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The World Is To Dig, 2026
Written by John Flansburgh and John Linnell
The Giants just released their first album in five years, so I'm going to explore it. TMBG is one of my top five bands of all time. I remember clearly being entranced by the video for "Don't Let's Start" on MTV around 1986 when I was an impressionable youth of 15 or so. Oh, there's more in the rearview mirror than in the road ahead at this point! Anyhoo, this song's got a razor-sharp horn line and an urgent tone. It's a call to get down. The Johns have always had a knack for finding and exploiting words and phrases that can be interpreted more than one way. There's value here, the lyrics aside, to the ambiguity of whether you take this phrase to mean ducking for cover or grooving to a beat. In the lyrics, instructions come from space and baffle the world: "Just as we were hearing the news / The announcer's voice was cut off / The signal went dead and it cut to a different feed / A metallic and alien voice began speaking / Get down / I'm telling you for your own good / Right now you should."
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