#tmbg nanobots

[pathogenposting]

Whatever you I guess...

[knavewoods]

My little giants, for the third time!

[isopodretina]

bro thought the oedipus complex was for ONE DAY ONLY!!!! HE MAD!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 reposting this on mothers day

[jacodraws]

I always thought of her as the darling of lumberland.

[ID: kidpix illustration of the woman on the cover of They Might Be Giants’ Nanobots album. She has pale skin, dark brown hair, and a fancy blue dress. Part of her face and neck are cut out and replaced by another image.]

[jonathan-samuel-smith]

Ok so I think I'll add Circular Karate Chop by They Might Be Giants to my Jondami playlist. Not sure it fits that well, but it's one of my favorite songs.

Lyrics:

Never took a class before in

Self defense

Never looked at you before with

Common sense

Gird myself for a short sharp shock

Trace myself in sidewalk chalk

I'll shut my mouth, you do the talking

You're so proud of your circular karate chop

Afternoons in the mirror doing pop and lock

From the junk shop to the truck stop to the big big top

Detention hall, name on the wall and

Locker dent

Never mind the withered words of

Encouragement

Pulling off my anorak

Dumping out my black backpack

Take what you like

I'll keep on walking

You're so proud of your circular karate chop

Afternoons in the mirror doing pop and lock

From the junk shop to the truck stop to the big big top

You're still bragging about your telescoping roundhouse kick

You're still looking for your Commodore's old control stick

So myopic, stay on topic

And this world is sick

Three rules from your sensei:

One: Outsource your feelings.

Two: Limit your training to be task-specific.

Three: Assign regret to those accountable.

Detention hall, name on the wall and

Locker dent

Never mind the withered words of

Encouragement

Pulling off my anorak

Dumping out my black backpack

Take what you like

I'll keep on walking

You're so proud of your circular karate chop

Afternoons in the mirror doing pop and lock

From the junk shop to the truck stop to the big big top

You're still braggin' about your telescoping roundhouse kick

You're still looking for your Commodore's old control stick

So myopic, stay on topic

Man, this world is sick

[retroautomaton]

trouble awful devil evil 🦇

[threefurbiesinatrenchcoat]

[vimbry]

jumping off the back of the post about genres of song lyrics, another thing about tmbg's lyrics in particular is that even when they write about pleasant themes, they still manage to frequently do so through a sinister lens:

the experience of having children and looking after them:

a nice little nightlight protecting a child muses on the shortcomings it would have outside its assigned responsibility:

fantasising about getting high in the park with your crush:

[fungicidecarhorn64ad]

I love the nanobots album by they might be giants cause it goes from

"look at these little guys go!"

"damn your head is on fire"

" black ops are horrifying monsters and kill people who oppose American ideology"

"woah girl you're too tall!"

[vileplume87]

The two types of Linnell girls/other genders

"Omg he's so cool/smart/funny/pretty Him and Flans are such good friends and I love their music sooooo much"

And,

"I want to [Redacted] him like a [Redacted] [Redacted] with a [Redacted] and [Redacted]. He is also old now, and I don't like/ am absolutely obsessed with that."

And then Flans girls are all

"Flans is cool :)"

[i-eat-mass-blog]

[pixelatepunk]

to make the merry go round go faster so that everyone needs to hang on tighter just to keep from being thrown to the wolves

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS

[scribledon]

In case you’re confused on why you already saw this… it’s a repost…

[farglefarf]

TMBG songs but

when you listen to only one earbud, you get to hear a super specific one-take of the johns: 1. You're On Fire (the right ear rhythm guitar is a different track entirely from the left)

[laughmyaortaoff]

The saga continues

[chesspiecefacec4]

Fingertips walked so nanobots could drop dead on the floor face first

(Translation: The fingertips suite on Apollo 18 is better than the collection of shorter tracks on Nanobots)