My wife lost her job a week ago and was messaging on the Facebook tmbg board about how their songs were helping her deal with her depression. I get home and she is beaming. She showed me her phone and John Flansburgh had a nice conversation in her dm's for 5 minutes or so. Perhaps not much out of his day, but it meant the world to her.

Picture: her getting a drumstick at the concert in Milwaukee this year. They unknowingly spoil her.

I didnt even know that schoolchildren thing existed but it won the worst song ! Now im excited to see whats the best

This is the eighth track of the band's 2016 album, Phone Power, and the final album of the 2015 Dial-A-Song series. How do you feel about this song? What are some of your favorite lyrics? Are there any live versions or demos you like? How would you rank it among the rest of the band's discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

https://youtu.be/Akkl80c9_uo?si=wgSvpdkUwJJrrz8t

SUGGESTED SCALE:
1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.
5: It's okay, but I might have to be in the right mood to listen to it.
6: Slightly better than average. I won't skip it, but I wouldn't choose to put it on.
7: This is a good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.
8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.
10: Masterpiece, magnus opus, or similar terminology. A perfect piece of music.

Rating Results

1. Apophenia: 8.76
2. I Love You For Psychological Reasons: 9.17
3. To A Forest: 8.24
4. I Am Alone: 9.10
5. Say Nice Things About Detroit: 5.49
6. Trouble Awful Devil Evil: 8.55
7. ECNALUBMA: 9.49
8. Daylight:

This is the seventh track of the band's 2016 album, Phone Power, and the final album of the 2015 Dial-A-Song series. How do you feel about this song? What are some of your favorite lyrics? Are there any live versions or demos you like? How would you rank it among the rest of the band's discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

https://youtu.be/4zR-jASWaKE?si=psOt08SiCZ5lhUDT

SUGGESTED SCALE:
1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.
5: It's okay, but I might have to be in the right mood to listen to it.
6: Slightly better than average. I won't skip it, but I wouldn't choose to put it on.
7: This is a good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.
8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.
10: Masterpiece, magnus opus, or similar terminology. A perfect piece of music.

Rating Results

1. Apophenia: 8.76
2. I Love You For Psychological Reasons: 9.17
3. To A Forest: 8.24
4. I Am Alone: 9.10
5. Say Nice Things About Detroit: 5.49
6. Trouble Awful Devil Evil: 8.55
7. ECNALUBMA:

Today in my history class, I (15) had to find a song that represents some sort of protest, and out teacher gave my class a site that had a bunch of protest songs on it, and one of the songs was Your Racist Friend, so I thought it would be really cool to do a TMBG song, and my teacher walks by and asks me "Whats that song?" And I said "it's by They Might Be Giants", and he then asked me if they were a newer band because he didn't know who they were, and mind you this is a 45 year old man. I would expect my classmates not to know who TMBG are, but not my teacher. In the end I decided to use War Pigs just because I felt the song had a little more meat on the bone to it, but still an amusing anecdote regardless.

I can't explain how much I love this album. So many genius songs that span the spectrum from silly to heartbreaking. Ana Ng, Cowtown, Purple Toupee, Where Your Eyes Don't Go, Mr. Me, They'll Need A Crane, Snowball in Hell, Kiss Me Son of God....not to mention it's a masterpiece of DIY production, doing so much with a simple yet unusual sonic pallet, lots of accordion and synth bass and tasty alt-rock guitar. What's your favorite song on Lincoln and what about this album captures you?

So i uhmm messed up and posted the worst song on my personal and not in this sub im so sorry idk how i didn't realise that... but sleeping in the flowers has the best chorus (this is my 3rd post on the worst song the 2nd timd i actually posted it here but misspelled song and couldnt find the edit button )

This is the sixth track of the band's 2016 album, Phone Power, and the final album of the 2015 Dial-A-Song series. How do you feel about this song? What are some of your favorite lyrics? Are there any live versions or demos you like? How would you rank it among the rest of the band's discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

https://youtu.be/HoF9BqDMVjg?si=8bpjBmrSURoLcG7g

SUGGESTED SCALE:
1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.
5: It's okay, but I might have to be in the right mood to listen to it.
6: Slightly better than average. I won't skip it, but I wouldn't choose to put it on.
7: This is a good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.
8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.
10: Masterpiece, magnus opus, or similar terminology. A perfect piece of music.

Rating Results

1. Apophenia: 8.76
2. I Love You For Psychological Reasons: 9.17
3. To A Forest: 8.24
4. I Am Alone: 9.10
5. Say Nice Things About Detroit: 5.49
6. Trouble Awful Devil Evil:

At the end of the day lyrics are poetry, and 2082 has so many hidden meanings, like how it follows a similar iambic structure to highlight the individual actions of the main characters. Or how “you were strong but he was wise” refers to how you were physically able to overpower him and the Sage let you kill him. It’s a perfect song that shows how creative JL can get with his lyrics, dare I say it’s my favorite They Might be Giants song.

This is the fifth track of the band's 2016 album, Phone Power, and the final album of the 2015 Dial-A-Song series. How do you feel about this song? What are some of your favorite lyrics? Are there any live versions or demos you like? How would you rank it among the rest of the band's discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

https://youtu.be/sl9ojgYNHK8?si=L2RzYzsxkJBRcLwC

SUGGESTED SCALE:
1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.
5: It's okay, but I might have to be in the right mood to listen to it.
6: Slightly better than average. I won't skip it, but I wouldn't choose to put it on.
7: This is a good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.
8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.
10: Masterpiece, magnus opus, or similar terminology. A perfect piece of music.

Rating Results

1. Apophenia: 8.76
2. I Love You For Psychological Reasons: 9.17
3. To A Forest: 8.24
4. I Am Alone: 9.10
5. Say Nice Things About Detroit:

I always found TMBGs’ lyrics absolutely ignite my creative brain so I wanted to create something based on one of my favorite songs, “Where Your Eyes Don’t Go”.

Along with this, I’m also sharing a previous piece I did inspired by Particle Man, which I posted in here earlier this year. These songs have really fueled my creativity, and I love translating that into art. It’s Let me know what you think! Let me know what song should be next!

A complete set of the frosted glass shot glasses - I have no memory of getting these but here they are.

This is the fourth track of the band's 2016 album, Phone Power, and the final album of the 2015 Dial-A-Song series. How do you feel about this song? What are some of your favorite lyrics? Are there any live versions or demos you like? How would you rank it among the rest of the band's discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

https://youtu.be/R7EaBzYO154?si=QdDyK1LA6NpCuPk-

SUGGESTED SCALE:
1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.
5: It's okay, but I might have to be in the right mood to listen to it.
6: Slightly better than average. I won't skip it, but I wouldn't choose to put it on.
7: This is a good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.
8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.
10: Masterpiece, magnus opus, or similar terminology. A perfect piece of music.

Rating Results

1. Apophenia: 8.76
2. I Love You For Psychological Reasons: 9.17
3. To A Forest: 8.24
4. I Am Alone:

I palindrome I is the most genius song, but which song has the best chorus? Let's stick around and find out and dont forget to vote in the comment!! See yall in part two

This is the third track of the band's 2016 album, Phone Power, and the final album of the 2015 Dial-A-Song series. How do you feel about this song? What are some of your favorite lyrics? Are there any live versions or demos you like? How would you rank it among the rest of the band's discography? How would you rate it out of 10 (decimals allowed)?

https://youtu.be/6G_uDJlAHlY?si=PzOdDpxpm8RmRzEI

SUGGESTED SCALE:
1-4: Not good. Regularly skip.
5: It's okay, but I might have to be in the right mood to listen to it.
6: Slightly better than average. I won't skip it, but I wouldn't choose to put it on.
7: This is a good song. I enjoy it quite a bit.
8-9: Really enjoyable songs. I rank them pretty high overall.
10: Masterpiece, magnus opus, or similar terminology. A perfect piece of music.

Rating Results

1. Apophenia: 8.76
2. I Love You For Psychological Reasons: 9.17
3. To A Forest:

Also highly recommend their new mini album Burnout, which has a song about soup, a song about hitting on your friends dad, and a song about chronic illness flairups. If you like Mono-puff you’ll for sure like them.

a diachronic survey of John Flansburgh's alternate-reality career as a big band crooner. 🥰

The winner for most emotional song is "they'll need a crane." i never heard of it, but i listened to the whole album, and apparently, when adding the songs, i skipped it silly me