The year was 1993. Um, I think. It was a long time ago, you know. Anyway. I was a young, idealistic graduate student. I played my They Might Be Giants cassette tapes (yes, cassette tapes—my dinosaur often fetched them for me) over and over while studying or cooking myself some delicious Ramen noodles for dinner.
And then one beautiful Spring day, They Might Be Giants came to my University and put on a concert. It was outdoors, and because I was young and stupid I didn’t wear any sunblock. I ended up badly sunburned, but I didn’t care, because the concert was the most fun I’d had in years. (Probably since I’d been to that Phil Collins concert.) (What?)
If you had told me back then that TMBG would one day become a sensation amongst the toddler set, I probably would’ve laughed. First of all, back then I believed that little kids listened to nothing but Raffi and Barney. Second, I would’ve been hard-pressed to imagine myself with little kids shrieking for “Particle Man, Mama! One more time! PARTICLE MAN!” But there you have it; my children are almost as enamored of TMBG as I’ve always been, and a generation of kids are growing up on their music thanks to Playhouse Disney.
Yesterday I read over at Cartoon Brew that Disney is releasing new animated They Might Be Giants videos every week, in the form of a weekly video podcast. You can find them on iTunes, or hunt them down on YouTube. It’s good stuff and the whole family will be bopping along in no time.
This one is my favorite:
(Just a little something to make you smile on a Tuesday.)
My kids LOVE the new DVD, maybe even more than the ABCs one from a year or two ago. I have the songs in my head all the time these days, because just like TMBG’s adult songs, they’re really catchy and almost all really good.
Cute!