 A promotional photograph from the late 1990s. John Sidney Linnell (born on June 12, 1959, New York) musician, is known primarily as one half of Brooklyn, New York rock duo They Might Be Giants. In addition to singing and songwriting, he plays accordion, baritone and bass saxophone, bass clarinet, and (primarily) keyboards for the group. Image File history File links Johnslinnell. ...
See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from 2000 and 2001. ...
June 12 is the 163rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (164th in leap years), with 202 days remaining. ...
1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ...
Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ...
They Might Be Giants (commonly abbreviated to TMBG) is an American alternative rock duo consisting of John Linnell and John Flansburgh, collectively known as the two Johns or John and John. Known for their experimental pop music, they have been popular on college campuses and earned a reputation for intellectual...
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, often constrasted with speech. ...
A songwriter is someone who writes either the lyrics or the music for songs. ...
A button accordion An accordion is a musical instrument of the handheld bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as squeezeboxes. ...
Baritone saxophone The baritone saxophone is one of the larger and lower pitched members of the saxophone family. ...
The bass saxophone (or bass sax for short) is the second largest existing member of the saxophone family (or third largest, if the subcontrabass tubax is counted). ...
The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. ...
Piano, a well-known instance of keyboard instruments A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. ...
Linnell's lyrics are perhaps most well-known for their inclusion of strange subject matter and wordplay. Persistent themes include aging, delusional behavior, bad relationships, and the personification of inanimate objects. Conversely, the accompanying melodies are usually cascading and upbeat. Word play is a literary technique in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work. ...
Ageing or aging is the process of getting older. ...
Personification is a term used in literary criticism to name the figure of speech which involves directly speaking of an inanimate object, or an abstract concept, as if were a living entity, often one with specifically human attributes. ...
He is married and has one child, a son named Henry. Henry appeared as a performer on They Might Be Giants February 2005 children's release Here Come the ABCs. 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Ongoing events • Iraqi legislative election • Bill C-38 (Canada gay marriage) • Tsunami relief Upcoming events • March 11: Red Nose Day 2005 in the UK. Deaths in February • 26 – Jef Raskin • 25 – Hugh Nibley • 25 – Peter Benenson • 21...
Here Come The ABCs is a 2005 DVD & Audio CD release by They Might Be Giants, aimed at young children learning the alphabet. ...
They Might Be Giants
Linnell co-founded They Might Be Giants in 1982 with high school friend John Flansburgh. While the two split singing and songwriting duties (roughly) in half, Linnell's songs enjoyed the most commercial success in their early years: singles like "Don't Let's Start" and "Ana Ng" introduced the band to college radio, and they made waves on the Billboard charts in 1990 with "Birdhouse in Your Soul." They Might Be Giants (commonly abbreviated to TMBG) is an American alternative rock duo consisting of John Linnell and John Flansburgh, collectively known as the two Johns or John and John. Known for their experimental pop music, they have been popular on college campuses and earned a reputation for intellectual...
John Flansburgh (b. ...
Dont Lets Start is a They Might Be Giants song originally from the album They Might Be Giants, but it has also appeared on Then: The Earlier Years and Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants. ...
Ana Ng is a song by They Might Be Giants. ...
Campus radio (also known as college radio, university radio or student radio) is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution. ...
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Birdhouse in Your Soul is one of the all-time biggest hits of the alternative rock band They Might Be Giants. ...
In 2006, the band began to produce a twice-monthly podcast, for which Linnell frequently contributes humorous spoken-word pieces. 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The term podcasting is a portmanteau of the words iPod and broadcasting. ...
Side-Projects Since 1994, Linnell has done some solo work: in that year he released the State Songs EP, which he expanded to a full-length album in 1999. The EP and album's concept is intentionally misleading: U.S. states feature prominently in the title and chorus of each song, but have very little to do with their actual narratives: "Montana", for instance, is about the insane ramblings of somebody who is about to die; "Idaho" explores a famous rock story in which John Lennon, having consumed hallucinogenic drugs, believed he could drive his house; "South Carolina" is about getting rich off of a bicycle accident. See also: 1993 in music, other events of 1994, 1995 in music, 1990s in music and the list of years in music. // Events January 29 - The Supremes Mary Wilson is injured when her jeep hits a freeway median and flips over just outside of Los Angeles, California. ...
State Songs is an album released by John Linnell in 1999. ...
An extended play (or EP), is typically the name given to vinyl records or CDs which are too long to be called singles but too short to qualify as albums. ...
1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (October 9, 1940 – December 8, 1980) was an iconic English 20th century composer and singer of popular music with Paul McCartney as Lennon-McCartney throughout the 1960s, and was the founding member of The Beatles. ...
Other side-projects include the limited-release House of Mayors EP in 1996, and playing the accordion on David Byrne's 2004 effort, Grown Backwards. David Byrne (born May 14, 1952 in Dumbarton, Scotland) is a musician best known as a founding member and the principal songwriter of the New Wave band Talking Heads. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Grown Backwards is an album by David Byrne, released March 2004. ...
People Magazine Poll In a People Magazine online poll - "The Most Beautiful People of 1998" - John Linnell finished 9th (with 4,189 votes, 8 ahead of Sarah Michelle Gellar, and 1,038 behind Madonna). He responded to the curious poll results with an op-ed piece in the New York Times: The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...
"I had already gotten wind of the existence of the poll a few days earlier when I read that Leonardo DiCaprio had been knocked out of the No. 1 spot by a dark horse named Hank the Angry, Drunken Dwarf. The on-line voters, it seemed, had a new, more evolved definition of beauty that gave low marks to standard celebrity good looks. What they really valued was a person's inner beauty. Anyway, that's what I told myself as I went on line to see the results firsthand."
He went on to say, of online voting:
"It has been suggested that the Internet might be a good way to vote for our elected officials. If my experience is any guide, though, it appears there are still a few bugs to be worked out before you'll be able to elect the next President while sitting at home in your underwear, unless you want Shecky Greene running the country." Shecky Greene (born Sheldon Greenfield, April 8, 1926), is a stand-up comedian who was best known for his live performances in the Catskills and on television in the 1950s and 1960s. ...
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