new album (aug 15) TITLE!
Wasp Star
>NEW ALBUM OUT AUG. 15: Yes, yes, the new They Might Be Giants
>album will be out August 15th on Restless Records. No title has
>been selected yet, but producer Adam Schlesinger likes "Yes,"
>Flansburgh likes "Secret Mountain Laboratory."
Has anyone else noticed a trend developing in the selection of album titles?
"Severe Tire Damage", "Long Tall Weekend" , the suggested "Unreliable
Narrator", and now "Secret Mountain Laboratory?
Using the table below, simply choose an adjective or verb from the first
column, a noun from the second column, and hey presto! You've got a possible
title for the next TMBG album!
Adjective/Verb Noun
--------------- ------
Uneducated Llama
Airborne Theatre
Hovering Fruit-Bowl
Falling Poncho
Foaming Paperweight
Scintillating Cartoonist
Terrifying Wildebeest
Oscillating Soap-Dish
Slaughtered Microscope
Pliable Calendar
Traumatised Kumquat
Flattering Telephone
Reliable Briefcase
Breaded Concept
Hollering Pancake
Filleted Slide-rule
Dirtied Astronaut
Quivering Minim
Landlocked Road-Map
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Wasp Star wrote:
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> * * another cool thing brought to you by Darrell aka waspstar * *
Very much so. But I wouldn't expect less from a guy who goes by
waspstar...
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Troy
Wasp Star wrote:
> Adjective/Verb Noun
> --------------- ------
> Uneducated Llama
You know, in some gaming circles, llama means an uneducated newbie, so
uneducated llama would be redundant.
Steven Shilling
Didn't you post that same exact thing like last year?
Mike May
writes:
>>NEW ALBUM OUT AUG. 15: Yes, yes, the new They Might Be Giants
>>album will be out August 15th on Restless Records. No title has
>>been selected yet, but producer Adam Schlesinger likes "Yes,"
>>Flansburgh likes "Secret Mountain Laboratory."
A children's album called 'No' and an adults' album called 'Yes'? Funny.
Mike
"What's that you're barbecuing in your kitchen? It's a human head!"
www.arstechnica.com - For the geek in all of us.
Doctor Worm
Secret Mountain Laboratory are already quasi-commonly used phrases.
Shaft
AWESOME album title. Right up there next to "Flood" and "Lincoln".
I'm all about the mad scientist imagery.
Shaft
Sharon B asks: When will I grow up?
JKH, WOWAD: When you stop fighting pirates, forget that you believe in fairies,
leave the exclusive company of orphaned boys, and return to London, the aging
process will recommence. I promise you.
Wasp Star
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>
> Didn't you post that same exact thing like last year?
Yes.
Wasp Star
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> In case TMBG decides to ask us, I think that "Secret Mountain Labratory"
is and
> AWESOME album title. Right up there next to "Flood" and "Lincoln".
Personally, I hate it. Previous album titles have had their own interesting
meaning, but recently they just sound so manufactured.
'Lincoln' was named after the town where the Johns first met, and the album
cover was a fitting tribute to their ancestry featuring photographs of their
great grandfathers in the John's stage positions.
'Flood' appeared around the time of global warming fears, and offered an
alternate explanation as to why the ocean levels were rising up - it was
TMBG's brand new album causing the world's love (and oceans) to swell. The
title was thought up before the album was illustrated, and the John's
apparently went to a lot of trouble tracking down the cover photograph by
Margaret Bourke White. Flansburgh mused "You may have seen the made-for-TV
movie about her life starring Farrah Fawcet Majors. But she was a great
photographer......despite the horrible TV movie."
'Apollo18' was chosen because both Johns had written songs relating to space
("The Statue Got Me High", "See the Constellation", "The Guitar"), and the
album was suitably illustrated. The NASA endorsment came after they
approaced the organisation for archive photographs.
'John Henry' is the American legend of a man who challenged a machine. A
suitable title for their first album to feature a live band in place of
their drum machines.
But the new album titles seem devoid of meaning. If they relate to any
specific events or concepts, they remain a mystery to us.
Darrell
Wasp Star
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You could always choose a different verb or noun. But the resulting paradox
is certainly inkeeping with TMBG humour.
Doctor Worm
Miscellaneous T: the odds and ends nature of the album, and their filing
in most record stores (This one is backed up in the Then linear notes.
The rest are just my conjecture.)
Severe Tire Damage: they were on the road during their tours, and this
is probably a road sign that they encountered
Factory Showroom: possibly they got some new equipment, or else they
want to showcase their new music
I'm at a loss for Long Tall Weekend.
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Doctor Worm wrote:
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> in most record stores (This one is backed up in the Then linear notes.
Why does everyone talk always about the linear notes? I think the
quadratic notes are going to feel left out...
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Doctor Worm
pronounced the second way.
Sylvan Migdal
wrote on 4/12/01 1:31 PM:
> Albums which you neglected to mention (that have significance).
> Miscellaneous T: the odds and ends nature of the album, and their filing
> in most record stores (This one is backed up in the Then linear notes.
> The rest are just my conjecture.)
I've always wondered if it was also a pun on Mr. T. Probably not, but who
cares?
--
Sylvan
Now Playing: Cabbage Town (TMBG)
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Bryce
> 'Flood' appeared around the time of global warming
> fears, and offered an alternate explanation as to
> why the ocean levels were rising up - it was TMBG's
> brand new album causing the world's love (and
> oceans) to swell. The title was thought up before
> the album was illustrated, and the John's apparently
> went to a lot of trouble tracking down the cover
> photograph by Margaret Bourke White. Flansburgh
> mused "You may have seen the made-for-TV movie
> about her life starring Farrah Fawcet Majors. But
> she was a great photographer......despite the horrible
> TV movie."
> But the new album titles seem devoid of meaning. If
> they relate to any specific events or concepts, they
> remain a mystery to us.
The album title Flood is a strong expression of Quantity, which as you'll recall was featured prominently on the original tmbg.com
site, and which I consider to be one of the Three Pillars of TMBG (the other two being Melody and Fidelity, of course). I believe
the notion of Quantity also played an important role in the naming of Long Tall Weekend and Severe Tire Damage.
However, Factory Showroom was indeed pretty hollow as an album title. Basically all it says to me is, "Here's our new stuff."
While this was true at the time of its release, now it's not, so it's kind of lame.
Bryce
Factory closing up.
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Weekend so much.
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Doctor Worm
lot.)
Sylvan Migdal
wrote on 4/12/01 4:08 PM:
> Oh. I've never seen it spelled that way. (Not like I see it spelled a
> lot.)
For some reason linear notes is a very popular misspelling. At least it's
not as bad as 'partical man'.
--
Sylvan
"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's
warm for the rest of his life." --Terry Pratchett
Polaris
>
> Why does everyone talk always about the linear notes? I think the
> quadratic notes are going to feel left out...
Hey! That's my joke!
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Only because you beat me to it last time! I thought of it, then looked
at the next post and saw I'd been beaten to the punch.
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Yer Pal Paul
Wasp Star wrote in message <9b28nh$al6$1...@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk>...
>Flansburgh writes:
>
>>NEW ALBUM OUT AUG. 15: Yes, yes, the new They Might Be Giants
>>album will be out August 15th on Restless Records. No title has
>>been selected yet, but producer Adam Schlesinger likes "Yes,"
>>Flansburgh likes "Secret Mountain Laboratory."
>
>Has anyone else noticed a trend developing in the selection of album
titles?
>"Severe Tire Damage", "Long Tall Weekend" , the suggested "Unreliable
>Narrator", and now "Secret Mountain Laboratory?
When did Flansburgh first mention "Secret Mountain Laboratory"? I think
this was first reported at theymightbegiants.com, which was only updated
this last Monday, 4/9/01. Yes?
Just last weekend (or was it the weekend before) Cartoon Network aired a
three hour block of the original "Josie and the Pussycats" cartoon episodes.
I only saw a small portion of it (while folding laundry, if you really must
know), but one episode in particular featured Josie and the gang
accidentally stumbling upon a mad scientist's....duh, duh, duh, DUM...SECRET
MOUNTAIN LABORATORY! Ya see, the Pussycats were playing a gig at a ski
resort, when one of Alexandria's tricks to get Allen's attention backfired
(as usual) which led them all to this spooky mountain top castle
where...well, you know how these things go. Anyway, just wondering if this
cartoon episode might have been the inspiration for the latest TMBG album
title rumor.
For the record, I like "Unreliable Narrator" as long as "Matt's Life
Savings" and "All Your Friends Hate Me" seem to be out of the running.
Yer Pal Paul
Not back on that old Time is Money kick, still on it.
Lao M. Wach
wolfie
hahaggaaahhhhhh - homer
> Adjective/Verb Noun
> --------------- ------
> Breaded llama
Lao M. Wach
right along with hovering astronaut and foaming cartoonist
wolfie
mmmmmm slaughtered concept
Brandon Turok
pretty kickass album title...
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Watch carefully as the ink hits you in the eye.
Alex Simko
> cares?
Hey, let's make a Misc. T Ate My Balls page! "Hey Mr. DJ, I thought you said
I'll scratch your balls and you'll scratch my record..."
> Sylvan
> Now Playing: Cabbage Town (TMBG)
Ooh! Which version? The IPI EP or the DAS?
BLNKRBOY
Nathan Mulac DeHoff
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> in article 3AD60B65...@home.com, Doctor Worm at docto...@home.com
> wrote on 4/12/01 4:08 PM:
>
> > Oh. I've never seen it spelled that way. (Not like I see it spelled a
> > lot.)
>
> For some reason linear notes is a very popular misspelling. At least it's
> not as bad as 'partical man'.
Trinangle Man hates Partical Man!
Nathan, replying to old posts because he hasn't read the newsgroup in a few
weeks
Nathan Mulac DeHoff
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Yeah, and you stole it from Steve Allen.
Nathan
Nathan Mulac DeHoff
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> For the record, I like "Unreliable Narrator" as long as "Matt's Life
> Savings" and "All Your Friends Hate Me" seem to be out of the running.
"All Your Friends Hate Me" is kind of similar to the title of the newest
Young Fresh Fellows album, "Because We Hate You."
Nathan
And what about "Jesus, Hitler, and Me"?
Nathan Mulac DeHoff
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> Albums which you neglected to mention (that have significance).
> Miscellaneous T: the odds and ends nature of the album, and their filing
> in most record stores (This one is backed up in the Then linear notes.
> The rest are just my conjecture.)
> Severe Tire Damage: they were on the road during their tours, and this
> is probably a road sign that they encountered
> Factory Showroom: possibly they got some new equipment, or else they
> want to showcase their new music
I think that latter one is pretty much it. One of the question-and-answer
sessions at tmbg.com has one of the Johns saying that titles like "Flood"
and "Factory Showroom" were basically saying, "Here's a bunch of songs."
> I'm at a loss for Long Tall Weekend.
That seems to be the first bit of real nonsense to serve as a TMBG album
title. Some people conjectured that it was meant to refer to Memorial Day
weekend, the original projected release date for the album.
Nathan
Everything right is wrong again, just like in the long tall weekend.
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Nathan Mulac DeHoff wrote:
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> "Sylvan Migdal" <psi...@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:B6FB837E.6E9%psi...@mindspring.com...
> > in article 3AD60B65...@home.com, Doctor Worm at docto...@home.com
> > wrote on 4/12/01 4:08 PM:
> >
> > > Oh. I've never seen it spelled that way. (Not like I see it spelled a
> > > lot.)
> >
> > For some reason linear notes is a very popular misspelling. At least it's
> > not as bad as 'partical man'.
>
> Trinangle Man hates Partical Man!
Don't you mean Triangel Man?
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Asa Pillsbury
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> > Trinangle Man hates Partical Man!
>
> Don't you mean Triangel Man?
I found out she's a triangel.
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> scratch scratched:
> > > Trinangle Man hates Partical Man!
> >
> > Don't you mean Triangel Man?
>
> I found out she's a triangel.
Triangel Man hates Partical Man. They have a fight, Purson wins because he's
working undercover for Universe Man, actual size of the entire universe,
man, it's so loud in here.