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Are there TMBG lyrics and/or archives of the mailing list available? What are the lyrics to the bridge section in "Letterbox"? Why did they leave out one line of "Road Movie to Berlin"? What is the backwards message in "Which Describes How You're Feeling"? What's the backwards message at the end of "Hide Away, Folk Family"? This document may be distributed electronically and otherwise if and only if the entire copyright notice and attributions are included. By=Artist&Content=they+ might+be+giants" Fourthly, read the FAQs (this file and others). Fifthly, it's free to join They Might Be Giants' Information Club (sent via snail mail). To receive newsletters, tour dates and mail-order catalog, write: Dept. Sixly, you can join the They Might Be Giants mailing list. The mailing list is for the discussion of the music and recordings of They Might Be Giants (the band and the cereal). The mailing list is distributed as both a "bounce" list, in which every message posted to the list gets sent out individually, and a "digest" list, in which a week's worth of messages are compiled into one large "digest" message. If you are concerned about the number of messages you receive, you may want to subscribe to the "digest" list rather than the "bounce" list. Once you have subscribed, you will be sent a welcome letter which includes instructions for submitting articles to the mailing list. If your site carries the Alternative Usenet news groups ("alt" groups) then you can read this newsgroup. Check with your local system administrator or consultant for details. What are TMBG doing now and when will the next record be released? The Malcolm in the Middle soundtrack, with three TMBG tracks has a current release date of 2/6/01. You can preview six of the songs from the album 75 here. They also plan to release their next regular album of songs for childish adults, Unreliable Narrator, soon thereafter. A single of 76 Working Undercover for the Man was released by emusic in May 2000; John Linnell's album, State Songs, was released by Zo Records on October 26, 1999. John Linnell said in an interview that choosing states as a subject gave him 50 guaranteed song titles. The Hello Recording Club has shut its doors, the last installment having been sent to subscribers in April of 1997. The correct number for Dial-A-Song is still 718-387-6962. Joshua Hall-Bachner adds: What if John and John were on the list, e-mailing us under a penname? Are there TMBG lyrics and/or archives of the mailing list available? They Might Be Giants is the name of a film starring George C. Scott, as a classic paranoiac who thinks he's Sherlock Holmes, and Joanne Woodward, as his psychiatrist Dr. Fred Wolf adds: The film you cite was previously a broadway play. Watson: God, you're just like Don Quixote, you think everything's always something else. Well, all the best minds used to think the world was flat. If we never looked at things and thought of what they might be, why, we'd all still be out there in the tall grass with the apes. John Linnell explains: "It's the name of a movie made in the early seventies. According to the book (which cited both Flans and Linnell), neither of the Johns had seen the movie in question, nor were they quite aware of who they were. They got the name from a ventriloquist act, a friend of theirs, who used that name. After an unsuccessful run at a talent show, the guy told them they could use the name if they wanted. The Johns were wavering between that and "Dumptruck", choosing tmbg immediately before their first club date -- and a good thing too since there was a Boston band of the same name making the rounds of the East Coast. The Long Long Trailer is a film starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. They take a trip towing their house trailer behind them. Nobody stops to save her (because Desi can't hear her, she's in the trailer). Ben Nicholson writes: Anyway, my girlfriend got all the letters, but she couldn't make out what it said. She then read me the sequence and I recognized it from my high school Spanish class. What are the missing lyrics to "Someone Keeps Moving My Chair"? What are the lyrics to the bridge section in "Letterbox"? Why did they leave out one line of "Road Movie to Berlin"? The missing lyrics to "Someone Keeps Moving My Chair" are as follows: Mr. Horrible / You have to try on these pants so the Ugliness Men / can decide if they're just as embarrassing as we think. Jimmymeister writes: I posted a question about the Letterbox bridge several months ago. Here's the compiled response I got: Too late or soon to make noise about love and there's no time for sorrow. Run around in the rain with a hole in the brain till tomo-rrooooow. Kirsten Brodbeck says: They cut the line in "Road Movie to Berlin" out because They thought it made the song too long. Ted Rathkopf writes: Paul: I didn't expect to find a salesman drinking coffee this late in the morning. Mike Levy adds: John Flansburgh has mentioned that the source of this recording is a motivational record that John Linnell gave him. From a recording of a live show where they performed this song, I have evidence that there is an edit. In the old days, before they might have been giants, people would leave messages after listening to a song. I guess she is just some random message that was left on John's answering machine. Once, the 94th precinct of the police called in to say how great they thought the guys were. And that's where the message in "I'll Sink Manhattan" comes from as well. John Flansburgh (They Might Be Giants) says: This is a very frequently asked question. Back when very few people called Dial-A-Song the phone machine that played the songs took messages. I came home one day and found the message tape full, instead of the ten or twenty messages it usually had. I rewound the tape and found that most of it was taken up by a woman who had called on a conference call with her friend, listened to the song and then proceeded to have a private conversation unaware that the Dial-A-Song machine was recording them. The recording on track thirteen is just an excerpt of the first couple of minutes of their conversation. It actually got much stranger, but it was unrelated to the band, and too freaky to put on a record. What is the backwards message in "Which Describes How You're Feeling"? What's the backwards message at the end of "Hide Away, Folk Family"? Andrew Weiskopf writes: In the song "Which Describes How You're Feeling," there is a passage which has been cleverly recorded backwards. It is as follows: THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS WANTED TO INCLUDE A VERSE ABOUT THE SUFFERING PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, BUT WE COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHERE TO PUT IT INTO THE SONG. Note: This message only appears on the DEMO version of "Which Describes How You're Feeling", which is available on Then: The Earlier Years and on some of the singles for The Statue Got Me High. About "Hide Away, Folk Family", thanks to Joshua John Buergel for this answer: The secret message is total gibberish. John and John just babbled into the mic while recording it backwards. And finally, about "Subliminal", the backwards section is just the drums and vocals from the ending of the song reversed. Whose face is in the video for "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head"? His face was also used for props at TMBG concerts, appears on the CD single of "Don't Let's Start", appears in the "Don't Let's Start" video, and otherwise can be found associated with TMBG. WHITE, William Allen, American writer and journalist: b. In 1895 he bought the Emporia Gazette, which he edited and published during the rest of his life; His essay, "Mary White," on the death of his daughter, aged 17, in 1921, in a riding accident is considered a classic. For his editorial, "To an Anxious Friend" (July 27, 1922) he received a 1923 Pulitzer Prize. His books include collected short stories and sketches, such as The Real Issue and Other Stories (1896), The Court of Boyville (1899), and In Our Town (1906); Mahin (1924) and Forty Years on Main Street, compiled by Russell H. His autobiography was published in 1946 and reissued in 1951. Consult Hinshaw, David, The Man from Kansas (New York ...
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