2009-02-25



5 comments:

Nykki Darling said...

I love this song. I played it all the time during freshman year of high school.

Siditty said...

Yeah I was like in college LOL I feel old. Hey I checked out your profile, and it says you are a Sooner. I will have to forgive you as I am a Longhorn. I bleed burnt orange. Not really.

Georgie B said...

Excellent blast from the past.

Interestingly enough, MTV apparently edited the word "shot" from the video, like it was going to offend people or something.

I think this was their only top 100 hit.

Interesting note that my local paper would not call the band by their full name. Instead they would say something like, "B******** Surfers" or simply "the Surfers", or even not mention the name at all, and give a lame explanation about the paper being family oriented.

brohammas said...

How could you possibly go wrong with an Eric Estrada cameo?
I hated the movie Wayne's WOrld, because the chick's band did "Ballroom Blitz". The Butthole Surfer's do a version of that song at like 500mph and hearing that chick in amovie just butcher that song made me angry.

I mean, how bad do you jave to be to sound worse than Butthole Surfers? Violent Femmes maybe?

Siditty said...

I think this was their only top 100 hit.

It is, they still tour and release stuff, they have been around since the early 1980s. The lead singer's daddy was a local children's television celebrity, Mr. Peppermint. I thought that was the coolest thing of all. Mr. Peppermint is a Dallas institution, and WFAA was a channel you could see all over the state, as many smaller towns didn't have their own ABC affiliate.