They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants
They Might Be Giants
As John Flansburgh explained:
“Back when very few people called Dial-A-Song the phone machine that played the songs took messages. I came home one day and found the message tape full, instead of the ten or twenty messages it usually had. I rewound the tape and found that most of it was taken up by a...
[Gloria, Unknown male]
What do you think--what do you make out of that recording?
I don't know, Gloria, I just do--
Some kind of singing. They sound like all kinds of people, right?
Yeah
And then it says, "Another child is born in India every time you call this number," right?
Yeah, right
Does that make any sense to you?
No, it doesn't make no sense to me
Bu--and the guy that spoke--I don't know who he is
Yeah
But that--that--it doesn't sound like no answering machine, right?
No, it ain't an answering machine because they're not saying anything; they just--
But what does he get--how does he make money on this? Whatever he's advertising in the paper. This is the part that don't make no sense
Oh, he's advertising this in the paper you saw it
In the Village Voice, yeah. They got--that's where the Kiss Clinic, but they give you another number if you wanna join it. Then I got the "intellectuals meet with other intellectuals..."
Yeah
"...speak another language."
Yeah. Oh
They meet at La Met--La Maisonette restaurant. They give you the price. Then they give you another number to call if you're interested. This guy... all you get is this here recording, but u-w--I don't see how he makes money
Yeah, yeah
You know what I'm saying? It's just.... They got the craziest things in that paper
Yeah, yeah
They come over with all--they got the craziest things. But this one here-- "There Must Be Giants," it's called. And it says "call machine," and they got the phone number
Yeah
But what kind of money does he make? It don't make no sense. Well, he don't make any money, right?
No
But, that's--then he's a nut, right?
[Gloria, Second unknown male]
Do you see--do you see any sense to that? "There May Be Giants?" That reco--that recording I have on. The new one. Did you hear it? I changed it. I took off the intellectuals. I put on There May Be Giants
What?
Who's They May Be Giants?
What are you talking about?
That's what's on my--the phone, There May Be G-- well I can't explain it, cause I don't know what it is
Maybe you could make sense once in a while
Look in the paper! Don't blame me if the guy's a nut!
[Untitled] was written by John Flansburgh & John Linnell.
[Untitled] was produced by Bill Krauss.
They Might Be Giants released [Untitled] on Thu May 05 1988.