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They Might Be Giants Digest    Thursday, 21 September 1995    Volume 01 : Number 004


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From: apf@caess1.cae.aro.allied.com (Adam P. Fistler)
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 95 15:09:12 EDT
Subject: Getting in touch with the Johns

Does any one have a clue on getting in contanct with the jonhs?  I have an idea
for a Hotel Detective video game and I was just wonder (if and when) I decide to
go through with it if I could use some of thier music (and if possable them).

BTW- Im just testing this list out too.

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From: Matthew James <mjames@justice.loyola.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 19:20:51 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: pennies from heaven\

pennies, how about those pennies?  I love those pennies, they are wonderful.
(to the tune of Star Wars or something like that)
I think TMBG should make a song about that.  
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Matt James  mjames@love.loyola.edu, elrond@charm.net  Loyola College 
"I'm not the only dust my mother raised."--TMBG   <Lightning Seeds!>
"Look at the size of that thing!"--Wedge   "Hail to the king, baby"-Ash
Anything Box--U.S. synthpop claim to fame   Warsaw-Joy Division-New Order 
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From: "The Princess Bridesmaid" <CGURRY@agnes.scottlan.edu>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 15:01:06 EST
Subject: Re: pennies from heaven\

> pennies, how about those pennies?  I love those pennies, they are wonderful.
> (to the tune of Star Wars or something like that)
> I think TMBG should make a song about that.  

Why?  and why pennies? why not nickels or dimes?And I think it would go better to the tune of the "lifeforms" 
song from Star Trek: Generations.

Cathy
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"I am not the only dust my mother raised"
               They Might Be Giants

Catherine Gurry

catherine.gurry@Agnes.ScottLAN.edu
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From: mjames@sloth.loyola.edu (Matthew James)
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 17:22:02 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: pennies from heave

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> > pennies, how about those pennies?  I love those pennies, they are wonderful.
> > (to the tune of Star Wars or something like that)
> > I think TMBG should make a song about that.  
> 
> Why?  and why pennies? why not nickels or dimes?And I think it would go better to the tune of the "lifeforms" 
> song from Star Trek: Generations.
Well, the Johns are humble folx so I think pennies would do just fine 8-)
I don't knw too much about that Lifeforms song.  The only song I've
heard called Lifeforms is a song by The Future Sound of London.
- --Matt

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Matt James  mjames@love.loyola.edu, elrond@charm.net  Loyola College 
"I'm not the only dust my mother raised."--TMBG   <Lightning Seeds!>
"Look at the size of that thing!"--Wedge   "Hail to the king, baby"-Ash
Anything Box--U.S. synthpop claim to fame   Warsaw-Joy Division-New Order 
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From: "DUSTIN T. MILLER" <DUSTYTM@CEDAR.GOSHEN.EDU>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 11:15:17 -0500 (EST)
Subject: tmbg top 25

greetings to all denizens of the new tmbg list.

this has been done several times in the past on the old list, but here goes
anway...

i have a late-night radio show at my college (goshen college, goshen, indiana)
and i'd like to make the theme of one of my shows an "all-they" format.  i've
spread the word around campus to send me lists of their top 25 tmbg songs, but
i'm afraid that the response won't be adequate, so i've come here, thinking thatmost of you have at least 25 songs that you know and love.  so i implore you
now:  send me your lists!  send me anything!  b-sides?  i have them all.  hard
to find tracks?  i've got most of them.  "sensurround" from the MMPR soudtrack?
mine.  try me.  i'll post the results on the list once i have enough responses,
and i'm pretty darn sure i'll get responses from others here.

by the way (and this is important):  please send ALL responses to me via
PERSONAL E-MAIL!  let's not waste bandwidth with 50 or so lists... i got sorta
frustrated when others did that in the past and i'd rather not piss anyone off.

send your lists to:  dustytm@cedar.goshen.edu  before october 1, please.

oh, and thanks!

Dustin T. Miller
Sophomore music education major/english minor
Goshen College, Goshen, IN
dustytm@cedar.goshen.edu

"You can't write a chord that's ugly enough to say what you want to say
sometimes, so you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream."
						-Frank Zappa

"Only God and guys who play the flute can hit a 1-iron."
						-Jim Neff, to me

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From: "The Princess Bridesmaid" <CGURRY@agnes.scottlan.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 14:16:08 EST
Subject: Re: pennies from heave

> Well, the Johns are humble folx so I think pennies would do just fine 8-)
> I don't knw too much about that Lifeforms song.  The only song I've
> heard called Lifeforms is a song by The Future Sound of London.
> --Matt

Well, in the new Star Trek movie, Data gets his emotions chip, and 
has a lot of fun, and at one point when he's scanning lifeforms, he 
starts singing.
  It's highly amusing.

Cathy
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"I am not the only dust my mother raised"
               They Might Be Giants

Catherine Gurry

catherine.gurry@Agnes.ScottLAN.edu
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From: "DUSTIN T. MILLER" <DUSTYTM@CEDAR.GOSHEN.EDU>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 15:43:52 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re:  tmbg top 25

hey, it's me again.

whoops!  i forgot to mention that i'd like the list to be in order, 1 being
your absolute favorite and 25 being your... well, 25th favorite.  thanks to
brooks ann for sending hers in so soon... i'll keep it, but if you want to send
another in order that's fine with me too.

life, love, and linnell.

Dustin T Miller
Sophomore music education major/english minor
Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana
dustytm@cedar.goshen.edu

"You can't write a chord that's ugly enough to say what you want to say
sometimes so you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream."
						-Frank Zappa

"Only God and guys who play the flute can hit a 1-iron."
						-Jim Neff, to me

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From: kowalskim@alpha.montclair.edu
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 95 18:59:58 EDT
Subject: Re: pennies from heave

Does anyone have a copy of the TMBG Live in New York cd that they would be willing to sell?

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From: Anna Bednarski <abednars@indiana.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 16:55:26 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: They Might Be Giants Digest V1 #3

Ben or Been, while on some serious drugs, said,

>>>If a baby in the womb were incubated with the sounds of TMBG, how would
the baby turn out?
  Male or female?
  Rowdy or calm?
  Bearded or clean-shaven?
  Creative or psychotic?
  Etc.?

Perhaps you've heard the studies about how music affects the (alive)
unborn baby.  Classical music is thought to make a cryless baby, in poetic
terms.<<<

>>>Any pregnant ones fans of TMBG?

And, in continuation of my previous post, how would a baby be affected by
aural stimulation in the womb with the sounds of Linnell and Flansburgh?<<<


Hey, now, just remember, Ben -- usually a woman isn't showing much until at 
LEAST half of the pregnancy is overwith.  As for the TMBG-pregnancy 
thing, I fully intend to find out, wheneer my fiance and I agree to hae 
kids.  Wait five years, and I'll publish a paper like that one dude one 
the list did.

I bet a baby raised on TMBG would have big social problems, b/c it would 
be a lot more mature than other kids.  It would definitely be a 
coffee-drinker, even in its bottle (lots o' cream to start out with).  
Then again, I heard that the John Henry girl was a child of some friends 
of the Johns.  I wonder if *SHE* heard TMBG in the womb.  That's probably 
why she looks so pensive.  She's cool, though, and luckier than all of 
us, b/c *SHE'S* on one of TMBG's album covers.

Question of the day:

TMBG -- do you like the full band sound, or would you go back to their John, 
John, accordian, and Casio days?

Just wondering,

Anna(lytical)
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Anna Bednarski                          Internet: abednars@indiana.edu
Ashton-Mottier T216                     Bloomington, IN 47406 
 World Wide Web -- http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~abednars/home.html
************"Minimum WAGE --- HYAH!!!" (They Might Be Giants)**************



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From: GL04STU@SEMOVM.SEMO.EDU (Andrew Tinnin)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 19:05:42 -0500
Subject: Re: Question du Jour

In Re: They Might Be Giants Digest V1 #3 Anna Bednarski
<abednars@indiana.edu> asked:

>Question of the day:
>
>TMBG -- do you like the full band sound, or would you go back to their John,
>John, accordian, and Casio days?
>
>Just wondering,
>
>Anna(lytical)

I really like a lot of the full band music, but TMBG is at its best when
there's an accordian involved.
=================================================
         "Oh well, what're ya gonna do?"
				    -Drew Tinnin
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From: Burt Codispoti <bac9@axe.humboldt.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 17:27:13 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: pennies from heave

> Does anyone have a copy of the TMBG Live in New York cd that they would be willing to sell?

No. But, check out these businesses, they DO!

Contempt: 212-460-5555
Amoeba Music:  510-549-2340

Good Luck
Burt Codispoti
...do you sing like Olive Oyl on purpose? You guys must be into the 
Eurythmics...


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From: Neil <neilbert@neilbert.nai.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 22:59:38 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: They Might Be Giants Digest V1 #3

 
> Question of the day:
> 
> TMBG -- do you like the full band sound, or would you go back to their John, 
> John, accordian, and Casio days?

Answer Of the Day:

I dunno. I think of it almost two seperate entities. But, if I had to 
choose, I'd go with the new band. As evidence, I point to The End Of The 
Tour. There is no way that the Johns, by them selves, could have pulled 
that off and made it the song it was.


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From: ckerchn1@ic3.ithaca.edu
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 00:01:46 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: They Might Be Giants Digest V1 #3

full band?  just the johns?   what's it matter...it's ALL good:)

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From: "The Princess Bridesmaid" <CGURRY@agnes.scottlan.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 10:01:53 EST
Subject: Re: They Might Be Giants Digest V1 #3

> > Question of the day:
> > 
> > TMBG -- do you like the full band sound, or would you go back to their John, 
> > John, accordian, and Casio days?
> 
> Answer Of the Day:
> 
> I dunno. I think of it almost two seperate entities. But, if I had to 
> choose, I'd go with the new band. As evidence, I point to The End Of The 
> Tour. There is no way that the Johns, by them selves, could have pulled 
> that off and made it the song it was.
> 

I absolutely agree with you. End of The Tour is the most beautiful 
song the Johns have ever written, and it wouldn't have the richness 
of sound it does without the full band.
> 

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From: apf@caess1.cae.aro.allied.com (Adam P. Fistler)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 95 10:20:05 EDT
Subject: Re: They Might Be Giants Digest V1 #3

> > > Question of the day:
> > > 
> > > TMBG -- do you like the full band sound, or would you go back to their John, 
> > > John, accordian, and Casio days?
>
> I absolutely agree with you. End of The Tour is the most beautiful 
> song the Johns have ever written, and it wouldn't have the richness 
> of sound it does without the full band.
> > 
> 
I like the fuller band sound, but I wish they would do more of the old stuff and
use the accordian more than they did in JH.

But they could have pull off end of the tour.  They could have hired the old people
from the They'll need a craine video.


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From: the tick <rabidchild.paulswan@mail.utexas.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 09:43:33 -0500
Subject: Re: They Might Be Giants Digest V1 #3

At 10:20 AM 9/21/95 EDT, you wrote:
>> > > Question of the day:
>> > > 
>> > > TMBG -- do you like the full band sound, or would you go back to
their John, 
>> > > John, accordian, and Casio days?
>>
>> I absolutely agree with you. End of The Tour is the most beautiful 
>> song the Johns have ever written, and it wouldn't have the richness 
>> of sound it does without the full band.
>> > 
>> 
>I like the fuller band sound, but I wish they would do more of the old
stuff and
>use the accordian more than they did in JH.
>
>But they could have pull off end of the tour.  They could have hired the
old people
>from the They'll need a craine video.
>
Supposedly the next album is supposed to be more like the older stuff, but
still with the full band.  I think they could have pulled off the End of the
Tour, but they would not have been able to perform it live as well without
the full band.  

paul


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