Stand On Your Own Head
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| song name | Stand on Your Own Head |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | Lincoln, Then: The Earlier Years |
| year | 1988 |
| first played | December 8, 1987 (13 known performances) |
| run time | 1:16 |
| sung by | John Linnell, John Flansburgh harmonizes |
Trivia/Info
- John Linnell would explain the song's title and wordplay in 2023 for Everything Sticks Like A Broken Record, a track-by-track breakdown of the Lincoln album featured in Bandbox Issue #103:
There's this expression "stand on your head," which means to be upside down and holding yourself up, but then "Stand on Your Own Head" kind of implies that someone else has been standing on your head and they should stand on their own head instead. That was kind of the gag. The rest of the lyrics have a similar messing-around-with-language quality. "I like people / They're the ones who can't stand," instead of, "I like people / I'm the one they can't stand." That was the kind of writing I was exploring.
- On some streaming/digital platforms, this song is mistitled “Stand On Your Head”.
Song Themes
Body Parts, Fire, Furniture, Heads, Love, Misanthropy, Oblique Cliches Or Idiom, Sleep, Upside-Down
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