TMBG John Henry Album.


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By
Kymical on Sunday, February 20, 2000 - 02:27 am:

    i have been thinking about "Spy Glass"
    and "Brainwashing Dirtbike." and the one about the organ.
    and "James Ensor."
    the last one being one of the three most educational songs (for me that they have ever written.
    i think that one touches me most because it says
    "dig him up and shake his hand." and i would like something like that on my tomb stone.
    and "he lost all his friends, he didn't need his friends."
    that is how i feel the most in the present time.

    this whole album tho has a strange feel to it for me. i warmed up after hearing "James Ensor." rest assured my friends.


By Jina on Sunday, February 20, 2000 - 04:17 am:

    My three most favorite songs by them are:

    Birdhouse in your soul, Till my head falls off, that song from the Brain Candy soundtrack, and Dinnerbell from the Apollo 18 song. The song Turn around, I think that's the name, on Apollo 18 is freaky as all hell. But I like Dig my grave too. That's probly their best cd.


By Shpidah on Sunday, February 20, 2000 - 09:59 am:

    I was singing "Meet James Ensor" recently! At the library, we got a book in about him, and I couldn't think where I had heard about him before, and then it hit me:

    "Meet...James...Ensor, Belgium's favorite (famous?) painter. Dig him up and shake his hand, appreciate the man. Before there were junk stores, before there was junk, he lived with his mother and the torments of Christ."

    That's all I could remember.


By Kymical on Sunday, February 20, 2000 - 12:30 pm:

    the world was transformed.
    a crowd gathered round.
    pressed against his window so they could be the first
    to meet james ensor.
    belgiums famous painter.
    raise a glass and sit and stare.
    understand the man.

    he lost all his friends,
    he didn't need his friends.
    he lived with his mother and repeated himself.
    the world has forgotten.
    the world moved along.
    the crowd at his window went back to their homes.

    meet james ensor
    la la laa lala la
    meet james ensor.
    la al alala ala la
    belgiums famous painter.
    la la la ala alla al
    lalal al ala la la
    lallalalalallalal

    dig him up and shake his hand.
    appriciate the man.

    i did that all with one breath.


By semillama on Sunday, February 20, 2000 - 02:56 pm:

    Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head.

    My all-time favorite.

    Got turned onto TMBG from watching ALTV on MTV back in the 80's. He would always have the best videos you never saw on regular MTV, like DEVO's "Beautiful World", "Are You Experienced?" (still one of my favorite videos), and of course, Harvey the Wonder Hamster.

    I think I was born warped.


By semillama on Sunday, February 20, 2000 - 02:57 pm:

    One other thing abotu TMBG: I always associate the album "Flood" with riding on a bus through Italy, since that wasone of the albums I brought with me on my family's European Vacation.


By heather on Sunday, February 20, 2000 - 04:04 pm:

    what's important is to be ok with being born warped


By semillama on Monday, February 21, 2000 - 12:28 am:

    Ok with it? I take off my pants and roll around in it!

    speaking of warped, for those of you who caught the Simpsons tonght, was that not one of the very best episodes?


    "Help Me, Jebus!"


By Peaceful Dragon on Monday, February 21, 2000 - 01:48 am:

    For us non-hipsters/what is TMBG?


By Jina on Monday, February 21, 2000 - 02:18 am:

    Dude. Only anybody who's anybody knows They Might Be Giants.

    I'm your only friend
    I'm not your only friend
    But I'm a little glowing friend
    But really I'm not actually your friend
    But I am

    Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch
    Who watches over you
    Make a little birdhouse in your soul
    Not to put too fine a point on it
    Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
    Make a little birdhouse in your soul

    I have a secret to tell
    From my electrical well
    It's a simple message and I'm leaving out
    The whistles and bells
    So the room must listen to me
    Filibuster vigilantly
    My name is blue canary one-word
    Spelled l-i-t-e
    My story's infinite
    Like the Longines Symphonette
    It doesn't rest

    There's a picture opposite me
    Of my primitive ancestry
    Which stood on rocky shores and
    Kept the beaches shipwreck free
    Though I respect that a lot
    I'd be fired if that were my job
    After killing Jason off and
    Countless screaming Argonauts (I love that line)
    Bluebird of friendliness
    Like guardian angels its
    Always near




By mistaswine on Monday, February 21, 2000 - 12:04 pm:

    they might be giants.

    or they might just suck.


By Kymical on Monday, February 21, 2000 - 12:05 pm:

    They Might Be Giants are two New York gentlemen.
    tey started a band in the mid-early 80's.
    their quirky music has stuck with the world since.
    one of them plays guitar and the other plays organ, accordian, sax. and the lyrics are something from on of those dreams you have where in the dream it sounds logical, but if you say it aloud in reality you question how you could think that made sense.
    a lot of people (me included) also enjoy their live shows.
    some of their famous hits.
    Istanbul not Constantinoble
    Birdhouse in your soul
    Particle Man
    The Guitar
    Anna Ng

    if you check out some of the sites on the web you can see more about them.

    or you can always dial a song, their telephone song service and hear what they have to say.

    718-387-6962- dial a song


By Margret on Monday, February 21, 2000 - 12:54 pm:

    I have always had a fondness for "Where Your Eyes Don't Go," but I also really like "Kiss Me, Son of God..."

    The Jebus thing had me squealing in delight, but I thought he was saying Cheebis.

    Licking Toads. Let's just say I'm not not licking toads.


By Kymical on Monday, February 21, 2000 - 01:11 pm:

    as far as the simpsons go..

    PRAY FOR MOJO.

    i think that is all i have to say.

    maybe later i will play you all the tune my friend dave made using the "more tomato? yes please!" snippet.

    or you can go and look at him
    http://www.brackeen.com

    the only interesting part of the site is his picture it changes if you refresh the page. there is one where he is young and he is on the toilet.

    wow and this actually does tie in with the thread, cause david is a really big tmbg fan.
    and i am (of course) madly in love with the boy.


By _____ on Monday, February 21, 2000 - 03:28 pm:


By Jina on Monday, February 21, 2000 - 04:03 pm:

    I thought they were from Vancouver B.C.


By mistaswine on Monday, February 21, 2000 - 04:13 pm:

    lovely.

    i'ma go back into the cd archives and burn their whole damn catalog.


By Jina on Monday, February 21, 2000 - 04:19 pm:

    Viva la fuego!


By semillama on Monday, February 21, 2000 - 04:50 pm:

    Cheer up, swine.


By mistaswine on Monday, February 21, 2000 - 05:07 pm:

    for clarity's sake:

    that was "burn" as in "digitally record", not "burn" as in "light yo' ass up on fire."



    just so you know.


By semillama on Monday, February 21, 2000 - 05:42 pm:

    Oh.

    I'm still building a little whorehouse in my soul, though.


By Gee on Tuesday, February 22, 2000 - 12:14 am:

    if you're gonna build a whorehouse, why not make it a great big one? There's plenty of room in that soul of yours.


By semillama on Tuesday, February 22, 2000 - 12:50 pm:

    I would, but I'm renting most of it out to some horrid alien entity.


By mistaswine on Tuesday, February 22, 2000 - 01:07 pm:

    oh shit.

    get your extra-terrestrial freak on, kid.
    nothin' warms the cockles like a piece of fine alien ass.

    speaking of hot cockles and cosmic booty, i managed to burn "bumpa", "host", and "guest" from the archives. looks like somebody got sheisty with "amoeba". nameless internet sources tell me the critters have a fifth album, but i can't track it down.

    so tell me, mista flatline:

    what's the deal?

    and is "amoeba" worth shelling out real money for?




By _____ on Tuesday, February 22, 2000 - 01:39 pm:

    amoeba is mostly ambient like the eno/wobble thing. i really like it but that ain't saying much. check some sound bites. plus, there's one that's hard to find called monkeypot merganser (whatever that means) that has the space rant, which i put on the cd i sent you.


By mistaswine on Tuesday, February 22, 2000 - 03:18 pm:

    mmmmmm...

    critters be buggin' lovely.

    so lets make a deal.

    you burn me monkeypot and i burn you whatever you want.


By _____ on Tuesday, February 22, 2000 - 04:01 pm:

    kee-doke.


By semillama on Tuesday, February 22, 2000 - 08:41 pm:

    Multi-Orgasmic Space Whores! Ride 'em Squidboy! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
    ha.


By Rhiannon on Tuesday, February 22, 2000 - 08:55 pm:

    You okay?


By semillama on Tuesday, February 22, 2000 - 09:10 pm:

    Same as ever.


    I have an urge to listen to TMBG now, though.


By Gee on Wednesday, February 23, 2000 - 01:03 am:

    I don't think anyone at sorabji.com is ever Really okay.


By Daniel ssss on Wednesday, February 23, 2000 - 01:44 am:

    you n me and may be Sem, n oh yeah swine.


By J on Wednesday, February 23, 2000 - 11:34 am:

    I,m not okay and I don,t care.


By patrick on Wednesday, February 23, 2000 - 12:23 pm:

    alright daniel, time to come clean about the "SSSS"s .......what up


By Jina on Wednesday, February 23, 2000 - 08:01 pm:

    So scrumptuously sadistically sexy
    Or Maybe
    Shiva's secondary sex sort


By Gee on Thursday, February 24, 2000 - 01:48 am:

    Jughead never told anyone what his "S" stood for either, and look how cool he was.


By Patrick on Thursday, February 24, 2000 - 11:59 am:

    cool, jughead? Gee, see nate, NOW


By _____ on Thursday, February 24, 2000 - 09:09 pm:

    all right, mista.

    here's the first round. sort of a warm-up.

    gun club - 'fire of love'

    shawn smith - 'let it all begin'

    u-men - 'step on a bug'

    the fall - 'dragnet'

    treepeople - 'something vicious. . .' AND 'guilt regret embarassment' AND 'just kidding'

    tar babies - 'no contest' AND 'death trip' AND 'fried milk'

    i'll put the monkey in the mail this weekend. do you want amoeba, too?

    love, dave

    <smooch smooch>


By moonit on Thursday, February 24, 2000 - 09:54 pm:

    I really am at the edge of the planet


By mistaswine on Thursday, February 24, 2000 - 10:06 pm:

    uh-uh, pardna!

    none of this "one track of this" and "one track of that" shit!

    i gotta actually *work* during the nine-to-five, too.

    y'know?

    it'll be *complete* albums for yo' ass!

    so pick a few and i'll see what i can do.


By _____ on Thursday, February 24, 2000 - 10:18 pm:

    dumbshit, just do it and make it snappy!


By mistaswine on Thursday, February 24, 2000 - 11:06 pm:

    you'll be gettin' nothin' but "vanilla ice's classics" and "the best of scritti polliti" from me, nitz!

    might as well set your stereo on fire NOW before it's too late!


By _____ on Friday, February 25, 2000 - 02:58 am:

    hey! you guys have scritti politti? cool, send me all of it.


By semillama on Friday, February 25, 2000 - 12:47 pm:

    old b-versions of Marley songs. Really nifty.


By Nate on Friday, February 25, 2000 - 02:46 pm:

    yea woodbeez W-O-O-D, oh woodbeez woodbeez B-E-E-Z


By mistaswine on Friday, February 25, 2000 - 04:09 pm:

    oh shit.

    did i say "scritti politti"?

    i meant "milli vanilli."

    sorry for the confusion.

    the crap is in the mail.


By cyst on Saturday, February 26, 2000 - 03:18 am:

    I paid $15.99 for a scritti politti cd ("cupid and psyche '85"?) when I was 15.

    I remember thinking, "this is so goddamn much money, but I have to have it!"


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