They Might Be Giants – Music Hall

here is the info file from Dime

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS

Music Hall of Williamsburg

Brooklyn, NY

November 29, 2015

(duo set show)

CA-14 cardioids > Church Audio ugly battery box > Line In > Sony PCM-M10 > WAV (24/48)

Mixed and mastered in SoundStudio > FLAC (16/44.1)

Recorded by neil d

Setlist:

01 intro to duo set

02 Snowball In Hell

03 Don’t Let’s Start

04 The Famous Polka

05 I’ll Sink Manhattan

06 Trouble Awful Devil Evil

07 introducing the stick

08 Lie Still, Little Bottle

09 Ana Ng

10 Impossibly New

11 They’ll Need A Crane

12 I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die

13 Cage and Aquarium

14 Daylight

15 Wearing A Raincoat

16 How Can I Sing Like A Girl

17 Youth Culture Killed My Dog

18 Birdhouse In Your Soul

19 She’s An Angel

20 intro to full band set

21 Mesopotamians

22 We Live In A Dump

23 Can’t Keep Johnny Down

24 Answer

25 Number Three

26 Authenticity Trip

27 I Can Help The Next In Line

28 Damn Good Times

29 When Will You Die

30 Let Me Tell You About My Operation
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1 Dead

32 I Was Dancing At The Lesbian Bar (Jonathan Richman)

33 Music Jail Pt 1 and 2

34 Twisting

35 James K Polk

36 first encore

37 Robot Parade

38 The Guitar

39 Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

40 second encore

41 Meet James Ensor

42 Doctor Worm

Winding down their year-long monthly residency at Music of Williamsburg, TMBG pulled out a special show: The opening set was just John and John and a Teac reel-to-reel tape deck, in the format that they used from 1983 to 1991 – Linnell noting, “there might be a reason why we stopped.” As expected, there were a ton of early rarities (Cage and Aquarium, They’ll Need A Crane), plus more recent rarities (Wearing A Raincoat), plus a pile of songs from this year’s revival of the weekly Dial-A-Song project, some but not all of which appear on their new album “Glean.” Second set was a more standard five-piece band set, followed by an encore that opened with an odd little improvision that segued into an especially epic Robot Parade.

Recorded from the Music Hall’s balcony, which was good for sound but bad for having the venue’s LED spotlights shining directly in our eyes. (I was half hoping for a cover of The Clean’s “Point That Thing Somewhere Else.”) Same gear and location as my May 2015 recording, if you have that one.

Still three Music Hall shows left (12/31, 1/1, 1/2)! Buy tickets and music and shirts and stuff here:

http://www.theymightbegiants.com/music/

And finally, somebody’s video of The Stick’s appearance on “Lie Still, Little Bottle,” because this really needs to be seen to be fully appreciated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MgWQ-S9ksE