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Artist: They Might Be Giants
Song: Man It's So Loud In Here
Album: Mink Car
Intro:
Man it's so loud in here (Bass rides on C)
Verse 1:
C Ab C Ab C
They fixed up the corner store like it was a nightclub
F Em G
It's permanently disco
C Ab C Ab C
Everyone is dressed so oddly; I can't recognize them
F Em G
I can't tell the staff from the customers
Chorus 2:
F G C Dm
Baby, check this out, I've got something to say
F G C Dm
Man, it's so loud in here
F G C Dm
When they stop the drum machine and I can think again
F G C
I'll remember what it was
Instrumental Fill:
( Dm G Em A Dm G Dm G )
Verse 2:
You have to carry all your things
You cant missplace them
There's nowhere to place anything
Chorus 2:
Baby check this out.
I've got something to say
Man it's so loud in here
When they stop the drum machine
and I can think again
I'll remember what it was
Bridge:
Dm G
They're all shouting
Em A
Something at us
Dm G A
Waving and pointing
Verse 3:
They revamped the airport completely
Now it looks just like a nightclub
Everyone's excited and confused
Chorus 3:
Baby Check this out
I've got something to say
Man it's so loud in here
When they start the love machine
And I can love again
I'll remember what it was
Baby Check this out
I've got something to say
Man it's so loud in here (Man it's so loud in here)
Man it's so loud in here (Man it's so loud in here)
Man it's so loud in here (Man it's so loud in here)
Man it's so loud in here (Man it's so loud in here)
Man it's so loud in here
(Man it's so loud in here)
(Man it's so loud in here)
(Man it's so loud in here).....fade
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Jimmy Average |
#1 by Jimmy Dresbach at Oct 2, 1970 at 6:49 AM EST |
| I guess you could grope for greater meanings, but it's pretty obvious that it's a song about how hard it is to intimately communicate, or even think clearly, in a noisy and crowded dance club. The riffs the song is built on appear to be very thinly-veiled rip-offs of "Funkytown" and "Bizzarre Love Triangle", and the Johns have gone so far as admitting to it (without naming the songs in question) on their web site in the past. | |
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Lead Player |
#2 by Michael Leathers at May 8, 1980 at 11:34 PM EST |
| Its about mall stores. Think about it you walk into an abercombie or a hollister store or even hot topic and its cramped with clothes and stuff with loud music blaring. And in stores like those you cant tell who the employees are and who the customers are cause theyre all dressed the same. | |
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Adam Average |
#3 by Adam Favro at Feb 13, 1984 at 8:09 PM EST |
| I hate pretentious interpretations that don’t allow any flexibility in musical poetry, but I am looking forward to hearing someone’s opinion on this, close minded or no. My take on this (and I am probably off target) I get the imagery that the speaker lacks the courage to tell the listener that he loves her and keeps referring to distractions that don’t really exist to keep from putting his feelings out there. Comparing ordinary places to a night club and the chaos that goes in one allows form him to not speak, even though the speaker halfway has the courage to at least begin to say it “Baby, check this out I’ve got something to say” Other than that I like the song as a whole. Very “Pet Shop Boys” feel to it. | |
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Athena-beana-fo Average |
#4 by Athena-beana-fo-feena -katrina-gina-go-zeena-fe-fi-fo...ATHENA at Aug 28, 1986 at 2:56 PM EST |
| Um, I'm pretty sure it's about how loud it is in dance clubs. | |
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Average |
#5 by nirvana at Jul 31, 1992 at 5:01 AM EST |
| Oh and the rest opf the song is implying that the whole world is becoming like night clubs and conversation is going down the pan. | |
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austin Average |
#6 by austin pancner at Aug 12, 1992 at 3:47 PM EST |
| Interesting take, but I get the impression it's about how flashy, loud, sexy, and MTV-ish our society is becomming. | |
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kyle Average |
#7 by kyle sharpshooter at Nov 2, 1996 at 11:45 AM EST |
| this song sums up going out on the town so perfectly. I go with my friends who seem to love it and get so excited, but to me its just confusing, noisy and i can't put my things anywhere! When you try to talk rather than dance like an idiot no one can hear you so even though you've been begged to come out, you might as well not be there! | |
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Erin Rhythm Player |
#8 by Erin at Nov 28, 2004 at 2:34 AM EST |
| I have to agree with FLYING TREEMONKEY and Erisian. To me its a sort of vague social commentary bout how in the 80s everything started going disco and how you couldn't hear anything when you wanted to talk in night clubs because it was too damn loud! Randyisnot might be onto something because it does seem as though he is trying to say something which has to do with the love machine. who knows? The funniest line is... They revamped the airport completely now it looks just like a nightclub. Everyone's excited and confused. | |
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Master Shaïtan Wanna Be |
#9 by Master Shaïtan at Jan 21, 2006 at 4:37 AM EST |
| i love tmbg. this song is so true, both about nightclubs and our society. 2 birds with one song. | |
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