Severe Tire Damage (album)

Severe Tire Damage is a primarily live album by They Might Be Giants, released in 1998. It also features a few studio tracks, including a new single ("Doctor Worm").

The live cuts, some recorded at soundchecks without any audience, feature at least one track from every album since their debut, which include older works that have been reworked since the duo adopted a full backing band. Songs like "She's an Angel", from their debut album, They Might Be Giants, and "Birdhouse in Your Soul", from their major label debut, Flood, have been changed from the larger band. Conversely, the song "Meet James Ensor" originally appeared on their first full band effort, John Henry (1994) and surfaces here in a bare-bones rendition, with only vocals and an accordion.

A condensed version of this album was released as Live, which featured 10 of the 24 tracks listed here.