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We went to #TheNeptuneTheater in #Seattle to see #TMBG last night and it was a great show!
They played Apollo 18 songs during the first set and then to close it they played Sapphire Bullets of Love backwards and recorded it. Then they played the recording in reverse to open the second set to “prove” it worked LOL.

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@kylemeredith
Fabulous #TMBG interview 🙏🏼

If the world’s burning, at least They Might Be Giants brought a Mellotron 🎹

“‘The world is such a dystopian hellscape that people are relieved we’re still here’”

“Death remains their most evergreen subject. ‘It’s not just a theme—it’s the Swiss army knife of songwriting’”

“‘I don’t believe anyone really dies… Not with this kind of technology. We’re just… around.’”

#NoAccordionContent but we can’t have everything 🐦 🪗

"But there's been a weird new phenomenon, which is that amongst very young people, there's a lot of interest in this song that was a really dark horse, “Stuff Is Way.” It was never intended to be a single. It's just a very deep album cut from probably a number of years ago … There's some young person who made an anime video for it, which references some cultural things that I don't even really know about. And it just went viral for some reason. And now, if you go on TikTok, there are something like 14,000 dance videos to this song, which is not even really a dance track, and it is one of our most popular songs on Spotify … And this is just like a really oddball track, not a pop song, not anything we were ever thinking of promoting, but now we're being forced to learn it. So we're going to be playing in the live show, because we have to, apparently."

– John Linnell of They Might Be Giants, interview on wbur.org December 2024.