A night like this, forty million years ago

Inside Disney’s Animal Kingdom’s Boneyard and Restaurantsaurus fans of background music are treated to a special treat. The background loop for these areas is comprised entirely of dinosaur, caveman, and extinction songs. Across the way at The Dino Institute, instrumental musical of the sort found throughout Walt Disney World keeps the atmosphere mellow. The specific music surrounding The Dino Institute comes from the Dinosaur film score. Yet, where research assistants reign supreme the music has a bit more life to it.

Artists such as R.E.M., Raffi, and Was (Not Was) are all present and accounted for with songs entitled It’s the End of the World (As We Know It), If I Had a Dinosaur, and Walk the Dinosaur. My own personal favorite tune to hear while diggin’ in Dinoland is Jonanthan Richman & The Modern Lovers’ I’m A Little Dinosaur. A majority of the songs come from Barnes And Barnes aptly named album The Dinosaur Album, which is filled with tunes like Ugga Bugga, The Dinosaur Dance, They’re All Gone, and Sweet Dinosaur of Mine, all of which can be heard in either Dinoland or on the iTunes available album. All of these songs build a more laidback and festive atmosphere, and are definitely indicative of the eclectic collections of college students’ music.

Giving the students a radio station may have been a mistake, but it makes for some great listening. So, the next time you have sweat beading on your brow from excavating a mammoth in Dinoland U.S.A., be sure to tune into station W-DIG for humor that is sure to tickle your funny bone and songs of extinction.