User:Dinnerbell209

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They Might Be Giants is this user's favorite band. FAN This user became a TMBG fan in 2021. FAV This user's favorite TMBG song is Metal Detector. VID This user's favorite TMBG video is The Statue Got Me High. LYR This user's favorite TMBG lyric is: Baby, check this out, I've got something tooo saaaay / Man, it's so loud in here! This user's favorite album is Factory Showroom. This user doesn't know which John they prefer. This user listened all the way through the director's commentary for Gigantic (A Tale Of Two Johns). skin This user uses Yuletide. HR This user is a Homestar Runner fan! SV This user has rated the following songs. CTB This user has contributed to these pages. This user plays drums.

Dinner bell, dinner bell, ding ding ding!

Falling Into the TMBG Rabbithole

Hi! I'm Dinnerbell209, and I've been a huge TMBG fan since at least 2021. The first TMBG songs I had heard (besides the Mickey Mouse ones) were Particle Man and Birdhouse in Your Soul, maybe when I was around 5 - 6 years old. My dad used to play those two songs in the car.

Didn't care for Birdhouse, fell in love with Particle Man. Of course, times have changed since then-- I now recognize the beauty and magnificence of both songs. Although today I prefer Birdhouse to Particle Man, Particle Man still has a place in my harticle, man.

...Weird joke. I expected that to read better.

I hadn't really acknowledged the band since then. I was aware of their existence, but hadn't been interested enough to check them out on my own. That was, until I stumbled across an animated music video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4mRoPN9qx8 , really great ) about one of my favorite games, LISA the Painful RPG. It was using a strange(?) yet almost familiar song...

I checked the video's description, and found out that it was called "Don't Let's Start" by a band called... Wait, I know that band! I thought. They Might Be Giants! No way! I opened up Spotify and went through their discography, heard the marvelous "Ana Ng", and thus the obsession began.

About Me

Outside of TMBG, I'm really into drawing, screenwriting, sewing, comics, cartoons, and music in general. I have made myself a few very amateur TMBG plushes; one of the Factory Showroom sign and one of the Mojo Chessmaster. I also have a folder full of drawings that mostly consist of TMBG stuff. Mostly album covers or frames from music videos, with some stuff from other bands I'm into.

Speaking of, some bands I like are Oingo Boingo, The Smiths, The Dead Milkmen, Streetlight Manifesto, Descendents, ALL, Neutral Milk Hotel, Dead Kennedys, Lunachicks, sElf, The Ergs!, Talking Heads, and a few more that I'm forgetting but probably aren't that great anyway.

I also like to play the drums! I think I'm getting good, but I can handle criticism.

My Top 10 TMBG Songs

1. Metal Detector
2. Birdhouse in Your Soul
3. They'll Need A Crane
4. Ana Ng
5. We Want A Rock
6. You're On Fire
7. The Statue Got Me High
8. Man, It's So Loud In Here
9. ECNALUBMA
10. Hey Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had A Deal

Jesus Christ that was difficult. I missed I Should Be Allowed To Think, Circular Karate Chop, The Shadow Government, Mammal, Thunderbird, Brontosaurus, Erase, I Love You For Psychological Reasons... Man, stop me before I list every TMBG song.

Albums Ranked

1. Factory Showroom
2. John Henry
3. Flood
4. Apollo 18
5. The Spine
6. Mink Car
7. Nanobots
8. Lincoln
9. I Like Fun
10. BOOK
11. They Might Be Giants
12. Phone Power
13. Long Tall Weekend
14. The Else
15. Glean
16. Join Us

Oh jeez, that was even harder... I have so many favorites from each one. There's really not a TMBG album that I actively dislike, so I ranked them by how many favorite songs I had in each. Gollllly, man. I need to give Join Us a re-listen.

Dinner bell, dinner bell, ring!