Crooked Teeth (Death Cab for Cutie song)
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{{Infobox song
| name = Crooked Teeth
| cover = Crooked Teeth.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Death Cab for Cutie
| album = Plans
| released = 2006
| recorded = Spring 2005
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Indie rock
| length = 3:23
| label = Atlantic
| writer = Ben Gibbard, Chris Walla
| producer = Chris Walla
| prev_title = Soul Meets Body
| prev_year = 2005
| next_title = I Will Follow You into the Dark
| next_year = 2005
}}
"Crooked Teeth" is a song by indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, the second single from their 2005 album, Plans.
The single was released on Atlantic Records, featuring the song "Crooked Teeth" and two B-side tracks: "Talking Like Turnstiles", and a cover of the Julian Cope song "World Shut Your Mouth", which was originally released two years earlier as a B-side on the internet-only single "Title and Registration", from the band's previous album, Transatlanticism. The single peaked at number 10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, making it Death Cab for Cutie's seventh highest charting song in the United States to-date.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/death-cab-for-cutie/chart-history/mrt/|title=Death Cab for Cutie Chart History: Alternative Songs|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=June 24, 2018}}
Background
The song was co-written by lead singer and guitarist Ben Gibbard and guitarist Chris Walla. In a 2011 episode of VH1 Storytellers, Gibbard spoke about the back story behind the lyrical content of "Crooked Teeth":VH1 Storytellers. "Death Cab for Cutie." 77. May 27, 2011. Accessed from: [https://web.archive.org/web/20111016202702/http://www.vh1.com/video/misc/657037/crooked-teeth-vh1-storytellers.jhtml]
{{Quotation|One of my favorite, favorite writers in the whole world is a man named Raymond Carver and he had this way of writing stories about people living small lives going through some very, uh... their very own trials and tribulations in ways that I've always really admired. I wanted to kind of create a story that involved two characters that were trapped by geography in Southern Florida and that they were kind of keeping themselves captive and the city that surrounded them was seemingly closing in on them and this was the outcome of that experiment. This is my attempt to be a junior Raymond Carver.|Benjamin Gibbard|VH1 Storytellers|}}
Track listing
=UK 7" single #1=
- "Crooked Teeth"
- "World Shut Your Mouth"
=UK 7" single #2=
- "Crooked Teeth"
- "Talking Like Turnstiles"
=UK CD Single=
- "Crooked Teeth"
- "Talking Like Turnstiles"
- "Crooked Teeth" (Music Video)
- "Making of Plans" (Documentary Video)
Chart positions
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!Chart (2006) !Peak |
| Australian ARIA singles chart
|align="center"|100 |
| Canada Rock Top 30 (Radio & Records){{cite web|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-RandR/2000s/2006/RR-2006-04-28.pdf|title=RR Canada Rock Top 30|page=54|access-date=July 12, 2021}}
|align="center"|30 |
| {{single chart|Scotland|43|date=20060416|accessdate=19 January 2021}} |
| {{singlechart|UKsinglesbyname|69|artist=Death Cab for Cutie|accessdate=7 August 2017}} |
| {{singlechart|Billboardalternativesongs|10|artist=Death Cab for Cutie|accessdate=7 August 2017}} |
Certifications
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References
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{{Death Cab for Cutie}}
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Category:Death Cab for Cutie songs
Category:Atlantic Records singles