Disappointing Show

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song name	Disappointing Show
artist	They Might Be Giants
album	TMBG Unlimited, They Got Lost, Podcast 6C
year	2001
first played	Sep. 1, 2001 (1 known performance)
run time	2:31
sung by	John Flansburgh

Part of the Battle Of The Bands project, TMBG assumes the persona of the fictitious band, The Disappointers.
From tmbg.com, "This is from a live show at Columbia University in NYC. We had a new stage tech (for one day) who neglected to plug anything in before we walked on stage- leading to perhaps the most humbling show start of our humbling careers. Things went downhill from there with power failures and electronic disasters. This spontaneously written song captures the magic of the disappointment!"
This song has a very audible skip at 1:37 into it, which has been present since the song's appearance on TMBG Unlimited in 2001, and is still present in the 2005 pressing of They Got Lost. This skip may have been the reason for iTunes to remove this song from their store.
At the end of this song, you can hear TMBG going into Spider.
The song is reminiscent of Jack Hitt's story in Act One of the This American Life episode Fisasco!

Current Rating

Disappointing Show is currently ranked #654 out of 797. (38 wikians have given it an average rating of 7.29)

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