John Linnell
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John Sidney Linnell (born June 12, 1959) is an American musician best known as one half of the Brooklyn-based alternative rock band They Might Be Giants.
He plays accordion, baritone and bass saxophone, clarinet, and keyboards for the band in addition to writing and recording. Linnell's songs include ambiguous subject matter and word play.
The persistent themes of aging, delusional conduct, unhealthy marriages, suicide, and the personification of inanimate objects are all prevalent.
Alternatively, the accompanying melodies are usually cascading and upbeat.
Early life
John Linnell was born in New York City to father Zenos Linnell (1925-2011), a psychiatrist, and mother Kathleen (nee Glenn, 1936-2008). Walt Kelly's Songs of the Pogo album left a lasting impression on Linnell's musical sensibilities as a youth. Linnell appreciated the album's lyrics, which were largely dependent on puns and word play. He recalls "Lines Upon a Tranquil Brow," which later became part of They Might Be Giants' live repertoire, in particular. Linnell and his family immigrated to Lincoln, Massachusetts, where he attended Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School at an early age. He served on the school newspaper, the Prosecutors, and met John Flansburgh. The two bands have occasionally collaborated on home-recording projects.
Linnell studied English for a semester at the University of Massachusetts Amherst before deciding to pursue a career in music.
Personal life
John Linnell is married to Karen Brown and has one son, Henry, who appeared on They Might Be Giants' albums Here Come the ABCs and Here Come the 123s, as well as his father's solo album Roman Songs.
Musical career
Linnell performed with The Baggs, a high school band. Linnell was also involved with The Mundanes, a Rhode Island-based new wave band, prior to finding success in the alternative rock scene. Linnell's group played keyboards and saxophone. Linnell began leisurely recording music with John Flansburgh, despite his unsatisfactory minor role in the band and The Mundanes' unsuccessful search for a record contract. His family did not approve the change from what they perceived as a more professional band to an experimental one.
Linnell co-founded They Might Be Giants in 1982 with high school buddy John Flansburgh. Linnell's songs had the most commercial success in their early years, with singles like "Don't Let's Start" and "Ana Ng" introducing the band to college radio, and the band's "Birdhouse in Your Soul" debuting in 1990. John Linnell writes, performs, appears on accordion, keyboards, and a few woodwind instruments for the band.
During an interview for Splatter Effects in 1994, Linnell recalled his involvement in the company.
The band began producing a twice-monthly podcast in December 2005. Linnell began contributing comedic spoken-word pieces to the program early on.
Linnell has performed solo work since 1994: in that year, he first released the State Songs EP, which he later expanded to a full-length album in 1999. The State Songs Project's intention is deliberately deceptive: Each song's title and chorus feature prominently, but have little to do with their actual stories. For example, "Montana" is about the insane ramblings of someone who is about to die; "Idaho" explores a famous rock tale in which John Lennon, who took hallucinogenic drugs, believes he could drive his car; "South Carolina" is about getting rich as a result of a bicycle accident.
Other side projects include the limited-release House of Mayors EP released in 1996 as part of the Hello CD of the Month Club, and a flexi disc of the song "Olive the Other Reindeer" accompanying promotional copies of the children's books, Olive, the Other Reindeer. Linnell has performed as a guest musician on a number of musical projects by other musicians, including Suzanne Vega's Days of Open Hand and David Byrne's Grown Backwards.
Linnell performed the Other Father character in the 2009 film Coraline, for which They Might Be Giants wrote the "Other Father Song" on the film's soundtrack.
Linnell released "Roman Songs," a four-track EP featuring original songs performed entirely in Latin on July 2, 2021.