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They Might Be Giants is one very unique and original band, although using the term band in the very beginning of their existence might be a little misleading. They Might Be Giants (TMBG) started out as just two guys: John Linnell playing accordion, keyboards, woodwinds, and doing vocals and John Flansburgh playing guitar and doing vocals. The band started up in Brooklyn, New York, and had its first album released in 1986 with the two Johns doing all the instrumental work themselves in all of the studio production. That is quite a feat when you listen to their early work since the songs cover a such a wide range of music and instrumentation. So how did they perform their songs live you ask? Well, when they would hit the road with their bag of unique songs they would extensively use both electronic synthesizers and background tapes to complete their sound. Their sound was so big that even though there was just the two of them they sounded like a huge band. That is most like...