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Untitled

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Screenshot of the animated video from Gigantic
song nameUntitled
artistThey Might Be Giants
releasesThe Frank O' Toole Show, (She Was A) Hotel Detective (EP), Don't Let's Start (LP), Miscellaneous T, Then: The Earlier Years
year1987
run time2:33
sung by"Gloria" and a male friend

Trivia/Info

  • From the tmbg.com FAQ archive: "Back when very few people called Dial-A-Song the phone machine that played the songs took messages. I came home one day and found the message tape full, instead of the ten or twenty messages it usually had. I rewound the tape and found that most of it was taken up by a woman who had called on a conference call with her friend, listened to the song and then proceeded to have a private conversation unaware that the Dial-A-Song machine was recording them. The recording on track thirteen is just an excerpt of the first couple of minutes of their conversation. It actually got much stranger, but it was unrelated to the band, and too freaky to put on a record." -- John Flansburgh
  • The track is just an excerpt of Gloria's phone call. Highlights of the conversation include Gloria asking her male friend to explain his theory of "how he can make money off this stuff, cause it don't make no sense," and Gloria calling out to a Russian-sounding man who replies to her asking "Who's There May Be Giants?" by saying back, "Vut are you tukking about?"
  • This track does not appear on the track listing on releases that it appears on.
  • On TMBG Clock Radio, two additional excerpts from the Gloria phone recording are present: Gloria Says "This Guy's A Nut" and Gloria Says "Blast Her Out".
  • An excerpt of the recording was animated for Gigantic (A Tale Of Two Johns).
  • Clips from this conversation were used as the base for the Untitled Remix.

Song Themes

Children, Dial-A-Song Reference, Geography, Guy Songs, Language, Questions, Talking, Not Singing, Telephony

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