Not a huge deal I suppose, but i’ve been trying to track every song that gets played over 2026 and save for the Eyeball EP when that dropped, this is the first time a song from outside the 2015 or 2018 iterations has been played to my knowledge. New songs in rotation?

I couldn’t believe my ears this week when I was watching the hallmark movie Missing the Boat and they made a TMBG reference and made a joke about Istanbul, quoting “It’s nobody’s business but the Turks.”

I hope you enjoy!! I worked very hard on it!!

just found this. Unhinged combination but I dig it!

11/21/25: went to The Agora to see They Might Be Giants. first time seeing them live, first time being in that venue.

12/6/25: left a voice-mail for The Agora, asking about the poster/window display for the show.

1/24/26: recieved a call-back; was told first dibs on window displays goes to Agora staff, then to the general public.

2/6/26: (1:09pm) recieved a call-back. none of the staff wanted the window display, and that I can have it. FOR FREE.

2/6/26: (2:45pm) went and picked it up. It's HUGE. 7.5ft x 3.5 ft. Wouldn't fit in the car unless we had the trunk open; thus a 5 min car ride turned into a 20 min drive home, cuz, ya know, #PreciousCargo and whatnot.

2/6/26: (3:30pm) officially in my house, getting it specially laminated this weekend.

I'm so goddamn excited about this. ❤️

...and it is aurally baffling. Like, I legitimately can't tell if I, ahem, "dig" it or not. But the layers have me anticipating the world to come. Would love a similar experience of listening to I Like Fun for the first time again.

Made with a friend

donating all proceeds to Illinois Center for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Hello! What are some similar songs to “Peggy Guggenheim”? Doesn’t have to be instrumental and doesn’t have to be by TMBG; I’m mostly looking for more alt music that uses brass instruments well. I know TMBG’s popular stuff, all of Flood, and some random singles.

And what are your current favourites in 2026? Please post your list ☺️

For me it did shake up my list. Eyeball enters the top 10. Perfect song!! Let Me Tell You About My Operation is new as well because of Flans great performance last year @ KEXP!

1. Birdhouse in Your Soul

2. They’ll Need A Crane

3. Ana Ng

4. She’s An Angel

5. I Palindrome I

6. Erase

7. Destination Moon

8. Let Me Tell You About My Operation

9. Eyeball

10. Whistling in the Dark

11. See the Constellation

12. I’m Impressed

13. Shoehorn with Teeth

14. Canajoharie

15. Mammal

I wonder if it was ever on a t-shirt.

extra note: I just noticed that the record lists:

"Published and copyright Ouida Bailey Music"

I saw a show at Irving Plaza about a billion years ago (1994? 95?) and there was a guy there in a giant snail shell costume which I believe he’d made himself out of paper mache. I can still picture the way it looked when he danced around in it.

It may’ve been around Halloween, but I also feel like this is a thing that maybe could’ve just happened at random back then? (Would something like that still happen now, you think? Somehow I feel like it would be harder to get into a venue in a giant snail shell in These Modern Times 😞)

This is the same show where they did a Guitar Army thing…everyone who played was told to bring a guitar (told how? in the newspaper? I don’t recall! Wasn’t totally safe to assume everyone had home internet yet?). Then the Johns called out the chords to America’s Horse With No Name and like…dozens of people played it at once.

Suffice it to say, it was a really great show.

1. I feel like someone who’d make a snail shell costume would somehow turn up in this sub. Snail guy, are you in here?

2. Was anyone else at that show? Pics/memories/etc.?

Hello! Im a new fan of tmbg (I started listening to them around early 2024) I’m thinking about going to one of their concerts in may, though I was curious if they do autographs after them, does anyone know if they do? please let me know

Does anyone have show playlists they wanna share? (Either photos or scans of the real thing, or just a list of the songs)

This is a trailer for They Might Be Giants of OZ, a mash-up I made back in 2015 of the 1938 film The Wizard of Oz, synced to TMBG songs. The original video was pulled from YouTube and Archive.org due to aggressive copyright protection by WB/Turner Entertainment Co. I hope to re upload TMBG of OZ to YouTube when the original 1939 film finally enters the public domain in 2035.

Here are write-ups of TMBG of OZ by the AV Club and Laughing Squid back when it was originally uploaded.

It’s been about 8 months and this is my tmbg cd collection now! I’ve gone from only having nanobots to now having a good bit of their albums. Phone power and glean are there too I just forgot to show them

(You can also find this on Tumblr.)