They Might Be Giants

ComradeBadger · #1 19-10-2004, 07:43 PM

Sorry about this Sheepy, but still:

I've never quite understood the slavish devotion of this band's fans. They aren't anything but average and try too hard to be 'deep', like post-modern art students

Well, it's just my opinion, but I've heard almost all of their songs, and I've liked very few.

Farrowlesparrow · #2 19-10-2004, 08:24 PM

Maybe it is you trying too hard, and in your red faced fury of constipated 'I'm going to be different'(or whatever may be suitable. It is not always easy to explain) you see them as posers of some kind.

...or maybe not. I quite like them though. However, I do not it seems have anything by them.

#3 19-10-2004, 08:26 PM

i think they are very good, their songs are weird and wacky, and they have only cursed 1 or 2 times that i have heard in a song.

HatRabit · #4 19-10-2004, 08:34 PM

I like them. their music is only good for short periods of time though, any longer than 15 minutes and I get bored. doesnt seem like the're trying to be deep/ meaninful to me, just fun/wacky lyrics...

CyberSh33p · #5 20-10-2004, 02:05 AM

Don't listen to them if you don't like them

I don't have the effort or stomach capacity right now to refute all your points, and if I did it wouldn't do anything.

I have seen them live during the summer though, and that was probably the best night of my life to date. Their concert energy is amazing.

and they've been a band since before you were born

yeah. I'm just not going to bother right now, it won't change anything, you're a completely different kind of music listener than I

Lil' Timmy · #6 20-10-2004, 02:41 AM

gotta go with badger on this one.. i do think they're "trying to hard". i don't think they're at all disingenuous, they're just complete dorks, and generally dorks try too hard (not being critical, just making an observation). never have, never will like punk nor this 'post-punk' thing.

i've only listened to bits n pieces, but nothing i've heard would make me want to hear more. chacun a son gôut i guess.

CyberSh33p · #7 21-10-2004, 02:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Lil' Timmy

gotta go with badger on this one.. i do think they're "trying to hard". i don't think they're at all disingenuous, they're just complete dorks, and generally dorks try too hard (not being critical, just making an observation). never have, never will like punk nor this 'post-punk' thing.

i've only listened to bits n pieces, but nothing i've heard would make me want to hear more. chacun a son gôut i guess.

labels I dislike. what the hell is post punk? genres are so annoying.

Lil' Timmy · #8 21-10-2004, 03:50 AM

labels can be a convenient way of describing music, as long as you don't attach too much importance to the label itself. post-punk is precisely what it sounds like, after-punk. musically, it's basically pop-rock grafted onto a punk base. that's what their earlier stuff sounds like to me, i haven't heard much of their more reecent music, so i'm not sure if post-punk would be an accurate description for them now.

Grand Architect · #9 21-10-2004, 11:23 AM

Meh I like em, they make me laugh.

CyberSh33p · #10 22-10-2004, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Lil' Timmy

labels can be a convenient way of describing music, as long as you don't attach too much importance to the label itself. post-punk is precisely what it sounds like, after-punk. musically, it's basically pop-rock grafted onto a punk base. that's what their earlier stuff sounds like to me, i haven't heard much of their more reecent music, so i'm not sure if post-punk would be an accurate description for them now.

I wouldn't say they fit a general label that much at all really. They've always done their own thing, just look at the differences between birdhouse in your soul, ana ng, and particle man. they've done a children's album, their latest album is very energetic and hyper.

and you have disappointed me by having snoop dogg and eminem on your playlist

though a few(few!) of eminems songs I don't mind so much.

edit: http://www.tmbg.com/QCAM/1.mov
try too hard, psh

Lil' Timmy · #11 22-10-2004, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by CyberSh33p

and you have disappointed me by having snoop dogg and eminem on your playlist

though a few(few!) of eminems songs I don't mind so much.

what sort of rap playlist would not have snoop in it!? that would be an attrocity. eminem to a lesser extent.. although now that i look, i really shouldn't have "my name is" in there.. i hate that song, musta been drunk.

edit: actually, i need to clean out my rap/hip-hop.. there's some stuff int here from my younger days that needs to go..

CyberSh33p · #12 23-10-2004, 01:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Lil' Timmy

what sort of rap playlist would not have snoop in it!? that would be an attrocity. eminem to a lesser extent.. although now that i look, i really shouldn't have "my name is" in there.. i hate that song, musta been drunk.

edit: actually, i need to clean out my rap/hip-hop.. there's some stuff int here from my younger days that needs to go..

you mean EVERYTHING?! EVER!?

Lil' Timmy · #13 23-10-2004, 01:24 AM

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Originally Posted by CyberSh33p

you mean EVERYTHING?! EVER!?

nah, i got rid of about 25 songs. anyone that can't appreciate snoop (doggystyle specifically), much less wu-tang, outkast, or tribe simply doesn't know anything about music in my book. the name of my book? the bible. you make the baby jebus cry

SpuD · #14 23-10-2004, 02:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Lil' Timmy

nah, i got rid of about 25 songs. anyone that can't appreciate snoop (doggystyle specifically), much less wu-tang, outkast, or tribe simply doesn't know anything about music in my book. the name of my book? the bible. you make the baby jebus cry

Pfft. Rap sucks period.
Name of my book? The rock bible.

wayne white · #15 23-10-2004, 02:48 AM

i love their album flood