Rhythm Section Want Ad

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song name	Rhythm Section Want Ad
artist	They Might Be Giants
album	They Might Be Giants, Then: The Earlier Years
year	1986
first played	Feb. 24, 1989 (34 known performances)
run time	2:22
sung by	John Linnell; John Flansburgh provides the "No! No! No! No!"'s

That little melody Linnell plays after the first "here's the reason why" is supposed to be Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse", although he once admitted having misremembered it.
The line "laugh hard, it's a long way(s) to the bank", which is actually a play on the expression "laughing all the way to the bank", is sung several times in Modest Mouse's "Paper Thin Walls".
MDC was a west coast hardcore band who changed their name to match those initials every album.

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