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American alternative rock band

They Might Be Giants
From left: John Flansburgh and John Linnell in 2020.
Background information
Also known as	TMBG El Grupo De Rock and Roll
Origin	Brooklyn, New York, U.South.
Genres	Culling rock art rock power pop children's music geek rock[1] [2] [3] [4]
Years active	1982–present
Labels	Bar/None Barsuk Restless Elektra Zoë Disney Sound Rough Trade Rounder Lojinx Megaforce
Members	John Flansburgh John Linnell Dan Miller Danny Weinkauf Marty Beller
Past members	Hal Cragin Brian Doherty Jonathan Feinberg Dan Hickey Kurt Hoffman Graham Maby Tony Maimone Eric Schermerhorn Mike Viola
Website	world wide web.theymightbegiants.com world wide web.dialasong.com

They Might Be Giants (oft abbreviated as TMBG) is an American alternative rock ring formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell. During TMBG's early on years, Flansburgh and Linnell frequently performed as a duo, often accompanied by a drum machine. In the early 1990s, TMBG expanded to include a backing band.^[5] The duo'south current backing band consists of Marty Beller, Dan Miller, and Danny Weinkauf.

The group take been noted for their uniquely experimental and absurdist style of culling music, typically using surreal, humorous lyrics and unconventional instruments in their songs. Over their career, they accept establish success on the modern rock and college radio charts. They have besides found success in children's music, and in theme music for several idiot box programs and films. The duo has been credited equally vital in the creation of the prolific DIY music scene in Brooklyn in the mid-1980s.^[6]

TMBG have released 23 studio albums. Overflowing has been certified platinum and their children's music albums Hither Come up the ABCs, Here Come the 123s, and Here Comes Science have all been certified gilt. The band has won two Grammy Awards. They were nominated for a Tony Honor for Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre for SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical.^[7] The band has sold over four meg records.^[8]

History [edit]

John Linnell and Flansburgh first met as teenagers growing upwardly in Lincoln, Massachusetts. They began writing songs together while attending Lincoln-Sudbury Regional Loftier School simply did not course a band at that time. The two attended split up colleges after high school and Linnell joined The Mundanes, a new wave group from Rhode Island. The two reunited in 1981 after moving to Brooklyn (to the same flat building on the same day) to go on their career.^[ix]

Earlier years (1982–1989) [edit]

At their start concert, They Might Be Giants performed nether the name El Grupo De Rock and Coil (Spanish for "the Rock and Roll Band"), because the show was a Sandinista rally in Central Park, and a majority of the audience members spoke Castilian.^[ten] Presently discarding this name, the band assumed the name of a 1971 motion picture They Might Be Giants (starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward), which is in turn taken from a Don Quixote passage about how Quixote mistook windmills for evil giants. According to Dave Wilson, in his book Rock Formations, the name They Might Exist Giants had been used and subsequently discarded by a friend of the band who had a ventriloquism act.^[11] The proper noun was so adopted by the band, who had been searching for a suitable name.

A common misconception is that the proper noun of the band is a reference to themselves and an allusion to future success. In an interview, John Flansburgh said that the words "they might exist giants" are just a very outward-looking forwards thing which they liked. He clarified this in the documentary picture Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns) by explaining that the name refers to the outside world of possibilities that they saw as a fledgling ring. In an before radio interview, John Linnell described the phrase every bit "something very paranoid sounding".^[12]

The duo began performing their own music in and around New York Metropolis – Flansburgh on guitar, Linnell on accordion and saxophone and accompanied by a drum machine or prerecorded backing track on audio cassette. Their atypical instrumentation, along with their songs which featured unusual subject area matter and clever wordplay, before long attracted a strong local following. Their performances too featured absurdly comical stage props such as oversized fezzes and large cardboard cutout heads of newspaper editor William Allen White.^[13] Many of these props would later turn up in their commencement music videos. From 1984 to 1987, They Might Exist Giants were the house-ring at Darinka, a Lower East Side operation order ^[fourteen] run by Gary Ray. I weekend a calendar month they played on the stage in that location and by the stop of their three-twelvemonth stint sold out every performance. On March 30, 1985, TMBG released their 7" flexi-disc, dubbed "Wiggle Diskette" at Darinka. The disc included demos of the songs "Everything Right Is Wrong" and "You'll Miss Me".^{[ citation needed ]}

Dial-A-Song (1985–2015) [edit]

At one indicate, Linnell broke his wrist in a biking accident, and Flansburgh'south apartment was burgled, stopping them from performing for a time. During this hiatus, they began recording their songs onto an answering automobile, and so advertising the phone number in local newspapers such as The Village Phonation, using the moniker "Dial-A-Song".^[15] They likewise released a demo cassette, which earned them a review in People magazine. The review caught the attention of Bar/None Records, who signed them to a recording deal.^[16]

Through the 1980s until 1998, Dial-A-Song consisted of an answering car with a tape of the ring playing various songs. The car played one track at a time, ranging from demos and uncompleted work to mock advertisements the band had created. It was often difficult to access due to the popularity of the service and the dubious quality of the machines used. In reference to this, ane of Punch-A-Song's many slogans over the years was the tongue-in-cheek "E'er Busy, Oft Cleaved". The number, (718) 387-6962, was a local Brooklyn number and was charged accordingly, but the band advertised it with the line: "Complimentary when you telephone call from work".

At one indicate in 1988, the Dial-A-Song answering automobile recorded a conversation betwixt two people who had listened to Dial-A-Song, and then questioned how they made money out of it. An extract from the chat has been included as a hidden track on the EP for (She Was A) Hotel Detective. In the belatedly '90s, TMBG started switching to a digital unit of measurement to update the format for Punch-A-Vocal, but due to frequent crashes, the band returned to the original format.

In March 2000, TMBG started the website dialasong.com, which was more than reliable than the original, telephone-based version, equally it used a Flash document to stream the songs.

In 2002, Dial-A-Vocal's answering auto bankrupt down, and fans responded past sending new like models. In the post-obit year, Dial-A-Song resumed service with a new answering car. By 2005, a computer system from TechTV was provided to maintain the system, simply technical difficulties started bringing the organization to an stop.

In 2006, Dial-A-Vocal became increasingly difficult to maintain as a result of unreliable answering machines that had to be replaced. The stress placed upon the answering machine in addition to its age caused excessive wear, and the machine broke downwardly soon afterward. In August, Punch-A-Vocal ceased production and considering fans started taking advantage of the net, information technology was replaced with a page promoting the They Might Be Giants podcasts.

John Linnell stated in an interview in early 2008 that Punch-A-Vocal had died of a technical crash, and that the Internet had taken over where the machine left off. On November 15, 2008, the Dial-A-Song number was officially disconnected, though the number has at times been re-used in a similar style past other independent artists.

In 2015, Dial-A-Song was reactivated.

They Might Exist Giants and Lincoln (1986–1989) [edit]

The duo released their self-titled debut album in 1986, which became a college radio striking. The video for "Don't Allow's Start", filmed in the New York Country Pavilion congenital for the 1964 New York World'due south Fair in Queens, became a hit on MTV in 1987, earning them a broader following. In 1988, they released their second anthology, Lincoln, named after the duo's hometown. It featured the song "Ana Ng" which reached No. xi on the U.s.a. Mod Rock nautical chart. Both albums were produced on 8-track tape at Dubway Studios in New York Urban center.

Move to Elektra (1989–1992) [edit]

In 1989, They Might Exist Giants signed with Elektra Records, and released their third album Alluvion the following year. Inundation earned them a platinum album, largely thanks to the success of "Birdhouse in Your Soul" which reached number 3 on the US Mod Rock chart, equally well as "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)", a cover of a song originally by The Iv Lads.

In 1990, Throttle mag interviewed They Might Be Giants and clarified the meaning of the song "Ana Ng": John Flansburgh said, "Ng is a Vietnamese name. The vocal is virtually someone who'southward thinking near a person on the verbal opposite side of the earth. John looked at a earth and figured out that if Ana Ng is in Vietnam and the person is on the other side of the world, then information technology must be written by someone in Peru".^[17]

Farther interest in the ring was generated when ii cartoon music videos were created by Warner Bros. Blitheness for Tiny Toon Adventures: "Istanbul" and "Particle Man".^[18] The videos reflected TMBG's loftier "child appeal", resulting from their often absurd songs and poppy melodies.

In 1991, Bar/None Records released the B-sides compilation Miscellaneous T. The championship referred to the section of the tape store where TMBG releases were often institute besides as to the overall eclectic nature of the tracks.^{[ citation needed ]} Though consisting of previously released material (relieve for the "Purple Toupee" b-sides, which were non available publicly), it gave new fans a chance to hear the Johns' earlier non-album piece of work without having to hunt down the individual EPs.

In early on 1992, They Might Be Giants released Apollo 18. The heavy space theme coincided with TMBG being named Musical Ambassadors for International Infinite Year. Singles from the album included "The Statue Got Me High", "I Palindrome I", and "The Guitar (The Panthera leo Sleeps Tonight)". Apollo xviii was also notable for being i of the showtime albums to have reward of the CD player's shuffle characteristic. The song "Fingertips" actually comprised 21 separate tracks — short snippets that not merely acted together to make the vocal but that when played in random order would exist interspersed between the album's full-length songs. Due to mastering errors, the UK and Australian versions of Apollo 18 contained "Fingertips" equally ane track.

Recruiting a band (1992–1998) [edit]

Post-obit Apollo 18, for live shows, Flansburgh and Linnell (who themselves play the guitar and squeeze box or sax, respectively) decided to move abroad from recorded backing tracks, and recruited a supporting band (Kurt Hoffman of The Ordinaires on reeds and keyboards, longtime Pere Ubu bassist Tony Maimone, and drummer Jonathan Feinberg).

John Henry was released in 1994. Influenced by their more than conventional lineup, this album marked a difference from their previous releases with more of a guitar-heavy audio.^[19] It was released to mixed reviews amid fans and critics alike.

Their next anthology, Factory Exhibit, was released in 1996 to fiddling fanfare. The band had quickly moved abroad from the feel of John Henry, and Factory Showroom returns to the more diverse sounds of their earlier albums, despite the inclusion of 2 guitarists, the second being Eric Schermerhorn who provided several guitar solos.

They left Elektra later on the duo refused to do a publicity testify, amid other exposure-related disputes.^[xiv]

In 1998, they released a mostly-live album Astringent Tire Damage from which came the single "Medico Worm", a studio recording.

Around this aforementioned time period, Danny Weinkauf (bass) and Dan Miller (guitar) were recruited for their recording and touring band. Both had been members of the bands Lincoln and Candy Butchers which were previous opening acts for TMBG. Weinkauf and Miller proceed to work with the ring to the present day.

Across Elektra and move to Restless Records (1999–2003) [edit]

For most of their career, TMBG has made innovative apply of the Internet. Equally early on as 1992, the band was sending news updates to their fans via Usenet newsgroups. In 1999, They Might Be Giants became the first major-label recording artist to release an unabridged anthology exclusively in MP3 format. The anthology, Long Tall Weekend,^[20] is sold through Emusic.

Also, in 1999, the ring contributed the song "Dr. Evil" to the motion film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Over their career, the band has performed on numerous movie and television soundtracks, including The Oblongs, the ABC News miniseries Dauntless New World and Ed and His Expressionless Female parent. They also performed the theme music "Dog on Fire", composed by Bob Mould, for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.^{[21] [22]} They composed and performed the music for the TLC series Resident Life, the theme song for the Disney Channel programme Higglytown Heroes, and songs about the cartoons Dexter'south Laboratory and Courage the Cowardly Dog.^[23]

During this time, the band as well worked on a project for McSweeney's, a publishing company and literary journal. The band wrote a McSweeney's theme song and xl-four songs for an anthology that was meant to be listened to with the journal, with each track respective to a particular story or piece of artwork. Labeled They Might Be Giants vs. McSweeney's, the deejay appears in consequence No. 6 of Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Business concern.

	Sample of the band's Grammy Laurels–winning theme song to Malcolm in the Centre.
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Contributing the single "Boss of Me" as the theme song to the hit television series Malcolm in the Middle, also as to the prove's compilation CD, brought a new audience to the ring. Not only did the band contribute the theme, songs from all of the Giants' previous albums were used on the show: for example, the infamous punching-the-kid-in-the-wheelchair scene from the first episode was done to the strains of "Pencil Pelting" from Lincoln. Another song to feature in the series was "Spiraling Shape". "Dominate of Me" became the band'southward second top-40 hit in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland which they performed on long-running UK television program Superlative of the Pops, and in 2002, won the duo a Grammy Award.^[24]

On September 11, 2001, they released the album Mink Car on Restless Records. It was their first full album release of new studio material since 1996 and their first since departing ways with Elektra. The making of that album, including a record signing event at a Manhattan Tower Records, was included in a documentary directed by AJ Schnack titled Gigantic (A Tale of Ii Johns). The film was released on DVD in 2003.

In 2002, they released No!, their first album "for the entire family". Using the enhanced CD format, it included an interactive blitheness for well-nigh of the songs. They followed it upwards in 2003 with their first book, an illustrated children'due south book with an included EP, Bed, Bed, Bed.

Podcasting, independent releases, and children'southward music (2004–2015) [edit]

They Might Be Giants performing at Bar None, in Brooklyn, NY

In 2004, the ring created ane of the first creative person-owned online music stores, at which customers could buy and download MP3 copies of their music, both new releases and many previously released albums. By creating their own store, the ring could keep money that would otherwise go to record companies. With the redesign of the ring's website in 2010, the shop was reincarnated.

Also, in 2004, the ring released its start new "adult" rock work since the release of No!, the EP Indestructible Object. This was followed by a new album, The Spine, and an associated EP, The Spine Surfs Alone. It was at this time that Dan Hickey was replaced past Marty Beller, who had previously collaborated with TMBG. For the album's first single, "Experimental Motion-picture show", TMBG teamed up with Homestar Runner creators Matt and Mike Chapman to create an animated music video.^[25] The band's collaboration with the Brothers Chaps also included several Puppet Jam segments with puppet Homestar and the music for a Strong Bad email titled "Different Town". In 2006 they recorded a track for the 200th Stiff Bad e-mail, where Linnell provided the voice of The Poopsmith.^{[26] [27]}

TMBG likewise contributed a rails to the 2004 Futurity Soundtrack For America compilation, a project compiled by John Flansburgh with the assist of Spike Jonze and Barsuk Records. The band contributed "Tippecanoe and Tyler As well", a political campaign song from the presidential ballot of 1840. The compilation was released by Barsuk and featured indie, alternative, and high-profile acts such equally Death Cab for Cutie, The Flaming Lips, and Brilliant Optics. All proceeds went to progressive organizations such as Music for America and MoveOn.org.^[28]

Flansburgh and Linnell made a guest appearance in "Camp", the Jan 11, 2004, episode of the animated sitcom Dwelling Movies. They voice both a pair of camp counselors and members of a strange hooded male person bonding cult.^[29] On May 10, 2004, they made a guest advent on the final episode of Blueish's Clues called "Bluestock" alongside Toni Braxton, Macy Greyness, and India.Arie. They Might Be Giants were in a letter for Joe and Blue.

They Might Be Giants perform a gratuitous evidence at Amoeba Music in Hollywood, CA on March 25, 2005

Post-obit the Spine on the Hiway Tour of 2004, the band announced that they would take an extended hiatus from touring to focus on other projects, such as a musical produced by Flansburgh and written by his wife, Robin "Goldie" Goldwasser, titled People Are Wrong!.

2005 saw the release of Hither Come the ABCs, TMBG's follow-up to the successful children's anthology No!. The Disney Sound label released the CD and DVD separately on Feb 15, 2005. To promote the album, Flansburgh and Linnell along with drummer Marty Beller embarked on a short tour, performing for free at many Borders Bookstore locations. In November 2005, Venue Songs was released as a ii-disc CD/DVD fix narrated by John Hodgman. Information technology is a concept album based on all of the "venue songs" from their 2004 tour.

TMBG covered the Devo song "Through Beingness Absurd" in the 2005 Disney picture show Sky High. In 2008, they rerecorded the vocal "Have Out The Trash" (from The Else) in Simlish for inclusion in The Sims 2: Freetime.^{[30] [31]}

From 2005 to 2014, They Might Exist Giants fabricated podcasts on a monthly, sometimes bi-monthly, basis. Each edition included remixes of previous songs, rarities, covers, and new songs and skits recorded specifically for the podcast.

The band contributed 14 original songs for the 2006 Dunkin' Donuts advertisement campaign, "America Runs on Dunkin'",^[32] including "Things I Similar to Do", "Pleather", and "Fritalian". In the aired advertisement, Flansburgh sings "Fritalian" forth with his wife, Robin Goldwasser. In a 2008 commercial, "Moving" is played.^[33]

The band has produced and performed iii original songs for Playhouse Disney series: i for Higglytown Heroes and two for Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse features two original songs performed past group, including the opening theme song, in which a variant of a Mickey Mouse Gild chant ("Meeska Mooska Mickey Mouse!") is used to summon the Clubhouse, and "Hot Canis familiaris!", the song used at the end of the show. The song references Mickey's kickoff spoken words in the 1929 brusque The Karnival Kid.

They also recorded a cover of the Disney song, "At that place'south a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" for the film Meet the Robinsons and wrote and performed the theme song for The Drinky Crow Evidence. The band was recruited to provide original songs for the Henry Selick-directed film adaptation of Neil Gaiman's children's volume Coraline but were dropped because their music was not "creepy" enough.^[34] Just ane song, titled "Other Father Vocal", was kept for the film with Linnell singing every bit the titular "Other Father".

Their twelfth anthology, The Else, was released July ten, 2007, on Idlewild Recordings (and distributed by Zoë Records for the CD version), with an before digital release on May 15 at the iTunes Shop. Accelerate copies were fabricated bachelor to stations past mid-June 2007.^[35] The album was produced by Pat Dillett (David Byrne) and The Grit Brothers (Brook, Beastie Boys).^[36] On Feb 12, 2009, They Might Be Giants performed the song "The Mesopotamians" from the anthology on Tardily Night with Conan O'Brien.^[37]

In the rest of 2007, They Might Exist Giants wrote a deputed piece for Brooklyn-based robotic music outfit League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots and performed for 3 dates at the effect, and covered the Pixies "Havalina" for American Laundromat Records Dig For Burn down - a tribute to PIXIES compilation.

They Might Be Giants' new logo

The band'southward 13th album, Hither Come up the 123s, a DVD/CD follow-up to 2005's critically acclaimed Hither Come the ABCs children'due south project, was released on February 5, 2008.^[38] On April 10, 2008, They Might Be Giants performed the song "Vii" from the album on Tardily Nighttime with Conan O'Brien. In 2009, the album won the Grammy Honor for "Best Musical Album For Children" during the 51st Annual Grammy Awards.^[39]

The ring'southward fourteenth album, Here Comes Science, a science-themed children'due south anthology.^[twoscore] This album introduced listeners to natural, formal, social, and applied sciences. It was released on September 1, 2009, and nominated for a Grammy Award on December ane, 2010.

On November three, They Might Be Giants sent out a newsletter stating "The Avatars of They", a ready of sock puppets the Johns dispense for shows, will have an album in 2012, suggesting another children's album. However, a new adult album titled Bring together Us was released on July 19, 2011.^{[41] [42]}

On October iii, 2011, Artix Amusement announced that the ring would exist performing in-game for a special musical consequence to commemorate the 3rd birthday of their popular MMORPG AdventureQuest Worlds. They were featured in AdventureQuest World'south special 3rd birthday issue every bit John and John.^[43]

On March 5, 2013, the band released their sixteenth developed studio album, Nanobots, on their Idlewild Recordings characterization in the United states and on British indie label Lojinx in Europe.^{[44] [45]}

The live anthology Flood Alive in Australia was fabricated bachelor for free digital download by the band in 2015. Besides in 2015, the band reactivated its Dial-A-Song service nether the banner of Dial-A-Song-Straight, promising to release one new song every week for the entire twelvemonth, beginning with the track "Erase" on January 5. Several of these songs were planned to exist nerveless on a new studio rock album entitled Glean on Apr 21, 2015.

The band released their newest children's album, Why?, on November 27, 2015. It was their fifth children'due south album and the first children's album to be released nether their own characterization, Idlewild Recordings.

In a video released on December 20, 2015, John Flansburgh announced that the band would exist taking a temporary suspension following their 2016 U.Southward. tour.

Dial-A-Song revival, Phone Ability, I Similar Fun, and BOOK (2015–present) [edit]

Flansburgh (left) and Linnell (right) in 2016

Punch-A-Song was revived in 2015, with a new phone number ((844) 387-6962), the website, and a radio network.^[46] In late 2017, the band announced via Twitter that Punch-A-Vocal would render once again, in a modified format, starting in January 2018.^[47]

On March 8, 2016, the band released Phone Power, their nineteenth studio album and the third containing songs from the 2015 revival of their Dial-a-Song service. This was the get-go TMBG album to exist sold every bit a "pay what you want" download, available ahead of the physical release on June 10.^{[48] [49]} The band's twentieth album, I Like Fun was released on Jan 19, 2018.^[fifty] Their twenty-first and twenty-2d studio albums, My Murdered Remains and The Escape Team, were both released on Dec ten, 2018. My Murdered Remains contains songs from the 2015 and 2018 iterations of Punch-A-Song.^{[ citation needed ]}

They made a song "I'm Not a Loser" for the SpongeBob SquarePants musical in 2016.^[51]

In October 2019, the band recorded a new version of their song "Hot Canis familiaris" for the third season of the Disney Channel preschool series Mickey and the Roadster Racers, re-titled as Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures for that season. It premiered on Disney Junior on October 14, 2019.

In July 2020, the ring announced that they would exist releasing an album titled BOOK in 2021. The album was released on November 12, 2021.

In Baronial 2020, the band recorded a vocal for a CNN documentary well-nigh the balloter college.^[52]

Presently later on resuming live tours once more in June 2022, John Flansburgh was involved in a car accident while on his way home from the June 8 concert. He suffered several broken ribs, merely has a positive prognosis from doctors. However, upcoming tour dates were once more postponed while he recovered.^{[53] [54]}

Members [edit]

Current lead members John Flansburgh – vocals, guitar (1982–present), bass (1982–1992) John Linnell – vocals, accordion, keyboards, woodwinds (1982–present) Current backing band members Dan Miller – guitar, keyboards, bankroll vocals (1998–present) Danny Weinkauf – bass guitar, keyboards (1998–present) Marty Beller – drums, percussion (2004–present) Occasional backing ring members Brusque Ramm- trumpet, valve trombone, euphonium Dan Levine- trombone, euphonium, tuba Stan Harrison- saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet, flute

Sometime backing ring members Kurt Hoffman – keyboards, woodwinds (1992–1994) Tony Maimone – bass guitar (1992–1995) Jonathan Feinberg – drums (1992) Brian Doherty – drums (1993–1997) Graham Maby – bass guitar (1996–1997) Eric Schermerhorn – guitar (1996–1998) Dan Hickey – drums (1997–2004) Hal Cragin – bass guitar (1997–1998)

Timeline [edit]

Discography [edit]

Throughout their career, They Might Be Giants take released 23 studio albums, ten compilations, 10 alive albums, eight EPs, 7 videos and xi singles.^[55]

Original albums [edit]

• They Might Be Giants (1986)
• Lincoln (1988)
• Overflowing (1990)
• Apollo 18 (1992)
• John Henry (1994)
• Factory Showroom (1996)
• Long Alpine Weekend (1999)
• Mink Car (2001)
• The Spine (2004)
• The Else (2007)
• Bring together U.s.a. (2011)
• Nanobots (2013)
• Glean (2015)
• Telephone Power (2016)
• I Like Fun (2018)
• My Murdered Remains (2018)
• The Escape Team (2018)
• BOOK (2021)

Children's albums [edit]

• No! (2002)
• Here Come the ABCs (2005)
• Here Come the 123s (2008)
• Here Comes Scientific discipline (2009)
• Why? (2015)

Charting singles [edit]

Year	Title	Chart positions			Album	Notes
		The states Modern Rock	U.k. Singles Chart	Australian ARIA Charts
1988	"Ana Ng"	11	-	-	Lincoln	First charting single
1990	"Birdhouse in Your Soul"	3	6	125	Flood	Highest-charting single
1990	"Twisting"	22	-	-
1990	"Istanbul"	-	61	-
1992	"The Statue Got Me High"	24	-	-	Apollo 18
1994	"Snail Shell"	19	-	-	John Henry
2001	"Boss of Me"	-	21	29	Music from Malcolm in the Middle
2001	"Human being, It's And so Loud in Hither"	-	-	87[56]	Mink Car
2010	"Birdhouse in Your Soul"	-	70	-	Alluvion	Re-entry following the song'due south use in an advertisement for Clarks Shoes

Music videos [edit]

The ring has released 25 main music videos for songs from their rock albums.^[viii] All of their children's albums accept also included video content or run alongside DVD releases. The band also has videos for each of the Dial-A-Vocal tracks from 2015 and 2018 on their main YouTube channel, ParticleMen.

Direct from Brooklyn [edit]

In 1999, They Might Exist Giants released Directly from Brooklyn, a VHS compilation of their music videos from 1986 up to that point. Information technology was reissued on DVD in 2003. The following music videos were included:

• "Put Your Mitt Inside the Puppet Caput" (1986)
• "Don't Permit'due south Kickoff" (1986)
• "(She Was a) Hotel Detective" (1986)
• "Ana Ng" (1988)
• "Royal Toupee" (1988)
• "They'll Need a Crane" (1988)
• "Birdhouse in Your Soul" (1990)
• "Istanbul" (blithe) (1990)
• "The Statue Got Me High" (1992)
• "The Guitar (The Panthera leo Sleeps Tonight)" (1992)
• "Snail Beat out" (1994)
• "Medico Worm" (1998)

Other videos [edit]

• "Rabid Kid" (unreleased, filmed in 1986)
• "Boss of Me" (2001)
• "Experimental Film" (animated) (2004)
• "Bastard Wants to Striking Me" (animated) (2004)
• "Here in Higglytown" (animated) (2004)
• "With The Dark" (blithe) (2007)
• "The Shadow Government" (animated) (2007)
• "I'm Impressed" (animated) (2007)
• "The Mesopotamians" (blithe) (2007)
• "Can't Go along Johnny Down" (2011)
• "Cloisonné" (2011)
• "In Fact" (2011)
• "You Probably Get That a Lot" (2011)
• "Spoiler Alert" (2011)
• "Marty Beller Mask" (2011)
• "When Volition You Die" (2012)
• "Icky" (animated) (2013)
• "Nanobots" (blithe) (2013)
• "Insect Hospital" (blithe) (2013)
• "Blackness Ops" (2013)
• "Y'all're on Fire" (2013)
• "Am I Awake?" (2014)

See also [edit]

• List of songwriter tandems

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