#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

[sandymybeloved]

their banging tunes and nonsense lyrics have enchanted me

[5qu1dink]

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS MADE THE MICKEY MOUSE HOT DOG SONG ?????

[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.

[lapinpuff]

I am not exactly complaining but. It seems the tmbg songs that non-fans know are mostly very misrepresentative of their discography. I wonder if that's partly why they have the reputation of some "silly goofy parody band" (man...makes me squirm)

Eg: Istanbul wasn't even written by them and is unusually repetitive. Doctor Worm is pretty silly/fun on purpose. Stuff Is Way is lyrically experimental and thus seems nonsensical. The Mickey Mouse stuff speaks for itself.

I'd say Birdhouse and Kiss Me Son of God are pretty perfect representations...but even then, some people dismiss Birdhouse's genius composition and lyrics because "haha why would you write a song about a night-light? That's so silly!!"

I suppose it just strikes me as odd that a band (even one as objectively influential, musically diverse and successful as tmbg) is taken less seriously if they dare to write about subjects other than romantic love a billion times. I know I'm just echoing what other fans believe; I'm glad we all feel the same way </3

[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

[mellotronmkll]

Why is kiss me son of god tmbgs 5th most streamed song on spotify did it also have a moment as like a tiktok audio or something or do people just appreciate it because it's surprising to me

[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)

[just-flansy-things]

My town's getting rioted tonight so I'm distracting myself by recording myself singing TMBG songs

^ Kiss Me Son of God!!

Sorry for the bad quality, this was filmed on my phone