Shows/1987-12-31

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Links:

• Full concert audio
• New York Times listing; Dec. 25, 1987

• Listing

Setlist:

Set 1:

• In the Mood (The Andrews Sisters) Intro
• Kiss Me, Son Of God
• Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes
• For Science
• Cage & Aquarium
• It's Not My Birthday
• The World's Address
• Auld Lang Syne
• Piece Of Dirt
• Alienation's For The Rich
• Why Does The Sun Shine?
• My Funny Valentine
• Lie Still, Little Bottle
• I've Got A Match
• I Could Write A Book
• Don't Let's Start
• 32 Footsteps

Set 2:

• Happy New Year To You
• Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head
• Purple Toupee
• The Famous Polka
• Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
• Hide Away Folk Family
• We Just Go Nuts At Christmastime
• Snowball In Hell
• (She Was A) Hotel Detective
• Shoehorn With Teeth
• When It Rains It Snows
• She's An Angel
• You'll Miss Me
• Cowtown
• Rhythm Section Want Ad

Encore:

• Number Three
• The Plane Crash
• Mr. Me

They Might Be Giants
— with Lee Nashville & Felicity opening —
Gusto House in New York, NY
December 31, 1987 at 11:45 PM & 12:30 AM

Fan Recaps and Comments:

The band played two sets, the first starting at 11:45 pm and the second at 12:30 am. A listing for the show appeared in the December 25, 1987 edition of the New York Times:

Giants at Gusto House
They Might Be Giants, Gusto House, 197 East Fourth Street (information: Dial-a-Song). The prolific duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell, also known as They Might Be Giants, write frantic, funny, tuneful pop songs, overstuffed with images and information and titles like "Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes" and "Alienation's for the Rich." Their latest works are dispensed via Dial-a-Song (718-367-6962), one of New York's most original answering-machine messages. While in concert, They Might Be Giants perform with taped backup, live accordion and guitar, homemade props and enough manic energy to make a listener forget they're using tapes. Sets at 10 P.M. and 12:30 A.M.; admission $10 all evening.

This show included the only known performance of "We Just Go Nuts At Christmastime", as well as the debut performance of "Piece Of Dirt". John Flansburgh introduced "Piece Of Dirt": "This next song we've never done before in public, so we don't really know how it's gonna come out. [...] It's kind of a hip-hop Roy Orbison kind of a song."