#birdhouse in your soul...a classic....

[butterscotch-goat]

t shirt that says "I LIKED THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS BEFORE IT WAS COOL" but you ask me to name a tmbg song and my first answer is "e eats everything"

[myimaginaryradio]

Birdhouse In Your Soul - They Might Be Giants

[the-90s-music-colosseum]

The 90s MV Melee - round 4 match 3

NOTE: Britney and the Backstreet Boys are in this poll as a duo because they managed to achieve a perfect tie in the previous round! Consider a vote for either of those videos to be a vote towards their joint entry.

Voter-submitted propaganda:

Birdhouse In Your Soul -

"my fondest dream is to someday do a group Halloween costume as the extras in this, flannel shirts cardboard visors and eyeball/STOP ROCK VIDEO sandwich boards, and we could learn the choreography...join me in my beautiful dream"

Baby One More Time -

"it's just iconic"

Everybody (Backstreet's Back) -

"Inspired by Michael Jackson’s Thriller, what more do you need to know?! :)"

"The Scooby Doo style framing device? Everyone's opulent monster costumes? Kevin and Nick both being stuck in different BDSM dungeons? Iconic."

"The classic Hollywood monsters made the mv iconic."

"why is it halloween? what's going on with the choreography? why are they in flowy pirate garb in the dance sections? why is this music video so great? AM i sexual???"

[tmbgareok]

I had no idea that this song would eventually become tied to memories that I will think about during my last few moments of my life (which I hope isn’t happening for at least a hundred more years.)

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Have you ever found a song that followed you through your whole life?

Let’s just get this out of the way right at the top: “Birdhouse in Your Soul” is a never-skip, beautiful piece of music that may very well be one of the greatest songs ever written and recorded. Like many of John Linnell’s melodies preceding hit or to follow, each phrase takes you on this cascading journey of almost classical levels of perfection. It is full of so many complimentary sounds and arranged like a Christopher Nolan story board.

The structure of this song alone is a narrative twist: it kicks off with a bridge, followed by a musical intro, and then dives into the chorus before you even hit the first verse. It's a song that never fails to excite me, especially when I introduce it to the uninitiated.

First Encounter: The Notebook in the Bedroom

The way I was introduced to this song is rather serendipitous as I read the lyrics to the bridge without music or any context many months before I would finally locate and purchase Flood, my first TMBG record.

Last week, I shared that while in the 6th grade, I was in my friend’s bedroom, I picked up a spiral notebook laying on his bed to read what was scribbled down.

“I’m your only friend.

I’m not your only friend

but I’m a little glowing friend

but really I’m not actually your friend

but I am.”

I thought this was some oddball thing he had written and laughed while I demanded an explanation for the nonsense. He said it was some lyrics he heard that he liked from a song on the radio. A station that his older sister was into was playing it.

Through the Years: Birdhouse in the Rearview Mirror

7 years after I read that piece of paper with the bridge for Birdhouse in Your Soul, I would become a dad at age 19. Every night when it was time for bed, I would sing my son this song in a more lullaby-inized way of course (slower and softer.)

Over the next 8 years, I 3 more awesome kids. for a several years, three of them were all at an age where they loved falling asleep to Dad singing lullaby songs.

Birdhouse, Older, What is a Shooting Star, and Mammal among others were all sung nightly x3 for at least 3 years. Now, at 44 years old, 3 of my children are adults who can vote. One finished college and is married, building a life of his own. Half of my kids no longer live at home let alone want me to sing them songs at bedtime.

This used to be a song that I would hear and think of that day when I read the opening lyrics in my best friend’s notebook. Now, I think about how my kids have all grown up and life is different. Really good but different.

Did anyone else sing this to their kids?

There are roughly as many years ahead of me as there are behind me and I’m excited to see how many more memories I form around this song that fell into my life one day. I’m curious to hear if there are any other fan-parents who sang TMBG songs to their kids at bedtime or are there any fans who had these songs sung to them?

[txttletale]

Album ask: Flood by They Might Be Giants. :)

best song on the album: birdhouse in your soul. it's an obvious answer but it's a classic for a reason and it sets the tone for the whole record. i love the sudden dark turn it takes in the last half but the overall gentle and hopeful tone of it. and musically it's basically the platonic ideal of an indie rock song to me.

my favourite song on the album: i'm really partial to 'someone keeps moving my chair'. the lyrics have that whimsical darkness to them that i always love hearing from TMBG. and they're just so funny! so funny in such a banal miserable way.

my least favourite song on the album: why is hot cha on this album.... wait i changed my mind why is letterbox on this album

most overrated song on the album: i like istanbul (not constantinople) but it's criminal that it's the band's big identifying hit for most people

most underrated song on the album: road movie to berlin is a really beautiful love song and nobody ever talks about it. for such a silly band it is genuinely affecting

banger of bangers: they might be giants (boy!) they might be giants (boy!) and what are we gonna do unless they aaaaaaare!

[dr-docktor]

Ok so this idea hit me like a ton of bricks after reading a little snippet from @ryoko-akari’s writing about the SaF Swap AU.

Birdhouse in Your Soul by They Might Be Giants is 1000% a DMA!Curt song oh my GOD

First there’s the obvious stuff. The song is from the perspective of a nightlight shaped like a canary who repeatedly talks about watching over the listener like a little guardian angel. Which aligns pretty well with my interpretation of a DMA Curt.

First off, birdies (Little birdies, haha) literally watching over people. But also Curt’s motivation here isn’t revenge at all, rather he believes that by going through with Chimera’s plan he will finally be enough to protect the people he cares about. He’ll be able to watch over their secrets and keep them close to his chest. Like a little guardian angel.

There’s also a couple of stanzas in particular that really stick out to me.

First off. Longines Symphonette was a prerecorded classical music program which was recorded and broadcast every day from 1943 to 1949. Which makes it time-period accurate which is just kinda fun

Secondly, the entire stanza reads as if the speaker has some grand goal that they are determined to achieve. But interestingly enough, Filibusters are known for just wasting time and getting off track. During his dramatic monologue about his ‘evil plan’, he keeps getting side-tracked and going on tangents, as if he’s trying to drag something out as long as he can. As if he’s procrastinating dealing with the real issue at hand (confronting Owen).

“Leaving out the whistles and bells” [EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]

Here’s the other stanza I’m talking about.

In this case it’s a little more abstract. But it really makes me think of Curt’s RSD (my favorite headcanon oh my god). Specifically the part where the speaker is comparing themselves to their “primitive ancestry” (lighthouses). But when put into their position, the light of a nightlight could never achieve what a lighthouse could.

But in this case, it’s Curt pushing his risky behaviors to the limit which winds up “Killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts”

Which I know is a reference to, of course, Jason and the Argonauts. But in my head it immediately makes me think of Curt’s ‘death’ and the thousand other people he left in his wake after the incident.

I HOPE THIS MAKES SENSE 🙏

[darth-maya]

I hope this isn't weird but excellent choice on rock lobster for meme song I picked Birdhouse in your Soul by tmbg and now want your expert music opinion on both songs

well as I have never listened to birdhouse in your soul (I'm sorry) before just now, I don't have much of an opinion on it other than the fact that it kinda rules?

now rock lobster? what a fucking classic. actually just a perfect song and no one can convince me otherwise

[magicalgirlmascot]

So uh. I've been moving all my playlists off Spotify and onto YouTube (and downloading the songs ~totally legally~ to have on my computer as well), and largely they're private because they're all OC playlists. HOWEVER. I do have a playlist for KNPS which I felt like people might get a kick out of. So here it is. Several of these were added when I moved the playlist off Spotify since a lot of them aren't available on Spotify, particularly video game soundtracks.

Track list (and reasoning) below the cut.

Move Along by the All-American Rejects I don't think I need to explain this one, actually.

School by Toby Fox (from Deltarune) Also kind of self-explanatory. This is music that I associate with Gali and Lewa's class, specifically.

A New Hero by Nathan Furst (from Mask of Light) I love the MoL soundtrack best of all the Bionicle movie soundtracks, so I had to include some of the songs from it here.

Old Friends (Bookends Theme) by Simon and Garfunkel Technically a harp/violin cover but shhh. Old Friends is a Turaga Metru song if ever there was one. This version is just very pretty :3

Wonderland Round 3 by Griffin McElroy (from The Adventure Zone) I'm gonna be honest I don't have an excuse for this one it just slaps.

As Above, So Below by Essenger and Cryoshell A very recent addition to the playlist. I don't think I need to explain this one either, actually.

Birdhouse in Your Soul by They Might Be Giants Takua song. Could not explain why if I tried.

Dreamer by Supertramp Vakama song, also Takua song. It's about someone with their head in the clouds, which applies to both of them in different (and similar) ways.

Friday I'm in Love by The Cure Matau song. Less in that it represents who he is as a character and more in that he's a classic rock guy who loves wandering into the office singing and whistling incredibly on the nose rock tunes.

Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel Nokama song. Also a Gali song. I mean listen to it, come on.

Rivers in the Desert by Lyn (from Persona 5) Boss music baby!!

Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush Music that Gali listens to when she's sad.

Toa Reunited and Death of Jaller by Nathan Furst (from Mask of Light) This is on here because of the "Toa Reunited" part I swear. Anyway one of my favourite songs on the MoL OST.

Samurai Heart (Some Like it Hot!!) by SPYAIR (from Gintama) Full disclosure I've never watched Gintama. However. Kohatu song.

Starlight Brigade by TWRP I mean. It's a song about saving the world. "I'd gladly give my life for one night as a justice acolyte" is also a banger line ngl

Supernatural Superserious by R.E.M. I associate this with Kopaka for some reason. Couldn't tell you why.

The Prophet's Song by Queen The most Vakama song ever. Written specifically for him everyone say thank you Freddie <3

The Touch by Stan Bush LISTEN.

The Last Desperate Struggle by Masakazu Sugimori (from Ghost Trick) This is the song I had on repeat while writing the "Lewa gets possessed" chapter.

Running in the 90s by Max Coveri Pohatu unironically listens almost exclusively to this kind of music. The man loves him some Eurobeat.

Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce Whenuju song. Was their first dance at their wedding. The lyrics are literally perfect for them. "I've looked around enough to know/you're the one I want to go through time with" IT'S THEM.

Unite (Redux) by Ron Wasserman (from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers) YEAH A POWER RANGERS SONG WHAT ABOUT IT. First of all it's literally called Unite. Secondly Power Rangers and Bionicle are like brothers to me. Third and most important it fucks.

A Town Called Hometown by Toby Fox (from Deltarune) Sweet, quaint small town vibes (which is the point lmao). Fitting given that KNPS takes place in a sweet, quaint small town.

Wake Up, Get Up, Get Out There by Lyn (from Persona 5) I associate this with school because it used to be on the playlist I used when I got ready for work in the mornings. It's also a sentiment I can see Gali and Pohatu getting behind.

Wonder by Naughty Boy ft. Emelie Sande I think I first found this song on a Wonder Woman playlist lmao. It's basically about like, personal strength and stuff. Good song.

Working for the Weekend by Loverboy Another song Matau likes to whistle on Fridays.

Beach Chant by Justin Luchter (from MNOLG) Iconic early Bionicle music. Had to include it.

Lost One's Weeping by Afterglow Yes this is a cover of a Vocaloid song and yes it's from a fucking. Band anime or whatever. I like it. Also it's the school trauma song so on the school playlist it goes.

Lucretia by Griffin McElroy (from The Adventure Zone) Look, Lucretia and Nokama are very different people, but there's enough overlap (older female characters who struggle with keeping heavy secrets from the protagonists) that I feel pretty good putting her theme on here. Also Nokama would be the world's biggest Lucretia defender, we all know this in our hearts

SAVE the World by Toby Fox (from Undertale) YES another Toby Fox song. Anyway boss fight music hell yeah

The End by Justin Luchter (from MNOLG) Again, iconic early Bionicle music, really captures the feeling that some great victory has been achieved, at least for now.

Everytime We Touch by Cascada Tahu/Gali song. LOOK. It's a Tahu/Gali song okay

Village Bridge (with buildup) by Junichi Masuda (from Pokemon Black and White) Hands down one of the best tracks from the best Pokemon game. Again very small town vibes.

May add more to it, who knows.

[v0gons]

hi! sorry to bother you, i was recently listening to dr. worm by tmbg and i was wondering what your favorite/most likely to recommend tmbg songs were! i'm trying to get more into different genres/styles of music :]

That's a good question. I think Ana Ng is a good one, and Birdhouse In Your Soul is a classic, as is all of their third album Flood. I also really like Lost My Mind and Darlings Of Lumberland from the album Nanobots.

[prime89]

🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨

@euxinia …… It's your fault everyone is going to know that I have weird taste in music, because I don't go out of my way to hear it. Now everyone will suffer 😈

Lay All Your Love on Me by ABBA has been stuck in my head for the past few months.

Birdhouse in Your Soul by They Might be Giants is the reason my car is named Blue Canary

Road Movie to Berlin by They Might be Giants. Honestly most of the stuff from Flood

Everything You Know Is Wrong by Weird Al

Alternative Polka by Weird Al. I love his work.

Anything else would be either game music or classical stuff.

@reading-wanderer @anotherdayforchaosfay @shiratorihime07 @fluffybunnybadass @guardianrex @dee-the-doombound @ullwinner @monsterfkr @that1badassbitch @reallyfunnynamehere

You all are my chosen victims. 😈

[collgeruledzebra]

beep beep!

64, 890, 235, 398, 107, 499, 21, 816

beep boop!

64: I Miss You by Blink-182. as i mentioned on 45 this one's also vaguely associated with good omens but these days more with one of my friends who will randomly sing WHERE ARE YOUUU which means everyone in the vicinity picks up the song

890: Songs I Can't Listen To by Neon Trees. feels like i havent listened to this one in forever... maybe it got kicked from the playlist that happens fairly regularly to random songs. i also think this one has a music video people say is good but i havent watched it yet

235: Let The Bodies Hit The Floor by Activator. one nothing wrong with me two nothing wr

398: Spiral of Ants by Lemon Demon. lemon demon what can i say. classic

107: Born For This by The Score. not much to say about this one, another i havent listened to in a while

499: Willow Tree March by The Paper Kites. very good song very distinct vibes... makes me think of books about woods adventures but like the more mature ones where the woodland creatures have politics. like wildwood. which i have never finished despite checking out from the library at least three times over ten or so years. where was i going with this oh yeah it's also the second to last song in the first segment of the playlist! i start a new playlist every 500 songs so it doesn't take so long to scroll through, first part got started probably spring 2019 and ended summer 2020

21: Birdhouse In Your Soul by They Might Be Giants. LOVE this song. been actively listening to tmbg for maybe a year now actually but been familiar with their music since i was old enough to comprehend a here come the abcs dvd. legendary

816: Long Gone by Mary Epworth. another night vale weather! a substantial proportion of this playlist is wtnv weather, 72 songs in fact according to my spreadsheet! great job team

[astriiformes]

Spotify 17?

17 - Birdhouse in Your Soul / They Might Be Giants

Another classic, and another song that's as high up on the list as it is because I've got it on my Hunter playlist (a creative decision I made last October, but which has gotten me wailed at by multiple friends now given more recent developments in the show. Whoops!)

[dont-offend-the-bees]

19 for wrapped!

Birdhouse In Your Soul, They Might Be Giants! A classic, and one that's had a renaissance this year on account of being one of my Dream x Hob songs ^^

[edsbacktattoo]

For your post about albums, one I’m really into right now is Fire of Unknown Origin by Blue Oyster Cult!

And Flood by They Might Be Giants if you want two options lol

hi hi hi Fish!!! thanks so much for these, i’m gonna listen to both :)

Fire of Unknown Origin by Blue Oyster Cult

i liked this album a lot! i’d heard the name ‘Blue Oyster Cult’ before but i’d never listened to their music and it was a wild ride!! definitely the classic rock and roll vibe i was raised on :)

i’d rate this album a 7/10

my favourite songs were ‘Burnin’ for You’ and ‘Vengeance’

Flood by They Might Be Giants

as soon as this one started i knew it was familiar! i've heard a couple songs from this one before and just never listened to the whole thing. i really liked this album! big, dramatic, stylistic. all the songs work together while also sounding different each time.

i'd give this an 8.5/10

my favourite songs were 'Birdhouse in Your Soul' and 'Your Racist Friend'

thanks so much for these! i really enjoyed them :)

send me your favourite albums and i’ll rate them

[whatsonmedia]

Music Monday: Selected Songs for This Week!

WhatsOn’s music editor, Adam Humphries, offers you some uplifting songs that has recently released. Make a playlist with the music and dance the rest of the week away. Here is the melodious playlist of the week! Stream Holly Henderson's sophomore album "The Walls" now! Need the Fight, Pride Can Wait, Head Full of Soil, The Walls and Gold, that's just a few songs from upcoming British artist Holly Henderson from her new album, The Walls, which is out now. Holly's album is both an interesting and eclectic mix of guitars, piano, and smooth vocals. In a way, this is Holly's way of taking you, the listener, on an audio journey in which the artistic imagination fills in the visuals. https://open.spotify.com/album/6jEdGMkcJfbjDpk7BMYKLf?si=Ods-BhnZTLO-3eEDnl9r3w As an artist, Ms. Henderson is in a similar music vein to Kate Bush in that she creates her own world using her own self-created style of music. Holly has been able to deconstruct her current path in music and recreates it in another way for us to enjoy THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS to play 'Flood' in full at new UK dates! American legendary rockers are taking their latest tour to the UK later this year. With shows in the North, South, and the South West https://youtu.be/2Am-BF7ObCI Grammy award-winners and alt-rock legends, They Might Be Giants are returning to the UK with shows in Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham, Bristol, and London this November. The tour will consist of new and old classics including the ever-infamous Birdhouse in Your Soul. The Flood tour starts on the 14th of November 2023 and goes on for 5 consecutive dates ending in London at the Roundhouse on the 18th of November 2023 http://www.myticket.co.uk/ Tour dates > November 2023 Tues 14 Manchester O2 Ritz Wed 15 Leeds Beckett Students Union Thurs 16 Nottingham Rock City Fri 17 Bristol O2 Academy Sat 18 London Roundhouse Mieko Shimizu releases thought-provoking 'John's House' from 'Write To Be' charity EP By London-based Japanese artist Mieko's single from the charity album, Write to Be. John's House came from a real-life experience that she experienced one day in London. She came across a homeless man living on a doorstep on a city street. The song itself can just as easily be a testimony of someone's life from being on the streets just living one day to the next. Ironically this isn't the first time the topic of homelessness has been covered in music. American single Crystal Walters did similar for her song Gypsy Woman. https://open.spotify.com/track/3BQxcytJDpEsqSEXFrb2c2?si=03f53c0b597545b8 https://youtu.be/51WDjbTN3Rs Narcotic Thrust - Safe From Harm Released back in 2002 and featuring the vocals of British lead and backing singer Yvonne John Lewis and has since become a recognized dance classic. Yvonne's smooth vocals fit effortlessly into the electronic backbeat. Safe From Harm is one of those songs that is somewhat catchy and easy to sing along to. Even though Yvonne's been both background and foreground this track shows why she's an amazing lead woman worthy. Safe From Harm has an additional hidden twist in the message as the song is about the mental issues of drug addiction, just listen carefully and closely to the lyrics https://youtu.be/Fyu7YXYUFjo Read the full article

[lordlyhour]

10 songs Ask Game

Tagged By; @fvriva 1. The Moss // Cosmo Sheldrake

2. Ghost // Mystery Skulls

3. Birdhouse in your Soul // They Might Be Giants

4. Marble Machine // Wintergatan

5. Beethoven Virus // BanYa

6. Feelin’ Groovy // Simon and Garfunkel

7. Dance of the Knights // Sergei Prokofiev

8. The Only House that’s Not On Fire (Yet) // Lemon Demon

9. Main Title // Paper Mario

10. Classical Gas // Mason Williams Tagging; @haberdashing @a-vast-horizon @the-goblin-cat