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What are these things supposed to say? I'm a huge TMBG fan... I've accumulated a pretty big collection of albums and rarities. I'm an animator, so I've made a few fan-vids: http://www.cronny.com (the Skullivan vid is much better than the In The Middle one, and the Certain People I Could Name vid kicks both their asses.)

This is old and poorly written, but it's still true, so I have trouble deleting it:

When Malcom in the Middle came out, I really liked the theme song (not to mention the show) but I didn't look into it. My cousin liked it too and bought Severe Tire Damage. We really liked Doctor Worm through Why Does the Sun Shine?, but at that time we weren't quite ready for the "weirdness" of Birdhouse, She's an Angel, Spider, etc.
The day he bought STD, we went to the Museum of Television and Radio to see an interview with the Maclom cast. I distinctly remember a woman standing up durring the Q&A session and saying how great a choice she thought TMBG was for the theme song, and asking how the partnership came about. I wonder now how many people were there as TMBG fans rather than Malcom Fans. When we got back to my house, I made him let me copy STD to my computer, where, asside from playing Doctor Worm once or twice, it collected dust for a very long time.
Years later, before I really listened to any music at all, the same cousin got me into this other band, SNMNMNM (es-en-em-en-em-en-em), and I started listening to them non-stop until I got sick of them in spite of myself. Looking for a change, I browsed my computer and came accross STD. If I hadn't ripped that CD all of those years ago, I would have never become a fan later on in life. Coming from Tenacious D and SNMNMNM, this time I was definitely ready for the "weirdness" of all it all. Though now I know that the "weirdness" was just their originality. When I was younger I had all these preconceived notions about what music had to sound like to be acceptable. It had nothing to do with my personal taste, but I didn't think "good" music could be clever or interesting or original. I listened to STD a little bit, and it sounded a lot like SNMNMNM, although I'm sure that since SNMNMNM came much later, it was actually the other way around. One day at a fire drill at school, I mentioned in passing to my cousin that TMBG sounded kind of like SNMNMNM. He remembered that I said that, got me Apollo 18 for Christmas, and in a few weeks I was a fan.
What's interesting is how, in my life, I kept unknowingly coming across TMBG, as if to somehow foreshadow my future fandom. For instance with Malcom, the Power Rangers Movie, Kablam, etc. Even when I was a big Weird Al fan, "Everything You Know Is Wrong" was my favorite song of his. Haha, how prophetic.


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