Other Songs With References To TMBG
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Songs by other artists with references to TMBG:
Common Rotation
- Radio DJ - "Hey Mr. DJ I thought you said we had a deal, well I thought you said I scratch your back, and you play my record, I thought you said we had a deal."
DJ Lunch Boy
- Adam Ant vs. XTC - This is a mashup of "Apollo 9" by Adam Ant, "Love at First Sight" by XTC and XTC vs. Adam Ant.
Draco and the Malfoys
- All I Want for Christmas - "I don't want a piece of peanut-brittle, I don't want a pear."
Jimmy Eat World
- A Praise Chorus - "Don't, Don't, Don't Let's start" is sung in the middle of the song
Logan Whitehurst & the Junior Science Club
- Waffle Of Death - "I'm staying close to my Blue Canary Nightlight."
- What I Did (to the Cat) - "I heard a sound, I turned around to find the cat that made the sound."
Mochipet
- They Might Be Giants vs. Lyrical Giants - A rather interesting mix of several songs by TMBG with several by the rap group Lyrical Giants. This track is featured on an album of other "versus" tracks such as this one.
Modest Mouse
- Paper Thin Walls - contains the line "Laugh hard, it's a long ways to the bank." Issac Brock of Modest Mouse confesses to "stealing" a line from TMBG in the guest audio commentary on the Season 4 DVD of Home Movies, in the episode TMBG guest-starred on.
TODCRA Productions
- We're not They Might Be Giants
"Weird Al" Yankovic
- Everything You Know is Wrong - A style parody of TMBG. Besides sounding like a TMBG song (including an evolving chorus a'la Sensurround and Till My Head Falls Off), it contains several giantisms such as a reference to prosthetic (something Logan Whitehurst is also guilty of), 'St. Peter', 'Evil Twin', Death and a disembodied head. The title is a take on Everything Right Is Wrong Again, but it's also a Firesign Theatre reference.
The following artists take their name from TMBG songs:
See also: