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They Might Be Giants (often abbreviated to TMBG) is an American alternative/college rock duo consisting of John Linnell (vocals, keyboard, accordion) and John Flansburgh (vocals, guitar). Known for their experimental pop music, they have been popular on college campuses and earned a reputation as “intellectual rock” or “nerd rock” thanks to their music’s unconventional subject matter, which often features allusions to history, science, film, literature, and other artists’ music. Despite being billed as a college rock band they have in recent years expanded greatly from such and now have a wide following among young and old alike. The band has maintained a loyal following since its formation in 1982, enough that fans rushed an online poll and got John Linnell voted one of People Magazine’s “Most Beautiful People” in 1998. In recent years TMBG have worked on children’s albums and have toured to promote both their children’s albums and their “adult” albums by playing two shows a day.
TMBG began as a band comprising the Johns - school acquaintances from Lincoln, Massachusetts, but did not become good friends until they moved to the same Brooklyn, New York apartment on the same day - and the mysterious third member - a drum machine that allowed them to expand their sound beyond anything they imagined. However, after a bike accident that broke Linnell’s wrist and a robbery that stripped Flansburgh’s apartment of nearly everything, the band was rendered useless. They then began Dial-A-Song, a machine that allowed a caller to listen in on demos and other recordings. Originally just an answering machine, “13” contains a recorded message. The phone line was disconnected in 2006.
TMBG began as a band comprising the Johns - school acquaintances from Lincoln, Massachusetts, but did not become good friends until they moved to the same Brooklyn, New York apartment on the same day - and the mysterious third member - a drum machine that allowed them to expand their sound beyond anything they imagined. However, after a bike accident that broke Linnell’s wrist and a robbery that stripped Flansburgh’s apartment of nearly everything, the band was rendered useless. They then began Dial-A-Song, a machine that allowed a caller to listen in on demos and other recordings. Originally just an answering machine, “13” contains a recorded message. The phone line was disconnected in 2006.
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BraylanSkye223 wrote:
download They Might Be Giants ringtones now for free at http://tiny.cc/HuI4p
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AnimatedOysters wrote:
TMBG is one of those bands that never gets old. No matter how many times the words and the tunes pass you by they are always fresh and original.
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valerie2776 wrote:
NO! LISTEN TO THE SOUND OF MY VOICE
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Jontybloom1 wrote:
TMBG's Lincoln gets a deserved reappraisal on this site http://www.neonfiller.com/page9.htm#lincoln Love this album
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chinneths wrote:
yes!
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buckeye05 wrote:
i like that i wrote a parody of a spam comment on this shoutbox and my comment was still deleted anyway. weird
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Ackibear wrote:
Only TMBG could get away with songs like Roy G. Biv and I Am A Paleontologist, and that's why I love them so much.
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xMuffinMuffinx wrote:
abandon hope for future plans
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pollepet wrote:
here you are, I'd forgot your name, now I've found you, I remember that I've seen you live years and years ago in a small club called 'Logo' in Hamburg
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Arthurleano wrote:
to KingZoraScoot: Lucky me that I'm a fuckin nerd hahahaha
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liam00 wrote:
didnt they make the sound track for malcome in the middle: youre not the boss of me now??
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cliquott wrote:
funny!
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MonkeyRapist wrote:
I know for a fact KingZoraScoot has a physical copy of every album up to The Spine, and they were his favourite band for a better part of the last few years. So yeah.
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KingZoraScoot wrote:
bad shit for autistic children and nerds
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wwRoss wrote:
Where your eyes don't go a filthy scarecrow waves his broomstick arms and does a parody of each unconscious thing you do.
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akauser wrote:
They were great on Craig Ferguson!
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GiveMeARedBull wrote:
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Rockstulle wrote:
Funny Picture
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ci-el wrote:
http://www.last.fm/group/in+the+closet+heterosexuals
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nucumnon wrote:
Istanbul (not Constantinople) played on the radio today morning proved the song of the week to me ;) crazy sfuff! love it!
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People of myspace! TMBG is playing in Indy this Tuesday!
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Just a few hundred tickets left, but we would LOVE IT if you came out, or at least told your friends in Indy!See TMBG with Ralph Carney and MORE this TUESDAY!http://www.ticketmaster. …
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