| Crooked Teeth | |
| Cover: | Crooked Teeth.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Death Cab for Cutie |
| Album: | Plans |
| Released: | April 11, 2006 |
| Recorded: | Spring 2005 |
| Genre: | Indie rock |
| Length: | 3:23 |
| Label: | Atlantic |
| Producer: | Chris Walla |
| Prev Title: | Soul Meets Body |
| Prev Year: | 2005 |
| Next Title: | I Will Follow You into the Dark |
| Next Year: | 2006 |
"Crooked Teeth" is a song by indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, the second single from their fifth album, Plans, released on April 11, 2006.
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.[1]
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":[2]
| Chart (2006) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian ARIA singles chart | 100 |
| Canada Rock Top 30 (Radio & Records)[3] | 30 |