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The Mesopotamians

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Music video for The Mesopotamians
"The Mesopotamians" design, T-shirt back
song nameThe Mesopotamians
artistThey Might Be Giants
releasesThe Else
year2007
first playedMay. 2, 2007 (152 known performances)
run time2:57
sung byJohn Linnell

Trivia/Info

  • Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh are all famous Mesopotamians.
  • Much like "The Mesopotamians", TMBG toured during the Lincoln and Flood era in two white Ford Econoline vans, dubbed "Milli" and "Vanilli" by TMBG. (More info at MySpace.)
  • Sargon plays guitar left-handed, just like Flansy.
  • The bridge lyrics "I thought that you were dead, I thought you crashed your car/No, man, I've been right here this whole time playing bass guitar" refer to the rumour that Paul McCartney had died in a car accident in 1966 and was secretly replaced in the Beatles by a look-alike.
  • A Mohenjo-daren is someone from Mohenjo-daro, a city belonging to an ancient civilization in modern-day Pakistan that was contemporaneous with Bronze Age Mesopotamia.
  • A T-shirt featuring the four characters from this song was added to the TMBG Merchandise Store on July 10, 2007, to coincide with The Else's CD release.
  • A short animated teaser for the Mesopotamians video featuring the characters from the T-shirt, entitled "Mesopotamians Now", was posted on YouTube and theymightbegiants.com on July 30, 2007. The clip uses dialog sampled from the 1979 film Apocalypse Now. A follow-up video entitled "After the Audition" was posted to theymightbegiants.com on August 24, which sampled dialog from The Monkees TV series episode "Find The Monkees (The Audition)", which first aired in 1967. The music video, directed by David Cowles and animated by Chris Timmons, was finally released on October 2 on stereogum.com.

Song Themes

Death, Food, Hair, History, Music, People (Real), Swear Words, Tongue-Twisters, Trade Names

Videos

  • Watch it on  - The Mesopotamians official music video
  • Watch it on  - Live performance on Late Night with Craig Ferguson.
  • Watch it on  - TMBGs last East coast performance on Conan O'Brien
  • Watch it on  - The Mesopotamians teaser: "Mesopotamians Now"
  • Watch it on  - The Mesopotamians teaser: "After the Audition"
 
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