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Rhythm Section Want Ad

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song nameRhythm Section Want Ad
artistThey Might Be Giants
albumThey Might Be Giants, Then: The Earlier Years
year1986
first playedFeb. 24, 1989 (34 known performances)
run time2:22
sung byJohn Linnell; John Flansburgh provides the "No! No! No! No!"'s

[edit] Trivia/Info

  • 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.

[edit] Song Themes

Ads, Cartoons, Clothes, Drums, Guy Songs, Love, Music, No, Oblique Cliches Or Idiom, Poetry, Questions, References To Other Songs Or Musicians, Rhymes, Self-Reference, Tongue-Twisters, Transportation

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