TJPS Playlist!!: "I Don't Want The World - A They Might Be Giants Playlist"

Here at The Josh Pilch Show, I spend a lot of time perfectly and expertly remembering every single detail of my life as a teenager down to the merest detail, so that I can draw it and show it to you guys! But one thing I can’t exactly represent to you guys in drawing is the way that high school felt to me. Many artists have tried, and in the end it was concluded that it is literally impossible to draw feelings (And don’t try to tell me about the movie Inside Out! Those are COMPUTER GRAPHICS. It's totally different!).

So I’m starting this series of Josh Pilch Show Playlists to get y’all hip to the kind of music I was listening to back then, since music was a big way I connected with my feelings...you know, if I ever felt like doing something like that….

I figured I’d start with a band whose music seems perfectly suited to reveal the heart and soul of a floppy-haired only child geek boy - They Might Be Giants! They Might Be Giants have been around for a long time, and I think a lot of self-ostracized teens have identified with their music and lyrics. I think that’s because they like to experiment with genre so much, it keeps their sound fresh, and I think it’s also because their lyrics are so narrative, and so specific, and sooooo impersonal. When asked about “Can’t Keep Johnny Down,” a song whose title and lyrics contains the first name of both of the front men of the band, they insisted that that song was completely fictional and told from the point-of-view of a made-up unreliable narrator just like all their other songs. Which is nutso-crazy.

But again, as a nerdy only child, I think that idea of pouring oneself into a piece of art and creating a fictional framework to distance oneself from the truth of it was a really appealing method of being creative while avoiding any and all conflict. Oh, but don’t read too much into that statement and how it might relate to The Josh Pilch Show as a comic series, because it doesn’t. It doesn’t relate at all. Ahem…

So anyway, please enjoy I DON'T WANT THE WORLD - A THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS PLAYLIST!!

~Josh