They Might Be Giants Song Picker

before you get started

i hate javascript, i'm a literal amnesiac who doesn't remember starting this project (& lost all evidence of the actual work i did other than what is in this html file), & the documentation for this tool was, as it seems to me, always kind of fucked. this tool has NO SORTING right now. i'm sorry; i fought a million wars trying to make it so, but i at least want this page to be functional in the meantime. you can press the album select buttons, but they don't do anything but reflect which releases are currently included. you will have to actually sort all the songs in one go like a maniac. if you want to skip a whole batch without having any of its songs come up again, just pick a random song & move on. i can't say i didn't try.

welcome to my tmbg picker! here, tmbg songs are pitted against each other and it's up to you to select which ones you like better until your favourites start to appear. don't worry about your progress—the website will save it for you. :]

to use this picker, simply select the songs you like best from the current group, and then hit "pick" to confirm your selection(s). the songs you didn't pick will be marked as eliminated by the songs you did pick. for a shorter list, focus on picking your top favourites; for a longer list, pick all the songs you prefer from the current group. you can use the "pass" button to skip the current group, but only do this if you want more time to decide; this is functionally the same as picking everything—it marks down none of the songs as having been eliminated, and they'll come up again later if you keep playing.

neither the code for the picker nor the idea of pitting tmbg songs against each other are my own. the code is originally for the favourite pokemon picker from the cave of dragonflies, and it can be found on github here. the tmbg sorter i took inspiration from was made by fellow neocities denizen bluef00t, and his can be played with on his site here. (psst—you can play his sorter if you want smaller selections of songs at once, as long as album filtering is still a non-starter on my page.) i'd also like to thank this might be a wiki for providing references of what to sort where.

adult albums: Pink Album Lincoln Flood Apollo 18 John Henry Factory Showroom Long Tall Weekend Mink Car The Spine The Else Join Us Nanobots Glean Phone Power I Like Fun My Murdered Remains/More Murdered Remains The Escape Team BOOK

kids' albums: No! Here Come the ABCs Here Come the 123s Here Comes Science Why?

collections: Miscellaneous T Then: The Earlier Years exclusives They Got Lost Venue Songs Cast Your Pod to the Wind Album Raises New and Troubling Questions

if you like this picker, you might also like a picker i made just for the fingertips tracks! it doesn't have sorting either, but it doesn't need it. try it out here.