Song: Dog Eat Dog
Running Time: 3:42
Year: 1986
Album: Polka Party, Al-In-The-Box, The Essential "Weird Al" Yankovic
Style Parody of: Talking Heads (And She Was, Artists Only, Stay Up Late, Once In A Lifetime)
Genre: New wave, art rock
Guitar tuning: E flat
Lyrics: Lyrics
Video: No
Download/Listen: MIDI
Forum: Forum Discussion Page
Trivia[]
- When performing Dog Eat Dog in concert, Al will typically don an oversized suit that is in direct resemblance of David Byrne from Talking Heads who wore an oversized suit for his stage performances.
- An inscription on the deadwax of "Dare To Be Stupid" reads "More Songs About TV and Food". A reference to the title of Talking Heads' sophomore album "More Songs About Buildings and Food".
- The Lyric "They'll never miss it!" may be a reference to the track "Born Under Punches"
- The opening lyric "Found a job at a great, big office" may be a reference to the track "Found a Job."
- Al's utternace of "watch me work" may be a reference to the track "The Good Thing."
- This is the only song on Polka Party! to be featured on The Essential "Weird Al" Yankovic.
- The line "Sometimes I tell myself, this is not my beautiful stapler, Sometimes I tell myself this is not my beautiful chair" is a reference to the song "Once in a Lifetime".