Kerosene hat is the second studio album by american rock band cracker, released on august 24, 1993. In another wellknown song, teen angst, lead singer david lowery claims, what the world needs now is another folk singer like i need a hole in my head. Cracker may be best known for their 1993 single, low, and its prominent use of the word stoned in its chorus. Timothy leary duly reinforced by the slackerrock shrug of the midtempo music. The band is best known for its goldselling 1993 album, kerosene hat, which includes the hit songs low and eurotrash girl. And the waitress that he married well she hung up the phone. German band fsk covered the song on their 1996 album international, produced by crackers david lowery who also is an occasional member. Well ive been up to paris and ive slept in a park went down to barcelona someone broke in my car and ill search the world over. Eurotrash girl is possibly crackers most popular song at least among aficionados. I want everything is one of crackers most modern sounding songs to come from the 90s and really showed the direction the band would lean toward in the future. The songs narrator describes a dissolute life, drifting across europe in pursuit of an angel in black, the titular eurotrash girl. I remember checking out the groups message board on america online at the time and being pleasantly surprised to find the two founding members david lowery and johnny hickman making frequent postings.
It has a different meaning in the us than in europe, i wasnt even aware of that till i read these strange us definitions. Love them, hate them, evoke the strong opinions of the coen brothers fictional character jeff the dude lebowski all you want, but glen frey and the eagles turned millions of music fans from all around the world into country music listeners through the evocative power of simple, universal sentiments bathed in twangy tones, however filed off the edges may have been, or however commercially. However as he is an infallible gunman the people nominate him to be sheriff of the country. Yeah, ill search the world over for a eurotrash girl eurotrash girl eurotrash girl eurotrash girl eurotrash girl called my mom from a payphone i said im down to my last. Lowery and hickman formed the band in 1991, releasing the album cracker the following year which included singles happy birthday to me and teen angst on virgin records.
Eurotrash girl by cracker from the album kerosene hat simply one of my alltime favorite songs. The lyrics follow lowery down the stream of consciousness. Ok this question is a lot more interesting than it first appears. Their career now spans 18 years and has spawned a discography in the double figures. As a songwriter and a founder of the band cracker i still earn royalties on recorded music sales, radio play, tv and film licenses, as well as streaming royalties however small. With cracker out touring with camper van beethoven again, heres a playlist of their 15 best songs. Cracker s oddball lyrics get greater emphasis in these arrangements, but lowery and hickman are careful to sing them straightforwardly, as if they. Cracker, which krummenacher also plays with, is working on a new disc. The platinumselling kerosene hat contained the enormous, eradefining hit single low, as well as get off this, and eurotrash girl. Cracker guitarist johnny hickman explained how and why they put this extra music on the disc, and in such an unusual way. It is also a neologism used in other popcultural products, my favourite of which is the rock band crackers song eurotrash girl 1993, a third similar travelogue of an american in europe, bumming around, selling his plasma, and looking for that elusive allblack wardrobed eurotrash girl well ive been up to paris, and i slept in a park.
Cracker, the group that veritably introduced brash irreverence and irony into altrock, are back and in top form on their 429 records debut, sunrise in the land of milk and honey this rich new trove of sharpwitted songs showcases a bristling, late 70s early 80s power pop punk aesthetic which hits as hard as it did at the band s formation 17 years ago. A spoonerism occurs when the first letters or syllables of two or more words get swapped. The band initially polarized audiences within the hardcore punk scene of. So, for example, leadoff track get off this from kerosene hat becomes a bluegrassreggae number, while eurotrash girl, which follows, becomes a countrywaltz with a plunking banjo playing along. Ya know she never did like me but i can stand on my own.
In 1993, the band cracker released a terrific album called kerosene hat the opening track, low, was an alternative radio staple and i became a fan. Well ive been up to paris and ive slept in a park went down to barcelona someone broke in my car and ill search the world over for my angel in black yeah, ill. Lyrics to eurotrash girl by camper van beethoven from the virgin years album including song video, artist biography, translations and more. Speaking of sophomoric humor, cracker intentionally placed empty tracks. Cracker played the hits both nights including low, eurotrash girl and the lovely almond grove. The story behind that was at that time we had a lot of songs.
Well ive been up to paris and ive slept in a park went down to barcelona someone broke in my car. I do not know if korrozia metalla corrosion of metal were the first to use this slang or how it came about, but it seemed very widly understood among russian youth. Balloon juice creepyass crackers, race and bias in the. Licensed to youtube by umg on behalf of cm angel a91. She is a bit more temperamental, yet so very glorious in tone. More than a dozen years removed from their minor chart successes of the mid1990s low, eurotrash girl, etc. Crackers eurotrash girl music video in high definition. Its a track shorter than the first disc of garage whose second disc was devoted to bsides and rarities, but for most casual fans, that may not matter since get on with it. Its not exactly an outgrowth of the o brother, where art thou.
Delivering passionate and comprehensive entertainment coverage to millions of users worldwide each month. Went down to barcelona someone broke in my car, and ill search the world over. Yeah, ill search the world over for a eurotrash girl. Cracker have been weaving subtle yet undeniable country twang throughout their sound since their 1992 selftitled debut. The chicks on speed versions of crackers eurotrash girl and the b52s tunes gimme back my man and song for a future generation overflow with dry humour. The song was originally released on the ep tucson, 2 and then as an unlisted track track 69 on the album kerosene hat. Cracker frontman david lowery and guitarist johnny hickman have known. There were even a few radio stations playing live bootlegs of it. Things seem to go calmly until an outlaw band besieges the country putting it to iron and fire.
Eurotrash girl cracker lyrics, song meanings, videos. Growing old gracefully is a rare achievement for a rocknroll band, but cracker are certainly fitting the bill. Straightforward cracker is classic yale daily news. Among the early printed uses of the term was in the early 1980s, when taki theodoracopulos, a wealthy greek living in new york city, wrote a newspaper column entitled eurotrash in the east side express. Readings in the literary topography of generational writings. A computer adept who is proficient at breaking software protection schemata such as keycodes, firewalls, copy protection, login scripts, etc.
Went down to barcelona someone broke in my car and ill search the world over for my angel in black. They are best known for their hit songs low and read more. The best of cracker serves up the band s bestknown songs in a concise, entertaining fashion. The hit single from the album, low, helped cracker gain widespread notice.
He was kind of ranting on lyrics ideas and then he went back on the bus. Cracker is an american alternative rock band fronted by camper van beethoven singer david lowery, with guitarist johnny hickman. Cracker is an american rock band led by singer david lowery and guitarist johnny hickman. Best of all the covers is their version of the german punk band malarias kaltes klares wasser. I dont see this stream of revenue being diminished immediately by the pandemic. In this song, meaning cold clear water, it all comes together. Versions different performances of the song by the same artist. Wed been playing eurotrash girl live for awhile and fans were really reacting to it.
She said i sent you to college now go call your dad. The term spoonerism is named in honor of the reverend william archibald spooner whose students used to write down all the instances of spoonerisms that he made. On this session, cracker members david lowery and johnny hickman sing a group of familiar cracker songs that have appeared previously on the groups albums. The giant dipper roller coaster is featured in the song big dipper on 1996s the golden age. Yesterday, one of the defense lawyers in the zimmerman trial said that shooting victim trayvon martin injected race into his fatal encounter with george zimmerman by referring to zimmerman as a creepyass cracker while on the phone with his friend, rachel jeantel. And, to think, it was a hidden track the lyrics are among the best rock lyrics ive ever heard in the rock idiom. The wikipedia definition is slanted and only has the usn. With the hidden songs of eurotrash girl and i ride my bike there are more treasures here than even the tracklist entails. When the dust settled, cracker found themselves with an evergrowing, devoted following both in the u. Music video by cracker performing eurotrash girl live at the ogden theatre, denver co. They have soldiered on together, starting with their 1992 eponymous debut album, to radio hits like low and get off this, to leaving virgin records in 2003 and putting out a country covers album. Sunarefa refers to a soviet brand of cold medicine. I think when a band has a song on the radio, and obviously weve been. But with their new double album, berkeley to bakersfield, at least on the bakersfield portion of the album, the altrock radio band known for such hits as low and get off this dives headfirst into the california country sound.
The gunman will examine his conscience to decide whether he is forced to break his oath and to take up his infallible guns in order to stop the band. The term was also used into the 1990s, with american band cracker releasing a single called eurotrash girl. The attorney tried to get jeantel to own up to the term being. Cracker frontman david lowery and guitarist johnny hickman have known each other a long time. June 6, 2009 they are back with a new release entitled sunrise in the land of milk and honey on the 429 records record label. Watch the video for eurotrash girl from crackers garage dor for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Compilations other albums which feature this performance of the song. Crackers oddball lyrics get greater emphasis in these arrangements, but lowery and hickman are careful to sing them straightforwardly, as if they were no more unusual than the words to the average country song. Cracker tickets vinyl music hall pensacola, fl may. Used by russian metal band korrozia metalla on the song title translates to kill the sunarefa.
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