Editing John Linnell (section)

===Since 1982: They Might Be Giants===
[[File:2015LinnellFlansburghTMBG.jpg|thumb|John Linnell (left) and John Flansburgh (right)]]
Linnell co-founded [[They Might Be Giants]] in 1982 with high school friend [[John Flansburgh]]. While the two split singing and songwriting duties roughly in half, Linnell's songs enjoyed the most commercial success in their early years: singles like "[[Don't Let's Start]]" and "[[Ana Ng]]" introduced the band to [[Campus radio|college radio]], and they made waves on the ''Billboard'' charts in 1990 with "[[Birdhouse in Your Soul]]".<ref name="gigantic" /><ref name="single charts">{{Cite magazine |title=They Might Be Giants |url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/they-might-be-giants/chart-history/alternative-songs/BillboardURLbyName |access-date=2012-08-06 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]}}{{dead link|date=August 2023|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Linnell 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:

{{cquote|I have a personal, a real obsession, with melody and harmony. I can really never get enough of that kind of thing. I don't think too much about the cultural context of what we're doing. I think John [Flansburgh] is more on that end of it. He thinks more in terms of the larger picture, the larger meaning of what we're doing. I'm more into the technical end: the chords and the rhythms and the melodies.}}

In December 2005, the band began to produce a twice-monthly [[podcast]]. Early on, Linnell frequently contributed humorous spoken-word pieces to the program.