While we wait for the next installment of They Might Be Giants' Podcast for Kids (did you catch last week's gorgeously animated ballad "Even Numbers," along with "Letter Shapes" from Here Come the ABCs and the John and John finger puppets singing a silly song of their own?), how about listening to a song the old-fashioned way?
You know, on Myspace?
Catch TMBG's stream of the bright, South American-inflected "Zeroes" from Here Come the 123s here. E eats everything, so perhaps as punishment they've taken it out of the title of the song on the Myspace page.
Video: "The Seven Days of the Week (I Never Go To Work)" - They Might Be Giants
You want to know why I keep posting these videos from They Might Be Giants' Podcast for Kids? It's because they're all awesome.
And if you're afraid that somehow they're just posting the only good videos from Here Come the 123s... they're not.
They Might Be Giants - "The Seven Days of the Week (I Never Go To Work)"
Video: "Apartment 4" - They Might Be Giants
What better way to end 2007 with a great video from one of 2008's most anticipated CDs -- They Might Be Giants' Here Come the 123s.
"Apartment 4" hit the band's "Podcast for Kids" at iTunes a couple weeks ago and now it's hit YouTube. As nice as "High Five" was, this track is way awesome. Drums, goofy animated characters, and the drawing out of the word "apartment" into 4 syllables.
"Follow the sound," indeed. You won't be disappointed.
And Happy New Year's, y'all...
Something Else!
Not really. In fact, I posted something about this a month ago, but hey, now it's on YouTube with a little extra content.
They Might Be Giants are doing video podcasts -- "Podcast For Kids!" -- to plug their upcoming Here Come the 123s, and the first one, with "High Five," is up. If all it was was the video, I wouldn't have bothered, but the podcast also includes "bumpers" from the John and John sock puppets. It includes this classic line at the end of the piece -- "Come back next week for another song... about letters... or numbers... or something else... waaaaaahhh."
Trust me, coming from the mouths of sock puppets, it's pretty funny. As for the videos on the band's site promised by the album's PR materials, well, they're still not there.
New Music / Video: "High Five" - They Might Be Giants
Well, if they hadn't pushed back the release 4 months, we'd all have been grooving to this for a month now, but They Might Be Giants have a video for "High Five," one of the songs off their upcoming CD/DVD Here Come the 123s. The animation is done by Divya Srinivasan, who did a bunch of videos on Here Come the ABCs, including "Go For G!" and "Alphabet Lost and Found." (See her videos and stills, including those from "Roy G. Biv," also off the upcoming album, here.)
As with "Alphabet," I don't think the Johns are taking the lead vocally on "High Five," which is the best disco song about the number five ever written. And, yes, it includes the phrase "down low, too slow."
You have go to Amazon to watch it, but it's worth 2:26 of your time. Go here.
(Hat tip to Amy for catching this.)
Song of the Day: "Alphabet of Nations" (A Video Review)
Many months ago, I had a feature I called "Song of the Day," where I'd ramble on about a song I'd heard recently that I was digging a lot. Now I have no time for such things as that, but I'm going to make an all-video exception today for one of my favorite songs off of They Might Be Giants' excellent Here Come the ABCs CD, "Alphabet of Nations."
What spurred this is the appearance on YouTube of TMBG's performance of the song on last week's The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. I've always loved the second verse they add to their live shows, and along with Linnell's physical stylizing, it makes up for the fact that somebody pointed their camcorder at the TV screen and pushed "record."
There are a bunch of other live versions on YouTube, with similarly dubious recording qualities, but rather than link to them all, I'll just send you to the original...
