Tag Archives: john linnell

It’s Supernatural How Spaced Out We Can Be

Posted on December 31, 2021 by Nathan

They Might Be Giants, BOOK – This album was originally supposed to be finished in 2020, but since Coronavirus got in the way of just about everything, it was delayed until late this year. I really hadn’t had the time … Continue reading →

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Have Your Elf a Merry Little Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2021 by Nathan

We watched a few Christmas-related things this month, and I wasn’t necessarily planning to post about them all at once, but that’s kind of how it worked out. There were some things for which I don’t necessarily have a full … Continue reading →

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Nunquam Domum Relinquo

Posted on July 23, 2021 by Nathan

I’ve been listening to some relatively new music recently, so here are a few thoughts: Kim Boekbinder, Split the Light – This album is a collection of songs based on all the colors of the rainbow. It’s not a totally … Continue reading →

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Listening Backward

Posted on July 9, 2020 by Nathan

One thing I was reminded of in response to my recent post on Satanic panic was that there were some people who genuinely did do horrible things due to what they thought were messages from the Devil or some other … Continue reading →

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Turtlenecking with the Best

Posted on September 22, 2019 by Nathan

Before he and John Linnell started They Might Be Giants, John Flansburgh was in a band called the Turtlenecks (even though it seems to be Linnell who actually WORE turtlenecks more often), which he’s mentioned before as sort of a … Continue reading →

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Can Anybody Help Me Turn Off the Poisonousness?

Posted on April 28, 2019 by Nathan

They Might Be Giants, The Escape Team – This is a weird sort of project based on a series of characters that the band developed with artist David Cowles. I remember seeing a few of the videos back on the … Continue reading →

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I Don’t Need a Rationale to Sing the Internationale

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Nathan

They Might Be Giants, My Murdered Remains – Even though TMBG’s albums tend to have a lot of songs, there are also quite a few they record that don’t make the cut, many of which are still quite good or … Continue reading →

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My Murdered Remains Are Incapable of Learning Anything

Posted on January 27, 2018 by Nathan

They Might Be Giants, I Like Fun – There was a time when I would have been a lot more preoccupied by the release of a new TMBG album. I mean, it’s still exciting, but not the event it was … Continue reading →

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No Place in the Processional and No Seat in the Convention Hall

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Nathan

They Might Be Giants, Phone Power – TMBG have always been a prolific band, and not everything they do fits all that well onto their albums. Sometimes this doesn’t stop them from including these songs on the albums anyway, but … Continue reading →

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And Sometimes Why

Posted on November 30, 2015 by Nathan

They Might Be Giants, Why? – This is the band’s fifth children’s album, intended as a follow-up to their first of that sort, 2002’s No! The other three, produced by Disney, were topic-specific and intended primarily for young children. This … Continue reading →

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