THEY MIGHT BE PLAYING THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS

If you follow us on Tumblr or Twitter or Facebook, you know that KMSU at Minnesota State Mankato is an incredible, eclectic, "mom & pop" independent public radio station that does amazing stuff like dedicating an entire day to playing They Might Be Giants.

And you know that this "They Might Be Playing TMBG" Day has become such a global phenomenon that KMSU not only gets @tmbgareok requests from across the U.S. and around the world, but it has caught the attention of (and live on-the-air phone calls from) John F and John L themselves! Cooler things are hard to come by.

Stations like KMSU are just as rare, and they need your support. If you love They Might Be Giants as much as we do, please consider pledging your support for KMSU right now during the final hours of their Spring pledge drive. Shuffle Function hosts Shyboy Tim & Shelley are live on the air for 24 straight hours -- the legendary Shuffle Function 24 Hour Pledge Drive A-Go-Go -- from 6pm Thursday, April 27 to 6pm Friday, April 28 (Central), pulling out all the stops to help keep KMSU on the air in Southern Minnesota and across the globe.

Listen to the sleep-deprived madness at 89.7FM locally, or streaming at http://www.mnsu.edu/kmsufm/listenlive/ (listening through the TuneIn app works the best).

Every single dollar helps, and pledges as little as $25 will get you some sweet, sweet swag -- check out all the premiums at http://shufflefunction.blogspot.com/ -- so please call (800) 456-7810, or call/text (507) 389-5678, or e-mail [email protected]. It'll only take a minute of your time, and you'll be helping keep They Might Be Playing They Might Be Giants going for years to come!

THANK YOU!

Hey, it's the audio from #TheyMightBePlayingTMBG 2016!

PART 1: http://bit.ly/TMBPTMBG2016part1 (Flansburgh interview #1 begins @3:55:00) // PART 2: http://bit.ly/TMBPTMBG2016part2 (Flansburgh interview #2 begins @0:26:50, Linnell interview begins @2:48:20) It's broken into two parts because our streaming went down part-way through the 10-hour event; you miss 6 songs.

THEY MIGHT BE PLAYING THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS 2016 PLAYLIST

Q: What songs get played when you offer the world the opportunity to request their favorite They Might Be Giants songs for 10 hours? A:

1. Meet James Ensor 2. Got Gettin' Up So Down (Mankato) 3. Particle Man (DC) 4. First Kiss (NC) 5. Moving to the Sun (NY) 6. Nightgown of the Sullen Moon (GA) 7. Rhythm Section Want Ad (OH) 8. Whirlpool (PA) 9. Sleeping in the Flowers (NE) 10. Electric Car (Mankato) 11. Metal Detector (NY) 12. I Love You For Psychological Reasions (MD,UT) 13. Theme From Flood (CO) 14. Birdhouse in Your Soul (everywhere) 15. Edison Museum (NJ) 16. Meet James Ensor 17. Theme From McSweeney's (AZ) 18. Dirt Bike (ME) 19. Till My Head Falls Off (Sweden) 20. I've Got a Match (AZ) 21. South Carolina (SC) 22. Thinking Machine (IL) 23. Mrs. Train (OH) 24. Man It's So Loud In Here (MA) 25. Jessica (MN) 26. Electronic Istanbul (Australia) 27. I Should Be Allowed to Think (Mankato) 28. Boss of Me (Canada) 29. Kiss Me, Son of God (NY) 30. They'll Need a Crane (Germany) 31. She's an Angle (CT) 32. She's Actual Size (CA) 33. Meet James Ensor 34. Cloissonne (WA) 35. (She Was A) Hotel Detective (NV) 36. The Mesopotamians (IL) 37. You Don't Like Me (Mankato) 38. No Cops (IA) 39. Hey We're the Replacements (Mankato) 40. Moving to the Sun (WI) 41. Spiraling Shape (Mankato) 42. I Blame You (PA) 43. Experimental Film (OK) 44. Bills Bills Bills (WI) 45. Hell Hotel (CA) 46. Apartment Four (Mankato) 47. You're on Fire (MN) 48. Meet James Ensor 49. Birdhouse in Your Soul (TX) 50. Photosynthesis (VT) 51. Tubthumping (IL,MN,WI) 52. Damn Good Times (IN) 53. Elephants (OH) 54. House of Mayors (Sweden) 55. Sensurround (lots of folks) 56. I Palindrome I (?) 57. Nothing's Going to Change My Clothes (MA) 58. My Evil Twin (ME) 59. Pet Name (VA) 60. Hideaway Folk Family (GA)

FLANSBURGH CALL #1

61. Darlings of Lumberland (FLANS) 62. Bangs (AL) 63. Can't Keep Johnny Down (CT) 64. It's Kicking In (MT) 65. Space Suit (FL) 66. Spine (OR) 67. Cowtown (WI) 68. Oranges (NC) 69. Everything Right is Wrong Again (Germany) 70. Hello Mrs. Wheelyke (MD) 71. Escape From the Planet of the Apes (MO) 72. I Just Wanna Dance (OR) 73. Ondine (TN) 74. A Self Called Nowhere (NH) 75. Meet James Ensor 76. Rabid Child (MI) 77. Snail Shell (ID) 78. Mammal (ID) 79. Electronic Istanbul (NM) 80. My Evil Twin (AR) 81. We Want a Rock (ND) 82. Particle Man (AK) 83. I Should Be Allowed to Think (KS) 84. Letterbox (WI) 85. Cyclops Rock (TX) 86. Destination Moon (Switzerland, elsewhere) 87. Good to Be Alive (NY) 88. Meet the Elements (LA) 89. Where Do They Make Baloons? (PA) *** STREAM GOES DOWN *** 90. Thunderbird (ND,MN,IL,IA) 91. Rat Patrol (IA,TX) 92. You Probably Get That Alot (WY) 93. Meet James Ensor 94. Istanbul (Not Constantinople) Live (AK) 95. Greasy Kid Stuff (SD) *** STREAM COMES BACK *** 96. Don't Let's Start (TN) 97. Monsters of Mud (SD) 98. James K. Polk (NE) 99. Nightgown of the Sullen Moon (all over the place) 100. AKA Driver (Mankato) 101. Where Your Eyes Don't Go (PA,MO,FL) 102. I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar (United Kingdom)

FLANSBURGH CALL #2

103. Unsupervised I Hit My Head (CA) 104. Meet James Ensor 105. New York City (NY) 106. Welcome to the Jungle (NY, elsewhere) 107. First Kiss (IL) 108. Sleepwalkers (CA) 109. The Lion Sleeps Tonight (PA,NH,Canada, elsewhere) 110. It's Not Your Birthday (DE, elsewhere) 111. Subliminal (MS) 112. I'll Be Haunting You (RI) 113. Starry Eyes (MN) 114. Reprehensible (MA) 115. Fingertips (everyone everywhere) 116. I Am A Paleontologist (DE) 117. Stormy Pinkness (many folks) 118. Your Racist Friend (Scotland, elsewhere) 119. Dinner Bell (Germany) 120. Aaa (Canada, Mankato) 121. Meet James Ensor 122. Someone Keeps Moving My Chair (United Kingdom) 123. Boat of Car (Mexico) 124. Clap Your Hands (ND) 125. Alphabet of Nations (FL) 126. Road Movie to Berlin (MD) 127. The Shadow Government (VT) 128. 32 Footsteps (MN) 129. Hovering Sombrero (NM) 130. Window (MD) 131. The Statue Got Me High (HI) 132. Authenticity Trip (Russia) 133. Older (VA) 134. Now I Know (MT) 135. Canajoharie (CA, Scotland, etc.) 136. I Am Alone (NY) 137. Seven (NJ) 138. Now is Strange (LA) 139. Why Does the Sun Shine? (TX) 140. Why Does the Sun Really Shine? (TX) 141. The Songs of the 50 States (WI,FL, elsewhere) 142. Ana Ng (TX) 143. Standing on Your Head (no one in particular) 144. Shoehorn with Teeth (Taiwan)

LINNELL CALL

145. Kitten Intro (Mankato) 146. Montana (Canada) 147. Snowball in Hell (CO) 148. Call You Mom (NJ) 149. What is a Shooting Star? (Zimbabwe) 150. I Never Knew Love (AZ) 151. Where Your Eyes Don't Go (PR) 152. Man, It's So Loud in Here 153. Exquisite Dead Guy 154. Damn Good Times

In case you missed the CNN breaking news ticker... not only will JOHN be calling KMSU on Friday for #TheyMightBePlayingTMBG, but so will JOHN!

Submit your @tmbgareok requests (please tell us where you're from so we can add you to our map!) AND send us questions you'd like us to ask the Johns! 

2017 is going to be rough. David Dye stepping down from @worldcafe? @tmbgareok on hiatus from touring? It's enough to make you pound your desk repeatedly with your tiny fists! Better tune in to independent public radio and soak up all the They Might Be Giants goodness you can so's you can to make it through another year. Submit your TMBG requests (please say where you're from!), submit your questions for Flans (he's going to call in!), and block off 10 straight hours for sitting in front of the radio box on that poor desk of yours. 

D'oh! 

Yeah, you already own all of They Might Be Giants' albums... and sure, you could just hit shuffle and listen to them on your iPod... but wouldn't you rather LISTEN TO @tmbgareok ON THE RADIO FOR 10 STRAIGHT HOURS?!?!?

Independent public radio station KMSU at Minnesota State Mankato wants to play YOUR favorite TMBG songs, so SUBMIT YOUR REQUESTS at twitter.com/TMBPTMBG or facebook.com/TMBPTMBG or tmbptmbg.tumblr.com and TELL US WHERE YOU'RE FROM! Last year we heard from all 50 states plus lots of other countries -- let's do it again!

BREAKING NEWS!