Lyrics:Smells Like Teen Spirit

Linnell: Hold on, we have to hang up the phone [laughs].
DJ: Uh, this is KROQ, do you have a request for They Might be Giants?
Caller: Yeah.
DJ: Okay, what is it?
Caller: I wanna hear them do "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
Linnell: Smells Like Teen Spirit, okay, okay.
DJ: Oh.
Flans: You wanna stay on the phone, and listen, or you wanna hang up?
Linnell: You wanna do the harmony part?
Caller: I'll... I'll go with the no.
Flans: Okay, okay, bye.
Flans: So we start with the quiet part or go right into scr...
DJ: I think the quiet part.
Linnell: I think the quiet part, 'cause that way we can try and remember how the, uh, loud part goes.
Flans: That other part was loud getting there.
Linnell: Okay John's putting the guitar down...
Flans: It's all you.
Linnell:...which means I am now shouldered with playing the chords on the accordion.
[background laughing]
Linnell: [playing verse riff] Alright, I remember that part
[background laughs]

[Here, Flansburgh energetically sings the melody in his "backwards talking voice," without actual words.]

Linnell: I wish you could see the color of John's face right now.
Some woman: It's tomato-esque!
Linnell: It's a... different color...
Flans: I'm... flush with the excitement.