2:19 me and the boys heading to walk in the glow of each others majestic presence

Holy shit they are playing the card game Touring, a card game about going for a leisure drive in your car from like 1920. That is some obscure shit.

“They don’t need me here, and I know you’re there, where the world goes by like the humid air” is one of the most spooky, dream-like lyrics out of a lot of great contenders in their discog. It makes me nostalgic for something I can’t remember.

0:42 this dance is so stupid, i love it. im gonna dance like that from now on

Lincoln is now old enough to be president.

Last time I was this early, TMBG still used a drum machine.

This song is fantastic, but I also gotta say I love the music video a lot too! Super inventive and has such a unique vibe going for it

One of my all-time favorite songs ever in the history of all songs.

That frantic, flailing run is so fun to replicate.

They don't need me here, and I know you're there.

the dance at 0:42 is MESMERIZING help me

The Johns’ dances make them look like the little wooden figures that come out of a cuckoo clock

This is one of my all time favorite pieces of avant garde filmmaking

They're very witty. I also enjoy their use of melody. It transcends folk/pop and reaches into rarely explored children pop. It's a bold and entertaining turn on modern music.

I always thought the lyrics were "where the world goes by like the human hair" but now I'm cured

TMBG makes so many people happy. Truly amazing how many loyal fans they have.

Lincoln was my first introduction to TMBG. This brings back memories.

me and my friend stopped talking to eachother. then i started listening to TMBG and the moment i played this song he messaged me again

The first time I saw this, it changed my brain chemistry.

I accidentally spoke his first name aloud Trying to make it fit in with the lyrics of "Ana Ng" Worked like a charm

Make a hole with a gun perpendicular To the name of this town in a desk-top globe Exit wound in a foreign nation Showing the home of the one this was written for My apartment looks upside down from there Water spirals the wrong way out the sink And her voice is a backwards record It's like a whirlpool, and it never ends (An-) Ana Ng and I are getting old And we still haven't walked in the glow Of each other's majestic presence (Listen An-) Listen Ana hear my words They're the ones you would think I would say If there was a me for you All alone at the '64 World's Fair Eighty dolls yelling "Small girl after all" Who was at the DuPont Pavilion? Why was the bench still warm? Who had been there? Or the time when the storm tangled up the wire To the horn on the pole at the bus depot And in back of the edge of hearing These are the words that the voice was repeating: (An-) "Ana Ng and I are getting old And we still haven't walked in the glow Of each other's majestic presence (Listen An-) Listen Ana hear my words They're the ones you would think I would say If there was a me for you" When I was driving once I saw this painted on a bridge: "I don't want the world, I just want your half" They don't need me here and I know you're there (don't need me) Where the world goes by like the humid air (world goes by) And it sticks like a broken record Everything sticks like a broken record Everything sticks until it goes away And the truth is, we don't know anything (An-) Ana Ng and I are getting old And we still haven't walked in the glow Of each other's majestic presence (Listen An-) Listen Ana hear my words They're the ones you would think I would say If there was a me for you (An-) Ana Ng and I are getting old And we still haven't walked in the glow Of each other's majestic presence (Listen An-) Listen Ana hear my words They're the ones you would think I would say If there was a me for you (An-) Ana Ng and I are getting old And we still haven't walked in the glow Of each other's majestic presence (Listen An-) Listen Ana hear my words They're the ones you would think I would say If there was a me for you (An-) Ana Ng and I are getting old And we still haven't walked in the glow Of each other's majestic presence (Listen An-) Listen Ana hear my words They're the ones you would think I would say If there was a me for you

This video is the most perfect music video in the history of everything. Every single frame is pure genius.

I'm loving these "vintage" uploads. I used to have the VHS tape of every video up to Istanbul. I watched it repeatedly. Linnell 2020.

Eating sushi right now in my hotel room watching this.... Everything reminds me of her...

i don't want the world i just want they might be giants next album

Been a fan since their self-titled album was on vinyl, but only ever seen a video in the last few weeks. Played their stuff on my overnight college station radio show. Capital. Love the Milles Bournes ref.

The song that got me hooked on these guys.

Thanks, Will. This is pretty good

god i love tmbg' music videos so much

Excelent video, My favorite song! Would shoot globe again.

I've been loving the remastered first album, and I'm really hoping there's a remaster for Lincoln in the works. It's been wonderful listening to the Pink Album again -- I can really hear the care that was taken to bring out the best in the tracks -- and I'd love to hear its sibling album given the same care and attention. Loving the HQ music video reposts, too, which is incidentally what got me thinking about how good a Lincoln remaster would be.

one of the greatest songs of the 80s and possibly ever?

One of my faves.

i like so much the momen on 2:26, when Linnell Falls down, it's so hit with song

"SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL"

This song is the best way to relax on a saturday night

We need more TMBG videos with coordinated dancing.

A work of art.

This is my ringtone coincidence?I THINK NOT!!

My favorite song from the "Lincoln" album.

One of my favorite songs ever.

one of my favorites

PERFECT

This band rocks so much!!!

Majestic presence!

Awesome

Circa late 1992 - early 1993, I’m in 9th Grade when I hear this for the first time. Without the aid of the infernet or the lyric sheet here is what I heard “I don’t want the world, I just want to wear a hat.”

My fave TMBG tune

As a kid I got an Mtv greatest hits cassette, this was one of the tracks and I loved it. Been a fan ever since and never looked back. -Pierce

I can't believe how fitting (and GOOD) the video is for this song

Thanks for posting this video full quality!! You are doing godswork here

Glad you’ve been putting up the better quality updates. See you at the Bowery in 2020

Thank you

Really a timeless looking video.

This song is rock perfection!

"I don't want the world, I just want your hat." Sheer genius!!!

This video and location on it like a just another dream, i like this song so much

👑

A criminally underrated outfit. They occupy the same kind of space as the Sparks brothers Russel and Ron Mael

WOO ITS BACK

I start jumping up and down when John starts the manic piano intro for this classic during the I like fun tour; I am so excited for everyone cause I know its coming!

0:05 Hello?

Get well soon guys. ❤

the infection has begun. they are in my brain & they won't get out.

when i first watched this i always thought " oh,, the guy with the glasses is singing!! " now i know that it's actually john linnell singing,, not john flansburgh ( i was half right due to the fact linnell does wear glasses, just not here )

I ❤️ tmbg

God they're so cool

Ana ang and I

First saw this on _120 Minutes_ on MTV in the 80s!

i remember singing this at camp yawgoog

I love this song so much, initially I was mostly just drawn to it because of my name lmao

hooray

KZfaq algorithm is so interesting. It seemed to have a noticed a connection between TMBG Ana NG and Elastica- Connection. now there is a weird glitch in the comments and although i am on the page for Elastica, these seem to be the comments to TMBG. I'm pretty sure KZfaq's algorithm is sentient and trying to communicate.

I lived in sin before I discovered TMBG.

Who’s the general that Flansy holds a picture of around 1:37?

Tied with Puppet Head as the best TMBG music video

Love the high quality but I miss the wee titles at the beginning

Welcome to an episode of The DJ Professor Dan Takes Points Off For Utterly Unreasonable Reasons Show! In 2002, They Might Be Giants released a Greatest Hits package, titled “Dial-A-Song.” You know why it was titled “Dial-A-Song” right? Because they offered a “Dial-A-Song” phone service, and every day between 1983 and 2006 they would write a new song and record it on their answering machine. A lot of people are obsessed with They Might Be Giants, and with publicity stunts/conceptual art projects like that, you can very much understand why. Anyway, the compilation contained liner notes. Or more accurately an essay. Or even more accurately, a book. Written by - ironically given the name of today’s song - Sarah Vowell, who claimed - and I am paraphrasing here from memory because I can't find my copy, I probably sold it - that They Might Be Giants were a new kind of band. A band that you might actually want to be friends with. A band that, and I’m pretty sure I’m quoting this correctly, “knows stuff.” Now, “Ana Ng” was apparently written because John (not to be mistaken for John… they are both called John) was looking for song ideas in the New York Telephone directory - as you do - and found entire pages filled with the name Ng. He needed to know how to pronounce it, so he called one of them up, a Doctor, Doctor Ng whose answering machine said: “They call me Dr Ng. Good morning. How are you? I’m Doctor Ng. I’m interested in things. I’m not a real doctor, but I am a real Ng, I am an actual Ng, oh sorry that’s a different song.” Now Ng is a Vietnamese name, and here’s where I have a problem. “My apartment looks upside down from there, water spirals the wrong way out the sink” Can you see the problem? John is clearly under the impression that Vietnam is in the Southern Hemisphere!! Now usually I’d let this slide, but They Might Be Giants are, to probably incorrectly quote Sarah Vowell once again, a band who “knows stuff.” That’s their thing! They know for example that: “The sun is mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace, where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees.” Although that song was a cover. They also know that: “Istanbul was Constantinople, now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople, been a long time gone, Constantinople, now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night” Although come to think of it, that was a cover as well. The point is that They Might Be Giants, the band that knows stuff, don’t know everything, and for that I’m docking a point. “Ana Ng” is a 9

Anyone else here because of finding "The Best of MTV 120 Minutes Volume 1" on the free shelf of a thrift shop?

this video is what anxiety feels like

“Oh great, I’m surrounded by old people.”

I tapped so fast.

Masterpiece song and video. Masterpiece. 172K views? What the F**K?

Still not other compares to TMBG

Thank you, Star Fucking Hipsters for introducing me to this. lol

when will we walk in each other's majestic presence? listen, hear my words they're the ones you would think i would say if i was john linnell or trying to be john linnell

Thanks Penny from WarioWare

Ye

Best choreography in a music vid ever?

1:00 is thar jfk

car seat headrest brought me here

Who directed this?

0:05

1:52 Whose portraits are those?

Anyone else first see this video watching Al TV?

wow, just like car seat headrest

Teeth, Teeth, Teeth and eyes

I have been fortunate in life in many regards. God has blessed me. John and John would probably agree. In case you've forgotten, God loves you. Jesus loves you. On your journey beware of traps and snares. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

They’re the words you would think I would say if I was John Linnell (or tryna be John Linnell)…

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