They Might Be Giants: Wake up! It's They Might Be Giants

http://www.ted.com In a very, very early-morning set, They Might Be Giants rock the final day of TED2007. Songs include "Older," "Bee of the Bird of the Moth," "Asbury Park," and "Fingertips."

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[AlexandriaM]

Gotta love Linnell dropping "fucked up" on a fairly unreceptive audience at 8:30 in the morning.

[Capitalocracy]

and has since he was 12, I'm sure

[MrSyntheticDesign]

TED i am disappoint

[tallen42]

"not all the facts are in ...19 degree thing -- fantastic!" - at least they got a few laughs there.

[tallen42]

This was a brilliant set -- the people they are playing for "didn't get it". Too much humorl, too early int he morning?

Fingertips is soooo good here.

How could you have that many nerds in one place and not a single fan? (I saw no one bobbing their heads). I hope people at the TED talk went home and looked them up and realized how really talented TMBG are...

@AlexandriaM - was one of my fav parts, too.

[confusedwhale]

I know they released it two years after this... but it have been awesome if they finished their set with "Meet the Elements" instead of "Alphabet of Nations".

I'm pretty sure there would have been a few nerdections.

[ohmycaribou]

TMBG trolled all y'all.

[DaTartanSpartan]

!? what!? what happened!?!? what the hell!? WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY DOING

[RIVEXNGLE]

Yeah, TMBG! What's TED?

[/troll]

Hate me. =P

[swagar]

Yikes. I love me some TMBG, but their ducks weren't in line here.

[FlansyLinny]

lol u mad TED fans?

[dylanlawless1]

Sometimes only the smartest group of people would find this "brilliant" when it's, well, shit. Reminds me of The Emperor's New Clothes.

Maybe they want to sound crap ironically.