They Might Be Giants (TMBG) are an American alternative rock band formed in… Read Full Bio ↴They Might Be Giants (TMBG) are an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 in Brooklyn, New York, United States by John Flansburgh (vocals, guitar) and John Linnell (vocals, keyboards, accordion, bass clarinet). During TMBG's early years Flansburgh and Linnell were frequently accompanied by a drum machine. In the early nineties, TMBG became a full band. Currently, the members of TMBG are Flansburgh, Linnell, Marty Beller, Dan Miller, and Danny Weinkauf. They are best known for an unconventional and experimental style of alternative music. Over their career, the group has found success on the modern rock and CMJ charts. More recently they have found success in the children's music genre, and in theme music for several television programs and films.
To date, TMBG have released 22 studio albums. Flood has been certified platinum and their children's music album Here Come the ABCs has been certified gold. The band also won a Grammy Award in 2002 for their song "Boss of Me", which served as the theme to Malcolm in the Middle. The band has sold over 4 million records.
Linnell and Flansburgh (often nicknamed "the two Johns" or "John and John") first met as teenagers growing up in Lincoln, Massachusetts. They began writing songs together while attending Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School but didn't officially form a band at that time. The two attended separate colleges after high school (Flansburgh attended Pratt Institute), and Linnell joined The Mundanes, a New Wave group from Rhode Island. The two reunited in 1981 after moving to Brooklyn (to the same apartment building on the same day) to continue their career.
Taking their name from the 1971 movie They Might Be Giants, the duo began performing their own music in and around New York City — Flansburgh on guitar, Linnell on accordion and saxophone, and accompanied by a drum machine and/or a prerecorded backing track on audio cassette. Their atypical instrumentation, along with their songs which featured unusual subject matter and clever wordplay, soon attracted a strong local following. Their performances also featured absurdly comical stage props such as oversized fezzes and large cardboard cutout heads of newspaper editor William Allen White. Many of these props would later turn up in their first music videos.
At one point, Linnell broke his wrist in a biking accident and Flansburgh's apartment was burgled, forcing them to take a break from performing. During this hiatus, they began recording their songs onto an answering machine, and then advertising the phone number in local newspapers such as The Village Voice, using the moniker "Dial-A-Song". They also released a demo cassette, which earned them a review in People magazine. The review caught the attention of Bar/None Records, who offered them a recording contract, which they accepted.
The duo released their self-titled debut album in 1986, which became a college radio hit. The video for "Don't Let's Start", filmed in the New York State Pavilion built for the 1964 New York World's Fair in Queens, became a hit on MTV, earning them a broader following. In 1988, they released their second album, Lincoln, named after the duo's hometown. It featured the song "Ana Ng" which reached #11 on the US Modern Rock chart.
In 1989, They Might Be Giants signed with Elektra Records, and released their third album Flood the following year. Flood earned them a gold album, largely thanks to the success of "Birdhouse in Your Soul" which reached number three on the US Modern Rock chart, as well as "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)".
In 1990, Throttle magazine interviewed They Might Be Giants and clarified the meaning of the song "Ana Ng": John Flansburgh said, "Ng is a Vietnamese name. The song is about someone who's thinking about a person on the exact opposite side of the world. John looked at a globe and figured out that if Ana Ng is in Vietnam and the person is on the other side of the world, then it must be written by someone in Peru." (Derek Thomas, Throttle, August 1990.)
Further interest in the band was generated when two cartoon music videos were created by Warner Bros. for Tiny Toon Adventures: "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" and "Particle Man". The videos reflected TMBG's high "kid appeal", resulting from their often absurd songs and poppy melodies.
In 1991, Bar/None Records released the B-sides compilation Miscellaneous T. Though consisting of previously released material (except for the "Purple Toupee" b-sides, which were not available publicly), giving new fans a chance to hear earlier non-album work without having to hunt down the individual EPs.
In early 1992, They Might Be Giants released Apollo 18, a space-themed album which coincided with TMBG being named Musical Ambassadors for International Space Year. Singles from the album included "The Statue Got Me High", "I Palindrome I" and "The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)". Apollo 18 was also notable for being one of the first albums to take advantage of the CD player's shuffle feature. The song "Fingertips" actually comprised 21 separate tracks — short snippets which could be listened to as one song, but could also be played in random order, interspersed between the album's full-length songs. Due to mastering errors, the UK and Australian versions of Apollo 18 contained "Fingertips" as one track.
Following Apollo 18, Flansburgh and Linnell decided to recruit a supporting band: Kurt Hoffman of the Ordinaires on reeds and keyboards, longtime Pere Ubu bassist Tony Maimone and drummer Jonathan Feinberg.
John Henry was released in 1994. Influenced by their more conventional lineup, this album marked a departure from their previous releases with more of a guitar-heavy sound. It was released to mixed reviews among fans and critics.
Their next album, Factory Showroom, was released in 1996 to little fanfare. The band had moved away from the feel of John Henry, and Factory Showroom includes the more diverse sounds of their earlier albums, despite the inclusion of two guitarists, the second being Eric Schermerhorn who provided several guitar solos.
They left Elektra after the duo refused to do a publicity show, amongst other exposure-related disputes.
In 1998, they released a mostly-live album Severe Tire Damage from which came the single "Doctor Worm", a studio recording.
For most of their career, TMBG have made innovative use of the Internet. As early as 1992, the band was sending news updates to their fans via Usenet newsgroups. In 1999, They Might Be Giants became the first major label recording artist to release an entire album exclusively in mp3 format. The album, Long Tall Weekend. is sold through eMusic.
Also in 1999, the band contributed the song "Dr. Evil" to the motion picture Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Over their career, the band has performed on numerous movie and television soundtracks, including The Oblongs, the ABC News miniseries Brave New World and Ed and His Dead Mother. They also performed the theme music "Dog on Fire", composed by Bob Mould, for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. More recently, they composed and performed the music for the TLC series Resident Life, the theme song for the Disney Channel program Higglytown Heroes, and songs about the cartoons Dexter's Laboratory and Courage the Cowardly Dog.
During this time the band also worked on a project for McSweeney's, a publishing company and literary journal. The band wrote a McSweeney's theme song and forty-four songs for an album that was meant to be listened to with the journal, with each track corresponding to a particular story or piece of artwork. Labeled They Might Be Giants vs. McSweeney's, the disk appears in issue #6 of Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern.
TMBG composed the single "Boss of Me" as the theme song to the hit television series Malcolm in the Middle, as well as to the show's compilation CD, bringing a new audience to the band. Another song to feature in the series was "Spiraling Shape". "Boss of Me" became the band's second top-40 hit in the UK which they performed on long running UK television programme Top of the Pops, and in 2002, won the duo a Grammy Award.
On September 11, 2001, they released the album Mink Car on Restless Records. It was their first full album release of new studio material since 1996, and their first since parting ways with Elektra. The making of that album, including a record signing event at a Manhattan Tower Records, was included in a documentary directed by AJ Schnack titled Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns). The film was released on DVD in 2003.
In 2002 they released their first album "for the entire family", No! Using the enhanced CD format, it included an interactive animation for most of the songs. They followed it up in 2003 with their first book, an illustrated children's book with an included EP, Bed, Bed, Bed.
In 2004, the band created one of the first artist-owned online music stores, at which customers could purchase and download MP3 copies of their music, both new releases and many previously released albums. By creating their own store, the band could keep money that would otherwise go to record companies. With the redesign of the band's website in 2010, the store was relaunched.
Also in 2004, the band released their first new "adult" rock work since the release of No!, the EP Indestructible Object. This was followed by a new album, The Spine, and an associated EP, The Spine Surfs Alone. It was at this time that Dan Hickey was replaced by Marty Beller who had previously collaborated with TMBG. For the album's first single, "Experimental Film", TMBG teamed up with Homestar Runner creators Matt and Mike Chapman to create an animated music video. The band's collaboration with the Brothers Chaps also included several Puppet Jam segments with puppet Homestar, and the music for a Strong Bad email entitled "Different Town." More recently they recorded a track for the 200th Strong Bad e-mail, where Linnell provided the voice of The Poopsmith.
TMBG also contributed "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too", a political campaign song from the presidential election of 1840, to the 2004 Future Soundtrack For America compilation, a project compiled by John Flansburgh with the help of Spike Jonze and Barsuk Records. The compilation was released by Barsuk and featured high-profile acts such as Death Cab for Cutie, The Flaming Lips, and Bright Eyes. All proceeds went to progressive organizations such as Music for America and MoveOn.org.
Flansburgh and Linnell made a guest appearance in "Camp", the January 11, 2004 episode of the animated sitcom Home Movies, each lending their voices to two characters: a pair of camp counselors and two members of a strange hooded male bonding cult. On May 10, 2004, they appeared on episode 140 of Blue's Clues called "Bluestock" alongside several other stars, such as Toni Braxton, Macy Gray, and India Arie.
Following the Spine on the Hiway Tour of 2004, the band announced that they would take an extended hiatus from touring to focus on other projects, such as a musical produced by Flansburgh and written by his wife, Robin "Goldie" Goldwasser, titled People Are Wrong!.
2005 saw the release of Here Come the ABCs, TMBG's follow-up to the successful children's album No!. The Disney Sound label released the CD and DVD separately on February 15, 2005. To promote the album, Flansburgh and Linnell along with drummer Marty Beller embarked on a short tour, performing for free at many Borders Bookstore locations. In November 2005, Venue Songs was released as a two-disc CD/DVD set narrated by John Hodgman. It is a concept album based on all of the "venue songs" from their 2004 tour.
TMBG covered the Devo song "Through Being Cool" in the 2005 Disney movie, Sky High.
Since December 2005, They Might Be Giants have been releasing podcasts on a monthly, sometimes bi-monthly, basis. Each edition includes remixes of previous songs, rarities, covers, and new songs and skits recorded specifically for the podcast.
The band wrote fourteen original songs for the 2006 Dunkin' Donuts ad campaign, "America Runs On Dunkin'", including "Things I Like To Do", "Pleather" and "Fritalian". In the aired advertisement, Flansburgh sings "Fritalian" along with his wife, Robin Goldwasser. A 2008 commercial features the song "Moving".
The band have produced and performed three original songs for Playhouse Disney series: one for Higglytown Heroes and two for Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. They also recorded a cover of the Disney song, "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" for the movie Meet the Robinsons and wrote and performed the theme song for The Drinky Crow Show. The band was recruited to provide original songs for the Henry Selick-directed movie of Neil Gaiman's children's book Coraline, but were dropped because their music was not "creepy" enough. Only one song, entitled "Other Father Song", was kept for the film with Linnell singing as the titular "Other Father".
Their twelfth album, The Else, was released July 10, 2007, on Idlewild Recordings (and distributed by Zoë Records for the CD version), with an earlier digital release on May 15 at the iTunes Music Store. Advanced copies were made available to stations by mid-June 2007. The album was produced by Pat Dillett (David Byrne) and The Dust Brothers (Beck, Beastie Boys). On February 12, 2009, They Might Be Giants performed the song "The Mesopotamians" from the album on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
In the rest of 2007, They Might Be Giants wrote a commissioned piece for Brooklyn-based robotic music outfit League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots and performed for three dates at the event, and covered the Pixies "Havalina" for American Laundromat Records Dig For Fire - a tribute to PIXIES compilation.
The band's thirteenth album, Here Come the 123s, a DVD/CD follow-up to 2005's critically-acclaimed Here Come the ABCs children's project, was released on February 5, 2008. On April 10, 2008, They Might Be Giants performed the song "Seven" from the album on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. In 2009, the album won the Grammy Award for "Best Musical Album For Children" during the 51st Annual Grammy Awards.
The band's fourteenth album was Here Comes Science, a science-themed children's album. This album introduced listeners to natural, formal, social and applied sciences. It was released on September 1, 2009. On November 3, They Might Be Giants sent out a newsletter stating "The Avatars of They", a set of sock puppets the Johns manipulate for shows, will have an album in 2012, suggesting another kids album. However, a new adult album is also slated to be released in 2010.
The band took their name from the 1971 film They Might Be Giants (starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward), which is in turn taken from a Don Quixote passage about how Quixote mistook windmills for evil giants.
According to Dave Wilson, in his book Rock Formations, the name They Might Be Giants had been used and subsequently discarded by a friend of the band who had a ventriloquism act. The name was then adopted by the band, who had been searching for a suitable name.
To date, TMBG have released 22 studio albums. Flood has been certified platinum and their children's music album Here Come the ABCs has been certified gold. The band also won a Grammy Award in 2002 for their song "Boss of Me", which served as the theme to Malcolm in the Middle. The band has sold over 4 million records.
Linnell and Flansburgh (often nicknamed "the two Johns" or "John and John") first met as teenagers growing up in Lincoln, Massachusetts. They began writing songs together while attending Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School but didn't officially form a band at that time. The two attended separate colleges after high school (Flansburgh attended Pratt Institute), and Linnell joined The Mundanes, a New Wave group from Rhode Island. The two reunited in 1981 after moving to Brooklyn (to the same apartment building on the same day) to continue their career.
Taking their name from the 1971 movie They Might Be Giants, the duo began performing their own music in and around New York City — Flansburgh on guitar, Linnell on accordion and saxophone, and accompanied by a drum machine and/or a prerecorded backing track on audio cassette. Their atypical instrumentation, along with their songs which featured unusual subject matter and clever wordplay, soon attracted a strong local following. Their performances also featured absurdly comical stage props such as oversized fezzes and large cardboard cutout heads of newspaper editor William Allen White. Many of these props would later turn up in their first music videos.
At one point, Linnell broke his wrist in a biking accident and Flansburgh's apartment was burgled, forcing them to take a break from performing. During this hiatus, they began recording their songs onto an answering machine, and then advertising the phone number in local newspapers such as The Village Voice, using the moniker "Dial-A-Song". They also released a demo cassette, which earned them a review in People magazine. The review caught the attention of Bar/None Records, who offered them a recording contract, which they accepted.
The duo released their self-titled debut album in 1986, which became a college radio hit. The video for "Don't Let's Start", filmed in the New York State Pavilion built for the 1964 New York World's Fair in Queens, became a hit on MTV, earning them a broader following. In 1988, they released their second album, Lincoln, named after the duo's hometown. It featured the song "Ana Ng" which reached #11 on the US Modern Rock chart.
In 1989, They Might Be Giants signed with Elektra Records, and released their third album Flood the following year. Flood earned them a gold album, largely thanks to the success of "Birdhouse in Your Soul" which reached number three on the US Modern Rock chart, as well as "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)".
In 1990, Throttle magazine interviewed They Might Be Giants and clarified the meaning of the song "Ana Ng": John Flansburgh said, "Ng is a Vietnamese name. The song is about someone who's thinking about a person on the exact opposite side of the world. John looked at a globe and figured out that if Ana Ng is in Vietnam and the person is on the other side of the world, then it must be written by someone in Peru." (Derek Thomas, Throttle, August 1990.)
Further interest in the band was generated when two cartoon music videos were created by Warner Bros. for Tiny Toon Adventures: "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" and "Particle Man". The videos reflected TMBG's high "kid appeal", resulting from their often absurd songs and poppy melodies.
In 1991, Bar/None Records released the B-sides compilation Miscellaneous T. Though consisting of previously released material (except for the "Purple Toupee" b-sides, which were not available publicly), giving new fans a chance to hear earlier non-album work without having to hunt down the individual EPs.
In early 1992, They Might Be Giants released Apollo 18, a space-themed album which coincided with TMBG being named Musical Ambassadors for International Space Year. Singles from the album included "The Statue Got Me High", "I Palindrome I" and "The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)". Apollo 18 was also notable for being one of the first albums to take advantage of the CD player's shuffle feature. The song "Fingertips" actually comprised 21 separate tracks — short snippets which could be listened to as one song, but could also be played in random order, interspersed between the album's full-length songs. Due to mastering errors, the UK and Australian versions of Apollo 18 contained "Fingertips" as one track.
Following Apollo 18, Flansburgh and Linnell decided to recruit a supporting band: Kurt Hoffman of the Ordinaires on reeds and keyboards, longtime Pere Ubu bassist Tony Maimone and drummer Jonathan Feinberg.
John Henry was released in 1994. Influenced by their more conventional lineup, this album marked a departure from their previous releases with more of a guitar-heavy sound. It was released to mixed reviews among fans and critics.
Their next album, Factory Showroom, was released in 1996 to little fanfare. The band had moved away from the feel of John Henry, and Factory Showroom includes the more diverse sounds of their earlier albums, despite the inclusion of two guitarists, the second being Eric Schermerhorn who provided several guitar solos.
They left Elektra after the duo refused to do a publicity show, amongst other exposure-related disputes.
In 1998, they released a mostly-live album Severe Tire Damage from which came the single "Doctor Worm", a studio recording.
For most of their career, TMBG have made innovative use of the Internet. As early as 1992, the band was sending news updates to their fans via Usenet newsgroups. In 1999, They Might Be Giants became the first major label recording artist to release an entire album exclusively in mp3 format. The album, Long Tall Weekend. is sold through eMusic.
Also in 1999, the band contributed the song "Dr. Evil" to the motion picture Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Over their career, the band has performed on numerous movie and television soundtracks, including The Oblongs, the ABC News miniseries Brave New World and Ed and His Dead Mother. They also performed the theme music "Dog on Fire", composed by Bob Mould, for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. More recently, they composed and performed the music for the TLC series Resident Life, the theme song for the Disney Channel program Higglytown Heroes, and songs about the cartoons Dexter's Laboratory and Courage the Cowardly Dog.
During this time the band also worked on a project for McSweeney's, a publishing company and literary journal. The band wrote a McSweeney's theme song and forty-four songs for an album that was meant to be listened to with the journal, with each track corresponding to a particular story or piece of artwork. Labeled They Might Be Giants vs. McSweeney's, the disk appears in issue #6 of Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern.
TMBG composed the single "Boss of Me" as the theme song to the hit television series Malcolm in the Middle, as well as to the show's compilation CD, bringing a new audience to the band. Another song to feature in the series was "Spiraling Shape". "Boss of Me" became the band's second top-40 hit in the UK which they performed on long running UK television programme Top of the Pops, and in 2002, won the duo a Grammy Award.
On September 11, 2001, they released the album Mink Car on Restless Records. It was their first full album release of new studio material since 1996, and their first since parting ways with Elektra. The making of that album, including a record signing event at a Manhattan Tower Records, was included in a documentary directed by AJ Schnack titled Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns). The film was released on DVD in 2003.
In 2002 they released their first album "for the entire family", No! Using the enhanced CD format, it included an interactive animation for most of the songs. They followed it up in 2003 with their first book, an illustrated children's book with an included EP, Bed, Bed, Bed.
In 2004, the band created one of the first artist-owned online music stores, at which customers could purchase and download MP3 copies of their music, both new releases and many previously released albums. By creating their own store, the band could keep money that would otherwise go to record companies. With the redesign of the band's website in 2010, the store was relaunched.
Also in 2004, the band released their first new "adult" rock work since the release of No!, the EP Indestructible Object. This was followed by a new album, The Spine, and an associated EP, The Spine Surfs Alone. It was at this time that Dan Hickey was replaced by Marty Beller who had previously collaborated with TMBG. For the album's first single, "Experimental Film", TMBG teamed up with Homestar Runner creators Matt and Mike Chapman to create an animated music video. The band's collaboration with the Brothers Chaps also included several Puppet Jam segments with puppet Homestar, and the music for a Strong Bad email entitled "Different Town." More recently they recorded a track for the 200th Strong Bad e-mail, where Linnell provided the voice of The Poopsmith.
TMBG also contributed "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too", a political campaign song from the presidential election of 1840, to the 2004 Future Soundtrack For America compilation, a project compiled by John Flansburgh with the help of Spike Jonze and Barsuk Records. The compilation was released by Barsuk and featured high-profile acts such as Death Cab for Cutie, The Flaming Lips, and Bright Eyes. All proceeds went to progressive organizations such as Music for America and MoveOn.org.
Flansburgh and Linnell made a guest appearance in "Camp", the January 11, 2004 episode of the animated sitcom Home Movies, each lending their voices to two characters: a pair of camp counselors and two members of a strange hooded male bonding cult. On May 10, 2004, they appeared on episode 140 of Blue's Clues called "Bluestock" alongside several other stars, such as Toni Braxton, Macy Gray, and India Arie.
Following the Spine on the Hiway Tour of 2004, the band announced that they would take an extended hiatus from touring to focus on other projects, such as a musical produced by Flansburgh and written by his wife, Robin "Goldie" Goldwasser, titled People Are Wrong!.
2005 saw the release of Here Come the ABCs, TMBG's follow-up to the successful children's album No!. The Disney Sound label released the CD and DVD separately on February 15, 2005. To promote the album, Flansburgh and Linnell along with drummer Marty Beller embarked on a short tour, performing for free at many Borders Bookstore locations. In November 2005, Venue Songs was released as a two-disc CD/DVD set narrated by John Hodgman. It is a concept album based on all of the "venue songs" from their 2004 tour.
TMBG covered the Devo song "Through Being Cool" in the 2005 Disney movie, Sky High.
Since December 2005, They Might Be Giants have been releasing podcasts on a monthly, sometimes bi-monthly, basis. Each edition includes remixes of previous songs, rarities, covers, and new songs and skits recorded specifically for the podcast.
The band wrote fourteen original songs for the 2006 Dunkin' Donuts ad campaign, "America Runs On Dunkin'", including "Things I Like To Do", "Pleather" and "Fritalian". In the aired advertisement, Flansburgh sings "Fritalian" along with his wife, Robin Goldwasser. A 2008 commercial features the song "Moving".
The band have produced and performed three original songs for Playhouse Disney series: one for Higglytown Heroes and two for Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. They also recorded a cover of the Disney song, "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" for the movie Meet the Robinsons and wrote and performed the theme song for The Drinky Crow Show. The band was recruited to provide original songs for the Henry Selick-directed movie of Neil Gaiman's children's book Coraline, but were dropped because their music was not "creepy" enough. Only one song, entitled "Other Father Song", was kept for the film with Linnell singing as the titular "Other Father".
Their twelfth album, The Else, was released July 10, 2007, on Idlewild Recordings (and distributed by Zoë Records for the CD version), with an earlier digital release on May 15 at the iTunes Music Store. Advanced copies were made available to stations by mid-June 2007. The album was produced by Pat Dillett (David Byrne) and The Dust Brothers (Beck, Beastie Boys). On February 12, 2009, They Might Be Giants performed the song "The Mesopotamians" from the album on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
In the rest of 2007, They Might Be Giants wrote a commissioned piece for Brooklyn-based robotic music outfit League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots and performed for three dates at the event, and covered the Pixies "Havalina" for American Laundromat Records Dig For Fire - a tribute to PIXIES compilation.
The band's thirteenth album, Here Come the 123s, a DVD/CD follow-up to 2005's critically-acclaimed Here Come the ABCs children's project, was released on February 5, 2008. On April 10, 2008, They Might Be Giants performed the song "Seven" from the album on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. In 2009, the album won the Grammy Award for "Best Musical Album For Children" during the 51st Annual Grammy Awards.
The band's fourteenth album was Here Comes Science, a science-themed children's album. This album introduced listeners to natural, formal, social and applied sciences. It was released on September 1, 2009. On November 3, They Might Be Giants sent out a newsletter stating "The Avatars of They", a set of sock puppets the Johns manipulate for shows, will have an album in 2012, suggesting another kids album. However, a new adult album is also slated to be released in 2010.
The band took their name from the 1971 film They Might Be Giants (starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward), which is in turn taken from a Don Quixote passage about how Quixote mistook windmills for evil giants.
According to Dave Wilson, in his book Rock Formations, the name They Might Be Giants had been used and subsequently discarded by a friend of the band who had a ventriloquism act. The name was then adopted by the band, who had been searching for a suitable name.
St. Louis
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Art Tatum I hate to see that evening sun go down I hate…
Blur St. Louis song Something is wrong I kill that man From yo…
Bobby & Laurie I hate to see that Evening sun go down I hate to…
Carrie Elkin I met St. Louis on a plane He was sitting there…
Count Basie Orchestra I hate to see that evening sun go down, I…
David Nail I CAN HEAR THE CROWD THE SEA OF RED MY FAVORITE SHIRT WILLIE…
Easybeats Whoa, yeah Countrymen, friends, lend me your ears I'll t…
John Paul Young Country men, friends, lend me your ears, I'll tell you…
Little River Band ST. LOUIS WRITERS HARRY VANDA, GEORGE YOUNG Louie, Louie, L…
Nanseera I take the bus the last stretch home Grateful to be…
Rainbow Butt Monkeys Held it up, You pushed it down. Looked so wicked, Wearing…
Rocky Votolato & Chuck Ragan Past the beaten, broken, abandoned houses It's sink or swim;…
Sweet I hate to see that evening sun go down I hate…
The Easybeats Whoa, yeah Countrymen, friends, lend me your ears I'll t…
The Junior Varsity I heard you're having trouble in St. Louis From the look…
Warhorse Countryman, friend, lend me your ears I'll tell you a tale…
We have lyrics for these tracks by They Might Be Giants:
"Welcome" Welcome to the jungle, Jim Welcome to the jungle, Jim Welc…
'85 Radio Special Thank You Hello. They Might Be Giants are happy to be on…
(She Was A) Hotel Detective She got her ear to the walls, and she tappin' the…
(She Was a) Hotel Detective (single mix) She's got her ear to the walls and she's tappin'…
... Here in Higglytown Things all jump around Just like the Hi…
01. S-E-X-X-Y Dressed only in clothes From her head to her toes This is…
02. Birdhouse In Your Soul I'm your only friend I'm not your only friend But I'm a…
02. Till My Head Falls Off There were 87 Advil in the bottle now there's 30…
03. Lucky Ball & Chain I lost my lucky ball and chain Now she's four years…
04. Exquisite Dead Guy Exquisite dead guy Rotating in his display case Exquisite …
05. Metal Detector Down at the shore there's a place where there's no…
06. New York City You called me last night on the telephone And I was…
06. Your Racist Friend This is where the party ends I can't stand here listening…
07. Particle Man Particle man, particle man Doing the things a particle can W…
07. Your Own Worst Enemy It's your own worst enemy Ringing the bell on the door And…
08. XTC Vs. Adam Ant X-T-C versus Adam Ant Content versus form Fighting for their…
09. Spiraling Shape Down, down, down you go No way to stop As you fall,…
09. We Want A Rock Where was I? I forgot The point that I was making I…
10. James K. Polk In 1844, the Democrats were split The three nominees for th…
11. Hearing Aid Frosty the supervisor Lives by himself Sometimes I feel so…
11. Pet Name You gave me a pet name Which is not to say…
12. I Can Hear You I can hear you by they might be giants. Made…
12. Minimum Wage Minimum wage!…
13. The Bells Are Ringing The bells are ringing The song they're singing The sound i…
15. The Famous Polka The famous person wears the same size water skis as…
19. Stomp Box Stomp box speak my thought Vent these voices from the dark S…
1999 / Cowtown I'm going down to Cowtown, the cow's a friend to…
20. The End Of The Tour There's a girl with a crown and a scepter Who's on…
2082 Draw the curtain, look, you're only sleeping Or is this…
25 The urge to take you grows more strong For time had…
25 Here in Higglytown Here in Higglytown Things all jump around Just like the Higg…
25 O The urge to take you grows more strong For time had…
25-Here in Higglytown Here in Higglytown Things all jump around Just like the Higg…
32 Footsteps 32 footsteps leading to the room where the paint doesn't…
3rd Amendment At the bottom of the kitchen trash I found the empty…
4 of 2 Underneath a big clock at the corner of 5th Avenue…
7-11 Walked to the 7-Eleven Thought I'd do some window shopping t…
9 Secret Steps Throw away the thing that tells you Not to throw the…
A Self Called Nowhere I'm sitting on the curb By the empty parking lot Of the…
A Shooting Star Is Not a Star A shooting star is not a star It's not a star…
A Whole New World How can I tell them (how can I tell them)…
A.K.A. Driver It's just a full day's drive away It's just a full…
About Me You might be thinking that you're free You might be sailing…
Absolutely Bill's Mood I was born in a lighthouse, my mother was the…
AKA Driver It's just a full day's drive away It's just a full…
Albany The Egg, exciting and old The Egg, you'll do what you're…
Alienation This song is dedicated to all you modern-day troubadours out…
All Alone Once upon a time they sent a rocket to the…
All Time What I use my outside voice because I have no choice The…
Alphabet Lost and Found On this fateful day, in the history of whenever, An epidem…
Alphabet of Nations Algeria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Dominica, Egypt, France, The Ga…
Am I Awake Am I awake? What time is it? When I get through this…
An Insult to the Fact Checkers Hey Hats off to the things you don't say Why? So what's up…
Ana Ng Make a hole with a gun perpendicular To the name of…
Anaheim Oh, I don't want to stay in tonight and watch…
Angel I met someone at the dog show She was holding my…
Another First Kiss I'm asleep but she's talking to me She's walking 'round wear…
Answer Year after year Though every dream of a pony would end…
Ant There's an ant crawling up your back in the nighttime There'…
Apartment Four I live up in apartment four I'm on the very next…
Asbury Park I I got I got kicked I got kicked in the head backstage…
Asheville Please allow me to introduce myself I'm the orange peel You …
Au Contraire David Bowie came to town Flying overhead "Don't you dig my c…
Authenticity Trip Yeah! I'm losin' my English accent Think of all the changes …
Ballad of Davy Crockett Davy, Davy Crockett Traveling through outer space Reborn in…
Bangs Bangs Above your eyes your hair hangs Blow my mind your roya…
Baroque Hoedown A bear with a honey pot stuck on its head A…
Bastard Wants To Hit Me He says he knows me But I don't know that guy He's…
Battle For The Planet Of The Apes Crowd chants "people people people", and "ape ape ape" at…
Become A Robot Here's hoping you don't (hoping you don't) Become a robot (c…
Bed Bed Bed [Chorus] The day is done The sun is down The curtains have b…
Bee Of The Bird Of The Moth Everyone is crying at the dread hypnotic flying Of the bee…
Beneath The Planet Of The Apes All my friends are beneath the planet of the apes All…
Biggest One The water running down that pipe Looks like a snake to…
Birdhouse in Your Soul I'm your only friend I'm not your only friend But I'm a…
Birds Fly Birds fly into my windshield Thoughts fall from my thoughts …
Black Ops Black ops Black ops A holiday for secret cops Black ops…
Bloodmobile The Bloodmobile The Bloodmobile A delivery service inside …
Boat Of Car Daddy'll sing bass Daddy'll sing bass Daddy'll sing bass Dad…
Boss of Me Yes, no, maybe I don't know Can you repeat the question? Y…
Boss of Me (Theme From Malcolm in the Middle) Yes, no, maybe - I don't know. Can you repeat the question? …
Boss Of Me("Malcolm In Middle" Yes, no, maybe, I don't know Can you repeat the question? Y…
Brain Problem Situation Wake up Put on my makeup And pick the rake…
Brainwashin' Our Fighting Boys Somebody's been Brainwashin' our fighting boys Somebody's …
Bread Hair I'm a wigged-out daddy with bread on top I dig an…
Broke In Two You said something before you left Something I was not to…
Brooklyn The scroll unfurls We hear the voice of Marty Markowitz Now …
By the Time You Get This By the time you get this note We'll no longer be…
C Is for Conifers Most with cones for seeds, most with needles for leaves See…
Cabbagetown I was laying on the porch As the bus drove by Just…
Cage & Aquarium Somebody's reading your mind Damned if you know who it is Th…
Call You Mom And we'll go out on the town Why don't you let…
Can I can't remember the dream that I had last night But…
Can You Find It Can you find the hidden H where it's hiding? Is it…
Can't Keep Johnny Down Outnumbered a million to one All of the dicks in…
Canada Haunts Me Canada haunts me Don't pull back the sheet Because I have dr…
Canajoharie In the overgrowth Of the underbrush Shone a fossil tooth W…
can’t keep johnny down Outnumbered a million to one All of the dicks in…
Careful What You Pack The known, the unknown, and the underknown Look at what she…
Careless Santa Careless Santa Spoiled my Christmastime Thoughtless Santa Ho…
Cast Your Pod to the Wind Twirl, twirl, twirl, spin Extend your limbs, spin Spin, ever…
Celebration First, the DJ must power up the amplifiers. To play…
Cells Life is made out of cells Cells make copies of themselves…
Certain People I Could Name The few surviving samurai survey the battlefield Count the a…
Charlottesville Yeah! Starr Hill Music Hall Glazed with alcohol Spun from s…
Chess Piece Face What's gonna happen to chess piece face There go I but…
Choo Choo Express All passengers, this train is leaving the station Donald, Da…
Christmas Cards Every Christmas card I write Every Christmas card I write Ha…
Circular Karate Chop Never took a class before in Self defense Never looked…
Clap Your Hands Uh huh Uh huh uh huh Uh huh Uh huh uh huh Uh…
Climbing The Walls I can't talk, I got to go Don't call me back,…
Cloisonné Mind your business Mind your business Mind your never-shut…
Clowntown Clowntown Clowntown Everyone here is a clown Bad clown S…
Computer Assisted Design Awwww Computer assisted design See how you get from a th…
Concrete and Clay You, to me Are sweet as roses in the morning You, to…
Confusing The Mind Yes, you can scare a person by confusing his mind Let's…
Conquest For The Planet Of The Apes Conquest, it's a type of quest They called it a conquest…
Contrecoup You know what's wrong with me You know phrenology You saw my…
Counterfeit Fake Hey, hey, counterfeit fake History wants you, they made a mi…
Counterfeit Faker Call out the undertaker Call out the police The counterfei…
Courage the Cowardly Dog Eustace, Muriel, somebody's at the door. Creepy, surreal, s…
Cowtown I'm going down to Cowtown The cow's a friend to me Lives…
Critic "Every once in a while a band comes along that…
Cupid I'm shaking down cupid 'cause I'm feeling so mad Why I'd…
Cyclops Rock [Chorus:] I tell you how to cyclops rock, But then you…
D & W D, look at D Half a circle, half a moon, an…
D Is for Drums Hey John. Oh hey John. What's going on? Man, I'm confused. Y…
Dallas Tell the moon you've seen the serpent Found the sword and…
Damn Good Times I'm not much of a natural dancer But I've got a…
Dark and Metric No taxi could take you No trains rolling by No bicycle sho…
Dead I returned a bag of groceries Accidentally taken off the she…
Decision Makers Decision makers Deciding for me Decision makers Decide…
Dee Dee and Dexter Dee Dee and Dexter Don't need no superpowers They've got Mom…
Destination Moon Don't bother to call this room There's nobody here who can…
Destroy the Past Let's go backwards to destroy the past How long will your…
Didn't Kill Me Though she didn't kill me She didn't make me stronger Thou…
Dig My Grave Dig my grave Dig my grave Every time I look in your…
Dinner Bell I've been leaving on my things So in the morning when…
Dirt Bike Here comes the dirt bike Beware of the dirt bike Because I…
Dirtbike Here comes the dirt bike Beware of the dirt bike Because I…
Disappointing Show "This, uh, song. This song is called other show. Other…
Doctor Worm They call me Dr. Worm Good morning, how are you? I'm…
Dog Hot dog, oh no, hot dog Hot dog, hot dog, hot…
Dog Walker Showdown at the battery Showdown at the battery now Showdo…
Dollar for Dollar Dollar for dollar Invest in the past.…
Don Don't don't don't let's start This is the worst part Could b…
Don’t Let’s Start Don't don't don't let's start This is the worst part Could…
Doom Doom Lor Lor There's a weapon at your door And its pointed at…
Doris Cunningham I think you have another song for us. Would you…
Down To The Bottom Of The Sea Down down down Down down down Down down down Down to the bot…
Dr Worm They call me Dr. Worm Good morning how are you? I'm…
Dr. Evil Evil, evil is his one and only name Evil, in his…
Dr. Evil {From Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me} Evil, evil is his one and only name Evil, in his…
Dr. Worm They call me Dr. Worm Good morning, how are you? I'm Dr.…
Drink I'll take back my pinata it's wasted on you Just spinning…
Drown the Clown turn that distraction down time to play drown the clown here…
E Eats Everything A hardly has an appetite And pokes at food too long And…
Edison Museum The Edison Museum, not open to the public Its haunted tower…
Edith Head Back in High School I knew a girl Not too simple…
Eight Hundred and Thirteen Mile Car Trip Eight hundred and thirteen mile car trip Eight hundred and …
Electric Car Electric car On roads so dark To change the end Rewrite t…
Employee of the Month Got a job at the crumb factory It's my very first…
End of the Tour There's a girl with a crown and a scepter Who's on…
Erase You and I will be together When we shed our memory I…
Escape From The Planet Of The Apes Escape from the 'Planet of the Apes' Well we gotta escape…
Even Numbers 2, 4, 6, 8 Even numbers, even numbers Every other number is…
Everything Right Is Wrong Again Everything right is wrong again Just like in the long long…
Experimental Film The color of infinity Inside an empty glass I'm squinting my…
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