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STEVE
favorite TMBG song
March 31, 2017 01:34PM
yep, feel free to include dial a songs.

i''ll serve first. Yo, membership has its muthafuckin privileges.
"take out the trash" from their 2007 two disc album, THE ELSE



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zwirnm
Re: favorite TMBG song
April 01, 2017 07:00AM
Ana Ng

Although the ones we quote around the house most of all are from "Here Come the 1-2-3s" and "Robot Parade."
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nosepail
Re: favorite TMBG song
April 01, 2017 09:06AM
Those kids albums are pretty wonderful, particularly the science one. This is just flat out good rock music:

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Roy G Biv is also a jolly good tune. Made car rides with a young sun bearable.



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Post-Punk Monk
Re: favorite TMBG song
April 01, 2017 09:47AM
I am always partial to the CD-3 B-side, "For Science."



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HollowbodyKay
Re: favorite TMBG song
April 03, 2017 03:55PM
"Don't Let's Start"

. . .

It was all downhill for me from there.

They were very good live, however. If memory serves, they had Tony Maimone from Pere Ubu playing bass for them at the time.
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Delvin
Re: favorite TMBG song
April 04, 2017 09:28AM
"Birdhouse in Your Soul." And yeah, they're excellent live.
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Heff
Re: favorite TMBG song
April 04, 2017 10:33AM
Back in college I couldn't get enough of their first two albums. For some reason "Flood" didn't do much for me and I lost interest. I didn't know that about Maimone; I saw them at a County fair around time - cool!

I haven't listened to those albums in years, now I know what I'll be listening to next.

I remember "Youth Culture Killed My Dog" as being pretty good.

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zoo
Re: favorite TMBG song
April 04, 2017 08:13PM
"James K. Polk"
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uhwelluh
Re: favorite TMBG song
April 04, 2017 09:44PM
Man, It's So Loud In Here
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breno
Re: favorite TMBG song
April 05, 2017 07:19AM
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Back in college I couldn't get enough of their first two albums. For some reason "Flood" didn't do much for me and I lost interest.

That's pretty much my experience with them. Loved the first two albums, after that they became a band that I was happy to hear anything by when it turned up on the radio or some other bit of media, but I never felt the need to follow too closely.

It wasn't that I didn't like what I heard by them after that, it just didn't feel essential for me to own it.

I lent my copy of Flood to my friend's niece because she wanted to play "Istanbul, Not Constantinople" at her wedding reception for some reason. That was at least 25 years ago. She never gave it back and I've not particularly missed it.
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belfast
Re: favorite TMBG song
April 21, 2026 08:01PM
I used to have the single-disc "best of" A User's Guide to They Might Be Giants, and eventually I sold it when I picked up the first four albums. I never picked up anything else even though there's undoubtedly selections I enjoy beyond those four.

Anyway, saw this pop up: Every Music Reference & Sample in They Might Be Giants Songs



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BCE
Re: favorite TMBG song
April 22, 2026 05:29AM
For me, "Instanbul Not Constantinople" is still the gift that keeps on giving more than any other TMBG.
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nosepail
Re: favorite TMBG song
April 22, 2026 09:42AM
Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)

Seriously. Its a kids song but also a great rocker!
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rhettlawrence
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April 23, 2026 07:30AM
I don't have a strong opinion on TMBG and only own one album that I couldn't tell you the name of (I think Ana Ng is on it), but I just want to say how lovely it is to see both STEVE and nosepail again, and on the same thread.
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belfast
Re: favorite TMBG song
April 22, 2026 11:24AM
I wonder how many later fans were introduced to them through Tiny Toons Adventures? Growing up, I didn't know who they were really, just "Istanbul" and "Particle Man" from the cartoon.
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Aitch
Re: favorite TMBG song
April 22, 2026 04:13PM
Spiralling Shape
For STEVE
With love.
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STEVE
Re: favorite TMBG song
April 23, 2026 07:13PM
Pleased as punch mate!
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Fleeingbandit
Re: favorite TMBG song
April 25, 2026 01:05AM
I wish there had been an album when I was a kid like Here Comes Science, it would have made biology, chemistry and physics that much more interesting, and perhaps I would have become an aeronautical engineer, following in the steps of the family business, as it were. I have yet to watch the DVD, music is taking up all of my spare time at the moment.

From that album, "Electric Car" is my fave, that was the first song I played in my hyrbid car last year.
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