They Might Be Giants, Fingertips

"blue thing," just beating out "i don't understand you."

"i heard a sound, i turned around. i turned around to find the thing that made the sound" for sure

mySTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEErious whisper.

he sounds like morrissey on the last one.

I saw some site (a fansite?) that listed all the artists that different "Fingertips" were supposedly parodies/impressions of (I think "something grabbed ahold of my hand" was pegged as Cyndi Lauper). Thinking of how much of TMBG's songs are genre pastiches always tends to make me like them less, though, so I hope that stuff wasn't intentional.

no, i'd imagine not. or it probably wasn't intentional, anyway.

on another site, or maybe the same, i saw somebody's interpretation of 'fingertips' as the progression from birth to death. ('everything is catching on fire' is conception, the first 'fingertips' is birth, etc.) i'm sure that wasn't intentional either, but it's neat to think about.

So if I voted for "I'm having a heart attack," then ...

i made this poll a couple months ago and no one voted :(

blue thing, with heart attack and i don't understand you as close runners up

It sounds like y'all are thinking of the TMBG.org interpretations. I am comforted to discover that the website still looks exactly the same as it did a decade ago!

Favorites:

everything is catching, yes, everything is catching on fire
come on and wreck my car
what's that blue thing doing here?
the day that love came to play

...of which I think I have to pick "Everything is catching."

haha, yes! the "off-the-wall interp by an english major" was what i was thinking of. i like it, but i was an english major too, so there you go.

i always chortle at "I Don't Understand You". Whole thing is pretty awesome.

Doesn't Pete Stampfel sing on one or two of these?

This is the only CD worth listening to on shuffle

Doesn't Pete Stampfel sing on one or two of these?

yup, the two 'fingertips' parts.

This is the only CD worth listening to on shuffle

But that's only because the jerks who released Morgan Fisher's "Miniatures" compilation on CD didn't index all 50 tracks. Buncha jerks.

Heart Attack. I always wished that one had actually been a whole song.

I haven't listened to this since I was 10. there are only four songs I still vaguely remember, and weirdly enough, they're all consecutive (the stretch from "aren't you the guy who hit me in the eye?" to "who's knocking on the wall?")

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I had this in my head yesterday.

By 'this' I mean THE WHOLE THING.

awgh.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Heart Attack. I always wished that one had actually been a whole song

The name of that song is "No Woman No Cry."