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“Your Racist Friend” by They Might Be Giants
From the album Flood (1990)
“Your Racist Friend” by They Might Be Giants appears on 7 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1999 and 2005. It was first released in 1990 on the album Flood. Its best result is #477 on the CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,745 alternative song of all time.
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John Flansburgh and John Linnell wrote "Your Racist Friend" for Flood, the third They Might Be Giants album and the duo's first for the major label Elektra, released in January 1990. Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley produced, and Charlie Sepulveda plays trumpet on the track.
Flood was cut at Skyline Studios in New York City, better equipped than anywhere the pair had worked before, and Linnell and Flansburgh made the most of the new gear, running homemade samples through Casio FZ-1 synthesizers. It turned into their best seller and the album most people know them by, with "Birdhouse in Your Soul" and "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" leading the charge, and it's widely counted among the best records of the '90s.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 477 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 479 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 486 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 486 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 486 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 486 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 488 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
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