Great

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Screenshot from the iTunes video

song name Great
artist They Might Be Giants
releases Nanobots
year 2013
run time 0:52
sung by John Linnell, John Flansburgh backs


Trivia/Info

  • This was the final track to be recorded for Nanobots. It was completed on December 19, 2012.
  • The video included in the iTunes LP edition of the album for this song features William Allen White projected over himself, similar to the original "?" video in the TMBG app.
  • The lyrics are inspired by the earliest recorded lyrics to "Hey Joe," credited to Billy Roberts, which goes "Hey Joe, where you goin’ with that money in your hand? Chasin’ my woman, she run off with another man. Goin downtown, buy me a Forty Four."

Song Themes

Body Parts, Canon, Hands, Money, People (Imaginary), Questions, Recycled Material

Videos

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Great is currently ranked #847 out of 1081. (57 wikians have given it an average rating of 7.40)