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
31 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