They Might Be Giants - Don't Let's Start (BEST QUALITY Official Music Video)

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  • @piupaupompompom
    @piupaupompompom Рік тому +222

    bro ??? i just woke up. and IMMEDIATELY i could smell the cat food in my bank account ??? what’s up with that

    • @ronan-outoftime
      @ronan-outoftime 11 місяців тому +30

      did you try to stop the tail that wags the hound

    • @doinkle_idk
      @doinkle_idk 7 місяців тому

      did the deep world destruction start for you too?

    • @rat-remy
      @rat-remy 6 місяців тому

      @@ronan-outoftime i think it caused world destruction over and overture cause of it

    • @robinnightwing9545
      @robinnightwing9545 6 місяців тому +1

      😂

    • @piupaupompompom
      @piupaupompompom 6 місяців тому +9

      @@ronan-outoftime oh god no i didn’t even think of that! thanks for the advice

  • @literaryloser4470
    @literaryloser4470 2 роки тому +366

    no matter how chaotic or strange this video is you can't deny they are having the time of their lives and I'm so glad they're still going strong all these years later.

  • @returnosf5043
    @returnosf5043 5 років тому +364

    I think their new songs are just as good as their older ones, but there's something magically nostalgic about that drum machine

    • @greagandev
      @greagandev 2 роки тому +4

      And that's why I bought one.

    • @bonzodimduly
      @bonzodimduly Рік тому +8

      @@greagandev i downloaded samples of it off the internet and put it into a sampler vst called poise and put a ton of reverb and cassette filters on it and hooked my e-drums to it

    • @DontLetsStartAPodcastAboutTMBG
      @DontLetsStartAPodcastAboutTMBG Рік тому +1

      It's true though.

  • @computerfighter2000
    @computerfighter2000 Рік тому +45

    finally a rapper who doesn't mumble

  • @alexchristianmusic
    @alexchristianmusic 4 роки тому +85

    1:41 This is how I greet everybody.

    • @BenCol
      @BenCol 3 роки тому +18

      And a deputy-dog-dog-a-ding-dang-depadepa, deputy-dog-dog-a-ding-dang-depadepa to you too!

    • @BurgermanForever-nh2vp
      @BurgermanForever-nh2vp 3 місяці тому +2

      I would feel welcome

    • @ZuluRomeo
      @ZuluRomeo Місяць тому +1

      I want that on a 10 hour loop

  • @LL-bl8hd
    @LL-bl8hd 3 роки тому +112

    They have that amazing ability to be goofy and incredibly cool at the same time.

  • @beemallow24
    @beemallow24 Рік тому +25

    It's fun watching this at half speed to see Linnell really going for it.

  • @elijahmaier5975
    @elijahmaier5975 5 років тому +102

    Whenever I hear one song by them I get a strong urge to marathon as many of their albums as my schedule will allow.

    • @whyott
      @whyott 5 місяців тому +1

      Weasels ripped my flesh is insane

  • @SocialCirclesProductions
    @SocialCirclesProductions 2 місяці тому +9

    I wanted to go see TMBG live but as TMBG said "No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful"

  • @ivanterrible7362
    @ivanterrible7362 5 років тому +24

    If happiness was a song, it would sound like this.

  • @computerfighter2000
    @computerfighter2000 Рік тому +19

    I love watching them jump around & stuff it's so amusing

  • @battleofwills7189
    @battleofwills7189 4 роки тому +23

    I remember 1990, They were not my friends, but they were not my only friends....
    Managed to see them live in 2001. Played all the classics and the new stuff at the time.
    You can imagine the near riot when they played Birdhouse in Your Soul.

  • @TravisPrebble
    @TravisPrebble 5 років тому +42

    I did just click start. It was the best part. And then I rewound, then I re-rewound.

  • @MicrowavedAlastair5390
    @MicrowavedAlastair5390 Рік тому +15

    I appreciate the ambiguity in TMBG songs, because it means I can read this as a protest song and have my interpretation be as accurate as any other interpretation.

  • @danielfarrugia5492
    @danielfarrugia5492 4 роки тому +47

    Oh my goodness, they look so young in this video! I saw them live here in Australia a year or so or go, and they're better than when I saw them last time. So good to see them still doing what they clearly love so much as musicians.

  • @Johnnybananass-_
    @Johnnybananass-_ Рік тому +5

    The 90s were the best era for alternative music on the planet . Its was the era we lifted the lid on the chocolate assortment and dived in to see what flavours burned beneath wrapped in colourful wrappers

  • @boydmanuel9257
    @boydmanuel9257 2 роки тому +10

    I still remember when the Johns took over Nick Rocks on Saturday morning and I was watching the upstairs TV and the VCR was downstairs, so I raced downstairs and luckily I had a tape ready to record it and threw it in and missed the first two minutes! I still have that recording. I’ve been a fan ever since.

    • @boydmanuel9257
      @boydmanuel9257 Рік тому

      @dragonsonfilm Why yes. Yes I do. I would upload it but it starts halfway through the video and no intro. I actually missed more like 4+ minutes.
      However, in the bonus content of the DVD for ‘Gigantic: A Tale Of Two Johns’ , they have all of their segments sans videos.

    • @DontLetsStartAPodcastAboutTMBG
      @DontLetsStartAPodcastAboutTMBG Рік тому

      DIGITIZE THAT MUTHA!!!

    • @boydmanuel9257
      @boydmanuel9257 Рік тому

      @@DontLetsStartAPodcastAboutTMBG All of the segments (sans the videos) are on the 'Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns' documentary DVD!

    • @DontLetsStartAPodcastAboutTMBG
      @DontLetsStartAPodcastAboutTMBG Рік тому

      @@boydmanuel9257 Digitize it anyway! Seeing the unedited broadcast versions of this stuff is fascinating! Tons of fans want to see anything we can get our hands on!

  • @blandoon
    @blandoon 5 років тому +32

    I don't want to live in this world anym... well, as long as TMBG keeps putting out music I guess I'm OK with it

  • @mobius273
    @mobius273 4 роки тому +15

    The video for this, birdhouse, and ana ng are engraved on the back of my retinas

  • @jockohomosexual
    @jockohomosexual 5 років тому +164

    I'm so happy they're reloading their old songs.

  • @0okamino
    @0okamino 5 років тому +35

    This was the first TMBG song and video I ever experienced, back in '88 or '89 on MTV's _120 Minutes._ It was just the beginning of my continued admiration for these supreme gentlemen, their music and creativity, and remains among my favorites.

  • @silly_billy_puppet
    @silly_billy_puppet Рік тому +18

    THESE,, THESE SILLY GUYS!! they bring me lots of joy :]

  • @TheGameCraftDragon
    @TheGameCraftDragon 5 років тому +37

    This song brings back such wonderful memories. I remember kicking back at the student union, having a couple beers over the pool table and playing this on the jukebox. I miss the late 80's/early 90's - a golden era for us Gen-Xers and music..

  • @zote8106
    @zote8106 Місяць тому +2

    0:54 is a dance straight out of a lego movie

    • @sbcg4ap
      @sbcg4ap Місяць тому +1

      NO THIS IS SO FUNNY

  • @nightshade1807
    @nightshade1807 5 років тому +22

    Don't don't don't let's start
    This is the worst part
    Could believe for all the world
    That you're my precious little girl
    But don't don't don't let's start
    I've got a weak heart
    And I don't get around how you get around
    When you are alone you are the cat, you are the phone
    You are an animal
    The words I'm singing now
    Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
    Wake up and smell the cat food in your bank account
    But don't try to stop the tail that wags the hound
    D, world destruction
    Over and overture
    N, do I need
    Apostrophe T, need this torture?
    Don't don't don't let's start
    This is the worst part
    Could believe for all the world
    That you're my precious little girl
    But don't don't don't let's start
    I've got a weak heart
    And I don't get around how you get around
    No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful
    Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful
    They want what they're not and I wish they would stop saying,
    Deputy dog dog a ding dang depadepa
    Deputy dog dog a ding dang depadepa
    D, world destruction
    Over and overture
    N, do I need
    Apostrophe T, need this torture?
    Don't don't don't let's start
    This is the worst part
    Could believe for all the world
    That you're my precious little girl
    But don't don't don't let's start
    I've got a weak heart
    And I don't get around how you get around
    I don't want to live in this world anymore
    I don't want to live in this world
    Don't don't don't let's start
    This is the worst part
    Could believe for all the world
    That you're my precious little girl
    But don't don't don't let's start
    I've got a weak heart
    And I don't get around how you get around

  • @DontLetsStartAPodcastAboutTMBG

    Don't let's start me about how much I love this video.

  • @ezyto
    @ezyto 4 роки тому +45

    Ngl, young John Linnell hot as hell tho, god he is so cute i love him

  • @SailorMaxie
    @SailorMaxie 2 роки тому +38

    Me: I’m a good dancer
    Me when I’m dancing:

  • @troyhoffman9411
    @troyhoffman9411 5 років тому +57

    My first thought was, "I don't remember the intro being this fast."
    Then I realized UA-cam was still at 1.5x from a training video I watched earlier. Oddly enough, other than being too fast, it still sounded good.

    • @voomroom8697
      @voomroom8697 5 років тому +4

      TMBG is so good that they work at all tempos.

    • @Phonophobia
      @Phonophobia 5 років тому +3

      Had my record player on 45 instead of 33 while starting a Rap record and it sounded a lot like Jamiroquai, funky shit. Still listen to this intro like that :D

    • @scowell
      @scowell 4 роки тому +5

      I'm pretty sure they played this back at half-speed when shooting it, then sped it back up. Genius.

  • @johngpendleton
    @johngpendleton 2 роки тому +8

    I got out of the Air Force in December of '87 to find Dr. Demento presenting THIS and I knew I was gonna be just fine.

  • @mikeybhoutex
    @mikeybhoutex 5 років тому +33

    This one. This one is the one that got me to be a TMBG follower. I first saw this video on the MTV special with Dr. Demento (because oddity of the video, not the song, mind!) and I just loved it as a song. The video is cool too, but the song is the thing, and there ya go. Glad to see this here!

    • @ZombieDawg
      @ZombieDawg 5 років тому +4

      Me too! I still have (and cherish) that Dr. Demento Countdown Show on VHS. Kicked off my TMBG fandom. Loved the frenetic video and infectious song.

    • @lukeallen2894
      @lukeallen2894 5 років тому +3

      @@ZombieDawg I bought my first TMBG album (the reissued Best Of two-disc set) in a mall while waiting for a 2600 meeting to start. What an odd, wonderful day that was.

    • @inactiveytchannel
      @inactiveytchannel 3 роки тому +2

      Dr Denento rules

  • @scentedpapers6569
    @scentedpapers6569 5 років тому +15

    My boy lookin like a meal in HD

  • @GweanBeans
    @GweanBeans 5 років тому +16

    I can see them!

  • @splatkirby6056
    @splatkirby6056 8 місяців тому +2

    This video is ahead of its time

  • @flyboymcgee8059
    @flyboymcgee8059 5 років тому +7

    There will never be another like them

  • @benbenpotato
    @benbenpotato 5 років тому +39

    Please upload put your hand Inside the puppet head!!!!!! I need dat HIGH QUALITY

    • @Brigand231
      @Brigand231 5 років тому +3

      Good call!

    • @0okamino
      @0okamino 5 років тому +4

      We must touch the higher quality puppet head.

    • @Brigand231
      @Brigand231 5 років тому +3

      Nothing but the best of puppet heads.

  • @rayj4914
    @rayj4914 5 років тому +8

    Yes , assent with all the previous praise. No one ever gets.... and that is beautiful

  • @sammyslam1
    @sammyslam1 Рік тому +16

    "The words i'm sayin now means nothing more than meow to an animal"

  • @ezekielbrockmann114
    @ezekielbrockmann114 5 років тому +10

    That Hat!
    Love it see... I used to wear that hat - just like that - so little (me?) I could to get on the amusement rides at the fun park gardens. The signs all said, "You must be this awesome to ride."
    Aaaand I was.

  • @MangetsuSAMURAI
    @MangetsuSAMURAI 5 років тому +13

    Still one of my top 10 favorite music videos. Absolutely outstanding.

    • @DontLetsStartAPodcastAboutTMBG
      @DontLetsStartAPodcastAboutTMBG Рік тому

      I'm torn between this, Ana Ng and Doctor Worm, but the 64 Worlds Fair location being 10 minutes from where I live kind of seals the deal for me here.

  • @sanfrancisco89
    @sanfrancisco89 5 років тому +3

    Thanks for the upload. The NYS Pavilion was all wrecked up by the time this was shot though. Was wrecked up by the early 70s.

  • @MiguelPaulettePerez-bj8ml
    @MiguelPaulettePerez-bj8ml Рік тому +2

    Best goddamn song you guys ever wrote... everything else is a satellite rotating around it.

  • @aviratica6370
    @aviratica6370 2 роки тому +4

    Loved you guys since Darinka

  • @JClaus1221
    @JClaus1221 Рік тому +1

    The absolute peak of what College Rock was meant to be. Never topped!

  • @elon5562
    @elon5562 3 роки тому +16

    i love how Linnel looks in this music video!

  • @wallacestine
    @wallacestine 5 років тому +7

    Yesss!!

  • @apostrophe.t
    @apostrophe.t 4 роки тому +4

    Why yes, yes I do really need this torture.

  • @shakespearefreak-upon-Avon
    @shakespearefreak-upon-Avon 5 років тому +6

    Yes!!!!!!! This is the best part!

  • @andyrose5616
    @andyrose5616 Рік тому +4

    2:13 It takes a while, but Chekhov's Detonator eventually pays off.

  • @Alex-mt6fe
    @Alex-mt6fe Рік тому +4

    Great,great stuff. Nothing more to say on that.

  • @antjarvis
    @antjarvis 5 років тому +8

    Just too good.

  • @alexchristianmusic
    @alexchristianmusic 5 років тому +3

    LET's Go!!!!!!

  • @mistryl
    @mistryl 5 років тому +9

    My first TMBG video! I saw it on Nick Rocks in the late 80s, and I called it "the bouncing heads video" :)

    • @RyanSchweitzer77
      @RyanSchweitzer77 3 роки тому +4

      Same here!!!!! That also was my first introduction to TMBG back in 1987--I believe John & John also guest-hosted that particular Nick Rocks episode too, IIRC.

  • @vincemacek681
    @vincemacek681 Рік тому

    I can't explain how, but seeing this video back when it was new changed my life.

  • @AveryLiberg
    @AveryLiberg Рік тому +1

    This one makes me so happy

  • @dnr-vs1lk
    @dnr-vs1lk 4 роки тому +6

    love that reference to the video for "push back the hands"

  • @sisifromthefuture
    @sisifromthefuture 6 місяців тому +1

    I'm glad to see that these dudes get as feral about this song as I do.

  • @tombrennan3973
    @tombrennan3973 7 днів тому

    ...and that is beautiful

  • @ronald_anarchy
    @ronald_anarchy Рік тому +3

    THEY ARE SO SILLY EEEEE

  • @likelipe
    @likelipe 5 місяців тому +9

    my friend just said "watch this theyre so silly" and i can now confirm the are indeed silly, 10/10 because silly

    • @ms.horrible
      @ms.horrible 5 місяців тому +5

      i was the freind. btw

    • @likelipe
      @likelipe 5 місяців тому +4

      @@ms.horrible hello soggy

    • @ms.horrible
      @ms.horrible 5 місяців тому +5

      @@likelipe meow

    • @likelipe
      @likelipe 5 місяців тому +3

      @@ms.horrible car

  • @RomanNardone
    @RomanNardone 5 років тому +8

    You guys are fantastic 👌

  • @zhenjiu
    @zhenjiu 5 років тому +3

    So much fun! TMBG!

  • @dafiezzz2392
    @dafiezzz2392 5 років тому +7

  • @funnyscream2976
    @funnyscream2976 5 років тому +4

    Epic

  • @Wesleech
    @Wesleech 2 роки тому +3

    god im so old. can we go back to when i first herd this? please?

  • @steinzeitzocker7589
    @steinzeitzocker7589 5 років тому +5

    Das nennt man wohl Perfektion

  • @gstynchula
    @gstynchula Рік тому +1

    They have staying power! Keep rocking johns

  • @endorphinzz
    @endorphinzz 6 місяців тому +1

    1:56 - when my cats hear the can opener.

    • @Vileplume87
      @Vileplume87 4 місяці тому +1

      They smelled the cat food in your bank account

  • @flg947
    @flg947 3 роки тому +6

    0:08 can some AvGeek tell me what plane flew over Flansburgh?

  • @carbilicon
    @carbilicon Рік тому +8

    I feel like absurdity is a lost art. It used to be a normal part of mass media, albeit a little fringe. What happened?

  • @computerfighter2000
    @computerfighter2000 Рік тому +4

    yay it's not in 2 pixels!!!!!
    i love this song

  • @DemeterTelphousia-Erinyes
    @DemeterTelphousia-Erinyes 10 місяців тому +1

    John L is so lovely!

  • @amandaharris726
    @amandaharris726 10 місяців тому +1

    What a wonderful world.

  • @ProtomanButCallMeBlues
    @ProtomanButCallMeBlues 5 років тому +9

    Best described as an Underrated Masterpiece

  • @TheSimanti
    @TheSimanti 9 місяців тому +1

    Yes, off the town

  • @pichass9337
    @pichass9337 5 років тому +5

    More uploads plz

  • @m55uds
    @m55uds 2 роки тому +1

    Best Band EVER....😀

  • @apocpon1944
    @apocpon1944 5 років тому +5

    So, while playing around with UA-cams options, i've found this song sounds pretty good at .75 speed.

  • @gustavochuck
    @gustavochuck Рік тому +3

    "Deputy-dog-dog-a-ding-dang-depadepa" ❤

  • @Disassociated2
    @Disassociated2 4 роки тому +6

    Why are they so underrated? They have a nice rock style and they are just nice quirky songs! This band was my childhood! Only 1k likes? Wow....I feel bad for them

    • @snakes7303
      @snakes7303 3 роки тому +2

      Theyre quite popular, and this video is old, so

    • @Disassociated2
      @Disassociated2 3 роки тому +2

      Oh-
      Well good for them! :)

    • @floridaflamingogirl3119
      @floridaflamingogirl3119 2 роки тому +1

      This video did incredibly well on MTV back in the 80’s. In fact it was a lot of the momentum behind their early success :)

    • @Disassociated2
      @Disassociated2 2 роки тому

      @@floridaflamingogirl3119 oh, well then I guess I’ll delete this comment!

  • @Hawkathone
    @Hawkathone 2 роки тому +2

    Is that a pipe? 1:19 O_o

  • @antoniamochan
    @antoniamochan 3 місяці тому +1

    I reckon the Flight of the Conchords episode where they do a music video was inspired by this...

  • @davidmoore535
    @davidmoore535 5 років тому +4

    I got that song on a two-disc CD set!!

  • @NewWaveEnthusiast
    @NewWaveEnthusiast Рік тому +2

    Two hot nerds jamming out.

  • @GameboyGuitar
    @GameboyGuitar 6 місяців тому

    The guitar parts are so cool. Reminds me of gang of four

  • @lilstardrops
    @lilstardrops 5 років тому +3

    I am glad this video exists for chronological reasons

  • @mooncharmyoutoob
    @mooncharmyoutoob 7 місяців тому +2

    me when i’mm seriously jamming out to some #music

  • @user-is2zv4sc6y
    @user-is2zv4sc6y 5 років тому +8

    Oh look a good excuse to listen to a great song.

  • @scotthall564
    @scotthall564 4 місяці тому

    2:07 goes extra hard in 2X speed

  • @ShmeckleBoy
    @ShmeckleBoy 4 місяці тому +1

    Jerma is everywhere, man...

  • @bigwiggler373
    @bigwiggler373 5 років тому +1

    2:14

  • @sarcasmo57
    @sarcasmo57 Місяць тому +1

    I still owe heaps of cat food to my bank.

  • @mooncharmyoutoob
    @mooncharmyoutoob 7 місяців тому +3

    why did linnell do that

  • @radiobob1908
    @radiobob1908 Рік тому +34

    They seem like the kind of cis guys who wouldn't be offended if I said they're transmasc goals, which is good, because they're kind of transmasc goals.

  • @g_in_garage
    @g_in_garage 5 років тому

    TYSM!!!!

  • @ryansharp2902
    @ryansharp2902 2 роки тому +1

    Showing the accordion on "need this torture" 😂

  • @charitywhittington2196
    @charitywhittington2196 Рік тому +2

    Hilarious still laugh every time I watch it

  • @TotalDramaHarold
    @TotalDramaHarold 6 місяців тому

    Peak music

  • @bryn7658
    @bryn7658 5 років тому +1

    goddamn i completely forgot about this song. it was one of my absolute favorites when i was about 6

    • @ivanterrible7362
      @ivanterrible7362 5 років тому

      Still one of my favorites as I speed headlong to 50. I play it on my ukulele every week.

  • @daishoryujin95
    @daishoryujin95 4 роки тому +3

    Will the seven people who disliked this please show yourselves? I'm not mad, just disappointed.