Shows/1983-07-07
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Setlist: ("Plan B" (with Flans notes))
- Space Suit (jazz)
- I Wouldn't Be Mad (tape/rock)
- Weep Day (island)
- The Big Big Whoredom (puppet)
- Hell Hotel (white funk)
- Letterbox (jig)
- Sally Boy Candy Bar (rock)
- Cabbagetown (accord. sad)
- Happy (cards)
- Youth Culture Killed My Dog (pop)
- Smiles (dance scream)
- Cowtown (goodbye song)
Encore:
- Alienation's For The Rich (hay hay hay)
They Might Be Giants
The Pyramid Club in New York, NY
July 7, 1983
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This page is based on a setlist image posted to TMBG's social media. The exact year and date of the setlist have not been confirmed, and are an educated guess.
The setlist included on this page was from a scrapbook and was stated by John Flansburgh to be for a 1985 show at the Pyramid Club.[1] However, a majority of the songs were written or recorded around 1982 to 1983, and on the next page of the scrapbook, there is a setlist for the Dive, which the band performed at three days after The Pyramid Club in 1983. A majority of newer songs recorded in 1984 and 1985 are also not present here.
Interestingly, the setlist is labelled as a "Plan B" and contains brief descriptions for the genre and theme of the songs.
A promotional flyer created by the Johns in 1983, seen briefly in the 2003 documentary Gigantic (A Tale Of Two Johns), lists this as the band's eighth show of the year. A press release for the show described the band as "a clever electronic pop duo that illuminate the ABC's of motion economy." This is a reference to the book "The A.B.C.'s of Motion Economy" by Andrew R. Kosma, which was featured heavily in the band's early promotional material.
