Triangle Man

[MJ4H]

Triangle man hates person man.

They have a fight.

Triangle wins.

Triangle man.

[hukarez]

What about Universe Man?

[cthomer5000]

What about Universe Man?

Universe man, universe man
Size of the entire universe man
Usually kind to smaller man

He's go a watch with a minute hand, millenium hand, and eon hand
And when they meet it's HAPPY LAND!

[cthomer5000]

I know way................... too many TMBG lyrics off the top of my head.

Why is the world in love again?
Why are we marching hand in hand?
Why are the ocean levels rising up?

It's a brand new record for Nineteen-Ninety
They Might Be Giants brand new album....
Flood!

[Calis]

Grace us with some Istanbul lyrics.

[sachmo71]

Grace us with some Istanbul lyrics.

It's nobodies business but the Turks.




Everyone wants to wear prosthetic foreheads on their real head.

[cthomer5000]

this thread of course made me immediately fire up FLOOD on my MP3 player. Everyone should be forced to own Flood and Apollo 18.

[MJ4H]

Istanbul was Constantinople now it's Istanbul not Constantinople why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks.

haha that song cracks me up.

Birdhouse in your soul is like the best song on the planet though.

[cthomer5000]

Istanbul was Constantinople now it's Istanbul not Constantinople why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks.

haha that song cracks me up.

Birdhouse in your soul is like the best song on the planet though.
Istanbul is actually a cover as well - not a TMBG original. little known fact.


im your only friend
im not your only friend
but i'm a little glowing friend
but really i'm not actually your friend
but I am...


blue canary in the outlet by the light swich who watches over you
make a little birdhouse in your soul

not to put to fine a point on it
say i'm a the only bee in your bonnet
make a little birdhouse in your soul

[Calis]

Sadly the only They Might Be Giants stuff I'm familiar with is from the episode of Tiny Toons.

Man that was a great episode.

[SirFozzie]

She wants a shoehorn, the kind with teeth..
people should be beat up for stating their beliefs.

(hmm sounds like FOFC)

[Surtt]

Triangle man hates person man.

They have a fight.

Triangle wins.

Triangle man.

Thats the chirch, right?
The holy trinity.

[John Galt]

FOFC Trivia - which member has long had a TMBG lyric in his signature and what is that lyric?

[cthomer5000]

FOFC Trivia - which member has long had a TMBG lyric in his signature and what is that lyric?
Cam had one for a real long time. I'm spacing on the lyric at the moment though.

[KevinNU7]

MINIMUM WAGE!chiya!

[John Galt]

Cam had one for a real long time. I'm spacing on the lyric at the moment though.

You are correct, sir. Bonus points to whoever can name the lyric and song it is from.

[cthomer5000]

You are correct, sir. Bonus points to whoever can name the lyric and song it is from.
If I think hard enough I can probably come up with it. I know it's definitely Flood era or earlier.

[bigdawg2003]

are we talking about that one guy from Seinfeld?

[LloydLungs]

"Don't call me at work again,
No no, the boss still hates me
I'm just tired and I don't love you anymore
And there's a restaurant we should check out
Where the other nightmare people like to go
...I mean nice people
Baby wait,
I didn't mean to say nightmare."

Ahhhh, They'll Need a Crane. If I ever have a wedding, I'd like this song to be played in order to freak out everyone there. First I have to find a woman that will allow this.

[LloydLungs]

You are correct, sir. Bonus points to whoever can name the lyric and song it is from.

I don't want the world. I just want your half. --Ana Ng, from Lincoln

[cthomer5000]

Ana Ng and I are gettin' old and still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence

[John Galt]

I don't want the world. I just want your half. --Ana Ng, from Lincoln

We have winner. And it is a great line.

I saw TMBG live with the Trachtenberg Family Slide Show players here in NYC not too long ago. Weird, but fun show.

[CamEdwards]

TMBG and Fountains of Wayne are playing together in DC later this month (July 24th). Admission price: $5.

I'm so there.

[CamEdwards]

dola: TMBG new album comes out next week as well.

[John Galt]

Cam, when are you going to change your FOFC location from "Oklahoma City" to "NRA-land?"

[sachmo71]

I love They Might be Giants. Imagine my surprise when I found out there were only two guys in the band. Talent.

[cthomer5000]

dola: TMBG new album comes out next week as well.
I wasn't exactly wowed by the EP that came out a few months ago. I've frankly been really liking a smaller % of their songs as time has gone by.

They almost sound like an imitation of themselves at times.

Still, "Man, It's So Loud in Here" was a brilliant moment on the last album.

[Raven Hawk]

Not to put too fine a point on it,
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet,
Make a little birdhouse in your soul . . .

[QuikSand]

My favorite line from the much-hyped song is:

My story's infinite...
Like the Longines Symphonette..
...doesn't rest

Fabulous rhyming there.

[Raven Hawk]

Blue canary in the outlet by the lightswitch,
Who watches over you?
Make a little birdhouse in your soul.

Sorry, Quik made me do it.

[Sporkimata]

Kiss me....son of god!

[CamEdwards]

I wasn't exactly wowed by the EP that came out a few months ago. I've frankly been really liking a smaller % of their songs as time has gone by.

They almost sound like an imitation of themselves at times.

Still, "Man, It's So Loud in Here" was a brilliant moment on the last album.

I thought Mink Car was almost flawless. The ep's all right, but nothing special. Still looking forward to the new cd, however.

As to JohnGalt's question: probably the same time your location says "lawyerland". :)

[John Galt]

I thought Mink Car was almost flawless. The ep's all right, but nothing special. Still looking forward to the new cd, however.

As to JohnGalt's question: probably the same time your location says "lawyerland". :)

As someone who grew up in the NOVA/DC area and saw that damn NRA building all the time, I think it is fair to call it NRA-land. Lawyerland, on the other hand is all around you - we are all waiting for you conservatives to screw up, so we can sue you for everything you've got. ;)

[CamEdwards]

As someone who grew up in the NOVA/DC area and saw that damn NRA building all the time, I think it is fair to call it NRA-land. Lawyerland, on the other hand is all around you - we are all waiting for you conservatives to screw up, so we can sue you for everything you've got. ;)

funny. I've lived here for three months and the only time I've ever seen the building is when I've specifically gone there.

[John Galt]

funny. I've lived here for three months and the only time I've ever seen the building is when I've specifically gone there.

I guess you are in Springfield which is the 95 "spoke" into DC so you wouldn't see it as much. For someone who was on 66, the NRA building was the only visible building for a long stretch of road. It always scared me on my school bus rides.

[Ksyrup]

TMBG Indulges Kids With Books, Disney Deal


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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Revisiting the child-themed subject matter of 2002's "No!," They Might Be Giants are planning a few new projects aimed at youngsters. This winter, the group will release its first kids DVD through Disney Sound as well as more picture book/CD sets through Simon and Schuster.

Recently completed, the DVD is titled "Here Come the ABCs" and will be released on TMBG's own Idlewild label in tandem with Disney Sound. The project expands the concept of the animated vignettes that accompanied the music on the PC portion of "No!" (Idlewild/Rounder).

<!-- begin ad (this HTML generated by AdMarkerXSLTExtension) //--><!-- end generated ad //-->"It's super cool and it's got a ton of original new material on it and most of it's animated," the band's John Flansburgh recently told Billboard.com of the "ABCs" project. "This is even more [than 'No!'] -- this is full-on."

Following the conclusion of a tour in support of its latest Idlewild/Rounder "adult" album, "The Spine," TMBG will begin recording music for its second and third Simon and Schuster book/CD projects. Last year's first such project, "Bed, Bed, Bed," stemmed from a track on "No!" and featured the art of Marcel Dzama.

Although details of the new books are still sketchy, with titles and artists yet to be determined, it's likely the target will skew a bit older than night-time tale "Bed, Bed, Bed." They will be "darker and more Edwardian," the band says in a statement, maintaining that they remain children's projects, but "for older, more Edwardian kids."

After the release of "No!" -- which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Kid Audio chart and has sold 102,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan -- TMBG staged occasional family shows around its New York base and in select U.S. cities. Although the band would enjoy touring behind the new DVD and books, Flansburgh says logistics of a dedicated kids tour would be daunting.

"They're very hard to coordinate, because almost every single thing about doing family shows is sort of a strange deal," he explains. "You can only do them on weekends, you tend to have to let kids in for much less than adults and they have to be daytime shows. So, the second you say that it can only happen two days of the week instead of seven days of the week, it just is immeasurably harder to book.

"Ideally, if we could just do a regular rock tour and arrange a kid's tour within it, that would be a perfectly pleasant way to do it," he says. "But then we've got a semi full of [sound equipment] going out with us and you really don't need that to rock a 3-year-old!"

[JasonC23]

My wife was absolutely thrilled when she found out TMBG was doing music for kids. She was a huge fan back in the day. And now my son Jonathan will be, too.

I think that's a good thing, right?

(whispers) Fingertips...fingertips...

[TargetPractice6]

I've been listening to Flood all week... I also have Factory Showroom, but still need to get Apollo 18.