#I will not stand for the flippant flanslander that seems to plague potted histories of the band.
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the new yorker (2002)
#some good little things going on here: flansburgh is madonna. rare karen brown quote apparently?#some Bad little things: flansburgh absolutely has written and sung some of the band's greatest songs#I will not stand for the flippant flanslander that seems to plague potted histories of the band.#it's such a narrow view of their career and I don't know why reviews like this occasionally parrot it.#also some of their best-known songs by this point are ''puppet head'' and ''boss of me'' which flansburgh did (at least most of the former)#it's probably a bias of not bothering to check song credits and thinking#oh surely the Good song is by the one I've arbitrarily decided is the better one.#they're always like ''he's great at managing and talking'' which he is but it still manages to come across as backhanded.#take that 20+ year old article.#reviews also love comparing them to students. it's like. many journalists' reference point of any artsy individual.#tmbg#they might be giants#john flansburgh#john linnell#2000s#articles
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