Dial-A-Song Birdhouse In Your Soul Demo

[vgcatsfan1]

why does it have different lyrics and it both johns sound like spongebob

[retroSLEDGE]

@vgcatsfan1 It IS recorded from a telephone playing a recording from a cassette.

[TreadingLemming]

I fell in love with this song over many phone calls. I wrote to the Johns about it and actually got a hand written post card back, assuring me Birdhouse would be on the next album. It was and I can remember how THRILLED I was... Flood was a great album but, it must have been several days before I heard any of the other songs on it!

[GradeSchoolRecords]

Anyone notice that the instruments are the same in both versions

[smartalek1]

stellar

[MyMmoira93]

I am so mad that I was born in the wrong place at the wrong time.. oh, what I'd do to call Dial-A-Song !

[NyeTunes]

"I'd like to cover the earth, with a fresh baked yummy dessert / people couldn't live in it, but it'd be worth the money and hurt." Perfect TMBG lyrics. :-P

[FuyuAkiWorld]

Blue Cannary In The Outlet By The Lightswitch He Watches Over You Make A Little Birdhouse In Your Soul Not To Put Too Fine A Point On It Say I'm The Only Bee In Your Bonnette Make A Little Birdhouse In Your Soul I Have A Secret To Tell Out When Your all By Yourself There's A Time Where Even You Get Up And Leave Your nothin' To Dwell I Don't Want To Talk About That... That's All I can make out

[r3dk9]

Wow, I love these alternate verses.

[LifeInBrunswick]

I love how they borrowed "Give me something to write on" from Van Halen's Hot For Teacher.

[needlescrape123]

I noticed that too! LOL!

[ClawdOfPixies]

1:15 it sounds alot like Flans, still I think it's Linnell,though.

[chimpoozle]

I'd like to cover the earth

With a fresh-basked yummy dessert

People couldn't live in it but I think it's worth the money and hurt

[jamesstafforduk]

WOW!!!!! Great to see these Dial a Songs. Thanks a million.

[moneymandate]

I loce these old dial-a-song songs, anybvody know where I can find the bootleg?

[TheEyegarian]

The way the recording of these worked in (I suppose) the 80's made sounds higher pitched.

[astralbee]

It's well documented that TMBG used to record their demos on 4-track tape recorders back then, which were very easy to speed up/down. They would have mastered their recordings onto a regular cassette to put into the DAS machine.

[TheEyegarian]

I actually meant the recording device whoever uploaded it to the internet used. It would seem a little odd if this was the intended effect.

[astralbee]

Those of us that recorded from Dial-A-Song 20 years ago did it simply by holding the telephone up to a microphone or a tape deck. Sure this has been transferred to a digital format but you can tell from the background noise that it is running at the correct speed, otherwise the hiss would sound unnatural. And if thats not enough to convince you, I will testify that whenever I called Dial-A-Song both Johns sounded like they had inhaled helium.

[MarioSonic304]

@astralbee i love the helium like johns.

[CopelandMeister]

I can't tell if it's Linnell or Flansburg singing.

[Shuda7]

it's Linnell clearly.

[TheHumanAdventure]

I think that's Flans saying "I don't feel thirty. Give me something to write on!"

[cptmuffin]

Linnell

[perritomozo]

This is sooo awesome, I think I wanna cry!!

[CatullusJ]

Thanks for posting! Definitely a work in progress of what became one of the best pop songs ever written.

[Shuda7]

if i was born during that time i would always call them!