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 the 1985 "TMB Songs" list, a 2001 song list T-shirt and a setlist for a 1983 show at the Pyramid Club, 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.
- The sample used was also mentioned by Bill Krauss in a 2019 interview with the Don't Let's Start fan podcast: "['I Wouldn't Be Mad'] 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!'"
- In 2023, Flansburgh would mention on Tumblr that this song and "Smiles" were directly inspired by the No Wave genre, but in a similar fashion to "You'll Miss Me", both songs were difficult to replicate when recording due to their performance art nature.[2] The recordings of the song confirmed to exist were described as "kind of stinky"[3] by Flansburgh in 2011, with one of these being confirmed by Flansburgh in 2024 to have been among the first recordings to be put into rotation on Dial-A-Song.[4]
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