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 #32-19 tmbg-list Digest, Volume 32, Number 19 Saturday, 19 August 2000 Today's Topics: semi-TMBG: I Think They're Really Cool TMBG: The Reference Game! (wuz: th' good ol' days) TMBG: Problems @ TMBG.com TMBG: Problems @ TMBG.com TMBG: TMBG.com protest :D! TMBG: Re: Problems @ TMBG.com Re: TMBG: Re: NO! Preview TMBG: They Might Be Taco? Re: TMBG: Re: Problems @ TMBG.com TMBG: Dinner is served! TMBG: Re: They Might Be Taco? Re: Re[2]: TMBG: The good old days... TMBG: Re: Re: They Might Be Taco? Re: TMBG: Re: They Might Be Taco? Re: Re[2]: Re[2]: TMBG: The good old days... TMBG: What tha??? Re:TMBG: What tha??? Re: TMBG: What tha??? Re: TMBG: What tha??? Re: TMBG: They Might Be Taco? TMBG: Re: Giants on rage Administrivia: If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing send mail to tmbg-digest-request@tmbg.org for instructions on how to be automatically removed. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The views expressed herein are those of the individual authors. --------------------------------------------------------------------- tmbg-list is digested with Digest 3.5b (John Relph ). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <385843548.966580664243.JavaMail.root@web312-mc.mail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 02:37:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Sier Subject: semi-TMBG: I Think They're Really Cool Apologeticals to Messrs. F & L, but inspiration struck. To th' tune(lessness?) of "Edith Head": [open with a piano, repeating the same note several times, then:] Years ago, I first heard of Them Though I didn't know it then "The Statue Got Me High" was on the radio [chorus] I think They're really cool But you might think They're not Though I don't really care, I'm sorry that you don't I think They're really cool Or nifty, neat, or hip Or some other positive slang word You might not have even heard ["Twist"-able guitar solo follows, then:] Much later, I saw a cool CD With a whale and giant squid It was used and really cheap So I checked the names of the songs You all know what I fou-nd there Yep, "The Statue Got Me High" I paid for it And I took it home And a Gianthead was born [chorus] [repeat last two lines 3 or 4 times] [guitar/piano mix to a climax, and silence, followed by musical anarchy] [screamed] I THINK THEY'RE REALLY COOL! I THINK THEY'RE REALLY COOL, YEAH! I THINK THEY'RE REALLY COOL----!! [brief pause, then, spoken:] One more! One more! Ok! [screamed:] I lost my pen!! [repeat anarchy part & revised chorus, end] Based on the true story of how I came to see the light of the Twin Quasars. Lyrical and musical synchronizations done by memory, so it's probably wrong in a couple of places... gomen... 'Gomen', BTW, means 'sorry'. In Japanese. I think. AB Going back to bed and swiping signature formats since, um, 1:36. -- "All my friends patronize me They say 'Hey, boy! Have you found what you're looking for?' It seems they don't really know me, 'cause it's here, it's what they can't see" -- Shannon Hoon, "Tones of Home" ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup ------------------------------ Message-ID: <380275602.966581523259.JavaMail.root@web538-mc.mail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 02:52:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Alexander Beetle Subject: TMBG: The Reference Game! (wuz: th' good ol' days) Uh, somebody: > > The day Marvin Gaye and Phil Uchs get divorced. Lydia: > ...The day you turn around and the skull just isn't there...? The day the conductor laughs at your head-waving antics? Okay, NOW I'll go to bed. -- "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen all at once." - Buckaroo Banzai ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup ------------------------------ From: csxt4290@wapsmail.com Message-Id: Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 07:26:11 -0500 (CDT) Subject: TMBG: Problems @ TMBG.com I have yet to see the new page, my Flash error is still there, or whatever that is. Steve. * ------------------------------ I GOT MY '69 DODGE CHARGER!!!! THANKS TO ALL WHO HELPED!!!! **--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--** Steve McMullen Akron,Ohio AOL IM: "CSX 4290" My Website: http://www.angelfire.com/oh3/csx4290 <---<< ************************************************************ $$$$$$$$ I AM PAID TO SURF THE NET!! ARE YOU???? $$$$$$$$ +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Is That Your Final Answer???? | +----------------------------------------------------------+ It's Time to Take Advantage of the Internet. Get PAID! Join AllAdvantage.com at: http://alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=LGZ-102 ********************************************************** - Get Family Friendly Free Email at www.wapsfm.com ------------------------------ From: csxt4290@wapsmail.com Message-Id: Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 07:26:28 -0500 (CDT) Subject: TMBG: Problems @ TMBG.com I have yet to see the new page, my Flash error is still there, or whatever that is. LOCKS UP EVERYTHING!! Steve. * ------------------------------ I GOT MY '69 DODGE CHARGER!!!! THANKS TO ALL WHO HELPED!!!! **--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--** Steve McMullen Akron,Ohio AOL IM: "CSX 4290" My Website: http://www.angelfire.com/oh3/csx4290 <---<< ************************************************************ $$$$$$$$ I AM PAID TO SURF THE NET!! ARE YOU???? $$$$$$$$ +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Is That Your Final Answer???? | +----------------------------------------------------------+ It's Time to Take Advantage of the Internet. Get PAID! Join AllAdvantage.com at: http://alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=LGZ-102 ********************************************************** - Get Family Friendly Free Email at www.wapsfm.com ------------------------------ From: "Chrissy Rockwell" Subject: TMBG: TMBG.com protest :D! Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 08:51:46 -0400 Message-ID: I would an email drive to the chopping block (the people who designed TMBG.com) about having an html only version of the site.. Flash only eliminates many fans from seeing the site..plus Flash is just plain annoying.. If you would like to join in this.. email darleen@choppingblock.com with your request. (their site is FLASH heavy as well :/) Maybe if Dot is reading this...you can take notice and pass along that this Flash only thing isn't a cute idea. :D Chrissy > I have yet to see the new page, my Flash error > is still there, or whatever that is. > > Steve. > ------------------------------ > I GOT MY '69 DODGE CHARGER!!!! > THANKS TO ALL WHO HELPED!!!! > **--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--** > Steve McMullen > Akron,Ohio > AOL IM: "CSX 4290" > My Website: http://www.angelfire.com/oh3/csx4290 <---<< > ************************************************************ > $$$$$$$$ I AM PAID TO SURF THE NET!! ARE YOU???? $$$$$$$$ > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > | Is That Your Final Answer???? | > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > It's Time to Take Advantage of the Internet. > Get PAID! Join AllAdvantage.com at: > http://alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=LGZ-102 > ********************************************************** > - > > Get Family Friendly Free Email at www.wapsfm.com > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:27:25 -0400 From: Adrienne Spruill Message-ID: <399D39BD.4F6E30F3@epix.net> Organization: Student Subject: TMBG: Re: Problems @ TMBG.com Yeah, me too. csxt4290@wapsmail.com wrote: > > I have yet to see the new page, my Flash error > is still there, or whatever that is. > > Steve. > ------------------------------ > I GOT MY '69 DODGE CHARGER!!!! > THANKS TO ALL WHO HELPED!!!! > **--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--** > Steve McMullen > Akron,Ohio > AOL IM: "CSX 4290" > My Website: http://www.angelfire.com/oh3/csx4290 <---<< > ************************************************************ > $$$$$$$$ I AM PAID TO SURF THE NET!! ARE YOU???? $$$$$$$$ > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > | Is That Your Final Answer???? | > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > It's Time to Take Advantage of the Internet. > Get PAID! Join AllAdvantage.com at: > http://alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=LGZ-102 > ********************************************************** > - > > Get Family Friendly Free Email at www.wapsfm.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:26:47 -0400 From: Adrienne Spruill Message-ID: <399D3997.5AACB018@epix.net> Organization: Student Subject: Re: TMBG: Re: NO! Preview That's fine. I'm saying, by the time I ckecked my mail, it was more than 4 hours after you posted it. Matt Brown wrote: > > I remember sending all them within 5 mintues of each other. > > --Matt > > >From: Adrienne Spruill > >Reply-To: Adrienne Spruill > >To: tmbg-list@tmbg.org > >Subject: TMBG: Re: NO! Preview > >Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 22:13:08 -0400 > > > >Yeah but "now" is like, 4 and a half hours after you posted your > >message. (Does that make sense to anyone?) > >-acs > > > >Matt Brown wrote: > > > > > > Quick, quick drop everything you're doing and goto TMBG.COM and click on > > > album preview. There aer shockwave games and song previews. NOW! > > > > > > --Matt > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ From: "Amy Greenlese" Subject: TMBG: They Might Be Taco? Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:16:08 EDT Message-ID: Here's a new one: I was perusing Napster yesterday, and as usual did a search for TMBG. (Not that I don't already have anything I could get from Napster on CD, tape, mp3, etc, I just like to see what's there) So I see Puttin' On the Ritz in the list, and I think cool, They covered that song live once, I'll download it and see how it sounds. Well, it was the original 80's version by Taco, so naturally I was a little disappointed, but I started thinking about how someone could mistake the two bands for each other? I really don't see the similarities in their sounds, but I guess to the untrained ear anything is possible. **************************************************** Amy :) mondegreen@tmbg.org ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <399D60F8.D16E1E97@stompbox.dhs.org> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:14:48 -0700 From: Matthew Krolak Subject: Re: TMBG: Re: Problems @ TMBG.com Really, The movies on the web site JUST started working today for me... maybe it's some weird sort of conservation of web video or something strange like that. Adrienne Spruill wrote: > > Yeah, me too. > > csxt4290@wapsmail.com wrote: > > > > I have yet to see the new page, my Flash error > > is still there, or whatever that is. > > > > Steve. > > ------------------------------ > > I GOT MY '69 DODGE CHARGER!!!! > > THANKS TO ALL WHO HELPED!!!! > > **--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--**--** > > Steve McMullen > > Akron,Ohio > > AOL IM: "CSX 4290" > > My Website: http://www.angelfire.com/oh3/csx4290 <---<< > > ************************************************************ > > $$$$$$$$ I AM PAID TO SURF THE NET!! ARE YOU???? $$$$$$$$ > > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > > | Is That Your Final Answer???? | > > +----------------------------------------------------------+ > > It's Time to Take Advantage of the Internet. > > Get PAID! Join AllAdvantage.com at: > > http://alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=LGZ-102 > > ********************************************************** > > - > > > > Get Family Friendly Free Email at www.wapsfm.com -- I Bet You're Flying Inside -------------------------- Matthew Krolak Geek Code block: http://stompbox.dhs.org/~notplaid/gcb.txt http://stompbox.dhs.org Goddamn right - its a beautiful day, uh-hu. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 08:40:55 -0400 Subject: TMBG: Dinner is served! Message-ID: <20000818.093518.-152519.1.scitamb.2@juno.com> From: Skye A Sciolto OK, you've converted me... now my current favorite replays are Dinner Bell and I Hope I Get Old Before I Die. Dinner Bell is one of the most pleasurable songs I've heard in a long time(I felt the same way about BFF's Don't Change Your Plans). Yippee! More Eels fans! I wear a raincoat with four sleeves myself.... 'Some people have aspirations in life, and others just aspirate' ttml ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 17:36:07 +0200 From: "Lior Gallimidi" Message-ID: <8njhlo$169a$1@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Organization: They Might Be Giants, Unofficially http://www.tmbg.org Subject: TMBG: Re: They Might Be Taco? It sounds a little like Istanbul. Amy Greenlese wrote > Here's a new one: I was perusing Napster yesterday, and as usual did a > search for TMBG. (Not that I don't already have anything I could get from > Napster on CD, tape, mp3, etc, I just like to see what's there) So I see > Puttin' On the Ritz in the list, and I think cool, They covered that song > live once, I'll download it and see how it sounds. Well, it was the > original 80's version by Taco, so naturally I was a little disappointed, but > I started thinking about how someone could mistake the two bands for each > other? I really don't see the similarities in their sounds, but I guess to > the untrained ear anything is possible. > -- ~Lior http://go.to/galga -------- "man, it's so messed up. The streets are filled with people fighting, and they're all on fire." ------------------------------ From: "Nathan Mulac DeHoff" Subject: Re: Re[2]: TMBG: The good old days... Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:02:37 GMT Message-ID: Bongo: > I suppose it depends on what your definition of wacky is. It bugs me >when I here any of the following words used to describe TMBG: > >wacky >goofy >zany >novelty >comedy >comedic ...and many others. > > In fact the Johns themselves said that they don't like to have their >music described as "quirky". I don't think quirky is that bad. At least it >doesn't imply they are musical stand up comedians. I don't really think the words "wacky" and "zany" do, either, although I suppose everyone has their own connotations. I did read an interview with Flansburgh once where he admitted that the band WAS technically quirky, but that he was tired of the adjective being applied to Them. > Its seems that there's a lot of people, even fans, who can't make a >distinction between TMBG and Weird Al or Tiny Tim or the guy who did >"Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" for example. But Weird Al supplied the title for this thread! Or was whoever named this unaware that Al wrote a song called "Good Old Days"? -- Eat your broccoli, Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/fablesto/ And I'd spend all day long in the basement torturing rats with a hacksaw and pulling the wings off of flies. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ From: "Chrissy Rockwell" Subject: TMBG: Re: Re: They Might Be Taco? Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:10:16 -0400 Message-ID: Also, TMBG is dismissed by all too many people as novelty...so songs like FishHeads, Putting on the Ritz etc... get labled TMBG :/ It is sad Chrissy > It sounds a little like Istanbul. > > Amy Greenlese wrote > > Here's a new one: I was perusing Napster yesterday, and as usual did a > > search for TMBG. (Not that I don't already have anything I could get from > > Napster on CD, tape, mp3, etc, I just like to see what's there) So I see > > Puttin' On the Ritz in the list, and I think cool, They covered that song > > live once, I'll download it and see how it sounds. Well, it was the > > original 80's version by Taco, so naturally I was a little disappointed, > but > > I started thinking about how someone could mistake the two bands for each > > other? I really don't see the similarities in their sounds, but I guess > to > > the untrained ear anything is possible. > > > > > -- > ~Lior > http://go.to/galga > -------- > "man, it's so messed up. The streets are filled with people fighting, and > they're all on fire." > > > > > > ------------------------------ From: LimeZinger@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:37:43 EDT Subject: Re: TMBG: Re: They Might Be Taco? > Here's a new one: I was perusing Napster yesterday, and as usual did a > search for TMBG. (Not that I don't already have anything I could get from > Napster on CD, tape, mp3, etc, I just like to see what's there) So I see > Puttin' On the Ritz in the list, and I think cool, They covered that song > live once, I'll download it and see how it sounds. Well, it was the > original 80's version by Taco, so naturally I was a little disappointed, but > I started thinking about how someone could mistake the two bands for each > other? I really don't see the similarities in their sounds, but I guess to > the untrained ear anything is possible. > that happens a lot on napster. i found something that was labeled sloan, but was actually by a band called pluto. there's even a king missile song floating around labeled kids in the hall. :P sarah http://brazen.org/starcookie "i could *fuck* this icebox i love it so much" - jude law, talented mr. ripley ------------------------------ Date: 18 Aug 2000 09:00:26 -0800 Message-ID: <-1245533272ggr@wlg.com> From: Bongo Subject: Re: Re[2]: Re[2]: TMBG: The good old days... karinh@sterl.com wrote: >Okay, point taken. Except for "quirky". Even if They don't like the word, >they're still quirky. Just meaning going off on tangents that most people >don't, doing things their own way. How about "whimsical"? "Whimsical", I can live with that. -B O N G O ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 12:21:26 -0400 From: Adrienne Spruill Message-ID: <399D6286.6417CCED@epix.net> Organization: Student Subject: TMBG: What tha??? I have a question for everyone... When you send a message to the group, do you get a mailer-deamon message in your mailbox? See, every time I send a message to the group I get a mailer-deamon message in my personal mailbox saying "Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: Robert Mootrey (Mailbox or Conference is full.)" What's up with this? -acs ------------------------------ From: karinh@sterl.com Message-Id: <0008189666.AA966615261@smtplink.sterl.com> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 12:14:18 -0400 Subject: Re:TMBG: What tha??? Yeah, just recently. My guess is, we have a lurker named Robert Mootrey who doesn't check his mail.... But then, he wouldn't know what anyone's saying, would he?? VerRry mysterious..... Karin H ** FREE THE EXPO 67 ** ____________________Reply Separator____________________ Subject: TMBG: What tha??? Author: Adrienne Spruill Date: 8/18/00 12:21 PM I have a question for everyone... When you send a message to the group, do you get a mailer-deamon message in your mailbox? See, every time I send a message to the group I get a mailer-deamon message in my personal mailbox saying "Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: Robert Mootrey (Mailbox or Conference is full.)" What's up with this? -acs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 14:55:48 -0400 From: Adrienne Spruill Message-ID: <399D86B4.F9CD6CE7@epix.net> Organization: Student Subject: Re: TMBG: What tha??? So, is there any way we can make it stop? It's annoying. karinh@sterl.com wrote: > > Yeah, just recently. My guess is, we have a lurker named Robert Mootrey who > doesn't check his mail.... But then, he wouldn't know what anyone's saying, > would he?? VerRry mysterious..... > Karin H > ** FREE THE EXPO 67 ** > > ____________________Reply Separator____________________ > Subject: TMBG: What tha??? > Author: Adrienne Spruill > Date: 8/18/00 12:21 PM > > I have a question for everyone... > When you send a message to the group, do you get a mailer-deamon message > in your mailbox? See, every time I send a message to the group I get a > mailer-deamon message in my personal mailbox saying > > "Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to: > > Robert Mootrey (Mailbox or Conference is full.)" > > What's up with this? > -acs ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 17:15:38 -0400 From: "Bryce" Message-ID: <8nk99p$1j9o$1@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Organization: They Might Be Giants, Unofficially http://www.tmbg.org Subject: Re: TMBG: What tha??? Adrienne: > So, is there any way we can make [the auto-replies] stop? Probably. What's his email address? Oh wait, never mind, I'll soon have it as a result of sending this message. Anyway, if it goes on for long enough we can complain to and they'll probably boot him. Bryce ------------------------------ From: DrSaxx@aol.com Message-ID: <11.81f5d37.26cf5a7b@aol.com> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 23:35:23 EDT Subject: Re: TMBG: They Might Be Taco? I found Puttin On the Ritz also.......Come on Eileen came up as TMBG aslo.......weird ------------------------------ From: "*SUPER SPANGER*" Subject: TMBG: Re: Giants on rage Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 14:04:21 EST Message-ID: For all Aussies... The Giants are going to be on Rage tonight...{19/08/00} The clip is "Dont lets start". Hope you all get to see it. Sam ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of tmbg-list Digest #32-19 ******************************