They Might Be Giants - With the Dark - official video

[@Donut-Eater]

0:00 slow atmospheric part 0:53 instrumental action scene 1:31 squid gets tired off their nautical dreams 2:02 bashes smashes crashes to pieces 2:12 WE'RE TAKIN' OVER! 2:32 bashes smashes crashes to pieces II: rusted incrusted combusted and dusted 2:41 WE'RE TAKIN' OVER! Part II 3:02 no more sunlight, please

[@bigglewings]

tmbg will still be wowing us in another 20 years.

[@jameswoodward5400]

Halfway there and it's holding true!

[@rwall514]

Seven years to go, showing no signs of stopping.

[@SomberScream]

5 more years!

[@rebeccaporter5359]

Four and a half more to go, come on Reunion Tour 2027

[@JaaaackP]

You’re right

[@cashc4434]

I like how they incorporated "Puppets Gonna F_ck You Up," their very obscure song about puppets getting revenge.

[@cashc4434]

The original line in the aforementioned song is: "I'm getting tired of all this bulls_it goin' round. I'm getting tired of all these small-town clowns. Busting my puppet hump. Grinding my puppet stump. I got nothing to prove, so f_ck it!" Don't know why I put this here. Don't ask.

[@MisterAppleEsq]

Nice trivia.

[@applemask]

The Giants wrote the starts of several songs, couldn't finish them off, decided put them all together.

[@GraycenVT]

Modest Mouse has the same problem lol

[@rayscotchcoulton]

Pretty sure that a feature here and not a bug

[@applemask]

@@rayscotchcoulton It always is

[@daveidmarx8296]

Paul McCartney influence no doubt.

[@CrocodileWhispers]

The giants? I don't know about that, they might be

[@CrazyRiverOtter]

Gotta say, this new James Bond opening is looking good.

[@mintakamothkind]

Holy shit. When I was a child, I had a plastic giant squid with two posable tentacles (it eventually [fell]/[was torn] apart and was lost forever) and the one in this video looks exactly how I remember mine. I didn't think it was possible for TMBG to be any more intertwined with my childhood than it already was, but apparently I thought wrong. Seriously, how do serendipities like this even happen? And now I want another squid just like it.

[@mintakamothkind]

WAIT A MINUTE. AT 1:49 THERE'S A BIONICLE LEG PIECE. THIS GOES EVEN DEEPER THAN I THOUGHT.

[@mister_mozzarella]

Did it get eaten by a whale, perhaps?

[@Applepieman1990]

One of the Greatest Bands of all time.

[@JunkyardBashSteve]

I love the beginning of this song so much

[@MisterAppleEsq]

Have you heard the version that's just that part slightly extended?

[@theo6426]

@@MisterAppleEsq can you link it?

[@EmpressStubble]

Love the lil' spidere on the guitar. AWESOME!

[@Voetistasneua]

Now we can finally see who that was playin' the guitar so long ago. He is our hero!

[@supermegadrive64]

I think I get this song,it starts off with,"She's in love with the dark",then the squid starts ranting about how he hates dreaming,and then the girl.type.vocals come in saying how they're "taking over",and it ends with,"no more sunlight please",its a battle between light and dark. dark wins.

[@everythingmixedtogether1883]

after listening to this song over and over i have come to the conclusion that this song is actually about being alone and being ok with it

[@BifMcAwesome]

TMBG music is based on the use of cerebral constructs such as non-sequitors, reversed and oblique grammer, and fill in the blank ideas. They will take a musical characteristic and often build the idea around it without following the logic of the idea but of the characteristic. An example is Mink Car with the characteristic Burt Bacharach chord structures and progressions but the idea is the High Society trappings associated with the music, hence the references to Mink, diamonds, chauffers.

[@PoisonPeachPit]

I love how much the singing changes in one song.

[@stellastellub]

I love Hine Mizushima!

[@miztahfrawg]

i love how all the songs often have hidden meanings

[@lucase.2546]

*no more sunlight, please.*

[@koozboy]

GET THOSE LIGHTS OFF

[@JustLazer]

Precious smashes crashes to pieces. Busted crusted com-busted and dusted. Reasons to make this my favorite song. I just hope that they keep making more albums.

[@jasper7439]

8 years later and theyre still going strong! :)

[@JustLazer]

@@jasper7439 ​Yep~ "I Love You for Psychological Reasons" may not be newer (not sure) but it has some of their craziest word usage. In a different way than quoted above. I don't remember, but it might reference some of their other songs like "Dog" and "Climbing the Walls" do.

[@hippogriffgrrl10]

Even though it makes no sense to me whatsoever, I love this whole thing so much.

[@poocoop]

this is my fav. tmbg song EVER

[@JancyDreamer]

...(posted too fast...) anyway, Apollo 18 tribute: the squid and lander from the cover, Spider, Hall of Heads, My Evil Twin, and the different types of music reminds me of "Fingertips" in one song.

[@bangcamaro66]

I thought that the music video would explain the song a little. But it left me far more confused and entertained than I expected. I love They Might Be Giants!

[@ssabykoops]

What a fantastic stopmotion epic

[@KholdSeraph89]

This is one of my favorite TMBG tunes.

[@pxlnight13]

i understand EXACTLY what you are talking about. but even though all of their songs sound different, they somehow are almost always really great.

[@dugalicous]

this video is pure genious! this is my favorite music video of all time. This should be on MTV.

[@celestemoon]

LOVE the vid - it's full of refs to old clips & the Apollo album cover, plus sometimes just responds to the music.

[@cyberpilate]

They just keep knocking it out of the park...

[@iLLL0_0]

I LOVEE hine mizuhima’s work so much!! It’s so cool and creative

[@pikawesomeness]

i cant tell getting high or a they might be giants video apart there both so crazy and awesome

[@BryceHurst]

Wow, I actually love this song even more now.

[@wetreplies]

gloriously trippy

[@Shuda7]

I own this CD! Great job!

[@dugalicous]

awesome, this is my favorite They Might Be Giants video.

[@Atma505]

I always get hella excited when 1:31 is about to play in the song.

[@dugalicous]

ya still my favorite music video of all time!

[@pikawesomeness]

these guys are amazing want to see them in concert

[@pxlnight13]

i think that this is one of the gratest videos AND songs. don't ask me why, but i LOVE TMBG.

[@skivit]

1:26 - 1:31 "Oh, no, I've been captured!" "Don't worry, I gotcha." "Coffee break!" "Whoa shit, that squid's heading right for Earth!" "Better shoot it." *crashes into ocean*

[@KholdSeraph89]

This is probably my favorite song on The Else. It's nice to see the Apollo 18 squid!

[@accordionboy25]

sweet stop motion. I'm working on some myself. TMBG rules!!!!!!!!!

[@Shuda7]

Greatest song to date!

[@ignignoktmoonite]

The squid is 100% based on the squid on the apollo 18 album cover

[@debb8321]

"...no more sunlight...pleeease.... !"

[@calvinball1]

you love TMBG because you are awesome, and don't you ever forget it

[@JazzyJonas]

I'm glad they made this video. This song still makes no sense.

[@eternal0star]

Songs like this really show how much The Residents have influenced music and art. I love TMBG

[@samdorbin4763]

Unpopular Opinion: This is one of the best TMBG songs

[@stormyaaron]

I don't see how any one can say they are boring and unoriginal when they really have no style, they change with every song. Unlike Green Day or any other mainstream or even alot of indy bands who have one style, and I am not talking about punk, emo, screamo, etc. But how they sing and how their music is. Most bands how a days are just formulated.

[@HerveKeptner]

very Sadly that you did not realize that you and everyone is a Particle Man TOO! my last question; I didn't realize that "Particle Men" was the name TMBG went by on KZbin. *smacks forehead in embarrassment*)

[@eightballpictures]

she´s in love with the dork

[@apb_134]

This video is so creative. The stop motion toys are awesome! The song is awesome too.

[@miztahfrawg]

that, my freind, is exactly why i love the band.

[@aerozord]

they often do, but it isn't always a deep one. Evil Twin, for example is about how it would be awesome to have an evil twin, because you can get away with anything. Can go abit deeper of course and say how its about how everyone wants a convient scape goat

[@fenixdown22]

awesome!!!

[@jackdets7450]

Is that squid a Apollo 18 reference? I mean we did see it with the lunar lander.

[@stoplight2554]

It's even holding a guitar at the beginning, reference to the song on Apollo 18 called "the guitar'

[@seanalexander1133]

Are you blind?

[@stoplight2554]

Also, the way the part of the song presumably sung by the squid ends with talking about taxidermy reminds me of apollo 18 as that album was very morbid but in a funny way. This song is made up of three failed song ideas, perhaps that was a scrapped "fingertips" from apollo 18?

[@doubledenial8178]

@@stoplight2554 In case you're still wondering, two of the "Fingertips" in this song are re-recorded clips from older TMBG songs. The instrumental after the "She's in love with her broken heart" is an instrumental version of a podcast jingle called "Mono", and the taxidermy part is from a live-only song called "Puppets Gonna F*ck You Up". Pretty neat.

[@aquasomethingyouknowwhatever]

i love those little wooden dudes. i love them so much

[@HarleyRowan]

That was hilarious as well as musically, so wonderful

[@foowah7]

This song's pretty cool!

[@Anzyll]

TMBG vs Giant Squid be like...

[@minespatch]

I can't stop singing this song!

[@Ethergirl]

LOL This is so cute! Always loved TMBG. Is this the official video for this song? Do NOT vote for the squid! LOLOL

[@blakeshaw5526]

Which anime?

[@minkcarz]

*edit delet this

[@Atma505]

HELLA excited.

[@samuelcastelli5782]

This is such a great song

[@CuteAnimeGirl]

Funny how they got inspiration of the lyrics that go from 1:32-1:57 from that other song called Puppets gonna fuck you up.

[@tylertree4939]

holy shit, 11 years, has it really been that long?

[@Rouverius]

I crush everything.

[@sren74]

awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome

[@tw38763876]

VOTE FOR GIANT SQUID!! *lol* love this! great job! TMBG always ROCKS!!!!! (!!!!)

[@xmantidx]

Actually I was just goofing when I made that comment , I think the video kicks ass and as far as knowing the band I've been a fan of them since highschool and have seen them in concert twice even though I ended up going by myself 'cause none of my friends were as into them as I was at the time.

[@WingsofStrife]

I can enjoy the song without knowing the meaning, but it's always fun for some people (including me) to go a little deeper and try to unravel the deep meanings they were thinking of when they wrote it. (and yes I know your comment was 3 years ago, but I wanted to say something...you still have one of the top comments, btw)

[@lighthouse412]

That is so random!! ♥ TMBG!!!

[@butterbee8193]

Strangely, I hear the Dust Brothers influence in this a lot more than some of the others on The Else

[@Mummer85]

I want my own John&John action figures. =(

[@USSRScrapper]

So well done

[@trubbaman]

i love this band and the squid

[@Bsomers2]

I fully agree...I have listened to them for almost 20 years and I have to say they are very unique...The only other odd band I can class with them is Ween...But the giants are the best....

[@mattgcn]

So so so so awesome :3

[@NvPGulstab]

Their next album is another kid's album, but the one after that is going to be an adult album. Perhaps the reason for no more live action videos is due to the fact that they've gotten older (than They've ever been) and aren't as fresh as they used to be. Music still rocks.

[@NazdregUgUrdgrub]

I mean even if your cup of tea is a wall of trombones...They will still try to salute you the way they know

[@micahgruenwald9321]

??? You guys must be into the eurythmics.

[@Applepieman1990]

XD TMBG is the best

[@miztahfrawg]

amen to that, brother !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@stoplight2554]

I like how they also cross out the TMBG poster.

[@Th4tGuy]

epic music video

[@dnr-vs1lk]

they certainly are "leading the charge of the wrong" if they're crossing out tmbg posters, especially in a universe where tmbg also fights giant politician squids.

[@Icekiller1080]

I have no idea what just happen but it was awsome

[@Joeyorangecupcake]

Very lovely puppets! :D

[@krudmonger]

The last video from them that I've seen was for "Doctor Worm", and that one wasn't literal (that I recall), though there was a degree of doctor-ness about it, I suppose. And "Experimental Film" was totally non-sequitur (though admittedly that was largely due to The Brothers Chaps.) What are their most recent videos? (That they themselves have had a hand in? Not counting the Venue Songs videos, either.) I guess I could find out on their website...

[@svankmaj]

I know I'm stupid for even attempting to analyze things that should just be enjoyed at face value. I do my best to see They Might Be Giants as quirky and even humorous, not as serious and meaning-laden as, say, Pink Floyd. All this said, very cool video, and great use of stop-motion! :) You rock, TMBG! (but can I still vote for the squid? ;) )

[@goouttothemeadow]

Awesome...ness

[@lenskap]

This one could have been writen by Brian Wilson. Great job John F.!

[@NARFNra]

Woah, I just realized what the campaign posters mean. The twins who are taking over have "DD" written on their posters, but the pictures is a pair of does. What that means is that they're... John Does? Okay I thought I had something...

[@eternal0star]

I don't think so. Of course really that is a question for TMBG. My point was more that the style is that The Residents influence visually is apparent in this. Not to say it isn't original. Just influenced/inspired.

[@thirdsound]

Hey I liked the little nod to Homeland Security and their fabulous color coded threat system!

[@CuteAnimeGirl]

Roesmoker, I never found a problem with them recycling certain lyrics from another song just for this one. I just thought that was intresting. I mean they did the same thing with song Rabid Child by mentioning Chess Piece Face.

[@lilclerk]

Unoriginal, really? I can understand TMBG not being your cup of tea, but you can't say they're unoriginal.

[@tastedawaste1367]

Holy shit this bass

[@krudmonger]

(Disregard my last question; I didn't realize that "Particle Men" was the name TMBG went by on KZbin. *smacks forehead in embarrassment*)

[@ParanoidPajamas]

They'll need a crane to take this youtube forum post apart.

[@TheGirlYouDoNotKnow]

oh geeee!! toy johns!!!!

[@YourFaceWillDie468]

@populvuh02 I'm absolutely sure they would.

[@dumdumchord]

Might be an unpopular opinion but there's always been a part of me that wishes the song continued in the same style as the "nautical dreams" part. I know they get away with shifting styles a lot but I genuinely feel like the 2nd half would fit better as its own song.