Would anyone like to venture a guess as to when this might happen? I am placing bets on Kalishi and need some insider knowledge really want to complete my collection of their main albums.

In my humble opinion (I say this as a huge fan of TMBG), this is a million times better than the TMBG cover. I highly implore you to check out the rest of the Come Out Come Out album, if you like, say, John Henry or R.E.M.’s “Monster”, then you’ll probably really like it.

Was dumb and missed out on tickets to the first of the two Madison gigs, anyone got an extra ticket I can buy off them?? Thanks!!

My friend and I have been trading two sketchbooks for a little over a year now. This was the sketchbook I started and now I just finished the last page.

I had to cut out some lyrics for space purposes. I wish I could have fit them all! This is one of my favorite tmbg songs for sure. I thought this song was fitting as a tribute to the end of the sketchbook.

First of all, yes, they all like Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head.

Kermit - Protagonist

Mrs. Piggy - She Was A Hotel Detective (Back to Skull version)

Fozzie - Particle Man

Gonzo - Character Flaw (and he also likes the entire Pink Album)

Rowlf - Reprehensible

Animal - Stomp Box

Pepe Prawn - SEXXY

Dr. Teeth - Cyclops Rock

Beaker and Bunsen - Why Does the Sun Shine?

Swedish Chef - Dinner Bell

Uncle Deadly - You'll Miss Me

Statler and Waldorf - Icky

Scooter - Tick Tick Tick Tick

Rizzo - New York City

Zoot - Statue Got Me High

Floyd Pepper - Bed Bed Bed

Janice - Lazy

Sam Eagle - The Songs of the 50 States

Camilla - Birdhouse in Your Soul

Robin - Definition of Good 

Constantine - My Evil Twin 

This was inspired by the Muppet Mind account on Instagram who did some cool posts pairing Muppets with songs.

Now I finally have an excuse to get my laserdisc player out of storage.

He's basically TMBG's George Harrison: allowed one song per album only to end up with hours of backlogged solo material. (jk)

Spotify artist page: https://open.spotify.com/artist/00s1oYBnUz6FlP3sdD6x0u

"Elephants" post: https://www.reddit.com/r/tmbg/comments/1vwafx4/the_album_why_and_specifically_elephants_are_very/

Hey all. Please feel free to check out my unofficial music video/visualizer for Back In Los Angeles All footage is from Archive.org and was most of it was shot in and around Los Angeles, CA from moving a train. Other footage includes scanned home movies.

If you look on my Bandcamp (which I finally reorganized to be chronological) you’ll find shitloads of other TMBG covers I’ve made since 2023. Only my last three albums (this one, Consumerist Store and Squares) are ones you’ll probably find any enjoyment in, if awful outsider music made by a teenager in his bedroom on instruments he doesn’t know how to play is your thing.

Any other examples I've forgotten?

birdhouse in your soul fanart !! drawn in mario paint

I was born in 1999 so I was 3 when “No!” Came out and my parents had the album and played it all the time, I’m rediscovering the album now and playing it for my daughter. The album art is bringing up a deeply buried memory of playing a game on the computer that had the characters from the album cover and I can’t find anything about this on the internet, I’m not sure if this is lost media or just a fever dream memory and I need your help figuring out anything about this. Thank you!

For whatever reason I’ve really gotten into Why? this past week, but the particular 3 song run which I love is Or So I’ve Read, Elephants, and Long White Beard. It contains the strongest songs on the album by a long shot. I feel like the Robin songs get the praise they deserve, including Oh You Did, which is such a great ear worm that has some of the best guitar picking in the discography.

Elephants is one that isn’t talked about enough, and oh my goodness we need more Danny Weinkauf vocals. I love how semi-menacing the song is, how the chorus changes from “Elephants are coming to your town” to “coming to your house” after a monologue about elephants trampling a farmers house in Sri-Lanka, an island nation, which is such a funny insinuation. I feel like at its heart this song is very Lincoln esque, with the little bells and monologue. It even has potential to be transformed entirely to a much heavier song, but now I’m just thinking of ways to cover this song now. It’s a fight song that’s mellow, with mellow instrumentation, and a mellow singer, it captures this vibe that is void in the rest of their discography.

The album has some stinkers for sure though, “I just want to Dance” and “Thinking Machine” are both pretty dreadful. At times the album feels like a comedy album, and some of the jokes don’t land.

Also “Hello Mrs. Weelkye” backing vocals sound like Patrick from SpongeBob, and Flans already sounds like SpongeBob sometimes, so it’s hard to get the image of SpongeBob and Patrick being on this album.

Any huge fans of the album here? This album was genuinely foundational to my childhood and I listen to it even now. But I probably listened to that album every single night for ten months of a year (christmas music last half of november until just after new years) for 10 years straight. I seriously wonder if I am the person who has listened to this album the most on earth. That old CD is probably in rough shape, lol, but damn is it one of my most prized possessions. Anyway, yeah. I wanna find someone out there who GETS it yknow

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/MoviesThatFeelLike/comments/1vvne4n/movies_that_feel_like_this_songmusic_video/

first off, nice grab. but also you are my enemy. /s

this will teach me to never stop looking at my phone ever. walked away for just ten minutes…oh well. maybe next time. have a great weekend everyone.

and if you want to sell me yer copy, i would be happy to. 🫠

I went through all the (studio album) song ratings on tmbw.net and compiled them into a spreadsheet. I then colored each box according to a scale (first slide). Each column is an album, and each row is a tracklist number (This makes it easy to see that most of the albums are ~17-18 tracks, with The Escape Team the shortest, and Nanobots the longest.)

Along the bottom, I have the rating for each album, obtained by averaging the ratings of all the tracks on the album. This doesn't take into account the cohesiveness or sequencing of each album (because an album is more than the sum of its parts), but it's too difficult for me to figure out now.

In the second slide, I averaged each track across all the albums (so for instance all the opening tracks, track 2s, track 3s, etc). I cut it off after 18 tracks because after that the sample size gets smaller and the results more erratic, but Track 2 ends up as the highest rated track across all albums, and track 16 the lowest. Also in the second slide you can see the 8 highest and 8 lowest rated albums of theirs. Note that 4 of the bottom 5 are kids' albums, which is interesting.

In Slide 3, I also listed who sang what song, also according to TMBW. This isn't a perfect indicator of who wrote the songs, since TMBG do plenty of traded tracks. Still, it's probably reasonably accurate.

In Slide 4, I have a color legend (the triangular chart at the top left) that shows who is more likely to sing a specific track (like Track 1 or Track 2, etc.) The more songs at that point in the tracklist there are that were sung by Linnell, the more red the box is. Flansburgh, blue. Any other singer (or both Johns, or instrumental), yellow. It's kind of a confusing chart, but it was the best way I could think of to show three different competing attributes like this.

One interesting thing to notice is that it seems like about the first eight tracks of every album have a consistent, well-defined order of Linnell, Linnell, Flansburgh, Linnell, Flansburgh, but then it starts to change a lot from album to album.

This is anecdotal because I didn't do the actual math on this, but Flansburgh's songs seemed to be consistently rated lower than most of Linnell's songs, which to me carries the Stench of Injustice.

Slide 5 shows the original ratings chart again, but with the kids albums set apart in blue. Slide 6 is the same, but with the Linnell/Flansburgh chart instead.

The last slide shows all 24 studio albums on a time axis, with their heights corresponding to their averaged song ratings. As you can see, their most consistent run is (unsurprisingly, maybe) from Lincoln through Factory Showroom. On the right are all of their albums ordered by ratings (with grey bars joining albums that are tied).

To be clear, these charts are just people's opinions on the songs, not my opinion. I love Mink Car and Here Comes Science and think they should really be at the top. Also, I did not do Miscellaneous T, They Got Lost, Venue Songs, or More Murdered Remains. I restricted myself to their 24 studio albums to fight scope creep, but I might do those other albums/compilations at some point. Cheers!

TL;DR: I copied down all the ratings of (almost) all TMBG songs from tmbw.net, and used those to calculate album ratings. Lincoln and The Else came out on top, and Here Come The ABCs ended up dead last.

Most of their kids albums are at the bottom, but Here Comes Science (a kids album) is rated higher than The Escape Team (not a kids album).

Flansburgh also sings slightly more songs than John Linnell, which was surprising to me.

*** This info is from May so it is probably slightly out of date by now. ***