They Might Be Giants Give Keynote Address at Signal Conference

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selfcallednowhere

9 жыл бұрын

The Johns at the Signal technology conference

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@Destrothjaan 9 жыл бұрын

Now we know the secret of their freshness and longevity. Run from the past, never looking back, and incorporating as many Dans as possible. Each new album is my favorite. Running from the exploding past! What a great concept for a song!

@ThreadBomb 4 жыл бұрын

Exploding, your childhood home address Exploding, your grand plan for success Run away, the old neighborhood is about to rapidly decay Leap in the air and dive, and thank the film director that you're still alive

@apostrophe.t 3 жыл бұрын

As many Dans are humanly possible.

@theRealPlaidRabbit 9 жыл бұрын

"Classic" TMBG never sounds old to me. Maybe it's because there never was "a sound"-- every song had its own language, its own palette, its own sonic world. So stuff from the Pink album doesn't sound "so 1986"; it didn't sound like 1986 then either. More commercial bands who have lived according to record labels and radio playlists have been perhaps more locked in to being "current", which virtually guarantees that their material a few years later will be dated. I am loving the new Dial-a-Song year, and loving these tracks more than anything on the last couple albums... maybe this was a way to regain something brilliant and wonderful that was at the heart of the Giants' original material.

@boozerverif 8 жыл бұрын

+theRealPlaidRabbit The only song I'll disagree with is Hotel Detective; it's a little dated.

@ZoeAlexa11 6 жыл бұрын

Really? I feel like a lot of the songs on their first two albums feel VEEEEERY 80’s

@ThreadBomb 4 жыл бұрын

I find the sound on the first album a bit harsh.

@mrwednesdaynight 3 жыл бұрын

The first time I heard The Pink Album, I knew I liked it but I didn't know if anyone else I knew would get it. Turns out it was the same friends who like Monty Python. But yeah, their music never sounds dated because it's so different than anything else that was going on at the time.

@JillKnapp 4 жыл бұрын

When Flansy said "Magnets?" at 37:50, I almost fell out of my chair. (Good lord, my crush on them has lasted over 30 years. I love their fabulous brains.)

@subiedoobiedoo Жыл бұрын

As a teenager in the ‘80s, I totally called Dial-a-song more than once. I remember my mother yelling, “Who the hell called Brooklyn??” We lived in GA, so it didn’t seem like I could possibly have had anything to do with that random BellSouth charge…🤗

@alpur214 4 жыл бұрын

"Which really cuts down on our day drinking.." as he takes a swig of water.

@jktomas 9 жыл бұрын

Glean is one of their greatest albums.

@cheayunju 8 жыл бұрын

+jktomas you young fool.

@jktomas 8 жыл бұрын

Charles Williams Relax. Flood is my second favorite. :)

@Gamerboy_Joy 8 жыл бұрын

+Charles Williams It's still one of their greatest.

@ChikaraGuy 7 жыл бұрын

Au contraire, jkthomas

@looshkin66 7 жыл бұрын

jktomas no, no it's not. It's not even one of their decent or even so-so albums......It's good (as all tmbg albums are better than 99% of whats out there) but its not Lincoln or John Henry or Apollo 18 or whatever. To me the albums after The Else just kind of meandered for a little bit. Just my opinion though.....

@joeworker9742 8 жыл бұрын

They have so much output. I have listened since the late 80's. These two have been my favorite since then. I love getting to hear their interviews.

@randell9667 7 жыл бұрын

Can't say enough good things about these two amazing musicians. Been a fan since I first listened to flood back in 1990.

@wallyscreenshots 9 жыл бұрын

Not even two minutes in: "Geeks, right?" (Otherwise, good interview! :P)

@joec872able 9 жыл бұрын

"It was a very analog world." Indeed.

@lukastaylor9544 3 жыл бұрын

Who else can make a procommunist song and a Mickey Mouse soundtrack

@sethzimmerman281 2 жыл бұрын

I’m not sure if “The Communist Have the Music” is pro-anything.

@hollymcgrath5296 8 жыл бұрын

I still listen to my dial a song when I get it on Facebook! Love you guys !!

@onemanbeershow 5 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed this video. Your contribution is appreciated. Thank you for the upload.

@echopathy 2 жыл бұрын

@34:42 lol 'Captive audience.'

@theRealPlaidRabbit 9 жыл бұрын

I can do augmented and diminished repairs if you should happen to need that.

@tvsinesperanto7446 5 жыл бұрын

"But what does he get? How does he make money on this...whatever he's advertising in the paper? That's the part that don't make no sense! In the Village Voice." Etc. Oh man, when I first heard that I thought it was the craziest thing I'd ever heard.

@JillKnapp 4 жыл бұрын

Do you see-do you see any sense to that? "There May Be Giants?"

@terranceroff8113 2 жыл бұрын

*chuckles* Yea go figure.. these guys rock~

@francisarsenic9371 4 жыл бұрын

I like the original Dr Worm

@MagicTurtle643 9 жыл бұрын

Andrew, yeah I don't know why he said he wouldn't reveal the song because he reveals it in this Spin interview. It's Snowball in Hell. www.spin.com/2015/05/they-might-be-giants-30-years-every-album-glean/

@hollymcgrath5296 8 жыл бұрын

Damn good times - song flansy's talking about. Perhaps. Probably not but just a guess. Love them so much. xx

@TaylorjAdams 7 жыл бұрын

Snowball In Hell. Link to interview in MagicTurtle643's comment for this video

@BroForce426 5 жыл бұрын

I always thought it was Piece of Dirt

@soundgardenfan2 Ай бұрын

@@BroForce426 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ec2pdJSqm7fVd4E.html about 11 minutes in he talks about it, wonder if he's mixing up songs or if this really did happen on two songs from the same album.

@staticvloid 2 ай бұрын

They say they dodged the interactive CD bullet, but that's exactly what "No!" was, no?

@matthewbianchini Ай бұрын

I think they were referring to more cheap-o MS Dos tie-ins. Like freeware that you’d download and play on your computer back in 1994 or so.

@GrizonII 8 жыл бұрын

Where's the second part? It seems to imply there is one.

@SugarSnapDragon 6 жыл бұрын

The laws of physics didn't rhyme over seas.

@debb8321 9 жыл бұрын

lol! - 'minor repairs'! ... 'Accordion Techs'!

@thohangst 2 жыл бұрын

14 minutes in, I'm really hoping they mention Flash on their website...

@Paul-dw2cl Жыл бұрын

They are hilarious 27:08

@johnran6015 Жыл бұрын

They're like the nice sober version of Ween, who I've been into forever while TMBG I am just getting into

@Paul-dw2cl Жыл бұрын

Does anyone know what song Flans is talking about at 23:52 ?

@wallyscreenshots 9 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know the song Flansburgh is talking about at 23:48?

@TaylorjAdams 7 жыл бұрын

Snowball In Hell. Link to interview in MagicTurtle643's comment for this video

@gsgidney 4 жыл бұрын

Ummm... I had a CD of Flood, what are they talking about...dodged the CD phase?

@Best-Match 4 жыл бұрын

they said the CD-ROM phase, referring to the brief period where musicians made interactive experiences with full motion video on CD, essentially making a bad computer game for Windows 95 that no one wanted

@calebjowens 3 жыл бұрын

@@Best-Match but their CD-ROM for "No!" was one of my favorite childhood interactions with their music.

@jamesthornock8214 2 жыл бұрын

Host could’ve been better. TMBG was really good

@TopShelfTheology 3 жыл бұрын

So uhhh ... so you built a Birdhouse In Your Soul Skinner Box for your kid?

@cr9423 Жыл бұрын

Hahaha captive audience

@ThreadBomb 4 жыл бұрын

Exploding, your childhood home address Exploding, your grand plan for success Run away, your old neighborhood is set to rapidly decay Leap before the fireball and dive, and thank the film director that you're still alive

@ThreadBomb 4 жыл бұрын

The sun is a miasma A miasma made of plasma And it aggravates my asthma Something bad

@ThreadBomb 4 жыл бұрын

Scrambled eggs I've got something running down my legs Guess this argument has reach the dregs When I am wearing scrambled eggs