Flood Promo

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Flood flag

John and John in the coffee shop

The Flood Promo was a promotional cassette distributed in the UK in 1990 to promote the band's new album, Flood. It is available for viewing in the special features section of the Gigantic DVD. It consists of these sections:

Theme From Flood

Begins with a slow 15-second camera pan across a New York City skyline, which fades into a flowing red "ELEKTRA ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS" flag, followed by a yellow flag with the logo for Flood on it.

Coffee shop - "Thanks for joining us for coffee"

Begins with an outside shot of De Robertis' Italian Pastry Shoppe (176 First Ave, New York, NY). Fades to the inside of the coffee shop, where John and John are sitting at a table, drinking coffee.

JL: Hi! Thanks for joining us for coffee, I'm John.

JF: And I'm John of They Might Be Giants.

JL: We've got a new album out, on Elektra Records, it's called, "Flood."

JF: This is our "rock motion video," so...(jolts head back) come on inside.

Music videos

Cuts to snippets of older TMBG music videos for about a minute. (Not included on the Gigantic DVD) Then, back to the coffee shop.

Coffee shop - "That's why our record is better"

JL: Some records that come out today only have ten songs, or less.

JF: This makes us angry.

JL: But instead of cursing the darkness, John and I have decided to do something about it. We've put out a record with nineteen songs on it.

JF: And that's why our record is better.

JL: If you buy our new album, Flood, you'll be getting songs like...

Flood tracklist speed-run

This section consists of the Johns running down the entire tracklisting for Flood in order, in one minute and 23 seconds. First, a John shouts out the song's title, then it cuts to both Johns sitting in chairs, lounging back and snapping their fingers while a snippet from the song (usually containing only its title) plays, and the song's title is shown in large, white, capital letters on-screen.