- This is the user page for HotelDetectiveInTheFuture (that's me). For the extremely funky track from Podcast 5A (and Cast Your Pod to the Wind), see (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future.
| TMBW Userboxes
|
|
813-edit contributor!
|
|
This user's second favourite album is Lincoln.
|
|
This user's third favourite album is Flood.
|
|
This user's fourth favourite album is The Else.
|
|
TMBG's management sent this user two stickers and a signed photo of the Johns as a consolation prize for not being able to join the 2024 Instant Fan Club, which might even be cooler than being an actual IFC member. No, this user is not making it all up. This actually happened.
|
| FAN
|
This user became a TMBG fan in 2019.
|
| SV
|
This user has rated the following songs.
|
AGE:
1000
|
This user is 1000 years old.
|
|
This user's favourite EP is Eyeball.
|
|
This user thinks that Mink Car is underrated.
|
|
This user doesn't know which John they prefer.
|
|
This user plays accordion, but not very well.
|
|
Greetings[edit]
Hello! I am HotelDetectiveInTheFuture. Happy Monday. How's it going? I'm a big fan of the band They Might Be Giants from Brooklyn, New York. If you haven't heard of them, I highly recommend checking them out. I don't know what the overlap of TMBW.net users and They Might Be Giants fans would be, but I think they're neat. Sadly, I have yet to see them in concert, because I guess Canada haunts them or something. I am slowly building my collection of TMBG memorabilia. I like to make taglines among other things, here is a list of all the taglines I've made.
My TMBG fandom story[edit]
Part One[edit]
When I was a wee young'un (about 3 or 4), my parents played me the Here Come The 123s DVD, and I absolutely fell in love with the songs, music videos, and of course, the Puppet Johns. They also played me Here Comes Science but admittedly I wasn't as in love with THAT album as much as the 123s album (I like Science more now.) So yeah, those were my two favourite albums for a very long time.
Part Two[edit]
Cut to 2019, I had mainly forgotten about They Might Be Giants and Here Come the 123s etc, that is until I heard Crystal Fortress. You see, in the summer of 2019, I was on a huge Homestar Runner phase, and I stumbled upon Crystal Fortress. Then I was like: "Oh yeah, They Might Be Giants, I forgot about them!" That led me into a TMBG rabbit hole. I didn't know where to start with TMBG, but then I found this random TMBG Top 20 Songs list, and I checked out those songs. The list had a healthy mix of TMBG classics like Don't Let's Start, Ana Ng, Birdhouse In Your Soul, and also some obscure deep cuts like Mr. Klaw, Shape Shifter, and I'm All You Can Think About. (I have since tried to find this list online, to no avail.)
Part Three[edit]
Then, in 2021, I went into an even deeper dive to prepare for the release of BOOK and listened to every single album. And as a result They Might Be Giants became my definitive favourite band. Not long after BOOK came out, I started listening to live recordings, all that jazz, then I found out about the wiki! And the rest is history.
John Henry is All About the Same Death, But in Alternate Realities Tour[edit]
PAST TOUR DATES!
- 12 March, 2022 - Interpretations:Subliminal
- 12 March, 2022 - Interpretations:Snail Shell
- 12 March, 2022 - Interpretations:Sleeping In The Flowers
- 18 June, 2022 - Interpretations:Unrelated Thing
- 18 June, 2022 - Interpretations:AKA Driver
- 27 June, 2022 - Interpretations:I Should Be Allowed To Think
- 12 November, 2022 - Interpretations:Extra Savoir-Faire
- 8 March, 2023 - Interpretations:Why Must I Be Sad?
- 27 March, 2023 - Interpretations:Spy
- 27 March, 2024 - Interpretations:O, Do Not Forsake Me
- 20 February, 2026 - Interpretations:No One Knows My Plan
FUTURE TOUR DATES!
My collection[edit]
For my non-TMBG collection, see here.
My personal top 10 TMBG songs[edit]
10. Nanobots
9. Birdhouse In Your Soul
8. Ana Ng
7. Hey Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had a Deal
6. Doctor Worm
5. The End of the Tour
4. Snowball in Hell
3. Fingertips
2. Experimental Film
1. The Mesopotamians
TMBG studio albums ranked worst to best (in my personal opinion)[edit]
NOTE: My ranking of TMBG albums fluctuates from day to day, so this might be inaccurate. It will also become outdated when The World Is To Dig comes out.
INDIVIDUAL SONG RANKINGS OF EACH ALBUM CAN BE FOUND RIGHT HERE!!!!!! (INCOMPLETE)
Other musical interests[edit]
