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From the Single
Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
From the Album
1. Theme From Flood
2. Birdhouse In Your Soul
3. Lucky Ball & Chain
4. Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
5. Dead
6. Your Racist Friend
7. Particle Man
8. Twisting
9. We Want A Rock
10. Someone Keeps Moving My Chair
11. Hearing Aid
12. Minimum Wage
13. Letterbox
14. Whistling In The Dark
15. Hot Cha
16. Women & Men
17. Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love
18. They Might Be Giants
19. Road Movie To Berlin
Other Songs 2082 25 OClock 32 Footsteps 85 Radio Special Thank You 9 Secret Steps "A Concrete Shrine" A Self Called Nowhere Aaa About Me Absolutely Bills Mood AKA Driver Albany Alienations For The Rich All Alone All MacGyver On It All The Lazy Boyfriends All Time What Alphabet Lost And Found Alphabet Of Nations Am I Awake? An Insult To The Fact Checkers "An Oasis Of Hooch" Ana Ng Anaheim And Mom And Kid "And So" Another First Kiss Answer Ant Apartment Four Apophenia Asbury Park Asheville Atlanta Au Contraire Austin Ballad of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space) Banana Slugs Bangs Baroque Hoedown Bastard Wants To Hit Me Battle For The Planet Of The Apes Become A Robot Bed Bed Bed Bee Of The Bird Of The Moth Beneath The Planet Of The Apes Birds Fly Black Ops Boat Of Car Boss Of Me Boss of Me (Theme From Malcom in the Middle) Brain Problem Situation Brainwashin Our Fighting Boys Bread Hair Broke In Two Brooklyn By the Time You Get This C Is For Conifers Cabbagetown Cage and Aquarium Cage & Aquarium Call You Mom Can You Find It? Canajoharie Cant Keep Johnny Down Careful What You Pack Careless Santa Cast Your Pod to the Wind Celebration Cells Certain People I Could Name Charleston Charlottesville Chess Piece Face Christmas Cards Circular Karate Chop Clap Your Hands Climbing The Walls Cloisonne Clowntown College Town Columbia Computer Assisted Design Concrete And Clay Confusing The Mind Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes Contrecoup Counterfeit Fake Counterfeit Faker Courage The Cowardly Dog Courage the Cowardly Dog Theme Cowtown Critic Intro Cupid Cyclops Rock Cyclops Rocks D and W D Is For Drums D & W Dallas Damn Good Times Dark And Metric Daylight Decision Makers Definition Of Good Destination Moon Destroy The Past Didnt Kill Me Dig My Grave Dinner Bell Dirt Bike Disappointing Show Diving Board Doctor Worm Dog On Fire Dog Walker Dollar For Dollar Dont Know Why It Takes That Long Dont Lets Start Doris Cunningham Down To The Bottom Of The Sea Dr. Evil Drink! Drinking E Eats Everything ECNALUBMA Eight Hundred And Thirteen Mile Car Trip Electric Car Elephants Employee of the Month Empty Bottle Blues End Of The Rope Erase Escape From The Planet Of The Apes Even Numbers Everything Right Is Wrong Again Existential blues Experimental Film Exquisite Dead Guy Extra Savoir-Faire Fake Out In Buenos Aires Fake-Believe Fake-Believe (Type B) Farmingdale Feast of Lights Feign Amnesia Fibber Island Figure Eight Fingertips Finished With Lies First Kiss Flying V For Science Four Of Two Glasgow Go For G! Good To Be Alive Goodbye From The Deranged Millionaire Goodnight My Friends Got Getting Up So Down Greasy Kid Stuff Great Greek Greek #3 Greek #3 [Bonus Track] Greeting From The Deranged Millionaire Hall Of Heads Hate The Villanelle Haunted Floating Eye Heart Of The Band Hell Hotel Hello Mrs. Wheelyke Hello Radio Here Come The 123s Here Come The ABCs Here Comes Science Here In Higglytown Here in Higglytown (Theme to Playhouse Disney's Higglytown Heroes) Hey Mr. DJ I Thought You Said We Had A Deal Hi Honey Im Home Hide Away Folk Family High Five! Hive Mind Hiya Hopeless Bleak Despair Hot Dog! House Of Mayors Houston Hovering Sombrero How Can I Sing Like A Girl? How Many Planets? How Much Cake Can You Eat Hypnotist Of Ladies I Am A Grocery Bag I Am A Human Head I Am A Paleontologist I Am Alone I Am Invisible I Am Not Your Broom I Blame You I Broke My Own Rule I C U I Can Add I Can Hear You I Can Help The Next In Line I Cant Hide From My Mind I Enjoy Being A Boy I Find It Hard To Believe I Havent Seen You In Forever I Hear a New World I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die I Just Want To Dance I Left My Body I Like Fun I Lost Thursday I Love You For Psychological Reasons I Made A Mess I Might Be Giants Too I Need Some Lovin I Palindrome I I Should Be Allowed To Think I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar I Wasnt Listening Icky If I Wasnt Shy Ill Sink Manhattan Im A Coward Im All You Can Think About Im Def Im Gettin Sentimental Over You I'm Getting Sentimental over You I'm Getting Sentimental over You [Adaptation; Bonus Track; Version] Im Impressed Im Sick I'm Your Boyfriend Now [Bonus Track] Impossible Impossibly New In Fact In The Middle In The Middle In The Middle Infinity Insect Hospital Introducing Z Y X Istanbul Its Kickin In Its Not My Birthday Ive Got A Fang Ive Got A Match James K. Polk John Lee Supertaster Judy Is Your Viet Nam Kendra McCormick Kiss Me Son Of God Kitten Intro L M N O La Dolce Lady Is A Tramp Lake Monsters Last Wave Lazyhead And Sleepybones Leeds Let Me Tell You About My Operation Let Your Hair Hang Down Let's Get This Over With Letter / Not A Letter Letter / Not A Letter Letter Shapes Letter/Not a Letter Lie Still Little Bottle Living Doll London Long White Beard Los Angeles Lost My Mind Love Is Eternity Lucky Ball and Chain Lullaby To Nightmares Madam I Challenge You To A Duel Maine Mainstream U.S.A. Mammal Man Its So Loud In Here Mario Speaks Maybe I Know McCafferty's Bib Meet James Ensor Meet The Elements Memo To Human Resources Memphis Metal Detector Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Theme Microphone Miniature Sidewalk Whirlwind Mink Car Minneapolis Moles Hounds Bears Bees And Hares Money For Dope "Monongahela" Monsters Of Mud Morgan in the Morning ID Mosh Momken Abadon Moving To The Sun Mr. Klaw Mr. Me Mr. Xcitement Mrs. Bluebeard Mrs. Cinderella Mrs. Train Museum Of Idiots Music Jail Pt. 1 Music Jail Pt 1 andamp; 2 My Brother The Ape My Evil Twin My Man My Other Phone is a Boom Car Nanobots Narrow Your Eyes Nevada Never Knew Love New Haven (Toads Place a.k.a. Toads Place New Orleans New York City Next Plane To London Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon Nine Bowls Of Soup No! No Cops No One Knows My Plan Nonagon Not Too Clear Not Too Long Nothings Gonna Change My Clothes Nouns Now That I Have Everything Number Three Number Two O Do Not Forsake Me O Tannenbaum Oh You Did Old Pine Box Older Omaha Omnicorn On Earth My Nina On The Drag Ondine One Dozen Monkeys One Everything One More Parade Ooh La! Ooh La! Operators Are Standing By Or So I Have Read Oranges Oranges Testimonial Oregon Out Of A Tree Out Of Jail "Paradoxically" Pencil Rain Pennsylvania Pet Name Philadelphia Photosynthesis Pictures Of Pandas Painting Piece Of Dirt Pirate Girls Nine Pittsburgh Planet Of The Apes Pratical Man Prepare Prevenge Protagonist P.S.O.K. Purple Toupee Push Back the Hands Put It To The Test Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head Q U Rabid Child Raleigh Rat Patrol Renew My Subscription Replicant Reprehensible Rest A While Rest Awhile Return From The Planet Of The Apes "Returning To The U.S." Rhythm Section Want Ad Robot Parade Robot Parade (Adult Version) Rock Club Rolling O Roy G. Biv San Francisco Santa Cruz Santas Beard Say Nice Things About Detroit Science Is Real Scott Bower See The Constellation SenSurround Seven Seven Days Of The Week Seven Days of the Week (I Never Go to Work) Severe Tire Damage Theme S-E-X-X-Y Shape Shifter She Thinks Shes Edith Head (She Was A) Hotel Detective (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future Commentary Shes Actual Size Shes An Angel Shoehorn With Teeth Siftin "Skee-ball And Saltwater Taffy" Sketchy Galore Sleep Sleeping In The Flowers Sleepwalkers Snail Shell Snowball In Hell So Crazy For Books Sold My Mind To The Kremlin Solid Liquid Gas Sombrero Sometimes A Lonely Way South Carolina Speed And Velocity Spider Spine Spines Spiraling Shape Spiralling Shape Spoiler Alert Spy St. Louis Stalk Of Wheat Stand On Your Own Head Starry Eyes Statue Got Me High [Single Version] Stomp Box Stone Cold Coup D Stone Cold Coup Dand Stone Cold Coup Detat Stormy Pinkness Stuff Is Way Subliminal Summer Breeze Swing Is A Word Take Out The Trash Taste The Fame Ten Mississippi Tesla The Armys Tired Now The Ballad Of Davy Crockett The Bells Are Ringing The Big Big Whoredom The Biggest One The Bloodmobile The Bright Side The Capm The Communists Have The Music The Darlings Of Lumberland The Day The Edison Museum The End Of The Tour "The Experiment Begins" The Famous Polka The Feel Good Sublet "The Great Walled City" The Greatest The Guitar The House At The Top Of The Tree The King Of Wingo The Lady And The Tiger The Lady Is a Tramp The Lion Sleeps Tonight The Long Grift The Mesopotamians The Mexican Drill The Power Of TMBG Dial A Song The Secret Life Of Six The Shadow Government The Statue Got Me High The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas "The Tour Nearly Over" The Vowel Family The World Before Later On The Worlds Address The Writings On The Wall Theme To McSweeneys Then The Kids Took Over There Theres a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow Theres A New Song Every Hour Thermostat They Got Lost Theyll Need A Crane Thinking Machine This Apes For You This Microphone Three Might Be Duende Through Being Cool Thunderbird Tick Till My Head Falls Off Tippecanoe And Tyler Too Toddler Hiway Token Back To Brooklyn Too Tall Girl Towson Triops Has Three Eyes Trouble Awful Devil Evil Truth In Your Words Tucson Turn Around Turtle Songs Of North America Underwater Woman Unforgotten Unpronounceable Unrelated Thing [Untitled] Untitled Track Upside Down Frown Vancouver Vestibule Violin Vowel Family [DVD] Wake Up Call Walking My Cat Named Dog We Just Go Nuts At Christmastime We Live in a Dump We Love All The People Wearing A Raincoat Weep Day Welcome To The Jungle Were The Replacements Weve Got A World That Swings What Did I Do To You? What Is A Shooting Star? When It Rains It Snows When the Light Comes On When Tornados Take Over The World When Will You Die Where Do They Make Balloons? Where Your Eyes Dont Go Which Describes How Youre Feeling Whirlpool Who Put The Alphabet In Alphabetical Order? Why Did You Grow A Beard? Why Does The Sun Really Shine? Why Does The Sun Shine? Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas) Why Must I Be Sad? Wicked Little Critta Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May Window With The Dark Withered Hope Women and Men Words Are Like Working Undercover For The Man Worlds Address World's Address [Joshua Fried Remix] XTC Vs. Adam Ant Yeah The Deranged Millionaire Yeh Yeh "You Cant Go Home Again" You Dont Like Me You Probably Get That A Lot Youll Miss Me Your Moms Alright Your Own Worst Enemy Youre On Fire Youth Culture Killed My Dog Z Y X Zeroes
From the Album
Other Songs 2082 25 OClock 32 Footsteps 85 Radio Special Thank You 9 Secret Steps "A Concrete Shrine" A Self Called Nowhere Aaa About Me Absolutely Bills Mood AKA Driver Albany Alienations For The Rich All Alone All MacGyver On It All The Lazy Boyfriends All Time What Alphabet Lost And Found Alphabet Of Nations Am I Awake? An Insult To The Fact Checkers "An Oasis Of Hooch" Ana Ng Anaheim And Mom And Kid "And So" Another First Kiss Answer Ant Apartment Four Apophenia Asbury Park Asheville Atlanta Au Contraire Austin Ballad of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space) Banana Slugs Bangs Baroque Hoedown Bastard Wants To Hit Me Battle For The Planet Of The Apes Become A Robot Bed Bed Bed Bee Of The Bird Of The Moth Beneath The Planet Of The Apes Birds Fly Black Ops Boat Of Car Boss Of Me Boss of Me (Theme From Malcom in the Middle) Brain Problem Situation Brainwashin Our Fighting Boys Bread Hair Broke In Two Brooklyn By the Time You Get This C Is For Conifers Cabbagetown Cage and Aquarium Cage & Aquarium Call You Mom Can You Find It? Canajoharie Cant Keep Johnny Down Careful What You Pack Careless Santa Cast Your Pod to the Wind Celebration Cells Certain People I Could Name Charleston Charlottesville Chess Piece Face Christmas Cards Circular Karate Chop Clap Your Hands Climbing The Walls Cloisonne Clowntown College Town Columbia Computer Assisted Design Concrete And Clay Confusing The Mind Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes Contrecoup Counterfeit Fake Counterfeit Faker Courage The Cowardly Dog Courage the Cowardly Dog Theme Cowtown Critic Intro Cupid Cyclops Rock Cyclops Rocks D and W D Is For Drums D & W Dallas Damn Good Times Dark And Metric Daylight Decision Makers Definition Of Good Destination Moon Destroy The Past Didnt Kill Me Dig My Grave Dinner Bell Dirt Bike Disappointing Show Diving Board Doctor Worm Dog On Fire Dog Walker Dollar For Dollar Dont Know Why It Takes That Long Dont Lets Start Doris Cunningham Down To The Bottom Of The Sea Dr. Evil Drink! Drinking E Eats Everything ECNALUBMA Eight Hundred And Thirteen Mile Car Trip Electric Car Elephants Employee of the Month Empty Bottle Blues End Of The Rope Erase Escape From The Planet Of The Apes Even Numbers Everything Right Is Wrong Again Existential blues Experimental Film Exquisite Dead Guy Extra Savoir-Faire Fake Out In Buenos Aires Fake-Believe Fake-Believe (Type B) Farmingdale Feast of Lights Feign Amnesia Fibber Island Figure Eight Fingertips Finished With Lies First Kiss Flying V For Science Four Of Two Glasgow Go For G! Good To Be Alive Goodbye From The Deranged Millionaire Goodnight My Friends Got Getting Up So Down Greasy Kid Stuff Great Greek Greek #3 Greek #3 [Bonus Track] Greeting From The Deranged Millionaire Hall Of Heads Hate The Villanelle Haunted Floating Eye Heart Of The Band Hell Hotel Hello Mrs. Wheelyke Hello Radio Here Come The 123s Here Come The ABCs Here Comes Science Here In Higglytown Here in Higglytown (Theme to Playhouse Disney's Higglytown Heroes) Hey Mr. DJ I Thought You Said We Had A Deal Hi Honey Im Home Hide Away Folk Family High Five! Hive Mind Hiya Hopeless Bleak Despair Hot Dog! House Of Mayors Houston Hovering Sombrero How Can I Sing Like A Girl? How Many Planets? How Much Cake Can You Eat Hypnotist Of Ladies I Am A Grocery Bag I Am A Human Head I Am A Paleontologist I Am Alone I Am Invisible I Am Not Your Broom I Blame You I Broke My Own Rule I C U I Can Add I Can Hear You I Can Help The Next In Line I Cant Hide From My Mind I Enjoy Being A Boy I Find It Hard To Believe I Havent Seen You In Forever I Hear a New World I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die I Just Want To Dance I Left My Body I Like Fun I Lost Thursday I Love You For Psychological Reasons I Made A Mess I Might Be Giants Too I Need Some Lovin I Palindrome I I Should Be Allowed To Think I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar I Wasnt Listening Icky If I Wasnt Shy Ill Sink Manhattan Im A Coward Im All You Can Think About Im Def Im Gettin Sentimental Over You I'm Getting Sentimental over You I'm Getting Sentimental over You [Adaptation; Bonus Track; Version] Im Impressed Im Sick I'm Your Boyfriend Now [Bonus Track] Impossible Impossibly New In Fact In The Middle In The Middle In The Middle Infinity Insect Hospital Introducing Z Y X Istanbul Its Kickin In Its Not My Birthday Ive Got A Fang Ive Got A Match James K. Polk John Lee Supertaster Judy Is Your Viet Nam Kendra McCormick Kiss Me Son Of God Kitten Intro L M N O La Dolce Lady Is A Tramp Lake Monsters Last Wave Lazyhead And Sleepybones Leeds Let Me Tell You About My Operation Let Your Hair Hang Down Let's Get This Over With Letter / Not A Letter Letter / Not A Letter Letter Shapes Letter/Not a Letter Lie Still Little Bottle Living Doll London Long White Beard Los Angeles Lost My Mind Love Is Eternity Lucky Ball and Chain Lullaby To Nightmares Madam I Challenge You To A Duel Maine Mainstream U.S.A. Mammal Man Its So Loud In Here Mario Speaks Maybe I Know McCafferty's Bib Meet James Ensor Meet The Elements Memo To Human Resources Memphis Metal Detector Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Theme Microphone Miniature Sidewalk Whirlwind Mink Car Minneapolis Moles Hounds Bears Bees And Hares Money For Dope "Monongahela" Monsters Of Mud Morgan in the Morning ID Mosh Momken Abadon Moving To The Sun Mr. Klaw Mr. Me Mr. Xcitement Mrs. Bluebeard Mrs. Cinderella Mrs. Train Museum Of Idiots Music Jail Pt. 1 Music Jail Pt 1 andamp; 2 My Brother The Ape My Evil Twin My Man My Other Phone is a Boom Car Nanobots Narrow Your Eyes Nevada Never Knew Love New Haven (Toads Place a.k.a. Toads Place New Orleans New York City Next Plane To London Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon Nine Bowls Of Soup No! No Cops No One Knows My Plan Nonagon Not Too Clear Not Too Long Nothings Gonna Change My Clothes Nouns Now That I Have Everything Number Three Number Two O Do Not Forsake Me O Tannenbaum Oh You Did Old Pine Box Older Omaha Omnicorn On Earth My Nina On The Drag Ondine One Dozen Monkeys One Everything One More Parade Ooh La! Ooh La! Operators Are Standing By Or So I Have Read Oranges Oranges Testimonial Oregon Out Of A Tree Out Of Jail "Paradoxically" Pencil Rain Pennsylvania Pet Name Philadelphia Photosynthesis Pictures Of Pandas Painting Piece Of Dirt Pirate Girls Nine Pittsburgh Planet Of The Apes Pratical Man Prepare Prevenge Protagonist P.S.O.K. Purple Toupee Push Back the Hands Put It To The Test Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head Q U Rabid Child Raleigh Rat Patrol Renew My Subscription Replicant Reprehensible Rest A While Rest Awhile Return From The Planet Of The Apes "Returning To The U.S." Rhythm Section Want Ad Robot Parade Robot Parade (Adult Version) Rock Club Rolling O Roy G. Biv San Francisco Santa Cruz Santas Beard Say Nice Things About Detroit Science Is Real Scott Bower See The Constellation SenSurround Seven Seven Days Of The Week Seven Days of the Week (I Never Go to Work) Severe Tire Damage Theme S-E-X-X-Y Shape Shifter She Thinks Shes Edith Head (She Was A) Hotel Detective (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future Commentary Shes Actual Size Shes An Angel Shoehorn With Teeth Siftin "Skee-ball And Saltwater Taffy" Sketchy Galore Sleep Sleeping In The Flowers Sleepwalkers Snail Shell Snowball In Hell So Crazy For Books Sold My Mind To The Kremlin Solid Liquid Gas Sombrero Sometimes A Lonely Way South Carolina Speed And Velocity Spider Spine Spines Spiraling Shape Spiralling Shape Spoiler Alert Spy St. Louis Stalk Of Wheat Stand On Your Own Head Starry Eyes Statue Got Me High [Single Version] Stomp Box Stone Cold Coup D Stone Cold Coup Dand Stone Cold Coup Detat Stormy Pinkness Stuff Is Way Subliminal Summer Breeze Swing Is A Word Take Out The Trash Taste The Fame Ten Mississippi Tesla The Armys Tired Now The Ballad Of Davy Crockett The Bells Are Ringing The Big Big Whoredom The Biggest One The Bloodmobile The Bright Side The Capm The Communists Have The Music The Darlings Of Lumberland The Day The Edison Museum The End Of The Tour "The Experiment Begins" The Famous Polka The Feel Good Sublet "The Great Walled City" The Greatest The Guitar The House At The Top Of The Tree The King Of Wingo The Lady And The Tiger The Lady Is a Tramp The Lion Sleeps Tonight The Long Grift The Mesopotamians The Mexican Drill The Power Of TMBG Dial A Song The Secret Life Of Six The Shadow Government The Statue Got Me High The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas "The Tour Nearly Over" The Vowel Family The World Before Later On The Worlds Address The Writings On The Wall Theme To McSweeneys Then The Kids Took Over There Theres a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow Theres A New Song Every Hour Thermostat They Got Lost Theyll Need A Crane Thinking Machine This Apes For You This Microphone Three Might Be Duende Through Being Cool Thunderbird Tick Till My Head Falls Off Tippecanoe And Tyler Too Toddler Hiway Token Back To Brooklyn Too Tall Girl Towson Triops Has Three Eyes Trouble Awful Devil Evil Truth In Your Words Tucson Turn Around Turtle Songs Of North America Underwater Woman Unforgotten Unpronounceable Unrelated Thing [Untitled] Untitled Track Upside Down Frown Vancouver Vestibule Violin Vowel Family [DVD] Wake Up Call Walking My Cat Named Dog We Just Go Nuts At Christmastime We Live in a Dump We Love All The People Wearing A Raincoat Weep Day Welcome To The Jungle Were The Replacements Weve Got A World That Swings What Did I Do To You? What Is A Shooting Star? When It Rains It Snows When the Light Comes On When Tornados Take Over The World When Will You Die Where Do They Make Balloons? Where Your Eyes Dont Go Which Describes How Youre Feeling Whirlpool Who Put The Alphabet In Alphabetical Order? Why Did You Grow A Beard? Why Does The Sun Really Shine? Why Does The Sun Shine? Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas) Why Must I Be Sad? Wicked Little Critta Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May Window With The Dark Withered Hope Women and Men Words Are Like Working Undercover For The Man Worlds Address World's Address [Joshua Fried Remix] XTC Vs. Adam Ant Yeah The Deranged Millionaire Yeh Yeh "You Cant Go Home Again" You Dont Like Me You Probably Get That A Lot Youll Miss Me Your Moms Alright Your Own Worst Enemy Youre On Fire Youth Culture Killed My Dog Z Y X Zeroes
They Might Be Giants, often abbreviated as TMBG, is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell. During TMBG's early years, Flansburgh and Linnell frequently performed as a musical duo, often accompanied by a drum machine. In the early 1990s, TMBG expanded to include a backing band. The duo's current backing band consists of Marty Beller, Dan Miller and Danny Weinkauf. They have been credited as vital in the creation and growth of the prolific DIY music scene in Brooklyn in the mid-1980s.
The group has been noted for its unique style of alternative music, typically using surreal, humorous lyrics, experimental styles and unconventional instruments. Over their career, they have found success on the modern rock and college radio charts. They have also found success in children's music with several educational albums, and in theme music for television programs and films.
TMBG have released 23 studio albums. Flood has been certified platinum, while their children's music albums Here Come the ABCs, Here Come the 123s, and Here Comes Science have all been certified gold. The duo has been nominated for four Grammy Awards, winning two. Flansburgh and Linnell won for writing the theme to Malcolm in the Middle (Best Film or Television Theme) and They Might Be Giants won for Here Come the 123s (Best Children's Album). Linnell and Flansburgh were also nominated for a Tony Award for Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre along with other composers of the show for SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical. In total, the group has sold over 4 million records.
Also Known As: TMBGEl, Grupo De Rock and RollThe group has been noted for its unique style of alternative music, typically using surreal, humorous lyrics, experimental styles and unconventional instruments. Over their career, they have found success on the modern rock and college radio charts. They have also found success in children's music with several educational albums, and in theme music for television programs and films.
TMBG have released 23 studio albums. Flood has been certified platinum, while their children's music albums Here Come the ABCs, Here Come the 123s, and Here Comes Science have all been certified gold. The duo has been nominated for four Grammy Awards, winning two. Flansburgh and Linnell won for writing the theme to Malcolm in the Middle (Best Film or Television Theme) and They Might Be Giants won for Here Come the 123s (Best Children's Album). Linnell and Flansburgh were also nominated for a Tony Award for Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre along with other composers of the show for SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical. In total, the group has sold over 4 million records.
Members:
John Flansburgh - vocals, guitar (1982-present), bass (1982-1992)
John Linnell - vocals, accordion, keyboards, woodwinds (1982-present)
Dan Miller
Danny Weinkauf
Marty Beller
Name Origin:
A common misconception is that the name of the band is a reference to themselves and an allusion to future success. In an interview, John Flansburgh said that the words "they might be giants" are just a very outward-looking forward thing which they liked.
He clarified this in the documentary movie Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) by explaining that the name refers to the outside world of possibilities that they saw as a fledgling band. In an earlier radio interview, John Linnell described the phrase as "something very paranoid sounding".
From: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Genre(s): Alternative rock, art rock, power pop, children's music, geek rock
Active From: 1982-present