They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng (BEST QUALITY Official Music Video)

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  • @EpikDollar
    @EpikDollar 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    me and my friend stopped talking to eachother. then i started listening to TMBG and the moment i played this song he messaged me again

  • @Eddemer
    @Eddemer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +436

    2:19 me and the boys heading to walk in the glow of each others majestic presence

    • @floridaflamingogirl3119
      @floridaflamingogirl3119 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Me and the boys going down to Cowtown

    • @sodacrush3052
      @sodacrush3052 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      (The cows are into us)

    • @KillaB777
      @KillaB777 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      (And they live beneath the ocean)

    • @ronan-outoftime
      @ronan-outoftime 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      (that's where we will be beneath the waves)

    • @arcococoa
      @arcococoa 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      can you favourite youtube comments?

  • @KrazyKaiser
    @KrazyKaiser 3 ปีที่แล้ว +200

    Holy shit they are playing the card game Touring, a card game about going for a leisure drive in your car from like 1920. That is some obscure shit.

    • @E4439Qv5
      @E4439Qv5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Wait... they're playing _Mille Bornes?_
      😲

    • @naturalnashuan
      @naturalnashuan ปีที่แล้ว

      @@E4439Qv5 Yes, it's the same game, I have both versions. It was one of my favorite games when I was a kid.

    • @boydmanuel9257
      @boydmanuel9257 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      But the car drawn on that card looks to be late 1930s/early 1940s though.

    • @wbfaulk
      @wbfaulk 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Oh, I always assumed it was an early version of "Mille Bornes", but "Touring" is actually significantly older, and is definitely what those cards are from.

    • @Dooklawz
      @Dooklawz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      imo..these guys excel at brilliant obscurity!

  • @spootymaniacs
    @spootymaniacs ปีที่แล้ว +115

    0:42 this dance is so stupid, i love it. im gonna dance like that from now on

    • @lsdreamemulator
      @lsdreamemulator ปีที่แล้ว +15

      anytime i listen to this song i dance like that

    • @DashSpaceski
      @DashSpaceski 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I quit breakdancing just for this. 😂 Love TMBG forever. Shows are something else.

    • @BlueCanaryNightLight
      @BlueCanaryNightLight 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I shall too

    • @omnipop4936
      @omnipop4936 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It is the dance of our people.

  • @ThisIsAdamB
    @ThisIsAdamB ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Lincoln is now old enough to be president.

    • @helix2331
      @helix2331 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      he was president for a while there!

    • @Parzivle
      @Parzivle 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Knowing this information makes me happy for some reason

  • @finscontingencyplan7005
    @finscontingencyplan7005 5 ปีที่แล้ว +376

    “They don’t need me here, and I know you’re there, where the world goes by like the humid air” is one of the most spooky, dream-like lyrics out of a lot of great contenders in their discog. It makes me nostalgic for something I can’t remember.

    • @naturalnashuan
      @naturalnashuan ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Where your eyes don't go a filthy scarecrow waves its broomstick arms
      And does a parody of each unconscious thing you do
      When you turn around to look it's gone behind you
      On its face it's wearing your confused expression
      Where your eyes don't go ~
      "Where Your Eyes Don't Go" TMBG
      This is their spookiest lyric to me.

    • @floridaflamingogirl3119
      @floridaflamingogirl3119 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@naturalnashuan Neil Gaiman himself said that song is the scariest song he’s ever heard

    • @samanthastudios618
      @samanthastudios618 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Makes me think I’m going to disappear and they’ll never find me

    • @CableManEarl
      @CableManEarl ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Everything sticks until it goes away, and the truth is we don't know anything

    • @HighVybeTribe
      @HighVybeTribe ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Droppin truth bombs everywhere
      💪😎👍🙏😊

  • @eokay7228
    @eokay7228 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    the dance at 0:42 is MESMERIZING help me

    • @damagedone2718
      @damagedone2718 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      SAME, i like that sing and video... i listen this everyday at night and i just fall in love to that song

    • @mpm1125
      @mpm1125 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I watch it over and over again

  • @maezelbop
    @maezelbop 5 ปีที่แล้ว +228

    Last time I was this early, TMBG still used a drum machine.

    • @daviddobsch
      @daviddobsch 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Maybe you should check in more often.

  • @Potato-Eye
    @Potato-Eye 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Eating sushi right now in my hotel room watching this.... Everything reminds me of her...

  • @floridaflamingogirl3119
    @floridaflamingogirl3119 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    This is one of my all time favorite pieces of avant garde filmmaking

  • @floridaflamingogirl3119
    @floridaflamingogirl3119 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    That frantic, flailing run is so fun to replicate.

    • @naturalnashuan
      @naturalnashuan ปีที่แล้ว +10

      After seeing them play a concert, my friends and I ran through New York City running like that. I still run that way. It's fun and always gets a laugh.

  • @bryanbeck2144
    @bryanbeck2144 5 ปีที่แล้ว +163

    One of my all-time favorite songs ever in the history of all songs.

    • @RM-bv1xm
      @RM-bv1xm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ^^^^^^

    • @snakes7303
      @snakes7303 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ^^^^^

    • @NormAppleton
      @NormAppleton 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ever heard of Jonathan Richman? He has a song.

    • @SnufflySpy
      @SnufflySpy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Frocking true

  • @Viva_Reverie
    @Viva_Reverie 5 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    This song is fantastic, but I also gotta say I love the music video a lot too! Super inventive and has such a unique vibe going for it

    • @aciad1703
      @aciad1703 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      are you sure it is not too slow?

    • @milkonokemono
      @milkonokemono 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      jojo man looking at my shit
      humiliating but i love it

    • @ulyssesflynn
      @ulyssesflynn 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      This song sucks ass

    • @naturalnashuan
      @naturalnashuan ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I had their videos on a VHS tape that was produced in the 80s. This was one of my favorite videos on it. My friends and I danced like TMBG in high school back then. :)

    • @averagesizedperson
      @averagesizedperson 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      their breathing is wrong though!

  • @hoibsh21
    @hoibsh21 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    These guys are full time existential detectives and part time musicians !

  • @davidhilse2846
    @davidhilse2846 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    They're very witty. I also enjoy their use of melody. It transcends folk/pop and reaches into rarely explored children pop. It's a bold and entertaining turn on modern music.

    • @boydmanuel9257
      @boydmanuel9257 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      So this is why my 11 year old self was instantly hooked.

    • @tpbrcombo
      @tpbrcombo ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That’s a very interesting point. I’d never thought of that, but it’s true.

  • @ZachGerlock
    @ZachGerlock 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    As I write this comment this song is is 36 years old. A bit older than I am.
    Not sure the exact catalyst for when I became a TMBG fan, there were many avenues. Malcolm in the Middle, Homestar Runner, even Clarissa Explains it All.
    So many of their songs are so meaningful to me and so deep in me. I'm probably going to have Dr Worm stuck in my head as I die, and that brings me comfort.
    But this is my favorite TMBG song. I'm going to quote it in the best man speech I'm giving this week, and eventually my own wedding vows.
    What really impresses me about these guys is that they're still going, decades later. They'll stop when they're dead, and that's beautiful. They will still go on to write songs that are someone's favorite, even if this one is forgotten. That's a greater power than almost anyone in history has ever had, and I'm glad I was around to experience it.

    • @floridaflamingogirl3119
      @floridaflamingogirl3119 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I am amazed by how many different pieces of music they've contributed to pop culture, how they continue to attract new generations of listeners, and most of all how they have a deep personal respect for each other that's led to four decades of nonstop music career success.

  • @leinsterUltra
    @leinsterUltra ปีที่แล้ว +25

    I always thought the lyrics were "where the world goes by like the human hair" but now I'm cured

    • @andrewpurser8515
      @andrewpurser8515 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      My world is full of misheard lyrics! 😂

    • @Dancerlayla-z6g
      @Dancerlayla-z6g 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I thought the same. Its better than hendrix, 'scuse me while i kiss this guy'

    • @Umprella
      @Umprella 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They've been known to sing it that way in concerts, so in that sense you were never actually wrong

  • @edmondsjc
    @edmondsjc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    They don't need me here, and I know you're there.

  • @floridaflamingogirl3119
    @floridaflamingogirl3119 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    The Johns’ dances make them look like the little wooden figures that come out of a cuckoo clock

  • @Skorpio420
    @Skorpio420 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Lincoln was my first introduction to TMBG. This brings back memories.

  • @Law-of-EnTropy
    @Law-of-EnTropy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    Make a hole with a gun perpendicular
    To the name of this town in a desk-top globe
    Exit wound in a foreign nation
    Showing the home of the one this was written for
    My apartment looks upside down from there
    Water spirals the wrong way out the sink
    And her voice is a backwards record
    It's like a whirlpool, and it never ends
    (An-)
    Ana Ng and I are getting old
    And we still haven't walked in the glow
    Of each other's majestic presence
    (Listen An-)
    Listen Ana hear my words
    They're the ones you would think I would say
    If there was a me for you
    All alone at the '64 World's Fair
    Eighty dolls yelling "Small girl after all"
    Who was at the DuPont Pavilion?
    Why was the bench still warm? Who had been there?
    Or the time when the storm tangled up the wire
    To the horn on the pole at the bus depot
    And in back of the edge of hearing
    These are the words that the voice was repeating:
    (An-)
    "Ana Ng and I are getting old
    And we still haven't walked in the glow
    Of each other's majestic presence
    (Listen An-)
    Listen Ana hear my words
    They're the ones you would think I would say
    If there was a me for you"
    When I was driving once I saw this painted on a bridge:
    "I don't want the world, I just want your half"
    They don't need me here and I know you're there (don't need me)
    Where the world goes by like the humid air (world goes by)
    And it sticks like a broken record
    Everything sticks like a broken record
    Everything sticks until it goes away
    And the truth is, we don't know anything
    (An-)
    Ana Ng and I are getting old
    And we still haven't walked in the glow
    Of each other's majestic presence
    (Listen An-)
    Listen Ana hear my words
    They're the ones you would think I would say
    If there was a me for you
    (An-)
    Ana Ng and I are getting old
    And we still haven't walked in the glow
    Of each other's majestic presence
    (Listen An-)
    Listen Ana hear my words
    They're the ones you would think I would say
    If there was a me for you
    (An-)
    Ana Ng and I are getting old
    And we still haven't walked in the glow
    Of each other's majestic presence
    (Listen An-)
    Listen Ana hear my words
    They're the ones you would think I would say
    If there was a me for you
    (An-)
    Ana Ng and I are getting old
    And we still haven't walked in the glow
    Of each other's majestic presence
    (Listen An-)
    Listen Ana hear my words
    They're the ones you would think I would say
    If there was a me for you

    • @maxwellfarris5410
      @maxwellfarris5410 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank you.

    • @jen204
      @jen204 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      "Eighty dolls yelling small girl after all"

    • @Law-of-EnTropy
      @Law-of-EnTropy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jen204 it's from their Fandom wiki

    • @jen204
      @jen204 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Law-of-EnTropy It looks like the wiki has just been changed, or perhaps it's a different one (there are multiple TMBG entries on fandom.com)... but this link shows the "yelling small girl" line, and that's also very clearly what is sung in this video: lyrics.fandom.com/wiki/They_Might_Be_Giants:Ana_Ng

    • @dergos05
      @dergos05 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Law-of-EnTropy "small girl after all" was what both John's heard when they went to the 1964 World's Fair instead of "small world after all"

  • @zacherysittner9594
    @zacherysittner9594 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    TMBG makes so many people happy. Truly amazing how many loyal fans they have.

  • @ScradeCottontail
    @ScradeCottontail 5 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    I accidentally spoke his first name aloud
    Trying to make it fit in with the lyrics of "Ana Ng"
    Worked like a charm

    • @saintmoIIy
      @saintmoIIy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      !! here for the same reason :D

    • @theo6426
      @theo6426 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What do you mean?

    • @ScradeCottontail
      @ScradeCottontail 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      "cute thing" by car seat headrest, near the end

    • @AluminumOrGlass
      @AluminumOrGlass 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      We're getting old
      When will we walk in each other's majestic presence?
      Listen, hear my words
      They're the ones you would think I would say if I was John Linnell
      Or trying to be John Linnell

  • @damagedone2718
    @damagedone2718 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    i like so much the momen on 2:26, when Linnell Falls down, it's so hit with song

  • @vickyb3445
    @vickyb3445 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Behind the upbeat rhythm, there's a heart aching to see their love again and walk in the glow of their majestic presence, knowing you might never get another chance.

  • @mikegoleman5659
    @mikegoleman5659 5 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    This video is the most perfect music video in the history of everything. Every single frame is pure genius.

  • @Anna-ey5zl
    @Anna-ey5zl 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The comeback i didnt know i desperately needed❤ this was like a time machine to my childhood listening to bb amvs hahah!!! What a great song

  • @ShimmySnail
    @ShimmySnail 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Been a fan since their self-titled album was on vinyl, but only ever seen a video in the last few weeks. Played their stuff on my overnight college station radio show. Capital. Love the Milles Bournes ref.

  • @NxDoyle
    @NxDoyle 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    I'm loving these "vintage" uploads. I used to have the VHS tape of every video up to Istanbul. I watched it repeatedly.
    Linnell 2020.

  • @DontLetsStartAPodcastAboutTMBG
    @DontLetsStartAPodcastAboutTMBG ปีที่แล้ว +7

    A work of art.

    • @floridaflamingogirl3119
      @floridaflamingogirl3119 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Possibly my favorite example of a music video where it doesn't directly reference the lyrics but it perfectly fits with the vibe of the song. Also a wonderful tribute to the idea of sci-fi kitsch. And skateboarding astronauts are the best kind of backup dancers.

    • @floridaflamingogirl3119
      @floridaflamingogirl3119 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I just realized this was the comments section for the Ana Ng video, not the Statue one. Oops. But I'm keeping the comment anyway because it rings true.

  • @-thesignpainter9486
    @-thesignpainter9486 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thanks, Will. This is pretty good

  • @PoorFoxface
    @PoorFoxface 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I've been loving the remastered first album, and I'm really hoping there's a remaster for Lincoln in the works. It's been wonderful listening to the Pink Album again -- I can really hear the care that was taken to bring out the best in the tracks -- and I'd love to hear its sibling album given the same care and attention. Loving the HQ music video reposts, too, which is incidentally what got me thinking about how good a Lincoln remaster would be.

    • @salamurai
      @salamurai 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You're in luck -- The Lincoln remaster was released in October 2018. At the time, only on vinyl, but it's in digital on the TMBG Bandcamp!

    • @PoorFoxface
      @PoorFoxface 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@salamurai Thanks for the heads up! It'll be really nice to dive back into Lincoln like I did the Pink Album when that remaster dropped. Clearly I'll have to keep an eye on their Bandcamp in future!

  • @darknesskingsized8996
    @darknesskingsized8996 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    We need more TMBG videos with coordinated dancing.

  • @officer_raymond7562
    @officer_raymond7562 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This song is the best way to relax on a saturday night

    • @naturalnashuan
      @naturalnashuan ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My husband and I have a tradition of playing TMBG albums in the car and singing with them every time we take a long car trip.

    • @floridaflamingogirl3119
      @floridaflamingogirl3119 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@naturalnashuanI do this too, John Henry is like my favorite driving album ever

  • @silly_billy_puppet
    @silly_billy_puppet 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    when i first watched this i always thought " oh,, the guy with the glasses is singing!! "
    now i know that it's actually john linnell singing,, not john flansburgh
    ( i was half right due to the fact linnell does wear glasses, just not here )

  • @BeatlesBowieKrimson
    @BeatlesBowieKrimson 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    All of a sudden, I needed to hear this song.

  • @DiceRobo
    @DiceRobo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Excelent video, My favorite song! Would shoot globe again.

  • @tannerin
    @tannerin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    one of the greatest songs of the 80s and possibly ever?

  • @kornobi_3165
    @kornobi_3165 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I start jumping up and down when John starts the manic piano intro for this classic during the I like fun tour; I am so excited for everyone cause I know its coming!

    • @MisterAppleEsq
      @MisterAppleEsq 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Aw, They didn't play anything from Lincoln when I saw Them.

    • @naturalnashuan
      @naturalnashuan ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I saw them twice in the 80s, it was a lot of fun and dancing. They gave my friends and I a "thank you for coming and suffering!" shout-out because we were stuck in terrible obscured seats in one venue

  • @echardcore
    @echardcore 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    One of my faves.

  • @3MenAndALetsPlay
    @3MenAndALetsPlay 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    As a kid I got an Mtv greatest hits cassette, this was one of the tracks and I loved it. Been a fan ever since and never looked back. -Pierce

  • @hauntednokia
    @hauntednokia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    The first time I saw this, it changed my brain chemistry.

    • @kingofwingo
      @kingofwingo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Relatable

    • @joeschmoe2843
      @joeschmoe2843 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Did it get replaced by a purple toupee, when summer brings you down?

    • @boydmanuel9257
      @boydmanuel9257 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The beginnings of my love for all things quirky and absurd…and the Johns’ too.

    • @E4439Qv5
      @E4439Qv5 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@joeschmoe2843 Thanks for giving me another reference to hunt for.

    • @normanclatcher
      @normanclatcher ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@E4439Qv5 you don't have to go down very far on Lincoln to find it.

  • @zakbax
    @zakbax 5 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    i don't want the world
    i just want they might be giants next album

  • @polygawn
    @polygawn ปีที่แล้ว +1

    WOO ITS BACK

  • @snarkyguy2657
    @snarkyguy2657 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    One of my favorite songs ever.

  • @mr-misty-eyed3298
    @mr-misty-eyed3298 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This video and location on it like a just another dream, i like this song so much

  • @IlRincreTeam
    @IlRincreTeam 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I can't believe how fitting (and GOOD) the video is for this song

  • @michaelspencer1901
    @michaelspencer1901 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "I don't want the world, I just want your hat." Sheer genius!!!

    • @AndrewTBP
      @AndrewTBP ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Half
      I just want your half

  • @BrickTsar
    @BrickTsar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Glad you’ve been putting up the better quality updates. See you at the Bowery in 2020

  • @LuckyPunkProd
    @LuckyPunkProd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My favorite song from the "Lincoln" album.

  • @isjoe10
    @isjoe10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Really a timeless looking video.

  • @catricktv4734
    @catricktv4734 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This band rocks so much!!!

  • @StereoTyp0
    @StereoTyp0 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Majestic presence!

  • @michaelscreen6921
    @michaelscreen6921 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    A criminally underrated outfit. They occupy the same kind of space as the Sparks brothers Russel and Ron Mael

  • @grahamclews1571
    @grahamclews1571 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My fave TMBG tune

  • @AceHardy
    @AceHardy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    👑

  • @maokai09
    @maokai09 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you

  • @luisfersotelo7242
    @luisfersotelo7242 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for posting this video full quality!! You are doing godswork here

  • @GoodMrDawes
    @GoodMrDawes 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Awesome

  • @fictionaliza
    @fictionaliza 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    PERFECT

  • @Duke6564
    @Duke6564 ปีที่แล้ว

    This song is rock perfection!

  • @offroad3607
    @offroad3607 ปีที่แล้ว

    Get well soon guys. ❤

  • @torta31
    @torta31 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I ❤️ tmbg

  • @torta31
    @torta31 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    God they're so cool

  • @LordmonkeyTRM
    @LordmonkeyTRM 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    "SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL"

    • @LordmonkeyTRM
      @LordmonkeyTRM 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      even though it clearly says Girl

    • @naturalnashuan
      @naturalnashuan ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@LordmonkeyTRM Yes, they were singing, "Small girl after all." I think it is a play on, "It's a Small World."

  • @ValenciaOranges
    @ValenciaOranges ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love this song so much, initially I was mostly just drawn to it because of my name lmao

  • @computerfighter2000
    @computerfighter2000 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    the infection has begun. they are in my brain & they won't get out.

    • @floridaflamingogirl3119
      @floridaflamingogirl3119 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Enjoy. This is one of the best possible bands to be obsessed with. There's a reason why many of their fans have stuck with them for decades.

  • @robertmoffitt351
    @robertmoffitt351 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "I don't want the world. I just want your half."

  • @schoolybear1
    @schoolybear1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Masterpiece song and video. Masterpiece. 172K views? What the F**K?

  • @Aramanth
    @Aramanth 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    First saw this on _120 Minutes_ on MTV in the 80s!

  • @NewWaveEnthusiast
    @NewWaveEnthusiast ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I lived in sin before I discovered TMBG.

  • @Thekowaikaiju
    @Thekowaikaiju 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you, Star Fucking Hipsters for introducing me to this. lol

  • @DJProfessorDan
    @DJProfessorDan ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Welcome to an episode of The DJ Professor Dan Takes Points Off For Utterly Unreasonable Reasons Show!
    In 2002, They Might Be Giants released a Greatest Hits package, titled “Dial-A-Song.” You know why it was titled “Dial-A-Song” right? Because they offered a “Dial-A-Song” phone service, and every day between 1983 and 2006 they would write a new song and record it on their answering machine. A lot of people are obsessed with They Might Be Giants, and with publicity stunts/conceptual art projects like that, you can very much understand why.
    Anyway, the compilation contained liner notes. Or more accurately an essay. Or even more accurately, a book. Written by - ironically given the name of today’s song - Sarah Vowell, who claimed - and I am paraphrasing here from memory because I can't find my copy, I probably sold it - that They Might Be Giants were a new kind of band. A band that you might actually want to be friends with. A band that, and I’m pretty sure I’m quoting this correctly, “knows stuff.”
    Now, “Ana Ng” was apparently written because John (not to be mistaken for John… they are both called John) was looking for song ideas in the New York Telephone directory - as you do - and found entire pages filled with the name Ng. He needed to know how to pronounce it, so he called one of them up, a Doctor, Doctor Ng whose answering machine said:
    “They call me Dr Ng. Good morning. How are you? I’m Doctor Ng. I’m interested in things. I’m not a real doctor, but I am a real Ng, I am an actual Ng, oh sorry that’s a different song.”
    Now Ng is a Vietnamese name, and here’s where I have a problem.
    “My apartment looks upside down from there, water spirals the wrong way out the sink”
    Can you see the problem? John is clearly under the impression that Vietnam is in the Southern Hemisphere!!
    Now usually I’d let this slide, but They Might Be Giants are, to probably incorrectly quote Sarah Vowell once again, a band who “knows stuff.” That’s their thing! They know for example that:
    “The sun is mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace, where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees.”
    Although that song was a cover.
    They also know that:
    “Istanbul was Constantinople, now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople, been a long time gone, Constantinople, now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night”
    Although come to think of it, that was a cover as well.
    The point is that They Might Be Giants, the band that knows stuff, don’t know everything, and for that I’m docking a point.
    “Ana Ng” is a 9

    • @goodmaro
      @goodmaro ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You got a problem with *that?* I'm trying to figure out if it's "small girl atter all" because singing "small world after all" (as at the Pepsi pavilion) would've been a copyright problem -- or if they were making a joke.

    • @thomformichigan
      @thomformichigan 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I thought it was the DuPont pavilion.

    • @thomformichigan
      @thomformichigan 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Cut em some slack. They just got back from Cow Town, beneath the waves, sporting a purple tupee' before that they didn't know the way. Plus they did encounter a statue that got them high. Could have just been a bad day so Don't don't don't

    • @StringedGuitar17
      @StringedGuitar17 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The narrator of the song lives in Peru, duh.

  • @garrett6076
    @garrett6076 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    TH-cam algorithm is so interesting. It seemed to have a noticed a connection between TMBG Ana NG and Elastica- Connection. now there is a weird glitch in the comments and although i am on the page for Elastica, these seem to be the comments to TMBG. I'm pretty sure TH-cam's algorithm is sentient and trying to communicate.

  • @IsaacAllison
    @IsaacAllison 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    0:05 Hello?

  • @cardboard-boxgames9308
    @cardboard-boxgames9308 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love the high quality but I miss the wee titles at the beginning

  • @boat_of_car
    @boat_of_car 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    top 10 songs to scamper around to

  • @illuminotmereloaded6896
    @illuminotmereloaded6896 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Circa late 1992 - early 1993, I’m in 9th Grade when I hear this for the first time. Without the aid of the infernet or the lyric sheet here is what I heard “I don’t want the world, I just want to wear a hat.”

  • @LostHatProductions
    @LostHatProductions ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Best choreography in a music vid ever?

  • @j0hn0b
    @j0hn0b 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i remember singing this at camp yawgoog

  • @computerfighter2000
    @computerfighter2000 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    hooray

  • @nightshade1807
    @nightshade1807 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ana ang and I

  • @bigchinneddad
    @bigchinneddad 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tied with Puppet Head as the best TMBG music video

  • @lolol9199
    @lolol9199 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    when will we walk in each other's majestic presence?
    listen, hear my words
    they're the ones you would think i would say if i was john linnell
    or trying to be john linnell

  • @mtay780
    @mtay780 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Still not other compares to TMBG

  • @fromulus
    @fromulus 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I watch this when I miss being a kid.

  • @thebrutusmars
    @thebrutusmars 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Who’s the general that Flansy holds a picture of around 1:37?

    • @tiberiuswise
      @tiberiuswise 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Brigadier General Ralph Hospital. Flansy's maternal grandfather.

  • @alyoshaproductions
    @alyoshaproductions 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Who directed this?

    • @floridaflamingogirl3119
      @floridaflamingogirl3119 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Adam Bernstein. Also directed Adventures of Pete and Pete.

  • @laurabeane8862
    @laurabeane8862 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If there Was a Me for You

  • @DZVtornado
    @DZVtornado 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I want to believe this was Wes Anderson's art school film project

    • @floridaflamingogirl3119
      @floridaflamingogirl3119 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Was actually from Adam Bernstein, who worked on Adventures of Pete and Pete and Breaking Bad!

  • @RoyUThead
    @RoyUThead 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    🔑🌹

  • @sparrowx4442
    @sparrowx4442 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Anyone else here because of finding "The Best of MTV 120 Minutes Volume 1" on the free shelf of a thrift shop?

    • @lesliesolomon2808
      @lesliesolomon2808 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      No, but 120 Minutes is exactly where I first heard this song back on my college days.

  • @PaulGorduiz106
    @PaulGorduiz106 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks Penny from WarioWare

  • @maxwellfarris5410
    @maxwellfarris5410 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I tapped so fast.

  • @professoroak5162
    @professoroak5162 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    “Oh great, I’m surrounded by old people.”

  • @ratkid6859
    @ratkid6859 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    1:00 is thar jfk

    • @GVike
      @GVike 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Duh of course... right as they mention the 1964 World Fair, one year after his death.

    • @naturalnashuan
      @naturalnashuan ปีที่แล้ว

      @Pop Punk Dot Com I don't think the memories in their songs are their own. like ,
      "I remember the year I went to camp, something about some lady named Selma and some Blacks, someone put their fingers in the president's ears and it wasn't too much later they came out with Johnson's wax . I shouted out "Free the Expo '67..."

    • @izzywizzyletsgetbusy4463
      @izzywizzyletsgetbusy4463 ปีที่แล้ว

      @PoPpUnKdOtCoMjohn linnell was 5 cuz hes a year old than flansburgh but flansburgh wouldve been 4

  • @ernzilla1533
    @ernzilla1533 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ye

  • @jetblackrecords5540
    @jetblackrecords5540 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I know that fella

  • @saintsea-hat7891
    @saintsea-hat7891 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They’re the words you would think I would say if I was John Linnell (or tryna be John Linnell)…

  • @johnbolton292
    @johnbolton292 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have been fortunate in life in many regards. God has blessed me. John and John would probably agree.
    In case you've forgotten, God loves you. Jesus loves you. On your journey beware of traps and snares. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.