They Might Be Giants Obsession Test
This is a test to see how obsessed you are with They Might Be Giants.
I. Posessions
1. Do you own all the albums?
2. Do you own any singles?
3. ... more than 3?
4. ... more than 6?
5. Do you own any bootleg tapes?
6. ... more than 3?
7. ... more than 6?
8. Have you made any bootleg tapes?
9. ... more than 3?
10. ... more than 6?
11. ... and been caught trying?
12. Do you own the infamous Purple Toupee 8-track?
13. Have you ever copied an album from a friend only to buy it later?
14. ... and kept the copy?
15. Do you own any of their videos?
16. ... more than 3?
17. ... more than 6?
18. Do you have .WAV (or other format) files of various songs?
19. Do you have the TMBG home page in your bookmark file?
20. Do you have the TMBG home page as a link from your home page?
21. ... Is it the only link?
22. Do you have Dial-a-Song on your phone's autodialer?
23. ... Is it the only number?
24. Do you have John or John's autographs?
25. ... more than once?
26. Do you own any albums of other groups mentioned in the FAQ?
II. Concert Attendance
27. Have you been to any concerts?
28. ... more than 3?
29. ... more than 6?
30. ... more than 10?
31. Have you ever been to a concert of another group mentioned in the FAQ?
32. ... and stayed a fan?
33. Have you ever avoided work/school to go to a concert?
34. ... of one of the other groups?
35. Have you ever postponed a date to go to a concert?
36. ... of one of the other groups?
37. Have you ever gone way out of your way (i.e. NY to CA) to see a concert?
38. ... of one of the other groups?
39. Have you ever met someone of the opposite sex at a concert?
40. ... who you're still seeing?
41. ... to whom you're now married?
42. Have you ever made a request at a concert (not stump-the-band)?
43. ... that they played?
44. ... that they commented on first?
45. Have you ever made a stump-the-band request?
46. ... that they played?
47. ... that they played well?
48. ... that got a good crowd response?
49. At concerts, when they play Ana Ng and Don't Let's Start, do you do the
"dance steps" as they are shown in the videos?
50. Have you ever helped cause a stage collapse during "The Famous Polka?"
51. Have you ever been to a concert where they didn't play "Istanbul?"
52. ... after it was released?
53. Have you ever been to the first concert on a tour?
54. ... more than once?
III. Personal Habits
55. Do you listen to TMBG more than 3 hours a day?
56. ... more than 6?
57. ... more than 10?
58. Have you ever forced a friend to listen to TMBG in the hopes that they'll
become addicted?
59. ... and succeded?
60. ... and failed?
61. Have you imposed TMBG on relatives (i.e. on long car trips, etc)
62. ... and had them like it?
63. Do you call Dial-a-Song more than once a month?
64. ... more than once a week?
65. ... a day?
66. ... an hour?
67. Do you quote songs when speaking?
68. ... and people understand you?
69. Have you ever learned to play the accordion?
70. ... after having heard TMBG?
71. ... and play it well?
72. ... and play it for money?
73. ... and can play TMBG songs on it?
74. Do you put all the albums (or as many as possible) in a CD changer
and "shuffle?"
75. Are your system sounds set to TMBG song bits?
Have you ever done any of the following:
76. Made a hole in a globe with a gun to see where the bullet came out?
77. ... at least looked at the globe to figure out where this would be?
78. Wound a piece of string around a rock?
79. Worn a prosthetic forehead?
80. Made a little birdhouse in your soul?
81. Gone to Istanbul just for the sake of being in not Constantinople?
82. Put a snail back in its shell?
83. Gone to the beach with a metal detector because of the song?
84. Researched information from their songs (i.e. James K. Polk, what is
'falderal' anyway? things like that...)
85. Have you ever commented on errors (i.e. grammar, chords) in TMBG songs?
86. ... and been wrong?
87. Have you ever tried to interpret their songs?
88. ... and had them respond to your interpretations (i.e. someone saw
yours and mentioned it to them)
89. Have you ever written a TMBG related text file (like this one)?
IV. Trivia
90. Do you know how Dial-a-Song got started?
91. Do you know where any of the videos were filmed?
... more than 3?
... more than 6?
92. Do you know John and John's birthdays?
93. ... and send them cards?
94. Do you know John and John's middle names?
95. Do you know their parents' names?
96. ... their parents' middle names?
97. Do you know who those people are in the They'll Need a Crane video?
98. ... the Snail Shell video?
99. ... the Don't Let's Start video? (the ones holding the faces)
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Scoring:
Count 1 point for each yes answer. Divide by n for your percentage. If your
score is:
0-15: You need some work. Go to a few shows.
16-35: Average fan. You probably actually listen to them occasionally.
36-55: Mildly obsessed.
56-75: Fairly obsessed. You've probably been to a lot of shows, too.
76-95: You probably listen to no other music.
96-100: No, John, the test was for *fans*, not you.