Looks like it's closer to a nice underground triphop album rather than TMBG, but damn nice nonetheless.

Now there's a genre name I never heard of before!

Check out my userpage. I make music of that genre. If you like chilled out stuff, it's really good.

Eee, I spot the canary! :D (I adore that band as well.) <333

Yayyy, the little birdhouse made it in, it's always one of my favorite songs of theirs. :)

Is the tee shirt still happening?

I assume so but I don't know when!

It happened: http://theymightbegiants.merchdirec.....e-wrong-bundle

Holy crap! So many references! I've been a TMBG fan since the first album, and I'm having a ball figuring out all the references. This has the makings of an awesome t-shirt.

https://instagram.com/p/1d9FZxp4SH/ It does make a nice shirt!

Well, I hope the next time They're up your way, you have a chance to rock the living hell out of that shirt at a concert.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vkpewp9yl....._2021.jpg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/p5s2iyair....._2018.jpg?dl=0
Last April :D
(and there are... plans with this drawing, I just don't know when yet!)

It's... magnificent!

One of my favorite They Might Be Giants albums is 1990s "Flood." I don't think I have any others. I know there were a couple Children's "Gee wow-Science!" themed albums created by the band. I feel like I "missed the bus" with the band's current offerings though.

Great image by the way. I instantly got lost in all the interesting little details.

You could always go to their youtube channel, most of their albums are on there in full. Of course it's a matter of taste but if you liked Flood, there must be so much other stuff out there that you like. I have over 600 individual songs on my harddrive alone. I personally do like the three Disney albums (the 'Here come...' themed ones), but they did continue to do 'adult' work throughout that period as well. Their first kids album (No!) and most likely their upcoming one (Why?) are far more wacky. All the stuff from 2015 is also on http://dialasong.com/.

Is there a shoehorn with teeth? There are so many references! xD

There's no such thing!

Touché!

cool

Wow, there are the absolutely strangest things in this picture.

Sooo...where's Istanbul (not Constantinople) in there?

You are amazingly amazing.

They might be frying up a stalk of wheat - BOY~!

this is so so SO SO GOOD UAHGHHGH.

Aaa!

https://youtu.be/u6nTNO5CsUM

That song also came out right after I finished this, so sadly no drawing of a peeled apart golfball with deep inside some alien blood

Yup. You said, "Aaa," so I followed suit.

I notice you have the squid, a broom, a grocery bag, a stalk of wheat. Not to mention a lucky ball and chain, a human skull (on the ground perhaps?), and a guitar (but no silver spaceship). Is the phone a ref towards their Dial-A-Songs?

Are there any plans to sell this as a shirt? Or a poster? :D

The band actually got the rights from me to use this picture but I have no idea when it'd get used! I won't be selling shirts of it myself, since it's fan art and I prefer not to make money off it.

That's alright. Still, your shirt looks pretty awesome. :D

I might just know basically every word to every song on Apollo 18...love this art!!

Yes! Globe with a bullet hole.

In Viet Nam! (Which Judy is.)

Also, I love that it's inspired by Pogo: http://tmbw.net/wiki/images/9/9f/Pogo1953.png

I didn't know that! That's great!

Took me a minute to find the birdhouse. About twenty years ago I was lucky enough to see them at an in-store show in Cambridge, MA. I went in on my lunch break not knowing they were playing.

Wow, you hit the jackpot!

The bee of the bird of the moth!

I loved their first set of albums (up through Factory Showroom) but lost interest when they began doing stuff aimed at children.

The ones I can pick out fairly easily:

In the "T."

(My) Metal Detector
Birdhouse (in your Soul)
Bag of groceries (from "Dead")
The noose (possibly from "Twisting.")
Stompbox

In the "H."

Spaceman (Apollo 18 ref?)
Severe Tire Damage
Chair (Someone Keeps Moving my Chair)
Bottle of Nyquil (AKA Driver)
Worm & Drumsticks (Dr. Worm)
Scarecrow (Where your Eyes don't Go.)
Pillow (ref. to one of the Fingertips songs?)

In the "E."

SPIDER!
Bellboy cap & magnifying glass (Hotel Detective)
Snailshell
Pencil (Pencil Reign?)
We Want A Rock (To tie a piece of string around)
Sperm whale (Apollo 18 ref)

In the "Y."

Dinner Bell
(Lucky) Ball and Chain
Toupee (Purple Toupee?)
Skull (Turn Around)
Squid (Apollo 18 ref)

The guitar, accordion and violin could either be refs to specific songs or there as examples of instruments they're known for.

I'm sure there's others I could get if I dragged out my CDs and cross-checked the titles, but this is what I can get by memory without doing that.

That's getting there! Some of them refer to very recent or obscure songs, and some don't even refer to songs at all (an example would be the log which is a reference to their first website). A lot of them also are double (or even more) references, like the tree, lightbulb or the beard which can easily refer to more than three things. (I like the forehead because it is a prosthetic forehead, bangs and also LINNELL'S HAIRWOOSH.) All 17 studio albums are represented and a lot of the other releases are as well. The Johns' solo projects are represented as well.

Oh yeah, the accordion is a specific one that gets used, I forgot the name (it's not the main squeeze, that one has way too many squigglies on it). The guitar is Flans' self-designed Chessmaster (you can see it in several clips, like The Statue Got Me High). The violin is a reference to the song Violin. Which is amazing.

Oh man somebody put the clip from the DVD online. It is... it is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87T4w10jDTI

Most people don't know who they are (which is frustrating) I found them when branching out from my go-to bands; Joy Division , The Smiths, The Clash, the cure, etc. If you have a soft spot for the obscure bands, an incredible underground band that no one knows of that I love is Motorama if you like they might be Giants you might want to check them out!

all the sharp details and doodads! FUNNESS!!!!! This would make an excellent t-shirt (HINT HINT cough)!

http://theymightbegiants.merchdirec.....e-wrong-bundle

Seriously just amazing.

Any refs from the song 'Fingertips'?

There's a pillow! And a wrecked car. A lot of them are kind of double references, I also had plenty of other ideas but I had to see what 'puzzle pieces' fit in there. That wrecked car could probably easily reference 10 songs, haha.

Oh right, and a carton of milk.

And a matchstick with fire.

And a foam finger. (it's been a few months since I drew this haha) (the finger prop is something they used to hand out at the live shows for kids)

Oh and a heart ...attack

(As said most of these are double references though! The heart refers to The Bloodboat and Blood Mobile and their tendency to sing about human organs in general)

Nice. Man. Nice.

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuude I was just about to go to sleep but now I'm gonna spend an hour staring at this.

And yeah, if you ever redo this you should definitely put in the ambulance. And a mole, and a three-part folding mirror, anything from Definition of Good and Shape Shifter, and....

I can just wait a year or three by wich they'll have made enough material for MIGHT BE GIANTS

cool. I love me some TMBG!