They'll need a crane
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 07:10 (eight years ago) link
http://www.avclub.com/video/they-might-be-giants-covers-destinys-child-221191
This is really really good!
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 17:09 (eight years ago) link
stop waving that thing around, i'm not clicking on it
― some dude, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
LOL
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 17:12 (eight years ago) link
Hahahahaha!
― You’re being too simplistic and you’re insulting my poor heart (Turrican), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 17:50 (eight years ago) link
New album Phone Power is quite good - a few songs sound like obvious duds but there's like 13-14 really solid tunes there. Kinda weird that there's another version of "Black Ops" on there but it's better than the original. As usual the Linnell songs are generally better, two in particular are really really great - "ECNALUMBA" and "Shape Shifter".
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 03:46 (seven years ago) link
Didn't even know about this; will check it out
― Nhex, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 03:49 (seven years ago) link
It's just another collection of last year's weekly Dial-A-Song songs
― glandular lansbury (sic), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 04:07 (seven years ago) link
there was another one? i haven't heard any news since Glean came out
― Nhex, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 04:14 (seven years ago) link
yeah, but if you haven't heard it yet you wouldn't know. it plays like any of their albums and the songs are consistently good. I'd say it's about as good as Glean, maybe better, so if you like that one...
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 04:22 (seven years ago) link
ohh i didn't even realize till now that Glean was a DAS comp. and i thought that was their best album in over a decade!
― Nhex, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 04:32 (seven years ago) link
seconding phone power. i bought it back when it was a non-streaming release (early march?) and it's great. not groundbreaking, but quite albumly sequenced and a lot of really good songs (the first seven tracks are faultless imo).
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 05:16 (seven years ago) link
ohh i didn't even realize till now that Glean was a DAS comp.
The most recent kids album Why?, as well as being a sequel to No!, is also largely / sort of a compilation from last year's Dial-A-Song project - they did a song a week as a tiered subscription download or freebie youtube thing.
― glandular lansbury (sic), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 06:49 (seven years ago) link
I haven't heard any of the kids albums since No! actually... but you've got me interested
― Nhex, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 10:00 (seven years ago) link
Hate to say it, but found Glean to be their worst since Mink Car. Phone Power is a lot better yet still bitty. They were on a huge roll with Join Us and Nanobots though - best albums since the 90s
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 15:13 (seven years ago) link
I lionize the early stuff as much as anyone, but I think this is just as good - it seems to follow the pattern of the best TMBG albums where it's just one great song after another until the final third where things get a bit weird. It's even got those songs that pass you by on the first couple listens until one day you just feel like listening to them on repeat.
― frogbs, Thursday, 7 July 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link
new song today. I like it a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-1SqAJHhFc
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 03:37 (six years ago) link
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, June 23, 2015 3:10 AM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yes
― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 04:07 (six years ago) link
not sure I like the new song, but I like when they sing together. it's also a bit outside what they usually do, kind of going back to the sound on John Henry
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 07:05 (six years ago) link
i forgot which tab i had open and for a second thought this was track four on River of Dreams
― the pleather of pleather paul (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
the lyrics to "When Will You Die?" really reminding me of a certain person right now
― frogbs, Monday, 8 January 2018 15:17 (six years ago) link
seriously
I'm so tired Of your lies And the evil things You're doing behind my back Are there crimes That you have never committed? I doubt it, sometimes I wonder When will you die? You're insane You are bad You wreck everything you touch And you're a sociopath But there's one thing That everyone's wondering When will you die?
Are there crimes That you have never committed? I doubt it, sometimes I wonder When will you die?
You're insane You are bad You wreck everything you touch And you're a sociopath
But there's one thing That everyone's wondering When will you die?
― frogbs, Monday, 8 January 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
We've all known a few
― PaulTMA, Monday, 8 January 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link
one of my faves
― Nhex, Monday, 8 January 2018 19:09 (six years ago) link
has anyone ever written a review of TMBG (in recent-ish years, I mean) that basically says "Linnell still writes good songs, but Flansburgh does not"?
feel like it's been this way, more or less, for 20 years...just not sure if it's ever been acknowledged.
― alpine static, Friday, 19 January 2018 21:46 (six years ago) link
disagree! there have definitely been times where Linnell gets stagnant, as does Flansburgh, but they both eventually come back
― Nhex, Friday, 19 January 2018 23:06 (six years ago) link
hmm...if you can point me to some great late-era Flans songs, i'm all ears
― alpine static, Saturday, 20 January 2018 01:49 (six years ago) link
IDK it's pretty much always been Good Linnell > Good Flansburgh > Bad Flansburgh > Bad Linnell for me. I can't think of a single album where John F. outshines John L., outside of Apollo 18? It's tough to compare the two since Linnell's songs usually outnumber Flans 2:1. Kind of a Patridge/Moulding situation. Though when you see them live, Flansburgh clearly comes off as the frontman.
As for great late period Flanses..."Judy Is Your Vietnam" (basically the perfect Flans song), "In Fact", "Darlings of Lumberland" (which I think succeeds in the area "Cloissone" fails in), "Let Me Tell You About My Operation" and "Impossibly New" are all pretty great to me. I like more than that but those are the big ones.
― frogbs, Saturday, 20 January 2018 03:40 (six years ago) link
Good Linnell > Good Flansburgh > Bad Flansburgh > Bad Linnell
― Nhex, Saturday, 20 January 2018 05:36 (six years ago) link
I've always thought of Linnell as having the better songs overall, but I also think he has the better voice, which certainly plays a hand in it
― Vinnie, Saturday, 20 January 2018 06:17 (six years ago) link
New album is pretty good - especially if you've gotten burned out on them recently, since this is much more an album proper. It's probably their darkest set of lyrics yet; compared to the "fight the power" message of The Else this is more of a "everything sucks and we're all gonna die soon" type of album. Only listened twice but I think "Last Wave" is gonna go down as one of their greatest songs - feel like this is their "Wheel and the Maypole"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:14 (six years ago) link
also "The Greatest" has one of the best opening lines in TMBG history : "They call me the greatest/'cause I'm not very good and they're being sarcastic"
State Songs >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mono Puff
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 24 January 2018 15:20 (six years ago) link
When I listen to Underwater Woman and Let Me Tell You About My Operation I get to understand how life sounds through the ears of people who hate They Might Be Giants when they hear their best material
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 19:39 (six years ago) link
what does that meanthose songs are great btw
― Nhex, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
this new album is pretty great, top to bottom. i'm kinda stunned.
― alpine static, Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:38 (six years ago) link
fun fact about Last Wave - the lyrics were written to sync up to the Run DMC/Aerosmith "Walk This Way" video, which is why they make no sense in a vacuum
― frogbs, Thursday, 22 February 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
Had me in stitches.
https://vimeo.com/253025437
― Pyschocandles, Friday, 23 February 2018 02:33 (six years ago) link
ok that's amazing
― na (NA), Friday, 23 February 2018 04:20 (six years ago) link
hilarious
― Nhex, Friday, 23 February 2018 06:02 (six years ago) link
oh damn I didn't know that was online
amazing how they can still manage to sound exactly like they did 33 years ago if they want to
― frogbs, Friday, 23 February 2018 14:26 (six years ago) link
Now that was hilarious. Thanks for making my morning.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Friday, 23 February 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
omg
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 23 February 2018 23:41 (six years ago) link
can't breathe
― Global Arming's Terrifying Old Math$ (Hunt3r), Saturday, 24 February 2018 00:53 (six years ago) link
Beautiful
― President Keyes, Saturday, 24 February 2018 03:04 (six years ago) link
in case anyone missed it, but has a bookmark here, there's a great big ballot poll going on: Hope That I Get Polled Before I Die: THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS 1982-2002 POLL - Voting, Campaigning, Discussing
― My Gig: The Thin Beast (sic), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
too hard to decide for me. they have like hundreds of songs by now
― Nhex, Tuesday, 9 October 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
The poll only covers 1982-2002, per the title, and excludes not-formally-released songs, so there are a mere 431 eligible.
(It says 430 in the thread, but somehow I missed Stomp Box from John Henry.)
― My Gig: The Thin Beast (sic), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
An all too easy one to forget about though now I'll surely be made a fool of when it hits top 10.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 9 October 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
like hundreds of songs by now
They have released at least 170 songs just in the last six years; only 22 of them are for children.
― My Gig: The Thin Beast (sic), Friday, 12 October 2018 07:52 (five years ago) link