They Might Be Giants - Songs About Coffee

[@fo-ef8qo]

date: "so what kinda music do you like?" Me: 'uhh...'

[@blakerice6238]

For TMBG, it's children's music since 2002 to 2015

[@kelli217]

I see that "Autopilot" is marked as the 'most replayed' part of the video... wonder if that has anything to do with the bit of silence making people think their internet connection glitched, and rewinding to check. 🤪

[@blueshotgun017]

unironically some of tmbg's greatest melodies are on here...

[@blakerice6238]

For @gordum her seyI, the songs in TMBG's Songs About Coffee are these. They are: 00:00 8 AM 00:53 Alarm Clock Catastrophe 01:24 All Night Blowout 01:47 Fritalian 02:19 Autopilot 03:03 Burning Coffee 03:54 Contraption 04:24 Contact Lens 04:56 Things I Like To Do 05:36 Things I Like To Do [alternate version] 06:28 Early Fishin' 06:59 Hall Of Fame 07:29 Historical Landmarks 08:01 Human Interest 08:31 I'm In A Rut 09:24 Jimmy The Mechanic 10:17 Karate! 10:47 Kung Fu Movies 11:38 Lefty Loosey 12:11 Linoleum 12:43 Lunch Is Over 13:15 Make Mine To Go 14:05 One Billion Degrees 14:36 Out Of The Office 15:29 A Ton Of Stuff 16:01 Pleather 16:28 Steps 17:05 Super Hot Mowing

[@darklight8236]

I want to play this on the intercom at work in an endless loop.....i am certain it will improve morale :)

[@rattyeely]

Wow, this slaps! I love how they're all like fingertips length

[@L0REN0R2Z0RR0]

they're much longer though :D

[@waymondsingleton]

OH MY GOD. I always wanted to hear a clean not commercial narration version of "Doing things is what I like to do"! So glad to hear it among all these awesome tracks!

[@sammellor5547]

Coffee at my fingertips

[@NeedsMoreSubs]

Yeah. I think I enjoy this even more than fingertips.

[@gordumherseyi]

00:00 8 AM 00:53 Alarm Clock Catastrophe 01:24 All Night Blowout 01:47 Fritalian 02:19 Autopilot 03:03 Burning Coffee 03:54 Contraption 04:24 Contact Lens 04:56 Things I Like To Do 05:36 Things I Like To Do [alternate version] 06:28 Early Fishin' 06:59 Hall Of Fame 07:29 Historical Landmarks 08:01 Human Interest 08:31 I'm In A Rut 09:24 Jimmy The Mechanic 10:17 Karate! 10:47 Kung Fu Movies 11:38 Lefty Loosey 12:11 Linoleum 12:43 Lunch Is Over 13:15 Make Mine To Go 14:05 One Billion Degrees 14:36 Out Of The Office 15:29 A Ton Of Stuff 16:01 Pleather 16:28 Steps 17:05 Super Hot Mowing

[@net28573]

Thank you!

[@PogieJoe]

You delightful men, you.

[@LennonDash]

The dislikes must be supertasters, they can't drink coffee or beer.

[@darrenyoder5114]

“The backs of my legs sticking to the pleather” I laughed at this one. TMBG knows how to help me escape reality by writing songs about reality.

[@LynseyMoon]

oh my god i remember these ads and never knew they were tmbg. amazing.

[@thebigdawgj]

Same here.

[@JetScreamer_YT]

I used to record parts of Fingertips for my answering machine. Yeah, I'm an og fan! Tethered to a wall for 30 years.

[@favoritemustard3542]

LoL about 15 minutes ago? I was reading the track list for Apollo ¹⁸ & sang along as I got to the _FingerTips!_ (《~read in a whisper)* *ProFingerTip

[@flowerlandfilms]

...you know I want the FLACS FLANS!...

[@TedPeeples]

2020 (fingertips)

[@JetScreamer_YT]

What's that blue thing doing here?

[@jessicah3450]

I'm having a heart attack

[@JetScreamer_YT]

Mysterious whisper!

[@1978stevil]

Aren't you the guy that hit me in the eye

[@kevinruiz903]

@@1978stevil please pass the milk, please!

[@pillgrimm]

Good lord these HAIRCUTS

[@DavidBeddard]

Reminds of my when my older brothers would put their Apollo 18 cassette on and my sister and I would sing along to Fingertips. A great medley of coffee-inspired songs!

[@MyOtheHedgeFox]

The “Contraption, I’m Retiring You” is a wonderful little song! =D Man, this is an amazing little album.

[@rickevans3959]

The good part is donuts at the meeting I DON'T GO TO MEETINGS WITHOUT DONUTS!

[@DerekWrites]

Everyone who watched Gigantic knows that if they could, the Johns would write every song about coffee.

[@AdamThorton]

This is the only case I'm aware of where a company decided to advertise itself by essentially sponsoring music videos for a band, sometimes seemingly only related to the product by a tagline that stretches the songs meanings like rubber bands to make them about coffee. And the campaign ran long enough to produce over 18 minutes of music!!! That, to me, really speaks loudly about the appeal and versatility of They Might Be Giants' music. It's a real Human Interest Story.

[@GamesForNoobs]

??

[@AdamThorton]

@@GamesForNoobs These songs were all made for Dunkin Donuts for their "America runs on Dunkin" ad campaign. The ads are on KZbin and worth watching. They're basically short music videos that end with the narrator tying the video to coffee with a segue referencing the lyrics. Something like, "don't have an 'Alarm Clock Catastrophe...'" or "Feel recharged - even after an 'All Night Blow-out!'" (Not exact quotes but you get it.)

[@unperson5713]

Thank you. I danced and played with my cat. I don't drink coffee and I don't work, but this music was probably better than real life anyway.

[@wowwhywow]

Probably the BEST coffee album ever made.

[@therezistor]

Thank you so much, guys. Rockin’ my world for 30+ years and counting... ...and last but not least, KARATAIEEE!!!!

[@BryM.]

this is some of the most incredibly specific and highly relatable content I have had the pleasure of enjoying with my ears. thank you all for the stress relief.

[@moustachedotorg]

I enjoyed that. Thank you, TMBG.

[@yagacrafts]

and just like that, my day suddenly got better. Thanks Johns

[@art2liv4]

Thanks to all the fans who explained the provenance of these tunes in the comments. I'm wondering about the 8 hair models in the visual: I feel like they are all should be identifiable, but the only one I feel confident in naming is George Jones, second from the left in bottom row, wearing glasses.

[@art2liv4]

After a little research, I am no longer so confident about my identification of G.J.

[@art2liv4]

The bottom, second from the right, looks like Eric Burdon. I know I've seen the image in the top left corner -- one of the Brolins?

[@kevlarshanahan1087]

Quentin Tarrentino lower left

[@kevlarshanahan1087]

Bottom row 2nd from right, some well known british rocker from the 60s/70s?

[@raymondduck6492]

One of them is definitely Steve Carell

[@LimeyLassen]

Drinkin coffee to this album LIKE A BOSS

[@Erni3K]

"I pour milk in my coffee and watch it explode" That's when I knew you knew me.

[@leebenningfield]

"Doing Things" is an anthem for all time

[@blakerice6238]

Nice. Used from a Dunkin Donuts Commercial

[@SteveClay]

Also... as a youth hockey parent, I SO wish "Bleachers" was here. "I'm freezing at pee wee hockey..."

[@blakerice6238]

Uh huh. This real "Bleachers" thing has seen from the upcoming TMBG Kids Studio album "WE ARE HERE"

[@gimmemoremusic]

I'm in a rut is one of my favorite songs ever.

[@lizk3442]

I think there is definite ring tone potential here

[@arwanrhys5186]

Music about liquid conciousness,... brilliant.. Cheers gentlemen and thankye for sticking around.

[@mikasmith817]

My favorite band strikes again! Thanks for making my life better.

[@thewolfmike2226]

What an awesome surprise! That cover art really has me appreciating being a baldo chrome dome now, but my dude in the lower left corner just needs to cut it like 2 inches above the ears all the way around and pop those bangs up into arches with a comb and hair spray and he's me in high school. Yup it's pretty ok being bald! Thanks TMBG!!

[@Professor_Utonium_]

It's 8am and I'm drinking coffee, talk about synchronicity

[@LimeyLassen]

What are the odds!!!

[@andrewgrant6516]

I don't drink French coffee or Italian coffee, because I'm a Mesopotamian.

[@favoritemustard3542]

Sargon? Hammurabi? Ashurbanipal? Gilgamesh? Øther? I could go for a Mesopotocoffee! 🎩 👁 👅➿☕ 💧

[@brent7781]

I wish I could upvote this a million times. I'd do it if I could.

[@ZillMob]

Yay pure tmbg Goodness. Thanks fellows

[@dylaninpieces2]

I will always enjoy TMBG. Seriously.

[@Rylee_G]

This is amazing

[@soupdujour5807]

Boss, I just so happen to be not as messed up as I would like to be. What do you suppose I should do about this? Maybe, just maybe, more COFFEE??

[@AcidRavelEffect]

blueberry trainwreck. turn up teh ska.

[@TheThomasG]

oh man this is fantastic! way better than bootleg youtube vids of the commercials- thank you TMBG

[@MytePro]

I don’t drink coffee. I listen to it.

[@dylaninpieces2]

@@wesleymcbob Just don't let's start.

[@Brigand231]

I enjoyed that a lot, it had the same manic energy as Apollo 18.

[@confuseatronica]

who's gonna wear my sandals stained with Coca Cola With Coffee(tm)?

[@geoffkeen5234]

Omg! Sooooo funny! 🤣🤣 The backs of my legs... omg laughed so hard! This is totally ALL gold! I want 12" mixes of each bit!

[@blakerice6238]

Sure thing!

[@dylaninpieces2]

Fingertips: Dunkin Donuts Edition

[@1978stevil]

Yeah some of those are definitely Dunkin Donuts commercials

[@1978stevil]

Is it French or is it Italian

[@newzealand5667]

these go so hard, thank you guys for the great music!

[@jochenkaempf8327]

LOVE the brass licks

[@zstardust311]

Why does this thumbnail look like somebody tried using the random character creation tool to make the beach boys and eventually gave up

[@toddleopold2009]

2:18 - song starts, plays for 3 seconds, goes silent for 15 seconds, song resumes. Huh? Thank you for the music.

[@cellphonecam1]

Okay cool I thought it was just me

[@toddleopold2009]

@@cellphonecam1 I'm guessing it's not an intentional thing, but maybe an editing error. I am clipping out each song. I have 14 uploaded so far, and I'm about to work on the rest. I removed that silence and did my best to connect the audio for that song. kzbin.info/aero/PLIw07wa2Wrikt97GKj2TqGQ2FKu-ml8kU

[@MattsInTheBelfry]

I thought I knew all the TMBG songs, until I checked the comments.

[@partycattheoneandonly4563]

Omg new TBMBG in 2020????? This brings me great joy

[@TakeWalker]

It's like another Fingertips. :D

[@CFM7]

Really like the burner one

[@Voetistasneua]

These are wonderful!

[@jonathanhogg5665]

Got a job at the crumb factory

[@AcidRavelEffect]

this was a good time for my analog to be turned blaringly-high.

[@theothertonydutch]

Your analog guitar pedal? Your analog geiger counter? Your analog synthesizer? Your analog computer? Your in-universe analog to contemporary cellular phones with the capability of playing digital media in the shape of a wild animal often coveted as a pet by children? TELL ME ANALOG PERSON, I GOTSTA KNOW!

[@AcidRavelEffect]

1970s Realistic. bought for $10 at a garage sale and wheeled home on my bicycle seat. i will build these... in optimal circumstances..

[@AcidRavelEffect]

receiver

[@AcidRavelEffect]

way better than digital and the watts get amplified differently.

[@AcidRavelEffect]

oh and independent contractors don't have a boss. pff.

[@Ember-vw2ms]

Its a bird, its a plane, its Fretalian

[@billburke8681]

did i hear right? " we break for kung fu movies and sausage " ???

[@yakmartin5429]

Brake? 🧸💕🦠🔨

[@AutismRocksOfficial]

Awesome Sauce!

[@leighwiseman1518]

I think i pulled a hammie

[@liddle_T]

musical rendition of what it feels like to drink coffee...ion kno i never drink it

[@pierrejobin4413]

Encore une fois les TMBG divergent et j'aime ça...

[@supergamer42]

i brake for kung fu movies and sausage

[@giangiee]

Al solito,unici,irripetibili,straordinari.Hanno un solo difetto:non vengono mai in Italia.

[@IlRincreTeam]

Non li conosce nessuno da noi, purtroppo

[@giangiee]

@@IlRincreTeam Questa secondo me la dice lunga su tanta critica musicale,in particolare quella dei grandi quotidiani che magari dedicano articoloni alle pessime trovate discografiche,per fare un solo esempio,di Sting.

[@mattgies]

@@giangiee Quindi, potrebbero non essere giganti ovunque?

[@giangiee]

@@mattgies Mah,per me i due John hanno creato una formula musicale straordinaria,e giganti lo sono,eccome.

[@Dudeguy217]

Crazy. I was just reading the pharmako/dynamis chapter about coffee

[@GymLeaderPhil]

Cofffeeeeetippppppssssss

[@AcidRavelEffect]

don't use warm water? i don't kno what i was doing wrong. that was 20 years ago. no- i get it. the fingertips ref.

[@AcidRavelEffect]

*and glass or ceramic not plastic

[@AcidRavelEffect]

if you don't use a water-filtration system, run a clean cycle quarterly??

[@catscanboys]

Does anybody here smell something burning?

[@chasalgaier3356]

Is it toast? It smells like toast.

[@sammystank7174]

FRITALIAN

[@gregzsidisin]

❤

[@MikeVotava]

I love coffee!

[@AcidRavelEffect]

just changed the belt of a vespa 150 without power tools. there's my creds. sry to flood the channel.

[@chasalgaier3356]

You're forgiven...this time!

[@AcidRavelEffect]

i put the rollers in the wrong way. six tutorials until i found one that shows the right way: small hole facing counter-clockwise. so i did second manual service last month because belt was being slowly singed (60%) from too much heat in that area of the clutch.

[@rescdsk]

Coffee. For the agonies.

[@bradeng7158]

Is anyone else craving Dunkin?

[@hat7475]

nice

[@birmingham2217]

Mmmmm coffee

[@geoffkeen5234]

Woo! Do u have any songs about Monster Energy Drinks?

[@blakerice6238]

Yes. I have any songs about Monster Energy Drinks commercials. Uh huh. They are: 8 AM by They Might Be Giants, Contact Lens by They Might Be Giants, Sticking to the Pleather by They Might Be Giants, Wake Up Song by They Might Be Giants, Fake-Believe (Orchestral Version) (used in the album "WE ARE HERE") by They Might Be Giants featuring Dave GROHL, Kung Fu Movies by They Might Be Giants, I'm In a Rut by They Might Be Giants, Contraption, I'm Retiring You by They Might Be Giants, KARATE! by They Might Be Giants, High Aptitude by They Might Be Giants (used in the album "WE ARE HERE", as a 9th song), One Car Motorcade (used in the album "WE ARE HERE" as a 5th song) by They Might Be Giants, I C U (Orchestral Version) by They Might Be Giants, I'm In a Blur (featuring Robin Goldwasser) (used in the album "WE ARE HERE", as a 3rd song), by They Might Be Giants, Fritalian by They Might Be Giants, Actually (featuring Melanie A. Jefferson) by They Might Be Giants, Hall of Fame by They Might Be Giants, Linoleum (used in the album "WE ARE HERE", as a 7th song), by They Might Be Giants, Country Squire (featuring Dave GROHL) (Definitely used in the album "WE ARE HERE" as a 10th song, with DJ RockStarz, by They Might Be Giants, Get Your Eight Year Old Out of a Tree (likely used from "Why?", and it's used from "WE ARE HERE" as a 2nd song) by They Might Be Giants, Out of the Office by They Might Be Giants featuring Robin Goldwasser, Jimmy the Mechanic (used as a 12th song from the album "WE ARE HERE") by They Might Be Giants, Awesome Sauce! (featuring Melanie A. Jefferson & Robin Goldwasser) by They Might Be Giants, Fake-Believe (Orchestral Version - Type B) (Used in "Here Come the ABC's", used as a 15th song in the album) by They Might Be Giants featuring Robin Goldwasser, SPEED AND VELOCITY (Orchestral Version) (Used in the album "We Are Here" as a 10th song) by They Might Be Giants and Marty BELLER, For Over Four Years by They Might Be Giants featuring DJ Rockstarz, The Afternoon Slump (used from Album "WE ARE HERE" only used as a 14th song) by They Might Be Giants and This Might Be Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood (Crossover Theme) (From "We Are Here", used as track 16) by They Might Be Giants and DANIEL TIGER'S NEIGHBORHOOD

[@danceswvowels]

Perhaps Fritalian?

[@yakmartin5429]

In spite of the horrendous lack of bass clarinet outstandery, it at times has the true Shmølp of Lincoln. That's not too much to demand from an average mammal. Ask any random 4th Elaine. 🧸💕🦠🔨

[@LukeHennisch]

cafe con pan

[@royjenkins2293]

New wake up song found.

[@blakerice6238]

Yep. The new "Wake Up Song" has found in the They Might Be Giants upcoming kids studio album "WE ARE HERE" coming July 21, 2022.

[@noellairson6821]

contact lens.

[@HeyPuppetHead]

Based

[@DeezNutz-yg8io]

The feel of the pleathah!!

[@flg947]

Yee Yee

[@alexsdemkin]

The thumbs down guy only drinks tea

[@Eylaj]

Dunkaccino's playlist.

[@percyperanamus7432]

🔥💖

[@mikemckinney3847]

Quarantingertips?

[@GamesForNoobs]

Just listened to the nonagon song by them LOL

[@charlesfarley28]

Perhaps Fretalian

[@nishbrown]

Daryl, the IT guy deserves nothing. Nothing at all.

[@Professor_Utonium_]

I'm glad someone was brave enough to say it

[@MyOtheHedgeFox]

There’s a strange gap between 2:21 and 2:34.

[@MarkFVanGelder]

HENLO FRENS. WHO'S READY FOR A COUPLE OF SONGS ABOUT COFFEE?

[@MorgenSelmer]

What happened to “Get Your Eight Year Old Out Of A Tree”?

[@CapitalQ]

It was fleshed out into a full song on "Why?", TMBG's 2015 kids album!

[@blakerice6238]

I think “Get Your Eight Year Old Out Of A Tree” as it was fleshed out since 2015 on “Why?”, a TMBG 2015 kids’ album, has seen in an upcoming studio album “We Are Here” when it released in July 21, 2022.

[@imightbebiased9311]

KA-RA-TAYYYYYYYYY