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[edit] Promo flag

On Gigantic, where they play the song Theme From Flood, there's a yellow flag waving with the Flood logo on it. Does anyone know if I can get one of these for myself, and if so, where? --My Evil Twin's Twin 4-12-04

[edit] Platinum?

Lots of internet sources, notably the TMBG wikipedia article say that both Flood and Here Come the ABCs! have gone platinum. Can anyone verify this? Mucket 08:52, 14 Mar 2006 (CST)

The RIAA can. :\ According to a search on their website, both Flood and the Here Come The ABCs DVD have gone Gold (500,000+ copies sold), but I don't see any Platinum (1 million+) awards. I'll do some further research. -CapitalQ / @ / 09:15, 14 Mar 2006 (CST)
According to riaa.com, it's still gold and not platinum. Hence, my revert. --Duke33 14:59, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Hmm, I was looking at their High Road Touring page and seem to remember press that said it when User's Guide was released. I also want to say that a John said it during a radio interview, but even if he did I'd never be able to find it. --badqueso 17:12, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
That crap is everywhere. Eeh. -CapitalQ / @ / 18:48, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Well I was thinking of the High Road item as equivalent to a press release, though I guess that's not true. Also, the 18 search results I'm seeing is hardly "everywhere." --badqueso 19:13, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Do you mean to tell me the Internet has more than eighteen webpages? How can it fit that much? -CapitalQ / @ / 19:23, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
Outer Space. --badqueso 19:51, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fold-out watchamacallit

On the first foldout of this CD (First time you unfold the liner notes or whatever they're called) is that Linnell on the left? The guy kinda looks like him, but it's been annoying the heck out of me, and we can't be too sure. ^_~; I know the other guy isn't Flans. Wow, this is an awkward question. --Lemita 15:37, 9 Apr 2006 (CDT)

If you're talking about the man in the boat, Linnell wasn't alive in 1930. ;) -CapitalQ / @ / 19:49, 15 Apr 2006 (CDT)
Oh, that was from 1930? I'm... a weirdo then. o_O;; Ok then... never knew that... --Lemita 08:52, 16 Apr 2006 (CDT)

[edit] Vinyl Lyrics

I'd just like to point out the two lyrics errors in the vinyl lyrics. (They might be on the CD lyrics as well, but I don't have that).

Your Racist Friend: "My head is tired from bobbing and pretending"
Letterbox: "I would have a lot of eyes on me by this time wouldn't I? Wouldn't that just be fine."

I know no-one will be interested in this, but this is "The TMBG Knowledge Base" and we are supposed to be collecting all the information on They Might Be Giants as physically possible, so I just thought I'd add that. - ( Herwwiyal ? )/ 07:49, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

It says the same thing in the CD liner notes. For "Your Racist Friend," this was the original lyric and is sung in the demos and sometimes live. I don't see how the "Letterbox" one is an error though. I'd think the greater error would be the glaring omission of the bridge. --badqueso 08:15, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Ok, thanks - ( Herwwiyal ? )/ 09:42, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I just listened to Letterbox, and it definitely sounds like he's saying "I would have a lot of eyes on the other side" 12.217.244.133 19:04, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
See, that's what I thought too, but listening to it again, it really does sound like 'on me by this time'. Of course, as the singing is too damn fast, it's kinda hard to distinguish the consonants in the words. --McBob 06:14, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Every song played live

Is it worth noting that this is the only TMBG album where every single song has been played live? (All songs in their entirely, which excludes the Pink Album and its First Album Medley.) I also thought The Else was another album where every song was played live, but Feign Amnesia caused it to fail. JasonDeLima 05:19, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

But there's been TMBG and John Henry shows, along with near-complete shows for other albums. Are you sure? o_O -CapitalQ / @ / 05:22, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
TMBG, Flood, Apollo 18, John Henry, Factory Showroom have all been played out entirely. --Luke 16:40, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
I guess Token Back To Brooklyn doesn't count? --badqueso 04:50, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
I thought about that. I also promptly and consciously ignored it. Maybe it does count. Either way, the point stands Flood definitely isn't the only album that has been fully played, all at once or otherwise. --Luke 12:30, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
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