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Alienation's For The Rich

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song nameAlienation's for the Rich
artistThey Might Be Giants
releases1985 Demo Tape, They Might Be Giants, Then: The Earlier Years
year1985
first playedDec. 31, 1969 (14 known performances)
run time2:25
sung byJohn Flansburgh

Trivia/Info

  • Flansburgh originally wrote this while in an earlier band called The Turtlenecks.
  • "We're gonna do a song that was written by my father, Mr. Earl Flansburgh, and it's called 'Alienation's for the Rich'." - John Flansburgh, June 23, 1987
  • Flansburgh frequently replaced the lyric "And the TV is in Esperanto" with "And the TV's talking Spanish" during earlier live performances.
  • Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. The name derives from Doktoro Esperanto, the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof first published the Unua Libro in 1887. The word itself means 'one who hopes'. Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy and flexible language as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding. [1]

Song Themes

Criminal Activities, Drinking, I Am, Language, Loneliness, Money, Self-Reference, School, Swear Words, Talking, Not Singing, Transportation

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