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Twisting

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song nameTwisting
artistThey Might Be Giants
releasesFlood, Twisting (Single), Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants
year1990
first playedNov. 25, 1989 (515 known performances)
run time1:56
sung byJohn Flansburgh

Trivia/Info

  • Flans: "This piece of farfisa [organ] rock is directly influenced by the bands it references. The Young Fresh Fellows from Seattle are a group whose happy, sad-sack sensibility we probably related to, and the dB's were one of the great under-recognized bands of the New York scene we started with, and their great song 'Amplifier' is a more melodramatic iteration of the same idea." - 2009 RollingStone Interview
  • Frequently referred to as "Twistin'."
  • References (both lyrically and stylistically) the bands Young Fresh Fellows and The dB's.
  • Used in a commercial to advertise The WB series Modern Men.
  • Used in a British Pizza Hut commercial in the early 2000s.

Song Themes

Animals, Death, Egoism And Pretentiousness, Funny But Sad, Love Gone Sour, References To Other Songs Or Musicians, Screaming, Songs Used In Commercials, Songs With Handclaps

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