They Might Be Giants

[HunterRose]

Anyone else love them? If so who is your favorite member.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v610/TheLostSoulRolf/tmbg-color1.jpg
Mine is John Linnell.

But yeah anyways I love their music video for Dallas on the Venue Songs...

[Emu]

I like

[HunterRose]

Cool; another fan. So what is your favorite song?

Mine is a toss up between Trees, Kiss Me, Son of God, and bastard wants to hit me.

[Rabid Child]

Yes of course my #3 favorite Band, I named my sn after one of their songs.

[HunterRose]

hehe, mine came from a comic book (Matt Wagner's Grendel); but I have every album TMBG has given out, and they sit right next to my H2G2 Radio show CDs ^_^; oh and my War of the World CDs.

God I loved that cd set (the old cd version not connected to the movie) , such awesome music.

[Shifty]

i thinks you 2 knows each others!

[executioneer]

is this some elaborate spam

[Rabid Child]

hehe, mine came from a comic book (Matt Wagner's Grendel); but I have every album TMBG has given out, and they sit right next to my H2G2 Radio show CDs ^_^; oh and my War of the World CDs.

God I loved that cd set (the old cd version not connected to the movie) , such awesome music.

Sadly All I have is the anthology (case got wrecked and lost booklet), Then the Early Years, and NO! the kids album

[Rabid Child]

no it isn't, It's just coincidence

[executioneer]

i bought the "carmen sandiego: out of this world!" CD at the dollar store cause it had a tmbg track on it :x

[Rabid Child]

Awsome I loved that show. The ending theme song was the best

[zeldasbiggestfan]

THIS BAND RULES! I dunno the memebers though sorry dood.

[Sam]

MY FAVORITE MEMBER IS JOHN

[Fathom Zero]

I don't have a favourite member, but Flood is my favourite album.

[Misdemonar]

sorry guys, but I only listen to METAL :rock

[Pub Lover]

So you like TMBG's metal album then?

My favourite track off that album is the metal version of Song3, with the metal version of Particle Man a close second.

[Esuohlim]

I guess if I have to be a fag and participate in this thread I'll put Destination: Moon >:

[HunterRose]

my Favorite Albums are The Spine, just for the songs Bastard wants to hit me, and Damn Good Times, and Venue Songs, for Dallas (trees); and Hollywood (House of Blues)

[Jixby Phillips]

I like when garfield and friends parodied malcolm in the middle and they did a parody of their own theme "you aint the boss of ME-OW"

[HunterRose]

Have you seen their video for Bastard Wants to Hit me? It is classic, a paranoid kid getting chased around by a homocidal maniac, that shows the guy his scars that goes up from his pelvis all the way down his body. and he is proud of this fact.

[Sethomas]

They Might Be Standing on an Incline

They Might Be Suffering From Pituitary Gigantism

They Might Be Purchasing HGH Online Through Black-Market Websites

They Might Be Wearing Lifts

They Might Be the Recipients of Unusually Poofy Haircuts

[HunterRose]

The name "They Might Be Giants" is a reference to the Cervantes character Don Quixote and his penchant for tilting his lance against windmills, thinking that "they might be giants."

[Esuohlim]

No it's not it's a reference to a George C. Scott movie >:

[Grislygus]

In all fairness, the movie title itself was a reference to Don Quixote, so he's partly right.

[HunterRose]

I was just shortening the name reference, I doubt many have seen the movie "They Might Be Giants"; but I doubt few people in America, or Europe have heard of Don Quixote.

[Sethomas]

Never underestimate the power of American xenophobic ignorance.

[HunterRose]

eh? I didn't quite get what you were saying.

[Grislygus]

I don't think that ignorance of Don Quixote indicates xenophobia rather than just plain disinterest in anything historical.

[Pub Lover]

I was just shortening the name reference, I doubt many have seen the movie "They Might Be Giants"; but I doubt few people in America, or Europe have heard of Don Quixote.
Your sentence is clunky & unhelpful.

F

[HunterRose]

I understand that, at the moment though my mind is kinda turned to mush after reading ten books in a row before they were due back in the library.

EDIT: I'll just use the wiki entry part

The band takes its name from the 1971 movie They Might Be Giants starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward (based on the play of the same name written by James Goldman). The play (and movie) title is an allusion to Don Quixote, who mistook windmills for giants. George C. Scott's character discusses man's ability to invent and analyze past the obvious, saying:

Of course, [Quixote] carried it a bit too far. He thought that every windmill was a giant. That's insane. But, thinking that they might be... Well, all the best minds used to think the world was flat. But, what if it isn't? It might be round. And bread mold might be medicine. If we never looked at things and thought of what they might be, why, we'd all still be out there in the tall grass with the apes.

According to John Flansburgh, the name had been used and subsequently discarded by a friend of the band who had a ventriloquism act. The name was then adopted by the band who had been searching for a suitable name.

A common misconception is that the name of the band is a reference to themselves and an allusion to future success. In an interview John Flansburgh said (paraphrasing) that the words "they might be giants" are just a very outward-looking forward thing which they liked. He clarified this in the documentary movie Gigantic by explaining that the name refers to the outside world of possibilities that they saw as a fledgling band. In an earlier radio interview, John Linnell described the phrase as "something very paranoid sounding".[14]

The band's name is parodied in Terry Pratchett's novel Soul Music by the dwarf "rock band", "We're Certainly Dwarfs". Pratchett has repeatedly stated they are his favorite band.

[Grislygus]

The band takes its name from the 1971 movie They Might Be Giants starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward (based on the play of the same name written by James Goldman). The play (and movie) title is an allusion to Don Quixote, who mistook windmills for giants.

There. Out of all that text, this is the only thing that you needed to quote.

Of course, "needed" may not exactly be the right word, since I already freaking said it.

[HunterRose]

and
According to John Flansburgh, the name had been used and subsequently discarded by a friend of the band who had a ventriloquism act. The name was then adopted by the band who had been searching for a suitable name.

That is also important.

[Fathom Zero]

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/229/littlegiantsmoviedr6.jpg

[HunterRose]

lol.
On a side note, TMBG also does the theme song to The Daily Show

[Azrael]

So you signed up to the forums solely for all of the exciting They Might Be Giants talk that goes on around here huh?

[Sethomas]

Americans are xenophobic. Thus, they intentionally ignore historical anecdotes about foreign cultures. Thus, they are ignorant.

I just wonder when Old Spanish made the conversion from X's to J's in words like Quijote. Modern Spanish translations rarely spell Cervantes' quixotic character with an x anymore.

Oh, and those Tiny Toons episodes with TMBG were the secks back in the day.

[nothing4buddha]

MY FAVORITE MEMBER IS JOHN

thats hilarious you dicks its ok to laugh

[HunterRose]

So you signed up to the forums solely for all of the exciting They Might Be Giants talk that goes on around here huh?

No; but I did just start this topic and find fellow fans ^_^

[Rabid Child]

I'm asking my parents for the 9 albums i'm missing of theirs and the music video dvd used on amazon

[noob3]

There. Out of all that text, this is the only thing that you needed to quote.



im grislygus and reading hurts my brains

[GADZOOKS]

I like when garfield and friends parodied malcolm in the middle and they did a parody of their own theme "you aint the boss of ME-OW"

:lol Garfield you prince