More recently they recorded a track for the 200th Strong Bad e-mail, where Linnell provided the voice of The Poopsmith.

The funeral of Linnell in December provided another focus for the unemployed and Irish movements, with more attending than on Bloody Sunday itself.

Only one song, titled " Other Father Song ", was kept for the film with Linnell singing as the titular " Other Father ".

To promote the album, Flansburgh and Linnell along with drummer Marty Beller embarked on a short tour, performing for free at many Borders Bookstore locations.

Linnell studied English for a semester at the University of Massachusetts Amherst before dropping out to pursue a career in music.

Linnell played keyboards and saxophone for the group.

Because of his discouragingly minor role in the band, and under the pressure of The Mundanes ' unsuccessful search for success, Linnell began recording music with John Flansburgh, though his family did not support the transition from what they considered to be a more professional band to an experimental one.

John Linnell generally writes songs, sings, plays accordion, keyboards, and various woodwind instruments for the band.

Linnell described his role in the group during an interview for Splatter Effect in 1994:

** John Flansburgh & John Linnell ( songwriters ) for " Boss of Me " ( Malcolm in the Middle ) performed by They Might Be Giants

Linnell: " I think I was collecting possible song ideas and, for some reason, I ended up looking in the phone book, and there were about four pages of this name that contains no vowels, Ng.

Linnell: " The other inspiration for Ng was a Pogo comic strip.

* The song played in the first episode of the 1991 sitcom Clarissa Explains It All while Clarissa proclaimed her affinity for John Linnell.

She also participated on the DVD commentary for the movie, along with the film's director and They Might Be Giants ' John Linnell and John Flansburgh.

Linnell was able to command very large prices for his pictures, and about 1850 he purchased a property at Redhill, Surrey, where he resided till his death on 20 January 1882, painting with unabated powers till within the last few years of his life.

Other notable 18th and 19th-century landscape painters include Richard Wilson ( born in Wales ); George Morland ; John Robert Cozens ; Thomas Girtin ; John Constable ; J. M. W. Turner ; and John Linnell.

The album contained lyrics that relied heavily on puns and word play, which Linnell appreciated.

Since 1994, Linnell has done some solo work: in that year he released the State Songs EP, which he expanded to a full-length album in 1999.

The song, or at least part of it, is set against the backdrop of the 1964 New York World's Fair, which John Linnell attended as a child.

In fact, Linnell attended the fair as a child, which is featured in some of their other songs.

* 1959 – John Linnell, American singer-songwriter and musician ( They Might Be Giants )

They Might Be Giants ( sometimes abbreviated as TMBG ) is an American alternative band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell.

John Sidney Linnell ( born June 12, 1959, New York, New York ) is an American musician, known primarily as one half of Brooklyn, New York alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants.

Linnell co-founded They Might Be Giants in 1982 with high school friend John Flansburgh.

Linnell performing with They Might Be Giants in Fort Lauderdale on March 12, 2008

According to John Linnell of They Might Be Giants, " it didn ’ t matter what kind of music you were playing or what kind of band you were ; everybody moshed to everything.

Shortly thereafter, John Linnell left the band to pursue another musical project, They Might Be Giants, with John Flansburgh.

John Linnell, of the rock band They Might Be Giants, reportedly wrote the song " Bee of the Bird of the Moth " ( on their album The Else ) after he saw a " hummingbird moth ", presumably one of the members of this family that resembles a hummingbird.

In the first episode, she states that she loves John Linnell of They Might Be Giants.

** " Destination Moon " ( 1994 ), written by John Linnell and John Flansburgh, performed by They Might Be Giants on John Henry ( album )

* John Linnell of They Might Be Giants uses both a KP2 and KP3 in live performances and in a psychedelic improvisation feature he refers to as " The Future of Sound.

" by They Might Be Giants ( John Linnell postulates it to be the first known recorded song to feature a backwards Marxophone )

* John Linnell of They Might Be Giants ( formed 1982 )

* John Linnell ' 77 and John Flansburgh ' 78, founders of the band They Might Be Giants

Flansburgh and Linnell made a guest appearance in " Camp ", the January 11, 2004 episode of the animated sitcom Home Movies.

John Linnell is married and has one son, Henry.

" Don't Let's Start "' s lyrics include a number of dark, pointed statements as " everybody dies frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful ," John Linnell has repeatedly insisted that some of its lyrical twists, though pondered extensively by fans, were constructed to complement the melody and are not always meaningful.

He is reported to have assigned every reporter on the staff to cover the 1911 murder of Avis Linnell by Clarence Richeson.

The duo began performing their own music in and around New York City — Flansburgh on guitar, Linnell on accordion and saxophone, and accompanied by a drum machine or prerecorded backing track on audio cassette.

Following Apollo 18, Flansburgh and Linnell decided to move away from the guitar & accordion ( or sax ) plus backing tracks on tape nature of their live show, and recruited a supporting band that consisted of live musicians ( Kurt Hoffman of the Ordinaires on reeds and keyboards, longtime Pere Ubu bassist Tony Maimone and drummer Jonathan Feinberg ).

When Linnell was a child, Walt Kelly's Songs of the Pogo album made a strong impression on his musical sensibilities.

Early on, Linnell frequently contributed humorous spoken-word pieces to the program.

Linnell has also appeared as a guest musician — often as an accordionist — on a number of musical efforts by other artists, including Suzanne Vega's Days of Open Hand and David Byrne's Grown Backwards.

Drummer Kevin Tooley was replaced by Peter Clemente, and Jim Gillson replaced John Linnell on keyboards.

He had better health on his return to London, and he was recently married to Hannah, daughter of John Linnell.