ATTENTION PRODUCERS, DIRECTORS, MUSIC SUPERVISORS!
DISCOVER THE MUSIC OF THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
Many people know They Might Be Giants, but just in case...
• Platinum-selling recording artists
• Multi-Grammy Award Winners
• Massive social media following and active presence on all platforms, managed directly by the band
• Perennial public radio favorites
• Original music heard on TV, in film, and Broadway from The Daily Show to The Walking Dead to The Umbrella Academy to SpongeBob Squarepants: The Musical.
• Worldwide SOLD OUT tours of the US, Canada, UK, Europe, and Australia
They Might Be Giants are looking to place their music in film, television, advertising, on stage and for podcasts.
Sometimes we worry folks think the songs are so specific in topic that these melodic and memorable songs are overlooked for placement. To help resolve this, we’ve curated this collection as a guide to some highly viable songs. These tracks all have immediate appeal in drive, energy, and vibe that we suspect will make for a perfect placement. While many of them have colorful videos on YouTube (some with insane numbers of views) we have opted for the audio only with no visuals to distract from the potential way it could play in your project.
We have placed them in simple categories to facilitate your search for the perfect track.
Please direct any questions or inquiries to licensing@tmbg.com or 845-480-5309.
ORIGINAL SONGS FOR ORIGINAL ROMANTIC SITUATIONS
They Might Be Giants songs have heart, and these tracks telegraph that directly.
Let Your Hair Hang Down
This song has a gentle, joyful carefree 60s pop-rock vibe.
Don’t Let’s Start
Listen once and hear it in your head for a week. The song that started it all for the band.
All the Lazy Boyfriends
With catchy pizzicato strings, this song speaks to a classic battle of the sexes. “All the lazy boyfriends are preparing to change.” From a slacker couple to aspirational marrieds struggling to build IKEA furniture, or just someone trying to wake up their grandparent, this track fits.
Never Knew Love
A pulsing track about the surprise of new love with a pop-rock break. Positive.
Another First Kiss
A ballad of love in the real world. Romantic.
Ana Ng
A massive guitar riff, an impossibly catchy chorus. Energetic.
I Love You for Psychological Reasons
A pop song for the complicated people.
SONGS WITH REAL DRIVE
The energy everyone is always looking for--right here.
You’re On Fire
“Hi. I forgot your name.”
Selectionist
This track could slide into any tech-oriented scene in any production. This energized, almost manic bit of original electronica will drive any scene.
Man, It’s So Loud in Here
An electronic track with breaks and textures.
Take Out the Trash
A grinding psych-tinged breakup song. Produced by the Dust Bros.
Damn Good Times
A rocker for the good times.
Withered Hope (Sad Sack)
Don’t let the title fool you. This funky track evolves into an epic spy-rock number with explosive horn stabs. Produced by the Dust Bros.
An Insult to the Fact Checkers
A burning surf-rock styled guitar-driven track.
POSITIVITY: UP SONGS WITH A NATURAL UP VIBE
Mid to uptempo BPMs, and while they range in intensity the general vibe is POSITIVITY. That spark of the instigating moment, the elusive wonder of finding something new. The realization that life is just good. All these songs are life-affirming, and some of them even have a comic twist to keep things light.
Celebration
An invitation to FUN, with a wordless singalong vocal chant hook.
Experimental Film
Pop-rock at it’s finest. “And even though I can’t explain it, I already know how great it is."
Good to Be Alive
Sunshine in a song. An instrumental “popcorn" synth leads the hooky, gentle chug of this extraordinarily life-affirming song.
MOODY / CINEMATIC / DREAMY
Fresh sound for big scenes. From melancholy to anxiety to resolution.
Trouble Awful Devil Evil
A haunting mid-tempo ballad for the villain in your life.
Now Is Strange
Disorienting dream-sequence ready.
Daylight
When the blood pressure starts rising, and fear enters the scene.
The Other Side of the World
Floating away on a 60s LA studio cloud.
I Can’t Hide from My Mind
The heartache of self-awareness.
Darlings of Lumberland
This one is all about the breaks--all dramatic hard left turns of cinematic horn blasts with eccentric electronic sounds.
I’m Impressed
Pulsing, driving, relentless.
Wearing A Raincoat
Pulsing, psychedelic, self-medicating.
Please direct any questions or inquiries to licensing@tmbg.com or 845-480-5309.