This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 44 - I Should Be Allowed to Think
Lafayette, IN musician Sid Punk visits the studio to talk about I Should Be Allowed to Think and things get... punk.
Aug 29, 2019•1 hr 6 min
This Might Be A Podcast
This Might Be A Podcast is a song by song podcast about They Might Be Giants, hosted by Greg Simpson.
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Episodes
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 43 - Siftin’
Mega-fan Mike Buffington picks an obscure one for this week, Siftin' off the I Palindrome I EP. Greg and Mike get deep into this rare instrumental, and Mike busts out his Micro Moog and talks about his custom Chessmaster guitar.
Aug 22, 2019•1 hr 26 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 42 - Birdhouse In Your Soul LIVE in Chicago
Recorded live at the GMan Tavern in Chicago on July 26th, join our roundtable of Rachel Jones, Spencer Parks, Marcus Nuccio (Pet Symmetry) and Bob Nanna (Braid, Hey Mercedes) as we discuss the classic TMBG hit Birdhouse in Your Soul.
Aug 02, 2019•1 hr 4 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 41 - Canajoharie
John Walker, host of the FYIZ podcasts as well as an assistant engineer on this very podcast, drops by to talk about Canajoharie off of the album Join Us.
Jul 25, 2019•1 hr 34 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 40 - We Want a Rock
Musicology PhD candidate Rachel Jones and Greg get super nerdy over Flood's We Want A Rock, go on many music-related tangents, and find a lot of cool covers.
Jul 18, 2019•1 hr 40 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 39 - Rhythm Section Want Ad
Drummer Matt Osborn and Greg talk about an appropriate song, Rhythm Section Want Ad, another song of TMBG's debut album.
Jul 10, 2019•1 hr 14 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 38 - She’s An Angel with Frances Quinlan of Hop Along
Frances Quinlan of the amazing band Hop Along joins Greg to talk about She's An Angel off of TMBG's debut record.
Jul 03, 2019•1 hr 13 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 37 - Man It’s So Loud in Here with Colin Clive of Mustard Plug
Colin Clive of Mustard Plug and The War Between stops by to talk about the dancey hit Man It's So Loud in Here off of Mink Car. Colin and Greg collaborate on a cover of the song!
Jun 26, 2019•1 hr 46 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 36 - I Palindrome I
Here's another episode with the man who introduced ME to They Might Be Giants, Patrick Mooney, previously heard back on the Ana Ng episode. We discuss I Palindrome I and the strange path it took before it got to Apollo 18.
Jun 19, 2019•48 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 35 - James K Polk
Recorded on President's Day and airing on that day he died, we present our James K Polk episode! Precious few have mourned his passing, but a lot of you will enjoy this blowout episode featuring old friends Steve Clark (you may remember from the I've Got a Fang episode) and Dan Jeremy Brooks.
Jun 15, 2019•2 hr 15 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 34 - Dunkin Of Course Of Course
The pod's resident artist Abi Bash drops by again, this time to cover our first Escape Team song, "Dunkin Of Course Of Course." It gets silly, of course... of course.
Jun 12, 2019•1 hr 15 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Bonus Episode - Greg appears on The Weird Alphabet
Greg appears as a guest on the hilarious song-by-song Weird Al fan podcast, The Weird Alphabet, to talk about the REM parody "Spam."
Jun 11, 2019•38 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 33 - Can’t Keep Johnny Down
Our friend Scott Currie, the Bloomington, IN musician who previously appeared on the By The Time You Get This episode and the Don't Let's Start live episode, is back to talk about wonderfully angsty song Can't Keep Johnny Down, off of the album Join Us.
Jun 05, 2019•1 hr 11 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 32.5 - Mono Puff Special Part 1
A hefty teaser of our Mono Puff Patreon Exclusive Episode, part 1. Greg is joined by Abi Bash, Jon Uleis and Mike Buffington each picked a song off of Unsupervised- Guitar Was the Case, Unsupervised I Hit My Head, Don't Break the Heart and Don't I Have the Right are discussed on this special episode.
Jun 01, 2019•35 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 32 - Museum of Idiots
Greg is joined by Minnesotan superfan Jonathan Leonard to talk about The Spine's Museum of Idiots. Where's the jazz? Here it is!
May 31, 2019•1 hr 25 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 31 - Rabid Child
Virginia musician Matt Monta visits TMBP again to talk about Rabid Child. As you might expect with this song, things get weird.
May 29, 2019•1 hr 22 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 30 - Pumpkins (Are My Favorite Fruit) with Danny Weinkauf!
Once again Danny Weinkauf, bassist of TMBG, stops by the show, this time to talk about his song Pumpkins (Are My Favorite Fruit) by his Red Pants Band. Bonus - Mike Park of Asian Man Records sends in his band Ogikubo Station's cover of Doctor Worm, 3 weeks ahead of their EP's release!
May 24, 2019•34 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 29 - I Like Fun
Greg is joined by his wife Cara Kinnally, previously heard on the Doctor Worm episode, to talk about the track I Like Fun. They discover some pretty interesting tidbits about this nugget of classic-tmbg-style wackiness.
May 22, 2019•45 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 28 - Hypnotist of Ladies
Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade of the And Introducing podcast join Greg to talk about Hypnotist of Ladies in a wonderfully tangent-filled episode.
May 15, 2019•1 hr 48 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 27 - Pour Some Beans On It
The first song TMBG has released in 2019 was written for the podcast Mueller, She Wrote. Greg got ahold of AG, the host of the podcast, to explain this mysterious and silly song.
May 10, 2019•51 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 26 - Spiraling Shape
Artist and musician Mary-Anne McTrowe joins Greg on a doozy of an episode about a doozy of a song, Spiraling Shape off of 1996's Factory Showroom. Watch them go insaaaaane from that groovy thing.
May 08, 2019•2 hr 3 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 25.5 - Jonathan Feinberg, TMBG’s 1st Drummer!
I knew very little about Jonathan Feinberg going into this. He did only play with them for about a year, but this was an important year, with TMBG transitioning from their trusty tape player into the unknown of a full band for the Apollo 18 tour. Hear Jonathan's story here!
May 03, 2019•17 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 25 - Ampersand
Another My Murdered Remains song coming at ya as Dana Williamson, violinist, guitarist and loop artist, talks with me about Ampersand.
May 01, 2019•1 hr 16 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 24 - The Communists Have The Music
It's still Polish Week here on TMBP and on this second episode with Warsaw's Maciej Taubert, we cover the new-ish TMBG song The Communists Have The Music. This song won the Twitter poll for most requested song for me to do an episode on, so it's jumped the queue just for you all! Now the question is... is Maciej a Commie? Listen to find out!
Apr 25, 2019•1 hr 22 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 23 - I’ve Got a Match
It's Polish Week here on TMBP! On this first episode with Warsaw's Maciej Taubert, we cover the classic Lincoln track I've Got a Match.
Apr 23, 2019•1 hr 21 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 22.5 - TMBG Art Episode
An international crew of artists join Greg to talk about TMBG album and EP cover art from 1983-1989.
Apr 21, 2019•26 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 22 - See The Constellation with Atom and His Package
The amazing Adam Goren, aka Atom and His Package, joins Greg to talk about See The Constellation. If you don't know Atom, this is also a great episode to get aquainted with his fantastic synth punk tunage.
Apr 19, 2019•1 hr 14 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 21 - Working Undercover For The Man
Lafayette, IN musician and comedian Greg Lindberg, previously a guest on the Don't Let's Start live episode, joins Greg in-studio to talk about the Mink Car closing track Working Undercover For The Man. It's a double-dose of Gregs!
Apr 17, 2019•1 hr 8 min
This Might Be A Podcast - Episode 20 - Sleep
Avren Keating, host of the great Waves Breaking Podcast and fresh off an appearance on our Miscellaneous Trans exclusive episode, is here for a proper episode about the song Sleep from Nanobots. Watch us go nearly 90 minutes on a 42-second song.
Apr 10, 2019•1 hr 27 min
This Might Be A Podcast - 19.99 - Miscellaneous Trans
I'm joined by three lovely trans folks to discuss gender and identity issues, and trans themes that could be interpreted in TMBG songs. This is a very special one. Here is the teaser- to hear the full episode, sign up at Patreon dot come slash ThisMightBeAPodcast!
Apr 08, 2019•22 min
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