#song is kiss me son of god tmbg

[rauberrauber]

i built a little empire out of some crazy garbage

called the blood of the exploited working class

but theyve overcome their shyness

now theyre calling me your highness

and a world screams kiss me son of god

[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"

[vileplume87]

I had a dream last night that, for a school talent show, I decided to play the accordian and sing a tmbg song. I didn't know how to play the accordian (I don't know how to in real life either) but I did pretty ok for a first timer!

[unidentifiedwhistlingobject]

I wish the Dune fandom was a bit bigger because there aren't any animatics and this is sad. I need to be able to open youtube and find paul in the hamilton art style angsting out to kiss me son of god by they might be giants or the prophet's song by queen. do you feel me

[bertybum]

Ana Ng is such a good song i sometimes skip it when listening to the album because it feels unfair to the other songs

[killhimagain]

I was thinking that if I did this poll, "other" would win by a landslide, since TMBG have so many songs. But then I realized I wouldn't know until I tried. So here it is.

[cowsuponcows]

Hello, They Might Be Giants and Inanimate Insanity fans! May I present:

ii characters as tmbg songs!

Under a read-more because this is LONGGGG I cover almost every character

Lightbulb - Wearing A Raincoat

Pepper - She Thinks She's Edith Head about Salt and Museum Of Idiots

Salt - Your Racist Friend but it's about her. She's the friend's racist friend. And Bills, Bills, Bills

Mephone4 - I Am Alone and Kiss Me Son Of God and Cage And Aquarium

Paintbrush - You're On Fire

Baseball - I Should Be Allowed To Think

Balloon - Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head and Lazy

Nickel - Dead

Pickle - How Can I Sing Like A Girl? if you're not a coward. I Lost Thursday if you are

OJ - Let's Get This Over With

Paper - Ana Ng

Evil Paper - Operators Are Standing By, with 'go home' referring to fronting again and the lines about 'their portrayal on tv' being paper fronting instead of E.P.

Apple - Mr Hughes Says

Marshmallow - Bee Of The Bird Of The Moth

Bow - Super Cool

Mephone4s - She's Actual Size

Knife - An Insult To The Fact Checkers (warning for flashing in the video)

Bomb - Empty Bottle Collector it's a funky instrumental and I think it fits him

Synopsis For Latecomers is literally just people skipping season 1

Suitcase - Where Your Eyes Don't Go and Careful What You Pack and Snail Shell and Shape Shifter and Trouble Awful Devil Evil

Fan - Erase

Taco - Haunted Floating Eye for s1 because it's nonsense. Fits her facade. Canada Haunts Me mostly because of the beautiful sound to it and Taco being (metaphorically) haunted by her past. Also I Am A Ring to Pickle and This Microphone

Steve Cobs - Kiss Me Son Of God alternative version and Hate The Villinelle and Yeah, The Deranged Millionare

MePad - Mrs Bluebeard

Toilet - Now Is Strange

Mephone3gs - Push Back The Hands

Box - Am I Awake? and I Left My Body

Prime Shimmers - I'll Be Haunting You

Test Tube - Hall Of Heads or the entirety of Here Comes Science as a copout
Cherries - Violin

Microphone - All Time What

Tissues - I Like Fun

Cheesy - Boss Of Me

Yin - My Evil Twin

Yang - The Shadow Government

Trophy - Prevenge

Soap - Memo To Human Resources

Dough - The Biggest One

Bot - I Palindrome I and Re-PETE offender

Cabby - I Can't Remember The Dream

Goo - Aaa

Blueberry - I Broke My Own Rule

Tea Kettle - Feel Good Sublet

Clover - Experimental Film

Silver Spoon - Lucky Ball And Chain and ECNALUBMA

The Floor - Brain Problem Situation

Life Ring - Mrs Train about Tea Kettle

Candle - Say Something Nice About Detroit

Spoiled Lemon - The Mesopotanians

Walkie Talkie - Piece Of Dirt

Springy - Marty Beller Mask

Payjay - Pet Name

Thank you for reading this!! "Wow some of these are deep cuts!" Yep! I am autistic. I'd appreciate a reblog this took like a week

[g0reoz]

Hello Target Audience ^^

making a phi amv. sorry yall i have actual brain worms

[liesmyth]

heya! was wondering if you have any songs you connect with john/dios apate. 💕

OH. YES. Sorry (not) to be basic, but No Children is THE Dios Apate song of all time. Here's a post about TMG lyrics that are Dios Apate core to me

Some off the top of my head: Wasteland, Baby (Hozier) / Demons (The National) / Frankenstein (Rina Sawayama) / Kiss Me Son of God (TMBG) / The Man Who Sold The World (Midge Ure version) - all of these are youtube links

If you do spotify, here are some public playlists crowdsourced from my TLT buddies

[zagreuses-toast]

My Vetinari Playlist. Some songs are very specific others are entirely vibes based, also a lot of girlboss songs because those fit his approach to being a Tyrant the best somehow. Like Vimes he would vehemently hate some of these songs, I have added them nonetheless. Reasoning/guide to the songs under the cut.

Politics and The City, always the City. I think a lot about Vimes' internal monologue from Night Watch about the city's supply chain and Vetinari being the only ruler of the city to really worry about it's function :

Hymn to the Breaking Strain by Secular Solstice (because the Leslie fish version isn't available on Spotify. Vetinari isn't an engineer but he appreciates their value and danger)

All Along The Watchtower by Bear Mcreary (Vimes gets the Jimi Hendrix, Vetinari gets the version from BSG, which is ominous and was used to unveil a conspiracy)

& by Tally Hall

How Now Dark Cloud by TMBG

I Am Alone by TMBG

Darling The Dose by TMBG

His Kiss The Riot from Hades Town (I also imagine if Vetinari sang his voice would be a baritone of this caliber)

The Body Is A Blade by Japanese Breakfast

Stone Cold Coup D'etat

Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles

Ballad of a Politician by Regina Spektor

Everybody Wants to Rule The World by Tears for Fears (cover by NSP)

She's Always A Woman by Billy Joel

The Circle by Secular Solstice (this is actually a carrot song, but there's a reason Carrot and Vetinari get along)

Gun Song from Assassins (I am always thinking about men at arms and the Gonne)

This is where I would normally put the characters love interest songs but Vetinari's one true love is The Bit:

Hate the Villanelle by TMBG

Poisoning Pigeons in the Park & Pollution by Tom Lerher

Rest Employed by The Stupendium

I Palindrome I by TMBG

Party Dog by Tom Cardy (dog things AND city-state politics)

The World's Address by TMBG

Havelock "do I need a button that says Tyrant" Vetinari and his commitment to the Villain bit:

Villain by Stella Jang

Red Right Hand by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Oh No! By MARINA

Villain by K/DA

Feeling Good by Nina Simone cover by Micheal Bublé (Bond villain sounding song but the lyrics are just enjoying normal nice stuff, exactly Vetinari's thing)

Enemy by Imagine Dragons

Bitch Better Have My Money by Rihanna (soundtrack to drumknott getting out the Tax Ledger)

I'm Alive from Next To Normal

No one Knows My Plan by TMBG

Be Prepared from The Lion King (did you think I wouldn't include a real Disney villain song, besides it's JEREMY IRONS aka Vetinari from the Color of Magic tv series)

Vetinari's nihilism and humanism, the roiling sea of evil and the moral imperative to be better than the gods:

Things Are Not What They Appear by The Gothic Archies

Last Wave by TMBG

This Too Shall Pass by Danny Schmidt

They're Only Human from the Death Note musical (hear me out, it's a conversation between Vetinari and Margolotta, you decide who's who)

Let's Get This Over With by TMBG

Cruel to be Cruel by Jessica Law

Living Thing by Electric Light Orchestra (Vetinari and his difficulty getting rid of one of a kind things, I think about leonard of quirm a lot)

Mad World by Gary Jules and Micheal Andrews

Misc:

I Like Fun by TMBG (entirely for the "my excellence at parkour may be unexpected at the age of 58" also the clock thing)

A Good Song Never Dies by Saint Motel (local patrician haunted by a little goblin girl's music forever)

Little Lion Man by Mumford & Sons (Vetinari and Vimes song, ruining his life/the watch, being part of fixing it, constantly pushing him, occasionally pushing too hard)

[nolshru]

Dead by They Might be Giants is a very interesting song - particularly in the imagery it uses to describe the protagonist

it's very vaguely described, but an obvious theme is the idea that the protagonist was HATED by society, having been beheaded and having people "dancing on the casket" - this, combined with the only negative thing detailed by the speaker being "returning a bag of groceries" gives a sense that they are unable to take responsibility for whatever they actually did. the speaker is likely a wealthy person - a common subject of criticism in tmbg's songs (Kiss Me, Son of God and Spiraling Shape come to mind) - they are rich and people are uprising against them, but they don't understand what they did wrong

one particularly interesting thing within this reading is that we are expected to feel sympathy for this character "now I'm dead and I haven't done everything that I want, or I'm still alive and there's nothing I want to do" tries to appeal to a sentiment that much of the audience will share with their lack of ability to do something that they would want to do - this is likely just the speaker trying to claw at anything to try and recover what status they had, and I really like this - it does portray the rich as slimy and underhanded, horrible people

[tmbg-tournie]

TMBG BEST SONG II ROUND 4 PART 2:

ALBUM: Lincoln (1988)

[davisexplainableart]

Footi's Back! (Setlist Recap)

(keep in mind, this isn't real; just pretend that it is)

Thanks to everyone who came to last night's show to celebrate both Flood's anniversary, as well as Footi's return to the stage after several months.

As you may know, this TMBG was performed without a backing band, just me, Footi, Chao, and a backing track.

Before we get to the setlist, here is a sort of key to explain certain things in the text below…

This means that I sang a song and no one else.

This means that Footi sang a song and no one else.

This means that I sang a song, with Footi on backing vocals.

This means that I sang a song, with Chao on backing vocals.

This means that Footi sang a song, with me on backing vocals.

This means that I sang a song, with Footi and Chao on backing vocals.

This means that Footi sang a song, with Chao and I on backing vocals.

When “->” is shown right before a song’s name, it means that we went right into that song, with little to no banter.

Alright, here’s the setlist for last night’s show (with fun facts for some of them):

(began with Countdown Intro over the PA)

1. Lie Still, Little Bottle

W/ "The Stick"

Before the song, we joked that when saying The Stick's name, you always have to include "The" right before "Stick" (referencing The Cheat from Homestar Runner).

2. Someone Keeps Moving My Chair

3. Dead

Before the song, I mentioned how I was jokingly called a fake fan for not listening to this song.

4. Kiss Me, Son Of God

Before the song started, I made a passing reference to the time that TMBG played this song on TV, but then the broadcast stopped once they sang a certain part of the song.

5. Ana Ng

W/ Chao singing the "I don't want the world" part.

6. Your Racist Friend

Since this coming Monday is MLK day, we dedicated this song to him.

7. Particle Man

8. Lucky Ball & Chain

9. Whistling In The Dark

W/ Footi playing the chest-mounted bass drum.

Played in B Major, like how the Johns played it before the backing band (rather than C Major like how it’s played nowadays).

Before the song, we joked about how the chest-mounted bass drum was invented just for this song.

10. Don't Let's Start

Before the song, I mentioned how this song was used in a PBS Kids GO! bumper, while also referencing our tv performance of "Kids Go!" from a few weeks ago (which featured Footi on guitar).

11. -> The Famous Polka

As shown by the colored text, we did in fact sing the ending lyrics.

12. Chess Piece Face

13. Hearing Aid

14. Istanbul (Not Constantinople)

Technically this was Footi on lead, with me on backing, but it could also be vice versa (you could go either way, really).

The song started out in E Minor (same key as Cage & Aquarium), but after the long pause between "I can't say" and "no you can't go back", where we added reverb to the mics and yelled lyrics as if we were on the floor (similar to performances in 1992), the song switched to F Minor (the song's original key).

15. -> (She Was A) Hotel Detective

16. James K. Polk

We performed the original version of the song from the Istanbul EP.

17. 32 Footsteps

W/ Footi playing the "Special 20" harmonica.

Similar to Whistling In The Dark, I stated that this particular harmonica was created just for this song.

18. Birdhouse In Your Soul

Played in its original key.

19. Cowtown

Just like TMBG, we had the audience do a square dance for this song.

20. Road Movie To Berlin

21. Twisting

22. Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes

Encore #1:

23. Shoehorn With Teeth

W/ Chao playing the glockenspiel.

Footi and Chao wore long, rolled-up carpets for hats.

24. Mr. Me

Encore #2:

25. I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die

The reason I colored it like this is because aside from Footi singing the first verse alone, and me singing the second verse alone, neither of us were labelled as "backing vocals".

26. Cage & Aquarium

27. -> I've Got A Match

28. Sapphire Bullets Of Pure

29. She's An Angel

Apologies if I have to reblog this, just in case I can't fit all of the song names into the tags.

Also, expect a reblog of the previous concert for that same reason later today.

And don't worry about the Fridays shows, I'll get back to that soon.

[theygotlost]

its so hard for me to pick a singular Favorite TMBG Song of mine but gun to my head i would probably say lucky ball and chain. kiss me son of god is a close second though. and it's not my birthday is a close third

[askfansepicblog]

fan do you listen to they might be giants? im listening ro them right now and figured i'd ask

-🪲

Oh yes I love tmbg!!! My favorite song is kiss me son of God but I also love Istanbul (not Constantinople) and birdhouse is your soul! I also grew up with a dhmis video that had stuff is this way in the background lol

[culturalsillystine]

GASP. GASP. GASP. THAT IS SO AWSOME SAUCE (live laugh love TMBG)

*insert kiss me, son of god playing in the distance*

Very very good song, my favorite right now is Birdhouse in Your Soul. Lucky Ball & Chain is a close second.