I Haven't Been Right Yet
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| song name | I Haven't Been Right Yet |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | Dial-A-Song (2018), My Murdered Remains |
| year | 2018 |
| run time | 2:35 |
| sung by | John Linnell |
Trivia/Info
- John Flansburgh expanded on the writing and production of this song in a December 2018 interview with Sam Ash:
[Linnell and I have] always written songs apart, but we’ve also always collaborated. Sometimes it’s just handing off a lyric or a sample or a beat or a chord progression, sometimes it’s more of an experiment. There is a song on Dial-A-Song called “I Haven’t Been Right Yet” that is a good example of how circuitous it can get. John had put together a set of chords, essentially a kind of blues progression but in a microtonal scale that he had concocted on some tunable synths, and sampled them. I took the chords and repurposed it into a kind of swingy progression using the Ableton Push against a kind of cliché jazz ride pattern, and passed it back to him. It sounds very cool unto itself, but it wasn’t exactly a complete instrumental and it certainly wasn’t a song, but it was something kind of cool. I think three or four months went by, and I kind of figured it had just been shuffled away, but then he brought the track in and had written the vocal and clarinet thing straight over the audio I put together on Push. Marty [Beller] did a full-blown swinging drum thing and the song really became something quite complete.
Song Themes
Friendship, Lies And Deception, Microtones, Numbers, Oblique Cliches Or Idiom, Paranoia, Plans, Problems With Liner Notes, Questions, Space, Traded Tracks, Two Chord Songs
Videos
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- static video
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