Errors-To: owner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Reply-To: tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Sender: owner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Precedence: bulk From: owner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org To: tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Subject: tmbg-list Digest #29-26 tmbg-list Digest, Volume 29, Number 26 Friday, 26 May 2000 Today's Topics: TMBG: Chess Piece Face Re: TMBG: Flans' grammar error TMBG: Re:LTW PDF NOTES Re: TMBG: TMBG on NICK: Kablam Re: TMBG: Flans' grammar error Re: TMBG: Re: Re: My take on WUFTM, and the Factory Showroom outtakes Re: TMBG: Chess Piece Face TMBG: Who writes? TMBG: TMBG on Conan 2Nite. Re: TMBG: TMBG on Conan 2Nite. Re: TMBG: Re: My take on WUFTM TMBG: Re: Who writes? Re: TMBG: Chess Piece Face TMBG: Re: Re: My take on WUFTM Re: TMBG: TMBG on Conan 2Nite. 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Get your own free email account from http://www.wapsfm.com ------------------------------ Date: 25 May 2000 06:30:10 -0800 Message-ID: <-1252886287ggr@wlg.com> From: Bongo Subject: Re: TMBG: Flans' grammar error On Thursday, July 13, 1939, John Landis wrote: >Hey, did anyone else notice Flans' error in the last emusic >mailing? > >"for all those people out their without a CD burner" Its nice though to see him acknowledge that MP3s are somewhat impractical to many of us out hear. -B O N G O ------------------------------ Date: 25 May 2000 07:04:31 -0800 Message-ID: <-1252884227ggr@wlg.com> From: Bongo Subject: TMBG: Re:LTW PDF NOTES On Thursday, July 13, 1939, Bryce wrote: >All's not lost, though. The text by itself wouldn't take nearly as long to >reproduce by hand. If no one else beats me to it in the next couple of >months, I'll take a stab at this. If any of you happen to know what fonts they are using, I probably have them. It might be tough getting text to flow exactly like they have it but it can be done. By the time I ever finish this project, they'll probably have released a CD version with a professionally printed book. -B O N G O ------------------------------ Message-Id: Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 08:18:42 -0700 From: "Pzickler" Subject: Re: TMBG: TMBG on NICK: Kablam >> >It's not a cartoon, but it doesn't have the Johns in it, either. It's a >>live >> >action skit with a scientist, some kids, and an animated, dancing sun. >>It's >> >the rockin, STD version of WDTSS... >> >>Was this the STD version? I taped it and it sounded slightly different to >>me, especially the ending and the spoken sections. > >The "Live!! NYC" version, perhaps? Call me crazy, but this version doesn't sound live, unless it has been heavily edited (which is a possibility of course). The way it ends is kind of abrupt and studio-sounding. Maybe it's a hybrid of the STD version and a bit of studio filler done especially for the video. It still doesn't explain why this video is coming out right now. Will Sunshine be on the Children's album? That would be overkill, wouldn' t it? Also -- the song was used briefly on MitM, could it end up on that soundtrack? Inquiring minds want to know. (Either that or I've got way too much free time to think about stuff like this) PZ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20000525182940.40175.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Nathan Mulac DeHoff" Subject: Re: TMBG: Flans' grammar error Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 18:29:40 GMT John Landis: >Hey, did anyone else notice Flans' error in the last emusic mailing? > >"for all those people out their without a CD burner" Well, the subject line is "A note FORM John Flansburgh." Did anyone else notice the grammatical error in the Then liner notes? It says that certain sounds "were actually made by we humans." The nominative form "we" should not be used as an object of a preposition, but, since it's not a common error, my guess is that it was done on purpose, just to be silly. The errors in the Emusic mailing, however, were mostly likely just typos. -- Eat your broccoli, Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/fablesto/ ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20000525183921.16691.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Nathan Mulac DeHoff" Subject: Re: TMBG: Re: Re: My take on WUFTM, and the Factory Showroom outtakes Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 18:39:21 GMT Christina Rockwell: >On The Drag is ABOUT NYC also you know....but i guess your connection is >deeper than that...I dont. I see them as both power poppy tunes about new >york. :/ I guess there are some similarities, but I'd probably have to listen to both songs back-to-back to really catch them. On a similar note, I recently read a Factory Showroom era interview with Flansburgh, in which he stated that many recorded songs were left off the album because they sounded too similar to other songs that DID make the album. Perhaps the Johns also felt that "On The Drag" sounded too much like "New York City." I am wondering what the other outtakes sounded too much like, however. I guess "SenSurround" is sort of like a cross between "Till My Head Falls Off" and "Spiraling Shape," and "Older" sounds a little bit like "Exquisite Dead Guy" (and you really don't want to overload the album with short, novelty-esque songs, even if they ARE excellent), but what about, say, "Reprehensible"? My guess would be "S-E-X-X-Y," since they both have a lounge atmosphere to them, but they really don't sound all that similar. (Perhaps I'm just bitter that a song as great as "Reprehensible" was confined to Long Tall Weekend, though.) And what about "Certain People I Could Name"? Factory Showroom isn't exactly heavy on piano-based tracks. > > >ON THE DRAG: This one is really rockin'. It reminds me of "New York > > > City," only this is an original, and it's better. > > > > I noticed the NYC connection, also. I'm not sure what it is, but >the > > song just reminds me of New York City. Very cool song - I especially >like > > the intro. -- Eat your broccoli, Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/fablesto/ ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20000525184934.81344.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Nathan Mulac DeHoff" Subject: Re: TMBG: Chess Piece Face Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 18:49:34 GMT Steve: >Also in "Rabid Child" Chess Piece Face was mentioned >as one of the CB handles. (The Big Diluth being the other) Read the original post, people! He said "after the first album." "Chess Piece Face" and "Rabid Child" are ON the first album, so they don't count. Got it? -- Eat your broccoli, Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/fablesto/ ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20000525214559.17394.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Ian The Bold" Subject: TMBG: Who writes? Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 17:45:59 EDT Is there a list or a legend anywhere as to which John has written what songs? It intrigues me to know. My dad thinks he has it figured out, but that's BS. Do they do what Lennon and McCartney did, where whoever wrote it sung it? Bored, Ian ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 22:54:29 -0400 Subject: TMBG: TMBG on Conan 2Nite. From: "Robert L. Grabill II" Message-ID: Just a reminder, they'll be performing Boss of me tonight on the eve of the end of Andy. -Rob ------------------------------ From: GhostKrabb@webtv.net (Dexter Flansburgh) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 20:04:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: TMBG: TMBG on Conan 2Nite. Message-ID: <29203-392DE9CA-1087@storefull-243.iap.bryant.webtv.net> Whoa, whoa, whoa! Wait a minute. TMBG is on tonight? As in, Thursday? Shit! I thought it was tomorrow. On Andy's final episode. I better go set my VCR. Dexter Flansburgh http://community.webtv.net/GhostKrabb http://www.hello.to/Bootlegs (my tape trade page) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 23:22:51 -0400 From: "Jose" Message-ID: <8gkqg5$2p1q$1@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Organization: They Might Be Giants, Unofficially http://www.tmbg.org Subject: Re: TMBG: Re: My take on WUFTM >There was a version on the online Dial-A-Song, but I don't know if it was >earlier. It might have been, but They didn't put it up there until after >They had been playing the complete version in concert for some time. > Thanks. >>I really like the last verse (haven't heard a chess reference in TMBG since >>their first album, although I could have missed one). > >Well, there's "Chess Piece Face's patience must be wearing thin" in "Hey, >Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had A Deal." > Ahhh... I figured I would miss one. "Chess Piece Face's patience must be wearing thin." And from one of my favorite songs too ... >> >EMPTY BOTTLE COLLECTOR: A cool jazz piece. Is it Jim O'Connor and Dan >> > Levine on trumpet and trombone? >> >> The album low point (for me). Not bad music, but Drinking (and most >>of >>their MITM scores) seem more catchy to me. > >Does every instrumental They do have to top the last one? >-- Nope, but it'd be nice. I still liked the instrumental - I just really enjoyed the rest of the CD. I've got no problems with a new opening number. ;-) >Eat your broccoli, I always do! Pax, - Jose ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20000526032230.21074.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Christina Rockwell" Subject: TMBG: Re: Who writes? Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 23:23:01 -0400 there is something on tmbg.org about it. > Is there a list or a legend anywhere as to which John has written what > songs? It intrigues me to know. My dad thinks he has it figured out, but > that's BS. Do they do what Lennon and McCartney did, where whoever wrote it > sung it? > > Bored, > Ian > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 23:27:40 -0400 From: "Jose" Message-ID: <8gkqp6$2p9u$1@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Organization: They Might Be Giants, Unofficially http://www.tmbg.org Subject: Re: TMBG: Chess Piece Face >Steve: >>Also in "Rabid Child" Chess Piece Face was mentioned >>as one of the CB handles. (The Big Diluth being the other) > That it is. If I had a CB handle, it would be Chess Piece Face. Or maybe "Chocolatey Shatner". :) >Read the original post, people! He said "after the first album." "Chess >Piece Face" and "Rabid Child" are ON the first album, so they don't count. Yup. Nathan gets a silver dollar. Pax, - Jose ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 23:33:15 -0400 From: "Jose" Message-ID: <8gkr3l$2pib$1@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Organization: They Might Be Giants, Unofficially http://www.tmbg.org Subject: TMBG: Re: Re: My take on WUFTM >On The Drag is ABOUT NYC also you know....but i guess your connection is >deeper than that...I dont. I see them as both power poppy tunes about new >york. :/ >Chrissy I was actually unaware of the actual lyrical connection. I haven't listened to the lyrics in detail yet. I don't think my connection is really all that deep - probably just the way the song is sung. Perhaps because both are Flansburgh songs that start semi-soft and get powerful. Pax, - Jose ------------------------------ From: LimeZinger@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 23:30:23 EDT Subject: Re: TMBG: TMBG on Conan 2Nite. In a message dated 5/25/00 10:05:30 PM, GhostKrabb@webtv.net writes: >Whoa, whoa, whoa! Wait a minute. TMBG is on tonight? As in, Thursday? >Shit! I thought it was tomorrow. On Andy's final episode. I better go >set my VCR. yup. they changed it to tonight. tmbg and scott thompson.... WOO HOO! sarah ------------------------------ End of tmbg-list Digest #29-26 ******************************