Showcasing a seventeen-member line-up,
Vongole Fisarmonica documents TDA at the peak of their early formation as a mostly instrumental mass accordion ensemble, before bandleader Paul Rogers would start restructuring the group into a tighter ten-member rock band for their subsequent album,
Squeeze This!. In contrast to the rest of TDA's discography,
Vongole Fisarmonica primarily consists of
cover songs, tackling TDA's typical fare of classic
polkas and offbeat covers of
hard rock and
pop songs. The album contains two original songs in "Lithuania" and "Chicken Boy Polka", as well as a
parody of
Arthur Godfreys "
Too Fat Polka", re-written as "Too Smart Polka". The title of the album is Italian for "Accordion Clams". According to member Tom Torriglia, musicians would often call mistakes "clams". ==Track listing==