| "Snail Shell" | ||||
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| Single by They Might Be Giants | ||||
| from the album John Henry | ||||
| Released | 15 August 1994 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, funk rock | |||
| Length | 3:20 | |||
| Label | Elektra | |||
| Songwriter(s) | John Linnell, John Flansburgh | |||
| Producer(s) | Paul Fox & They Might Be Giants | |||
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| Music video | ||||
| Snail Shell on YouTube | ||||
"Snail Shell" is a song by American alternative rock band They Might Be Giants. It was released on August 15, 1994 as the lead promotional single off of their fifth album, John Henry. It peaked at 19 on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart.[1] This was a commercial disappointment for the band, as the song was perceived by the band as having the potential to be as successful as their breakthrough hit, Birdhouse in Your Soul.[2] The day after the single's release, the group put out the E.P. Back to Skull, which features the song along with a version remixed by The Dust Brothers entitled "Snail Dust".
The song, if taken literally, regards a snail who wishes to direct gratitude to an unknown person for, as he puts it, "putting me back in my snail shell".
- ^ "Snail Shell/Charts". tmbw.net. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
- ^ Doherty, Brian (27 March 2010). "They Might Be Giants/Snail Shell Video". Archived from the original on 12 June 2010.