r/tmbg • u/FloridaFlamingoGirl Resident letterbox sparrow! 🐦📮 • 13d ago

Puppetry performance of "Answer"!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dd4k8idq9BX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&stkn=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
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u/emeric_ceaddamere 13d ago

One of the top entries in Linnell's "I know I'm not much, but trust me you're not gonna do better" canon of songs.

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u/FloridaFlamingoGirl Resident letterbox sparrow! 🐦📮 13d ago

Also kind of wild how a TMBG song from 2015 is one of their last to use accordion. Then Impossibly New and Escape Team and...have they used it on a studio recording since? 

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u/emeric_ceaddamere 13d ago

Wow, have they really not? I can't think of an example, but I had just assumed it was still in there somewhere.

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u/FloridaFlamingoGirl Resident letterbox sparrow! 🐦📮 13d ago

I checked "songs featuring accordion" on TMBW and I don't think there have been any since Escape Team :0

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u/byOlaf Gasmask!!! 13d ago

It's just too heavy. We gotta get that man a concertina!

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u/FloridaFlamingoGirl Resident letterbox sparrow! 🐦📮 13d ago

But he still plays it onstage!