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Youth Culture Killed My Dog
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| song name | Youth Culture Killed My Dog |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| album | They Might Be Giants, Then: The Earlier Years, Best Of The Early Years |
| year | 1986 |
| first played | Mar. 1, 1990 (10 known performances) |
| run time | 2:51 |
| sung by | John Flansburgh |
[edit] Trivia/Info
- Flansburgh has said he wrote this song while riding his bike through Brooklyn.
- Originally the song featured a searing electric guitar, which was replaced by an acoustic guitar due to track constraints. That guitar can be heard on the 1985 Demo Tape version. "To this day we can't remember why we did that, but it's too late to go back and change it." - John & John
- Bill Krauss on Youth Culture Killed My Dog (from a 1994 interview):
The version of "Youth Culture" on the Pink Album was the fourth time that song was recorded! That's unusual; most of the ones on that record were the third time they were recorded. Actually, if you consider Dial-A-Song, it could be one more version. Usually there would be a Dial-A-Song version, and then some other ones.
- Flansburgh claims that Elvis Costello cited this as one of his favorite They Might Be Giants songs. (Costello came close to producing Apollo 18.)
[edit] Song Themes
Animals, Colors, Death, Games, Mind Control, Hypnotism, Music, References To Other Songs Or Musicians
[edit] Videos
Current Rating Youth Culture Killed My Dog is currently ranked #253 out of 799. (101 wikians have given it an average rating of 8.63)
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