They Might Be Giants
Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas)
Severe Tire Damage
(1998)

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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 {#Wink}


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

{#Sunny}


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