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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 playedNov. 28, 1987 (39 known performances)
run time2:22
sung byJohn Linnell; John Flansburgh provides the "No! No! No! No!"'s

Trivia/Info

  • The little melody John Linnell plays after the first "here's the reason why" is borrowed from 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". Isaac Brock, lead singer and writer of Modest Mouse, vaguely acknowledges this in his band's guest commentary track for the "Home Movies" episode, "Camp" (which featured TMBG as guest stars).
  • MDC was a west coast hardcore band who changed their name to match those initials every album.

Song Themes

Ads, Cartoons, Clothes, Drums, Guy Songs, Love, Music, No, Oblique Cliches Or Idiom, Oxymorons, Paradoxes, And Contradictory Statements, People (Imaginary), Poetry, Questions, References To Other Songs Or Musicians, Rhymes, Self-Reference, Tongue-Twisters, Transportation

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