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They Might Be Giants
Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas) Severe Tire Damage (1998) Buy CD Buy MP3 |
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hixmyrick Jan 06, 2013 - 12:51 | jmsmy wrote: To Loosely quote Bruce Springsteen - I've learned more from a 3 minute song then I ever learned in school. This song wasn't exectly what he meant - but I sure learned a lot from it. NeuroJoe wrote: |
Grammarcop Dec 06, 2012 - 04:16 | SchoepTone wrote: Reminds me of Monty Python. Reminds me of The Animaniacs. |
Sloggydog Dec 06, 2012 - 03:54 | Absolutely loved the first 4 albums and saw them live in Brisbane at that point. They played a 3hr 15 min set which caused me to miss my last bus but I didn't mind the 5 mile walk at all. Though I think my neighbours may have been a bit upset when we woke them up with TMBG and a room full of hyped up jumping idiots at about 3am. |
NeuroJoe Nov 04, 2012 - 18:42 | jmsmy wrote: To Loosely quote Bruce Springsteen - I've learned more from a 3 minute song then I ever learned in school. This song wasn't exectly what he meant - but I sure learned a lot from it. Apparently it's not a song about spelling |
zair99 Oct 04, 2012 - 10:47 | cc_rider wrote: I wonder if they play this song in Constantinople. It's Istanbul, not Constantinople. |
Ag3nt0rang3 Oct 04, 2012 - 10:43 | Yeah, I can think of many many many other TMBG songs I'd rather hear than this one. |
jmsmy Oct 04, 2012 - 10:32 | To Loosely quote Bruce Springsteen - I've learned more from a 3 minute song then I ever learned in school. This song wasn't exectly what he meant - but I sure learned a lot from it. |
EdmoJoe Oct 04, 2012 - 10:31 | Kind of funny. Kind of musical. |
ick Oct 04, 2012 - 10:30 | lafcadio wrote: Actually, the sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma. Both science and TMBG are self-correcting! but incandescent gas rhymes better! |
cc_rider Oct 04, 2012 - 10:30 | I wonder if they play this song in Constantinople. |
SchoepTone Oct 04, 2012 - 10:30 | Reminds me of Monty Python. |
Biscobret Oct 04, 2012 - 10:29 | I should love this band, right? I like quirky, I have kids, I like creative — they annoy me to no end... Hi Ho. |
djengs Oct 04, 2012 - 10:29 | lafcadio wrote: Actually, the sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma. Both science and TMBG are self-correcting! Let's see...what rhymes with "plasma"? |
smartn1 Oct 04, 2012 - 10:29 | silly but fun |
lafcadio Aug 02, 2012 - 10:31 | Actually, the sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma. Both science and TMBG are self-correcting! |
pattiecovert Aug 02, 2012 - 10:31 | Great album for kids—smart kids. |
Businessgypsy May 29, 2011 - 05:16 | FUCK YEAH! Huzzah for science! |
Raechel Apr 27, 2011 - 16:08 | I could do without the whine |
Art_Carnage Apr 27, 2011 - 16:05 | ... and that's how TMBG started their trek from a cutting-edge band, to total irrelevance. |
missquo Feb 23, 2011 - 14:45 | The best part is, they recently gave a musical correction to the assertions of this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLkGSV9WDMA |
