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“I Palindrome I” by They Might Be Giants
From the album Apollo 18 (1992)
“I Palindrome I” by They Might Be Giants appears on 15 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1992 and 2014. It was first released in 1992 on the album Apollo 18. Its best result is #30 on the WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1992. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #131 alternative song of 1992 and #1,379 alternative song of all time.
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"I Palindrome I" was the third of the three singles They Might Be Giants pulled from Apollo 18, their 1992 album on Elektra, following "The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)", and unlike the other two it never charted. John Flansburgh and John Linnell share the writing credit and produced it as They Might Be Giants; Paul Angelli recorded it, Edward Douglas engineered, and Alan Winstanley mixed with Bruce Calder and Brian Pollack assisting.
Apollo 18 also holds the "Fingertips" suite, twenty-one tiny songs, most of them under thirty seconds, and it was the last record Flansburgh and Linnell made as a two-man operation: on the tour that followed they brought in a backing band with a live drummer, a move that didn't sit well with some fans.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 30 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1992 | 100 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 900 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 951 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 938 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 938 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 923 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 923 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 923 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
| 2007 | 1071 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) | 2008 |
| 2008 | 1082 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) | 2009 |
| 2009 | 1109 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) | 2010 |
| 2010 | 1148 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) | 2011 |
| 2011 | 1185 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) | 2011 |
| 2013 | 1175 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) | 2012 |
| 2014 | 1217 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
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