I Wouldn't Be Mad
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| song name | I Wouldn't Be Mad |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | Unreleased, Dial-A-Song |
| year | 1983 |
| first played | July 7, 1983 (1 known performance) |
| run time | ? · Know it? Add it! |
| sung by | ? · Know it? Add it! |
Trivia/Info
- This unreleased song appeared on a 2001 song list T-shirt and a setlist for a 1983 show, shared online by John Flansburgh in 2012. The setlist described the style of the song as "tape/rock." Flansburgh discussed the song in a 2012 Tumblr post:[1]
I Wouldn't Be Mad was a pop rock number with a strange found audio piece playing in the midst of it. The drums were some mad 5/4 Dave Crigger drumdrops track from the "Professional Album" so there are these massive uninvited proggy fills happening in the middle of bars. It's totally unpredictable....
- The drum track that Flansburgh described is "5/4 Rock," performed by David Crigger on the 1979 album DrumDrops Volume Three: "The Professional Album." The band used the same drum track on the song "Now That I Have Everything," and Flansburgh might have been conflating the two songs.
- Flansburgh mentioned the song in 2011, and confirmed that recordings of it do exist: "I Wouldn't Be Mad was an early early staple. The recordings are kind of stinky even though the songs okay."[2]
- The song appeared on a handwritten list of TMBG songs from the 1985, provided to the Don't Let's Start fan podcast by Bill Krauss. Krauss recalled the song in a 2019 interview with the podcast:
That used a recording of some guy that Flansburgh knew, I think. And it's a really weird vocal. He's like "I Wouldn't Be Mad!" [...] I think that may be the same guy [from "I'm Def"]. Maybe I'm full of shit. I make many mistakes, I will say that. Maybe I'm just connecting them on an emotional level, which is quite possible. It's a good story, so I'll make it work.
- The song was also one of the first recordings to be put into rotation on Dial-A-Song[3].
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