This song originally required at least four lads. TMBG did it at much greater efficiency with half as many lads. Now, we can all celebrate that musical accomplishment in high quality.
@@masonbarrett4144 This isn't an original TMBG song. It's just a cover. It was originally performed by a band called "the four lads" in 1953! I was really surprised when I found this out!
When they were children, my mom managed to convince her youngest sister (the weirder of my two aunts) that the line was "even old New York was once New Hamsterdam".
The Four Lads version - A fun quartet song about the city of Constantinople. They Might Be Giants version - A modernized version with a more artsy touch, perfect for when it was written. The Residents version - Constantinople doesn’t exist anymore, and soon neither will you.
actually constantinople was constantinople for 500 years after that! It was just the Turkish variation Konstantiyyne(?), it wasn't until the 1920s when the ottomans fell that it was renamed
I listened to these songs when i was little because my dad listened to them all the time. i hadn’t heard them in over 10 years. i heard them again yesterday and the nostalgia hit me like a semi truck
Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, Oh Constantinople Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night Every gal in Constantinople Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople So if you've a date in Constantinople She'll be waiting in Istanbul Even old New York was once New Amsterdam Why they changed it I can't say People just liked it better that way So, Take me back to Constantinople No, you can't go back to Constantinople Been a long time gone, Oh Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks Istanbul Istanbul Istanbul Istanbul Even old New York was once New Amsterdam Why they changed it I can't say People just liked it better that way Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, Oh Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks So, Take me back to Constantinople No, you can't go back to Constantinople Been a long time gone, Oh Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks Istanbul
Absolutely, this song lives in my head rent free too! And The art of this video as well, the uniqueness and creativity, character development, claymation and stick drawings animation. Genius.
Wasn't the city itself called Constantinople from its founding? I know the kingdom (empire?) was called Byzantium but I thought the actual city was named after Constantine the great (then later unofficially changed to Istanbul after the ottoman's took over with it much later becoming the official name).
I went to a tiny branch campus for college. Occasionally I would travel to Penn State Main campus for football games, and party. The city was like another world. Every house, and apartment had a party going on. I ended up in this one apartment, and this cute tiny girl with glasses, I just met said “You have got to hear this song!” I was expecting something party inspired. This band with accordian couldn’t be farther from that. You could call them nerd rock, but I still love them.
After 28 years I finally get to see the whole video. Before this, I've only watched the Liquid Television version. You deserve more praise, guys. Good luck on your tour. BTW, who made the 2-D animation models? Was it Joe Murray?
I found myself on a desperate search for "words that rhyme with Istanbul," which was hell. But it led me here, so... yay! ps Why no credits for whoever created the video/the claymation, etc? I really love it!
All these years and I just learn now this was a cover. The Four Lads did the original. I still like this, but I have to say the original is better. TMBG leave out the best riff (sounds a bit like the I Dream of Jeannie theme).
@@DarthVader-w1e en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide Trying to deny another genocide that we have a historical record to support, including photos of mass crucifixions, mass burials, etc. Your people massacred millions of Christian minorities throughout the Ottoman territory after World War 1 and many of you people still deny it to this day. People lose their minds if some fringe loner tries to deny the Holocaust, yet YOUR GOVERNMENT denies these ethnic cleansings and most people don't even know about it.
İstanbul Konstantinopolis'ti Şimdi İstanbul, Konstantinopolis değil Uzun zaman oldu, Konstantinopolis Şimdi mehtaplı bir gecede Türk lokumu Konstantinopolis'teki her kız İstanbul'da yaşıyor, İstanbul'da değil Yani Konstantinopolis'te bir randevun varsa İstanbul'da bekliyor olacak Eski New York bile bir zamanlar New Amsterdam'dı Neden değiştirdiler söyleyemem İnsanlar böyle daha çok sevdi Bu yüzden beni Konstantinopolis'e geri götür Hayır, Konstantinopolis'e geri dönemezsin Uzun zaman oldu, Konstantinopolis Konstantinopolis neden eserleri aldı? Bu Türklerden başka kimseyi ilgilendirmez İstanbul, İstanbul İstanbul, İstanbul Eski New York bile bir zamanlar New Amsterdam'dı Neden değiştirdiler söyleyemem İnsanlar böyle daha çok sevdi İstanbul Konstantinopolis'ti Şimdi İstanbul, Konstantinopolis değil Uzun zaman oldu, Konstantinopolis Konstantinopolis neden eserleri aldı? Bu Türklerden başka kimseyi ilgilendirmez Bu yüzden beni Konstantinopolis'e geri götür Hayır, Konstantinopolis'e geri dönemezsin Uzun zaman oldu, Konstantinopolis Konstantinopolis neden eserleri aldı? Bu Türklerden başka kimseyi ilgilendirmez İstanbul. This is Turkish for the whole lyrics!
Not me, been a TMBG fan since the late 80s, but hearing this song on Umbrella academy made my day. That series is amazing and the actor playing Five steals just about every scene he's in. Great show.
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This song originally required at least four lads. TMBG did it at much greater efficiency with half as many lads. Now, we can all celebrate that musical accomplishment in high quality.
original?
@@masonbarrett4144 This isn't an original TMBG song. It's just a cover. It was originally performed by a band called "the four lads" in 1953! I was really surprised when I found this out!
This song lives in my head rent free
same dude
And will never ever ever leave…….ever
nice pfp of my wife
This song charges me rent
isTanBULLLLLLLLLLL
I love the fact that They Might be Giants did this so perfectly that everyone thinks it’s their song and not a cover.
When they were children, my mom managed to convince her youngest sister (the weirder of my two aunts) that the line was "even old New York was once New Hamsterdam".
Lol
You should have said “old new pork once used to be new hamsterdam”
Amsterdam will never be the same for me now 😂
The Four Lads version - A fun quartet song about the city of Constantinople.
They Might Be Giants version - A modernized version with a more artsy touch, perfect for when it was written.
The Residents version - Constantinople doesn’t exist anymore, and soon neither will you.
Jesus, you weren't kidding.
same with elps pictures
Everybody asks Istanbul but nobody ever asks Whystandbul.
Whostanbul?
Howstanbul?
wherestanbul?
Whatstanbul?
Whenstanbul?
I feel like going to a donut shop for some coffee. I haven’t had any for forty years or so.
Maybe kill someone later if I fell like it idk
Might run from some Timewarping hunters later, idk depends though
Can I have some coffee, black?
not chocolate milk
no coffee in 40 years??
glad these are finally online, but now my old CD is useless.
Consider your old CD your proof-of-purchase.
I'll trade my cat piano for it if you want.
Genskiel dude really?
@@subatomic_sam511 sure why not
I'd trade the cat's pajamas for it, but those are only conceptual. Also, the cat scratches me if I try to take them.
This is definitely me when I'm in Constantinople
You can't go back to Constantinople.
@@0okamino Don't be so sure. MICA. it took 700 years, but Lisbon was returned as well.
Istanbul not Constantinople
@@Noidonteatbabiesstopasking This channel doesn't have any content
@@Nothing2CHere4U Yes
That feeling when you finally conquer the Byzantines.
Hold on I'm playing crusader kings 3, I got you bro
@@dogmavskarma D:
actually constantinople was constantinople for 500 years after that! It was just the Turkish variation Konstantiyyne(?), it wasn't until the 1920s when the ottomans fell that it was renamed
I listened to these songs when i was little because my dad listened to them all the time. i hadn’t heard them in over 10 years. i heard them again yesterday and the nostalgia hit me like a semi truck
These guys coulda gave Charlie Daniels and the Devil a run for their money when he went down to Georgia with his fiddle of gold.
I agree
@it's rick.hentai on Instagram who cares bro I agree with Lucis Ferre
THE CLASSIC RETURNS!
Rvf ,pp
I remember the Tiny Toons short using this song. Good times, good times.
Actually, this is not the only song they used from flood. They also use the particle Man another track from the same album flood
We had this on an old VHS tape from when it first came to RAGE on Australian TV.
Such. A. Complete. Classic. Psychedelic and perfect.
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Oh Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
So, Take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Oh Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Istanbul
Istanbul
Istanbul
Istanbul
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Oh Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
So, Take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Oh Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Istanbul
Make istanbul Constantinople Again. Things change hands, time is not their friend.
@@Nothing2CHere4U
Then make Constantinople Byzantium again
@@yahya_amoudi The lyrics to the song are already Byzantine.
@@Nothing2CHere4U yes, and Konstantinopel sounds much better..city of the great Konstantin..
@@yahya_amoudi Enigmatic Ur-Bycantium..Mesopotamia..the land of the two streams..
1980's was the BEST!!! I miss those years of my youth.....
My camp counselor loved this song, shout out to you xander
Absolutely, this song lives in my head rent free too! And The art of this video as well, the uniqueness and creativity, character development, claymation and stick drawings animation. Genius.
This was a bop back in 2014 for me, and it still is
There's a restaurant called _Istanbul_ down the street from me, and this song pops in my head every thing me I walk by.
Even before it was Constantinople, it was Byzantium. Who knows if it'll change its name again in the far-flung future?
New Rome
Ronald.
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks
Wasn't the city itself called Constantinople from its founding? I know the kingdom (empire?) was called Byzantium but I thought the actual city was named after Constantine the great (then later unofficially changed to Istanbul after the ottoman's took over with it much later becoming the official name).
@@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat No. It's Istanbul (Not Constantinople [or Byzantium])
WAIT WHAT THE HELL THESE GUYS WERE LIKE MY WHOLE CHILDHOOD AND I COME HERE AFTER WATCHING TUA AND GETTING THIS SONG STUCK IN MY HEAD THATS SO COOL
I love J. Otto Siebold's style :D
Also, cool to hear the extended violin intro!
Agnes Nutter he’s my uncle!
Inb4 all the pointless Tiny Toons mentions.
...and the next song... "I came back as a bag of groceries..."
sang this song every morning for a semester in theater class
Thank you for re uploading these!
This song brings back memories
They said we are the giants
Now we are MASSIVE!!!🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
The songs like the game, once you think about you've lost and have no choice but to enjoy it and spread the love.
Darn, I lost The Game.
This band just gives me so much oddcore energy I love them
What the fuck does oddcore mean
@@rowan4327 weird. But in a cool way
@@culturedII so just weird?
What the fuck does oddcore mean
Always loved this song and an Ola favourite but the live version with the trumpet intro…. Wow!!!!!
The animation was from the same talented lad that gave us "Olive the Other Reindeer"
underrated movie imo.
my teacher told us to watch this but i grew up with this song
The violin game in this song is strong!
Very instructive. Catchy, too.
I absolutely love those!
Love your ethereal description! ;)
I went to a tiny branch campus for college. Occasionally I would travel to Penn State Main campus for football games, and party. The city was like another world. Every house, and apartment had a party going on. I ended up in this one apartment, and this cute tiny girl with glasses, I just met said “You have got to hear this song!” I was expecting something party inspired. This band with accordian couldn’t be farther from that. You could call them nerd rock, but I still love them.
Gerard way definitely has an interesting taste in music so starkingly different from his own
Has he moved on from making emo music? I could never get into his stuff.
@veevyo this is the kind of TH-cam comment someone would say while they murder someone with an axe lol
@veevyo: Alternative rock was never a sound, it was used to indicate that someone wasn't mainstream.
Make Istanbul Constantinople Again
MICA
After 28 years I finally get to see the whole video. Before this, I've only watched the Liquid Television version. You deserve more praise, guys. Good luck on your tour.
BTW, who made the 2-D animation models? Was it Joe Murray?
i really really like the style of the 2d segments
The animation in this music video is some of the most creative and batshit things I’ve ever seen come out of the MTC era
Ah yes, the one They Might Be Giants song that I can rely on History youtubers to reference.
I found myself on a desperate search for "words that rhyme with Istanbul," which was hell. But it led me here, so... yay! ps Why no credits for whoever created the video/the claymation, etc? I really love it!
J. Otto Siebold
That violin do be vibin though
epic moment
TMBG: Istanbul not Constantinople...
Residents: I am coming Constantinople here I come.
Take me back to Rhodesia
No, you can’t go back to Rhodesia
Now it’s Zimbabwe not Rhodesia
Great music!!
This a fever dream
Kinda weird how there’s no fade in like on the album
Saw this on Liquid Television. Loved it
Did you know that these are the same people whom made hot dog from Mikey mouse clubhouse
Instanbul home of Liverpool FC…happy 15th.
All these years and I just learn now this was a cover. The Four Lads did the original. I still like this, but I have to say the original is better. TMBG leave out the best riff (sounds a bit like the I Dream of Jeannie theme).
The Greeks still call it Constantinople.
Based Greeks
DNA test results listed me 5% Italy/Greek, so I guess that means I can still call it Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople... she'll be waiting in Istanbul !
*laughs in Byzantium*
Great song to sing in the shower or on the bus ..
great
time to go to my favorite donut shop :)
1:01
Under no circumstances should you ever play this song in a donut shop, unless you have the place insured to hell and back. It might get a bit messy.
i- Y E S
Who was the artist who did the animated portions of the video? I KNOW I've seen that art style before in the early 90s
J. Otto Seibold
Since Turkey still hasn't recognized committing genocide against the Greeks I wonder if people generally know about it.
LMAO. OK I can understand genocide against armenians but GREEKS? CMON MAN THINK A BETTER PROPAGANDA. We are not English we did not kill evrry colony.
@@DarthVader-w1e en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide
Trying to deny another genocide that we have a historical record to support, including photos of mass crucifixions, mass burials, etc.
Your people massacred millions of Christian minorities throughout the Ottoman territory after World War 1 and many of you people still deny it to this day. People lose their minds if some fringe loner tries to deny the Holocaust, yet YOUR GOVERNMENT denies these ethnic cleansings and most people don't even know about it.
İstanbul Konstantinopolis'ti
Şimdi İstanbul, Konstantinopolis değil
Uzun zaman oldu, Konstantinopolis
Şimdi mehtaplı bir gecede Türk lokumu
Konstantinopolis'teki her kız
İstanbul'da yaşıyor, İstanbul'da değil
Yani Konstantinopolis'te bir randevun varsa
İstanbul'da bekliyor olacak
Eski New York bile bir zamanlar New Amsterdam'dı
Neden değiştirdiler söyleyemem
İnsanlar böyle daha çok sevdi
Bu yüzden beni Konstantinopolis'e geri götür
Hayır, Konstantinopolis'e geri dönemezsin
Uzun zaman oldu, Konstantinopolis
Konstantinopolis neden eserleri aldı?
Bu Türklerden başka kimseyi ilgilendirmez
İstanbul, İstanbul
İstanbul, İstanbul
Eski New York bile bir zamanlar New Amsterdam'dı
Neden değiştirdiler söyleyemem
İnsanlar böyle daha çok sevdi
İstanbul Konstantinopolis'ti
Şimdi İstanbul, Konstantinopolis değil
Uzun zaman oldu, Konstantinopolis
Konstantinopolis neden eserleri aldı?
Bu Türklerden başka kimseyi ilgilendirmez
Bu yüzden beni Konstantinopolis'e geri götür
Hayır, Konstantinopolis'e geri dönemezsin
Uzun zaman oldu, Konstantinopolis
Konstantinopolis neden eserleri aldı?
Bu Türklerden başka kimseyi ilgilendirmez
İstanbul. This is Turkish for the whole lyrics!
Me when I play the Ottomans in EU4
Xd
Canım lokum çekti ben lokum yemeye gidiorm bb
I always wanted to know if this was their tribute to The Residents' Constantinople. It has the exact same meter.
Particles incects giggle after splatter
Voy a ver todos los videos de "Los 100 videos musicales animados de La Zona Cero" en orden
# 014
I wonder who did the animation
wow
Wait they are touring to ITHICA I LIVE IN AUBURN HOLY SHIT
Tiny Toons nice moments
Original by The Four Lads from 1953
If an acid trip was made into a video
This one reminds me a lot of the band squirrel nut zippers
What's the name of the instrument in the intro
1:27
It was also called East Kekstantinopole When the Kekistan Empire (Kekroman) existed.
_This song should come to those who know how to swim better than us._
If only New York would be New Amsterdam again :D
who was here because of umbrella academy?
p.s.- me
Love the song selection on that show. This scene is an instant classic establishing Five as a legit bad ass.
Not me, been a TMBG fan since the late 80s, but hearing this song on Umbrella academy made my day. That series is amazing and the actor playing Five steals just about every scene he's in. Great show.
Nothing like murder out of self defense and wrecking a coffee shop to go with your black coffe, am I right?
YES
Kinda.
the beginning sounds like an attempt to rival paganini
Maybe the real Instanbul was the Constantinople we made along the way
so inspiring
Who's from Umbrella Academy?
Кто с сериала Академия Амбрелла?
im from megaprojects
i know this band from game c:
The actor for Maw Maw in raising hope died 😔 (for the others who came her because of her lol)
Trying playing in 2× speed it halarious
How old is this song...?
This sounds so old school, doesn't it?
SATC opening credit music !!
Nobody:
The interior at Einstein Bros:
Can I buy an umbrella in Constantinople?
They should do a Greek version
No
WHAT THE HELL IS UMBRELLA ACADEMY?!
I came here for the Turkish grand prix.
Istanbul moment