clowntown daily dispatch (acey’s bejeweled baguette): currently screaming about fanfiction

honestly the escape team has REALLY grown on me as an album? like, yeah, it’s super short (especially for tmbg), but it’s really cohesive and flows nicely and has a lot of memorable tracks.

Spoiler: big pic

also the album art is great.

 

what’s really impressive is that tmbg’s longest album is also their best

sorry flans but john henry is actually the best album of all time

 

legs...tomorrow...

 

gonna try to post a different tmbg song here every day. here's today's--flo wheeler!

you're welcome

 

honestly tho...this is my thread...i can post as many tmbg songs as i want...i feel Empowered...thank u jesse for this subforum idea

 

fun fact: if i post one (1) tmbg song a day, it would take me multiple years to (hypothetically) get through their entire catalogue

that is not an exaggeration, they are that prolific

 

That is.... a lot of songs........

 

gave into temptation. also made an Actual OP

 

It is indeed! They have over 800 iirc and while they're taking a brief (and MUCH-DESERVED they've been releasing new music and touring ALL YEAR) break after this year they've shown ZERO signs of stopping. I love them for this.

...They also have 20+ studio albums (anywhere from 20 to 27, I think, depending on which ones you count as studio albums and which ones you count as compilations--officially they have 22 but I count the B-side/podcast/Dial-A-Song compilations as studio albums, so...they have 27 in my book, but some people would probably not count My Murdered Remains, More Murdered Remains (which is a bonus disc so that’s admittedly semi-questionable), or The Escape Team as studio albums so some might say they have as few as 20? And I bet some wouldn’t count Phone Power and they’d say 19, so...)and they're all good.

(john henry is the best tho)

 

So here's what I personally consider to be TMBG's studio discography. Albums in italics are Not Officially Studio Albums But I Consider Them As Such.

Spoiler: long

1. They Might Be Giants (AKA The Pink Album), 1986
2. Lincoln, 1988
3. Flood, 1990
4. Miscellaneous T, 1991
5. Apollo 18, 1992
6. John Henry, 1994 (the best album ever)
7. Factory Showroom, 1996
8. Long Tall Weekend, 1999 (first-ever internet-exclusive album by any band, period)
9. Mink Car, 2001 (unfortunately released on 9/11, I shit you not)
10. No!, 2002
11. The Spine, 2004 (baby's first TMBG album)
12. Here Come The ABCs, 2005
13. Venue Songs, 2005
14. The Else, 2007
15. Cast Your Pod To The Wind, 2007
16. Here Come The 123s, 2008
17. Here Comes Science, 2009
18. Join Us, 2011
19. Album Raises New And Troubling Questions, 2011
20. Nanobots, 2013
21. Glean, 2015
22. Why?, 2015
23. Phone Power, 2016
24. I Like Fun, 2018
25. My Murdered Remains, 2018
26. More Murdered Remains, 2018
27. The Escape Team, 2018

 

venue songs is admittedly semi-iffy because it's partially a live album, but a lot of the songs on there got studio recordings and those are all on there, so...

 

bonus: MOST of their albums have a fair few songs

their shortest album is the escape team, which only has 11, but most of them have like...13 at the absolute least, usually 15 or more? hell, john henry has 20 (and is about an hour long, it's their longest in terms of sheer runtime iirc)

also i should absolutely consider more murdered remains an album, it's all studio recordings too. will add that.

must add songs from it to my Ultimate TMBG Playlist too

 

added the more murdered remains tracks! went with door to door minotaur for flans and thankful for your service for linnell...would've gone with this is only going to go one way for linnell but it's not on youtube so. shrug emoji.

 

btw if any of you have 2 hours and 35 minutes to spare you should listen to that playlist, if ur so inclined

i put too much work into it tbh

 

(bookmarks playlist)
i will stick my arm into the tmbg universe and expériènce...néw musique

also i keep reading the thread title as "john hlans.

the other man, burg, is bisexual"

ah yes the 2 tmbgs, flans and burg

 

here is Track Listing, i also included side project stuff

Spoiler: long af

SIDE A: FLANS

1. Authenticity Trip
2. Twisting
3. Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head
4. Back-Stabbing Liar
5. Omnicorn
6. Ampersand
7. We Live In A Dump
8. Cyclops Rock
9. Clap Your Hands
   
10. E Eats Everything
11. Damn Good Times
12. Sleeping In The Flowers
13. All Time What
14. Narrow Your Eyes
15. John Postal
16. Daylight
17. Door To Door Minotaur
18. I'll Sink Manhattan
19. Unsupervised, I Hit My Head
20. I Can Add
21. Roy G. Biv
22. Reprehensible
23. Pet Name
24. Careful What You Pack
25. Snowball In Hell
26. Brooklyn
27. The Darlings Of Lumberland
28. Three Might Be Duende
29. Let Me Tell You About My Operation

INSTRUMENTAL INTERLUDE

1. Selectionist

SIDE B: LINNELL

1. Let's Get This Over With
2. Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon
3. Vancouver
4. Ana Ng
5. Experimental Film
6. Jackie The Clipper
7. Till My Head Falls Off
8. Erase
9. Four Of Two
10. Maine
11. Or So I Have Read
12. The Neck Rolls Aren't Working
    
13. I'm Your Boyfriend Now
14. I Palindrome I
15. The Mesopotamians
16. One Everything
17. Dead
18. She's An Angel
19. Can You Find It?
20. Meet The Elements
21. Stone Cold Coup D'Etat
22. Canajoharie
23. Dark And Metric
24. Finished With Lies
25. Marty Beller Mask
26. I'll Be Haunting You
27. Thankful For Your Service
28. House Of Mayors
29. The End Of The Tour

 

HELL YEAH I HOPE U LIKE

also the origin of the title is a drunk text my friend sent to his bf (another friend of mine), he was attempting to say "john flansburgh is bisexual"

he tried

 

"will acey ever shut up about tmbg?" you might ask

the answer is no

no i will not

 

steven universe is honestly the single most accurate portrayal of The Sapphic Experience i have ever seen and i love it for that

and for myriad other reasons obviously but y'know