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From: medwards@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Matt Edwards)
Subject: Re: B-sides
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:36:44 GMT


(sorry, have no idea how to post previous article along with this)

Called the Dial-a-song and Cabbagetown doesn't sound anything
like my song :)

Just in case anyone cares - TMBG is my major influence in songwriting.
I have an album I've done called 'Santa Ate the Easter Bunny' and it
has lots of song written in TMBG style :)  If anyone wants a copy let
me know *grin*

Cabbage Head
------------
One day while looking for cool toys at the local 'Value Village', Dan
and I came upon the 'Ewok Village' Star Wars playset.  I attempted to
locate all the pieces, and while driving back home, I discovered that
one of the pieces I had bought was not actually a tree-top piece, but in
reality was part to a Caggabe-Patch Kid - a cabbage cradle!  In dismay I
placed the 'Cabbage' over my head (which fit quite nicely) and we were
inspired.  I'm not exactly sure what Dan was thinking of when he wrote
the words.
 
Lyrics, speech in the middle - Dan Earle
Vocals & everything else - Tony Mason
 
CABBAGE HEAD!
 
CABBAGE HEAD, CABBAGE HEAD
BAKING LITTLE LOAVES OF BREAD
CABBAGE HEAD, CABBAGE HEAD
PUT THAT THING BACK IN THE SHED
 
WELL NO-ONE KNEW, BUT IF THEY COULD
THEY WOULDN'T SAY, MAYBE THEY WOULD
ANOTHER DAY DO WHAT THEY SHOULD
I GUESS IT'S BETTER OFF THAT WAY
 
CABBAGE HEAD, CABBAGE HEAD
RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD
CABBAGE HEAD, CABBAGE HEAD
DRIVES AWAY IN A SUPER-SLED
 
THE MODERN DAY SUPER-HERO, CABBAGE HEAD IS TEN TIMES ZERO
HE'LL PICK YOU UP, AND PUT YOU IN A PAINTING
HE'S HERE TODAY, NEW, IMPROVED
SUPER STRENGTH, SUPER STYLE
HE'LL KNOCK YOU FLAT COLD WITH A CABBAGE SMILE
 
CABBAGE HEAD, CABBAGE HEAD
BAKING LITTLE LOAVES OF BREAD
CABBAGE HEAD, CABBAGE HEAD
PUT THAT THING BACK IN THE SHED
CABBAGE HEAD, CABBAGE HEAD
RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD
CABBAGE HEAD, CABBAGE HEAD
DRIVES AWAY IN A SUPER-SLED
YEAH!
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From: dmoskowi@jarthur.claremont.edu (Denis "Tesser" Moskowitz)
Subject: Re: A Lyrical Question
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:25:01 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.042448.22013@samba.oit.unc.edu> Ben.Magid@launchpad.unc.edu (Ben Magid) writes:
>In article <Bxz3Go.E4A@acsu.buffalo.edu> psr@acsu.buffalo.edu (Lord Strider) writes:
>>I thought he was saying "Man o nam."
>My friend have been fighting non-stop for the last three months on whether
>or not it was "man o nam" or "man a nam". I am on the "man o nam" side, but
>there is no convincing him.

I personally think that it must be man o man, since most of the other
anagram-type things in the song are word anagrams, and all of the other
anagrams make sense (as opposed to man o nam or man a nam), and I seem to
remember seeing in an article somewhere that J&J said there was only one
true anagram in the song, which would of course be egad a base tone denotes
a bad age. Sorry to be pedantic.:)
-Denis

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dmoskowi@jarthur.claremont.edu  sovagxajn vangharojn, kaj liajn ungojn kaj
This Is Realtime!               lian faldan voston.
From: stevie@soda.berkeley.edu (Steven Collins)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: B-sides
Date: 18 Nov 1992 08:47:23 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
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 stevie@soda.berkeley.edu (Steven Collins) writes:
>
>>>Misc. T contains every pre-Flood B-side.
>>>

Well, following short argument aside, it appears i may have been
partly wrong about this; didn't someone talk about having a record
with some song about a sun, like "Moving to the Sun" or something like
that?  What's the deal with this?  Anyone else know anything?  Speak
up?

Steven.
From: medwards@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Matt Edwards)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: B-sides
Date: 17 Nov 92 23:39:07 GMT
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA


I'm just curious -
I've never heard 'Cabbagetown'.  What's it sound like?  
About 2 years ago I sent TMBG a tape of songs I had written and
said they could do whatever they wanted with them.  One
was called 'Cabbagehead'.  

Just wondering...
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From: rpointe@hubcap.clemson.edu (Robey Pointer)
Subject: Re: A Lyrical Question
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 04:52:03 GMT

lightnin@lizardo.WPI.EDU (Reality's Comic Relief) writes:

>In article <0f2bdzq00awO498UN6@andrew.cmu.edu> "Jason A. Specland" <jsda+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>   One fuzzy area still remains:

>   In the chorus of "I Palindrome I," what is it that John F. says in
>   between John L's saying, "I Palindrome I?"  And before you say, "He's
>   saying 'I Palindrome I,' you silly,"  I mean at the end of the chorus. 
>   It sounds something like "little men."

>I may be wrong (I don't have my copy in front of me, so I can't be sure) but
>I think that this one is actually in the lyrics sheet.  

>He's singing "Man o man."

Nix.  It's not in my lyric sheet, anyway.  I've listened to it very closely
and I think it's almost certainly:
"Man o nam."  (think about it)

robey



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From: 2fuathink@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Otter)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: King Missile
Date: 19 Nov 92 13:32:29 CST
Organization: Slackmeisters of the Holy Evaporated Milk

In article <1efbr3INNf5j@agate.berkeley.edu>, stevie@soda.berkeley.edu (Steven Collins) writes:
> Speaking of other cool groups tmbg fans might like, I recommend King
> Missile.  They can be a little harder-rockin, but I muchly enjoy their
> strange and wonderful lyrics.

I second this suggestion.  Lyrics that tell a story--with more details
than you would normally care about.  Song titles like "Jesus Was Way Cool" and
"Detachable Penis".  Reminds me of some Dead Milkmen songs.

Otter

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From: hclapin@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Hugh Clapin)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: Mammal
Summary: koalas aren't bears
Date: 17 Nov 92 04:25:11 GMT

In article <1=F=2TA@engin.umich.edu>, turtle@engin.umich.edu (Matthew M Edwards ) writes:
> 
> 
> In the song Mammal....
> 
> the bat, the cat, dolphin and dog, koala bear and hog
> 
> I thought koala bears were Marsupials?  (Referenced later in song)
Koalas *aren't* bears.

Grrrrrrr.

Hugh Clapin
Philosophy
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From: ma155fan@b432-1.ucsd.edu (AxigallyRules!)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: A Lyrical Question
Date: 20 Nov 92 18:17:20 GMT
Organization: Univsersity of California, San Diego


I thought he was singing "Madam ma'am".  At first, I thought they were
trying to work the famous palindrome "Madam I'm Adam" into the song,
and perhaps this was their best stab at it...?

Why don't we just ask them?

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From: aaron@space.ualberta.ca (Aaron Humphrey)
Subject: Re: What was the requested song at other concerts?
Reply-To: aaron@space.ualberta.ca
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
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Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:29:12 GMT

k (kay@bigwpi.WPI.EDU) wrote:
: In article <1992Nov18.134614.10897@ms.uky.edu> billq@ms.uky.edu (Billy Quinn) writes:
: >to 'Money for Nothing' you know where sting sings "I want my MTV" (gag)
:                                        ^^^^^
:                                        BAH?!
: 
: (seriously.  it's a tad off subject, but what did Sting have to do with
: Dire Straits?)

He sang "I Want My MTV" at the beginning of "Money For Nothing".

This was Sting's year of promiscuity.  He also sang on Arcadia's "The
Promise", and Phil Collins's "Long Long Way To Go"(I think) on "No Jacket
Required".

Still has a long way to go to beat Mike McDonald, though.

ObTMBG: I think that "We Want A Rock" is about headbangers and their music, and
"Pencil Rain" is about vicious bureaucracy.  Anybody else?

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From: kan@bugs-bunny.rtp.dg.com (Victor Kan)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: B-sides
Date: 18 Nov 92 14:35:34 GMT
	<92321.223344IO20650@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Reply-To: kan@dg-rtp.dg.com
Distribution: alt
Organization: Program Development Environments, Data General Corp., RTP, NC


>In article <1e8v0qINNakm@agate.berkeley.edu>, stevie@soda.berkeley.edu (Steven
>Collins) says:
>>
>> <IO20650@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
>>
>>>>Misc. T contains every pre-Flood B-side.
>>>>
>>>It doesn't contain all of the pre-Flood B-sides, as a matter of fact, it
>>>doesn't contain most of the pre-Flood B-sides.
>>
>>As much as I would like to believe this, I'm afraid i'm going to have
>>to require more concrete evidence.
>>
>Well, just look at the first tape's B-side.  Misc. T doesn't have Chess Piece
>Face, or Absolutly Bills Moood, or Boat of Car.  And what about Lincoln?  It
>certinly doesn't have most of it's side B, although off hand, I can't recall
>any of the songs on it...

I always thought the general meaning of a "B-side" is a song on the
B-side of a two song 45rpm single and that's usually not available on
released albums.  I've never heard the term used to describe the
B-side of an entire album/tape.  Maybe I need to discuss music more
often.


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From: jutta@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Jutta Degener)
Subject: Re: Kids love TMBG (was Re: Mammal)
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:27:52 GMT

baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin) writes:
> I have a two-year-old who *loves* TMBG.  At bedtime, if Mom is doing
> it, she wants to sing "Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star" and such.  If Dad
> is doing it, she wants to sing "Particle Man," "Cowtown," "Istanbul,"
> and/or a couple of others.  She actually gets excited at the prospect
> of hearing some of these songs.  (She also likes Jonathan Richman.)

Yeah, Jonathan "they're all/in my trance/when I dance" Richman!
His annual visit is the best reason to be in Berlin in the summer.

(Talking about concerts: TMBG or whoever put out a book to write
addresses in during their concert.  Do they always do that, and 
what happened to that database?  I expected to get a catalog or
at least an annoying letter, but nothing arrived.)

I always suspected kids might like TMBG.  The childlike joy I feel
when singing along with `Dinner Bell' can't be all fake.

DING!,

Jutta
From: BJP108@psuvm.psu.edu (Brian Panulla, MooCow)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: Misc. T
Date: 16 Nov 92 04:54:08 GMT
 <1992Nov16.033802.6360@news.acns.nwu.edu>
Organization: Miskatonic University

In article <1992Nov16.033802.6360@news.acns.nwu.edu>, hrow@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
(Heath Row) says:
>
>Okay... when I was but a tot, my dad would always kid around telling
>stories and stuff... but instead of saying something like the old Batman tv
>show's Robin using the cliched "Holy breaded scallops, Batman!" when
>something diabolical was going to happen involving breaded scallops, he (my
>dad, not robin) would say "Breaded scallops t. cornpone!" Cornpone being
>some southern bread delicacy i imagine. Anyway... this is what *I* thought
>the T in Misc. T to mean... "Miscellaneous T. Cornpone, Batman!"
>
>Really... does it have to mean anything?
>
>
My impression was that for most of TMBG's existance (pre-FLood) their albums
were in the "Misc T" section of the record store shelves. Only recently did
stores start giving them their own section. That's why I was confused when
someone tacked a "Rex" onto the end of it. Unfortunately, I don't own the
album.

Can someone confirm whether or not the "Rex" is on the album?
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From: mcintyre@sousa.tay.dec.com (Jon McIntyre)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: What was the requested song at other concerts?
Date: 17 Nov 92 01:11:40 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation

In article <1992Nov12.170707.16133@ms.uky.edu> jayh@ms.uky.edu (Jay Hofacker) writes:
>
>In Cinicinatti it was "Electric Avenue."
>
>They also played a very strange version of "Instanbul."  About half way
>through, they stopped using instruments, turned the reverb WAY up and
>sang REAL SLOW.  Beforehand they warned that this was the 'artistic'
>part of the show that we had to put up with before they got to the good
>stuff.
>--

Hmm.  Did Flansburgh sing just the words "Istanbul, Constantinople,
Istanbul, Constantinople, Istanbul, Constantinople, Istanbul..."
over and over during this part?  I heard a tape that was made many years
ago that had Flansburgh singing it like that, with no instruments, and
experimenting with echo sound effects.  I'd be real curious to know
if they repeated exactly that at the show you were at.

Jon McIntyre
mcintyre@cronic.enet.dec.com
From: lightnin@lizardo.WPI.EDU (Reality's Comic Relief)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: A Lyrical Question
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:40:29
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In-reply-to: "Jason A. Specland"'s message of Wed, 18 Nov 1992 12:16:47 -0500 

In article <0f2bdzq00awO498UN6@andrew.cmu.edu> "Jason A. Specland" <jsda+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

   One fuzzy area still remains:

   In the chorus of "I Palindrome I," what is it that John F. says in
   between John L's saying, "I Palindrome I?"  And before you say, "He's
   saying 'I Palindrome I,' you silly,"  I mean at the end of the chorus. 
   It sounds something like "little men."

I may be wrong (I don't have my copy in front of me, so I can't be sure) but
I think that this one is actually in the lyrics sheet.  

He's singing "Man o man."

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From: christian@Turing.ORG (Christian Claiborn)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: Other groups with TMBG flavor
Date: 22 Nov 92 20:29:06 GMT
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.

In article <1992Nov22.171124.888@pellns.alleg.edu> stuarts@carr102.alleg.edu (Scott Stuart) writes:
>
>there you go.  By the way, Jon Feinberg, the Giants' tour drummer, said  
>that XTC was one of his favorite bands when I asked him.  He said he would  
>love to play with them, and that he did not think Dave Mattacks did a good  
>job on _Nonsuch_.  Any opinions?

I agree.  Both Colin Moulding and Dave Mattacks slept through _Nonsuch._
The album's only decent work is Andy's.  


						Christian
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From: kay@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (k)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: What was the requested song at other concerts?
Date: 19 Nov 1992 03:51:07 GMT
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In article <1992Nov18.134614.10897@ms.uky.edu> billq@ms.uky.edu (Billy Quinn) writes:
>to 'Money for Nothing' you know where sting sings "I want my MTV" (gag)
                                       ^^^^^
                                       BAH?!

(seriously.  it's a tad off subject, but what did Sting have to do with
Dire Straits?)

k
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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:49:03 -0500 
From: Joshua John Buergel <jbbb+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: TMBG - latin?
	<1992Nov19.214725.2701@news.cs.brandeis.edu>

>Also, what's the backwards message at the end of "Hide Away, Folk Family" on
>the title album?

Total gibberish.  My friend and I recorded this into his Macintosh
(always remember:  Macintoshes LIKE to be rebooted) and reversed it
using Sound Edit.  When we played it, we couldn't understand anything,
except perhaps the word "cookie".  Well, this was driving us crazy, so
my friend sent a letter the They, asking them:

A)  What is the secret message on "Hide Away, Folk Family"?
B)  Who is that guy in the videos?
C)  Who are the two dudes on the cover of _Lincoln_?

Anyway, he got a letter back from Flansburgh (hand written, no less) and
a guitar pick (it had the _Flood_ logo on it, but said "Flans" instead
of "Flood".  While I'm talking about it, am I the only one who has
noticed that the _Flood_ logo is just the logo for some actors' union or
something?  Look at the end of movies and television shows...you'll see
it).  In the letter, he said that the secret message was total gibberish
(he said something like "John and I just babbled into the mic while
recording it backwards"), he told us the name of the guy in the videos
(a topic much discussed already), and told us the names of the guys on
_Lincoln_.  I seem to remember that one of them was Linnel's
grandfather, and the other one was Flansburgh's great uncle.  Or
something.  I'll e-mail Bill and ask him exactly, though.

Joshua Buergel - allroy@cmu.edu - jbbb@andrew.cmu.edu
"Anybody who thinks we overstepped the playground perimeter of lyrical
decency (or that the public has any right to demand 'social
responsibility' from a goddamn punk rock band) is a pure natural dolt,
and should step forward and put his tongue up my ass." - Steve Albini
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From: stuarts@carr102.alleg.edu (Scott Stuart)
Subject: Re: Istanbul remixes
Organization: Allegheny College
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:01:13 GMT

In article <5855@sumax.seattleu.edu> sstover@sumax.seattleu.edu (   Kate    
) writes:
> In article <1992Nov19.214725.2701@news.cs.brandeis.edu>  
st911227@pip.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
> >
> >Two questions:  I heard about an "Istanbul" disk composed entirely of
> >remixes of "Istanbul, Not Constantinople". Does one exist?
> >
> Sharon Stover writes -

> I know it exists; I've held it in my hands, I once had a copy of one mix
> off of it on a tape of dance mixes.  It's got (I think) 3 mixes, one of
> them being a sort of hip-hop dance groove mix.  Pretty scary, and even
> scarier, it grew on me.  I actually really liked it.  They sampled that
> 'This is a recording' line that's in so many rap an hip hop pieces out
> there...Josh? Are you out there? care to contribute?

	Yes!  It has three different remixes than the one on the album.   
The standard album version is the "Park Slope Remix."  This record also  
includes the remix found on the Istanbul CD single, the "Williamsburgh  
Mix."  There are two others whose names escape me at the moment.  To the  
best of my knowledge, this was only printed on vinyl and only released to  
radio stations as a promo single before they had decided what version  
would be on _Flood_.  I have never seen it anywhere other than a radio  
station's record library, but the other two versions are really only  
nescessary for completists.  No big deal.
					Scott
From: stevie@soda.berkeley.edu (Steven Collins)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: Other TMBG-ish groups
Date: 22 Nov 92 04:01:57 GMT
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 Joshua John Buergel <jbbb+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>>Some other bands which are TMBG-ish are even mentioned on Flood
>>in Twisting they are very good and very funny....
>>	In Case you don't know they are the Dbs and the Young Fresh
>>	Fellows... Bothe are highly reccomended by me.
>
>One quick clarification:  the TVs are mentioned, not the Dbs.  I haven't
>heard either of them though.
>

No I'll have to disagree with you there, I'm quite sure it's the dB's.
If for no other reason than right by my side is The Bible (i.e. The
Trouser press Record Guide) and it assures me that there is no such
band as the TV's.  It recommends the dB's highly, altho I personally
am not familiar with their music.  btw the Bible has this to say about
tmbg: "...TMBG are almost beyond belief.  By conservative estimate,
roughly 15 of the [first] album's 19 tracks are brilliant.  Maybe they'll do
better next time out."

Steven.
From: kbeal@amber (Ken Beal)
Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg
Subject: Re: What was the requested song at other concerts?
Date: 19 Nov 1992 18:13:11 GMT
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Aaron Humphrey (aaron@space.ualberta.ca) wrote:
: ObTMBG: I think that "We Want A Rock" is about headbangers and their music, and
: "Pencil Rain" is about vicious bureaucracy.  Anybody else?

	Pencil Rain seems to be about Vietnam (or some other war) in which
the bullets were falling like rain.  (They're made of ... lead! :-)  )

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