TMBG is on Conan tonight!

My poor future second husband John Linnell looks so alone without his keyboard!

 

He needs you up there with him.

 

They are so weird. I love it.

 

Is all their stuff so horn-heavy?

 

Some of it. They've gone through a lot of incarnations. I'm partial to the super-early stuff when it was just the two Johns and a drum machine. Then they hired the Band of Dans for John Henry...which was just OK to me. I love some of their stuff since then, but it's very hit or miss with me. I do think they're absolute geniuses.

I'd tell anyone I ever meet to listen to "Flood" about 400 times.

 

Some of what you just said made no sense to me (John, John, Band of Dans), but I liked what I just heard enough to check it out.

 

The two singers: John Linnell and John Flansburgh (the two Johns)
Their band is three guys named Dan. Hence the Band of Dans.

Check out Flood, check out The Spine, check out a bunch of their stuff. They've done something for just about everybody. You've heard them, I'm sure. They did the Malcolm in the Middle theme, the Dr. Evil theme, McSweeney's stuff, Particle Man, Istanbul not Constantinople, etc.

They're amazing.

 

From SportsJournalists.com's six threads of separation: The weekend that ended with my college buddies and I talking about home turf shits also featured a TMGB concert at the Palace Theatre in New Haven. A good time was had by all. Frank Black opened.

 

TMBG!!!

 

I didn't know much of TMBG -- and I still don't, really -- but I was interested in seeing what all the underground fuss was about. So I downloaded The Spine before college graduation and listened to it a couple times. It was OK. Then a song came up on the player over the summer, and before I knew it, that was the only album I listened to for two weeks. It became an addiction for me. Every night, I brushed my teeth while playing an online poker game and listening to They Might Be Giants.

Some of the songs hit me because of where I was in life, which was cool, but mostly, they just distracted me to no end. Once the album was finished, I double-clicked on "Experimental Film" and began the process.

 

Not enough guitar.

 

OK, I'm pissed that I only saw this thread now. Second all that IJAG said, they are geniuses.