Trouble Awful Devil Evil
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Dial-A-Song (2015) artwork
| song name | Trouble Awful Devil Evil |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | Dial-A-Song (2015), Phone Power |
| year | 2015 |
| first played | November 29, 2015 (43 known performances) |
| run time | 3:34 |
| sung by | John Linnell; John Flansburgh joins in on the chorus |
Trivia/Info
- Video directed by Paul Sahre. Animation by Zak Tebbal, who would later also animate the video for "College Town".
- John Linnell has cited the Australian post-punk band The Birthday Party as an inspiration for this song, "even though it sounds absolutely nothing like The Birthday Party."
- In an interview with This Might Be A Zine, director Alex Italics stated that "Many, many years ago Flans asked me to develop a potential video concept for the song "Trouble Awful Devil Evil." I was pretty happy with what I came up with, but I think they just ran out of time before it could really come together so they ended up going with a more typographical concept."
- In the Live At The Music Hall Of Williamsburg 11.29.15 recording, the word "ecstatically" from the album version is replaced with "impossibly".
Song Themes
Animals, Backwards, Body Parts, Clothes, Evil, Falling, Happiness, Religion, Supernatural, Sleep, Temperature, Time
Videos
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