Talk:Songs Performed Live
New page![edit]
Per a suggestion passed along to me by antgeth, here's a new page listing every song that we have on TMBW show pages, along with the first known performance date of each. I've already cleaned it up considerably in removing over 100 rows with things like duplicate/variant entries of songs, prerecorded show intros and covers played live once that don't have pages, but there's still a little bit of work left in trimming the list.
While I wish this page could be automated, I don't believe there's any way to do so due to needing to simultaneously scrape information from about two thousand show pages (unless Duke33 can prove otherwise!). So going forward, we'll need to manually update this page when TMBG debuts new songs, or when we add old setlists that happen to have a debut. But I think it's worth it to have all this information in one easy place! -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 13:41, 15 September 2020 (EDT)
Most performed song from each album (according to the setlist.fm statistics):[edit]
They Might Be Giants: Don't Let's Start
Lincoln: Ana Ng
Flood: Birdhouse in Your Soul
Apollo 18: The Guitar
John Henry: Spy
Factory Showroom: New York City
Long Tall Weekend: Older
Mink Car: Drink!
The Spine: Damn Good Times
The Else: The Mesopotamians
Join Us: When Will You Die
Nanobots: You're on Fire
Glean: Let Me Tell You About My Operation
Phone Power: Bills, Bills, Bills
I Like Fun: All Time What
My Murdered Remains: The Communists Have the Music
The Escape Team: ...11-way tie, I guess?
BOOK: Synopsis for Latecomers
Kids' albums:
No!: Clap Your Hands
Here Come the ABCs: Alphabet of Nations
Here Come the 123s: Seven
Here Comes Science: Meet the Elements (or Why Does The Sun Shine? if you count it as from this)
Why?: Oh You Did
--ColorOfInfinity (talk) 22:20, 12 November 2022 (EST)
Number of times each song has been played[edit]
I'm not sure how possible this is (my website coding knowledge is next to none), but it would be interesting to see for each song. TitanicFog (talk) 11:27, 19 December 2022 (EST)
- It's at the top of every song page. --Self Called Nowhere (talk) 12:46, 19 December 2022 (EST)
- I'm aware, I'm talking about this page, the one this talk page is for. TitanicFog (talk) 09:53, 20 December 2022 (EST)
- It would be good to have a sortable list of number of times each song has been played though (although there's also setlist.fm for that). --ColorOfInfinity (talk) 23:13, 19 December 2022 (EST)
- I don't know that setlist.fm has all of the shows (at least with known played songs) that TMBW has. I was talking to someone and he said when comparing the two, a lot was missing from setlist.fm :P TitanicFog (talk) 09:54, 20 December 2022 (EST)
