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- A glance into the crowd assembled for the show in the NPR Music offices reveals just how far-reaching They Might Be Giants' appeal has become. Watch the band perform two of its brand-new songs, as well as "Fingertips," a classic 1992 chestnut.
Set List:
"Can't Keep Johnny Down"
"Cloisonné"
"Fingertips"
For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concerts podcast, visit npr.org/tinydeskconcerts.
John did an amazing job, but John was truly mindblowing!
Marty crushed it
John has been carrying John for years and everybody knows it.
@@bd9299292Controversial opinion. I feel like John is way better! He’s unstoppable.
It's incredible how Linnel's voice hasnt changed in 30 years
Oh it’s changed alright. Notice how his voice isn’t as nasally as it was back in the 80s-90s
He perfected it
His vocal improved massively, his "sound" stays the same they both do
He took great care of his voice while maximizing it’s benefit
@@recordcollector0665 linnel’s voice has always inspired me. It’s as nasally as day one but so deep too. The 80’s stuff was independent and self produced so the quality makes it seem he was extra nasally but in truth linnel always had this gift. Farnsworth has the better range but he can’t make the sound like linnel. What a perfect pairing though!
Coolest dorks in the world. I've been a fan since Flood. I love that they played "Fingertips"! Fantastic!
Kyle Laurent I freaked out over that. Was shocked.
I used to not like them much, but seeing them perform in such a humble environment really helps me connect with them more. It's also nice to put a voice to a face. Love his voice, it sounds way to big to fit such a small guy lol
See them live dude. Its a party!
I just realized earlier today that the reason I'm such a strange human being is that these guys provided the soundtrack to my childhood. I listened to "Fingertips" more times than I can describe. And any six year old partying around the living room to "Cowtown" isn't going to turn out 100% normal.
i grew up with their children's albums..
maybe that's why i'm such a science nerd now...
@@mr.drearygiraffe6005 That's wonderful. I was already an adult when their first kids' album (No!) came out, but I was thinking 'man, how great would it be to grow up with their kids' music and then discover as a teenager / young adult that they have 30+ years back catalogue of amazing songs you've yet to discover'. You're lucky!!
I kept fellow scouts and leaders awake in an overnight cave stay in the early 90s until 3 am or so with my renditions of Particle Man.
That's awesome. It seems odd to not hear _Space Suit_ after _Fingertips_, though.
I know it's been 3 years since you made this comment, but that was my FIRST THOUGHT!
bwyeeeeoooooOOOOOOOOWEEEEEE!
bwyeeeeoooooOOOOOOOOWEEEEEE!
bahn-banana
bahn-banana
bwyeeeeoooooOOOOOOOOWEEEEEE!
bwyeeeeoooooOOOOOOOOWEEEEEE!
It's true! It's part of fingertips to me also. I start humming it every time....
there is no one like TMBG. I am amazed at how they maintain such a high level of creativity throughout their career and keep producing great songs.
DS B look up Ben Folds/Ben Folds Five. He’s just as amazing. I love TMBG and BF5 both equally
I don't think I REALLY appreciated them until my 4 year old became interested in music.
Agreed. Through my life I have not respected a band more than these folks, as far as continuity. I had Apollo 18 in my tape player as a kid delivering papers, Im almost 40 now and still love them to death.
The band Sparks bears a lot of similarities to TMBG.
I didn’t know John played bass clarinet 😩💕 they’re so talented smh
Bass clarinet!!!
It says something for how well played my copy of Apollo 18 was that I knew every last bit of Fingertips and could sing along.
Me too. Great in concert.
Seems to be the case with a lot of TMBG fans. You don't often hear of folks thinking they're just "ok". Mostly, their fans are HUGE fans.
Linnell's glasses are so adorable xD They make him look like he has big bug eyes! =D
I liked the video but what's that blue thing doing there?
+CabbageTalks something grabbed ahold of my hand while I was watching this video, but I didnt know it had my hand
All alone, all alone all by myself
Don’t let’s start...
That's just John
I don't know, but it came on and wrecked my car
Rumor has it they were born in Ancient Egypt have been behind ALL awesome music since that time, using magic and various shapeshifting abilities. That would put them up in the late 2000s or early 3000s. They look good for that age
TMBG and NPR. Two acronyms that I like.
Daniel Cropp initialism not acronym
+x2f01mick we get it, you majored in English.
I gotcha though, thanks for the heads up. You're right, those are initialisms, not acronyms. You wouldn't say "tum-bug" or "enn-purr". Like we say the individual letters in FBI, and not "eff-bye".
Daniel Cropp I
@@danielcropp8553 "finale of seem"
I am from Ukraine, and you're my favourite band!
Nobody writes so brilliantly simple and funny!
All the best to you in Ukraine!! So awesome that you like TMBG! You must be very interesting 😀
Greetings from December 2023. I hope you, your family, and your friends are safe.
Thanks Jill, thank god we're all okay and safe@@JillKnapp Merry Christmas!
Wait, whaaaaaaaat. How have I not seen this already? I watch tons of TMBG stuff, and tons of tiny desk concerts. Hey TH-cam, you really dropped the ball here.
Couldn't agree more. Just saw them in San Diego the other day, and now this finally arrives for me. The amount of Tiny Desks I've watched, I honestly have no idea how I didn't know this happened! Now we just get to appreciate it from now until the end of time.
TH-cam was great with recommendations until Algorithm started hanging out with the wrong crowd and became “Alcorithm”. Don’t do it, kids!
They Might Be Giants was the first concert I ever went to when I was in high school and the energy that night was insane. I had a total blast.
Thanks for showing "The Love Garden"--and by extension the awesome city of Lawrence, KS--some love, TMBG!
Did it happen to be in the background at NPR or did TMBG bring it in?
Jesus, i saw them 25 years ago the 2. LP "Flood" was comming out. Nice to see them alive!
I have not heard a band vocalize and harmonize since the bands of the 60's like CSN, Carpenters, Mamas & Papas, The Association etc. TMBG got me through some very down times. I love you guys! (In a manly way, of course!)
I like Cloisonne more every time I hear it. Such a neat song.
Marty's really feelin' those darkened corridors
I love the visitors pass on Professor Flans, awesome!
Here come the ABCs!
love how flans starts to smile as soon as he hears “dicks”
I saw them last week in 1989.
They've been a favourite of mine since high school.
Best rendition of Fingertips I've ever seen.
I saw them in Vancouver in 2018, If you have a chance to see these guys in concert, don't miss it. Their stage is filled with much energy, master musicians, great comedy, fantastic light show and visuals, all around quality experience.
I can’t love this enough. Acoustic TMBG is something amazing!! ❤️
Join Us has been one of their best modern albums
i *love* *love* the faces marty makes
My favorite performance of Fingertips!
"Sleestak: a race of reptilian bipedal humanoids." (.."creatures that evolved from the peaceful Altrusions.") Thanks, guys! :D
Man I can't believe I've been a TMBG fan since before Nanobots (youngin) and I'm just now finding this!! They sound absolutely fabulous, especially surprising with such a sparse group. Of course this performance is very much for the fans!
Great. Now I'm going to have to listen to Apollo 18 on shuffle... again. :-)
That fingertips performance was so IMPRESSIVE! LOVE JOHNS
Just noticed they have the book written by David Barnes, the brother of Kevin from of Montreal on the back shelf. Niiice.
If any band was made for a tiny desk concert ....
0:14 look at flans burgh's face lol
Wow. Such a great sound from just three guys! Love em.
Something about TMBG always makes me feel simultaneously not cool enough and too cool to understand what's happening.
I wish I had a voice like them
so do i...
i love that they were in that tv show Home Movies
I never miss a show when they come around. Caught em in the bookstore once
Borders Providence? I was there!
Reppin' Lawrence, KS in the background, hell yeah! I have the best home town. LFK
Exhilarating. Love their songs so much.
Marty just chillin' in the back there
"They Might Be Sleestaks"
These guys are incredible. Their music is so eclectic, and unique.
There’s no middle ground with They Might Be Giants for me. I either love their songs, or don’t like the song at all (it won’t even grow on me over time).
Their greats are truly great. And the rest, well….just aren’t quite for me.
5:29 underneath my piLEOW and the utter chaos by flansy soon afterward i love them sm
Hearing this opener. Watching F lean into the mic on Cloisonné and L do proper pointing when he has the hand free during Fingertips...I don't need anything else.
@tubeboob San Francisco? The only time I've seen them, in January 2001, was at the SF Fillmore. Some band named OKGO opened.
Didn't know that TMBG were on Tiny Desk. This is soo awesome!
I like the Love Garden representation in the back! Lawrence is awesome.
The thumbnail made it look like he was holding the Love Garden slipmat. I wonder how it ended up at NPR tiny desk!
my favorite band!
me too!
Me too!
Just discovered this. Feel better now :-)
Top 5 favorite bands of all time for me.
Greatest band of all time
What kind of a guitar is that Flans is playing? I love the sound of it
Looks like a Gibson L1, but the "The Gibson" logo is slanted, so I'm not sure if it's a reissue or a vintage guitar.
I believe it's a reissue with the logo looking funny because Flans has it flipped for his left handed sensibilities
Both moments where Linnell goes to the higher note on "Can't keep John-NY down" are absolute marvels of an autistic inner stillness, unmooring himself entirely from the sensory input of the external world and following only the sound of his own voice
Real….,,,.,.,.also in a lot of live shows you can see him do odd movements with his hands and feet when he plays/sings, which isn’t a overtly autistic thing but I like to think it’s his way of stimming :)
7:11 for MIH-STEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERIOUS WHISPER!
OMG - came across this by complete accident - AMESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!
nothing to add here. just noticed that i could be comment 420. can’t keep johnny down is a sleeper all time tmbg track
There’s probably a very funny reason why the guitarist is the only one wearing a visitor pass... I wish I knew what it was
linell has his on the keyboard
:heart: to the Love Garden sign in the background. Great shout-out to a great independent record store.
I love this song 😍❤️🙏👋🎶😘👌🏼
Flansburgh needs to sing low notes more.
TMBG rocking it, as per usual.
Oh I don't mind the randomness at all. :) I just think they're music is much more approachable these days. I still love it.
I gotta give it the Johns, aging hasn't affected their vocals in the slightest.
Im filled with glee to see this!!!
They might be giants are what Weezer wish they were
8:55 They should have traded their guest pass and see if anyone would've noticed
i remember reading the av club religiously as a kid, imagining everyone there was cool and not the biggest sweatiest dorks in the world lol
Marty :D
JOHN LINNELL SO PRETTY PRETTY MAN PRETTY GUY AAAAA LOVE HIM HE S SO SWEET IM LOVE
Idk what overcame me when I wrote that. I let the beast free
@@polygawnare you okay
@@thegreatkompass no.
@@polygawn figures
I don't think there is a song that has lyrics "my gas cap is unscrewed' anywhere!
I walk along darkened corridors
-Kermit the frog
Did Tiger Beat ever feature these guys with a color spread?
Consistently amazing
Am I the only one who noticed that Flansburgh's name is mispelled as "Flanburgh" on his visitor pass?
Sheesh what a couple of weirdos.
I like that!
Does Linnell use a double lip embouchure?? (I do when I play sax/clarinet because I mainly play bassoon) It really looks like it :0!
contra alto clarinet iirc
I walk alone in darkened corridors
They always remain inventive and watchable above all very entertaining
Mystttttttteeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrious whisperererer
Really threw me off when they said their new album was “join us” hahaha
even where they're off and sloppy, they're a delight to listen to
Fingertips is the most random thing I've ever heard.
If I had to choose all music performed my They Might be Giants or all They Might be Giants songs Play by any musician I'm not sure wich I would go with but I'm taking that deal.
love it
The drummer always looked like a gopher to me because he makes funny faces when he plays.
Highly underrated
They have done more than 15 albums. Dyou really think they'd do their most well known poppy song for an "acoustic" type concert where they could do 3 songs? I wouldn't expect them to do birdhouse either.
Goat Herders Theyre working on their 23rd right now! Gotta love em :)
The only thing that could have made this video better was a rendition of Particle Man.
Boy, that lil’old parlor Gibson he was playing, looked shiny aye.
You can keep tune right away and have your buddy sustain all the way through?
I hate you (been a fan sense Flood)
Go away! (Please keep making music)
TMBG #1 Fan since Istanbol
The M stands for Magic
#tmbg #ymbtosob
oh, jeez, there IS a blue thing there.
fingertips has always been my favourite - great to see it live!
In my humble opinion, John Linnell is one of the greatest lyricists in the history of popular music. And his pipes seem to be getting better with age.
Hard agree. Last time I saw TMBG live, Linnell talked between songs about his lifelong quest to write the perfect pop song, and I think the reason he's so damn good is because he doesn't realize he's already done it about thirty times.
Vocalist or lyricicist?
@@playasadonejoe Yes
@@playasadonejoe He's the vocalilist and the lyricicist
It's funny because I really shared your opinion, before I discovered Mono Puff. :)