And you must really see if you want to be a spy... like me

Songs potentially in 24 (temp name for the 24th album) include: Killing, Tan Minivans, Attention, You Heart Your Bad Additude. It could be another dial a song album, and then include No Answer, Original four of two, what is everyone staring at, cupid, when tornadoes take over the world, tumbleweed, stormy pinkness, coffee table of love, free bird's rebirth, Lullaby to nightmares, don't I have the right, and as a real crazy one, a cover of Rob Cantor's I'm gonna win. Side Two, heptone, Scaring the mind, brainwashing our fighting boys, Whirlwind, other insane dial a song and early demo demos. Maybe even TMBG with the albatross lyrics! Of course, they'll do tons of original songs.

New live page (thing below is satire)

I recently got a job with They Might Be Giants as a song mixer. I can't name names of songs I worked on yet (except for Tan Minivans, the bass solo in that song is so good) but the main problem I had, and the main reason I got fired was that the Johns kept making these weird jokes and threatening my job security. Jokes like "If you don't make there be a whole long xylophone section containing every slur and swer in the whole english language, well have to let you go!", "If you don't get me and john hot steaming cups of foot fetish, well have ot firey ou!", "Give me a bankrupt!", "I'm a hot steamy weasel ad I have two leg! One leg is too shro! Give me stilt!" I was shocked, my favorite band, and they enkjoyed stany cup of foot hetihs! I couldnt wbeilive my eye! Not only would htey not let me go home and i had to sleep in the studio most nights, locked in hearingthe night watchman sing the song by mono muff, it was also a really inpleasent expersne other iwhse. the whole thing has nleft me partially meff and mime. i caberly se ar even tyke wihtout the uz of the texas peach funk shin! It tortures me up inside! will, gobba gool. Bath bun supporking the bealmines that got rid of my ears for me. DONT buy hteir next alnum. All it has is a 49 minute xylophone and swear song, two versions of Tan Minivans (foot hetihs version and no) and a couple of 2 second "fingernail" songs. Not worth 285 dollars. the alnum is called "JOHN LINNELL AND JOHN FLANSBURGH WANT TO BUY MORE HOT STEAMY FOOT HETIHS" and the cover looks like this:

In several TmBg songs (Let Your Hair Hang Down and By The Time You Get This) Linnell mentions barking dogs being gone, or abandoning them. Now, at first I thought this was because barking dogs are annoying and interrupt the perfectly silent ending of Tiny Doctors, but then I realized... This is all a reference to Suburbia by the Pet Shop Boys. IT ALL MAKES SENSE! In Suburbia (or at least in some remixed version for a 2016 compilation album), there are barking dogs. The dogs bark long and loud, and are synth sounds programmed by Neil Tenant's friend who doesn't like Rock-a-billy, he likes PASSION. Anyways, Linnell's hatred of dogs making the only sound they can is a veiled insult and duel-challenging to PSB. Chris Lowe, I challenge you to a duel.

There needs to be a page on the wiki about all the stereo songs... I would start the page but uh... its sort of blocked on the computer I'm using rn...

misheard lyrics- Canahajorie: where a daring odd skipper dragged himself away; Never knew love: "Car top roofie" instead of Cartography, "I got roofie" instead of Biography; Iowa: Comical hat; Now is Strange: "I liked your hair, why did you change?"; See the constellation: Sigarnal image on his arm; Snowball: "Don't tease me with all of your lies";

John Linnell has been my favorite John since halloween, before then it was flans, but I like linnell more right now because his music is more State Song and less Mono Puff (quite literally in fact, to the point where I am not even comparing anything at all) and that I kind of look like John linnell. I took my school photo AS JOHN LINNELL. I'll be doing this the next few years, and make my senior quote something relating to John Linnell. I think that John would be best represented by someone born when he was in his 40s. I think the best age I could be to play him would be 23. I think that john and john would accept the movie if I got all my tmbg nerd friends and wrote a big biopic script. Will it even still be a thing in like, 6 years? YES. Biopics are like, the most cheap gimmicky thing a studio can do, and a TMBG biopic would make thousands, at least! The Homestar biopic was garbage because it wasn't made by me. What if it's all CGI? Right? like... a 3d biopic, THAT's new. I would like someone who looks like flans to play flans. Haven't found one yet... I have a few contenders, but I'll have to see when I'm making it who looks enough like him. Or I could seriously miscast like they did with Daniel Radcliffe in Weird. JL is 5' 10", and I'm not much shorter. I think I'll be taller in 6 or so years. I also think I can do a good linnell impression.

Before I start the list: there's a new page in town, which, so far, the only link is on the johnsona page: this page! Anyways, here goes the list of completely bonkers interps taken out of context.

• Must Stop: Trench coat guy again.
• (On a side note, it sounds to me as if the glockenspiel "ding" after "He wants a shoehorn, the kind with teeth, is meant as a wink to clue the listeners into the potentially funny subject matter...which, looking at the above description, I completely failed to get across. Oh well.); Back to the gruuhterinestone, better one; The chair referred to may be the electric chair
• I always pictured it as some sort of insane asylum or something, and that the person committed suicide after coming to his shocking revelation, under the reasoning that his life had reached its obvious climax. But it being a regular hospital makes sense too.
• Also, this is a bit random, but I always thought that the "Or I'm still alive" part was "I'm skinned alive", and so I had no idea what the song was trying to say.
• I think that the "eat your face" line may be akin to "chewing someone out", but who knows. Maybe he IS eating people's faces.
• I think this was placed on track #2 as the other John's pre-reply to You Probably Get That A Lot.; not out of context, just an interp I like
• this a clever and beautifully sung song. (Mr Tuck); Ok, that's a bit mean to mr. tuck, but... still, ironic to say the least
• And now, a real strong one to finish off for today: "Donald: Present!" - Donald obviously refers to Donald Trump. It could not refer to anything else.

see this link ;)

Hey guys. I am a man of my word and I said "I'll do a top 10" in my replicant review, so here we go!

• 10-Nothings Gonna Change My Clothes (1986)- They Might Be Giants; The skeleton line, the whole song in general, it's so fun and winds around
• 9-Thermostat-John Henry (1994); The fun lyrics about a thermostat catching fire inspired a comic I'll be animating sooner than originally planned
• 8-Aaa- Glean (2015); So fun and screamy, all the AAA's and the fact it's another silly list song... ok, now silly is a word I hate somehow.
• 7-My Man- Mink Car (2001); The sound of this song is so nostalgic for me, I have always loved it. The beeps and boops in the background with the solo of some sort of string instrument, which, the vauge instrumentation, or not knowing what instruments make the sounds make this song especially mysterious and fun to listen to over and over to try and puzzle out what's going on there.
• 6-It's Not My Birthday- Lincoln (almost) (1988); I like the Lincoln demo posted online by the MOI's very own SHAGGY! I love the opening going into a jaunty walk down walking and a long winding train rolling off a track into the chorus. Swedish Chef kissen. I love the "Ratting the bars" part, so fun and jangly. The lincoln demo makes the song sound more like Purple Toupee or They'll Need A Crane.
• 5-Dark and Metric- Long Tall Weekend (1999); Seasame Street sounding is how this song has been described. The bass is so funky and funkadelic. The slide guitar (?) combined with the keyboard is great. I smile so much during this song. I must've drowned. Which brings us to number four: Drown The Clown!
• 4-Replicant-Nanobots (2013); I actually kind of hate Drown the Clown, anyways, my real numero quatro is REPLICANT! The instrumentation is its own story, I think I could talk for days about the squinky synth and soothing drums. The real thing I wanna say though is that Jimmy Origins uses this song as its basis, I heard it and thought "Holy cow, this fits perfectly into my cartoon WTF?" of course the F stood for Frank. William T. Frankford. See a link for that here: er... here.
• 3-We Want A Rock- Flood (1990); A folk rock implosion, one might say. I love this song so much it was almost the theme song to Jimmy Zenshins! I think the best thing about this song is the folky twang about Rock! It's so funny that I'm sure Twisted Sister never even heard of this song. I do want to go back to This Might Be A Musical (my tmbg cartoon) and make the theme this song. Maybe in the DVD release. I've still got some song left, um... Make sure to listen to this song forever and ever and no other Flood songs ever when listening to the CD. This is the only song that matters and deserves a music video.
• 2-Less Than One- BOOK (2021); Speaking of music videos, I made one for this song! It's pretty grood, look up "Jimmy Zenshins Less Than One" and you'll find it. I love the "ooweeoooee"'s. They are so fun. The most disturbing thing about my music video is below in the OLD SECTION with the BOOK reviews. This song fills me with so much joy and I can't express quite why. I think it's the same reason I like "Or So I Have Read", they're both absolute bangers, with extreme rock and still pretty funny lyrics. I know they don't try to be funny but come on, "I dorped a burroito on ym lap oops ;F"?
• 1-Museum of Idiots- The Spine (2004); One time a band played this song. A Jazz band from like, Indiana or something. They did a pretty good job, little sloppy in some parts but still good. I love this song for all the horns. The constant horns, it's wonderful. There's a website called museum of idiots and my discord server is named after this song. However, most of the channel names are named after Cloissone, which is in 11th place on my list of favorites. This, by the way was all done by writing my two favorites from the main albums in chronological order and then highlighting the ones I like best until I got ten, then I made a list and rearranged it until I got the right order, and then I put the list on this page and then waited 14 hours and wrote all this. Now I'm really hungry and need food or something.

after skipping 10 minutes of Join Us due to self esteem issues, (Let Your Hair Hang Down (last minute), Celebration, In fact, When Will You Die), and not being able to find a playlist of ''Album Raises New and Troubling Questions''(sad attempt at italics, I wrote em and strong later down the intro, btw) I decided to move on to just listening to Now I know and When I Was Your Age by "Weird Al" Yankovic. Anyways, Nanobots, here are me thoughts:

• You're On Fire- Was writing intro
• Nanobots- Was making this list; song is still a bop tho
• Black Ops- A regular flansy spy thriller, slightly hard to trudge through but still an earworm
• Lost my Mind- FLOATING DOWN A LAZY RIVER IS MY MIND; this song is a straight jam, fam
• Circular Karate Chop- always thought flans was saying something different in the chorus...; This song is iconic in Nanobots for me, its evocative of the sound of TMBG in 2013, it even makes me think, well, more 80s, but defs some of it feels 2013! More the album as a whole.
• Call You Mom- Scared to buy a CD of this album because my mom exists :/ Gonna get it for birfday; EightToFour BABEE
• Tesla- BOOOOOO! skipped due to elon musket
• Sleep- Always a fun and spooky song; In the morning exactly like me going around drinking all my drinks
• Stone Cold Coup D'etat- Skipped due to French and being an annoying broadway blah
• Sometimes a Lonely Way- The video is weird lmao; sad song, and lonely, but is a repetive flansy song, sorry but i have a short attention span.
• I DIDNT SKIP IT, I DID HOWEVER LISTEN TO LAST WAVE ALT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT... OK I LIED I SKIPPED IT
• Destroy The Past- I wrote a comic named after this song; HOW LONG WILL YOUR OXYGEN LAST, this song deserves to be longer, TAKE THE LENGTH FROM LONELY WAY
• 9 Secret Steps- I love the looping melody, it is also an iconic sound of Nanobots; I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT'S IN SECRET STEP FIVE, YOU WILL KNOW WHEN YOU'RE NO LONGER ALIVE
• Hive Mind- HOIVE MOIND, HOIVE MOIND; also deserves to be longer ;/
• Decision Makers- I love the music cutting off at the end
• Nouns- I love the chimes and honky horn
• There- I can only think of the next song with this one, man
• Insect Hospital+- 'Cause We are like LITERALLY; Stop Motion video by Hine Mizushima, After Hours Party at the Insect Hospital was the original name for Factory Showroom (later gilz note: After Hours was its own song, Insect Hospital was the working title for Severe Tire Damage)
• Tick- Great song
• Replicant- Used in Jimmy Origins, this song is definetly a favorite and is in my Top 10 TMBG songs. Which is my next blog post!; Replicant, someone is waiting outside, he said you did something wrong to his friend, look at me when I'm talking to you, what have you got there behind your back? You've got his eyes
• Darlings of Lumberland- The Hall of Heads of Nanobots, and by that I mean the weird instrumental for most of it, then goes into a weird freaky song, NOT the toxic discord server of Nanobots. No, that's THE INCEST HOSPITAL, a horrible place and a mockery to tmbg; Freaky song, freakier music hahahahhahahahhahahah
• Great- Dave, he waves; I love this song, It's about a guy who's got some money, what a great guy, Dave.
• Stuff is Way- TikTok popularized this song with poorly made lipsyncs and YouTube Furries took it further pairing it with Darangaropa or however it's spelled.; it was catastrofeeling good
• Icky- WHO'S THAT SUCKING ALL THE OXYGEN OUT OF THE PLACE?; Video collage animation deal by David Cowles and Jeremy Galante. This song is a banger, and deserves more respect! Like it doesn't have enough already, amirirte?
• Too Tall Girl- THE WATER RUNNING DOWN THAT PIPE LOOKS LIKE A SNAKE TO ME; Not really, but uh, that intro sounds like that part...
• Didn't Kill Me- not the best, also tries to sound like a dial-a-song to make up for it, but we all saw through it. Ends with the word "The End" though...

#TMBGISGREATTOLISTENTOWHENREADINGSCOTTPILGRIM

unrelated thing

I've been listening to all of tmbg in chronological order since 7:15 this morning, and I've reached Mink Car. I also reached "I've Got a Fang" and I remembered on the TMBW some dude made an interp for the song saying "It's about some guy banging his gf lasofijewfhwieufhiweufiwehfuhewfiu" and I got triggered, as one does, because like, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard, guy, get your stunking mind out of the gruuh-ter, bro. Of course "gruuh" is a thing LURCH VOIDANDALF said, and most he's ever said, anyways... Yeh Yeh is on and I gots to go throw my computer at my house. Ok, Hopeless Bleak is now on. GOOD. Anyways, I read the interps for like, Dinner Bell and some guy was all "I gotta make this song about s*x somehow" (censored b/c IDK, maybe a BIRDHOUSE IN MY SCHOOLS SOUL) Someone managed to make the song about m***er****tion. This person makes me want to throw my entire body at my house. Honestly, the wiki interps people are such sickos it makes me really want to complain about it in my TMBG blog, which I'm doing! :D Yay for blogs! Anyways, I want to make a screenshot gallery of sicko sayings. Maybe include that Dinner Bell one.

• Dinnerbell.sicko- m******************** because he's using his entire arm (which is like, physically impossible to use ur elbow like that I'm pretty sure, Im 45 morbillion years old ve)rsion I have no ide.a
• Shoehorn.sicko- guy wants a girl, but shoehorn with teeth means something else ;P" -sicko
• more sicko modes comeing soon ;D

A new and interesting album

6/19/81

I just went to my local record store and bought this really kicking album by this group "Oingo Boingo", it's pretty interesting. The first song, Little Girls, hits the nail on the coffin pretty hard in locking me in with this band. The tune is catchy and the lyrics are funny, I'm honestly surprised I haven't heard of these guys before! Capitalism is also pretty good, and the song controller has a nice paranoid feel, on the outside is a sad but true tale, especially the payphone part, I can relate to THAT! Boy am I glad it's 1981 and not NOT 1981 totally 1981 and not 2023!

SYNOPSIS FOR LATECOMERS-For everyone who just arrived, here's a quick synopsis, for the latecomers. WHO ATE THE BABIES? This song is so great and the organ stuff, I know every weird crazy deal doesn't automatically mean SCP, but this song does feel like a massive government not wanting to be addressing a thing and then kind of saying "that's all the time we have, hahahahah bye, forget about it doo doo delledoo"

MOONBEAM RAYS- Kind of not the most amazing song on this album, i feel it might grow on me, not living up to my hype with the video either

guess what? some type of hype lived up and I made this:

I BROKE MY OWN RULE- This song is about breaking your own rule (no, duh) and is prolly the dude from the last song after he left someone he loved and broke his rule while away

Brontosaurus- small- egg, big- dino, small- bone, that's what I thought, the skinny is a neck, thick is the body and skinny is the tail that has gone on for too long. This song is about being too sensitive, skin being too pourous, being old and tired.

Lord Snowdon- Not as flutey as the book studio snippet, because that song hasn't come out yet, i'd be remiss if it wasn't Tan Minivans, I actually loved this one, however I have several songs i have listened to more recently and remember better. This song is a little more forgettable, however the triumphant horns always amp the tone of this song up.

If Day For Winnipeg- I love the boat creaking sounds. I love the fact that I was able to interpret this song on 3rd listen. This song is obviously about the capital riot, and was most likely written around that time. I think the fact that they use If Day as a connection point of a fake thing to a real life event of a bunch of nazis attacking North America. the fake thing of course is if day. Here's the deal, this song was spoken of in 2020, so... okay, this was a TMBG predicts song. That might not have happened before.

I Can't Remember The Dream- This song was like a weird dream in the video hahahahahahahahaha. I like the lyrics and can often relate to life being dissapointing. Especially how dire the future is.

Drown The Clown- The problem is that a weather woman is talking too loud (and no lyrics in the book, which is kind of dumb, it's ok cuz i printed teh lyrics out on my own lmao), and everyone has to turn that awful distraction down and drown a clown, in beer, probably. Yes, I'm making Drown the clown references in my drown the clown review. This song is kind of aggressive in it's agressiveness. To the point of where I dislike the protagonist of the song.

Darling, The Dose- This song is about someone being dramatic while being poisoned.

I Lost Thursday- It's supernatural how spaced out I get listening to this, I forget where I am, funnily enough it is Thursday as I am writing this. This song is obviously about the monotony of Quarantine. I think the "reading off this text and thinking very fast" is reading the news and panicking and the panopticons are references to zoom windows. I love the amphibian line. I don't know why it exists except to rhyme with oblivion. I never noticed the line post-historic until this listening. Most likely meaning the person losing thursday meant ending time. This song is now about the season 1 finale of Loki.

Part Of You Wants To Believe Me- A lot of references to tiny voices, and books, tiny voices being elves, books being like Book, I like the fact this song is so much more like I'm Not A Loser then Wait Actually Yeah No might even be. I have no idea yet, but I do think it will be more different. I love the guitar on this, it's so comforting. "--" I made a video of this song, you can see it here: Boss Conspiracy Hour ep. 2 2/2

Super Cool- I LOVE this song. I love the beat and tune, also the whole song is this laid back chill sounding song that you can focus on any part and it will still sound amazing. This song is about letting loose and is why the second half of book is superior to the first half, the first half has all the songs up to If day that are all about things sucking, this half has... I can't remember the dream, which is still dire, but then it gets more fun and by super cool, it's still weirdly sad, but less so.

Wait Actually Yeah No- On a south sea island wait actually, yeah, no. This song is about writer's block and not knowing what to write.

Quit The Circus- This song is about quitting the circus, retiring, perhaps? here's hoping TMBG isn't ending soon! that would suck! I only got to get into one album! I would hate them retiring at this point! It makes sense, but still, go on until you can't amirite?

Less Than One- "I took a walk I got tired, I turned around and I got almost home and then I got tired and turned around again" I love the fact I relate to this song so much, especially with the first line about burritos

Helicopters of elves- I looked up the land of nod and it turns out it's a children's furniture store. Cool. This makes me think the Elves on the shelves went even more crazy. Dropping out of helicopters and running around. Also, I like the end how it is kind of saying the elves are being on shelves.

Buckle Down Winsocki- This is a really good song, and it felt TMBG enough to fool me when I heard it on the app. I love the fact that it feels like two different songs in one. That's a good one on the side of the original composers.

There Will Be Sad- all i remember, as i was playing the hide and seek halloween homestar 2021 special is the line about in the exposition there will be sad

Fortnight-ANOTHER BOOK REFERENCE! WHY ARE CIRCUSES AND BOOKS SO PREVALENT IN BOOK?!!??! Also, this song is perfect as end credits music