They Might Be Giants - "Older"

2001, promoting the "Malcolm In The Middle" soundtrack

[@seandlorenz]

Knowing that this video is 20 years old now makes me feel, well....even older.

[@rhesusmonkeydave]

And one year later this comment is older still.

[@nebulapig]

@@rhesusmonkeydave and now it's even older!

[@marshallbrooksmusic]

This is the coolest version of this song.

[@danielmiller3596]

The album with the oboe. I honestly just want to go to a show where they pop someone up there doing that intro with it again and just confuse people

[@alisak1701]

1:24 Dan Hickey is destroying those drums

[@crescentfreshbret]

Back when they were two Johns and The Band of Dans instead of two Johns, two Dans, and a Marty.

[@Johnnybravo60025]

For some reason, this song always use to creep me out when I would listen to it as a kid

[@carmenshepard8916]

the RG on flansy’s guitar 🥺🥺

[@sonicsophie]

I know right 🥺🥺🥰🥰

[@tallen42]

I've made my own tradition of singing (dramatically serenading) "older" to people on their birthdays. Some people love it, some actually "get it", most get a little weirded out, and no one has ever known the song I am singing to them. In recent years, I can sing the song then immediately show people wtf I'm talking about on youtube. Nerd heaven. This is a great version -- glad to have found it, and thanks to the uploader.

[@cameronquinn377]

I send it to everyone on their birthday

[@ramiijamii]

omg i want to start doing this

[@TikiStanford]

I’ve been sending this with birthday greetings for years. Many years.

[@crescentfreshbret]

I remember Rod Stewart was originally supposed to be the musical guest but had to cancel. TMBG filled in and was going to do a Rod Stewart song, but Chris Rock (one of the other guests that night) beat them to it by doing an impromptu rendition of “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?” So they did this song instead.

[@TikiStanford]

Still love these cats. Best band live. Ever.

[@TransRoofKorean]

ah, you never quite knew moxy fruvous that's alright

[@shakespearefreak-upon-Avon]

This aired when I was a year old and this video was uploaded when I was almost 10 and now I’m almost 20. 🕰

[@MattLuceen]

💀

[@PeppyTurtle3]

Linnell is awesome :)

[@joethanks8479]

I assume the RG is for Robin Goldwasser and not Ruth Ginsberg?

[@edd345]

...is still marching on,...

[@SuperMatical]

average forehead fan vs average rock enjoyer

[@supah1337B]

Nerd Rock For the Win. and its Epic.

[@winstonmarlowe5254]

2:24 They might be giants, but you definitely are

[@iishirasu]

Why is a note cut out at 0:18?

[@AgentFlea]

It's for your own safety. It's the brown note.

[@maktiv78]

To make you older faster.

[@samkniffen4760]

The wave

[@thewhippetbeans]

the whippet beans are currently older than their younger oldest young time. fact.

[@andersnelson3655]

And it's true!

[@SaraCookieMonster]

In which episode does this song appear?

[@qwerty20000000003]

SaraCookieMonster I was wondering the same thing (because I have Malcom in the Middle memorized and I didn't recognize this song). So I did a bit a research. This is one of the songs that they put on the album as a filler song. It doesn't appear anywhere in the show. At least that's what Wikipedia indicated.

[@WouldYaEva]

@@qwerty20000000003 It was also on an ABC special called BRAVE NEW WORLD that aired in 1999.

[@xcallibur34]

uh wheres the old instruments they use in the official video i like the older instruments in the official video

[@DrRyanHooker]

Pudgy Conan

[@DarrellVermilion]

this is why conan o'brien should be president. and why, ultimately, nobody would let him. it's because he's the best. that's why.

[@flashylight56]

@supah1337B NERF!

[@10aagun]

a woman is going older and older still

[@BibleLifeMaui]

This is a terrible song.

[@BettyJoBialofski]

And now you're even older.

[@charliegreen4128]

And now you're older still