Pittsburgh
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- For the studio version of this song, see Pittsburgh (Studio).
Screenshot from the studio version's video
| song name | Pittsburgh |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | Venue Songs, 50,000,000 They Might Be Giants Songs Can't Be Wrong |
| year | 2004 |
| first played | July 25, 2004 (28 known performances) |
| run time | 1:20 |
| sung by | John Linnell |
Trivia/Info
- The venue song for Mr. Smalls Theatre, located in Millvale, PA just outside Pittsburgh.
- This song refers to a tough show at a different, now-defunct Pittsburgh club called the The Electric Banana, where TMBG performed in 1987. John Linnell said:
It's a gig we played [...] after the release of our first album. [The venue] stood on sort of stilts on an edge of a hill, which we became aware of after we played the set, it was hanging maybe 40 feet over the edge of a precipice. It added to the sense of exciting danger.
- Jamie Kitman recalled that the Electric Banana was nearly empty for the 1987 show. The Johns shook hands with everyone there and played "the best concert he had heard," Kitman told the New Yorker in 2001. An executive from a local Pittsburgh station was in the crowd, and the following day, "Don't Let's Start" was first broadcast on commercial radio.
- In the DVD introduction to this song, "Monongahela", John Hodgman references Johnny Banana, the actual owner of the Electric Banana.
Song Themes
Cities, Dreams, Falling, Food, Forgetting And Remembering, Intelligence, Espionage, Paranoia, Titles And Honorifics, Venue Songs
Videos
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