The Biggest One
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| song name | The Biggest One |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | (She Was A) Hotel Detective (EP), Don't Let's Start (Album), Miscellaneous T, Then: The Earlier Years |
| year | 1988 |
| first played | March 1, 1985 (2 known performances) |
| run time | 1:22 |
| sung by | John Flansburgh |
Trivia/Info
- "An unlikely song of self-pity" -- from the Then: The Earlier Years liner notes.
- Flansburgh discussed the coffee shop mentioned in this song (located at 441 Metropolitan Ave[1]) in a 2006 interview with Edible Brookyln[2]:
When I moved here twenty-two years ago the only restaurants were breakfast places for guys loading trucks at the beef slaughterhouses on North 6th and the few remaining heavy industries. My favorite was a truck stop called Doc’s Sugar Bowl, which was only open 4 am to 10 am. I don’t think there was a way to get a cup of coffee in the neighborhood after 10 am on this side of the BQE.
- The second verse borrows some lyrics from Gloria Gaynor's late-70's disco hit, "I Will Survive."
- All instances of this song up until its release on 1997's Then: The Earlier Years contain an audio glitch at 0:07.
Song Themes
Coffee, Drinks, Numbers, References To Other Songs Or Musicians, The Senses, Size, Temperature, Water
Videos
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