“Birdhouse in Your Soul”—They Might Be Giants
60 Songs That Explain the '90s
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Flood: A Novelty Song
They might be Giants third album of flood comes out on January 5th 1990 just makes the cutoff one of the big hits relatively speaking on flood is a cover of a 20 1953 novelty song about a city in Turkey. I was 11 when flood came out. That is the perfect age The book talks about how floods speaks specifically to 11 and 12 year olds who could remember our childhoods without nostalgia Because our childhoods just ended and we don't know the details yet. We recognize adulthood as a scary thing But we're amused by and skeptical about it without yet being jaded About it. It's not laugh out loud funny the way say weird owl yankovic is Weird owl has come up in
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