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Nanobots (Music)
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Nanobots is the sixteenth studio album by They Might Be Giants, released in March 2013. It was preceded by an advance digital EP released earlier that same year, featuring three songs from the album. Flansburgh described the album as "mostly combos/spare arrangements a la Join Us", and features more musical experimentation.The elaborate cover art was designed by Paul Sahre, and features a series of collages by artist Sam Weber.TracklistYou're On Fire (2:42)Nanobots (2:46)Black Ops (3:11)Lost My Mind (2:50)Circular Karate Chop (2:56)Call You Mom (3:07)Tesla (2:04)Sleep (0:42)Stone Cold Coup D'État (2:57)Sometimes A Lonely Way (2:40)Destory The Past (0:15)9 Secret Steps (1:56)Hive Mind (0:06)Decision Makers (0:15)Nouns (0:17)There (0:09)Insect Hospital (1:30)Tick (0:11)Replicant (2:55)The Darlings of Lumberland (3:21)Great (0:52)Stuff Is Way (1:37)Icky (2:32)Too Tall Girl (2:34)Didn't Kill Me (0:24) | |
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"'Cause we are, like, literally, literally walking down to the insect hospital to set the insects free." | |
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Miniscule Rocking | |
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Miniscule Rocking: This album features some particularly extreme examples, as there are a number of tracks under a minute in length, with "Hive Mind" and "There" being less than ten seconds long. This naturally led to comparisons to "Fingertips" from Apollo 18 (especially the section from "Hive Mind" to "Tick", which the band itself seemed to regard as a mini-suite, releasing a video for it). | |
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Adults Dressed as Children | |
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Adults Dressed as Children: The narrator of "Call You Mom" wants to hit the town dressed in his "sailor suit", which rather understandably unnerves his girlfriend. | |
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Grey Goo | |
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Grey Goo: The music video for "Nanobots" features the eponymous nanobots going rogue and turning everything on Earth into more of themselves. | |
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Nanomachines | |
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Nanomachines: The title track "Nanobots" is about scientists creating and training tiny, highly intelligent robots. | |
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Missing Mom | |
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Missing Mom: "Call You Mom" suggests his mother mysteriously disappearing from his life is the source of the narrator's Oedipus Complex. | |
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Location Song | |
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Location Song: "The Darlings of Lumberland". Lumberland is an actual small town in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York, and Flansburgh says that Darling was the actual surname of one of the founding families of the area. | |
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Celebrity Song | |
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Celebrity Song: "Tesla" is a song about inventor Nikola Tesla, some of the inventions he brought into the world, and his death. | |
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Literal Metaphor | |
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Literal Metaphor: "Lost My Mind" implies that the narrator has literally lost his mind, which is wandering the world and "Terrorizing villages / With intelligent remarks". "'Cause we are, like, literally, literally walking down to the insect hospital to set the insects free." | |
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Faux-To Guide | |
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Faux-To Guide: "9 Secret Steps" is a parody of "steps to success" self-help books, except here the steps are about dealing with and letting go of your failed dreams and ambitions. | |
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Uptown Girl | |
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Uptown Girl: "Too Tall Girl" is about a guy falling for a fashionable, eccentric woman who is clearly out of his league. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: "Nanobots" features the line "All I see is pictures of matchstick men", a nod to "Pictures of Matchstick Men" by Status Quo. | |
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Kill and Replace | |
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Kill and Replace: Implied in "Replicant", which seems to be about the narrator helping an ambiguously robotic replicant cover up the murder of the replicant's doppelganger. | |
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Buffy Speak | |
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Buffy Speak: "Stuff Is Way" is composed entirely of deadpan Word Salad Lyrics featuring lines like "Did you just what? / Is what you yes? / Did you whatever, whatever you / I guess?" | |
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