They Might Giants (often abbreviated as TMBG ) is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell. During the early years of TMBG, Flansburgh and Linnell often featured as duos, often accompanied by drum machines. In the early 1990s, TMBG expanded to include backing bands. The duo's backing band currently consists of Marty Beller, Dan Miller, and Danny Weinkauf. This group has an unconventional and experimental alternative style of music. During their career, they have found success on the rock charts and modern colleges. They also found success in children's music, and in theme music for several television and movie programs.
TMBG has released 20 studio albums. Flood has been certified platinum and their children's music album Here Come ABC, Here 123's , and Here Comes Science i > everything has been certified gold. The band has won two Grammy Awards. They were nominated for the Tony Award for the Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for Theater for SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical. The band has sold over 4 million records.
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Linnell and Flansburgh first met as teenagers grew up in Lincoln, Massachusetts. They started writing songs together when they attended Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School but did not form bands at the time. The two attend a separate college after high school and Linnell joins The Mundanes, the 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 careers.
Years before (1982-1989)
At their first concert, They Might Be Giants performed under the name of El Groupo De Rock and Roll (Spanglish for "Rock and Roll Group"), as the show was a Sandinista rally in Central Park, and the majority of the audience spoke the language Spanish. Immediately discarding this title, the band took the 1971 film name They Might Be Giants (starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward), which in turn was taken from the Don Quixote section on how Quixote mistook the windmill for an evil giant, which itself was taken from Dante's Inferno Canto 34. According to Dave Wilson, in his book Stone Formation , the name They Might Be Giants has been used and then discarded by a friend of the band who has ventriloquism action. The name was later adopted by the band, who had searched for a suitable name.
A common misconception is that band names are a reference to themselves and an allusion to future success. In an interview, John Flansburgh says that the words "they may be giants" are just very forward-oriented things that they like. He clarified this in the A Tale of Two Johns documentary by explaining that the name refers to the outside world of the possibilities they see as a novice band. In a previous radio interview, John Linnell described this phrase as "something very paranoid to hear".
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 previously recorded drum machine or track backing on an audio cassette. Their atypical instruments, along with their songs featuring unusual subject matter and clever play of words, immediately attracted strong local followers. Their shows also featured funny and funny stage props like the overly large fezzes and big cardboard heads of newspaper editor William Allen White. Many of these props will later appear on their first music video. From 1984-1987, They Probably the Giants are a home-band in Darinka, the Lower East Side performance club. One weekend every month they play on stage there and by the end of three years they are sold out every show. On March 30, 1985, TMBG released 7 "flexi-discs, nicknamed" Wiggle Diskette "in Darinka, including the demo song" Everything Right Is Wrong "and" You're Miss Me ".
Dial-A-Song (Dial-A-Song_.281985.E2.80.932008.29 "> magazines. This review drew the attention of Bar/None Records, who signed it to a record deal.
Dial-A-Song consists of an answering machine with bands of bands playing various songs. The machine plays one track at a time, ranging from demos and unfinished jobs to mock ads made by the band.
Based in Brooklyn, Dial-A-Song is often difficult to access due to the dubious service and quality of the machines. In this connection, one of many Dial-A-Song slogans over the years is the tongue-in-cheek "Always Busy, Often Damaged". Number (718) -387-6962, is a local Brooklyn number and is charged accordingly, but the band advertises it with the line: "Free when you call from work".
At one point in 1988, the Dial-A-Song answering machine recorded a conversation between two people who had listened to Dial-A-Song, then questioned how they made money from it. An excerpt from a conversation has been entered as a hidden track in the EP for (She Was A) Hotel Detective .
In March 2000, TMBG started the dialasong.com website, which is more reliable than the original phone-based version, as it uses Flash documents to stream songs. It was replaced in August 2006 with a page promoting the podcast They Might Giants.
John Linnell stated in an interview in early 2008 that Dial-A-Song had died of a technical accident, and that the Internet had taken over where the machine had stopped operating. On November 15, 2008, the Dial-A-Song number was formally decided, although the number was once re-used in a similar style by other independent artists.
They're probably Giants and Lincoln (1986-89)
The duo released their self-titled debut album in 1986, which became a college radio hit. The video for "Do not Let's Start", filmed at the New York State Pavilion built for the 1964 New York World Exposition in Queens, became a hit on MTV in 1987, making them a wider audience. In 1988, they released their second album, Lincoln , which was named after the duo's hometown. It featured the song "Ana Ng" which reached No. 1. Ã, 11 on the US Rock Modern chart. Both albums were produced on an 8-track ribbon at Dubway Studios in New York City.
In 1989, They Might Be Giants signed a contract with Elektra Records, and released their third album Flood the following year. Flood earned them a platinum 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)", a cover of the original song by The Four Lads.
In 1990, Throttle magazine interviewed They Might Be Giants and clarified the meaning of the song "Ana Ng": John Flansburgh said, "Ng is the Vietnamese name.This song is about someone who thinks of someone on the opposite side of John sees the globe and knows that if Ana Ng is in Vietnam and that person is on the other side of the world then it must be written by someone in Peru ".
Subsequent interest in the band was generated when two cartoon music videos were made by Warner Bros. Animation for Tiny Toon Adventures : "Istanbul" and "Particle Man". This video reflects the TMBG's "high attractiveness" of children, resulting from their often absurd songs and poppy melodies.
In 1991, Bar/None Records released a compilation of B-sides Miscellaneous T . The title refers to the part of the record store where TMBG releases are often found as well as the overall eclectic nature of the track. Although it consists of previously released material (except b-side "Purple Toupee", which is not available to the public), it gives new fans an opportunity to hear non-Johns previous albums without having to hunt down individual EPs.
In early 1992, They Might Be Giants released Apollo 18 . The theme of heavy space coincides with TMBG named Ambasador Music for the International Space Year. Singles from the album include "Statue of Got Me Tall", "I Palindrome I", and "The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)". Apollo 18 is also famous for being one of the first albums to take advantage of the CD player shuffle feature. The song "Fingertips" actually consists of 21 separate songs - short snippets that not only act together to make a song but when played in random order will be interspersed between full album songs. Due to mastery errors, the English and Australian versions of Apollo 18 contained "Fingertips" as one song.
Recruiting bands (1992-98)
Following Apollo 18 , Flansburgh and Linnell decided to stay away from guitars & amp; akordion (or sax) plus backing tracks on the tape nature of their live performances, and recruited support bands consisting of live musicians (Kurt Hoffman of The Ordinaires on reeds and keyboards, old Pere Ubu bassist Tony Maimone and drummer Jonathan Feinberg).
John Henry was released in 1994. Influenced by their more conventional lineup, the album marks a departure from their previous release with more heavy-guitar sounds. It was released for mixed reviews among fans and critics.
Their next album, Factory Showroom , was released in 1996 with a bit of fanfare. The band quickly moved from the nuances of John Henry , and Factory Showroom back to sounds more diverse than their previous albums, despite the entry of two guitarists, the second being Eric Schermerhorn who provided some guitar solos.
They left Elektra after the duo refused to perform publicity shows, among other exposure-related disputes.
In 1998, they released a largely live album of Severe Tire Damage from where came the single "Doctor Worm", a studio recording. Around the same time period, Danny Weinkauf (bass) and Dan Miller (guitar) were recruited for the recording and touring of their band. Both were previously members of the Lincoln band and Candy Butchers (Preamble to TMBG). Weinkauf and Miller continue to work with the band to date.
Beyond Elektra and move to Restless Records (1999-2003) range>
For most of their careers, TMBG has been using the Internet innovatively. In early 1992, the band sent news updates to their fans through Usenet newsgroups. In 1999, They Might Be Giants became the first major recording artist to release an entire album exclusively in mp3 format. The album, Long Length Weekend . sold through Emusic.
Also, in 1999, the band donated the song "Dr. Evil" to Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me . During their career, the band has been featured on many movie and television soundtracks, including The Oblong, miniseries ABC News Brave New World and Ed and His Dead Mother i>. They also feature the theme "Dog on Fire", composed by Bob Mold, for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. They composed and played music for the TLC Resident Life series, the theme song for the Disney Channel Higglytown Heroes program, and the songs about the Dexter's Laboratory cartoon i > and Courage of Coward Dogs .
During this time, the band also worked on projects for McSweeney's, a publishing company and a literary journal. The band wrote McSweeney's theme song and forty-four songs for an album intended to be listened to by journals, with each song corresponding to a particular story or piece of art. Labeled They Might Giants vs McSweeney's , the disk appears in the No edition. 6 from Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern .
Donated the single "Boss of Me" as the theme song for the hit television series Malcolm in the Middle , as well as to the compilation CD of the show, bringing a new audience to the band. Not only bands that contributed to the theme, the songs from all previous Giants albums were used at the show: for example, the famous punching-the-kid-in-the-wheelchair scene from the first episode was performed for the "Rain Pencil" strain of Lincoln . Another song featured in this series is "Spiraling Shape". "Boss of Me" became the second top-40 hit in the UK they performed on the British Top of the Pops television program, and in 2002, won the Grammy Award duo.
On September 11, 2001, they released the album Mink Car on Restless Records. This is the release of their first first album of new studio material since 1996 and their first since parting with Elektra. The making of the album, including the signing ceremony at Manhattan Tower Records, was included in a documentary film directed by AJ Schnack titled A Giant (A Tale of Two Johns) . The film was released on DVD in 2003.
In 2002, they released No! , their first album "for the whole family". Using an enhanced CD format, it includes interactive animations for most of the songs. They followed it in 2003 with their first book, a children's book with an included EP, Beds, Beds, Beds .
Podcasting, independent releases, and children's music (2004-2015)
In 2004, the band created one of the artist's first online music stores, where customers can buy and download their MP3 music copies, both new releases and many previously released albums. By creating their own store, the band can save money that will go into the record company. With the redesign of the band site in 2010, the store was reincarnated.
Also, in 2004, the band released their first "adult" rock work since the release of No! , EP Indestructible Object . This is followed by a new album, The Spine , and the associated EP, The Spine Surfs Alone . At this time Dan Hickey was replaced by Marty Beller who previously collaborated with TMBG. For the album's first single, "Experimental Film", TMBG teamed up with the creators of Homestar Runner, Matt and Mike Chapman to create animated music videos. The band's collaboration with Brothers Chaps also includes several Wayang Jam segments with Homestar dolls and music for Bad Poor emails entitled "Different Cities". In 2006 they recorded the trajectory for Strong 200 Strong e-mail, in which Linnell voted The Poopsmith.
TMBG also donated tracks for the 2004 Future Soundtrack For America compilation, a project compiled by John Flansburgh with the help of Spike Jonze and Barsuk Records. The band contributed to "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too", a political campaign track of the 1840 presidential election. The compilation was released by Barsuk and featured indie, alternative, and high profile actions such as Death Cab for Cutie, The Flaming Lips, and Bright Eyes. All results go to progressive organizations like Music for America and MoveOn.org.
Flansburgh and Linnell made a guest appearance on "Camp", January 11, 2004, episode of the animated sitcom Home Movies . They voiced a pair of camp advisors and cult members of a strange hooded male cults. On May 10, 2004, they made guest appearances on episode 141 of Blue's Clues called Bluestock with some other stars, such as Toni Braxton, Macy Gray, and India.Arie. They're probably Giants in a letter to Joe and Blue.
Following the Spine on Hiway Tour 2004, the band announced that they would take an extended time from the tour to focus on other projects, such as the music produced by Flansburgh and written by his wife, Robin "Goldie" Goldwasser, entitled Wrong People! .
2005 saw the release of Here Come the ABCs , TMBG followed up the successful children's album No! . The Disney Sound label released CDs and DVDs 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 Border Books locations. In November 2005, Venue Songs was released as a two-disc CD/DVD narrated by John Hodgman. This is a concept album based on all the "place songs" from their 2004 tour.
TMBG meliput lagu Devo "Through Being Cool" dalam film 2005 Disney , Sky High .
Since December 2005, They Probably Giants have been making podcasts on a monthly, sometimes bi-monthly basis. Each edition includes remixes of previous songs, scarcity, cover, and new songs and theatrical recorded specifically for podcasts.
The band contributed 14 original songs for Dunkin 'Donuts 2006 campaign, "America Runs on Dunkin'", including "Things I Like to Do", "Pleatheres", and "Fritalian". In the advertisement that aired, Flansburgh sang "Fritalian" along with his wife, Robin Goldwasser. In 2008 ads, "Move" was played.
The band has produced and featured three original tracks for the Playhouse Disney series: one for Higglytown Heroes and two for Mickey Mouse Clubhouse . The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse features two original songs performed by the group, including the opening theme song, where the singing variant of Mickey Mouse Club ("Meeska Mooska Mickey Mouse!") Is used to call Clubhouse, and "Hot Dog!" , the song used at the end of the event. This song refers to the first words Mickey pronounced on the short Carnival Kid in 1929.
They also recorded a cover of the Disney song, "There's a Big Great Big Tomorrow" for the Meet Meet Robinsons and wrote and sang the theme song for The Drinky Crow Show . The band was recruited to provide original songs for the film directed by Henry Selick from the children's book Neil Gaiman Coraline but dropped because their music was not "creepy enough". Only one song, titled "Father Song Lain", 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 ZoÃÆ' Â «Records for CD version), with an earlier digital release on May 15th at the iTunes Store. The advance copy was made available to the station in 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 Giants perform the song "The Mesopotamians" from the album on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
In the remainder of 2007, They Might Be Giants wrote a piece of the Brooklyn-based robot music commission, League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots, and performed for three dates on the show, and covered the Pixies "Havalina" for American Laundromat Records. Dig For Fire - a compilation for PIXIES .
The band's 13th album,
The band's fourteenth album, Here Comes Science , a children's album themed on science. The album introduces listeners to the natural, formal, social, and applied sciences. It was released on September 1, 2009, and was nominated for a Grammy Award on December 1, 2010.
On November 3rd, They May Giants send a bulletin stating "The Avatar of The They", a set of manipulated John sock dolls for the show, will have an album in 2012, suggesting another children's album. However, the new adult album titled Join Us was released on July 19, 2011.
On October 3, 2011, Artix Entertainment announced that the band will be performing in-game for a special music event to commemorate the 3rd anniversary of the popular MMORPG AdventureQuest Worlds. They are featured in the third special anniversary of AdventureQuest World as John and John.
On March 5, 2013, the band released their sixteenth studio album, Nanobots , on their Idlewild Recordings label in the US and the UK indie label Lojinx in Europe.
Live album Flood Live in Australia was made available for free digital downloads by the band in 2015. Also in 2015, the band reactivated the Dial-A-Song service under the Dial-A-Song -Direct banner, promising to release one new song every week of the year, starting with the song "Erase" on January 5th. Some of these songs are planned to be collected on a new studio rock album titled Glean on April 21, 2015.
The band released their latest kids album, Why? , on November 27, 2015. It was their children's fifth album and the first children's album to be released under their own label, Idlewild Recordings.
In a video released on December 20, 2015, John Flansburgh announced that the band would take a temporary pause after their 2016 US tour.
The Revival of Dial-A-Song, The Power of the Phone , and I Love Fun (2015-present)
Dial-A-Song was revived in 2015, with new phone numbers ((844) 387-6962), websites, and radio networks. It stopped production in early 2016, but the band announced via Twitter that Dial-A-Song would return again, in a modified format, beginning in January 2018.
On March 8, 2016, the band released Phone Power , their nineteenth studio album and a third song containing from their revival of Dial-a-Song service in 2015. This is the first TMBG album sold as a "pay for what you want" download, available before physical release on June 10th. The band's twenty-second album, I Like Fun was released on January 19, 2018.
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Members
- Timeline
Discography
Throughout their career, They Might Be Giants has released 20 studio albums, 10 compilations, 9 live albums, 8 EPs, 7 videos and 11 singles.
Studio album
- They Are Giants (1986)
- Lincoln (1988)
- Flood (1990)
- Apollo 18 (1992)
- John Henry (1994)
- Factory Showroom (1996)
- Weekend Long Term (1999)
- Mink Car (2001)
- No! (2002)
- The Spine (2004)
- Here Comes ABC (2005)
- The Else (2007)
- Here Go 123s (2008)
- Here Comes Science (2009)
- Join Us (2011)
- Nanobots (2013)
- Glean (2015)
- Why? (2015)
- Strength of Phones (2016)
- I Like Fun (2018)
Charting single
Music video
The band has released 25 major music videos for songs from their rock album. All of their children's albums also include video content or run in conjunction with DVD releases. The band also has a video for every song Dial-A-Song from 2015 on their main YouTube channel, ParticleMen.
Straight from Brooklyn
In 1999, They Might Be Giants released Direct from Brooklyn , a compilation of VHS from their music video from 1986 to that time. It was republished on DVD in 2003. The following music video was included:
- "Put Your Hand In The Head Of The Movie" (1986)
- "Do not Let Us Begin" (1986)
- "(She Was a) Hotel Detective" (1986)
- "Ana Ng" (1988)
- "Purple Toupee" (1988)
- "They Will Need Cranes" (1988)
- "Birdhouse in Your Soul" (1990)
- "Istanbul" (animation) (1990)
- "The Statue Got Me High" (1992)
- "The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)" (1992)
- "Snail Shell" (1994)
- "Doctor Worm" (1998)
More videos
- "Boss of Me" (2001)
- "Experimental Films" (animation) (2004)
- "Bastard Wanted to Beat Me" (animation) (2004)
- "Here at Higglytown" (animation) (2004)
- "With The Dark" (animation) (2007)
- "Shadow Administration" (animation) (2007)
- "I'm Impressed" (animated) (2007)
- "The Mesopotamians" (animation) (2007)
- "Can not Keep Johnny Down" (2011)
- "CloisonnÃÆ' Â ©" (2011)
- "In Fact" (2011)
- "You Might Get It Much" (2011)
- "Spoiler Alert" (2011)
- "Marty Beller Mask" (2011)
- "When Will You Die" (2012)
- "Icky" (animation) (2013)
- "Nanobots" (animation) (2013)
- "Insect Hospital" (animation) (2013)
- "Black Ops" (2013)
- "You're on Fire" (2013)
- "Am I Aware?" (2014)
Also see
- List of songwriters Tandems
Reference
External links
- Official website
- TMBG Dial-a-Song
- This may be Wiki - wiki about TMBG
- They may be Giants in Curlie (based on DMOZ)
- The American Life - Episode 90: Call Phone in Law Two: When Calling Is Your Media by contributing Sarah Vowell's editor. A story and interview that includes a Dial-a-Song line and a line role on TMBG music.
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