www.ted.com In a very, very early-morning set, They Might Be Giants rock the final day of TED2007. Songs include "Older," "Bee of the Bird of the Moth," "Asbury Park," and "Fingertips."
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@uncleflansy5621 Жыл бұрын
Saw TMBG a couple weeks ago, Flansburgh came out without glasses and Linnell had his on, which was very confusing for a second. They even brought it up, Linnell said "I'm the guy now!". Still the best live band ever.
@Billkwando11 ай бұрын
That's hilarious.
@TheFamousEccles16 жыл бұрын
Not enough music features an accordion. These guys are brilliant.
@MisterAppleEsq6 жыл бұрын
0:19 Older 3:16 Bee of the Bird of the Moth 8:04 Asbury Park 9:10 Fingertips 13:12 Phone Calls from the Dead 14:47 The Alphabet of Nations
@LukeHennisch6 жыл бұрын
Mister Apple thanks ;)
@MisterAppleEsq6 жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
@stevebadachmusic5 жыл бұрын
thanks kindly
@MooOinkMedia Жыл бұрын
NO I DONT HAVE A BADGE! *EEEE* Well, I think we're gonna stop that part of the show...
@ivanterrible73623 жыл бұрын
So nice to see my fellow West Xylophonians finally getting the recognition we deserve.
@pretzelthedude6 жыл бұрын
How is this 10 years old and only have 63k views? TMBG fans need to step it up.
@eastportland3 жыл бұрын
It's a hidden gem, apparently.
@L0REN0R2Z0RR0 Жыл бұрын
80k after 15 years. By maintaining this rate, we could have the 100,000 in another 5-7 years.
@starbug3my8 жыл бұрын
I saw them in concert Friday night and they were fantastic! They did 2 sets and the place was PACKED! I had not known till now that they did a TED performance. A few of their songs are so very romantic! We've been fans since we saw the "Don't Lets Start" video in 1987.
@angelusnielson71356 жыл бұрын
You might want to listen closer. One reason I love TMBG is that they hide some real darkness under some catchy and poppy lyrics.
@MrMalDawg6 жыл бұрын
FAVE BAND Mini-Concert at a conference named after ME! Too awesome!!!
@jakobbruhspenning10 ай бұрын
wow, I have never met someone named Technogy, entertainment and design
@Bosco-Sauce7 жыл бұрын
We want to get in as many songs as possible in our, brief time here.. so this is the one to play. YES!!!!! Fingertips live!!
@colinhawco615311 жыл бұрын
I saw TMBG play live around 7 years ago in Toronto, and it was amazing. True this is not their best show ever, at 8:30, and if people don't like it, well, too bad I guess. They are an amazing band, who have made some really amazing, innovative songs unlike anything else I have ever heard.
@L0REN0R2Z0RR0 Жыл бұрын
Just recently heard that for this show, even local fans who wanted to come couldn't get in, and that they had a big TED party the day before, so 8:30 was a bit bad timing for a TMBG show
@ROFLpwnedvideos16 жыл бұрын
This is my all time favorite band, and I didn't even know they had a video on this channel. Awesome.
@jacksonoutside10 жыл бұрын
Great description for Bee of the Bird of the Moth!!
@Realwessharpe9 жыл бұрын
It's completely fucked up
@mostamazingppl16 жыл бұрын
omg...i love this performance...live is always good...
@TimePilot20845 жыл бұрын
This version of "Alphabet of Nations" is freaking awesome. Been listening to these cats since I was a kid.
@xnonsuchx11 жыл бұрын
Not sure if I could handle a TMBG concert at 8:30a...but then I'm not sure if I can handle ANYTHING that early.
@ZoeAlexa116 жыл бұрын
xnonsuchx same but if it’s TMBG I’d totally go regardless of the time
@donh45298 жыл бұрын
odd setlist, & weird seeing Flansburgh on bass
@daveidmarx82966 жыл бұрын
Only time I've ever seen Flansy rocking the bass!
@HansMundahl16 жыл бұрын
Somehow TED and TMBG go together perfectly. Like peanut butter and jelly, like open-source economics and string theory. Love it. If I was there I would've stormed the stage with my laminated badge. Awesome!
@L0REN0R2Z0RR0 Жыл бұрын
It would, if not in front of a hungover audience at 8:30am 😁
@ssmalley21934 жыл бұрын
That's the softest 'mysterious whisper' I've heard.
@Billkwando11 ай бұрын
Yeah they played it pretty mellow for an 8:30am crowd.
@vjm2125 күн бұрын
I feel like the audience did not comprehend the awesomeness of seeing Fingertips performed live.
@BumLuck10 жыл бұрын
Oh my god when he says "Guatemala"
@tallen4212 жыл бұрын
This was a brilliant set -- the people they are playing for "didn't get it". Too much humorl, too early int he morning? Fingertips is soooo good here. How could you have that many nerds in one place and not a single fan? (I saw no one bobbing their heads). I hope people at the TED talk went home and looked them up and realized how really talented TMBG are... @AlexandriaM - was one of my fav parts, too.
@ohmycaribou13 жыл бұрын
TMBG trolled all y'all.
@Realwessharpe9 жыл бұрын
Watching this at 5 am. Time to wake up!
@dergos054 жыл бұрын
5:34 for me
@ThreadBomb4 жыл бұрын
Watching this at 5.20 am. I gotta get to bed!
@lyinsroar96377 жыл бұрын
these guys are so fricking weird lol (they're great tho)
@d1nn3r_b3ll Жыл бұрын
This specific version of older is so important to me ajdbfjfn
@audiofunkdialect5 жыл бұрын
I saw them live at a tiny venue in Portland Maine. Was absolutely wonderful.
@HansMundahl16 жыл бұрын
I saw TMBG in 1992 or 93 in Maine in a college gym with about 200 other folks. Here they are on stage at TED, Al Gore etc. This would somehow fit in one of their songs.
@tallen4212 жыл бұрын
"not all the facts are in ...19 degree thing -- fantastic!" - at least they got a few laughs there.
@confusedwhale13 жыл бұрын
I know they released it two years after this... but it have been awesome if they finished their set with "Meet the Elements" instead of "Alphabet of Nations". I'm pretty sure there would have been a few nerdections.
@rarmccoy3 жыл бұрын
My guess is they selected Alphabet due to performing in Monterey, CA. Monterey is home to the joint military service Defense Language Institute/Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) where linguists are trained, and there's also a few other linguistic and international education places around there. Given that, Alphabet of the Nations makes perfect sense. I just wish they'd done this while I was stationed at the Presidio of Monterey and studying at DLI. I love TMBG. 😁 (Though Meet the Elements would have been cool too, I actually think they should have added a song and closed with Man It's So Loud in Here - but I don't believe they'd written that yet when they were invited to do this TED presentation.)
@recordcollector06653 жыл бұрын
@@rarmccoy No, it’s because this performance was two years before meet the elements was written
@totz_the_plaid96253 жыл бұрын
@@rarmccoy "Man, it's So Loud in Here" came out six years before this performance.
@marshallbrooksmusic12 жыл бұрын
I know everyone's hating on this performance, but it wasn't as bad as people are making it out to be.
@L0REN0R2Z0RR0 Жыл бұрын
it didn't start well, but honestly it's one of the most unique performances from TMBG. Flansburgh on the bass, and Linnell on accordion and the... Kaoss pad? Some stylophone without stylus?
@jrpipik6 жыл бұрын
Going to see them in a few weeks -- Can't wait!!
@MisterAppleEsq6 жыл бұрын
I'm seeing them in October, and I'm very excited.
@LukeHennisch6 жыл бұрын
jrpipik I’m seeing them in April and then in June ;)
@theice-nineproject92756 жыл бұрын
i saw them in KC march 13th. Great show, and uncharacteristically...3 encores!
@MisterAppleEsq6 жыл бұрын
+The Ice-nine Project Hey, that was my birthday!
@LukeHennisch6 жыл бұрын
The Ice-nine Project I saw them stream that live. It was really good.
@baronmorris16 жыл бұрын
I bet 8:30 a.m. was kind of early for the audience to be @ a rock show, too. TMBG are fkn tight. in a good way. peace! O B A M A !
@jordancooperlalala16 жыл бұрын
Damn look at Flans playing the bass -- weird
@ballomatic9 күн бұрын
I was at the 19 degree concert in St Louis. 🎉
@llo_allo3 ай бұрын
What's weird is, I thought this would be the Johns explaining the message behind their music which I've always taken to be, "WAKE UP! This world ls stranger, more painful and beautiful and weird than you think. Discombobulation is the right response!"
@bhr78810 жыл бұрын
Fingertips makes me think of "Smile."
@BeastOfTheEast079 жыл бұрын
You know, TMBG have always reminded me of a more B-movie influenced version of the Beach Boys. I can't even imagine a show with Brian, John, John, and Marty.
@daveidmarx82966 жыл бұрын
Never made that connection, though "Mysterious Whisper" has reminded me of "Love Is A Woman" (closing track on The Beach Boys 'Love You' album) since its release in 1992!
@ThreadBomb4 жыл бұрын
Flans once joked that he was the Mike Love of the band.
@RQLAJI22 жыл бұрын
@@ThreadBomb Oh my god where is the source of this
@CplToonz11 жыл бұрын
We aren't whiny, we are loyal.
@camwyn2563 жыл бұрын
John said to John “I think we might be lost”
@octangula79146 жыл бұрын
The only thing I’m disappointed about is that Linnell only whispered Mysterious Whisper, but I guess it was 8 am
@MattMcIrvin Жыл бұрын
This is a stripped-down version of the band--just John Linnell, John Flansburgh and Marty Beller on the drums--and it's almost a return to their earliest days of touring when it was just the Johns and backing tapes and strange performance gimmicks. Interesting to see them do this in 2008.
@IAteYourTV16 жыл бұрын
Awesome! TMBG rock.
@BanksBanks420 Жыл бұрын
My awakening of JF bass guitar being low key hot in my opinion.
@Paulginz16 жыл бұрын
lordtalon69. FTW=for the win. It's a mark of appreciation. I should've called it geek music instead of nerd music maybe. The bottom line is, I can SO relate to these wackos ^_^.
@Paelidore11 жыл бұрын
Personally, I don't care for their live performances, but their songs are beautifully constructed. Then again, music preferences are truly relative.
@wii205016 жыл бұрын
This was so inspiring that I reinvented the wheel.
@squwooshk10 ай бұрын
I've never seen Flans play bass before
@thelightupmario11 жыл бұрын
Zimbabwe!
@YesItsMeGuys6816 жыл бұрын
well .... that was pretty different for sure .. reminds Me a bit of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention
@lizardizzle11 жыл бұрын
Heya, 2007/8. 2013 here and I totally agree with what you're saying.
@darksean9916 жыл бұрын
They really should of after the speech over the LHC
@WilsonSemilio16 жыл бұрын
Hmm. I don't think we're ready for this music yet, hehe.
@lenskap15 жыл бұрын
He's merely singing about the hummingbird moth. It's in the sphynx moth family and is often mistaken for a bumblebee or a hummingbird. One of natures interesting creatures.
@lsm00716 жыл бұрын
Most people don't get it do they? This is great! Though in reading the comments it is clear you aren't a fan of TMBG. Too Deep. Maybe you should all listen to something more elementary, like teletubbies.
@lordtalon6916 жыл бұрын
heh... where is the birdhouse in my soul :( still TMBG's rock...
@ZoeAlexa116 жыл бұрын
This was just a small thing, they normally always do birdhouse in your soul at legit concerts
@alcoholanddrugabuse16 жыл бұрын
I WILL PRAY FOR YOU*/*
@lordtalon6916 жыл бұрын
[clap clap] congratulations mr. mainstream. Your right remove the accordion change the lyrics and make it sound like every other boxed sound that is mass produced in the industry today. TMBG is a unique sound with a devoted fan base, and what you say won't make a difference.
@NickCronDeVico16 жыл бұрын
The guys at TED didn't seem too receptive to the banter portion. They were open enough to the music though. And it was pretty early...
@Capitalocracy16 жыл бұрын
and has since he was 12, I'm sure
@lordtalon6916 жыл бұрын
I'll agree with that, its not really an insult but more of a explanation to all the haters on here. Its a unique niche of music that the devoted fans have enjoyed since the early 90's. For those that prefer TED lectures keep in mind TMBG was invited to play here, and they were asked to play at 8:30 in the morning if you object to this then argue with TED don't blame TMBG for the kind of music they do. On a side note this performance dind't do there music justice. I suggest dl'ing them.
@ThreadBomb4 жыл бұрын
"since the early 90's"? -- try the mid-80s. I agree that this stripped down performance didn't sound as good as their usual stuff.
@clearmenser16 жыл бұрын
poor guys, rock is not meant for breakfast. 8:30am?
@Paulginz16 жыл бұрын
Nerd music FTW!
@jaygold992311 жыл бұрын
Yemen!
@dann84314 жыл бұрын
Turn up the bass please!
@mastermooky6 жыл бұрын
hes a lefty, already ahead of the game
@dylaninpieces22 жыл бұрын
Is Flansy playing bass in this?
@RIVEXNGLE13 жыл бұрын
Yeah, TMBG! What's TED? [/troll] Hate me. =P
@anthtan5 жыл бұрын
Great. Now, it's down to 240p.
@FlansyLinny14 жыл бұрын
lol u mad TED fans?
@Emptybottleofgin16 жыл бұрын
this shit is hilarious..how the hell can you guys not think this shit is great lol...
@lordtalon6916 жыл бұрын
heh its all good i knew you weren't being condescending. Thats why i said your message was more a explanation .. the rest of it was mostly for those that were hating on this heh.
@mandyogilvie6862 жыл бұрын
764 like
@marshallbrooksmusic11 жыл бұрын
I agree. Chronic obsession is annoying.
@briankerrigan35293 жыл бұрын
So why did Weezer never collab with these guys?
@emilioaladwhosintheinterne84213 жыл бұрын
They are way too good for Weezer.
@briankerrigan35293 жыл бұрын
@@emilioaladwhosintheinterne8421 better yes, way too good for, no way!
@reksub1016 жыл бұрын
they are a bit iver cutler
@theneighborhoodgang16 жыл бұрын
Good thing they're not nerd music!
@battleforkrabisland74052 жыл бұрын
Expect they are, this is some of nerdiest music you’ll ever hear.
@xactlee16 жыл бұрын
they should have just put on a playback of stairway to heaven, now thats good music.
@emilioaladwhosintheinterne84213 жыл бұрын
TMBG>>>>>>>>>Led Zeppelin.
@NickCronDeVico16 жыл бұрын
Hahaha. Hey. Sup, bro?
@petarded39 жыл бұрын
This is like groggy watered down live performance of mostly not their better material. Look up that Conan performance of Man Its So Loud in Here for more bearable TMBG-y performance
@arshsingh198416 жыл бұрын
what? no "Constantinople"?
@ZoeAlexa116 жыл бұрын
Deep Singh it’s called “Istanbul (not Constantinople)” and they don’t always do this, plus this wasn’t a legit concert, just four songs
@MisterAppleEsq6 жыл бұрын
+ZoLexa Five. But yeah.
@subgerocallidus16 жыл бұрын
WHy not Gambia? What wrong with Gambia? You got something wrong with Gambia?
@HKragh16 жыл бұрын
this was simply woo weired for me. Guess I'm kinda into mainstream pop...:P
@dvdtranslations16 жыл бұрын
I love TMBG. I've been a fan since Lincoln, but I really saddened by their latest releases. I feel they peaked at Mink Car, and then, I don't know, 9/11 turned these boys from NY sour.
@ThreadBomb4 жыл бұрын
Things picked up with Nanobots.
@rwired14 жыл бұрын
West Xylophone. Please!!!!........ Xinjiang (West China) might one day become an independent nation and is a much better substitute for the lack of nations beginning with X.
@thegeekaccountyoushouldign56796 жыл бұрын
Hi 7 year old comment, THAT never came true, good day.
@pepeotf4516 жыл бұрын
I just want to know...HOW MUCH...how much hard drugs i would need to smoke in order to simply listen to this music let alone enjoy.
@recordcollector06653 жыл бұрын
@Frankle's Funky Uncle! You said it
@xactlee16 жыл бұрын
this sounds like the decemberists gone really bad.
@LukeHennisch6 жыл бұрын
You serious? That’s funny! You couldn’t do anything better than them. How about you go and write a song and then come back.
@recordcollector06653 жыл бұрын
@@LukeHennisch O W N E D
@cartmant.699611 жыл бұрын
boring this clip
@recordcollector06653 жыл бұрын
Loser
@VidN00b16 жыл бұрын
throw away the accordion, change the lyrics then the song might sound like something
@LukeHennisch6 жыл бұрын
VidN00b how about you throw away the attitude idiot
@MorganMghee16 жыл бұрын
yeah....No.
@recordcollector06653 жыл бұрын
🖕
@dylanlawless114 жыл бұрын
Sometimes only the smartest group of people would find this "brilliant" when it's, well, shit. Reminds me of The Emperor's New Clothes. Maybe they want to sound crap ironically.
@LukeHennisch5 жыл бұрын
It is brilliant. And I don’t understand why people, if they don’t like the video then just don’t watch it.
@geocentricfe69084 жыл бұрын
I'm so sorry you don't understand genius when you hear it
@ajknee16 жыл бұрын
Wow, this is not TED material. They're really bad.
@LukeHennisch6 жыл бұрын
Andrew Knee aw I’m sorry for your lose bud
@corylamond62942 жыл бұрын
your opinion sucks dude.
@user-yr8mu1ce1m2 жыл бұрын
@@LukeHennisch yeah. they are great.
@PoochDoobie16 жыл бұрын
I agree, nerd music is pathetic..
@corylamond62942 жыл бұрын
@Frankle's Funky Uncle! TMBG is great.
@battleforkrabisland74052 жыл бұрын
@Frankle's Funky Uncle! there’s a reason why I’m still the nerdy lame kid who no-one takes seriously. it’s because I listen to The Rolling Stones and Oasis.