They Might Be Giants (band) got their name from They Might Be Giants (film), the title of which was a reference to Don Quixote‘s belief that windmills were giants. As explained in the film,…
“Of course, he carried it a bit too far. He thought that every windmill was a giant. That’s insane. But, thinking that they might be… Well, all the best minds used to think the world was flat. But, what if it isn’t? It might be round. And bread mold might be medicine. If we never looked at things and thought of what they might be, why, we’d all still be out there in the tall grass with the apes.”
Ape Con Myth is all about the might of might. TMBG (film) summed it up in less than two minutes some 42 years ago…
… and 23 years ago TMBG (band) knocked it out in 47 seconds.
Finally, in 2007, Ape Con Myth summed it up in three words.
…Â Eventually, we won’t have to say anything at all.
