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*A snippet of lyrics from "Don't Let's Start" is used in Jimmy Eat World's "A Praise Chorus." | *A snippet of lyrics from "Don't Let's Start" is used in Jimmy Eat World's "A Praise Chorus." | ||
* About a three second clip of the video is used on VH1 in their show entitled Cheestastic Video Tricks. It was generally about tricks used to make videos seem more dramatic and they were featured under the section about "the fist pound." It was the clip where Linnell is laying on his stomach pounding the floor of that cage they are in. That was about it. | * About a three second clip of the video is used on VH1 in their show entitled Cheestastic Video Tricks. It was generally about tricks used to make videos seem more dramatic and they were featured under the section about "the fist pound." It was the clip where Linnell is laying on his stomach pounding the floor of that cage they are in. That was about it. | ||
| − | *Very short remixes of Don't Let's Start are featured at [http://www.ytmnd.com | + | *Very short remixes of Don't Let's Start are featured at [http://www.ytmnd.com You're The Man Now, Dog], and can be found [http://dontletsstart.ytmnd.com/ here] and [http://giantsjam.ytmnd.com/ here]. |
'''Song Themes:''' [[Animals]], [[Bad English]], [[Cartoons]], [[Death]], [[Funny But Sad]], [[Letters Of The Alphabet]], [[Loneliness]], [[Love Gone Sour]], [[Money]], [[Music]], [[Nonsense Words]], [[Oblique Cliches]], [[Questions]], [[Telephony]], [[Tongue-Twisters]] | '''Song Themes:''' [[Animals]], [[Bad English]], [[Cartoons]], [[Death]], [[Funny But Sad]], [[Letters Of The Alphabet]], [[Loneliness]], [[Love Gone Sour]], [[Money]], [[Music]], [[Nonsense Words]], [[Oblique Cliches]], [[Questions]], [[Telephony]], [[Tongue-Twisters]] | ||
Revision as of 10:30, 17 January 2006
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Song Name: Don't Let's Start
Artist: They Might Be Giants
Album: They Might Be Giants, Direct From Brooklyn, A User's Guide to They Might Be Giants: Melody, Fidelity, Quantity
Year: 1985
Run Time: 2:36
Sung By: John Linnell
Trivia / Info:
- In a 2003 interview on NPR's "Fresh Air With Terry Gross", Linnell said the music was written first, and a large portion of the lyrics were decided on simply because the words fit the correct number of syllables for the melody. He also said that they almost put this song as the leadoff song on their debut album, but they changed their minds at the last minute because he felt the lyrics were too meandering.
- The main difference between the original album mix and the single mix is in the "I don't want to live in this world anymore" section. The LP version lacks the later bass synth overdub that plays underneath Linnell's vocal. Overall, the instrumentation in the LP mix is less spaced out, and the mix contains much less reverb.
- Curiously, the original LP mix was not included on Then: The Earlier Years. The single mix was used instead.
- This song has been covered by Common Rotation.
- A snippet of lyrics from "Don't Let's Start" is used in Jimmy Eat World's "A Praise Chorus."
- About a three second clip of the video is used on VH1 in their show entitled Cheestastic Video Tricks. It was generally about tricks used to make videos seem more dramatic and they were featured under the section about "the fist pound." It was the clip where Linnell is laying on his stomach pounding the floor of that cage they are in. That was about it.
- Very short remixes of Don't Let's Start are featured at You're The Man Now, Dog, and can be found here and here.
Song Themes: Animals, Bad English, Cartoons, Death, Funny But Sad, Letters Of The Alphabet, Loneliness, Love Gone Sour, Money, Music, Nonsense Words, Oblique Cliches, Questions, Telephony, Tongue-Twisters
Videos:
- YouTube - some odd stuff in the beginning
Download Song / Listen:
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- Listen at TMBG.com
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