I made my dad tape this while I was at work. I came home and he said "What bunch of nerds."
@samkniffen47603 жыл бұрын
I love how Leno is always passively on their case, like he never quite buys that these guys are actual popular musicians who aren't just enjoyed for being weird
@otmq3 жыл бұрын
Classic old-school alpha male move, outwardly giving a hard time to those you truly respect and love.
@Jllyrol3112 жыл бұрын
That’s so odd, because everyone loved and respected Jay Leno as a comedian, host , and all-around human so much.
@siractionslacks8902 жыл бұрын
Yeah, like the first time on for Flood, he said he bought the album and the likes them, then says, they’re pretty good.
@sheekaloca2 жыл бұрын
I love how we can tell they are actually quite good friends with Conan when they are on his show. Conan has the upmost respect and adoration for these guys.
@thebasedgodmax1163 Жыл бұрын
@@sheekaloca Conan is a fucking legend
@finethehuman18214 жыл бұрын
I might be gay
@snakes73033 жыл бұрын
Mayhaps
@Metqa Жыл бұрын
Perbrably
@Vileplume875 ай бұрын
quite possibly
@4darin54 ай бұрын
I had a feeling you were. We are proud of you! 🎉
@treeguyfly3 ай бұрын
Same bestie
@lordravenxx8 ай бұрын
I want to be whatever Linnell is looking at during his closeups on "The Statue Got Me High" cuz, DAMN. Nobody's ever looked at me like that. Damn. lol.
@yay_darny6 жыл бұрын
Linnell has a mesmerising gaze
@kornobi_31652 жыл бұрын
They might be giants is always amazing with live horns.
@MFISH8016 жыл бұрын
Linnell's eye contact at 2:19 -2:27 honestly has me in tears
@ZoeAlexa116 жыл бұрын
Emilynn Wettengel same
@theclumsymoose6 жыл бұрын
SAME
@WibblyPigNZ5 жыл бұрын
OK. Could he turn me? Maybe.
@snerp96995 жыл бұрын
I was on the verge of crying
@oliviaisgod5 жыл бұрын
Sploosh.
@daviddobsch3 ай бұрын
These guys have had my heart since forever.
@b0tterman Жыл бұрын
Overlooked positive about TMBG--the JOHNS dress the same no matter what era. Kudos.
@rattyeely3 жыл бұрын
I love how this live version of The Guitar uses more of the Lion Sleeps Tonight sample, it sounds really good
@h00liganismo110 ай бұрын
Forgot what a banger "The Statue Got me High" is, and what a savage evisceration of unthinking religious conformity
@DanOsmundson4 жыл бұрын
love that syd straw is singing with them on this!!
@NillKitty3 жыл бұрын
@DanOsmundson3 жыл бұрын
@@NillKitty too funny! thanks for that reference-- i didn't know about that!
@notanotherjamesmurphy5574Күн бұрын
she sounds bad
@lauraeagle93644 жыл бұрын
*melts* How do Linnell's eyes always know where the camera is?
@einootspork4 жыл бұрын
they see the cameras, because they are eyes
@jessicah34504 жыл бұрын
There's a little red light that comes on the camera in studios when it's the one currently recording.
@otmq3 жыл бұрын
@@jessicah3450 yep, and Linnel is extremely intelligent, so he’d know that! :D
@matthewjeffery64813 жыл бұрын
He looks for the red light. Like I do on a Friday night
@Brentttilda3 жыл бұрын
@@einootspork this comment has me dying it's perfect. You could have convinced me you were a giant
@ZandoFox6 жыл бұрын
"The freeform jazz odyssey", I love that LMAO
@NuisanceManАй бұрын
Spinal Tap, Mach 2
@ZoeAlexa116 жыл бұрын
2:21 look at him I’m internally screaming
@snerp96995 жыл бұрын
As am I!
@robadams80576 жыл бұрын
Apollo 18 was my first They Might Be Giants CD. My friend played "Turn Around" for me some weeks previous. I didn't like it at first, but I soon changed my mind and became a big fan.
@danielhill35974 жыл бұрын
So you "turned around", as it were.
@chulumpthebigmoneywizard851 Жыл бұрын
@@danielhill3597they were working all night in their office no doubt
@user-cw1gd2em6j6 ай бұрын
It's a great album, but I can imagine it to be a hard listen to newbies. I was fortunate to get in on the "ground floor" with TMBG. Back in the 80s, a friend took me to a club in Williamsburg and they played a set there. I was hooked. I bought one of their "demo tapes" and played it almost constantly until it got worn out. I wish I made a copy of it in the beginning. I still keep the case as a treasured item.
@jeffk92685 ай бұрын
I first heard TMBG in ~1995.. was given a tape by a friend and I wasn't sure if I liked them.. until I heard the lyrics "MUST STOP... SPIDER" and I never turned back. A fan for life 🫡
@user-cw1gd2em6j5 ай бұрын
"STEP ON SPIDER!!!"@@jeffk9268
@ZandoFox6 жыл бұрын
Two all time classic TMBG songs.
@HarleyRowan7 жыл бұрын
I'd love to get my hands on that CD case! So Sweet when they made 'em in huge paper boxes! I loved the 90s...
@jessicah34504 жыл бұрын
Any song was a crowd surfing song in the 90's
@snerp96995 жыл бұрын
9:33 I shedded tears
@LL-qh6gf Жыл бұрын
that lil eyebrow waggle lol!
@sirmonster6438 Жыл бұрын
They were not speeding up like many bands do when they perform live. They know what they are doing.
@finscontingencyplan7005 Жыл бұрын
They had Jay Leno's professional house band on this one, those guys were probably one of the tightest groups around at the time.
@Metqa Жыл бұрын
Yeah, that's something that bugs me with live performances, it makes me anxious. but its great when they keep the beat tight.
@GlennTillema10 ай бұрын
They sped up when they played on Carson with Doc Severinsen; google tmbg doc severinsen and there's an article about how doc and the house band loved birdhouse because of it's big brass section and the song was ten beats faster!
@NillKitty3 жыл бұрын
Miss Fingerwood on vocals of course makes this special.
@notjacksonshaffer33576 жыл бұрын
If you were in college in the late 80s or early 90s and you didn’t listen to they might be giants then you’re lying
@deanevangelista6359 Жыл бұрын
I was thirty, in ‘89 and a Beatles and prog rock fan, but this band spoke to me.
@davidwilhelm40917 ай бұрын
What that guy said, except in reverse. I graduated from high school in 1999 and TMBG was my JAM! Seriously. I was disappointed about what musical idiots my fellow students were.
@MisterAppleEsq5 жыл бұрын
Flans's Chessmaster is so cool.
@flg9475 жыл бұрын
Mister Apple 🍏 I love his chessmaster.
@stanley-allen4 жыл бұрын
The Chessmaster is coming back in 2020!
@nonverbal5623 жыл бұрын
@@stanley-allen 2020 was cancelled. The whole year.
@mattmatros87102 жыл бұрын
Absolute perfection.
@phoenixmoon35 ай бұрын
Forever love this song.
@lyoelin4 жыл бұрын
Before there was Weezer, there was Bernard from the Office's band. The godfathers of nerd rock.
@p.taylor9813 жыл бұрын
Im a massive weezer fan and im so happy I started seriously listening to TMBG
@siractionslacks8902 жыл бұрын
What does Weezer or the office have to do with TMBG?
@andrew-sn6gh2 жыл бұрын
@@siractionslacks890 TMBG's best fitting genre is geek rock
@lacquerware69624 жыл бұрын
Man Jay is not on their wavelength even a little bit.
@WalkerRileyMC3 жыл бұрын
That's because he's an arrogant prick who thinks everything revolves around himself. He always has.
@siractionslacks8902 жыл бұрын
He just likes giving them a hard time. Watch them playing Birdhouse on the Tonight Show.
@Quagmire1771 Жыл бұрын
Love them!!!!!
@finscontingencyplan7005 Жыл бұрын
It's such a small thing but I love the harmonised sax line from 3:40
@pandanurse Жыл бұрын
I love how into it the bassist is
@deanevangelista6359 Жыл бұрын
Isn’t that Tony Mamione? He played with them for a while. Before that he was with Pere Ubu, and later Soul Coughing.
@ethanjones93838 ай бұрын
As a bassist, tmbg is a beautiful wellspring of amazing basslines, most of their tracks have outstanding groove
@mr.drearygiraffe60054 жыл бұрын
omg Syd's powerstance was amazing
@PeterMcDowellArts Жыл бұрын
AGREE!
@notanotherjamesmurphy5574Күн бұрын
respectfully disagree
@user-cw1gd2em6j6 ай бұрын
I remember, watching this, when it aired. One of the few times I would sit through Leno. (I hate him) I was thrilled to see Syd Straw singing back-up for them. I really liked her album she had then too.
@ltfringr6 ай бұрын
Flan is no Nile Rodgers, that's for sure.
@Boylieboyle Жыл бұрын
I think Radiohead's The National Anthem owes a lot to this.
@HeyPuppetHead7 жыл бұрын
Yes please
@MiguelPaulettePerez-bj8mlАй бұрын
Ms Fingerwood moonlighting as a Giant
@anotherlover6954 Жыл бұрын
Worth it just to see how uncomfortable it made Leno. When was this?
@notanotherjamesmurphy5574Күн бұрын
The album was released on March 1992, so probably around then
@dankauffmanmusic4 жыл бұрын
House band was playing "Love Rears It's Ugly Head" in the break....
@RighteousBrother3 жыл бұрын
Now THAT is interesting.
@HarleyRowan7 жыл бұрын
plus isn't that Syd Straw singing?
@thehouseofautumnspells2582 жыл бұрын
This tour was tha SHIT!
@HarleyRowan7 жыл бұрын
That was uber awesome to see!!! Does anybody know if all those other musicians that played the various instruments and vocals were indeed the same musicians who recorded the Apollo 18 album? they sounded spot on.... Wow!!
@crescentfreshbret6 жыл бұрын
Harley Rowan Pretty sure they weren’t. I know that Laura Cantrell sang the “Lion Sleeps Tonight” parts on the album.
@RareSpibs4 жыл бұрын
We were not.
@robadams5799 Жыл бұрын
@@crescentfreshbret I was always haunted by that beautiful voice. Did they duplicate it to make it sound like two or three singers?
@silyknow6 ай бұрын
I like this version of The Guitar a lot better than on the album, idk something about the album version feels like a kid song to me
@rhesreeves5339 Жыл бұрын
If you don't get this I feel sorry for you..I really do.
@dankauffmanmusic4 жыл бұрын
The audience is still scratching their heads
@glitchsister2 жыл бұрын
oh hey neat a wild KFOR indent at the end
@richardmichael5656 Жыл бұрын
Too many great songs to list, especially on Flood Album.
@user-bp3up4fg9u5 ай бұрын
How hyped do you think John was to whip out the bari sax?
@paulsmartialarts6 жыл бұрын
Is that a gigantic drumming fuck-up just before the 'silver space ship' section?
@MimeSlayer13373 жыл бұрын
Wow, leno's such a bad interviewer for such great artists
@snerp96995 жыл бұрын
8:59 - 9:07 thank me later! ;)
@sklegg5 ай бұрын
Did I hear a little bit of Walk Like an Egyptian near the end of The Guitar?
@kylethor0 Жыл бұрын
At 7:28 Leno Band Plays Labi Siffre I Got The... 7 Years before it was sampled by Eminem!
@robadams5799 Жыл бұрын
Hey! Who's the playing? Hey! That odd angular guitar?
@0okamino Жыл бұрын
Is it John?
@thekidfromiowa3 ай бұрын
I see the longboxes were still a thing 0:12
@pauljohnson88473 жыл бұрын
And they even got Elvira to get on board. Nice. Wow. Leno sucks.......always. And it's Hamburger Hamlet. Dean Martin was there ever day.
@ClueSign3 жыл бұрын
Who wrote their horn charts?
@hickorymccay29942 жыл бұрын
I bet it was Linnell. He's playing baritone sax anyways.
@ClueSign2 жыл бұрын
@@hickorymccay2994 Makes sense.
@henryyancey11172 жыл бұрын
what year is this?
@siractionslacks8902 жыл бұрын
1992
@confuseatronica10 ай бұрын
omg CD longboxes, I forgot that was a thing. I bought Apollo18 then so I would have had one to rip off and put in trash.
@kidkique2 жыл бұрын
hey today is July 8th
@notanotherjamesmurphy5574Күн бұрын
you predicted my future
@notanotherjamesmurphy5574Күн бұрын
today is Monday, July 8th, 2024
@user-bp3up4fg9u9 ай бұрын
The teacher from Pete and Pete?
@ezekielbrockmann1144 жыл бұрын
Pre- John Henry... Before they retreated into their Snail Shells, thank you. Also, did they ever appear on The Tonight Show after Statue got me High? I'd think Leno would take offense at that song. Most religious Americans hate being shown such a mirror.
@ThreadBomb4 жыл бұрын
What do you think that song is about?
@williamking55064 жыл бұрын
I'm also VERY interested in your interpretation of that song. I can see it as a parable about making an idol out of nearly anything, but a critique of religion as a concept, or a condemnation of faith itself? By all means, please go on!
@ezekielbrockmann1144 жыл бұрын
@@williamking5506 @Thread Bomb Like statues of long-dead Confederate generals, worshiped as God-heads by klansmen who call themselves Christians on one day of the week but burn crosses on th other six. What do you think the song is about if not a critique of the act of worshiping false idols, golden calves, or other graven images?
@williamking55064 жыл бұрын
@@ezekielbrockmann114 I think that the song is a literal retelling of Pygmalion, but maybe I'm just silly that way.
@ezekielbrockmann1144 жыл бұрын
@@williamking5506 Maybe you are.
@Warios4Christians2 жыл бұрын
Lenno not funny .ever not once.
@KevinCatolster4 ай бұрын
I've always enjoyed John's songs better than John's songs.
@danf4635 Жыл бұрын
Leno is the worst latenight host lmao how did he keep that gig for so long
@ayliniemi2 жыл бұрын
Kinda like Weezer but more simple, innocent.
@siractionslacks8902 жыл бұрын
Weezer is as simple as it gets.
@nolimit63772 жыл бұрын
Nothing like Weezer because they don't fucking suck
@kikivesz Жыл бұрын
@@nolimit6377 are you saying that weezer sucks or that tmbg sucks..
@nolimit6377 Жыл бұрын
@@kikivesz weezer sucks.
@Peepawpeep5 ай бұрын
@@kikiveszi think they’re saying that weezer sucks. Imo weezer does not suck
@LukeHennisch Жыл бұрын
Leno’s the worst, no surprise he doesn’t understand the genius of the Johns
@ThreadBomb4 жыл бұрын
Never liked that first song. Statue is great, though. 7:33