User:Robot Parade

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This user comes from a Future Time They Might Be Giants is this user's favorite band. FAN This user became a TMBG fan in 2009. ♂ This user uses he/him pronouns. AGE: 19 This user is 19 years old. This user lives in Pryor, OK. This user is a member of the Instant Fan Club. This user wishes we had more Mono Puff PRV This user is incredibly grateful for the Show Preview button :/ That being said, he often forgets to use it skin This user uses Deciduous. RV This user often finds and reverts vandalism. INT This user has written the following song interpretations. SV This user has rated the following songs. CTB This user has contributed to these pages. SHO This user has attended the following shows. This user plays bass. This user plays guitar.

Introduction

Hello there, the name's Eric, but you can call me Robot Parade. Or don't. Known for being an avid editor, musician, and having electric brains. I go by EricIsTired (eric_is_tired) elsewhere online.

On the wiki I mostly patrol Recent Changes to see what's going on, making edits when I can. I created the List Of Artists That Have Opened For They Might Be Giants, a big list of every single band that has opened for Them in Their history.

Bio

I discovered TMBG through my dad, who bought me and my siblings Here Comes Science after I heard The Ballad Of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space) on the Disney Channel. I fell in love with the album, and my family quickly bought their other kids albums. (I vividly remember spending hours watching the videos for each song on the Here Comes series, and on the games built into the Enhanced CD for No!). When my dad mentioned their adult albums he played me three random songs he found on YouTube (Istanbul, Particle Man, and Meet James Ensor) and I grew interested. When my family moved towns I started to listen to all of their discography and I became obsessed. I pretty much exclusively listened to TMBG in 2019 and 2020.

While my music taste has since branched out beyond the band, I'm now attending college to be an elementary music teacher and inspire a love for music in my students the same way that TMBG inspired that love in me. I also use my encyclopedic knowledge of TMBG to annoy my friends. (We can't do anything without me relating it back to TMBG, lol). I'm a part of the band Sewage Lagoon where we play our own alternative rock songs.

Other Bands

They Might Be Giants will forever and always be my favorite band of all time. But I listen to a lot of bands and musicians, so here is a rough list of my Top 25 favorite musicians.

Favorite Bands
Tier They Might Be Giants	They Might Be Giants
Tier 1	Modest Mouse
	Interpol
	The Hoosiers
	Cake
Tier 2	Matchbox 20
	Jack Stauber
	Marcy Playground
	Garbage
	Sarah and the Sundays
	Tally Hall
	Throw Me The Statue
	IDKHow
	Wallows
	alt-j
	The Drums
	Voltaire
	Tennis
	The Jungle Giants
	Last Dinosaurs
	Alvvays
Tier 3	OK Go
	R.E.M.
	Red Hot Chili Peppers
	The Shins

TMBW Userboxes

They Might Be Giants is this user's favorite band. This user doesn't know which John they prefer. This user's loves all of TMBG's Backing Band This user's obsessed with Tricerachops Horns This user's favorite album is Nanobots. This user's favorite EP is The Spine Surfs Alone . This user's favorite compilation album is Cast Your Pod To The Wind This user's favorite Mono Puff album is It's Fun To Steal This user's favorite Venue Song is Albany. FAV This user's favorite TMBG song is They'll Need A Crane. FAV This user's favorite TMBG song is I'll Sink Manhattan. FAV This user's favorite TMBG song is Museum of Idiots. FAV This user's favorite Mono Puff song is Unsupervised FAV This user's favorite State Song is South Carolina VID This user's favorite TMBG video is By The Time You Get This. LYR This user's favorite TMBG lyric is: And when you change you can't always change back LYR This user's favorite TMBG lyric is: I've often been told that you only can do what you know how to do well. And that's be you, be what you're like, be like yourself LYR This user's favorite TMBG lyric is: If I beat you in a slugfest would that suffice to suggest that you're not the only fish in this cave? LYR This user's favorite TMBG lyric is: Burn your forget-me-nots, admit that true love can die. No, I won't apologize, my love, just kiss me goodbye

My Opinions

Favorites by Album
Album		Fav. Song	2nd Fav. Song	3rd Fav. Song	Music Video
A	The Pink Album	Rhythm Section Want Ad	She's An Angel	32 Footsteps	Don't Let's Start
S	Lincoln	They'll Need A Crane	Snowball In Hell	Purple Toupee	They'll Need A Crane
A+	Flood	Lucky Ball & Chain	Road Movie To Berlin	Women & Men	Birdhouse In Your Soul
B+	Miscellaneous T	I'll Sink Manhattan	Hey Mr. DJ	We're The Replacements	Untitled
S+	Apollo 18	The Statue Got Me High	Narrow Your Eyes	See The Constellation	The Statue Got Me High
A+	John Henry	Destination Moon	Thermostat	The End Of The Tour	Snail Shell
A	Unsupervised	Unsupervised	So Long, Mockingbird	What Bothers The Spaceman?	The Devil Went Down To Newport
A	Factory Showroom	Pet Name	The Bells Are Ringing	Till My Head Falls Off	They didn't do any lol
A+	It's Fun To Steal	It's Fun To Steal	Dedicated	Extra Krispy	Why did they not make a video :(
A+	Severe Tire Damage	Doctor Worm	First Kiss	They Got Lost	Doctor Worm
A-	Long Tall Weekend	Maybe I Know	Reprehensible	Operators Are Standing By	Older
A+	State Songs	South Carolina	Montana	Maine	He never did any :(
A+	Mink Car	My Man	Mink Car	Working Undercover For The Man	Also Older
A	No!	Lazyhead And Sleepybones	Four Of Two	Where Do They Make Balloons?	The House At The Top Of The Tree
A	They Got Lost	On The Drag	Rest Awhile	Truth In Your Words	All Alone
A+	The Spine	Museum Of Idiots	Thunderbird	Broke In Two	Bastard Wants To Hit Me
B+	Venue Songs	Albany	Vancouver	Charlottesville	Los Angeles
C+	The ABCs	Alphabet Lost And Found	E Eats Everything	Z Y X	Alphabet Lost And Found
S	The Else	Climbing The Walls	Withered Hope	Take Out The Trash	I'm Impressed
S+	Cast Your Pod To The Wind	Homunculus	I'm Your Boyfriend Now	Cast Your Pod To The Wind	We Live In A Dump
A-	The 123s	Seven	One Everything	Pirate Girls Nine	One Dozen Monkeys
S	Here Comes Science	Davy Crockett	Meet The Elements	Why Does The Sun Shine?	Photosynthesis
S	Join Us	Canajoharie	Three Might Be Duende	When Will You Die	Can't Keep Johnny Down (Fan Made)
A-	Album Raises	Marty Beller Mask	The Fellowship Of Hell	Havalina	Electronic Istanbul
S++	Nanobots	The Darlings Of Lumberland	You're On Fire	Circular Karate Chop	Icky
S+	Glean	Erase	Unpronounceable	Underwater Woman	I Can Help The Next In Line
A	Why?	Omnicorn	Or So I Have Read	Then The Kids Took Over	Omnicorn
A+	Phone Power	Say Nice Things About Detroit	Shape Shifter	I Love You For Psychological Reasons	I Am Alone
A	I Like Fun	Let's Get This Over With	When The Lights Come On	By The Time You Get This	By The Time You Get This
A+	My Murdered Remains	The Neck Rolls Aren't Working	I Haven't Been Right Yet	Ampersand	Best Regrets
B+	More Murdered Remains	Starry Eyes	Thankful For Your Service	This Is Only Going To Go One Way	I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar
D	The Escape Team	The Poisonousness	Re-PETE Offender	Mr. Mischief Night	The Poisonousness
S	BOOK	Darling, The Dose	Drown The Clown	Brontosaurus	Moonbeam Rays

Taglines

This is a list of all the Taglines that I've written.

2024

• There are vandals on the wiki who can edit us / We won't be afraid of those vandals (P.S.O.K.)
• We've exhausted all available edits / And scrolled around in circles to the point / Where you made me blank the page (Cave Fish)
• Trypto-page / It began, I was reading like I am / By the edit of the wiki / And the special page observed (Tryptophane)
• I can hear the friendly edits of a page that I'd be offered / If I had a wiki to offer me a page (You Don't Like Me)
• At the bottom of the wiki page / I found the image file-link / Of W. A. White with his face clearly posted on it (Thankful For Your Service)
• The web has forgotten / The web moved along / The crowd at the wiki / Went back to their homes (Meet James Ensor)
• Scan the page, scan the edits / Lyric sing-along / Write your note, leave your interpretation / The wiki led you on (With The Dark)
• Whatever happened to vandalized / Unloved, resentful wiki pages? / Will they be spamming us at 3 a.m.? / Whatever happened to them? (What Did I Do To You?)
• And the admin's getting mad / With all this time you waste / Trying to put an edit on it / The allure of this wiki's page (On The Drag)
• You know I pegged you for an editor / When you said the word "tagline" / Where did you come from, anyway, / A wiki? (Fortnight) _{This one got changed 10 hours after I made it :/}
• Wiki editor / Vandal defender / Tagline extender / Re-Pete Offender (Re-PETE Offender)
• Everyone is agreed that you have to concede to the admin / (Shout!) Hooray for the TMBG Wiki (Buckle Down, Winsocki)
• The only way I get any sleep / Is if ten wiki pages are open (Less Than One)

2019

• If your some page I used to know I sure don't recognize you so I'm only / Hanging round, a random page, in the wiki, where nothing familiar can be found (Shape Shifter)
• Why did you vandalize the wiki? Why did you vandalize the wiki? I can't leave this page alone for five minutes (Why Did You Grow A Beard?)

Pages Created

• List Of Artists That Have Opened For They Might Be Giants
• LEMUR
• Jordan Katz
• John And John Explain No! Song By Song (Though I did not discover the original source for the page)
• Now 100 Hits: Forgotten 90s

Collection

Robot Parade's Collection

I collect CDs and some vinyls, and I'm currently on a quest to collect every TMBG CD, so we'll see how far I can get. It's gonna be hell finding a Long Tall Weekend CD, but I think I can manage it within the next 30 years. In addition to this collection, I also own:

• OK Go by OK Go
• Oh No by OK Go
• El Oso by Soul Coughing
• NONSVCH by XTC