Friday, June 24, 2016

Nineties Revisited: 'Til My Head Falls Off


Original video located here. Accessed 24th June 2016

Song title: 'Til my Head Falls Off

Artist: They Might Be Giants

Year: 1996

Why I like this song:

I do enjoy They Might Be Giants. It may be easy to say that for their goofy/witty lyrics but get past that and one can see that John and John are capable of writing some snappy pop tunes. And this is one such example.

There's a lot going for this song. The spiky guitars, the organ and the bass solo midway through. However it takes a special kind of genius to take such a nutty chorus - "And I'm not done and I won't be 'til my Head fall off!" - and extract some kind of defiance out of it.

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