They Might Be Giants

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Combining a knack for infectious melodies with a quirky, bizarre sense of humor and a vaguely avant-garde aesthetic borrowed from the New York post-punk underground, They Might Be Giants became one of the most unlikely alternative success stories of the late '80s and early '90s. Musically, the duo of John Flansburgh and John Linnell borrowed from everywhere, but their freewheeling eclecticism was enhanced by their arcane, geeky sense of humor. They would reference everything from British Invasion to Tin Pan Alley, while making allusion to pulp fiction and {%P...[more]

 

 

Any inkling that They Might Be Giants had a future in crafting educational kids' songs came with 1994's "Why Does the Sun Shine?," so it's only fitting that after Here Come the ABC's and Here Come the 123's' success, John Linnell and John Flansburgh return to the subject that started it all: science. Here Comes Science covers everything from astronomy to evolution, mixing time-tested facts like the color spectrum with newer frontiers like electric cars. These songs are aimed at a slight   [ read more ]

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Grammy winners They Might Be Giants are back with a whole new creative way to look at science! The Here Comes Science CD+DVD contains 19 songs and 19 accompanying videos featuring animation and puppetry for kids to enjoy and learn with. Contains fun songs like "Electric Car," "Photosynthesis" and "Solid Liquid Gas" among others! Kids will learn about science while having fun. And who knows? Maybe there's a thing or two you could learn yourself!

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For their twelfth full-length -- and first "rock" album in three years -- They Might Be Giants recruited the Dust Brothers as co-producers, a combination nearly as intriguing as the fact that the duo released The Else digitally via iTunes more than a month before it was issued on CD. Pairing the Dust Brothers' sonic invention with John Linnell and John Flansburgh's winning ways with words and melodies should be a dream collaboration; after all, the producers' work with Beck was ju   [ read more ]

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Here Come the 123's, the numerically inclined sequel to They Might Be Giants' winning CD/DVD set Here Come the ABC's, presents more fun and unexpected ways to learn from John Flansburgh and John Linnell. The album begins in mathematically precise fashion, starting with the bouncy bossa nova of "Zeroes" before hitting one through ten and then onto fancier numbers like 12 and infinity. "One Everything"'s funky rock is one of TMBG's typical brain-twisters, a little bit zen ("there   [ read more ]

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This is a 20" x 26" They Might Be Giants show poster for the March 6, 2008 show at Meridian. Hand-signed, numbered and designed by Clint Wilson.

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Since 1982, a few years before they released their 1987 debut, John Flansburgh and John Linnell have been They Might Be Giants, an independent band named after a 1971 George C. Scott movie who are, to echo their own description of their current collaborators The Dust Brothers, pop musicians unto themselves. Their work provides, in the prescient judgment of The SPIN Alternative Record Guide (1995) "a fabulous example of just how far the concept of punk can stretch." In subsequent years, They Might Be Giants    [ read more ]

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They Might Be Giants have always had a flair for educational songs. More than a decade after its release, the refrain of "Why Does the Sun Shine" ("The sun is a mass of incandescent gas/A gigantic nuclear furnace") still has a pesky way of lodging itself in the brain. And, as the band's wonderful first children's album, No!, demonstrated, They Might Be Giants' music speaks to kids in a way that few other bands' work can; they never sound like they're talking (or singing) down to their smaller   [ read more ]

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They Might Be Giants are one of too-few bands that manage to make compilations that are as cohesive and enjoyable as their regular full-length albums. They Got Lost is no exception -- a collection of truly rare rarities, it shows once again that the group's more obscure songs are quite often just as great as their best-known ones. Many of the tracks here come from They Might Be Giants' relationship with the music download service EMusic, including the sweetly sad alt-country of {&"Words are Like   [ read more ]

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John and John tackle the letters of the alphabet in this fun, imaginative, and family-friendly song collection.

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Brand-new EP from this duo! It's their first new work since the 2002 release of both the documentary "Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)" and their children's album, "No!" During their 20-year career, Brooklyn's art-rock pioneers, college rock kings, prolific musical stuntmen, and pop icons have inspired two generations of discerning music listeners. "Indestructible Object" contains four originals that emphasize the band's serious songwriting prowess, plus a beautiful cover of The Beach Boys' "Caroline, No." R   [ read more ]

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Their most rocking album ever. With their unique blend of catchy melodies and inscrutable lyrics, They Might Be Giants have lived a twenty-year frenzy of creative output, selling over three million albums and winning a Grammy in the process. "The Spine" is their new release, and as PopMatters' Patrick Schabe says, "The Spine sets itself apart from recent work by They Might Be Giants in ways that you'll just have to hear for yourself to understand. At the same time, it goes a long way in showing how the band   [ read more ]

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