Rabid Child

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song name	Rabid Child
artist	They Might Be Giants
album	1985 Demo Tape, They Might Be Giants, Then: The Earlier Years
year	1985
first played	Oct. 22, 1992 (6 known performances)
run time	1:31
sung by	John Flansburgh

TMBG made a bizarre music video for "Rabid Child", featuring the Johns in masks and Linnell playing an accordion with a giant fez on his head. (The identity of the third masked man is unknown.) Much of the video consists of Flansburgh singing into the camera while hugging the wall. The video was recorded in Flansburgh's old apartment, with a regular video camera. The camera was positioned in one room, shooting into his kitchen. The full video has never been seen publicly, though a short clip was included in "Gigantic" as a compromise after AJ Schnack fought for its inclusion in the disc's bonus features. "I promised fans that I would ask John and John about including the full piece and I was quickly (but politely) laughed out of the room (or would have been if we had been in the same room)." [1]
If you have your "rabbit ears" on you're listening and trying to reach someone. The CB slang term "hammer down" means to speed up really fast, similar to "floor it."
The mix on the 1985 demo tape is not drastically different, but is noticeably fuller and warmer than the comparatively flat commercially-released mix. (In fact, compared to the wide-stereo demo tape version, the mix on "Then: The Earlier Years" seems almost monaural.)

Current Rating

Rabid Child is currently ranked #336 out of 802. (92 wikians have given it an average rating of 8.46)