I made my dad tape this while I was at work. I came home and he said "What bunch of nerds."

I might be gay

@snakes7303

3 жыл бұрын

Mayhaps

@Metqa

Жыл бұрын

Perbrably

@Vileplume87

5 ай бұрын

quite possibly

@4darin5

5 ай бұрын

I had a feeling you were. We are proud of you! 🎉

@treeguyfly

3 ай бұрын

Same bestie

I love how Leno is always passively on their case, like he never quite buys that these guys are actual popular musicians who aren't just enjoyed for being weird

@otmq

3 жыл бұрын

Classic old-school alpha male move, outwardly giving a hard time to those you truly respect and love.

@Jllyrol311

2 жыл бұрын

That’s so odd, because everyone loved and respected Jay Leno as a comedian, host , and all-around human so much.

@siractionslacks890

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, like the first time on for Flood, he said he bought the album and the likes them, then says, they’re pretty good.

@sheekaloca

2 жыл бұрын

I love how we can tell they are actually quite good friends with Conan when they are on his show. Conan has the upmost respect and adoration for these guys.

@thebasedgodmax1163

Жыл бұрын

@@sheekaloca Conan is a fucking legend

I want to be whatever Linnell is looking at during his closeups on "The Statue Got Me High" cuz, DAMN. Nobody's ever looked at me like that. Damn. lol.

Linnell has a mesmerising gaze

Linnell's eye contact at 2:19 -2:27 honestly has me in tears

@ZoeAlexa11

6 жыл бұрын

Emilynn Wettengel same

@theclumsymoose

6 жыл бұрын

SAME

@WibblyPigNZ

5 жыл бұрын

OK. Could he turn me? Maybe.

@snerp9699

5 жыл бұрын

I was on the verge of crying

@oliviaisgod

5 жыл бұрын

Sploosh.

They might be giants is always amazing with live horns.

Forgot what a banger "The Statue Got me High" is, and what a savage evisceration of unthinking religious conformity

"The freeform jazz odyssey", I love that LMAO

@NuisanceMan

Ай бұрын

Spinal Tap, Mach 2

*melts* How do Linnell's eyes always know where the camera is?

@einootspork

4 жыл бұрын

they see the cameras, because they are eyes

@jessicah3450

4 жыл бұрын

There's a little red light that comes on the camera in studios when it's the one currently recording.

@otmq

3 жыл бұрын

@@jessicah3450 yep, and Linnel is extremely intelligent, so he’d know that! :D

@matthewjeffery6481

3 жыл бұрын

He looks for the red light. Like I do on a Friday night

@Brentttilda

3 жыл бұрын

@@einootspork this comment has me dying it's perfect. You could have convinced me you were a giant

I love how this live version of The Guitar uses more of the Lion Sleeps Tonight sample, it sounds really good

Overlooked positive about TMBG--the JOHNS dress the same no matter what era. Kudos.

These guys have had my heart since forever.

love that syd straw is singing with them on this!!

@NillKitty

3 жыл бұрын

@DanOsmundson

3 жыл бұрын

@@NillKitty too funny! thanks for that reference-- i didn't know about that!

@notanotherjamesmurphy5574

9 күн бұрын

she sounds bad

2:21 look at him I’m internally screaming

@snerp9699

5 жыл бұрын

As am I!

Any song was a crowd surfing song in the 90's

Apollo 18 was my first They Might Be Giants CD. My friend played "Turn Around" for me some weeks previous. I didn't like it at first, but I soon changed my mind and became a big fan.

@danielhill3597

4 жыл бұрын

So you "turned around", as it were.

@chulumpthebigmoneywizard851

Жыл бұрын

@@danielhill3597they were working all night in their office no doubt

@user-cw1gd2em6j

6 ай бұрын

It's a great album, but I can imagine it to be a hard listen to newbies. I was fortunate to get in on the "ground floor" with TMBG. Back in the 80s, a friend took me to a club in Williamsburg and they played a set there. I was hooked. I bought one of their "demo tapes" and played it almost constantly until it got worn out. I wish I made a copy of it in the beginning. I still keep the case as a treasured item.

@jeffk9268

6 ай бұрын

I first heard TMBG in ~1995.. was given a tape by a friend and I wasn't sure if I liked them.. until I heard the lyrics "MUST STOP... SPIDER" and I never turned back. A fan for life 🫡

@user-cw1gd2em6j

6 ай бұрын

"STEP ON SPIDER!!!"@@jeffk9268

9:33 I shedded tears

@LL-qh6gf

Жыл бұрын

that lil eyebrow waggle lol!

Two all time classic TMBG songs.

Flans's Chessmaster is so cool.

@flg947

5 жыл бұрын

Mister Apple 🍏 I love his chessmaster.

@stanley-allen

4 жыл бұрын

The Chessmaster is coming back in 2020!

@nonverbal562

3 жыл бұрын

@@stanley-allen 2020 was cancelled. The whole year.

I'd love to get my hands on that CD case! So Sweet when they made 'em in huge paper boxes! I loved the 90s...

If you were in college in the late 80s or early 90s and you didn’t listen to they might be giants then you’re lying

@deanevangelista6359

Жыл бұрын

I was thirty, in ‘89 and a Beatles and prog rock fan, but this band spoke to me.

@davidwilhelm4091

7 ай бұрын

What that guy said, except in reverse. I graduated from high school in 1999 and TMBG was my JAM! Seriously. I was disappointed about what musical idiots my fellow students were.

Man Jay is not on their wavelength even a little bit.

@WalkerRileyMC

3 жыл бұрын

That's because he's an arrogant prick who thinks everything revolves around himself. He always has.

@siractionslacks890

2 жыл бұрын

He just likes giving them a hard time. Watch them playing Birdhouse on the Tonight Show.

They were not speeding up like many bands do when they perform live. They know what they are doing.

@finscontingencyplan7005

Жыл бұрын

They had Jay Leno's professional house band on this one, those guys were probably one of the tightest groups around at the time.

@Metqa

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, that's something that bugs me with live performances, it makes me anxious. but its great when they keep the beat tight.

@GlennTillema

10 ай бұрын

They sped up when they played on Carson with Doc Severinsen; google tmbg doc severinsen and there's an article about how doc and the house band loved birdhouse because of it's big brass section and the song was ten beats faster!

Miss Fingerwood on vocals of course makes this special.

Before there was Weezer, there was Bernard from the Office's band. The godfathers of nerd rock.

@p.taylor981

3 жыл бұрын

Im a massive weezer fan and im so happy I started seriously listening to TMBG

@siractionslacks890

2 жыл бұрын

What does Weezer or the office have to do with TMBG?

@andrew-sn6gh

2 жыл бұрын

@@siractionslacks890 TMBG's best fitting genre is geek rock

omg Syd's powerstance was amazing

@PeterMcDowellArts

Жыл бұрын

AGREE!

@notanotherjamesmurphy5574

9 күн бұрын

respectfully disagree

Absolute perfection.

Worth it just to see how uncomfortable it made Leno. When was this?

@notanotherjamesmurphy5574

9 күн бұрын

The album was released on March 1992, so probably around then

I love how into it the bassist is

@deanevangelista6359

Жыл бұрын

Isn’t that Tony Mamione? He played with them for a while. Before that he was with Pere Ubu, and later Soul Coughing.

@ethanjones9383

8 ай бұрын

As a bassist, tmbg is a beautiful wellspring of amazing basslines, most of their tracks have outstanding groove

Forever love this song.

Love them!!!!!

I think Radiohead's The National Anthem owes a lot to this.

It's such a small thing but I love the harmonised sax line from 3:40

Flan is no Nile Rodgers, that's for sure.

Ms Fingerwood moonlighting as a Giant

House band was playing "Love Rears It's Ugly Head" in the break....

@RighteousBrother

3 жыл бұрын

Now THAT is interesting.

This tour was tha SHIT!

That was uber awesome to see!!! Does anybody know if all those other musicians that played the various instruments and vocals were indeed the same musicians who recorded the Apollo 18 album? they sounded spot on.... Wow!!

@crescentfreshbret

6 жыл бұрын

Harley Rowan Pretty sure they weren’t. I know that Laura Cantrell sang the “Lion Sleeps Tonight” parts on the album.

@RareSpibs

4 жыл бұрын

We were not.

@robadams5799

Жыл бұрын

@@crescentfreshbret I was always haunted by that beautiful voice. Did they duplicate it to make it sound like two or three singers?

plus isn't that Syd Straw singing?

Yes please

I remember, watching this, when it aired. One of the few times I would sit through Leno. (I hate him) I was thrilled to see Syd Straw singing back-up for them. I really liked her album she had then too.

The audience is still scratching their heads

Is that a gigantic drumming fuck-up just before the 'silver space ship' section?

If you don't get this I feel sorry for you..I really do.

I like this version of The Guitar a lot better than on the album, idk something about the album version feels like a kid song to me

Wow, leno's such a bad interviewer for such great artists

oh hey neat a wild KFOR indent at the end

How hyped do you think John was to whip out the bari sax?

Hey! Who's the playing? Hey! That odd angular guitar?

@0okamino

Жыл бұрын

Is it John?

Too many great songs to list, especially on Flood Album.

8:59 - 9:07 thank me later! ;)

Did I hear a little bit of Walk Like an Egyptian near the end of The Guitar?

At 7:28 Leno Band Plays Labi Siffre I Got The... 7 Years before it was sampled by Eminem!

And they even got Elvira to get on board. Nice. Wow. Leno sucks.......always. And it's Hamburger Hamlet. Dean Martin was there ever day.

I see the longboxes were still a thing 0:12

what year is this?

@siractionslacks890

2 жыл бұрын

1992

Who wrote their horn charts?

@hickorymccay2994

2 жыл бұрын

I bet it was Linnell. He's playing baritone sax anyways.

@ClueSign

2 жыл бұрын

@@hickorymccay2994 Makes sense.

hey today is July 8th

@notanotherjamesmurphy5574

9 күн бұрын

you predicted my future

@notanotherjamesmurphy5574

9 күн бұрын

today is Monday, July 8th, 2024

The teacher from Pete and Pete?

omg CD longboxes, I forgot that was a thing. I bought Apollo18 then so I would have had one to rip off and put in trash.

Pre- John Henry... Before they retreated into their Snail Shells, thank you. Also, did they ever appear on The Tonight Show after Statue got me High? I'd think Leno would take offense at that song. Most religious Americans hate being shown such a mirror.

@ThreadBomb

4 жыл бұрын

What do you think that song is about?

@williamking5506

4 жыл бұрын

I'm also VERY interested in your interpretation of that song. I can see it as a parable about making an idol out of nearly anything, but a critique of religion as a concept, or a condemnation of faith itself? By all means, please go on!

@ezekielbrockmann114

4 жыл бұрын

@@williamking5506 @Thread Bomb Like statues of long-dead Confederate generals, worshiped as God-heads by klansmen who call themselves Christians on one day of the week but burn crosses on th other six. What do you think the song is about if not a critique of the act of worshiping false idols, golden calves, or other graven images?

@williamking5506

4 жыл бұрын

@@ezekielbrockmann114 I think that the song is a literal retelling of Pygmalion, but maybe I'm just silly that way.

@ezekielbrockmann114

4 жыл бұрын

@@williamking5506 Maybe you are.

Leno is the worst latenight host lmao how did he keep that gig for so long

I've always enjoyed John's songs better than John's songs.

Lenno not funny .ever not once.

Kinda like Weezer but more simple, innocent.

@siractionslacks890

2 жыл бұрын

Weezer is as simple as it gets.

@nolimit6377

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing like Weezer because they don't fucking suck

@kikivesz

Жыл бұрын

​@@nolimit6377 are you saying that weezer sucks or that tmbg sucks..

@nolimit6377

Жыл бұрын

@@kikivesz weezer sucks.

@Peepawpeep

6 ай бұрын

@@kikiveszi think they’re saying that weezer sucks. Imo weezer does not suck

Leno’s the worst, no surprise he doesn’t understand the genius of the Johns

Never liked that first song. Statue is great, though. 7:33

@timothysoar1321

4 жыл бұрын

Do you not Get funk?

@PinstripeHourglass

3 жыл бұрын

Can’t stand The Guitar but statue rules

@notanotherjamesmurphy5574

9 күн бұрын

Linnell > Flans