As Lisa Marr remarked during a live performance on Detroit’s WHFR, this isn’t actually a They Might Be Giants song first and foremost. Marr’s old band, Cub, should take credit for the original; they even made a video for it, albeit one that likely got absolutely no airplay except, possibly, on whatever west coast showcase MuchMusic had on at the time.

This is quite possibly the best song Cub ever did, with equal parts twee-pop singalong and mid-90s guitar crunch. It’s really no wonder that They Might Be Giants thought it a good idea to cover this; after all, this is the same band that routinely gets people at concerts to sing along enthusiastically to “the sun is a mass of incandescent gas.”