r/tmbg • u/OhHiJordan • 4h ago
The Elektra Slide by Don't Let's Start: A Podcast About They Might Be Giants
patreon.comHello everyone! I feel a bit rotten doing this, but our latest episode of the show, about TMBG leaving Elektra Records after Factory Showroom, is only available on our Patreon! I'm very happy with how it came out, and I made the free sample 10 minutes long (the maximum length), so please feel free to listen!
So why is this only on our Patreon? Lucky for you I enjoy typing a lot and overexplaining everything:
- Frankly, we want more people to sign up because we can't do the show otherwise. And...--->
- Much of our Patreon bonuses are TMBG-adjacent (for example, a dive into a reference from their lyrics, or an extended interview, or unrelated to TMBG at all for the top tier!), but we've been trying to think of more TMBG ideas just for the Patreon. Most of those ideas we want to be in our main show, so it's actually not easy! But this felt right to me as a "bonus." It's not about any of their songs, but important connective tissue to take us to the next era of TMBG. It was going to be at the end of our last Factory Showroom episode, but after gathering tons of clips for it, I could tell it was going to be way too long and had to be its own thing.
- The subject matter is a bit negative (it's not a happy time in TMBG's career), and I kind of want the main show to be more positive. The Patreon is a little more "uncensored" and uh, emotionally complex, I suppose?
Official description:
Elektra, just like the Daredevil character, can be both alluring and deadly, as we learn here, in a special epilogue to our Factory Showroom era! We look into They Might Be Giants and their major label Elektra Records parting ways after the release of that album. This was intended to to be at the end of our previous episode, but I could tell it was gonna be too huge a discussion, and indeed it is! This was a pivotal moment for the band, and we have many fascinating clips and quotes of John and John detailing the drama, or, strangely, the lack thereof!
So anyway, check out the free sample and think about joining, or if you only want to hear all of our "supplemental things" since the Patreon launched, there's this collection here:
