Unsupervised, I Hit My Head

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song name Unsupervised, I Hit My Head
artist Mono Puff
releases Unsupervised, TMBG Clock Radio, Podcast 7A
year 1996
first played June 26, 1996 (36 known performances)
run time 2:56
sung by John Flansburgh, Mike Viola on harmony[1]


Trivia/Info

  • John Flansburgh described the song in the Unsupervised Libretto promotional pamphlet: "This is kind of a personal song that I could easily spoil with too much explanation. Looking at the lyrics, it seems pretty self-pitying, but I assure everyone I was really just trying to put the blame on someone else."
  • In a 1996 press release, Flansburgh wrote: "The title track is about my memory and memory loss. I wrote this as an anthem for the under-caffeinated."
  • Flansburgh spoke about the song in a 1996 interview on NPR's All Things Considered:
It's a general "To Sir with Love," kind of wistful... "gee, things were better then" kind of a song. [...] There's an aspect to the lyric that's just about leaving your twenties, and never being able to be as irresponsible as you once were. [...]
There's also an aspect to the song that's about the diminishing effects of coffee. That's a recurring theme in my life. When was 21 I moved to New York City and I started drinking coffee, and immediately I became a much better person. I don't know if it was New York City or if it was the coffee, but I've been becoming a much worse person ever since then. That was kind of my peak.
  • In September 2008, They Might Be Giants performed a series of shows in which they attempted to play at least one song from each of their studio albums. This song was included to represent Mono Puff. The song subsequently remained in the band's set, and they performed it occasionally between 2008–2010.

Song Themes

Accidents, Addiction, Compulsion, Altered States, Body Parts, Coffee, Counting, Drinks, Hands, Heads, Medical, Non-John Vocals, Oblique Cliches Or Idiom, Puns, Real Estate, Super-Human Qualities, Telecommunication, Title Not In Lyrics

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