They Might Be Giants - Purple Toupee (BEST QUALITY Official Music Video)

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  • @finscontingencyplan7005
    @finscontingencyplan7005 5 ปีที่แล้ว +156

    I can’t believe I’m seeing it in non-2007 TH-cam quality.

    • @whyott
      @whyott 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Without it being ai altered too

  • @dylaninpieces2
    @dylaninpieces2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +141

    "['Purple Toupee' uses] a couple of Prince songs as a springboard, 'Purple Rain' and 'Raspberry Beret'. I guess part of the idea was that, at the time, it seemed like there was this '60s revival in the works. It reminded me of all the other revivals that had taken place that were reviving times that I wasn't around for. They must have been complete shams based on what the '60s revival was. It seemed like it was based on this utterly one-dimensional caricature of the time that it was supposed to [be] representing or reviving. That still goes on now. That's sort of what 'Purple Toupee' is about." - John Linnell

    • @padregrande523
      @padregrande523 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Thanks for putting this here! I would not have seen it otherwise.

    • @dirt420
      @dirt420 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      the main players in the 60s counterculture scene were all pushing the hippie stuff as a psyop read weird scenes in laurel canyon

    • @macdrown3892
      @macdrown3892 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's hilarious that he talks about this song being analogous to Purple Rain, they could not be more different.

  • @sharierich
    @sharierich 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This is my fav song from them Lincon was a great album. :)

  • @rattyeely
    @rattyeely 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    They're so cute and silly in this music video, just two Johns bouncing around and trading off singing parts while stock footage of amusement parks rolls by

  • @phlog_dog7336
    @phlog_dog7336 5 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    What if this all culminates with them releasing the video for "Rabid Child"?

    • @GweanBeans
      @GweanBeans 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      phlog_dog don't give me hope...

    • @dingdongtingtong
      @dingdongtingtong 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well it just videos from Direct From Brooklyn and Rabid Child isnt on that dvd.

    • @mrwednesdaynight
      @mrwednesdaynight 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The video exists in someone's basement. I very much want to see it.

    • @Rslb7.
      @Rslb7. 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh...
      Rabid Child.
      That's my jam.

    • @nixonbubble
      @nixonbubble 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      its been four year

  • @rootbeer5356
    @rootbeer5356 5 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    They made great with their $63 budget

    • @E4439Qv5
      @E4439Qv5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Expensive mini golf game.

    • @macdrown3892
      @macdrown3892 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Probably a few grand considering they had to buy all the film stock.

  • @camerondodge2070
    @camerondodge2070 2 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    One of the few 'alternative' acts that could actually still be classified as such. I feel that most alternative rock acts and styles have become normalized, if not exactly mainstream. Grunge, punk, metal, it's normalized, it's what we expect. Then there's They Might Be Giants, a band whose style was never truly replicated (except for maybe that one Weird Al song), and whose brand of alt rock never spread just them. They stayed weird, they stayed uniquely themselves, stayed outside of expectations instead of continuing the exact same thing. They are thus one of very few bands I would actually consider alternative.

    • @gregmcgreg7817
      @gregmcgreg7817 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What Weird Al song?

    • @camerondodge2070
      @camerondodge2070 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@gregmcgreg7817 Apparently, the song "Everything You Know Is Wrong" was supposed to be in the style of TMBG. Really, it only captures a small slice of their sound, but there's only so much you can do with a three minute song.

    • @funktional_ktk
      @funktional_ktk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@camerondodge2070 ...and yet TMBG manages to do so much in *each* three-minute song.🤯

    • @camerondodge2070
      @camerondodge2070 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@funktional_ktk Well, quite frankly I think they capture as much as any prog-pop or avant-rock act could in a three minute song. I have yet to find a single standard length song by TMBG that covers all of their sound. Of course, that gets harder to do the longer they go on, making the task near impossible at a certain point.

    • @floridaflamingogirl3119
      @floridaflamingogirl3119 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@camerondodge2070 it’s lovely to see how much they’ve evolved, while still staying fresh. Each album has its own unique sound.

  • @MichaelWacht
    @MichaelWacht 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Purple toupee will show the way.
    Trust it.

    • @0okamino
      @0okamino 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Purple toupee is here to stay.

  • @computerfighter2000
    @computerfighter2000 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    SILLYING OUT SO MUCH

  • @emokittycats
    @emokittycats ปีที่แล้ว +17

    lol why did linnell get all silly like that at the end. fym "lalalalalalala"

    • @spectscrawlz_
      @spectscrawlz_ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      That is a man full of wonder and joy don't "fym" him-

  • @jr4915
    @jr4915 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    How much fun have these guys had in their musical live? Just fantastic.

    • @floridaflamingogirl3119
      @floridaflamingogirl3119 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      40 years and counting of making songs together. Musical besties.

  • @ezyto
    @ezyto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    God John is so goddamn cute I just can’t

    • @E4439Qv5
      @E4439Qv5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Ok, but _John_ tho...

    • @lizastacy8704
      @lizastacy8704 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I’ve always been more partial to John.

    • @computerfighter2000
      @computerfighter2000 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      which one 😭

    • @MetaDecker
      @MetaDecker ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I hope John doesn't see this comment thread, he may get jealous of John

  • @floridaflamingogirl3119
    @floridaflamingogirl3119 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Bouncy and springy fellas.

  • @buckettrent138
    @buckettrent138 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    They were so young

  • @NewWaveEnthusiast
    @NewWaveEnthusiast ปีที่แล้ว +6

    If I ever had a chance to meet the young Johns I'd never complain about anything ever again.

  • @lforever_048
    @lforever_048 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Definitely my favorite They Might Be Giants music video because it makes little to no sense and I love that aspect of it

  • @hinrik6331
    @hinrik6331 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    This is indeed the BEST QUALITY Official Music Video

  • @reaganwiles_art
    @reaganwiles_art 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Lincoln. Maybe not a real Boss Hoss, but I think it is the best thing by them might be them. The most Kafkaesque record ever. Some of the sentiments in Lincoln were arrived at by Kafka seventy eighty years before, although I don't think it's a case of influence or theft but of universal images uncovered by parallel processes of automatic free-association, . . .

  • @TheGhostBoi64
    @TheGhostBoi64 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    [Lyrics]
    I remember the year I went to camp
    I heard about some lady named Selma and some blacks
    Somebody put their fingers in the President's ears
    It wasn't too much later they came out with Johnson's wax
    I remember the book depository where they crowned the king of Cuba
    Now that's all I can think of, but I'm sure there's something else
    Way down inside me I can feel it coming back
    Purple toupee will show the way when summer brings you down
    (Purple toupee when summer brings you down)
    Purple toupee and gold lame will turn your brain around
    (Purple toupee and gold lame)
    Chinese people were fighting in the park
    We tried to help them fight, no one appreciated that
    Martin X was mad when they outlawed bell bottoms
    Ten years later they were sharing the same cell
    I shouted out, "Free the Expo '67"
    Till they stepped on my hair, and they told me I was fat
    Now I'm very big, I'm a big important man
    And the only thing that's different is underneath my hat
    Purple toupee will show the way when summer brings you down
    (Purple toupee when summer brings you down)
    Purple toupee and gold lame will turn your brain around
    (Purple toupee and gold lame)
    Purple toupee is here to stay after the hair has gone away
    The purple brigade is marching from the grave
    We're on some kind of mission
    We have an obligation
    We have to wear toupees

  • @pwobeatles509
    @pwobeatles509 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    this sounds like what non tmbg fans think tmbg sounds like but in a good way

  • @YashicaMat
    @YashicaMat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    So sad we never got to experience Prince in his old age as foretold by TMBG.

  • @bonzodimduly
    @bonzodimduly ปีที่แล้ว +10

    john flansburgh looks scary in this video

    • @rattyeely
      @rattyeely 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Just this video?

  • @michaelkappes8226
    @michaelkappes8226 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    also love that Danelectro Longhorn guitar, I want one of those...

  • @FuchsiaShock
    @FuchsiaShock 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Music which is always my antidote to stress and anxiety

    • @spectscrawlz_
      @spectscrawlz_ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So you could say...Purple Toupee *does* show you the way when summer brings you down-

  • @FirstnameLastname-mb2ek
    @FirstnameLastname-mb2ek 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Just got Lincoln on red vinyl 😩

    • @midnightcowboy1969
      @midnightcowboy1969 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      bragging in the comment section 🤤

    • @FirstnameLastname-mb2ek
      @FirstnameLastname-mb2ek 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@midnightcowboy1969
      Indeed 😫😫

    • @midnightcowboy1969
      @midnightcowboy1969 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FirstnameLastname-mb2ek i mean it’s a great album and i’m jealous 😁👍👍

    • @FirstnameLastname-mb2ek
      @FirstnameLastname-mb2ek 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@midnightcowboy1969
      It’s the best tmbg albumin my opinion!

    • @midnightcowboy1969
      @midnightcowboy1969 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FirstnameLastname-mb2ek
      What's with these homies dissin' my girl?
      Why do they gotta front?
      What did we ever do to these guys
      That made them so violent?
      But you know I'm yours
      (Ooh ooh) And I know you're mine
      (Ooh ooh) And that's for all of time
      Ooh-wee-ooh, I look just like Buddy Holly
      Oh oh, and you're Mary Tyler Moore
      I don't care what they say about us anyway
      I don't care 'bout that
      Don't you ever fear, I'm always near
      I know that you need help
      Your tongue is twisted, your eyes are slit
      You need a guardian
      And you know I'm yours
      (Ooh ooh) And I know you're mine
      (Ooh ooh) And that's for all of time
      Ooh-wee-ooh, I look just like Buddy Holly
      Oh oh, and you're Mary Tyler Moore
      I don't care what they say about us anyway
      I don't care 'bout that
      I don't care 'bout that
      Bang bang knockin' on the door
      Another bang bang get down on the floor
      Oh no, what do we do?
      Don't look now but I lost my shoe
      I can't run and I can't kick
      Whatsa matter babe, are you feelin' sick?
      Whatsa matter, whatsa matter, whatsa matter you?
      Whatsa matter, babe, are you feelin' blue?
      Oh
      And that's for all of time
      And that's for all of time
      Ooh-wee-ooh, I look just like Buddy Holly
      Oh oh, and you're Mary Tyler Moore
      I don't care what they say about us anyway
      I don't care 'bout that
      I don't care 'bout that
      I don't care 'bout that
      I don't care 'bout that

  • @fimmiey6881
    @fimmiey6881 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    My favorite tmbg song!

    • @RM-bv1xm
      @RM-bv1xm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I prefer Ana NG personally but this one is great

  • @Saxdude26
    @Saxdude26 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Something about this song with the world's current struggles kind of makes me... appreciate it more?
    TMBG were not afraid from the outset to be bold with their lyrics, be it in original meaning or new parallels.

  • @sleepymaybe
    @sleepymaybe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    YES GOD THANK U SO MUCH AHHHHHHH

  • @wesparsons5331
    @wesparsons5331 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Vote Purple Toupee 2024, all your dreams will come true.

  • @tonymason6686
    @tonymason6686 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Jeez how old are They? like, 12 at this point??

  • @notanotherjamesmurphy5574
    @notanotherjamesmurphy5574 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    one if the best counterpoints ever

  • @ragimm.1143
    @ragimm.1143 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Wow, how have I not heard this song before? Really good

  • @pichass9337
    @pichass9337 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Great song

  • @SpookyLuvCookie
    @SpookyLuvCookie 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    just as relevant as it always was

  • @Dirtbike-k2x
    @Dirtbike-k2x 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    super underrated 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @rhaselrig
    @rhaselrig 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I just discovered these guys. I'm really enjoying them. Kinda like Barenaked Ladies on acid. Are these guys from Canada, too?

    • @stanley-allen
      @stanley-allen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      New England

    • @ObjectorSnark
      @ObjectorSnark 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      as a creative unit at least, they hail from williamsburg, brooklyn at the time when it was still bombed out and settled by artists & bohemians, i.e., the first wave of gentrification

    • @apb_134
      @apb_134 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Brooklyn, actually

  • @orpheus1138
    @orpheus1138 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Epic

  • @listerinemouthwash415
    @listerinemouthwash415 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I wonder what they're saving for Christmas

  • @c4rots620
    @c4rots620 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    this song is harder to understand than weird al with a mouthful of marbles
    but it's still great

    • @SlippingJimbo
      @SlippingJimbo ปีที่แล้ว +8

      it gets easier to understand once you realize john linnell's deliberately getting historic events wrong throughout the song because he is silly

    • @SlippingJimbo
      @SlippingJimbo ปีที่แล้ว +5

      this song is so silly. tmbg is so silly. i love silly music

    • @threeminuteshate
      @threeminuteshate 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Huh? Which lyric isn’t perfectly enunciated?

  • @nealbailey7506
    @nealbailey7506 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I'm a big important man.

    • @0okamino
      @0okamino 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But something must be different now.

    • @ObjectorSnark
      @ObjectorSnark 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ever since the advent of a big important man, i've firmly believed tmbg could change the title (and that one lyric) to "golden toupee" and give it new life again

    • @itsnotfunnehx3623
      @itsnotfunnehx3623 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@0okamino did you check underneath your hat?

  • @torta31
    @torta31 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    so baller,,,,

  • @WannabeMarysue
    @WannabeMarysue 5 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    me in 2009: wow these special effects are dated lmao
    me in 2019: #aesthetic #retro #mood #fave

    • @snakes7303
      @snakes7303 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Well you were right, its...an old video

    • @tcd1289
      @tcd1289 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      😬

    • @GreenGergop
      @GreenGergop ปีที่แล้ว +6

      me when a video from 1989 (more than 30 years ago) looks dated:

  • @nightshade1807
    @nightshade1807 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Am purple

    • @Mr__Joe
      @Mr__Joe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Am you toupee?

    • @axolotlarson9384
      @axolotlarson9384 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Mr__Joe no, he am purple

  • @torgosaves427
    @torgosaves427 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love the forgetful Hippy Song :)

  • @SaraFaulkner
    @SaraFaulkner 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    PURPLE TOUPEE

  • @robadams5799
    @robadams5799 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Here I thought John Linell sang lead in the entire song.

  • @piupaupompompom
    @piupaupompompom ปีที่แล้ว +12

    and why he ourple 😂

  • @skuzzbunny
    @skuzzbunny 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    jammer!!!!!D

  • @camgood4884
    @camgood4884 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    CHINESE PEOPLE FIGHTIN IN THA PARK

    • @Dirtbike-k2x
      @Dirtbike-k2x 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      WE TRIED TO HELP THEM FIGHT, NO ONE APPRECIATED THAT

  • @computerfighter2000
    @computerfighter2000 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    weeee

  • @dildino6199
    @dildino6199 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lapfox brought me here

    • @RQLAJI2
      @RQLAJI2 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      WAIT WHAT Is it just because of the man its so loud in here cover or am I missing something

  • @marracinoxaveria
    @marracinoxaveria 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    New tmbg? Is this real life?

    • @0okamino
      @0okamino 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      New, better quality upload of the video to a song from _Lincoln_ (1988).
      In the future, the past brings presents. :)

  • @Brettjnash
    @Brettjnash 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've never seen a purple cow...

  • @MrDarkapollox
    @MrDarkapollox 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    "Chinese people were fighting in the park"

  • @themoviedealers
    @themoviedealers 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I need more cowbell.

  • @colonialstraits1069
    @colonialstraits1069 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The OG TMBG (first two LPs) is still the best TMBG.

    • @rattyeely
      @rattyeely 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Not even Flood? Not even Apollo 18?

    • @colonialstraits1069
      @colonialstraits1069 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @ both fine records but the first two are my faves. Maybe it’s just sentiment clouding my judgement.

  • @rattyeely
    @rattyeely 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    They're so cute and silly in this music video, just two Johns bouncing around and trading off singing parts while stock footage of amusement parks rolls by

    • @butterbee8193
      @butterbee8193 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Turns out they weren't all alone at the 64' world's fair

    • @acocork3565
      @acocork3565 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@butterbee8193 80 dolls yelling "small girl after all"

    • @E4439Qv5
      @E4439Qv5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Who was at the DuPont Pavilion?

    • @pizzvore
      @pizzvore 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      why was the bench still warm? who had been there?

    • @Vileplume87
      @Vileplume87 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@pizzvore like the time when the storm tangled up the wire