Man, It's So Loud In Here
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| song name | Man, It's So Loud in Here |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | Mink Car, Man, It's So Loud In Here (EP), Mink Car Retail Sampler, Tracks Taken From The New Album 'Mink Car', TMBG Unlimited - June, Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants, DialASong.com (2000-2006), Podcast 50, 50,000,000 They Might Be Giants Songs Can't Be Wrong |
| year | 2001 |
| first played | March 11, 1999 (381 known performances) |
| run time | 3:59 |
| sung by | John Linnell; John Flansburgh harmonizes |
Trivia/Info
- The band made two attempts to record a studio version of this song. It was originally arranged in a significantly different "rock" style, and is still typically performed that way live. A studio recording of that version, produced by the Butcher Bros., was made in 1999 but ultimately abandoned. The song was then heavily reworked and rerecorded in 2001, with Adam Schlesinger serving as producer. The band explained in 2001:
This song has been completely reorchestrated from its original rock inception with the help of producer Adam Schlesinger (who's also in Fountains of Wayne), this song doesn't sound like anything we would have ever done by ourselves, probably. It pays homage to one or two well known bands from the mid-1980's, but we're hoping the song will be so successful that eventually people will hear them and be reminded of us.
- The song's electronic reworking was initially Schlesinger's idea. He and Flansburgh recorded a rough demo of the concept in Flansburgh's home studio, with Flansburgh on vocals (a short snippet of which appears in the 2003 documentary Gigantic: A Tale Of Two Johns). In a 2015 interview, Flansburgh recalled:
Adam Schlesinger was producing some tracks on our record and basically said, "You know, you're doing this song that's all about disco music and electronica, but it just sounds like a straight-ahead rock song. Why don't you give it a more electronic treatment?" And so he and I just set to making the track really have its own electronic environment. The final version is almost a remix of the idea before it even got into the world.
- The production of this song was further detailed in the January 2002 issue of Mix magazine:
- "Man, It's So Loud In Here" is perhaps the furthest out of the orbit of the other styles on the album. Recorded mostly with sounds from a Proteus 2000 module, it perfectly imitates the electronic dance music of the Reagan era, inducing in the listener a seizure of nostalgia that can only be calmed by a heavy application of black lipstick, eyeliner and hair gel. "It's funny, because it's a song about being trapped in a disco where you can't hear yourself talk, and so we decided to go for a kind of across between early '80s New Order-style music and a little bit of '70s dance music," Schlesinger says. "We built it off of a drum program that we started working on at John Flansburgh's house."
- Flansburgh elaborates: "Musically, the song is probably more like a New Order song, but the drum aesthetic is straight out of that early Pet Shop Boys sound, which is pretty funny because we've been around as long as the Pet Shop Boys." After recording a demo at Flansburgh's home studio, the Giants took the song to the smallish TMF studios and replaced most of the sounds. Interestingly, the gated guitar sound in the chorus is made by a keyboard. "That's actually a Roland preset called 'Alternative,'" Flansburgh says with admiration.
- From the Shock Records press release for the single:
'Man Its So Loud In Here' a definite journey back in time to the 80's, with its disco feel and rock hook. Think Pet Shop Boys with electric guitars!!! 'Man...' will have you singing and dancing from your first listen, and is sure to become a standout live track.
- Used as the theme song for the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game Banter in 2005-2006.
- The song came in at number 52 on the Triple J Hottest 100 list in 2001.
Song Themes
Altered Voice, Clothes, Dancing, Drums, Fading, Gleeful Irreverence, Love, Memory, Misanthropy, Music, Musical Stores, Pointing, Rhymes, The Senses, Traded Tracks, Transportation
Videos
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- Live on Late Night with Conan O'Brien
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