Saw these guys on JoCo a few weeks ago. Great set. Birdhouse in your soul was one of our wedding songs. Hard to believe Flood is 35 years old. Thanks for linking this.

Anybody here remember calling Dial-A-Song back in the day?

I saw them in Shepherds Bush for their last tour. Fantastic act, tiny arena, rammed full of people all singing the same silly songs.

Everyone around me was German, or spoke German, or had worked in Berlin at some point in their lives. I made a few friends.

I can't wait to see these guys perform again.

I haven't seen them in ages, but I must have seen them six or seven times on the college circuit back in the early 90's. Always a great show. I loved when they turned on a radio and searched around randomly for a song that the audience responded to, and then tried to play it. They tried Pink Floyd's "Money" and failed pretty spectacularly. It was hilarious.

Their old "dial a song" where you could call their phone number and hear a recording of them playing something new inspired me to hack unused voicemail boxes at college and record their songs as the greeting message. I then posted flyers by the public phones with the extensions and the song on the extension. It lasted for about a semester before the school got grumpy and locked down unused mailboxes.

I went to high school with Robin Goldwasser, who is married to John Flansburgh.

I’m really only bringing this up to say that my public high school in the 1980s fostered a creativity that I didn’t see when I was a teacher in high schools in the 1990s.

She was in my art class and my art teacher was excellent, but if I’m remembering right, she was also in my photography class where we had a dark room and unlimited access to it.

I also love the band by the way, even before I found out that her and John were married. Great lyrics and really imaginative compositions.