The entire conceit of this song is very funny because the title makes it sound like it's gonna be some kind of sappy love song and then the actual song is just this poor bewildered man going "no, like, she is *literally* an angel and frankly I'm not even sure how I got into this situation in the first place"
I first heard this song in 1986 because a friend in my dorm had the album. I'm listening to it again today 37 years later because the situation described in it is not far from my own. My angel is a he, not a she, and he returned to heaven last year. But he keeps me company now, and I'd follow him anywhere. You're right, it is bewildering, and I know I'd be put in a rubber room forever if everyone knew the truth. But it's so beautiful and perfect you couldn't pay me a billion dollars to go back. If this is insanity, I hope to leave sanity behind for good. But remember as John says, these things don't happen at all.😉
@@dalescott831loved ones absolutely can and do watch over us and help us grieve and process and get closure. I’m glad you get to have such a beautiful experience in spite of the painful loss. Much healing to you ❤❤❤
@@stefanie4620 thank you. A year later, it's still happening. This has all been a great spiritual journey. A few years ago I was down and out and had given up on life. Now I'm an urban hermit living in the footsteps of the Desert Mothers and Fathers. It's a simple life of poverty filled with prayer and service to the homeless in my city, and all the gloom I'd been in for all those years has been replaced with joy and a slight mania all day long. I call it the Tiny Sliver of Heaven, because a little part of me has already gone on there. Thank you, Thomas! I don't know where I'd be if I'd never met you. I don't know if you're an angel, but you're definitely a saint! You took me by the hand and walked me straight into the love of God!
About 18 years ago, we went to the Electric Factory in Philadelphia... TMBG was headlining. Zebra Head opened, then Reel Big Fish.... both opening bands thanked They Might be Giants for allowing them to open for them. It seemed like many of the kids there had never heard TMBG before and there was some visible skepticism if not out right hostility. A college girl was standing beside us, when TMBG came on stage she and her friends were giving them the finger. John Linnell went to center front stage with a full sized accordion and the band played this song. John Linnell stood with his head cocked, waiting for a response from the largely non fan audience ... The girl said "Oh shit... I didn't know they sounded like that..." and mostly all the kids there were silent for a moment and then roared approval.... it was a magical and wonderful moment, that I will never forget.
I don't go to gigs, so can you explain why the audience's default attitude was hostility? Like, why go to a gig if you're not happy about who's playing? I don't get it.
Chris Hill I think it’s a matter of going to see one of a few bands-one of them happened to be opening. It’s often the case at gigs that (often the opening band) either sucks or just isn’t to your taste. A multiband show where you really enjoy 2 or 3 new bands is a rare treat. On the other hand, the hostility displayed here seemed really OTT, and pretty strange. Just glad it all worked out for our heroes. They’re pretty disarming personalities, to be fair.
This song always makes me think of the times where life in dreams feels so incredibly complete, only to wake up to realize you exist in reality and none of it is actual.
Best They Might Be Giants song ever!! I saw them three times in 1992, as I kept screaming for them to play it and they finally did, as they addressed me in the audience joking around with me. Great guys! great musicians!
I saw them when I was a teenager when they were promoting their Factory Showroom album. It had only been out for a few months but I had memorized all the songs and was shouting along to the music, severely annoying everyone around me. Anyway, I got so caught up in the excitement that I straight up fainted in the middle of the crowd. Not my proudest moment.
I have the original vinyl press release. Got it when it was released. 85/86 I think. I was born in 75'. That made me the weirdest kid in the schoolyard. I still have it in perfect condition. In fact it is so touching that my eye's well up with tears remembering when i played it constantly after my first true love broke up with me. But I still love to listen to it.
Definately the the greatest TMBG song of all time. I went through an entire phase with these guys music, but this and They'll Need a Crane were really the only ones that stick with me.
“Dead” from Flood is one of my faves. I know it seems kind of depressing, but I heard that album at a difficult time of my life, and in an odd way the song seemed comforting. I actually find the line about “Now it’s over, I’m dead, and I haven’t done anything that I want. Or I’m still alive, and there’s nothing I want to do” very motivating. It reminds me not to waste the time I have in the present not doing anything, lest I get to the end and haven’t done anything I wanted. Both situations are just as bad, so accomplish what you want while you can.
Each of their best album's best songs (according to me) Self Titled- She's an angel Lincoln- They'll Need A Crane Miscellaneous T- Ana Ang Apollo 18- I Palindrome I Flood- Birdhouse (obviously) John Henry- I Should Be Allowed To Think Factory Showroom- Metal Detector Mink Car - My Man (or Bangs) Oh! Also, they had a single entitled Back To Skull and all 5 of the songs it are amazing, particularly their hard to find Hotel Detective track exclusively on that album. They went disco for it and it was spectacular. Anyway, ALL these songs are fabulous and it kind of killed me picking favorites from those albums but if they're ones you haven't heard, give em a listen. =)
One of my favourite songs. A year ago I finally got together with one of my best friends, whom I'd known for over 20 years. She was in town for a hospital appointment, and I happened to have the day of work. We went to the British Museum and had lunch, which turned into dinner, which turned into breakfast. The next day we were fairly sure we had something lasting, but the deal wasn't sealed. I recorded a Karaoke video of this song dedicated to her, posting it on Facebook. Then it was. We aren't yet engaged but we will be, and at our reception I want to get the band to learn this song, so that I can sing it to her for our first dance.
my ex sent me this song and I told him Id listen to it and never did. Right after we broke up I remembered I still meant to listen to it so I did, that was three months ago and I listen to this song everyday. I can’t help but miss him when I hear it even though he’s an epic asshole
The short answer: TMBG were on a tiny label with limited distribution at the time, and had next to no weight in the record industry circa 1986. They weren't on MTV yet, and their fan base was still basically regional and small. The next album Lincoln in 1988 started to gradually bring Them into the fold, but They didn't really hit the mainstream until Flood in 1990, and even then They were just a bit too offbeat to be record industry hitmakers. But I'm sure glad that They tried. The even shorter answer: Most people's taste in music sucks.
funkmike Unless I'm super wrong, they actually were briefly on MTV before they even had a label for like one song, which was very confusing. They always had this very weird traction even when they were small!
Me, when someone tells me they listen to Slayer: "Pssh, they're kinda tame for my taste." Also me when it's music time: "Pink Album was such poetry. TMBG for life."
I met someone at the dog show She was holding my left arm But everyone was acting normal so I tried to look nonchalant. We both said, "I really love you, " The Shriners loaned us cars We raced up and down the sidewalk twenty thousand million times Why did they send her over anyone else? How should I react? These things happen to other people They don't happen at all, in fact When you're following an angel Does it mean you have to throw your body off a building? Somewhere they're meeting on a pinhead Calling you an angel, calling you the nicest things I heard they had a space program When they sing you can't hear, there's no air Sometimes I think I kind of like that and Other times I think I'm already there
I would so love to see Greenblat work with TMBG again. It's like Greenblat help start TMBG's career and TMBG helped start Greenblat's career. Seriously, I would love to hear for TMBG about this.
This song reminds me of my girlfriend that was just dropped into my life. It was love at first sight for her. That's never happened to me. Then we come to find out we have a million things in common. I've only known her 8 days but we fell for each other the first time we talked and said I love you 2 days later. Looking forward to life with her. She's amazing! I put this song in a playlist for her. Micky if you read this, I love you so much! 💚🙃
One of the happiest moments of my life, in a tent at Reading festival, in (I think) 1994. A few hundred people, arms in the air, beaming from ear to ear, singing "I found out she's an angel..."
This is easily in my top 50 albums of all time, and this song one of my favorites off of it. Always fresh, never gets stale or feels dated in my mind. Thanks Sherry L. for introducing it to me. Cheers!!
OMG I recognized the artist who drew that cover. Rodney Alan Greenblat. The same artist who created Parappa the Rapper. My mind is fucking BLOWN by this.
More talent and overall songwriting ability, style, wit, performance level in their little finger than most bands have in there lifetime of little fingers...
I met someone at the dog show She was holding my left arm But everyone was acting normal so I tried to look nonchalant. We both said, "I really love you," The Shriners loaned us cars We raced up and down the sidewalk twenty thousand million times Why did they send her over anyone else? How should I react? These things happen to other people They don't happen at all, in fact When you're following an angel Does it mean you have to throw your body off a building? Somewhere they're meeting on a pinhead Calling you an angel, calling you the nicest things I heard they had a space program When they sing you can't hear, there's no air Sometimes I think I kind of like that and Other times I think I'm already there Gonna ask for my admission Gonna speak to the man in charge The secretary says he's on another line, Can I hold for a long, long time? I found out she's an angel I don't think she knows I know I'm worried that something might happen to me If anyone ever finds out Why, why did they send her over anyone else? How should I react? These things happen to other people They don't happen at all When you're following an angel Does it mean you have to throw your body off a building? Somewhere they're meeting on a pinhead Calling you an angel, calling you the nicest things I heard they had a space program When they sing you can't hear, there's no air Sometimes I think I kind of like that and Other times I think I'm already there When you're following an angel Does it mean you have to throw your body off a building? Somewhere they're meeting on a pinhead Calling you an angel, calling you the nicest things
Time to spend another 3 years figuring out what this song is about, the same length of time it took me to figure out Birdhouse in your soul was about a nightlight.
I heard they have a space program, when they sing you cant hear; there's no air. Sometimes I think I kind of like that, and sometimes I think I'm already there.
When you’re following an angel, does it mean you have to throw your body off a building? Somewhere they’re meeting on a pinhead calling you an angel, calling you nicest thing.
@@BroForce426 I heard they had a space program, when they sing you can't hear theres no air. Sometimes I think I kinda like that and other times I think i'm already there.
This song always makes me think about my XXL lab who we adopted at age 12. She would look ridiculous in a Shriner car. She wanted belly rubs twenty-thousand-million times. Why did they send her over anyone else?
I am currently going on epic adventure throughout music that i listened when i was young (well younger I guess). I am currently having nostalgia spasms.
I consider TMBG one of the final bands in the genre of first wave punk in the vein of Talking Heads. Too indie to be New Wave, too post modern to be indie, too weird to be any other kind of punk. Just a first wave punk band that was started too late
I know this is very, very old, but I’m just now getting into their music and I remain absolutely ASTONISHED by Linnell’s breath control? And wasn’t he a smoker??
+The Free Software Foundation Computing Videos: Their earliest stuff was definitely intended to be new-wavey, eventually giving way to a more common & generic "alt-rock" categorization. I personally call them "goofball rock", a term I use for multimodal semi-serious rock-based music.
They have put out an almost unimaginable volume of music, and the library is very diverse. They are genre-less. You can't possibly listen to "Man, Its So Loud In Here" and classify it the same as "Whirlpool" or "Can't Keep Johnny Down".
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The entire conceit of this song is very funny because the title makes it sound like it's gonna be some kind of sappy love song and then the actual song is just this poor bewildered man going "no, like, she is *literally* an angel and frankly I'm not even sure how I got into this situation in the first place"
I first heard this song in 1986 because a friend in my dorm had the album. I'm listening to it again today 37 years later because the situation described in it is not far from my own. My angel is a he, not a she, and he returned to heaven last year. But he keeps me company now, and I'd follow him anywhere. You're right, it is bewildering, and I know I'd be put in a rubber room forever if everyone knew the truth. But it's so beautiful and perfect you couldn't pay me a billion dollars to go back. If this is insanity, I hope to leave sanity behind for good. But remember as John says, these things don't happen at all.😉
His resolution is escapism.
Pretty much. Solid description:)
@@dalescott831loved ones absolutely can and do watch over us and help us grieve and process and get closure. I’m glad you get to have such a beautiful experience in spite of the painful loss. Much healing to you ❤❤❤
@@stefanie4620 thank you. A year later, it's still happening. This has all been a great spiritual journey. A few years ago I was down and out and had given up on life. Now I'm an urban hermit living in the footsteps of the Desert Mothers and Fathers. It's a simple life of poverty filled with prayer and service to the homeless in my city, and all the gloom I'd been in for all those years has been replaced with joy and a slight mania all day long. I call it the Tiny Sliver of Heaven, because a little part of me has already gone on there. Thank you, Thomas! I don't know where I'd be if I'd never met you. I don't know if you're an angel, but you're definitely a saint! You took me by the hand and walked me straight into the love of God!
About 18 years ago, we went to the Electric Factory in Philadelphia... TMBG was headlining. Zebra Head opened, then Reel Big Fish.... both opening bands thanked They Might be Giants for allowing them to open for them. It seemed like many of the kids there had never heard TMBG before and there was some visible skepticism if not out right hostility. A college girl was standing beside us, when TMBG came on stage she and her friends were giving them the finger. John Linnell went to center front stage with a full sized accordion and the band played this song. John Linnell stood with his head cocked, waiting for a response from the largely non fan audience ... The girl said "Oh shit... I didn't know they sounded like that..." and mostly all the kids there were silent for a moment and then roared approval.... it was a magical and wonderful moment, that I will never forget.
Well.... that gave me chills.
No way - I was at that show!
I love this story ♥️
I don't go to gigs, so can you explain why the audience's default attitude was hostility? Like, why go to a gig if you're not happy about who's playing? I don't get it.
Chris Hill I think it’s a matter of going to see one of a few bands-one of them happened to be opening. It’s often the case at gigs that (often the opening band) either sucks or just isn’t to your taste. A multiband show where you really enjoy 2 or 3 new bands is a rare treat.
On the other hand, the hostility displayed here seemed really OTT, and pretty strange. Just glad it all worked out for our heroes. They’re pretty disarming personalities, to be fair.
"Why did they send her? Over anyone else." hits terribly hard.
"these things happen to other people. they dont happen at all in fact."
These things happen to other people
This song always makes me think of the times where life in dreams feels so incredibly complete, only to wake up to realize you exist in reality and none of it is actual.
I can't remember the dream that I had last night...
Theres a tmbg song about that called "i cant remember the dream"
Isn't that what music should do?
Best They Might Be Giants song ever!! I saw them three times in 1992, as I kept screaming for them to play it and they finally did, as they addressed me in the audience joking around with me. Great guys! great musicians!
Yenpoxdevotchka back when it was John and John... and a rhythm machine
Not in 1992, no. They had a full band for the tour by then.
I saw them when I was a teenager when they were promoting their Factory Showroom album. It had only been out for a few months but I had memorized all the songs and was shouting along to the music, severely annoying everyone around me. Anyway, I got so caught up in the excitement that I straight up fainted in the middle of the crowd. Not my proudest moment.
Not just a song, but an _official_ song? What a deal!
Thank god it's not a knockoff.
@@bunnybug5893 They’re Possibly Colossi: the cheap supermarket own-brand version of TMBG.
It’s the best kind.
@@BenCol or “it’s possible they are large humans” lol
@@hbcreates8355 still beats "There Is An Alarmingly High Probability Of Them Being Over 9 Feet Tall"
I have the original vinyl press release. Got it when it was released. 85/86 I think. I was born in 75'. That made me the weirdest kid in the schoolyard. I still have it in perfect condition. In fact it is so touching that my eye's well up with tears remembering when i played it constantly after my first true love broke up with me. But I still love to listen to it.
Awesome
Born in '75 also. Same thing! Damn... Glad I'm not the only one.
75 too! Hello!
Definately the the greatest TMBG song of all time. I went through an entire phase with these guys music, but this and They'll Need a Crane were really the only ones that stick with me.
Both absolutely amazing songs.
How should I react? Oh yeah, give it a thumbs up and hit repeat.
For me it's this one and Birdhouse in Your Soul
“Dead” from Flood is one of my faves. I know it seems kind of depressing, but I heard that album at a difficult time of my life, and in an odd way the song seemed comforting. I actually find the line about “Now it’s over, I’m dead, and I haven’t done anything that I want. Or I’m still alive, and there’s nothing I want to do” very motivating. It reminds me not to waste the time I have in the present not doing anything, lest I get to the end and haven’t done anything I wanted. Both situations are just as bad, so accomplish what you want while you can.
Each of their best album's best songs (according to me)
Self Titled- She's an angel
Lincoln- They'll Need A Crane
Miscellaneous T- Ana Ang
Apollo 18- I Palindrome I
Flood- Birdhouse (obviously)
John Henry- I Should Be Allowed To Think
Factory Showroom- Metal Detector
Mink Car - My Man (or Bangs)
Oh! Also, they had a single entitled Back To Skull and all 5 of the songs it are amazing, particularly their hard to find Hotel Detective track exclusively on that album. They went disco for it and it was spectacular.
Anyway, ALL these songs are fabulous and it kind of killed me picking favorites from those albums but if they're ones you haven't heard, give em a listen. =)
One of my favourite songs. A year ago I finally got together with one of my best friends, whom I'd known for over 20 years. She was in town for a hospital appointment, and I happened to have the day of work. We went to the British Museum and had lunch, which turned into dinner, which turned into breakfast. The next day we were fairly sure we had something lasting, but the deal wasn't sealed. I recorded a Karaoke video of this song dedicated to her, posting it on Facebook. Then it was. We aren't yet engaged but we will be, and at our reception I want to get the band to learn this song, so that I can sing it to her for our first dance.
At 44 yrs old i still listen to TMBG regularly!
Old lol
me too brpothewer
my ex sent me this song and I told him Id listen to it and never did. Right after we broke up I remembered I still meant to listen to it so I did, that was three months ago and I listen to this song everyday. I can’t help but miss him when I hear it even though he’s an epic asshole
If he sent this he's better then most
why this didn't become a big hit, I will never understand
That chorus…how people didn't get hooked on that is beyond me.
that's what I'm talking about, it's so catchy, but not in a disgusting poppy way, it's beautiful and heartfelt
The short answer: TMBG were on a tiny label with limited distribution at the time, and had next to no weight in the record industry circa 1986. They weren't on MTV yet, and their fan base was still basically regional and small.
The next album Lincoln in 1988 started to gradually bring Them into the fold, but They didn't really hit the mainstream until Flood in 1990, and even then They were just a bit too offbeat to be record industry hitmakers. But I'm sure glad that They tried.
The even shorter answer: Most people's taste in music sucks.
I've been saying the same thing for years! one of They Might Be Giants best songs
funkmike Unless I'm super wrong, they actually were briefly on MTV before they even had a label for like one song, which was very confusing. They always had this very weird traction even when they were small!
That prechorus when the guitars come in🔥 is so good
yeah that part is inspired
Me, when someone tells me they listen to Slayer: "Pssh, they're kinda tame for my taste."
Also me when it's music time: "Pink Album was such poetry. TMBG for life."
I met someone at the dog show
She was holding my left arm
But everyone was acting normal so I tried to look nonchalant.
We both said, "I really love you, "
The Shriners loaned us cars
We raced up and down the sidewalk twenty thousand million times
Why did they send her over anyone else?
How should I react? These things happen to other people
They don't happen at all, in fact
When you're following an angel
Does it mean you have to throw your body off a building?
Somewhere they're meeting on a pinhead
Calling you an angel, calling you the nicest things
I heard they had a space program
When they sing you can't hear, there's no air
Sometimes I think I kind of like that and
Other times I think I'm already there
These things happen to other people. They don't happen at all!
Todd C In fact.
@@BroForce426 When you're following an angel doesn't mean you have to throw your body off a building.
And John's voice still sounds this good.
Which JOHN?
@@titusmccarthy Exactly :)
I would so love to see Greenblat work with TMBG again. It's like Greenblat help start TMBG's career and TMBG helped start Greenblat's career.
Seriously, I would love to hear for TMBG about this.
Truth Or Sandwiches!
In the comment section of a They Might Be Giants video you will find the best people.
If you walk through, say, an AC/DC comment section, you'll get mugged.
Except for me, I stink and I think you're an idiot for expressing a perfectly valid opinion.
Except if you look at the comments on "The Communists Have the Music."
@@voomroom8697 That comment section is the definition of chaos...
@@gunnaryoung That may be so, but your grammar and punctuation was impeccable, so you're still above par.
This song reminds me of my girlfriend that was just dropped into my life. It was love at first sight for her. That's never happened to me. Then we come to find out we have a million things in common. I've only known her 8 days but we fell for each other the first time we talked and said I love you 2 days later. Looking forward to life with her. She's amazing! I put this song in a playlist for her. Micky if you read this, I love you so much! 💚🙃
One of the happiest moments of my life, in a tent at Reading festival, in (I think) 1994. A few hundred people, arms in the air, beaming from ear to ear, singing "I found out she's an angel..."
This is easily in my top 50 albums of all time, and this song one of my favorites off of it. Always fresh, never gets stale or feels dated in my mind. Thanks Sherry L. for introducing it to me. Cheers!!
All the parts of the song conveniently organized for those who enjoy such things:
0:05 0:17 1:13 1:25
0:08 0:20 1:16 1:28
0:11 0:23 1:19 1:31
0:29 1:37
0:48 1:56 2:19
OMG
I recognized the artist who drew that cover.
Rodney Alan Greenblat. The same artist who created Parappa the Rapper.
My mind is fucking BLOWN by this.
Woah what really? No way that's so awesome!!
Imagine a rhythm game with TMBG music
We can only dream....
We've got Audiosurf, at least.. Does that work for you?
Woah that's sick
i listen mostly to thrash metal and the such, but whenever anyone asks me for my favorite band, it's always they might be giants. geniuses!
It's a perfect song. Whatta ya gonna do?
This is the fourth-highest ranked TMBG song on This Might Be a Wiki. (After Birdhouse, Ana, and Don't Let's Start) I understand completely.
I could listen to this all day.
This is fucking beautiful. I love TMBG.
Such a great song
You guys put this up? Finally! I'll take mine down.
-Respect-
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ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVERRRRR
My favourite song on this record, and that's saying something.
this song was the only song that my phone would let me play and it played over 200 times. I still love it
Best love song of all time in my opinion.
More talent and overall songwriting ability, style, wit, performance level in their little finger than most bands have in there lifetime of little fingers...
I find myself singing this a lot these days in the car or shower for some reason. It's such a great song.
As it so happens, this is my favorite TMBG song. There were so many terrific songs from which to choose.
My favorite TMBG track and one of my favorite songs of all time.
I consider this my perfect Nero divergent love song.
It is how I think 😂
I'm convinced this is the best song ever created
Why did they send her over anyone else? How should I react? These things happen to other people They don't happen at all, in fact
That's what the man said. That's what he said!
I met someone at the dog show
She was holding my left arm
But everyone was acting normal so I tried to look nonchalant.
We both said, "I really love you,"
The Shriners loaned us cars
We raced up and down the sidewalk twenty thousand million times
Why did they send her over anyone else?
How should I react? These things happen to other people
They don't happen at all, in fact
When you're following an angel
Does it mean you have to throw your body off a building?
Somewhere they're meeting on a pinhead
Calling you an angel, calling you the nicest things
I heard they had a space program
When they sing you can't hear, there's no air
Sometimes I think I kind of like that and
Other times I think I'm already there
Gonna ask for my admission
Gonna speak to the man in charge
The secretary says he's on another line,
Can I hold for a long, long time?
I found out she's an angel
I don't think she knows I know
I'm worried that something might happen to me
If anyone ever finds out
Why, why did they send her over anyone else?
How should I react? These things happen to other people
They don't happen at all
When you're following an angel
Does it mean you have to throw your body off a building?
Somewhere they're meeting on a pinhead
Calling you an angel, calling you the nicest things
I heard they had a space program
When they sing you can't hear, there's no air
Sometimes I think I kind of like that and
Other times I think I'm already there
When you're following an angel
Does it mean you have to throw your body off a building?
Somewhere they're meeting on a pinhead
Calling you an angel, calling you the nicest things
Favorite TMBG tune hands down.
Are these the best hand claps in a song ever?
I think so.
What a great display of sheer vision.
Time to spend another 3 years figuring out what this song is about, the same length of time it took me to figure out Birdhouse in your soul was about a nightlight.
I miss you so much Brock! thank you for the music you shared with me.
I also miss brock
@@ReplyequalsNerd I still miss Brock
I don't know who brock is but I miss him too
This is my fav TMBG song.
Got my first good listen to this song at your Baltimore show back in April, been addicted to it ever since!
Arguably my favorite.
LOVE this song!
One of the all-time greats.
A love story for the ages.
Why does this song make me want to fall in love?
Underrated masterpiece
I heard they have a space program, when they sing you cant hear; there's no air. Sometimes I think I kind of like that, and sometimes I think I'm already there.
When you’re following an angel, does it mean you have to throw your body off a building? Somewhere they’re meeting on a pinhead calling you an angel, calling you nicest thing.
@@BroForce426 I heard they had a space program, when they sing you can't hear theres no air. Sometimes I think I kinda like that and other times I think i'm already there.
This song always makes me think about my XXL lab who we adopted at age 12. She would look ridiculous in a Shriner car. She wanted belly rubs twenty-thousand-million times. Why did they send her over anyone else?
Hits me like a buss
Beautiful 💚
Calling you an angel, calling you the nicest... things!
I am currently going on epic adventure throughout music that i listened when i was young (well younger I guess). I am currently having nostalgia spasms.
a wonderful song
best song ever
I'm already there.
Oh man I wrote that 4 years ago. I'm still on hold.
This song reminds me of a summer that I can never get back
These things happen to other people… they don’t happen at all!
I met someone at the dog show
But unfortunately one of the dogs was killed by..... oh you know
I don't think it's fair
😉
Damn those Millennials ;)
massively underrated
This song is so cute i swear
that slide guitar >>>
Ikr. Just emphasizes the narrator's confused happiness.
Linnell writes the most amazing love songs. This, Bangs, TNAC. Brilliant.
Hey. Have a good tour! I wish i was there.
I have spent 10 years trying to remember who made this song.
Beautiful!!!!!!!!!!
Aside from the usual TMBG jibberish, this song is really thoughtful. Really exemplifies the anxiety and fear that comes from falling in love.
Wait, now she’s an angel?
Last time I checked, she was a hotel detective.
..... and then at the peak of my infatuation, someone I am falling in love with whose name is Angel, this song came on. How should I react?
Just try not to throw your body off a building….
@@sonicsophie Yeah, I was right at the edge and was able to pull myself back.
...... SAME. I'm kind of feeling things oop
Gonna speak to the man in charge.
I consider TMBG one of the final bands in the genre of first wave punk in the vein of Talking Heads. Too indie to be New Wave, too post modern to be indie, too weird to be any other kind of punk. Just a first wave punk band that was started too late
I know this is very, very old, but I’m just now getting into their music and I remain absolutely ASTONISHED by Linnell’s breath control? And wasn’t he a smoker??
No, Linnell is anti-smoking as far as I know. But his vocal pipes are indeed legendary. Stunning enunciation and note holding and iconic nasally tone.
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You tube's software.. knew I would like this...
I know this feeling.
This song is the prequel to Everything Right is Wrong Again
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Thjey played this last night!
Genius
The secretary says he's on another line can I hold for a long long time?
this almost is like a "new wave" sort of music but in a more pop format... what genre are they typically pegged as?
+The Free Software Foundation Computing Videos sorry i meant to say "no wave"
+The Free Software Foundation Computing Videos: Their earliest stuff was definitely intended to be new-wavey, eventually giving way to a more common & generic "alt-rock" categorization. I personally call them "goofball rock", a term I use for multimodal semi-serious rock-based music.
They have put out an almost unimaginable volume of music, and the library is very diverse. They are genre-less. You can't possibly listen to "Man, Its So Loud In Here" and classify it the same as "Whirlpool" or "Can't Keep Johnny Down".
Jonathan Meier Very true. When I said "alt-rock", I was more referring to what section they'd be in at a record store.
+CaptHayfever: In my ideal record store, the answer to your question would be "T."
Is the Angel a puppers? It fits to think so lol Puppers are Angels :)
Let me guess. Millennial?
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why are comments turned off for so many tmbg songs?
RUclips has been disabling comments on music in general
Cus RUclips is *dumb*
GM Ben Finegold's a fan... my life is complete.
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Great song and if I ever open a little eatery, Truth Or Sandwiches is a perfect name!
Best.
Celine is now an angel in God s realm doing bigger things yet. Now make this your next sing that you chant in her name.Amem. She s in God s hands ....
Loved 90s cartoons. 🥰
3:50
Gonna ask for permission to speak to the man in charge
I´m not ashame to say: I love tmbg.
I'm thirteen and I'm not either
@@josimaigiehon5568 Right you are.