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Author: They Might Be Giants
Sung by: John Flansburgh and John Linnell
Length: 0: 0
On Albums: Then: The Earlier Years, Selections From The 2-CD Retrospective

Contributors:
Jonathan Chaffer
John Wagner

This song is probably meaningless, as it is mostly composed of sound samples taken from Their answering machine (the same source as Track 13).

Here's one slightly odd interp:

I was thinking the other day, and on most airplanes the seats go D-E-F. Then I began to think about how that goes with the test pilot remarks in that song. So I started thinking some more, and I figured the song was maybe writen while one of them had all three seats to himself. Possibly with these seats he bagan lounging and started listening to his radio. He then starts thinking about his own band and how they have their own songs, and should be recorded. Ok, maybe I'm looking to far into it, but the DEF thing sure got me thinking.