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They Might Be Giants (Song)

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song nameThey Might Be Giants
artistThey Might Be Giants
releasesFlood, Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants
year1990
first playedSep. 29, 1990 (44 known performances)
run time2:45
sung byJohn Flansburgh

Trivia/Info

  • "A really, really old song. We actually recorded that in 1985, originally. We thought about doing it for the second album as well. Basically, we didn't want to put it on the first album because it seemed too weird. It just seemed perfect to have our theme song on our third album. It's a very complicated song, actually. When we did it originally, we recorded it on a four track and we just did millions and millions of overdubs and created this very tracked-out, complicated arrangement. And since we started working on an eight track, we tended to strip things down a little bit more. So when we came back to "They Might Be Giants," we found ourselves trying to recreate something we did pretty effortlessly on a four track, but when we were actually trying to use big, studio recording techniques, it became an incredibly complicated piece to put back together again. There's a ton of vocals on it, two guitars, two trumpets. - John Flansburgh (Throttle Magazine, August 1990)
  • Dr. Benjamin Spock (not to be confused with Mr. Spock from Star Trek) was a pediatrician who wrote the best-selling The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care.
  • John Flansburgh in a 2009 interview with Rolling Stone:
While we'd have a tad more street cred to cite Black Sabbath, I think we were really trying to make some of 'Hey Hey We're the Monkees' our own with this one. I think including it here was a way to telegraph to all who might care that we were very much going to carry on as we had started — which is to say complicated and impossible to pigeonhole.


Song Themes

Altered Voice, Hair, Lies, Deception, Kingdom Of Loathing Reference, Music, People (Real), Questions, Self-Reference, Size, Weather

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