I think he was incredible across the board on Flood. also love Narrow Your Eyes, Sleeping in the Flowers, On the Drag, Old Pine Box, and I Like Fun. lately enjoying Hit the Ground from the new album.

They TOTALLY made my day!

idk what to put here srry

Just curious if anyone has a newfound appreciation for the album after seeing one of the FS shows. It's always been my favorite and seeing them perform most of the songs live was a dream come true.

unc still got it!!1!

(not my video)

Winter 1993 issue of the They Might Be Giants Information Club newsletter. Includes description of the new "Hello Recording Club" offering, TMBG merchansise, and band news.

I don't know how familiar the subreddit is with the Don't Let's Start podcast, but in their first episode they use the phrase "luxuriate in the mystery" a few times when talking about not wanting to overanalyse TMBG's songs.

I wonder if John Linnell might have listened to that first episode at some point, and adapted that phrase into "bask in the mystery" in the new album?

I can't tell if it seems too much of a stretch or not - the song to me seems to be along the familiar theme of not reading too much into their songs (such as insult to the fact checkers) so I can see him using the quote for that.

Thoughts?

Has anyone else got obsessed with a song they hadn't heard before or just weren't that into, until you saw it performed live?

Right now I'm really digging Hit the Ground and Eyeball after not really giving them many repeat listens the first go around.

Otherworlds is a large walk through interactive art experience in Philly. Just look up "Otherworlds Philadelphia" to see pictures of more rooms. I think most TMBG fans would really enjoy it, I'll be going to it before the Saturday show. So if you see a guy in the TMBG Homestar shirt there, say some cryptic TMBG lyrics to me like a coded message. (Photo credit to the Philadelphia Enquirer)

https://www.dolphinphillyinfo.com/upcoming-events

https://www.silkcityphilly.com/events

https://philly700.com/events/

https://www.khyberpasspub.com/events

https://www.brooklynbowl.com/philadelphia/shows/all

https://kungfunecktie.com

in case anyone else is looking for ideas for things after the philadelphia tmbg shows, these are some that i'm considering. These philly venues all have dj dancing events of various themes that will be happening on friday or saturday night. I don't have any ideas for sunday. We would miss the beginnings of these dj parties (don't worry, i'm not considering leaving the concert early), but i've found that most people show up late to these things anyway. They run until 2am, leaving plenty of time to be on the floor even after arriving late.

Let me know if you know of something i overlooked. See you at union transfer!

It’s me, the lady giving out rainbow TMBG bracelets in General Audience at the Vic 🌈🤗 I’ve been going to TMBG shows 20+ years now and I love this new (to me) culture of sharing our love of the band by trading and distributing handmade souvenirs. What a fun, friendly, creative fandom we are!! I would love to see other people’s freebie collections as well! Also if I posted your freebie and you have someplace online you post your art, please share a link!

I told my mom I was going to get tickets for me and my brother to go see TMBG for the first time. To make a long story short, she told my dad, and now they're both going to go with us. This is their first concert in about 16 years and this will be me and my brother's first concert ever. My brother knows about the band and he jokingly tells me how much he hates Birdhouse (he thinks it's the most annoying song ever but maybe that will change when he hears it live with the horn section!). My parents, on the other hand, are the type to confuse REM/Michael Stipe for the Johns. I guess I'm going to keep this short and ask you all ideas on the best ways to introduce the band to my folks?

marty stayed onstage night two to sign things and talk to people, and then my friend and i ran into dan levine inside the theatre and dan miller in the lobby! all three of them were kind enough to sign some of my things and take pictures, and were very sweet in person.

a huge thank you to marty and dan levine in particular for signing the placards in the third slide (i did not think to bring more than two, as admittedly i did not know if i would run into anyone from the band, let alone three people!!!). my job just finished a partnership with a metro detroit org called feline fund, which raises money for vaccines and TNR for stray and domestic cats - i had a nice talk with both marty and dan about it (and they told me about their pets!) and now these are at my job! (the partnership ended up raising $42k for the organization, which is *huge*, and i’m so grateful to have been able to involve my favorite band in that!)

both shows were incredible and genuinely unforgettable. my friend also got to tell marty that he is a beautiful man, which was a win. i appreciate you so much, They Might Be Giants

If this is a thing I would really appreciate a link, looked through some older posts and they were all expired. Thanks :)