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They Might Be Giants — Birdhouse In Your Soul
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myersei
(Denver, CO)
Posted: Nov 20, 2011 - 23:16
 
great tune.  maybe an overrated #9, but one of my lifetime favs.

HazzeSwede
(Vinyl Land)
Posted: Oct 07, 2011 - 07:42
 
   What ? #3

musickat
(Lake of the Ozarks)
Posted: Aug 05, 2011 - 12:14
 

                           {#Stop}   {#Stop}   {#Stop}

kcar
Posted: Aug 05, 2011 - 12:13
 
 Dgradeworkunit wrote:
I see on previous pages a link to the Pushing Daisies show.  We don't get broadcast TV so we watched the series on DVD.
My wife and I had never seen any of it, so there we were on the couch watching that episode and suddenly my daughter and I start singing along... my poor wife thought she'd been abducted by aliens or something! 
 
You should conspire with your daughter to gaslight your wife a few more times. It'll keep her on her toes...

Great song, great band. I keep bragging about this, but John and John grew up in Lincoln, MA—one of my fave places and next door to my home town. 

"Pushing Daisies" was absolutely wonderful. Its brief two-season run is a clear sign of the decline of American TV and culture in general. Hopefully the next quirky, genre-crossing mystery/romantic comedy that shows up on the small screen will last a little longer.

 

Krispian
(Vancouver, BC)
Posted: Aug 05, 2011 - 12:08
 
 Businessgypsy wrote:
If it's too acute, you're too obtuse!

 
Too funny. What a great comment for this geek rock song!


misterbearbaby
(Marina del Rey, California)
Posted: Aug 05, 2011 - 12:08
 
I'm sorta ashamed to admit to my young friends that I just don't get TMBG... So I try to listen and snap my fingers sorta in time but I kinda keep waiting for the cuteness to stop and the music to start. It just ain't happenin' for this Bear.

Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Jun 03, 2011 - 11:50
 



MilSF1
(Arkadelphia, AR)
Posted: Apr 01, 2011 - 06:43
 
Kinda funny that someone mentioned this is Sesame Street music. TMBG is actually now quite big in the kindie rock scene including getting a Grammy in 2009 for Best Musical Album For Children. In fact I think the first in the "Here Come the" series was their last gold. record.


apd
(Toronto, On)
Posted: Feb 28, 2011 - 19:19
 
 cc_rider wrote:
Had to go watch their appearance on 'The Tonight Show'. 1990, with Doc Severinsen and the band. Awesome.
 
Me too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6WKE4aYgOw

Check out the trombone player with the flat top.

 

michaelgmitchell
(Canada)
Posted: Feb 28, 2011 - 18:57
 
Maybe.

JK27
(Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA)
Posted: Jan 28, 2011 - 13:09
 
Ahhh ... great memories. And, the LOUDEST concert I have ever attended! At the University of Michigan ....

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Jan 28, 2011 - 13:01
 
 FlatCat wrote:
The concept of a night-light worrying about "killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts" has to be one of the most inspired lines in Rock and Roll.
 
Agreed - these guys are brilliant lyricists.  A lot of the folks posting here seem to be a little humorless - too bad - there are already more than enough things to have to be serious about.


Hofgarten
(Lower Saxony)
Posted: Jan 28, 2011 - 13:00
 
I especially liked their playful, sometimes downright absurd lyrics right from the start. It's nice to listen to them again, but I can understand not everybody likes their somewhat anarchistic approach to musicmaking...

Dgradeworkunit
(Shenandoah Valley)
Posted: Jan 28, 2011 - 12:56
 
I see on previous pages a link to the Pushing Daisies show.  We don't get broadcast TV so we watched the series on DVD.
My wife and I had never seen any of it, so there we were on the couch watching that episode and suddenly my daughter and I start singing along... my poor wife thought she'd been abducted by aliens or something! 

unclehud
(300 feet above the planet)
Posted: Jan 28, 2011 - 12:54
 
These guys crack me up.  "Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet."   Hyuck, hyuck, hyuck!

ckcotton
Posted: Jan 28, 2011 - 12:52
 
 sirdroseph wrote:

If you do not like this song, you are a serial killer.{#Daisy}


 
Not YET!... but if I hear much more............



sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Dec 28, 2010 - 04:57
 

If you do not like this song, you are a serial killer.{#Daisy}



Lakeview
(Great White North)
Posted: Jul 22, 2010 - 04:39
 
Bill! What's going on? Lately I'm shutting RP off more often than not. The number of sucko-barfo's is increasing and I've noticed that we're changing the channel more and more often. I hope to not have to go looking for a replacement.

FlatCat
(Chicago)
Posted: Jun 20, 2010 - 08:07
 
The concept of a night-light worrying about "killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts" has to be one of the most inspired lines in Rock and Roll.

garycha
(Bristol, UK)
Posted: Jun 11, 2010 - 03:10
 
Overly 'clever' and simutaneously irritating in equal measures. 

sirdroseph
(Tokyo)
Posted: May 19, 2010 - 12:37
 
 scraig wrote:
I like this, but can't stand Gogol Bordello.
 

I happen to agree with you, but fail to see any connections between the two?{#Stupid}

sirdroseph
(Tokyo)
Posted: May 19, 2010 - 12:37
 
Once again showcasing John Linell's unique ability to come up with amazing lyrics about nothing! This song is about a night lite!{#Lol}


scraig
(Santa Barbara, CA)
Posted: May 19, 2010 - 12:35
 
I like this, but can't stand Gogol Bordello.

cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.)
Posted: May 19, 2010 - 12:34
 
Had to go watch their appearance on 'The Tonight Show'. 1990, with Doc Severinsen and the band. Awesome.

Freedonia
(Houston, TX)
Posted: May 19, 2010 - 12:28
 
 fatcatjb wrote:
I concur...this tested my patience
 Papernapkin wrote:
More for Sesame Street than RP.
 
 
If that's what you think, you're TOO grown up.  Fun isn't only for children.


RParadise
(Hastings-on-Hudson, NY)
Posted: May 19, 2010 - 12:27
 
 Papernapkin wrote:
More for Sesame Street than RP.
 

I love Sesame Street.

xtalman
(What dimension?)
Posted: May 19, 2010 - 12:27
 
 Papernapkin wrote:
More for Sesame Street than RP.
 
Lighten up, this is just fun.  


Paxus
(Las Vegas, NV)
Posted: May 19, 2010 - 12:27
 
perfect for lunchtime!!! thanks a ton!!!!  :)

kylemichael
(Northern Virginia)
Posted: May 19, 2010 - 12:26
 
I don't know what is is about TMBG but everyone of their songs makes me want to bang my head against the desk. Rating 1

Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Apr 17, 2010 - 18:15
 
Papernapkin wrote:
More for Sesame Street than RP.
If it's too acute, you're too obtuse!


plaice3
Posted: Apr 17, 2010 - 18:11
 
Oh, this is why people like this band so much!  {#Angel}

Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Apr 17, 2010 - 18:11
 
From Flood - the first CD ever acquired for my son, at age 9. The two Johns are now engaged in a concert tour doing the entire work live. So wonderful to hear this again.


polymerchm
(Silver Spring, MD)
Posted: Dec 12, 2009 - 18:03
 
 gatorade wrote:
Would rather hear some Zappa.
 
Perhaps Peaches en Reggalia!


polymerchm
(Silver Spring, MD)
Posted: Dec 12, 2009 - 18:02
 
The Cure then They might be Giants.  GENIUS!!!!

gatorade
(Ocean Park, WA)
Posted: Dec 12, 2009 - 18:01
 
Would rather hear some Zappa.

copymonkey
(in the northeast, but not near anywhere cool)
Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 08:31
 
 DaveInVA wrote:
I shouldn't like this but I do....
 

You do realize how pompous this makes you sound, right?

Decoy
(Milliway's, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe)
Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 08:30
 
What a fun song, I wish more people would stop & enjoy these little pleasures in life.

window
(Richmond, VA)
Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 08:29
 
A most unusual classic.  On paper the lyrics and arrangement just don't have broad appeal and would seem to destine the song to obscurity.  But in the execution it wins on all levels, and has come to define how music can be infectious.  Simply brilliant from start to finish.  Congrats to John and John for not compromising their brainy approach to rock and roll.

dwhayslett
(Pawleys Island, SC)
Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 08:22
 
 Papernapkin wrote:
More for Sesame Street than RP.
 
Nope, it's for RP - you know how you can tell?  Because Bill just played it on RP, and he gets to decide - you don't.


fatcatjb
(Sunny Sacramento)
Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 08:21
 
I concur...this tested my patience
 Papernapkin wrote:
More for Sesame Street than RP.
 



viciousfishes
(Concord)
Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 08:20
 
Thanks, Bill, I needed that nugget of pure JOY today!

Grammarcop
(Hey, I can see Canada from here!)
Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 08:19
 
Aargh! I desperately want to sing along, but I'm sitting in the waiting room at the doctor's office right now...

songbirdfemme
(syracuse ny)
Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 08:19
 
 Papernapkin wrote:
More for Sesame Street than RP.
 
Heaven forbid - FUN on RP!!!!!


Papernapkin
(Mountain View, CA)
Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 08:17
 
More for Sesame Street than RP.

DaveInVA
(In a crumbling Queen Anne mansion in Damnville, VA)
Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 08:16
 
I shouldn't like this but I do....

Shimmer
(Bethesda, MD)
Posted: Sep 09, 2009 - 07:37
 
The band that established geek rock. And this does indeed rock. Love it.

cleverguy
(Prince Charles' Haunted House)
Posted: Aug 08, 2009 - 19:15
 
My wife's favorite song by TMBG and they are the group she's seen live the most. This was written in their heyday in the 90s and is wildly imaginative & clever. The lyrics must be studied to be truly appreciated. I give this one a 10 and recommend that fans also check out "Particle Man", "Dr. Worm", "SEXXY", "The Statue Got Me High", "Don't Let's Start" and "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)". 

MojoJojo
(Indianapolis, IN USA)
Posted: Aug 08, 2009 - 19:07
 


choiceimage
(I may not look stupid)
Posted: Aug 08, 2009 - 19:06
 
 newwavegurly wrote:


 



ScottFromWyoming
(Powell)
Posted: May 05, 2009 - 15:22
 
 QrazyQat wrote:
TMBG did this song on their first Tonight Show appearance, back in the Doc Severinsen days.  Unlike most groups who turned up their noses at the Tonight Show band, TMBG embraced the opportunity and had the full works done, Tommy Newsome writing up charts and they did a rocking version with the full band and Doc wailing on the trumpet.  You can find the clip on YouTube.
 

Thanks, I'd forgotten all about that!