They Might Be Giants - Don't Let's Start (BEST QUALITY Official Music Video)

Don't Let's Start from TMBG's first album. Directed by Adam Bernstein (who is a genius). Filmed at the New York Pavilion of the '64 Worlds Fair before it got all wrecked up.
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[@piupaupompompom]

bro ??? i just woke up. and IMMEDIATELY i could smell the cat food in my bank account ??? what’s up with that

[@ronan-outoftime]

did you try to stop the tail that wags the hound

[@Doinkular]

did the deep world destruction start for you too?

[@rat-remy]

@@ronan-outoftime i think it caused world destruction over and overture cause of it

[@robinnightwing9545]

😂

[@piupaupompompom]

@@ronan-outoftime oh god no i didn’t even think of that! thanks for the advice

[@literaryloser4470]

no matter how chaotic or strange this video is you can't deny they are having the time of their lives and I'm so glad they're still going strong all these years later.

[@thecrazedperson.]

yep

[@aliciapetronio2394]

Absolutely! Saw them Dec 30 here in Rhode Island they still got it!

[@returnosf5043]

I think their new songs are just as good as their older ones, but there's something magically nostalgic about that drum machine

[@greagandev]

And that's why I bought one.

[@bonzodimduly]

@@greagandev i downloaded samples of it off the internet and put it into a sampler vst called poise and put a ton of reverb and cassette filters on it and hooked my e-drums to it

[@DontLetsStartAPodcastAboutTMBG]

It's true though.

[@ieatdetergentilikethetaste8432]

this music video is a compilation of them being extremely attractive and extremely bizarre

[@LL-bl8hd]

They really had that nerd heartthrob thing going on then.

[@alexchristianmusic]

1:41 This is how I greet everybody.

[@BenCol]

And a deputy-dog-dog-a-ding-dang-depadepa, deputy-dog-dog-a-ding-dang-depadepa to you too!

[@jockohomosexual]

I'm so happy they're reloading their old songs.

[@eroticon6]

It's fun watching this at half speed to see Linnell really going for it.

[@DontLetsStartAPodcastAboutTMBG]

Holy crap I never thought to do that. BRB.

[@LL-bl8hd]

They have that amazing ability to be goofy and incredibly cool at the same time.

[@Vileplume87]

And hot

[@elijahmaier5975]

Whenever I hear one song by them I get a strong urge to marathon as many of their albums as my schedule will allow.

[@radiobob1908]

They seem like the kind of cis guys who wouldn't be offended if I said they're transmasc goals, which is good, because they're kind of transmasc goals.

[@computerfighter2000]

finally a rapper who doesn't mumble

[@SailorMaxie]

Me: I’m a good dancer Me when I’m dancing:

[@silly_billy_puppet]

THESE,, THESE SILLY GUYS!! they bring me lots of joy :]

[@TravisPrebble]

I did just click start. It was the best part. And then I rewound, then I re-rewound.

[@sammyslam1]

"The words i'm sayin now means nothing more than meow to an animal"

[@computerfighter2000]

I love watching them jump around & stuff it's so amusing

[@ivanterrible7362]

If happiness was a song, it would sound like this.

[@emilioaladwhosintheinterne8421]

Oh yeah... about that.

[@danielfarrugia5492]

Oh my goodness, they look so young in this video! I saw them live here in Australia a year or so or go, and they're better than when I saw them last time. So good to see them still doing what they clearly love so much as musicians.

[@TheGameCraftDragon]

This song brings back such wonderful memories. I remember kicking back at the student union, having a couple beers over the pool table and playing this on the jukebox. I miss the late 80's/early 90's - a golden era for us Gen-Xers and music..

[@traceykazimir-cree2111]

This. 100% this.

[@battleofwills7189]

I remember 1990, They were not my friends, but they were not my only friends.... Managed to see them live in 2001. Played all the classics and the new stuff at the time. You can imagine the near riot when they played Birdhouse in Your Soul.

[@0okamino]

This was the first TMBG song and video I ever experienced, back in '88 or '89 on MTV's _120 Minutes._ It was just the beginning of my continued admiration for these supreme gentlemen, their music and creativity, and remains among my favorites.

[@troyhoffman9411]

My first thought was, "I don't remember the intro being this fast." Then I realized KZbin was still at 1.5x from a training video I watched earlier. Oddly enough, other than being too fast, it still sounded good.

[@voomroom8697]

TMBG is so good that they work at all tempos.

[@Phonophobia]

Had my record player on 45 instead of 33 while starting a Rap record and it sounded a lot like Jamiroquai, funky shit. Still listen to this intro like that :D

[@scowell]

I'm pretty sure they played this back at half-speed when shooting it, then sped it back up. Genius.

[@MicrowavedAlastair5390]

I appreciate the ambiguity in TMBG songs, because it means I can read this as a protest song and have my interpretation be as accurate as any other interpretation.

[@mobius273]

The video for this, birdhouse, and ana ng are engraved on the back of my retinas

[@boydmanuel9257]

I still remember when the Johns took over Nick Rocks on Saturday morning and I was watching the upstairs TV and the VCR was downstairs, so I raced downstairs and luckily I had a tape ready to record it and threw it in and missed the first two minutes! I still have that recording. I’ve been a fan ever since.

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasdf]

That's so cool. Do you have still have the tape?

[@boydmanuel9257]

@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasdf Why yes. Yes I do. I would upload it but it starts halfway through the video and no intro. I actually missed more like 4+ minutes. However, in the bonus content of the DVD for ‘Gigantic: A Tale Of Two Johns’ , they have all of their segments sans videos.

[@DontLetsStartAPodcastAboutTMBG]

DIGITIZE THAT MUTHA!!!

[@boydmanuel9257]

@@DontLetsStartAPodcastAboutTMBG All of the segments (sans the videos) are on the 'Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns' documentary DVD!

[@DontLetsStartAPodcastAboutTMBG]

@@boydmanuel9257 Digitize it anyway! Seeing the unedited broadcast versions of this stuff is fascinating! Tons of fans want to see anything we can get our hands on!

[@blandoon]

I don't want to live in this world anym... well, as long as TMBG keeps putting out music I guess I'm OK with it

[@nightshade1807]

Don't don't don't let's start This is the worst part Could believe for all the world That you're my precious little girl But don't don't don't let's start I've got a weak heart And I don't get around how you get around When you are alone you are the cat, you are the phone You are an animal The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal Wake up and smell the cat food in your bank account But don't try to stop the tail that wags the hound D, world destruction Over and overture N, do I need Apostrophe T, need this torture? Don't don't don't let's start This is the worst part Could believe for all the world That you're my precious little girl But don't don't don't let's start I've got a weak heart And I don't get around how you get around No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful They want what they're not and I wish they would stop saying, Deputy dog dog a ding dang depadepa Deputy dog dog a ding dang depadepa D, world destruction Over and overture N, do I need Apostrophe T, need this torture? Don't don't don't let's start This is the worst part Could believe for all the world That you're my precious little girl But don't don't don't let's start I've got a weak heart And I don't get around how you get around I don't want to live in this world anymore I don't want to live in this world Don't don't don't let's start This is the worst part Could believe for all the world That you're my precious little girl But don't don't don't let's start I've got a weak heart And I don't get around how you get around

[@GweanBeans]

I can see them!

[@Johnnybananass-_]

The 90s were the best era for alternative music on the planet . Its was the era we lifted the lid on the chocolate assortment and dived in to see what flavours burned beneath wrapped in colourful wrappers

[@mikeybhoutex]

This one. This one is the one that got me to be a TMBG follower. I first saw this video on the MTV special with Dr. Demento (because oddity of the video, not the song, mind!) and I just loved it as a song. The video is cool too, but the song is the thing, and there ya go. Glad to see this here!

[@ZombieDawg]

Me too! I still have (and cherish) that Dr. Demento Countdown Show on VHS. Kicked off my TMBG fandom. Loved the frenetic video and infectious song.

[@lukeallen2894]

@@ZombieDawg I bought my first TMBG album (the reissued Best Of two-disc set) in a mall while waiting for a 2600 meeting to start. What an odd, wonderful day that was.

[@inactiveytchannel]

Dr Denento rules

[@johngpendleton]

I got out of the Air Force in December of '87 to find Dr. Demento presenting THIS and I knew I was gonna be just fine.

[@elon5562]

i love how Linnel looks in this music video!

[@benbenpotato]

Please upload put your hand Inside the puppet head!!!!!! I need dat HIGH QUALITY

[@Brigand231]

Good call!

[@0okamino]

We must touch the higher quality puppet head.

[@Brigand231]

Nothing but the best of puppet heads.

[@DontLetsStartAPodcastAboutTMBG]

Don't let's start me about how much I love this video.

[@flyboymcgee8059]

There will never be another like them

[@toothcweam]

this is the most underrated band, uh, EVER?

[@MangetsuSAMURAI]

Still one of my top 10 favorite music videos. Absolutely outstanding.

[@DontLetsStartAPodcastAboutTMBG]

I'm torn between this, Ana Ng and Doctor Worm, but the 64 Worlds Fair location being 10 minutes from where I live kind of seals the deal for me here.

[@rayj4914]

Yes , assent with all the previous praise. No one ever gets.... and that is beautiful

[@ezekielbrockmann114]

That Hat! Love it see... I used to wear that hat - just like that - so little (me?) I could to get on the amusement rides at the fun park gardens. The signs all said, "You must be this awesome to ride." Aaaand I was.

[@wallacestine]

Yesss!!

[@dnr-vs1lk]

love that reference to the video for "push back the hands"

[@scentedpapers6569]

My boy lookin like a meal in HD

[@pizzvore]

WHAT!!

[@antjarvis]

Just too good.

[@mistryl]

My first TMBG video! I saw it on Nick Rocks in the late 80s, and I called it "the bouncing heads video" :)

[@RyanSchweitzer77]

Same here!!!!! That also was my first introduction to TMBG back in 1987--I believe John & John also guest-hosted that particular Nick Rocks episode too, IIRC.

[@Alex-mt6fe]

Great,great stuff. Nothing more to say on that.

[@ezyto]

Ngl, young John Linnell hot as hell tho, god he is so cute i love him

[@flg947]

He still is 🥵😏

[@snakes7303]

@@flg947 Im..

[@pizzvore]

agree.....

[@sanfrancisco89]

Thanks for the upload. The NYS Pavilion was all wrecked up by the time this was shot though. Was wrecked up by the early 70s.

[@shakespearefreak-upon-Avon]

Yes!!!!!!! This is the best part!

[@alexchristianmusic]

LET's Go!!!!!!

[@apostrophe.t]

Why yes, yes I do really need this torture.

[@dafiezzz2392]

❤

[@ronald_anarchy]

THEY ARE SO SILLY EEEEE

[@steinzeitzocker7589]

Das nennt man wohl Perfektion

[@AveryLiberg]

This one makes me so happy

[@aviratica6370]

Loved you guys since Darinka

[@zz-nx6dy]

Hello ! I heard this song on record about 25 years ago because my older brother's friend had your first two albums on record. About that time I was also part of the TMBG fan club and received a few newspaper-sized fanzines from you guys. I loved those, but sadly no longer have them. Please reinstate my fan club membership and mail me all the newspaper-sized fanzines that I have missed over the last 25 years. Also, please re-start your song-a-day phone message service, as the world is a darker place without it. Sincerely yours, a lifelong fan.

[@bagofgroceries]

Didn’t you hear? Dial-A-Song went digital. They start it back up again every time they’re about to release an album, then let it run for about a year.

[@greenranger4475]

@@bagofgroceries oh cool, I didn't know that. Thank you.

[@naturalnashuan]

I had the videos on VHS tape in the 1990's, I let my brother borrow the tape, never saw it again. I wanted to rewatch the videos and now I finally can!

[@ProtomanButCallMeBlues]

Best described as an Underrated Masterpiece

[@carbilicon]

I feel like absurdity is a lost art. It used to be a normal part of mass media, albeit a little fringe. What happened?

[@JClaus1221]

The absolute peak of what College Rock was meant to be. Never topped!

[@splatkirby6056]

This video is ahead of its time

[@MiguelPaulettePerez-bj8ml]

Best goddamn song you guys ever wrote... everything else is a satellite rotating around it.

[@Wesleech]

god im so old. can we go back to when i first herd this? please?

[@andyrose5616]

2:13 It takes a while, but Chekhov's Detonator eventually pays off.

[@RomanNardone]

You guys are fantastic 👌

[@NewWaveEnthusiast]

Two hot nerds jamming out.

[@Vileplume87]

Fr

[@funnyscream2976]

Epic

[@sisifromthefuture]

I'm glad to see that these dudes get as feral about this song as I do.

[@computerfighter2000]

yay it's not in 2 pixels!!!!! i love this song

[@devosanity]

Husky jumpscare

[@computerfighter2000]

@@devosanity hiiii

[@computerfighter2000]

@@devosanity Rory jumpscare

[@apocpon1944]

So, while playing around with KZbins options, i've found this song sounds pretty good at .75 speed.

[@zhenjiu]

So much fun! TMBG!

[@vincemacek681]

I can't explain how, but seeing this video back when it was new changed my life.

[@pichass9337]

More uploads plz

[@amandaharris726]

What a wonderful world.

[@gstynchula]

They have staying power! Keep rocking johns

[@Thischannelisabandoned1]

Why are they so underrated? They have a nice rock style and they are just nice quirky songs! This band was my childhood! Only 1k likes? Wow....I feel bad for them

[@snakes7303]

Theyre quite popular, and this video is old, so

[@Thischannelisabandoned1]

Oh- Well good for them! :)

[@floridaflamingogirl3119]

This video did incredibly well on MTV back in the 80’s. In fact it was a lot of the momentum behind their early success :)

[@Thischannelisabandoned1]

@@floridaflamingogirl3119 oh, well then I guess I’ll delete this comment!

[@user-is2zv4sc6y]

Oh look a good excuse to listen to a great song.

[@TheSimanti]

Yes, off the town

[@gustavochuck]

"Deputy-dog-dog-a-ding-dang-depadepa" ❤

[@davidmoore535]

I got that song on a two-disc CD set!!

[@g_in_garage]

TYSM!!!!

[@GameboyGuitar]

The guitar parts are so cool. Reminds me of gang of four

[@DemeterTelphousia-Erinyes]

John L is so lovely!

[@m55uds]

Best Band EVER....😀

[@nightshade1807]

DONT

[@benbenpotato]

DON'T

[@bigwiggler373]

DON'T

[@bread_circuses]

LET’S

[@videotoybox6311]

START

[@BojoPigeon]

Do I need apostrophe T?

[@elijahdick9568]

No one dislike this please

[@elijahdick9568]

The video has three dislikes already I’m very disappointed in you all

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasdf]

@@elijahdick9568 hey you can't even see the dislikes now so while I miss seeing dislikes I guess it's good for this video.

[@daishoryujin95]

Will the seven people who disliked this please show yourselves? I'm not mad, just disappointed.

[@snakes7303]

Make that 8, geez

[@MobiusBandwidth]

easy to hit the wrong thing on a phone by accident.

[@floridaflamingogirl3119]

We want cake, where’s our cake

[@TotalDramaHarold]

Peak music

[@chickenhound6740]

My last two brain cells during a test

[@lilstardrops]

I am glad this video exists for chronological reasons

[@endorphinzz]

1:56 - when my cats hear the can opener.

[@TieDef]

Oh shit, TMBG invented TikTok videos back in the 80s.

[@ryansharp2902]

Showing the accordion on "need this torture" 😂

[@charitywhittington2196]

Hilarious still laugh every time I watch it

[@bryn7658]

goddamn i completely forgot about this song. it was one of my absolute favorites when i was about 6

[@ivanterrible7362]

Still one of my favorites as I speed headlong to 50. I play it on my ukulele every week.

[@MattJacobson1963]

All those William Allen White heads!

[@MobiusBandwidth]

you'd need a truckload of clearasil for whiteheads that big! (I'm sorry. I'll see myself out.)

[@randalalansmith9883]

So not long after this video came out, the Super Ball factory in Fullerton burned down. And there was much looting. And among the treasure, were stacks of posters for some local politician. With a face. And so we cut them out and imitated the video.

[@flg947]

0:08 can some AvGeek tell me what plane flew over Flansburgh?

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasdf]

Me too

[@pookiecarson]

GO FLANSY GO

[@bigwiggler373]

2:14

[@theblueoctopus4494]

1:52

[@StevelaFrench]

Hey, it's my birthday too!😀