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Exquisite Dead Guy
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| song name | Exquisite Dead Guy |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| album | Factory Showroom, Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants |
| year | 1996 |
| first played | Sep. 19, 1996 (115 known performances) |
| run time | 2:02 |
| sung by | John Linnell |
[edit] 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.
[edit] Song Themes
Death, Guy Songs, Nonsense Words, People (Imaginary), Questions, Real Estate, Zombies Or The Undead
[edit] Videos
Current Rating Exquisite Dead Guy is currently ranked #173 out of 797. (118 wikians have given it an average rating of 8.78)
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