Unrelated Thing
| song name | Unrelated Thing |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | John Henry, John Henry + Factory Showroom |
| year | 1994 |
| first played | December 10, 1993 (38 known performances) |
| run time | 2:30 |
| sung by | John Linnell |
Trivia/Info
- This song has a country vibe thanks to the B-Bender guitar work provided by Jay Sherman-Godfrey. He had this to say on episode 48 of the Don't Let's Start podcast:
I had a Fender Telecaster style guitar, and I had something called a string bender put in it. I don't know if you know what that is, but it changes the B string...it's attached to a strap device...You push the neck down, and it has a gear, and it goes back, and it raises the pitch of the B string one whole step. It's meant to mimic the sound of...a country pedal steel guitar...It was invented by one of the Byrds, Gene Parsons. So I had that...and that was the reason...they wanted me to do it.
- On the song's meaning, John Flansburgh said in a 1995 interview: "[It] is about how hard it is for couples to communicate with one another."
- In 2014, Flansburgh described the instrumentation as follows:
On Unrelated Thing it's a Martin tiple which is an extremely chimey Columbian instrument that is like a ukelele with a ton of unison strings. It was modified at Mandolin Bros. into what you could describe as an octave 12-string guitar. It's also at the top of "With The Dark."
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