Another First Kiss
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| song name | Another First Kiss |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | Mink Car, TMBG Unlimited - May, DialASong.com (2000-2006), Special Mink Car Sampler, Tracks Taken From The New Album 'Mink Car', Another First Kiss (Promo), Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants, Man, It's So Loud In Here (EP) [Promo Release], 50,000,000 They Might Be Giants Songs Can't Be Wrong |
| year | 2001 |
| first played | September 10, 2001 (36 known performances) |
| run time | 3:06 |
| sung by | John Flansburgh |
Trivia/Info
This song has been largely rewritten from its original incarnation as a power pop tune off our live album Severe Tire Damage. Straight-ahead love songs are relatively uncharted territory for us, but we are very happy with the results here.
- Originally written as "First Kiss", John Flansburgh said of writing the song in 1997[2]:
It's a pretty unambiguous, unqualified love song. That's a real accomplishment for us. We've recorded like a hundred and thirty songs or something, and none of them are love songs, not a one. There are a lot of songs that are about relationships, but they're about sort of these fractured, damaged relationships. I feel it's important to just do one that's just an "I love you" song. And that's hard to do, because it's very familiar terrain. There's lots of mediocre work in that area − most songs are not very good, and a large proportion of the songs that aren't very good are love songs. I don't know why I'm drawn to it, but it just seems like it's an important thing.
- Similarly to "Man, It's So Loud In Here", Fountains of Wayne co-founder and Mink Car co-producer Adam Schlesinger worked with They Might Be Giants to rewrite this song's style of genre. Flansburgh mentioned in 2024[3]: "Once you have a song, you can rearrange it in different ways, so it's kind of a plastic medium — and Adam was the kind of person who always liked to dig in on that." He would recall Adam's first reaction to the original song in a 2021 interview with Bullseye:
We had recorded a live version of the song that's essentially just our kind of regular power pop way of approaching a song. And to us, that's what a pop song is. He's in a kind of power pop band himself, so I thought he would just go like, "Good job." But instead, he was like "You know, you could make this a much more interesting [thing] — like a ballad song."
- The post-chorus melody bears a striking resemblance to the guitar solo performed on the Fountains of Wayne song "Utopia Parkway"[4], which was released on the album of the same name in 1999, two years before Mink Car. In a 2024 TikTok live, Flansburgh said of the solo[5]:
[With the] "Utopia Parkway"-esque solo, I think Adam was really into that sort of high voltage kind of Carpenters fuzz melody solo, [which] I guess its origins are in George Harrison and The Beatles — but I always think of that Carpenters song that has the big Fuzz Face guitar solo on it.
- A lyric of this song was changed from "Other women were too sentimental" in the original version to "Other people were too sentimental" on this version. Regarding this change, Flansburgh noted: "My thinking was it was the 'women' part jumped out too much, and made it ABOUT gender rather than just relationships, so I switched it."[6]
- In a December 2001 interview with Guitar Player, Flansburgh revealed that this song's production used 12 guitar tracks, saying: "The point isn't how many tracks you can use, it's about expanding the sonic horizon."
Song Themes
Clothes, Gleeful Irreverence, Hair, Happiness, Love, Oxymorons, Paradoxes, And Contradictory Statements, Questions, Sleep
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