Museum Of Idiots
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| song name | Museum of Idiots |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | The Spine, TMBG Clock Radio |
| year | 2004 |
| first played | August 12, 2000 (102 known performances) |
| run time | 3:02 |
| sung by | John Linnell |
Trivia/Info
- John Linnell would recall the creation of this song in an interview with KMSU for the 2024 They Might Be Playing They Might Be Giants marathon:
John [Flansburgh] and I decided to put together a half-sized big band for a show in New York in Brooklyn at [Prospect Park], and I wrote the song "Museum Of Idiots" specifically for that group. That was really fun because I was just thinking specifically, "How does this work with this ensemble?" It was kind of arranged as it was being written.
- The stanza "Chop me up into pieces [...] Every piece will say 'I love you'" is remarkably similar to dialogue from the movie The Cross and the Switchblade. The movie was later adapted into a comic book with the relevant quote on the cover.
Song Themes
Bodily Mutilation, Fire, Forgetting And Remembering, Love, Museums, Not In Common Time, This Town, Trees And Other Plants
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