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  • Great song.

    And the argument is silly, because it is way in the past. No nation "owns" an earth piece. Maybe greeks invade it from cavemans or elephants, who knows.. Now most of the world calls it istanbul, so it is istanbul. Your language may call it constantinapolis but demanding to change others language is just stupid.

  • i thought this song was originally performed by the trevor horn orchestra but i can only find it by TMBG on here? am i wrong or has a video just not been posted?

  • Constantinople until 1930

  • this is suchy a catchy song! it been in my head for a while now

  • Actually before it was either of them, it was called Byzantium

  • everyone shut up about it being one city or the other. nobody should care. like it says in the song."its nobodys business but the turks" its there city and they can call it wutever they want.

  • "It's Constantinople, not Instabul, stupid islamic cunt! It was founded by a roman emperor! Constinople = ancient christian city. Fuck off, stupid asiatics! "

    Hmmm.......I think you just were racist, religousist, and sexist all at once. Congradulations, you have just graduated from The College of Dickhead!

  • It's Istanbul dudes, city of the lulz and raptor jesus.

  • You are probably the biggest Cunt alive today. I would personally rip your eyes out you bigotted shitbag.

  • Really, dirty african scumbag?

  • Yes Gypsy. Kisses

  • its not Constantinople

    IT S ISTANBUL...FATIH'S CITY

  • lolz, my english teacher sang this today randomly, it was soooo funny!

  • Of course it was Byzantium before it became Constantinople.

  • Before that it was Rome.

  • fuck no it wasnt.

  • I started singing this is an Art lesson and by the end of the song everybody was joining in LOL

  • haha my history teacher played this today

    roflol

  • Costantinople is a nice city

  • omfg i love this song we played it in social studies class when we were learning about constantinople and my whole class now has this song on thier ipod its so funny and really good i love it =)

  • Why do people on youtube keep talking about shit no one really cares about ex. religion or history? IT"S JUST A GOOD FUCKING SONG LEAVE IT AT THAT!

  • I Agree!!!

  • ISTANBUL IS THE BEST CITY!

  • Great song, WTF music video. Of course, that doesn't make it bad (as any TMBG fan would tell you), so let's just say it's good.

  • I'm heading to CA.

  • Can anyone tell me why the album version fades in as apposed to having the full intro?

  • I love the animation! TMBG forever!

  • I LMAO at your comment. If you put all these peoples together their population will still under the population of ISTANBUL. ISTANBUL's population is greater than population of Greece.

  • haha this is a funny song my history teacher told me about it...

  • She did? Can you tell me what he/she said? I wanna know about it...

  • ohh she talked about how this band made a song about a country changing its name to istanbul, saying it over and over and they made a bunch of money just saying that haha

  • Whoa haha cool, thanks :D

  • Honestly. STFU about who this city belongs to. For starters, this video isn't about who should own what. Secondly, ITSKonstantinoupolis, quit trolling. You're on every video about Istanbul. Maybe it was the Greeks', but you lost it. so it's not yours anymore. united states was the Native Americans', and our ancestors killed them and stole it. that's how the world unfortunately works. youtube trolling will NOT fix your problems.

    This is for saying how awesome that video and song is :D

  • It's not the world problem, it's a problem between the Greek's, and the Turks, but it's not causing any problems over here in the West, or even the East. And not all native americans were the barbarians, just to clarify that miss conception.

    It's not my business, it really isn't. But we both know that complaining on these comments does nothing but stir up arguments and disagreements, but it puts you no closer to having the city back.

  • "And at least the Europeans civilized the Native Americans, because they were Barbarians until them, but it was wrong, i admit." Despite the fact that you know it was wrong, I am lol'ing hard at the ignorance in this comment.

  • ITSKostantinoupolis!!! do not spread your poisonous, untrue, reckless thoughts!!!! are you historician? how do you know tuks killed 2 million christians!! any evidence?

  • ya know, i think they know that but they just wanted to make a song

  • dude they didn't even make up the song. they made a version to an existing one.

  • woah, acid trip

  • I wonder if anyone realizes that Constantinople was Roman, not Greek. Byzantine was Greek, not Constantinople.

  • Yes Constantinople was roman, but Constantinople was the capital of the byzantine empire, which was created when ancient rome split. western rom fell to invaders, while eastern rome became the Byzantine Empire. Byzantine was Roman. Constantinople was never an empire, it was a capital

  • :D I guess the greeks can never realize it. xD In fact you are right.

  • Greece had those things for thousands of years. And Asia minor is part of the homeland of the Greeks, Turkish homeland is with the Mongolians and the Kazakhs!

  • I think this video cured me of any diseases I may have had.

    It's THAT good.

    ~~Nemzal~~

  • But... It's Istanbul, not Constantinople!

    ~~Nemzal-bul(not Constanti-Nemzal)~~

  • Did you know that AT LEAST 2 MILLION Christians were killed through genocide in Turkey, during World War I. These were civilians, born in Turkey, because historically, Turkey was Armenian and Greek. 1.5 MILLION Armenians were slaughtered, in addition to 500,000 Greeks!!! This is an abomination to man, and it is forgotten. What makes the Turkish genocide worse than Hitler's, was that the Germans admitted to it, and Turks wont. TO LEARN MORE, VISIT MY CHANNEL, IF YOU REALIZE THE TRUTH, ADD ME!!!!

  • Don't u have a better job to do man. Blaming a nation with your freaky lies. People die at wars that's it.

    If you are really into this rightiousness subject forget about the past and look around wtf is goin on today.

    Were you talking about them while miloshevic was slaughtering the Bosnians or Arabs were slaughtering the kurds. I know the answer NO. Because you are an obsessed racist. And yes its ISTANBUL not constantinople and it will stay that way forever. There will always be an ATATURK

  • this song is so random.....but it's also so awesome..

  • man they must really like to get high cause LITARALLY EVERYTHING IS SMOKING the vacumm everything the smoke is even smokeing!!!!!!!they must really like to get hight there

  • ummm... yes.

  • can i just ask 1 freakin question Y IS EVERYTHING SMOKING THAT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!!!

    do they like to smoke in istanbul or somethin?????

  • youre right, i never notices before...

  • Constantinople is greek.turks are invaders.

  • Yes, they are, add me friend, we agree, so we should band together!

  • is this a remix cuz i heard this on a Cold Case episode and it took place in the 50's. it was slower.

  • it's not a remix, it's a cover of the jimmy kennedy/nat simon version from '53. and that was based off a '29 song, so you could have heard either of them.

  • omg on Dance Dance revolution ultramix 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!

    i was like 8 and i would go heavy and go nuts i swear but now im 12 and the disk is runined *sigh* good times =/

  • HI!

  • doesn't this look like the cartoons in the Cranium game?

    this song rocks

    -Henry

  • I've always though the characters in this vid and on the EP cover look like the Cranium characters too!

  • keep fighting dummies

  • Even though I am Greek and I see it as, "its fucking Constantinople for the love of god", its a catchy song, and I admit that reluctantly.

  • It's istanbul. Get over it. -_-

    Germany was once called Germania. Why was it changed? because not everyone speaks Latin. Same thing happened with Scotland too.

  • Germania was only a small part of today's Germany, as many different peoples lived there and only formed a union of German peoples way later. Research better next time.

  • Wrong. Germania was an empire of sorts divided into many regions. The most well-known names for these regions were given by the roman empire (e.g. (Magna Germania, meaning 'Greater Germania'). As for Germania being only a small part of Germany, do some homework - between 750BC and 1AD Germania ruled a huge chunk of Europe, roughly three times the size of Germany today. Of course, Rome defeated most of Germania, leaving just two regions, which later formed Germany as we know it.

    You're welcome.

  • Kidgoku666: Its not the name, its what the name represents.

  • thats catchy!!!

  • Lol yeah, my history teacher was playing it when i went in there while he didn't have a class and I was singing it to myself for the next two classes =]. I HAD to find out the name, artist ect lol

  • Crazy video greatness.

  • istanbul is still a greek word :D

  • Wrong. Turkish. Do your homework. -_-

  • Well, I realize the Turks occupy it, you cant get around that, unfortunately. But its just, desecration. You bastards stole the largest Orthodox Church!!!

  • Sorry. We're british - we stole most of the known world at one point or another. :P

  • my history teacher freaked out to this song. you could say that she got really, really into it. by her self.

  • Istanbul is a greek word anyway

  • trippppppyyyyyy

  • What the heck my social studies teacher, Mr. S, showed this song to us!

    He also made us sing it!

  • lol

    really wonderfull. and i cant understand why all armenian and greek racists are here... and talking dumb things , this only a song which is funny. why always you wanna see every event from bad side ? this is funny only that look from this way. ;)

  • really wonderfull. and i cant understand why all armenian and greek racists are here... and talking dumb things , this only a song which is funny. why always you wanna see every event from bad side ? this is funny only that look from this way. ;)

  • dude, this song has nearly nothing to do with turkey! stop talking about politics.

  • It's nobody's bussiness but the Turks.

  • This video reminds of the old commercials that used to come on Nickelodeon in the 90's. Especially that globe and the green and pink dog.

  • One day, Constantinople's occupation will end, and the Emperor will be crowned once again in the Hagia Sophia! This is the way life was meant to be, and will be once more, someday....

  • Κωνσταντινούπολις!!!!!!!

  • Lol history.

  • I heard this song at school at my socail studies classe also.

  • osmanlının neden yıkıldığını unutmayın beyler...

    bilimden gidilmeyen yolun sonu karanlıktır...

    akp gibi partiler türkiyeye katkı sağlamaz geriye götürür bizi,

    unutmamalıyız ki bugün yahudiler filistinde kardeşlerimize zulum yapıyorsa bunda bizimde suçumuz var hamdolsun diyerek biryere gidilmiyor dünyada bilim adına birşeyler yapmaya çalışan tek müslüman ülkeyiz onda da yetersiz kalıyoruz, haydi tam bağımsız, üreten bir türkiye için elele...

  • They have some really bizarre music videos

  • The weirder the better!

  • lol i heard this song in school from a teacher in social studies

  • RHMS?

  • These guys must've been on some serious drugs to make this. Like that must've been some good shit!

  • Lol, My ss teacher Just showed us this 3 times in 3 versions. its Amazing id have tosay!

  • nice show nice song

  • TMBG FTW!

    I think I first saw this on Liquid Television. Great show.

  • You know, it's just a song, and it's solely about how Istanbul was once known as Constantinople.  How do you work God and Allah into that?

  • You idiot!!!! Shut up!!! Dont dis other religions!!!!!

  • haha, i love thye might be giants, this song alwys helped me out in history class.

  • my teacher just showed us this song in global.lol its does help

  • what is the problem with this song that turks hate about it?

  • turkeyy

  • love ya istanbul!!

    [C*]

  • I remember this video. I unknowingly liked They Might Be Giants...cool!

  • terrible video but its a great song

  • ISTANBUL SINCE 1453

  • Osman sucked, he established an evil dynasty.

  • to my dear friends turks:when greeks really ennoy you by calling istanbul with its previous name you just tell them about pasalimani and tourkolimano in the suburbs of athens.up to now retain their old name although some tried to officially change them but unsuccesfully.love and kisses from greece.

  • I dont care about your manipulative use of the names of suburbs, it is Constantinople because that was the city was made to be, and the Turks stole it, I dont hate Turks, I hate their ancestors, and believe they should cede all land on the Aegean, and the Sea of Marmara. And the Turks did do one bad thing, people dont know about GENOCIDE!!!! The Turks slaughtered many poor Armenians for no reason, and burned down the Greek and Armenian quarters in Smyrna, they ARE MEAN!!! VIVA GREECE AND ARMENIA

  • you obviously live in the age of your giagia(grandma)and papou(granddad).in a war all sites resort to atrocities simply because war is inhumane.the turks would not have kicked out greeks nor committ any genocide if the greek army was not send there to steal turkish land.the germans commited more attrocities to greek civilians totally unprovoked but nowdays greece and other countries that suffer from nazi occupation are friends and partners.the same applies for turkey.greece loves turkey.

  • The Genocide wasnt even against Greeks.....it was against the Armenians, who weren't invading at all, so explain that one. And they weren't trying to take Turkish lands, they were trying to liberate their people, and for a while they had western support for that. The Turks are the ones who took them, they are from the Steppes, originally, along with the Huns...who helped bring down the Western Roman Empire. I dont hate Turks, I hate their ancestors! Just give the land back!

  • It's Istanbul, not Constantinople.

  • It will always be Byzantium to me, not Nova Roma, not Constantinople, not Istanbul.

  • tiny toons video is so much better.

  • good song!!!! BAD VIDEO.

  • I quite like the video.

  • This song is crazy! The cartoons only make it better XD

  • this is a song about Istanbul, what the hell dose religion have to do with this?

  • You ARE RIGHT. ISTANBUL WAS ORIGINALLY PAGAN.

    TEMPLE OF DIANA WAS THERE. CHRISTIANS TORE IT DOWN

  • and what dose that have to do with constantinople changing its name to istanbul?

  • The name got shortened. It didn't change.

    Constantinopolis to Eis tin Polis & to Istanbul. The name GOT mutated, NOT CHANGED

  • whats your point? you are arguing about religion, and it makes no sense. did Istanbul change its name because of religions reasons?

  • rock on... this song rocks

    Henry if you can read this then you know that we need to sing this. lol forget the slow quartet song...this one ROXS! ---za

  • I love it!!!

  • I LOVE THIS SONG

  • This was also in Liquid Television. This is the original song. And very catchy.

  • The original version is from the 30s or so >.>

  • how?

  • Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it should be censored.

  • Damn straight, If somethings not to someones taste there is no need to complain, Turn it off, Don't force others to live by your ideals.

    Don't even get me started on religion

  • Can you please explain how this song is insulting?

  • thats no insult istanbul used to be called constantinople and before that carthage after rome was unsuitable as the capital of rome the roman emperor constantine made carthage the capital constantinople (named it after himself) then the turks got the land and their muslam and constantinoble was an cristian citys name so they renamed it to istanbul the reason i explaned all of this to you was to prove the point that knowledge prevents ignorance

  • oh i forgot byzantium before that

  • thank you i can see u know what your talking about unlike some of these other dumbass

  • Istanbul is not Constantinople. Istanbul WAS Constantinople, like Paris is not Lutèce, Paris WAS Lutèce. Okay ?

  • Boooo! Screw you too, It Will be Constantinople forever, because the Turks until recently couldn't put two stones together to make a wall, so of course the city became a shithole. ANd you know what they did! They knocked down the Church that all the Emperor of the East since Constantine were buried in! For a Mosque they could of built elsewhere!

  • Welcome to history, dude.

    People will knock over other people's important buildings to put up their own. If they wanted to keep it up, they shouldn't have been taken over.

  • Carthage is in Africa...........It wasnt called Carthage.....it was Byzantium, in the Sea of Marmara. The Turks were Barbarian invaders, I am not being ignorant to say that, they came from the Steppes like every other Barbarian tribe!

  • Yeah, we're barbarian. We're the barbarian invanders, and we'll be the invaders of Europe !!! We will invade Europe, and we will kill all the Europeans !! Why ? I don't know, you have the answer !! Why are you so pescimist ? The turks are not what you think... I'm turk, and i feel good..

  • i think you misunderstand. Apoth3cary is saying the Turks were originally a Barbarian tribe. which is true but does not mean Turks are still Barbarians. i am a descendant of Anglo-Saxons, who where Barbarians, but that does not mean i am a Barbarian now.

    there is no reason to be upset. history is history. there is no need to deny what happened in the past.

  • well said

  • You should thank Mustafa Kemal for saving your country from misery....... I respect him. btw I`m Bulgarian

  • What are you sayin, man ? I'm turkish, and I a pro-Atatürk, I'm a kemalist, why are you sayin that I don't respect my Father ?

    "scuze me for my bad english, i speak french and turkish, and a few english.

  • Bicer52, I am Greek, and fiercely anti-Ataturk, and know he was a bad person. I hate him for the burning of, oddly enough........only the Greek and Armenian quarters of Smyrna, or "Izmir", the Turkish slaughter of the name. What did he even do, he just propped up Turkish nationalism, and ethnic cleansing.

  • that mutha-fugga was Albanian origin!

  • You Seljuq, you Turks have made too many people miserable. Arabs, Kurds, Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, and more people that I don't know hate Türkiye because of what you guys did to them, if you don't know what you guys did then look up World War 1 and Assyrian and Armenian Genocide. Atatürk can go lie in a ditch and I'll bury him!

  • Ataturk, was an horrible person. He did nothing but keep the fire between Greece and Turkey burning, but stopping the Greek from reclaiming their land, which ended in the Turks intentionally burning the Armenian and Greek quarters of Smyrna, a predominantly Christian city. He led the Turks into becoming ever more nationalistic, he was a bad person.

  • personally, isn't that what EVERY SINGLE IMPERIAL POWER IN THE WORLD has done?

    British slaughtered Indian sepoys for not using the new Enfield rifles, French massacred the British in the French & Indian War (aka Seven Years' War), the Spanish slaughtered Jews and Moors with the Inquisition...

    What Ataturk did is not new, nor unique. It was another example of early-20th Century imperialism.

  • Not imperialism, nationalism. His reforms were discriminating against Greeks, to make then leave, so they could not make the land claim. Thats why today there are more Turks in Greece than Greeks in Turkey, dont believe me, look it up.

  • It isn't insulting. It's a fact. Istanbul is called Istanbul. It isn't called Constantinople, as it once was. If you find that insulting, then you are seriously screwed if somebody swears and curses at you.

  • Even old New York was once New Amsterdam...

  • I thought the Tiny Toons one was the official video...

  • I'm pretty sure they're both official. After all, I doubt the TT one would be that well prepared for that particular song, but I know that this one is official.

  • Uh... well, sorry to correct you, but the TT one was so well-prepared because that's the way TT is made. It has higher production values and uses more cels than most animations of its time.

  • no tinytoons music videos was just steven spielbergs fan videos of they might be giants not the official one

  • It is official that TMBG make the best music videos ever.

  • This wins "most random music video in the history of time" award.