Talk:Guess The Mix
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GTM #1 This mix totally blows. Me away. --Rabbi Vole
Oh yeah. Every one of these songs contains some form of the verb "to blow." Good job, Mr. Vole!
GTM #2 Hey Hey Hey, Down Down Down, Bed Bed Bed, Don't Don't Don't, Va Va Va, Really Really Really, No No No, Not Not Not, Stop Stop Stop, Bang Bang Bang,
Am I right right right??? - Stiddy
Yes yes yes!!! :::))) - Rabbi Vole
GTM #3 Who's that at the door? It's this mix's common connection! - JRSly
Need a hint on GTM#4? Try 4.1 and 4.2. All three follow the same general rule, and it has nothing to do with the lyrics. --Rabbi Vole
GTM #5 I'm going to bed (bed bed bed bed). - Anon.
GMT #6 Could it be that all of the songs have the word my in it?
Nope, sorry. Good guess though. - Octofish, who contributed this mix and forgot to put his name on it
GTM #7 This mix is tired now...tired of waving its giant arms. --Rabbi Vole
GTM #8 Isn't there something that the beginnings of all these songs have in common? -RabbiVole
GTM #9 This one is just sneaky, but I just got it. -Just RabbiVole
GTM #10 It took me a long, long time to get this. -RabbiVole
GTM #11
You got me...Clap Your Hands may be the key to figuring it out, since it has the least lyrics though. - Duke33
I think I figured it out: repeated lines at the end of a song, even if said line is in the middle of another, previous line - Desck
Nope, nothing to do with the lyrics. -TDK
No other guesses?? -TDK
Um.. Okay, I haven't heard all of these songs, but here's a guess: horns and woodwinds in all of them? - Desck
Nope, sorry. Nothing to do with the instrumentation. -TDK
Well, then I'm stumped. I was going to say actions as a large theme in all of them, but Violin rules that out. - Desck
I think I have it: all of these songs feature audience participation. In Clap Your Hands people clap, stomp, jump, and occasionally scream and mumble; in Drink, the audience echoes the word "drink" on beats two and three; I don't know about Hide Away Folk Family because I've never seen it in a concert, but wasn't that the one where people scream as if they're in hell? In Lie Still, Little Bottle I suppose people snap along to the stick's beat, although that's kind of pushing the idea of audience participation; No One Knows My Plan has the conga line; Spy has the improv section where the audience members make noise when the leader points at them; The Guitar has the dance contest (at least, it did on the Spine tour) and I think that was also the one where Flans lets people strum his guitar; and of course, Violin has The Wave (TM). -RabbiVole
You are correct, m'am. Way to go! They have actually asked the audience to snap or clap along to the beat for Lie Still, Little Bottle on more then several occasions. So, to recap:
- Clap Your Hands - Audience claps, stomps, jumps and screams
- Drink - Audience sings "drinkdrink"
- Hide Away Folk Family - Audience screams as if they're in hell - Example: [1]
- Lie Still, Little Bottle - Audience snaps or claps
- No One Knows My Plan - Audience congas
- Spy - Audience is conducted during improv
- The Guitar - Dance contest
- Violin - The Wave (TM)
- Battle For The Planet Of The Apes - Audience chants "people" and ape"
- Battle For The Planet Of They Might Be Giants - Audience chants "John", "Dan" and "Jim" (did you know that I named this song?!)
- Stormy Pinkness (Love Version) - Audience chants the word "love"
- The Car Crash - Audience recreates the sound of a car crash
I added on the last four to complete my list; I left them off the GTM page so as to not give it away. Can anyone think of an audience participation song I missed? Would "Audience Participation" make a good theme? -TDK
Other audience participation pieces? Sometimes at the kids' shows, when they were doing WDTSS, Flans would ask kids to scream when he said something that wasn't true (i.e. the heat of the sun is caused by nuclear reactions between jellybeans, ice cream, Saturday morning cartoons, etc.)...I once heard a recording of I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die in which they tried to get the audience to sing along really loudly, and then (when that didn't work?) really quietly, but I suppose it's rather non-traditional...once when they were doing Bastard Wants To Hit Me there was this bastard who wanted to hit the guy standing behind me, but let's hope that's non-traditional too...and Mysterious Whisper has the part where Flans asks people to sway their arms back and forth. That's all that occurs to me.
I think audience participation makes a fine theme for GTM, although it's not the sort of thing that would ever have occurred to me. So many of the mixes are created by dividing the TMBG oeuvre into "songs that have X in the lyrics and songs that don't" that I'm glad to see the appearance of a completely orthogonal dividing line. TMBG's songs have so *many* qualities--key, chord progressions, phrase length/pattern, meter, form, instrumentation/arrangement, authorship, source of inspiration, and (as you pointed out) performance history, that there's no reason to only tap one of their attributes. As for whether it would make a good theme for this wiki's Song Themes list, I am inclined to think not, simply because "audience participation" seems like a more fluid quality which could, if John and John so desired, be added to or subtracted from any of their songs without fundamentally altering the song. For example, they could ask people to stomp along with the beat for Whistling in the Dark or they could replace The Wave with something else that doesn't involve the audience, and, in my opinion, the songs would still be the same songs. - RabbiVole
That's true, but I was thinking of an Audience Partipation theme as a way of documenting which songs are used/have had a history of being used to interact with The Audience. If an audience interaction is replaced or removed, that wouldn't change the song from falling into the catagory. -TDK
I see: so simply having been used, even once, as a means of achieving Audience Participation would qualify a song for this category. That makes sense. By all means, make it a song theme. You have my blessing, and all the authority that it doesn't hold. :) (Oh, and I meant to mention this earlier: while I don't find being addressed as "sir" to be offensive, I feel duty-bound to mention that I am, in fact, a young lady.) -RabbiVole
Oops. (fixed) Actually, I was thinking that only songs that have a "history" of audience interaction would qualify for the theme.. one time occurances like the '88 Hope That I Get Old sing-a-long wouldn't apply. Exceptions would be released stuff, like Stormy Pinkness (Love Version) and The Car Crash. -TDK
GTM #12 Am I the first to get this? Song titles that are names of other things, like albums or EPs or bands! -- Rhinoceros Rex
GTM #13 Hmm... could it be that each of these songs contains a direction (up, down, left, right)? --pat
GTM #14 Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! They're all shouting something at me. --Magbatz They never
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GTM #16 This one only took me four minutes to figure out. --pat
GTM #17 Mister Smalls Theater, "Sad like Mr. Me", "Mister James K. Polk our eleventh president", "Now they're calling me Your Highness", Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had A Deal, King Weed, and "Telephone call for Mr. Horrible." — User:ACupOfCoffee@
- Hmm... so technically, wouldn't this not count as a real Guess The Mix, seeing as "Titles and Honorifics" is already a TMBW-documented song theme? --pat
GTM #18 I know! All of these songs relate somehow to insanity! (Either they contain the word "insane", or they're about someone or something insane.) --pat
Yes! *gives you a cookie* --Lemita 21:33, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
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GTM #20 I'm taking a wild guess that it's about people being different? *shrugs* --Lemita
21:33, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
You're VERY close. I'll add a couple more. AgentChronon
