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Comment by blargthorwars

14 hours ago

I'm supposed to like They Might Be Giants and Talking Heads, but I just can't. Even after a Terry Gross marathon of Fresh Air.

I love TMBG, and I tried to get my wife into them, but it never really vibed with her, which is fine.

That said, we went to a TMBG concert in Brooklyn about 11 years ago, and she actually had a really good time, and was even singing along to some of the songs. With music, the context of "how you're listening to the music" is equally important to the music itself.

They Might Be Giants is in an interesting space.

Their lyrics are very clever and interesting.

But their music is terrible. What the world needs is for someone with musical talent to redo the music to TMBG's corpus.