Bangs
| song name | Bangs |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | Mink Car, Special Mink Car Sampler, Tracks Taken From The New Album 'Mink Car', Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants, A User's Guide to They Might Be Giants: Melody, Fidelity, Quantity, Podcast 21A, 50,000,000 They Might Be Giants Songs Can't Be Wrong |
| year | 2001 |
| first played | September 18, 2001 (118 known performances) |
| run time | 3:09 |
| sung by | John Linnell |
Trivia/Info
On this track we enlisted producers Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley (who helped us create our British top ten hit "Birdhouse in Your Soul" with a thought that we might repeat that UK success with this song.) We recently contributed a demo version of this song for a bonus disc in the literary magazine McSweeney's and the best-selling UK author Zadie Smith wrote a companion short story ("The Girl with Bangs"). At a benefit performance with Zadie, we had the opportunity to perform it together, and we told her of our master plan to introduce the song to the UK audience. She had the unfortunate task of having to remind us that in Britain, "bangs" are called "fringe" and no one would know what we were talking about.
- "Bangs" is a North American English term for strands or locks of hair that fall over the scalp's front hairline to cover the forehead, commonly known as a "fringe" in British English.
- This song inspired a story by Zadie Smith, called "The Girl with Bangs",[1] which appears in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. The Mink Car version incorporates the first line from the story, in rearranged form. At the TMBG vs McSweeney's event in London (October 4, 2003), Zadie Smith read "The Girl with Bangs" while the band played a more instrumental rendition of "Bangs" in the background.
- This version differs from both the TMBG Unlimited version and the They Might Be Giants Vs. McSweeney's version. The Mink Car version is a complete re-recording, with some new lyrics written and other lyrics juggled around.
- This song is a reworking of the unreleased “Snapping Turtle”, which was based on the short story "The Man Who Shot Snapping Turtles" by Edmund Wilson.
- This song was once played over the end credits of an episode of the MTV show Daria. Executive producer Glenn Eichler is known to be a fan of TMBG (his favorite song is "They'll Need A Crane").
- This song is used in the movie Mayor of The Sunset Strip, which hit theaters on March 26, 2004, although it was not included on the official soundtrack. However, it was included on a promotional soundtrack sampler, which was given out at the movie's premiere.
- "Bangs" is one of three TMBG songs Bob Dylan selected for his "Theme Time Radio Hour" program on XM Radio.
Song Themes
Body Parts, Clothes, Eyes, Hair, Hands, Heads, Love, Memory, Money, Not In Common Time, Oblique Cliches Or Idiom, Recycled Material, Titles And Honorifics, TV And Movie Themes
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