John Flansburg & John Linnell are They Might Be Giants. John Flansburg took the time to answer questions about their music, Nanobots & Star Trek pyjamas.
High quality audio files from the first album, Mink Car, The Else and Nanobots have all just been added to our youtube channel. Enjoy The Darlings of Lumberland with just a click!
What are your thoughts on your compilation releases? Do you like any of them?
I like all the recent ones-Cast Your Pod to the Wind, Album Raise New and Troubling Questions, They Got Lost.
I noticed you had a copy of Jesus Christ Superstar, so I was wondering, what other musicals, operas, and rock operas do you like?
Pajama Game. Guys and Dolls. Richard Rogers in general. West Side Story a LOT. Sondheim.
don't know if you guys are familiar with arrested development, but spotify created playlists for each of the characters to celebrate its coming back, and the one for tobias has TWO of your songs. very exciting.
please don't tell what song you're gonna do on Fallon, if you don't mind. i like it better that way.
I just got an email with a bunch of tour dates, including an "End of Tour" party. Didn't you promise a Florida show or two?
Florida is happening in the early fall.
John F, I know you directed Frank Black's Los Angeles video, but are you actually in the video? The fellow with the green raincoat, sunglasses and moustache looks more like you than Frank.
I was only behind the camera
Are you guys planning on touring in Michigan at all? I'd love to see you guys in concert!
We just played in Detroit. We’d love to play in Ann Arbor but I don’t know what the possibilities are there…
Just a good ol’ hat never meanin’ no harm
Beats all you’ve ever saw, been in trouble with the law
since the day it was worn
Straight’nin’ the curve, flat’nin’ the hills
Someday your sister might wear it, but your pa never will
Makin’ it’s way the only way it knows how
That’s just a little more hat than the law will allow
Just a good ol’ hat. Wouldn’t change if it could
Fightin’ the system like a trucking’ Robin Hood
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