When I first heard Fingertips, I thought: wouldn’t it be a nice idea to shuffle this CD and have all those little tunes between songs? (I didn’t know until five minutes ago that that was the idea behind it.) But I couldn’t. Maybe the European distributors didn’t get the idea, or maybe it’s a cheapo reprint and I’m being punished for waiting do long, but the Apollo 18 CD I have has all of Fingertips in one file.

That was the first TMBG album I bought (in high-school), on recommendation from a friend (who went on to be in the great geek band Wookieback and is now doing some christian-ish stuff with Sufjan Stevens under the band name “Half-handed cloud” and even I’m not on board religiously it’s some great music). I recall all the fingertips songs (alas the CD made it out of my collection at some point), but don’t think the REALLY cheesy funky CD player I had at the time, which about the size of a Sega Genesis, actually would shuffle tracks (that, or my memory is getting worse than I thought, because I didn’t remember the “designed for shuffle” thing even after you mentioned it).

I repurchased a couple of the songs off the Amazon MP3 store last year and now my 5yo son loves to sing Turn Around, much to the chagrin of my wife.

What I feel happiest about though, is that when I read your tweet mentioning “Fingertips”, it turned out that, that referred to what my mind wanted to think it referred to. In other words, when I saw “Fingertips”, I thought, “What? That weird multi-song segment thing from TMBG’s Apollo 18 album? No, surely not, but what else could it be?”

“I hear the wind blow / I hear the wind blow / it seems to say, `hello! hello! I’m the one that loves you so!’ ”

The one about the heart attack and the one about not being able to understand someone were always a little scary to me.

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Furry cows moo and decompress.

Good luck with this.