Fibber Island
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| song name | Fibber Island |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | No!, TMBG Clock Radio |
| year | 2002 |
| first played | May 4, 2003 (59 known performances) |
| run time | 2:10 |
| sung by | John Flansburgh |
Trivia/Info
"Fibber Island" is a traditional song written as a national anthem during the Island's tumultuous drive for independence from the US in the 1960s. Located directly to the east of Nantucket, Massachusetts, Fibber Island has been a vacation destination for CIA and retiring black ops agents for years, but when they moved to become their own nation-state, the Island was 'disappeared' by Lyndon Johnson and the FBI.
- In an interview on WPR's To The Best Of Our Knowledge radio show, John Flansburgh explained that the song was inspired by the 1963 album Come For To Sing, directed and produced by American folk musician Eric Von Schmidt[1]:
There was a song [on that album] that I assume [is] an Irish folk song called "Tattle-O-Day" that's all a bunch of exaggerations and tall tales. And when we were doing [No!], it was kind of like "well, what songs can we do for children?" And I just thought, that was something that really seemed like a lot of fun when I was a kid and seemed really in the spirit of They Might Be Giants as a band. So I created a song that echoed that idea. I mean it's a completely different kind of song in some ways, but it really comes straight out of a folk tradition.
- The "kids" singing in the background are actually Flans, just with a much higher pitch.
- On the CD-ROM's interactive video, the song ends before its instrumental outro.
- The second ending of the song uses the Swinging Flutes set from the Mellotron keyboard.
Song Themes
Altered Voice, Animals, Clothes, Eyes, Fading, Food, Friendship, Hair, Islands, Lies And Deception, Lists, Music, Not In Common Time, Numbers, Oxymorons, Paradoxes, And Contradictory Statements, Personification, Real Estate, References To Other Songs Or Musicians, The Senses, Shapes, Space, Transportation
Videos
- Included on CD.
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