They Might be giants – Birdhouse in Your Soul (ORIGINAL VIDEO)
August 8, 2010 Bird House Feeder
Group: They Might be Giants Album/CD:Flood (1990) Song Title: Birdhouse in Your Soul Trivia/Info: The song is a story of a child’s nightlight, told from the nightlight’s point of view. The Longines Symphonette is a hand-held pocket radio, manufactured in the 1960s. It is also a record label which specialized in releasing classic radio programs and multiple-record box sets. Linnell admits, though, “I didn’t find out what the Longines Symphonette was until after the song was released,” in a 2009 interview with Rolling Stone. The song’s video was directed by Adam Bernstein and filmed inside the New York County’s Surrogate’s Court and Hall of Records building located at 31 Chambers Street in Manhattan. “I tell people it’s my house.” – Linnell Blue Canary is the title of a 1953 song by Vincent Fiorino, which has lyrics on the sadder side about loneliness and comforting but has “happy” music. Also, the 1948 song “Bluebird of Happiness” as performed by Art Mooney (which reminds that, “Though you’re deep in blue, you will see a ray of light creep through”) may have influenced the line about a “bluebird of friendliness”. www.youtube.com www.facebook.com Like it ? Then Why Not Buy It : www.theymightbegiants.com www.amazon.com music.barnesandnoble.com
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Comments (25)
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I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff – I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be.
if they sold a “blue canary in the outlet” I’d buy it.
I freaking love this song, I could listen to it all day
Ok, confession time. I lied about my role!!!!!
I’m not actually bulletproof, I’ve instead got real copping action! Needing to post only in pictures and the from different forums thing are just mandatory “Do this or die” sorts of things and not a requirement to keep my abilities.
Night 1 I investigated Merk, (which you can tell from the way I revrsed on him) Night 2 LMIRL and last night Dhaes. Of course my night action also had to be in this format, so if you want I can link you to those.
geniaalne
Best song about a nightlight I’ve ever heard!
This is the best song ever written, bar none.
this song just always makes me smile… =)
Filibuster vigilantly? Say I’m the only bee in your bonnet?
BRILLIANT! I wake up at night thinking about that blue canary in the outlet by the light switch! ’nuff said!
And while you’re at it keep a the night light on inside the bird house in your soul… That just jumped out at me, Anyways Make a little birdhouse in your soul
smile
FINALLY FOUND THIS! man, this song is good.
I think this is about a child’s nightmare, from the POV of the nightmare.
FOOLS this song is about a night light
This jumped out at me:
There’s a picture opposite me/ of my primitive ancestry/who sat on rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck free/ although I respect that a lot/I’d be fired if that were my job/after killing off Jason and thousands of screaming arcanods.
@jkdcat
Jason and the Argonauts.
Ray Harryhausen was known for his great use of models:
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great song
I like how some of the extras appear to be having the time of their lives, while others wonder just what the hell they’re doing there.
This is one of my favourite songs ever to have graced the planet. But what the hell is it about?
@CathyCoconut A blue nightlight opposite a picture of a lighthouse.
Seriously.
Songs about Lamps. Whatever next?
I love this song to bits XD
2:00 is my favorite and makes me crack up every time. Linnell looks actually pretty evil in this, no?
classic tune
love it
i <3 this song
@SIRLADYLOVER375
It’s all about the melody, they literally could be singing about anything and it wouldn’t change a thing as long as the lyrics weren’t cliched which they currently are anything but.