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Exquisite Dead Guy

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song nameExquisite Dead Guy
artistThey Might Be Giants
releasesFactory Showroom, Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants
year1996
first playedSep. 8, 1996 (125 known performances)
run time2:02
sung byJohn Linnell

Trivia/Info

A song of admiration for a departed hero. The title is inspired by the name of a parlor game of the Surrealists, "The Exquisite Corpse", in which players take turns constructing a sentence word by word without seeing what has already been written.
  • Exquisite Corpse is a game surrealists used to play at parties. See exquisitecorpse.com for more info.
  • The band would "perform" this live by playing a tape of the studio version while moving two doll heads on long poles around a dimly lit stage. A few years later, they would "perform" Counterfeit Faker in the same manner.

Song Themes

Death, Guy Songs, Nonsense Words, People (Imaginary), Questions, Real Estate, Zombies Or The Undead

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