 1:30

References

1 2 Critic reviews at Metacritic
↑ Allmusic review
↑ "Billboard review". Archived from the original on August 15, 2002. Retrieved August 15, 2002. CS1 maint: Unfit url (link)
↑ Blender review
↑ Pitchfork Media review
↑ PopMatters review 1
↑ PopMatters review 2
↑ Robert Christgau Consumer Guide
↑ Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City, New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 808. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
↑ No! liner notes
↑ tmbw:The Edison Museum

External links

No! at This Might Be A Wiki
No! at Metacritic

They Might Be Giants

John Flansburgh John Linnell Dan Miller Danny Weinkauf Marty Beller Hal Cragin Brian Doherty Jonathan Feinberg Dan Hickey Kurt Hoffman Graham Maby Tony Maimone Eric Schermerhorn

Rock albums	They Might Be Giants (1986) Lincoln (1988) Flood (1990) Apollo 18 (1992) John Henry (1994) Factory Showroom (1996) Long Tall Weekend (1999) Mink Car (2001) The Spine (2004) The Else (2007) Join Us (2011) Nanobots (2013) Glean (2015) Phone Power (2016)

Children's albums	No! (2002) Here Come the ABCs (2005) Here Come the 123s (2008) Here Comes Science (2009) Why? (2015)

EPs	Why Does the Sun Shine? Back to Skull Working Undercover for the Man They Might Be Giants in Holidayland Bed, Bed, Bed Indestructible Object The Spine Surfs Alone

Singles	"Don't Let's Start" "(She Was A) Hotel Detective" "They'll Need a Crane" "Ana Ng" "Purple Toupee" "Birdhouse in Your Soul" "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" "The Statue Got Me High" "I Palindrome I" "The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)" "O Tannenbaum" "S-E-X-X-Y" "Doctor Worm" "Boss of Me" "Man, It's So Loud in Here" "Experimental Film" "Kids Go!" "I'm Impressed" "Can't Keep Johnny Down"

Other notable songs	"Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head" "Particle Man" "James K. Polk" "You're on Fire"

Live albums	Live!! New York City 10/14/94 Severe Tire Damage Live The Spine Hits the Road Almanac Venue Songs First Album Live Flood Live in Australia

Compilations	Don't Let's Start Miscellaneous T Then: The Earlier Years Best of the Early Years They Got Lost Dial-A-Song: 20 Years of They Might Be Giants A User's Guide to They Might Be Giants Venue Songs DVD/CD Album Raises New and Troubling Questions Idlewild

Video releases	Direct from Brooklyn Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) Here Come the ABCs Venue Songs DVD/CD Here Come the 123s Here Comes Science

Related articles	Discography Mono Puff State Songs The Brothers Chaps International Space Year

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