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Youth Culture Killed My Dog

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song nameYouth Culture Killed My Dog
artistThey Might Be Giants
releasesThey Might Be Giants, Then: The Earlier Years, Best Of The Early Years
year1986
first playedMar. 1, 1990 (13 known performances)
run time2:51
sung byJohn Flansburgh, John Linnell sings some back-up

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.

Song Themes

Animals, Colors, Death, Games, Mind Control, Hypnotism, Music, References To Other Songs Or Musicians, Violence

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