7 Oct. 2006
Posted by Bryan at October 7th, 2006
h3. Videos
* “Am I Awake - Urusei Yatsura AMV”:http://www3.youtube.com/watch?v=iPqVpLNYiXc
* “Experimental Film by Nathalie”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA0JqgfZSQ8
* “Particle Man by Chuckhoke”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqdGRFkHgaI
* “The Long Grift with puppets”:http://youtube.com/watch?v=p6nrHdWUJGY
* “Alphabet of Nations via Google Earth”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4m-EIPXFbQ
* “New York City by Cub”:http://www.mintrecs.com/media.php
* “Complete-ish List of Fan Videos at TMBW.net”:http://www.tmbw.net/wiki/index.php/Fan_Videos
h3. News
* “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Soundtrack”:http://wonderfulworldofblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/mickey-mouse-clubhouse-toys-news.html
h3. Music & Covers
* The Army’s Tired Now by j2
* “The Long Grift by Peter Lewis”:http://myspace.com/peterlewismusic
h3. Fanspeak
* “Where DO they make ballons and other useless information”:http://the-kaydee.livejournal.com/1559.html
* “Song to Die For”:http://itonal.blogspot.com/2006/09/song-to-die-for.html
h3. Intermission
* Boston sample from 2004 Spine Hits the Road tour
h3. Music You Might Like
* “George Abraham Lincoln Washington”:http://myspace.com/peterlewismusic
* “Kennesaw Mountain Landis”:http://www.jonathancoulton.com
* “We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions”:http://www.jonathancoulton.com
h3. Commercial
* “Teknikal Difficulties”:http://www.tekdiff.com
h3. And a New Trivia Question!
h6. If you like this show, it would be super cool if you would link to theynow.com, and be sure to include either “TMBG” or “They Might Be Giants” in the link text. Thanks!
7 Oct. 2006 [00:29:01m]: 
What a tough trivia question . . . you weren’t kidding when you said it was obtuse!
My guess (and this is a long shot) is that they both have keyboard in them?
Sorry, I’ve racked my brain, but that is all I can come up with at this time.
If I have some other brilliant idea, and think of something else I’ll repost.
Thanks for another great podcast!
Troy B.
D:
j2
Nope, it’s not the keyboard.
Here’s a hint: the only people for whom this question would be obvious are me, my wife, and Jonathan Coulton.
Mr. Me
Another guess . . . one of the handclaps were yours?
Troy B.
Well done, Troy! Indeed, I performed on both songs. You did your research well!
Mr. Me
um. hate to take issue with you here. but john henry WAS in fact their first album produced with a full band. it was marketed as such at the time, and talked about as such in their old printed news letter.
they toured with a band to support apollo 18, but the album itself was not recored with a full band. following that tour they decided to include the full band in the recording of their next album.
even if you doubt me as a source, i would argue you can tell this just by listening to the albums.
if you think i’m wrong i would welcome being proven wrong, but i am fairly certain that i (and apparently “a lot” of other people you’ve heard from in the past) are correct on this point.
daniel
I agree, John Henry was the first album recorded with a set band that played in every song. Apollo 18 continued the tradition of each consecutive album having more and more guest artists appearing on a few songs each, but they were just that–guest artists. See, for example, http://web.archive.org/web/19970606205142/www.tmbg.com/melody/art/henry.html which says, “Since this [John Henry] was the first album where we worked with a live band instead of a drum machine it [John Henry] seemed an apt title.”
Interestingly, when John Henry first appeared in stores, it had a sticker on it mentioning that it was the debut of the band (meaning the full band backing up the Johns), which gave some of my friends the incorrect notion that John Henry was TMBG’s very first album. :)
~Drew
Drew
Daniel Wrote: “they toured with a band to support apollo 18, but the album itself was not recored with a full band. following that tour they decided to include the full band in the recording of their next album.”
I don’t disagree with you, but when I saw the band during the Apollo 18 tour (In the gymnasium of CMU in Pittsburgh), they did not have a backing band, it was just those two “Twin Quasars of Rock” performing, without a band.
Troy B.
Wow. I didn’t know any of that.
I guess I kind of assumed, since the Apollo 18 tour was the first time I saw them live, and since the songs sounded the same way live that they did on the album, that the 5 people on stage were the same 5 people that recorded the album. My mistake.
Mr. Me
Linkage to the spoken version of Flood, please? I’d greatly appreciate it. Sounds awesome.
Tawm
Here you go:
http://www.myspace.com/vendettaagainstdoubt
Mr. Me
Hey, I have a cover of Stormy Pinkness, and was wondering if you would listen and maybe play it on a show… Where should I send it?
Amanda (Oreos)
Hey, thanks for playing my tunes!
Another great podcast :)
Peter