They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Official Music Video)
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- Опубликовано: 10 дек 2024
- You're watching the official music video for They Might Be Giants - "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" from the album 'Flood' (1990)
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My history teacher played this banger in class and had it on loop for the ENTIRE class period. Nobody got tired of it or asked to change the song. Amazing job, guys!
My friend and I used to listen to this on repeat in my car while cruising around town. He'd sing the low parts while I sang the high parts. We'd go with the windows rolled down for the luls, oh so many funny/amused looks we got from people! Good times, good times...
@@ithink3979 Thats nice.
As a greek, I can't help imagining what a banger that song would be like 570 years ago.
Baklavaki
Cacıki
Dönerki
İstanbulki
@@komikediares Calm down
i love how absolutely chaotic this animation. the weird king kong like policeman, the fights in the street, the car crashing into the building 4 separate times, the little business man running back and forth, and my favorite, the little drum guy bouncing up and down.
It feels like something I would have seen on TV as a kid when zapping through channels at like 1 AM
Reminds me of mtv2 or Cartoon Network in the 90’s.
chaotic
it makes no absolute sense but it does in a weird way
Looks like Schoolhouse Rock on acid.
Lyrics if u want :)
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
So, take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Istanbul, Istanbul
Istanbul, Istanbul
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, oh Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
So, take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Istanbul
Thanx.....I have heard this song for decades and always thought it was, "It's nobody's business but the church!" (Made sense to me because the church has long been involved in so many things which is none of its busness!)
You forgor about the Do Do, Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do, Do Do Do Do Do Do Do, Do Do Do Do Do Do
@@blackholeentry3489 the Turks killed every man woman and child in Constantinople then renamed it Istanbul
Some heros don't where cape
cringe song
*Fun fact: several odd years ago, this song helped me correctly answer at least 2 questions on a Geography test. And for that, I say... "Sure, They Might Be Giants... but They Might Also Be Tutors. LOL. Thanks guys!"*
@Andy Roid To that I say "the sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace"
Constantinople not Istanbul
Istanbul NOT Constantopal
Man wait till he sees here come the 123s/ABCs
TMBG always seemed to me to be just a bunch of teachers who formed a band.
the funnier fact I know about They Might be Giants is that in Terry Pratchett's book "Soul Music" there's a Dwarf band called "They're certainly Dwarfs" and I find it simply amazing.
Sir Terry Pratchett was a literary genius!
I never paid attention to this song but for some reason I absolutely loved it during Five's fight in the donut shop
same
I’m watching it rn and I’m just looking for the song
Same
Same😄Awesome song.. Kids love dancing to this..
@@I-eat-minimum-wage-workers It's at the end of the the first episode.
This song heard frequently at the airport in Istanbul.
Lol please be true
@@enarcmcfly sadly no 😢 unless I remember my Bluetooth speaker ofc
But not Constantinople
@@Bowiiihowdy every song played in constantinople
was played in istanbul not constantinople
so if you've played this song
in constantinople
it was played in istanbul
not possible
This song has driven me nuts for years. I knew the lines I knew were lyrics from a song, but I couldn't remember which one.
they have Google for that you know
Did the repetitive nature of "Istanbul not Constantinople" not give you some sort of clue ?
@@stephenm8415 This was years before google existed. I am a Xer after all.
@@blazingfire8794 Try searching the lyrics lol
@@stephenm8415 This is Constantinople, NOT Google
They might be giants is the best underrated band. Like seriously, they have more songs in an album that most bands make in their whole life. They’re gonna do it until they can’t anymore, so we all gotta appreciate them ❤️
particle man said, “ok triangle man is gonna have beef with everyone”
@@claranoelledancesbill cypher really do be like that.
Took me 40 years to realise how great they are.
My dad won't stop playing this song. I'm gonna cry.
Lmao how old are you
@@rommul1389 20 LMAO
@@rommul1389Kosovo je Albania 🇹🇷
I also can't stop playing this song 😂😂😂
@@ItalianRomaFan NOT YOU TOO 😭😭😭😭
Our social studies teacher in 6th grade always played the video of Tiny Toons with this song in the background. Stuck in my head ever since.
Wish I could find the original tiny toons for my kids
my social studies played this today in class (i have never heard of this song before today) it’s not 8:10pm and the song is STILL stuck in my head goddd
Yes 🙌🏻
that is an AWESOME childhood memory!
fun fact: even in turkish it was once called "konstantiniyye" in official documents but known colloquially by the people as "istanbul"
That’s because that’s what it was called by the Greeks. But Turks can’t pronounce “Stanboli,” which means “to the city,” so Turks pronounced it “Istanbul.”
@@ferretyluvold Turkish didn't have stand-alone s or r in the beginning of the words which transformed "ramazan" to "ıramazan", "stampa" to "ıstampa", "stanbul to ıstanbul" etc.
In Hindi, we call the old Byzantine city 'Kunstuntuniya"
@@yesilpaprika The real point here is that it's always been called just "the city" by people who live there and who have business there, in whatever language, and the changing official names have always been a political thing. I think that's cool.
Con(STAN)tino(POL)is
The fiddle/violin at the beginning and end hits a special spot in my ears that releases so much dopamine I’m not even kidding
This was the first TMBG song I ever heard, back in 1992. That's the year I started listening to the Dr. Demento radio show, and he played a lot of their songs!
My brother and I grew up with Dr Demento. Dead Puppies, They're coming to take me away, so many twisted song lol
This Song is great something about how the rhythm changes and the irony of the lyrics
Tiny Toon Adventures was the first time I ever heard this song.
Will always be the 'official' video to me. 😁
Same
Ditto
I thought this version was older than it is. I thought I remembered listening to this when I was little little - like my own personal Mandela effect. This says 1990 which would make me 9. Still a little kid but I thought I heard this as far back as I can remember. However I think what is happening is I am getting this mixed up with Taco's "Putting on the Ritz" . To my ear that song has a similar and was a big deal at the very young age that I have in mind. Both songs are covers from decades prior.
Same... back in EARLY 90s in a blockbuster
What a great song. Loved it in The Umbrella Academy. Spiffy Biffy.
They Might Be Giants have one of the most well-known versions of this track - can you name the original quartet who recorded "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" in 1953? 🎙️🎶
The Four Lads did the original
@@volodymyrbilyk555 *You may have beaten me, Mr. Sabab, by about 15 minutes (BTW, well-played sir)... but here's a little bit of interesting trivia:*
*England's The Four Lads, very likely copied the main melody of their song from another older hit song... 1930's "Puttin' On the Ritz" (written by Irving Berlin & originally sung by a singer named Harry Richman). Several artists would eventually cover it, including Fred Astaire and TACO (among MANY others).*
@@andyroid5028 Four Lads were Canadian...
@@andyroid5028 Don't forget Peter Boyle and Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein!
@@andyroid5028 maybe you would have been first if you didnt type up that long ass reply
Thw umbrella academy brought me here. Season 4 is out today so i thought lets listen to this again. Thank you number five 🙌
1:12 "Dew-dew-dew dew-dew de-dewdewdewdew!"
OHHHHHHHHH AH OHHHHHHHH AH OHHHHHHHHHHH AH OHHHH- Istanbul
Istanbul.... ISTANBUL
1:49 Man, this violin solo!!
Oh yeah❤❤❤
You know some of the riffs in this song are from 1600, like these guys really dug into music history to make this song.
they didnt lol, this is a cover of The Four Lads version from 1953
@@user-ng2lk5wv4p the beatles? /j
The silk street lucky four
@@rammingtime LOLLL
@@rammingtimeHe was not referring to the Beatles, he was referring to the English quartet “The Four Lads” who originally made this song, which Tmbg covered
I found this song due to Tiny Toon Adventures featuring this & Particle Man in an episode and I became a fan ever since.
THIS IS LITERALLY STUCK IN MY HEAD!!!!!!
This song is covered in enough hooks to empty the ocean
Fun fact: Istanbul (Not Constantinople) is a 1990 swing-style song by They Might Be Giants. It was featured in a music video in the Tiny Toon Adventures episode Tiny Toon Music Television.
Other fact: It was a cover of a 1953 song recorded by The Four Lads.
I had to listen to this song because of a question I had on a quiz made think of the song. The question was "when the dutch came and created a large settlement it was called New Amsterdam. The city later in modern times became known as?" And this song came to my head right away lol
Yep. "Old New York"
It was the British that changed it to new York that's why there's a old York in england
@@VeryUnderstandabledudeand new zealand, no idea where the zealand came from
@@wtz_under Old Zealand is underneath new Zealand
@@wtz_under Zeeland, netherlands
I've never been more thrilled to see that the music video looks exactly like the song sounds.
This song has been stuck in my head for years
This band is strangely deep but smothered in absurdity. Everything ends.
Tiny Toons introduced me to This group and I'm forever grateful.
As a Turkish this song is so good🇹🇷♥️🇺🇸
haklısın bacım
@@tanemsoyalan1839bacım ne alaka
Amerikayı skim. Natoda olmamıza rağmen bir savaş durumunda yunanistanı bize karşı destekleyecek bir ülkeyi neden ssevdiğinizi anlayamıyorum.
As an Earthling, I tend to agree with you.
No it’s not
I heard this song first in ,, The Umbrella Academy " and I love it
Same lol
“And so they lived happily ever after : the end”
“can you pleaaasee tell me another story”
“goodbye and thank you for watching the umbrella academy”
- Narrator of the umbrella academy
For anyone wondering, Istanbul means "In the city", while Constantinople means "Constantine's City" which is not Constantine's city anymore.
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks
@@AndrewTBP I am a Turk
However as long as Emperor Constantine founded it, it will always be his city as Alexandria founded by Alexander the Great, etc. Turks renamed the city which was not theirs
@@memmori1 actually Constantine did not found Constantinople. It had already been renamed several times by then ranging from Byzantion to Secunda Roma to Nova Roma and on and on before Constantine even showed up to rename it.
Also cities belong to the people who live in them, so it truly is the business of the Turks.
It doesn't mean "in the city" as in being in the city, It means "to The city" or "towards The city" or even "at the city" as in dative. In Turkish, "şehre doğru", yönelme anlamı. Also if it's written as poli, it means a city but if its written as Poli then it means Istanbul.
This song fits their vibe very well.
one of my fav songs in the worlld!! love this band !1 twisiin a nother fav!!
I used to hear this on 3rd shift at Kroger in Arlington Tx tonight I shared this with my lady and our baby boy
Why is this song so fire though?
It’s too good!
One of my favorite teachers played this during the ottoman period and its the multimedia ones that leave the best impression
Sang this song in my head so I would not cry when I left my family as a kid to go meet my ship in Guam to go support Operation Desert Storm.
F your service you grunt and lackey
_Wow. You cried later, right? Seriously, it's not healthy to suppress those emotions. And BTW, thanks for fighting for the USA._
👍🏼🇺🇸
@@andyroid5028 I did the first night on my ship but not after that.
I only knew the instrumental version of this classic song, then I discovered this one with lyrics 😂👌
I just love this band.
i love how funky the animation and song is
a fight breaks out at Umbrella Academy and this banger starts playing
Istanbul is the unique, wonderful, great city of all time ❤🇹🇷
IT'S CONSTANTINOPLE 😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬
@@1Tuxedo_Cat1 no 😊 calm down greek
@@Tayselkenaleesshud lmao Im joking istanbul is turkish 😹
@@1Tuxedo_Cat1 we have no problem 💖
omg turk and greek debate that ended positively? 🤯
I like this video a lot, but I feel like a lot of people in the comments don't know this is a cover of a song from 1953.
It was a cover?
@@Tony_Baloney_69420 Yes, originally performed by The Four Lads.
the four lads were IT
@Neo Crusader Steve Funny
A lot slower
This song has been in my head since 1995 when I saw it on Cartoon Network
First heard it in '91 on Liquid Television. Was fully on board the TMBG train the following year with Apollo 18 and saw them live the first time as well. One of only two acts I will unquestionably try to see whenever they come by (Springsteen is the other).
I just noticed how strange this song is. I LOVE IT!
Sure but the bird is the word.
My English teacher(I think he was) showed us this song in my middle school years and I never forgot about it ever since. This song is a banger and will remain one of the best songs made❤
This song has been stuck in my head for a week because Ive been watching the Great War youtube series. Listening to it now finally feels like catharsis.
My son is over there on the couch studying for his AP history exam and he turns to me and says, "Mom, do you remember what the other name for Constantinople is?" Yes, son. Yes I do. Allow me to share this Gen X banger with you.
Perfection. He learned 'bout New York, too!
I've had this stuck in my head all damn day!
I've had the tune stuck in my head for like ten years and just remembered the words recently
everytime someone mentions constantinople or istanbul i think about this and i get so happy
Believe it or not, this song actually helped me with a history final.
remember when a few days before i was left go from an old school a long time ago, we were studying Constantinople, and i mentioned this song to a fairly older teacher of mine and i think i’ve hooked him on TMBG :3
I grew up with this song as my grandparents were from Constantinople/Instanbul.
I first heard this song on MTV in '91 as I am from Earth and despite what many may believe in their heart of hearts, TMBGs popularity is STILL limited to Earth.
ANINDA İSTANBUL,İNSTANBUL!
Enormous hit in San Francisco on Live 105!
I am proud to say that after 20 years, I can still sing along, word-for-word. Timeless classic. Thanks, Google algorithm!
Hey TMBG fans, you'll enjoy this info. Mark Marek (not to be confused with the same guy who was a total creep), later known for his work on the Henry and June segments of Nickelodeon's KaBlam!, created the stop-motion characters and set for this video. Mark had worked with the band before on their cover and label art for the EP (She Was A) Hotel Detective and later animated the music video for "Underwater Woman" for 2015's iteration of the Dial-A-Song project.
Now now..
Pure, absolutely pure, distilled 1990's in the form of animated Art.
💫Hi!! Oh,yes,what amazing song and impressive video!! Thank you so much for everything!!✨
gen alpha will never understand nor see such shining shimmering purest gold
Umbrella Academy brought me here. The songs been stuck in my head.
You have no good music taste
I remember this song for many years ago. It used to play on the radio my mother had in the kitchen needed to hear something cheery today
I've been to Istanbul and it's a beautiful city
Constantinople, you have been there.
Istanbul (not constantinople) @@juanantonio3487
@@juanantonio3487 cone stan teen pole
More like catstanpole
They did an enjoyable live show as well. Saw them in a medium venue during junior year of college.
Love this! First heard it on Tiny Toons years ago.
I've been to Istanbul twice this year. And then Bob Dylan played this melody with the song When I Paint My Masterpiece at one of his Rough And Rowdy Ways concerts in Berlin this October. Thank you, Bobby ❤
Greatest Thanksgiving song ever.
My favorite song of all!
The city was the sword
The city was the lance
The city was the golden gate
The city was the key
The city was the heavenly gate to all of rome
Inside Hagia Sofia we shall meet again
There's an Ant crawling up your back in the nighttime...
dont cry mate you wıll never take it back
Konstantinos, Dragazis, Paleologos....
@@olekcholewa8171 I like it when the doggy pees
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
This song has lived rent free in my head since the early 2000s. I was just recently introduced to the Taco version of Putting on the Ritz and kept switching back to this song when i would try to sing that one😅
Grate song only discoverd it yesterday in a RUclips channel called The Why Files
Same! I cannot get it of my head like hecklefish said. I watched it like day after it was released tho, only bothered searching for it now.
What a marvellous video to a fantastic song. Jeez
Love this song 💖
This video inspired at least one or two Psychonauts levels, or at least they were both responding to the same things, and it's beautiful.
Teacher played this for the class in 6th grade still remember it going to freshman year college
When I was in 6th grade, I had a geography teacher that was obsessed with this song and I remember her playing it for the class. This was back around 2006. I haven’t listened to the song since, but I’ve always vaguely remembered the chorus in the back of my head.
Glad to hear it again.
I love this song so much🗺
I always loved this crazy song 😊 My youngest son is currently going to college with a girl who is from Istanbul. I just played this song for him for the first time. He seemed to enjoy it 😊
With this song, they ARE giants !!!!
I heard this song on YT Shorts and looked it up, no way it's by TMBG. I used to listen to them a lot when I was a little kid, this is so surreal.
Funny thing... San Francisco was originally Yerba Buena, which translates to 'Good Herb'...
In hindsight, the original name was appropriate...
I actually like this cover better than the original from the 60’s. I love that fiddle and tambourine.
The animation is amazing
This song literally helped me on a test in high school, makes it even better.
0:43 ottoman
Turkish = ottoman
@@Reinart_The_Qilin ottoman moonlit night
It might be “on a moonlit night”
These people made so many beautiful songs I'm crying
Can we all take a moment to salute the drums in this song?
Fun Fact: One of the directors of this music video, J. Otto Seibold, was the illustrator of the 1997 children's book Olive, The Other Reindeer. Which was later adapted into a television special produced by Simpsons and Futurama creator Matt Groening and starring Drew Barrymore as Olive. The book also spawned a sequel, Olive, My Love in 2004.
One of the greatest lyrical groups of 90s and early 2000s!
Their catalog over the past twenty years is even better IMHO.
Çok sakin ve huzur dolu bir vibe veriyor.
no
yeah@@user-rg7uz8of9r
@@user-rg7uz8of9rdo you understand her?
Evet
müzik zevkin güzelmiş
@@turkishMurderdrones_fan.
My dad listens to this song.
la wallah
😂
My co worker HATES this song but wtf it’s a jam 😂😂
2 of my favorite songs come from they might be giants and they will always be my favorite band
i first heard this song in a Simpson's episode and now this song is playing on repeat in my head
The Simpsons did it too? I saw it on Tiny Toons.
@@EmpressLizard81 yep it was in the credits of the episode called Mobile Homer
@@pikachuthebananasplit9061 oh cool, thanks!
My first hearing of this song was an episode of Muppets Tonight.
I heard on a tiktok edit 😔
They Might Be Giants: Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
Release Date: May 14th, 1990 (34 years)
I haven't heard this in over a decade.
Great song; even greater music video.