tmbg - don't let's start [frank version]

[MikeAbergail]

So excellent. I can now understand, for I also have a weak heart. Oh, my precious little girl~! I will run to the miner's shoppe for dynamite and a plunger. Tears, tears, lament.

[KallimaAwesome]

Hey, this was uploaded on my birthday!

Also, TMBG is awesome and so is this song.

[6kev69]

Happy b day zoe

[tumeke543]

the world needs more bands like this....

i miss having to think when i hear a song.

[koenan1]

The Geeks have inherited the earth!

[innerstatejt]

@koenan1 don't be mistaken.. unfortunately.. cunts are still running the world. wish it were geeks though.

[SuperRyan80]

at least this isn't blocked worldwide! thank god!

[Wesleech]

the only vid they had on MTv (as far as i know) massive FAil!!!

[MKCyrax1997]

@Wesleech nope . they had more than that, and this is from 1986

[jojin88]

I love this video.

[MisterLettuce]

I miss the days when a band could get played on MTV because they had an amazingly fun video, and not just because they were the latest top 40 thing.

[hixanthrope]

@MisterLettuce I dunno..I hear songs on the radio, and I can't imagine how it is popular, and then I see it has a stylish video, and I get it.

[awsomeness4all]

am i weird that i do the dance everytime i hear this song

[NotPalatial]

God i love this song and band. Can anyone explain the significance of the giant heads? thanks

[darknesslabouteille]

i love don't let's start and istanbul !!!!

[bradominus]

Great song, great group... Just before the decline of rock music.

[sammosammy]

I like this song. It's a good song about not let's starting.

[MzKittydawg]

who is the dude whose face is on the giant heads?

[ishouldplayzelda]

i woke up and smelled the cat food... then i tasted it *throws up*

[haloman2235]

This is the best version of this song.

[mtp234]

The head is a newspaper editor named William Allen White

[EvilEmoCupcakes]

Gah, those two are the most attractive men alive.

-drool-

.... wait, wut?

Oh, yeah.

Awesome song.

xD

[loudmouth5996]

@EvilEmoCupcakes Don't you just want to reach out and feel Linnell's hair?

But, yeah. They should make more videos like this one, too.

[EvilEmoCupcakes]

@loudmouth5996 If I ever need a toupee (god forbid), I want to steal his hair, dye it purple, and wear it as a toupee. xD

[loudmouth5996]

@EvilEmoCupcakes I might do that even if I don't need a toupee.

[mckinsie1995]

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CAT FOOD IN YOUR BANK ACCOUNT

[electronsarefree]

mmmm...non-single mix. :D

[dearyou1994]

I have to say, this is one of my favourite music videos. That's not actually true though. Not about the video, but the having to say. I don't really HAVE to say anything do I? But then again, what is " have "? And who is to say what is " say " ? What I say say could be what others say say is not said to be. And what others say is said to say that I may say what I think should be said but would not say anything about the sayings of others...

[Tapicero111]

i dont know if its that im high but this song is great

[zemysticmuffin]

QQ: why do all TMBG videos have strange, arty, spastic dancing in them? I love them to bits but I really don't know why the dancing...

[SweetDissident]

@zemysticmuffin That's the best part. . .

[HLGGanoth]

The vocal performance on this version is alot better than the album version...

[Wesleech]

5 years later.. its nice to hear it.

[megen1996]

thanks! ive been looking for this forever i wasent sure if it was still up ...........................i dont know but i think i might know you ur user name is familier

[MilkChamberlain]

This video is Dope!!! It really is a great piece of art. I love they might be giants always have heard them never knew it was kinda thing... But I never heard this song (it's really addicting lol) and this is the best video of it!! Good job mang!!!

[asmilesa]

whos's that dude in the behind area with the head thatn is most of his body

[guardian55309]

nobody ever gets what they want and that is beautiful. everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful

[mutinykitty]

@guardian55309 and that LINE is beautiful <3

[lemkelemkelemke]

Great song and great video. This video was the first time I was exposed to TMBG.

[Flawed77]

I can't get this song out of my head or stop listening to it!

[theseanze]

wish there was a loop button...

[BrightNight52]

I love tmbg!!!

[sislau]

Who's the face they keep showing in all their vids? Is it a politician? Sorry, I don't recognize the person :P

[rnav]

@sislau I have been wondering that also......looks like a young Rodney Dangerfield

[TheOneTrueGirog]

@rnav

It's William Allen White

[dinosaurrexplosion]

what kind of guitar is he playing? the one with the glasses and pipe.

[Bellyflops2]

smell the cat food in your bank account!

[bowlsallbroken]

D - world destruction

O - over an overture

N - do I need?

'T - need this torture?

[Fireicee1]

@bowlsallbroken

so sorry to inform you... but

"T- need this torture"

well... you see.... "need" starts with an "n", not a "T". Sorry :c

[jordancandy]

Additionally-

Not all acronyms have to use the first word as the 1st letter as in this case where the entire word was broken into sentences like a mnemonic device.

According to your focus on the 1st words after "D", after "O" and so on and not the acronym's BIG picture, the song, if it were to start each line with the original words,it wouldn't work and the acronym would look like this:

W-world destruction

O-Over an Overture

D-Do I need

"N-Need this torture?

[childpear]

great stuff

[sstyblo]

snap into a slim jim!

[gobecant]

lol like 1:40 is the best part

[junoxtc]

i first saw this on altv back in 87 or so .. weird al got me into tmbg =p

[ixipower2527]

my fave part is 1:12-1:14

[leechdom]

for those who dont know.. this IS the first one. duh.

[OzziYowie]

subpathetic post- this is ace!

[xerves7]

i love all the little lines that they have in their songs like this one

[shiroibasketshoes]

they;re Devo! Yay!

"wake up, and smell the cat food, in your bank account..."

[leechdom]

dont try to stop untill it wacks the hound.

[TheRealBladeRunner]

This version of the song isn't as good as the original video but I still like it.

[NOxSCENE]

not the biggest TMBG fan but this is a masterpiece

[JoshDone]

That map of NYS at the NY Pavillion at the World's Fair site is fenced off and nearly totally destroyed these days. It's a real shame.

[smartbunny]

I agree, I wish it was able to be viewed by everyone.

[Shuda7]

Nice Job! It's so synced in that if I never saw the original i would never know!

[foppa123]

reminds me of Jocko Homo

[mrmutantlarry]

i thounght it was "twisted inside "

[turtelyturtleclub]

definately the most origanal random band ever

tmbg rules

[leechdom]

i like cat food in your bank account ..... (because is gone)

[ponfarr69]

Yeah, that happpens when you have two too many cats!

[leechdom]

well its nice that they let this on live.. there killing all the other tmbg songs with copyright super powers!  damn them.

[Antgeth]

that's because this is not the version that was released on the album, but a demo aired on the radio

[hohoho1354]

@leechdom hey if you come to my channel iv uploaded a lot of amazing they might be giants songs. no copyrights here!

[ponfarr69]

Nobody ever gets what they want, and that is beautiful! Everybody dies frustrated inside, and that is beautiful!

[FancyOwls]

That's my favorite line in that song. C:

[sstyblo]

me too.

[nicelittlechat]

It's not "frustrated inside," it's "frustrated and sad."

[eraseragenda]

"frustrated inside," "frustrated and sad," whatever they both work. That's my favorite line also

[keforster]

Wow! Imagine all these years I thought the line was, "Everybody dies Christian inside and that is beautiful."

"Frustrated" is so much better! You just made my evening.

[chimpoozle]

Even better, the line i sactually "everybody does frustrated and sad"! :)

[silverkupochick]

after I read that I listened to that part again. It does kinda sound like he's saying christian :P

[darkwizrdLV86]

YAAAYY GO NERDS

[JennxSomething]

his screen name didnt say that he wanted to kill them all. just that he was a whale killer. lol

[mirokyu]

Great song, thanks for posting!

[megen1996]

thank you!!!!!!!

[guitarfreak258]

awesome vid!! i wish that musicians today had the balls to make a vid like this :)

[markthewhalekiller]

True true. The balls to just be totally weird and nonsensical. Total disregard for cool. Not even like "OMG I love Tokio Hotel! They're so different!" No. Not even the kind of different that makes you cool. Just plain weird. That's the best.

[guitarfreak258]

lol, whalekiller? what inspired you to make that ur username?

[markthewhalekiller]

My deep, intense hatred for whales.

[guitarfreak258]

why? i'm not a fan of whales, but i don't wanna kill them all.....

[popisfizzy]

I believe he was being, and that his username is, facetious.

[w1n5t0n12]

Im pretty sure it's sarcasm. Idiots...

[hprdg284]

I want to drag a whale carcass in front of Greenpeace HQ, and show them how to grill it.

[guitarfreak258]

um....ok?

[hprdg284]

um.....what I said is perfectly relevant to what you were talking about?

[guitarfreak258]

whatever. i wasn't talking about greenpeace. i only said that because that comment u left was kinda weird (:

[hprdg284]

But you were talking about whales, silly :) :) :) :)

It wasn't weird, because it was completely relevant to what you were saying :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

[guitarfreak258]

fine. that was just the way i would have reacted if u had randomly popped up in a conversation i was having ( in real life )

[Lifegoesongundam]

Good call. Tell them they're recycling.

[ponfarr69]

My job is to repeat everything the computer says.

[ardvarkd]

fantastic mashup, good work man

[10094926]

but TMBG the actual band made that video, not the user. IT"S THE ORIGINAL VIDEO!

[ardvarkd]

I meant between the music and the video

[10094926]

but the user didn't do anything. he just posted the video, this is the offical video for TMBG's "Don't let's start"

[Antgeth]

that's not strictly true. while this is the official -video- for don't let's start, it's not the official version of the song, and it did take a bit of work to get this version and the video to work together nicely.

it wasn't a tremendous amount of work, but i didn't just post the straight-up video

[ardvarkd]

..... exactly

[10094926]

so... you took a difrent version of "Don't let's start" and linked it up to the video?

my appologies, I thought you meant you took the song, and linked it up to a music video from a diffrent band.

[10094926]

that's the original video, and I love it

[buddy2000529]

these guys are geniuses

[missygreendaychimp]

i love this song :D

[Dunklekuh81]

Wow, it works surprisingly well!